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1 tJ.Tr.C. Library Serials Dept, Box 870 The Weather Sunny in Daytona Founded Feb. 23, 1893 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1964 United Press International Service Newsman Beaten By Mob BY APRIL 5 0 Nemro Students .No Co Yoluiiteer ditff ssrag mm- iifw. - i i i i ii i i r i a . a i ! i .Battle Police In Jax JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (UPI) Fifteen - hundred screaming, rockthrowing Negro youths battled police, set fire to a car and beat a newsman Tuesday in continuation of a bloody but seemingly pointless uprising. The violence appeared to be leaderless mob actions, rather than acts in support of any spe SL Establishes Honor System Commission m I! m P By F. NEIL SMITH A bill establishing the Honor System Commission passed the Student . Legislature Monday night. Introduced by Rep. Phil Bad dour (SP) March 12, it gives the Commission the responsibility to concern itself with all problems connected with the Student Ju diciary and to make recommen dations to the Courts, the Stu dent Legislature and the Attorn ey General's staff. The Commission will prepare and administer an orientation program for candidates for the Men's and Women's Council. It wiU also Prepare and administer P. O. Fast Continues Several incidents of heckling and name-calling were reported yesterday as five Chapel Hill in tegrationists continue their eight day fast on the grounds of the Chapel Hill Post Office. "Three or four people drove by and threw eggs. One threw a water-filled balloon," said John Dunne, chairman of the Chapel Hill Freedom Committee, speak ing for the group. "But the incidents of kindness have far outnumbered the inci dents of name-calling," he said. The demonstrators, Pat Cusick, 32, field secretary for the Student Peace Union; the Rev. La Vert Taylor, 23, field secretary for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; James Foushee, 21; Melody Dickinson, 24, a former UNC student; and Dunne, have vowed to go without food for eight days in protest of the seg regation policies of certain busi ness establishments in the Chapel Hill area. "We have had very favorable response in general," Dunne said. "People' have stopped to talk to us and encourage us. Some brought cigarettes, blankets and other items. "One lady brought us a vase of flowers," he said, pointing to a group of yellow flowers standing beneath the Post Office flagpole. The By JEFFREY DICK There are two sides to Chapel Hill: A side of new buildings and progress and a side of de cadence and poverty. Giapel Hill is a town which has, in the past decade, been characterized by growth. Build ing upon building has been erected to house the growing spheres of the University. The entire southwest secticn of Chapel Hill contains some 247 new units to hcuse married stu dents. Two new dormitories which house over seven hundred students apiece stand, spanking new; against a background of tall pines. The southeast section is domi nated by new private construc tion, intended to hcuse faculty members and their usually small families in ultra-modern ranch style houses. On the campus itself, an im maculate new language build ing houses the scientific fruits of many years of research. One might easily say Chapel Hill is a city of new buildings, progress, and modern science. This, certainly, is one side of Chapel Hill. The Other Side There is, however, another side of Chapel Hill. It is a side which one will never see heralded in a cific integration demands. A Negro woman was mysteri ously shot to death, a white man was tied to a tree and tortured with razor slashes, and at least three other whites were injured by sniper fire when the violence erupted Monday night. Nearly 200 persons were ar rested in the violence. Police orientation programs and exam inations for newly elected mem bers of the MRC and IFC Courts and members of the Attorney General's staff. Also passed was a bill appro priating $50 from the ' unappro priated balance to the Coop Committee. The amount will be used to attain legal advice to help estab lish a Student Cooperative. If the Student Cooperative is not established, unused portions will revert to the general surplus. If the Cooperative is established, it shall pay back the entire sum to the Student Body. The bill was introduced March 12, by Rep. Betsy Meade (UP) and Rep. Phil Baddour (SP) for Mike Lawler, student body presi dent. A "majors handbook," a Soph omore Class project, went before the legislature in the form of a bill to appropriate $1500 for pub lication expenses. The handbook will include edu cational opportunities available to undergraduates at the Univer sity. The bill was sent back to the committee for changes. i5H - Pete Wales, a junior from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, has been elected Men's Council chairman for next year. Wales has been a member of the