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'7 -OF N.c. Midlands Edition Today's Weather Cloudy and Mild 1BW IlfFi LiJfanam Memorial I mm mi. f M ii . ji i i., . iiviwiii.iii,,.iw u mw iMtiimi.u, I c - JOIIN SALTER with Dorothy Denton, formerly of Morganton, a 1962 University graduate. Both now live in Chapel Hill. This photograph was taken while the American students were' visiting at a .Fidel Was Good By GARY BLANCHARD Third of four articles "An average day of touring be gan around eight o'clock in the morning," says John Salter of his summer stay in Cuba with 58 other American students. ''We would be taken to a school, a housing project, a farm or'.a factory or to the downtown sec tion. - "Our guides for the most part were students from the University of Havana who could speak good English. They had volunteered for the job when they were told of our coming trip. "We left Idlewild Airport in New York City on June 25. It took us five days to travel to Prague, Czechoslovakia, and then to Ha vana. We arrived there July first. "We spent the first week in and around Havana. 'ICAP,' the official government tourist serv ice, had arranged for us to spend cur stay in Havana in the twenty story Habana Riviera. It was an ultra-plush hotel built in 1957 and later nationalized by the revolu tionary government. "Soon after we got there we were given cards to fill out, ask ing what we would like to see in general, who we'd like to talk to, and any other special interests or requests. Our official tour was drawn up based on that informa tion. "The usual procedure, after we got to our tour destination for the day, was to be told something about the place's history by the aarunistrator. Then, after some times long question and answer sessions, we'd break up into small groups, usually with our student translators, and we'd talk with the students or the workers and ask them their opinions on working conditions, the govern ment, or things in general. "That was the pattern almost everywhere, in all the provinces we visited. Usually we had the greatest individual freedom pos sible in such a mass tour. "The 'mass tour' part usually ended sometime early in the after noon and we were free to go wherever we wanted to, either alone or, if as many as four of us wanted to go to a particular place, then ICAP 'would provide us with a translator and a car. "We were served very good food in our hotel in Havana. In the provinces we ate many times in schools and we were served the same food as the Cuban stu dents. "It's a funny thing. Most of the men in our group lost weight and most of the women gained some." Salter says he did a lot of wand ering around on his own. "I met quite a few Cubans who could speak some English, so it was easy to strike up a con versation," he says. "Once in while they took me for a Russian, but usually they Cuban collective ost To wanted to know if I were Czech or British. Many times I was ask- ed if I was one of the American Hi to ' . JV.. V SUPERSTRUCTURE of a fishing vessel under construction is the background for American students ' visiting a Cuban shipyard this summer. Salter said he was told the crash construction of this type of ship has led to a fishing industry boom. Photo by John Salter Di-Plii Society Supports Public Accommodations A resolution opposing the pub lic accommodations clause of the Administration's Civil Rights Bill was defeated in the Di-Phi Sen ate Tuesday night by a 4 to 2 vote. Meeting in the Di-Phi hall in New East, the senate debated the clause for two hours before vot ing on the measure. A vote of the combined Senate and guests resulted in a 21-10 defeat for the bill, introduced by W'right Doyle of Florida. The resolution "urged the de feat" of the clause because its ambiguities in wording would re sult in the eradication of the in stitution of provate property. Fur thermore, proponents maintained that, according to them. Section 8 of the Constitution, on which the clause is Constitutionally justi fied by opponents of , the resolu tion, was "invoked not to regu late interstate commerce," but "to prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, or na tional origin in certain public es tablishments." The supporters maintained that since the clause denies "the con 1 1 N .JV.V.VV,JkVV-VW.V'.V-.V"-' ''V.W" farm, one of several they visited during their stay on the island this summer. They also visited industrial plants and talked to lead ers in the Castro regime. Students students." (Tomorrow: Major impressions of Cuba.) i stitutional right of trial by jury to alleged offenders," it would result in "not justice but tyran ny." They said that discrimina tion could not be eliminated through legislation; they did not say it would not help. Proponents alleged that the public accommo dations law is a step toward so cialism. Presumably they will call for repeal of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and income tax on similar grounds in subsequent debates. Opponents held that the clause is an effective means of uphold ing the 14th Amendment; that it helps business as it increases the volume of patronage; and that it gives owners who want to inte grate their establishments a chance to do so. They also argued that the gov ernment has the right to regu late interstate commerce which . now includes all business be- . cause of the high degree of mo bility. Their final position was that human rights are more im- ' portant to this nation than prop- - erty rights. CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER Salter In Cuba: Part III Bar The Doors! By MICKEY BLACKWELL This year's record enrollment and subsequent housing shortage has prompted University officials to take action to curb enrollment figures for next year. "We don't anticipate much growth for next year," Dean of Student Affairs C. O. Cathey said this week. "We can't afford to grow any more." Cathey said that the adminis tration was going to be "quite a bit" more selective when re viewing admission applications for next year. "Admission requirements will be up slightly," Cathey said, "thus eliminating some of the applicants." He said the University would discourage those students who just did pass the entrance re quirements and whose tests indi cate they will not be an academic success at UNC. "We will advise that student to go somewhere else, since he might not make it here," Cathey said. Admission applications will also be screened more carefully in the graduate school level to help keep next year's enrollment fig ures about the same as this year's. Earle Wallace, associate dean of the graduate school said the graduate school could not accept ILawler Extends SG Interviews Student government committee interviews have been extended through Friday afternoon, acord ing to student body president Mike Lawler. "The heavy response to fill the remaining ommittee positions has made it necessary for us to ex tend the time period," comment ed Lawler. "We have already had 87 applicants and there seems to be at least that many more to come. "There are only a few openings on each committee, and I urge each student to look at the YMCA, YWCA and other campus organiza tions before making up his mind." He asked that all applicants sign up for an appointment in stu dent government offices. TIe committees with openings are: Attorney General's Staffs the members of the men and women's staff investigate honor and cam pus code offenses, advise and protect the rights of defendants and present the briefs of cases un der the direction of the Attorney General Buzzy Stubbs. Academic Affairs John Mor ris will head this group's study of courses and class procedures in order to make recommendations to the appropriate offices on the improvement of academics. Off- campus issues, such as the Uni versity's College Day participa tion in the high schools, are also considered. Campus Affairs Subjects from the price of football game date tickets to the establishment of an on-campus typing course are con sidered by Don Curtis and his committee. Campus problems are brought to the committee by the President, the Legislature, other student activities and individual students. Carolina Forum - Each vear outstanding speakers discuss top ics of current interest under the auspices of this group headed this year by John Ulfelder. Members obtain the speakers and set up the programs; last year thev host ed among others Chester Bowles, William F. Buckley Jr. and Nor man Thomas. Co-Op Committee Bob Jones end group have the worthy but complicated job of investigating all possibilities of establishing a student cooperative on campus to reduce costs of books and sup plies. Honor System Commission With this group lies the respon- -sibility of lecturing on the UNC Honor System in state high schools, to other student govern TOMORROW Gary Blanchard concludes his series on John Salter and the trip to Cuba by 59 American stu dents with a discussion of Sal ter's impressions of Havana. Curry Kirkpatrick once again hores the campus with his un interesting selections of the top weekend football games and Di ane Ilile, DTH Woman's Editor, once again has the day off. i 1 any more students than they have now. "We have reached our capacity both in faculty and facilities," Wallace said. "We are going to be more selective and each de partment will be asked to re duce the number of early admis sions. Wallace said there were no plans to set up an arbitrary limit on the number of graduate stu dents that would enter the Uni versity. The biggest problem the grad uate school faces now, Wallace said, is a lack of faculty and facilities. "If we had unlimited funds, we could not build up our faculty to teach the graduate courses at the rate at which our graduate school is growing," he said. He said that a request would be made in the next University budget for more facilities (labs, etc.) to be set up for the gradu ate program. "We need to