Council for three years and has served as its scribe this semester. Photo by Jim Wallace Other newspaper for its newness. This is the side of Chapel Hill where a family of ten lives off of an income of $60 per month, a stfe where a three-room dwel ling is home to fourteen people. This is the side of Chapel Hill where landlords rent out houses already classified as sub-standard by a housing code described by the assistant city manager as "lax", and do nothing to re pair them. On this side of Chap el Hill tenants do not have the finances to repair the inevitable damage which cocr.es upon a house when it stands against the elements for 60 years. This is the side of Chapel Hill where tenants are at the mercy of their landlords. Don Archer, assistant town manager, confirmed that there is another side to Chapel Hill. "The vast majority of the homes in the northwest section of Giap el Hill make up a blighted area. You will see three and four-room shack with from eight to ten people living in them. Most of these homes are not fit for habi tation because of faulty sewage, poor construction and the like." "We are at a quandry about what to do with the problem," he continued. "We would like to construct some low-cost public housing for these people. We took 45 juveniles and six adults in custody Tuesday, and 127 per sons were arrested Monday night. Police sealed off the Negro section during the night but vio lence flared again Tuesday morn ing outside New Stanton High School when the building was emptied because of a bomb scare. The high school violence trig gered still other acts of vandal ism, and incidents were reported throughout the city during the day. A truck line reported its vehicles were struck by rocks thrown by young Negroes and police said three Negro girls hurled bricks and stones at pass ing cars from an expressway bridge. The flow of traffic into the city was interrupted by a detour which police set up on the ex pressway to route motorists around the Negro district. Many whites phoned police headquarters to ask whether it was safe to venture into the city. They were given qualified an swers. The worst outburst of the day came at New Stanton High fol lowing an anonymous call that a bomb had been planted in the school. Police rushed to the scene and tried to break up the mob by arresting one of the ringleaders, but this only infuriated the youths further. They succeeded in freeing the Negro youth from a patrol car and continued their assault on police with rocks and bottles, despite pistol shots fired in the air by police. In hopes that the Negro youths would quiet down if they left, the officers turned and walked away from the crowd. Women's Council Convicts One, Frees Another A coed was campused for three weeks and another was found - not guilty during Women's Council trials Monday night. The Council found the first co ed guilty of having committed her sixth House Council offense. They involved lateness beyond the ten "free" minutes given a coed each semester. The women's residence rule states "After five House Council offenses in one academic year, a student goes before the Wom en's Council for the sixth viola tion and any subsequent viola tions." The second coed was charged with traveling after hours and being iy2 hours late on March 15. The Council found her not guilty. Side Off can do it cn U.S. Government money." Paradox Exists Before the government will give Chapel Hill money for pub lic housing, however, the town must take several actions on its own. "The first thing we have to do," Archer said, " is to raise the standard of the build ins code. The second thing we have to do is to find a way to construct a home for persons displaced by the proposed con struction." "A definite paradox exists," he continued. "We can't turn these people out into the street in order to build them a new home. What are they going to do in the meantime?" From the viewpoint of the town, then, the other side of Chapel Hill must exist, at least for a while. The problems are compounded in many instances by reluctance to act and just plain apathy. Lroilords continue to rent hemes classified as substandard and the city can not be constantly aware of the transactions. Once the new people have moved in, the town can not act, because it has no place to put these people if it condemns the houses. In 1962 the town made a sur vey of the houses in Chapel Hill. : mm. mmmm, kmim mk mm iltii , - ) r , 1 : V hJ I $ m I J i V f V I 0 0 0 , vv V Jazz Guitarist Charlie Byrd 'Jubilee Features Top Jazzman Byrd Charlie Byrd, one of the world's foremost classical and jazz gui tarists, will be featured at this year's Jubilee Weekend, April 24 26. Byrd has ben credited with making the Bossa Nova a popular jazz media after the success of his version of "Desifinada," made in collaboration with West Coast saxophonist Stan Getz. Byrd, a native of Chuckatuck, Va., learned to play the