keep the graduate seminars small," Wallace said. "When we have to crowd 20 or 30 people into one of the seminar rooms, then the whole program loses its whole effect. We must keep the seminars small if the graduate program here is to be a success." This is the main reason cited for a close scrutiny of graduate school applications, he said. ments and to new students at UNC. Chairman Jaene Yeager will also lead studies of the clarifi cation, function and improvement of the Honor System. International Students Board The ISB, at present undergoing effective revision by chairman Kellis Parker, not only handles on-campus programming for the international students at UNC but also arranges the Tours and Col umbian Exchange programs and the schedule of the N.S.A. Forei gn Student Leadership Project Awardee, Chilean Cecilia Gajar do, Mclver Dorm. National Merit Scholarship Co-Chairmen Allison Webb and Bill Graham will head arrange ments for N.M.S. finalists and other outstanding high school stu dents in N. C. to visit UNC for an introduction to Carolina's at tractions. United States National Student Association, Campus Committee As a leading school among almost 400 member campuses, U.N.C. al sc claims two regional officers. Campus Coordinator Hugo Spech ar will lead his committee in cam pus participation in campus edu cational activities, regional func tions and work with the national staff in fulfilling the Associations policy for the year as mandated at the two week Congress of mem ber schools this summer. Orientation Reform Borden Parker's committee already has some 300 questionnaires out re garding this year's Orientation as they begin work on an even better program for next year. Secretariat Bonnie Hoyle sup ervises the typing, mimeograph ing, mailing, filing, phoning and etc., that enables the committees and executive, not to mention the Legislature and other SG activi ties to function smoothly. State Affairs John McMillan will guide this group's work at bettering relations between the student body and the Universily with the State of North Carolina. Those with speaking and writing ability will be especially interested in this committee. Student Credit Commission Ed Brenner and commttee will be handling any bad checks passed by members of the student body, also bettering public relations with Chapel Hill merchants. University Abroad Pete Range heads this group that is investi gating the possibility of setting up a UNC campus abroad similar to the Stanford Overseas program, or the Smith junior year abroad. 10, 1963 AC SPU Marches Yesterday 4 I Jjr jF jr i"" J jf f - . 1 JOHN DUNNE, one of a group of a dozen persons who staged a silent protest., demonstration against United States foreign policy in South Vietnam, is shown marching man of the campus chapter of the sored the protest. SPU announced of Rime. Ngo Dinh Nhu, Vietnam's C. State College on Oct. 17. World News Briefs U. S. To Sell Grain To Reds WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi dent Kennedy announced Wednes day he had approved the sale of four million tons of American wheat to the Soviet Union ' and her East European satellites for $250 million. The President told a news con ference the wheat would be sold by private American grain deal ers at world prices for gold or dollars or on what he called "normal commercial terms." Their stocks would be replaced by wheat sold from U. S. surplus stockpile, he said. The President said the sales would be made for cash or on "normal commercial terms" with restrictions that the grain is to be used only in the Soviet Gangland Songster WASHINGTON (UPI) Mob ster turncoat Joseph Valachi tes tified Wednesday that he per sonally set up the 1952 murder of another underworld informer, Eugene Giannini, on orders of his angry Cosa Nostra bosses. Valachi, reputed to have a $100,000 gangland price tag on his head, told senators it cost the operators of a dice game where Giannini worked $10,000 to have his body removed from the Castroites Battle Police CARACAS, Venezuela (UPI) Pro-Castro terrorists fought a two-hour pitched battle early Wednesday with hundreds of po lice around a suburban police station. At least five persons were wounded in the gun battle which ended with withdrawal of the tommygun-firing terrorists, ap parently only after exhausting their ammunition. Police arrest ed eight Communists, including a 19-year-old girl, in a raid on a Education Bill WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate's "minibus" version of President Kennedy's school aid bill rolled toward the House to day on what looked to be a road studded with nails. The measure, covering only three of the 24 education fields Kennedy wanted to help in a so called "omibus" bill, passed the Senate 80-4 Tuesday. Having completed this "first in- United Mam Served. uBooena 7 near Cameron Ave. Dunne is chair Student Peace Union which spon plans for picketing the appearance first lady, when she speaks at N." Photo by Jim Wallace Union and satellite countries. This would bar transshipment of the food to other Communist countries such as Cuba or Red China. He said European Communist countries also may wish to pur chase American feed grains. The President said the Agricul ture Department would sell wheat from its huge surplus stocks to commercial exporters to replace the grain they sell to the Soviet Union and the satellites. Thus, the effect of the sales . wherever the exporters make their initial purhases from will be to reduce sharply the wheat surplus piled up in past years under American farm price sup port programs. In Fifth Stanza gambling site where he was slain. "Isn't it worth $10,000 to get rid of a guy like that?" Valachi said he asked the complaining gamblers. The convicted killer and dope peddler shed new light on sha dowy Cosa Nostra murders in his fifth appearance before the Sen ate permanent investigations sub committee. suspected terrorist hideout. The terrorists, members of the underground anti - government armed forces for National Li beration (FALN) dynamited a power generator supplying the police station with electricity, plunging it into darkness then they struck. They carried out their attack from rooftops surrounding the station and from cars racing by it. Police rushed more than 200 reinforcements to the scene. Goes To House stallment" on the Kennedy school program, the senators planned to take up a $1.5 billion college con struction aid bill later this week. The "minibus" bill would vast ly expand federal aid to vocation al education, increase National Defense Education Act NDEA student loan funds and continue the "impacted areas" aid pro gram for schools crowded by children of servicemen and fed eral workers. Press International Service Psych Ass't. Will Testify Wednesday By MICKEY BLACKWELL and KERRY SIPE An investigator from the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) yesterday served a subpoena on Peter Gum- pert of Asheville, a University research assistant in the Psy chology department. Gumpert's subpoena was served bv HUAC investigator Donald T. Appel of Washington. Gumpert will reportedly appear before a HUAC hearing October 16 in Washington. The exact nature of the sub poena could not be determined, but it is believed to concern the abortive attempt by American and Canadian students including at least one from UNC to visit Cuba last Christmas. Gumpert could not be reached for comment on the matter by presstime last night. Chapel Hill police reported that their only contact with Gumpert has been to serve a warrant on him for several parking viola tions. Gumpert came here as a stu dent in 1951, authorities said and reportedly enlisted in the Air Force before completing gradua tion requirements. Upon his discharge from the service he returned to UNC, the authorities said, and graduated in 1961 in the top portion of his class. The serving of the subpoena on Gumpert marked the second known time within the past two months that an investigator from the House Un-American Activities Committee has visited the cam pus. Last August 7, HUAC investi gator William Margetich was here 'to gather some information on certain individuals," he said. Two of the individuals under study, Margetich said, were Larry Phelps of Burlington and John Salter of Greensboro, two former UNC students who visited Cuba last summer in defiance of a State Department travel ban. Margetich said two organiza tions he was particularly inter ested m were the New Left Club, which is now inactive, and the Progressive Labor Club, an asso ciation of like-minded students and off-campus residents formed during the summer of 1962. Playwright Heads University Day Paul Green, prize-winning dra matist and playwright, will speak on the occasion of the l?Cth birth day of the University, Saturday at 11:15 a.m. in Hill Hall audi torium. Green, who is one of North Carolina's outstanding literary figures, will address faculty, trus tees, alumni, students and visit ors on the anniversary of the cornerstone laying of Old East Building, Oct. 12. 1793. Chancellor William B. Aycoi k will preside. The UNC Glee Club, directed by Prof. Joel Carter, will give its first concert of the year. There will be an academic pro cession by the faculty, beginning from the Old Well at 11 a.m. An honorary degree will be awarded during the ceremonies. The name of the recipient will be announced at that time. In observance of University Day, classes will be dismissed after 11 o'clock. TRUSTEES The visiting committee of the University Board of Trustees, headed by Mr. Hill Yarborough, will visit UNC on Friday. Octo ber 18. The committee will hear a presentation by Student Gov ernment members, and hold in terviews with individual students. Any student desiring to speak with the committee should con tact Mr. Charlie Shaffer in By cum Hall immediately to sched ule an appointment. I
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