guitar as a child from his father, and per formed on a local radio station at age 12. As a member of Special Serv ices of the Army, Byrd toured Europe during World War II, and decided to become a jazz musi cian after meeting the famous gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt in Paris. He continued to study jazz for several years afterwards, and studied at the Hartnett National Music Studios in New York City. Classical music reclaimed him after Byrd studied with Sophocles Papas and then, in 1954, with An dres Segovia. Though Byrd admits "I just get more satisfaction out of the VALKYRIE SING The Valkyrie Sing will be held in Memorial Hall April 20, it was announced yesterday. The Order of the Golden Fleece will tap its new members immediately after the Valkyrie Sing is completed. Betty Ward, chairman of the program, said yesterday that any group who has not been con tacted by her should call her immediately at 968-9160 if they desire to enter the contest. Chapel Mills It complied a list of 100 homes in the northwest section of Chapel Hill which were considered to be sub-standard. The owners, in most instances landlords, were asked to make repairs which would bring their property up to a level of being "fit for habi tation." Although the list was prepared in 1962, a large ma jority of the homes still have not been repaired. Tenants Powerless The tenants, Negroes, for the most part, are powerless. One tenant, head of a household of 14, said: "I haven't got the money to repair my home. Good God, it's all I can do to keep my family in groceries" for the month. Sure, I've told my landlord I'd like some repairs madef but that isn't going to make much difference. He knows I've got no place else to go and that he'll get his $40 a month even if he doesn't repair the house." The tenant in a three-room dwelling which houses 12 people said: "We're not so bad off. At least we have windows in our home. Go down the street and look at the house on the corn er. - On the corner stands a home which time has jilted to an odd angle. There are no windows in classics," he is a master of every facit of the guitar. Never in his performances will he mix jazz and classical music in one composition by changing the melody or the tempo. "It's a wedding that loses the best of both," he says. Every Charlie Byrd concert can be expected to contain a wide variety of sounds. Berry hill Wins Top State Award Dr. Walter Reece Berryhill, dean of the UNC Medical School, has been selected as the 16th winner of the O. Max Gardner award. The award, named for the late Tar Heel governor, goes annually to the member oi iae consoli dated University of North Caro lina faculty making "the great est contributica to the welfare of the human race" during the current academic year. Dean Berryhill was cited for his role in the development of the UNC Medical School. He re ceived a cash grant from the $25,000 Gardner Award bequest. The award was announced at an N.C. State dinner in Raleigh attended by about 500 Consolidat ed University faculty members and trustees. Mrs. George Wil son of Fayetteville, chairman of the Gardner Award Committee, read the citation commending Berryhill for leading the UNC Medical School to national promi nence. the house, just a sheet of plastic stretched loosely across the frame. Inside, you can feel the breeze blow across the room. The owner tells you the air com ing through the window "isn't as bad as the draft from the holes in the floor." All these conditions exist in the other side of Chapel Hill. Steps are being taken to elimi nate the problem. The process, however, is slow. The Federal government has approved the construction of 60 bousing units. The Chapel Hill Housing Authority is in the pro cess of buying land for the units. At the time construction begins, the town must have sufficient ordiances on its books to make construction of any new home habitable under federal stand ards. Sites must be acquired for the homes. The aim of the Housing Auth ority is to acquire sites of land on which sub-standard houses exist, so that they might be tern down. The problem remains, however, of what to do with the inhabitants while their homes are being torn down to be re placed by new low-cost housing. The final problem is pertiaps the greatest. Can 60 units of construction housing one family (Continued on Page 3) AddI Beatty Tells Legislature About Plan By FRED SEELY Jim Beatty put aside running in favor of recruiting last night, and the little man seemed to do a good job. Beatty, former world - record holder in the indoor mile run, spoke to the Student Legislature about the North Carolina Volun teers, the controversial issue which either Governor Terry San ford or gubernatorial hopeful Dan Moore thought up. Applications for the program are due April 5. "The idea of North Carolina Volunteers, to be patterned after the Peace Corps, goes back to the start of the North Carolina Fund this summer," Beatty said. The plan calls for 100 college students, split into groups of 10, to work in 10 communities chos en by Fund leaders. They would attend a three-day training pro gram starting June 10 in Ral eigh, and would then go to the locality to which they were as signed. At the conclusion of their 10 week stay, they would reas semble in Raleigh for a state wide seminar to discuss the pro gram, its good points and its shortcomings. Volunteers would be paid $250 for the summer, plus room and board and a small amount for expenses. "Governor Sanford initiated this program in an effort to curb poverty in the state," Beatty commented. "One of every three families has an income of less than $3000, and the increased automation in the state's two largest industries tobacco and textiles will increase the prob lem. "Another thing which is hold ing back many of the people of the state is that there is a high incidence of high-school drop outs," he continued. "This has lowered the education mean of persons over 25 to a sixth grade education. "Through the NC Volunteers program we hope to get a com plete analysis of the problems. The students participating will be tutoring, working with the welfare departments, supervis ing day care centers and work ing as assistants to case work ers. "The exact location of the first 10 communities has not been de cided. The selection board will make its final choice during April." Beatty, a 'graduate of UNC in 1957, is on the staff of the North Carolina Fund. A View mzzf T1 "1 I Example Of Sub-Standard Housing In And icatioms ) iiir G LEND A ANN LEE Coed Chosen To Represent Angel Flight By SARA ANNE TROTT A Carolina coed was selected this week as one of 17 Air Force Angels in the nation to compete for the "Little General" title at the 1964 National Air Force ROTC Conclave, Denver, Colo. "This will be quite an experien ce for me," said Miss Glenda Ann Lee, a junior from Kannapolis. "I've never been to Colorado or competed in a national beauty contest. - Also I suppose . this is terrible for an Air Force Angel to say I've never been in an airplane." ' She will fly to Denver, April 8, for the five-day conclave with Miss Sally Laws, Area B-2 Com mander for the Angel Flight. Miss Laws is also a junior here. Angel Flight is a national or ganization for the AFROTC. The Arnold Air Society sponsors the Carolina group. Miss Lee ranked a "Little Col onel" when selected to represent the AFROTC units in Maryland and North Carolina. "I hope to represent UNC and Area B-2 as well as Nancy Till man last year. She won the Little General title last year at Buffalo, N. Y.," she said. Miss Lee is currently reigning as "Miss Kannapolis" and will compete in the "Miss North Caro lina" pageant this summer. In Denver the 17 contestants will be eliminated to four by a special committee. They will be judged on poise, personality, scho lastic ability, interest in Angel Flight and beauty. Off Poverty ' r. . , 1 y ' - I r -if!-,..,... D Me Fiddles Play AS Saturday In Union Grove Looking for something "dif ferent" to do over the Easter Holidays? U so, why not try the 40th an nual "Old Time Fiddlers' Con vention" that will attract some 5,000 music lovers from across the Eastern Seaboard to Union Grove in Iredell County this Saturday. College students from as far away as the Ivy League and Florida traditionally attend the event, which began in 1924 as a benefit for Union Grove School. Last year, the convention drew 350 contestants some in dividuals, some bands from 12 states and the District of Col umbia. Among featured performers will be "Handsome George" Pegram, one of the south's best banjo pickers, the talented "Brushy (Mountain Boys" at id their washboard band from Wil kes County, and the nationally known "Mountain Ramblers" of Galax, Va. Bascomb Lamar Lunsford of Buncombe County, folk artist who has recorded hundreds of songs for the Library of Con gress, also is expected. Music begins with a matinee Saturday, followed that night with the main program at 7 p.m. Crowds remain stationary in one of three areas the auditorium, gymnasium and a circus tent while the bands rotate from aud ience to audience. Admirers of folk music from some of the country's leadiing colleges and universities will be on hand to record the event, and NBC's "Monitor" will tune in Saturday night. LYON APPLICATIONS DUE All students interested in spending next year in France on the Year-At-Lyon program are reminded to discuss it with their parents over the Easter holi days. Applications will be due April 15, Blanks and brochures are available in 216 Dey Hall. Cn Friday, April 3, Dr. Fraut schi invites all interested per sons to a question-and-answer session on the program in the Faculty Lounge, 4th floor, Dey Hall, at 7 p.m. Coffee will be served. .- y ." 4 : " X: Photo by Jim Wallace Near Chapel Hill
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