Tic Weather y :L9reen field Hill ' Edition fteFeb. 23, 1893 ClcuJy and warm with chance of scattered showers. CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINTHURSDAY APRIL 23, 1964 United Press Internationa Service Yes Friends, It's Here . . . (The Derby!) It's here at last. Triat famous (or infamous) day of gaiety the Sigma Chi Derby will rock Kenan Stadium to its ancient foundations today beginning at 2:30. John Davis, co-chairman for the 19th annual blast, announced fciat the Sigma Chi's have been overcome with generosity. In short, it's all free and everybody can watch . . . from a safe dis tance, of course. A 1:30 parade featuring soror ity members will open the ac tvities at the Planetarium park ing lot. Also taking part in the events will be the Stray Greeks and the Nurses' Dorm. The mysterious "secret event" which has shrouded the campus for days will be unveiled at the Derby. Other events include re lay, sack and three-legged races. As if that isn't enough, the inimitable Sigma Chi's have scheduled a Hit the Greek (pie throwing) contest and a Miss Modern Venus beauty contest. Fifteen lovely coeds will com pete for the title. ATTENTION MONEY MONGERS Students interested i n paid positions on the DTH business staff for next year should come by the DTH business office today alter 3 p.m. or Friday after 3:30. Jubilee FRIDAY The Four Freshmen (8 p.m. on the GM lawn) The Monzas Combo Party (after concert) Free Flick: "Breakfast At Tiffany's" (6:30, 8:30, 10:30) SATURDAY Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs (2:30 c'n the lawn) The Serendipity Singers and Fred Smcot (7 p.m. on the lawn) Bonnie & the Adorafoles Combo Party ( after concert at GM ) ' '.' 13 Screamin Clowns Combo Party '(alter concert at Y-Court) Free Flick: "The Innocents" (6:30, 8:30, 10:30) SUNDAY Charlie Byrd, Jazz Guitarists (2:30 on the lawn) ' Petite Musicale: The Sinfonians (8:00 in GM Lounge) Free Flick: "The Virgin Spring" (6:30, 8:30, 10:30) b THE FOUR FRESHMEN These guys have been freshmen for 16 years (which must be some sort of record!). They've also been big hits in the music world for 16 years, and tomorrow night at 8 o'clock they'll kick-off the 1964 Jubilee Weekend with a swingin concert on the GM lawn. See you there. Concerned Citizens9 Eleven representatives of the Committee of Concerned Citizens in Chapel Hill continued their lobbying efforts in support of the Civil Rights Bill yesterday with a visit to the Washington of fices of North Carolina's Sena tors. They also visited the Senate to indicate that "not every white Southerner is against the civil rights bill." They said they did not feel North Carolina Sena tors Sam J. Ervin Jr. and B. Everett Jordon were represent ing them in opposing the bill. CD SPRING HAS SPRUNG, Fall has fell. Summer's here (almost), and it's hot as .... it was last year at this time. Yes, short sleeve weather arrived in Chapel Hill in full force this week, and as the Judge Stewart Will Step Down May 1st William S. Stewart, an instruc tor in Buisness Law, is closing out his 13 year career , as Judge of Chapel Hill Recorder's Court effective May 1st. Stewart gave "pressing per sonal business" as the reason for his resignation from the elective post, in a letter to Mayor Sandy McClamroch. The Mayor said the Board of Aldermen will appoint a successor to serve out the one remaining "The South is not a mono lithic group of white people op posing this bill," said Dr. Joseph Straley chairman of the Com mittee. Mr. Straley is a physics professor at the University. 'There are thousands of white people in the South who feel segregation is a national dis grace and that this bill is es sential," he S2id. Three other UNC faculty mem bers, Phillip C. Tonne of the Mathematics Department. Allen Reddick of the History Depart ment, and Charles D. Wright of -r ' I;' - $ Si ! f. I i r 4Jr ' M f. t fey year of Stewart's two-year term. McClamroch noted that poten tial replacements for Stewart's post don't have to be lawyers but they must be residents of Chapel Hill. Stewart's law partner, Robert Midgette, is vice recorder or assistant judge of the court, an appointive position. It's uncer tain if he might be in line to suc ceed to Stewart's post. SG Inauguration Ceremonies Will Be Held Tonight The inauguration of new Student Government leaders will take place tonight at 8 p.m. in Howell Hall. Ceremonies will open with the convening of the incumbent Stu dent Legislature and the instal-. lation of the new officers. Men's Council Chairman Pete Wales will swear them in. : Student Body Presirtent-elect Bob Spearman will give his inaug ural address, in which he is ex pected to outline his program and course of action for the corn year. After the new Legislature is installed, elections and appoint ments of SL committee chairmen and officers will be held and new business will be conducted. All newly elected legislators are reminded to attend. CORRECTION In an article in yesterday's DTH about the Outstanding Sen ior Women Award we said that Miss Nancy Culler was chairman of the Women's Honor Council and and Miss Beverly Haynes was chairman of the Women's Resi dence Council. The story should have read "Miss Haynes, who was named last year as outstanding Junior woman, served this year as chair jnan of the Women's Honor Coun cil." Miss Culler is past chairman of the WRC. Our apologies. Prayer WASHINGTON (UPI) The House opened hearings Wednes day on the emotionally charged issue of religious exercises in public schools. The chief con gressional defender of the prac tice termed it as American as apple pie and ice cream. . The controversy erupted as soon as Rep. Frank J. Becker (R-N.Y.) had finished reading a three-page statement urging passage cf a constitutional Group Lobbies For the English Department, were included in the group. Also in the group were Mrs. John Gulick, whose husband is a UNC professor of anthropol ogy. Miss Judith O'Fallcn, a math instructor at Bennett Col lege for Negroes in Greensboro, and Mrs. Harry Smith, wife of a Chapel Hill Presbyterian minis ter. Representing student opinion were Mr. and Mrs. Burton Segall, graduate students in the UNC School of Public Health, and Mrs. Eleanor Ethridge, wife of former trees turned greea and the humidity rose, the young man's thoughts turned to ideas of .... well, just ideas. , . , Photo by Jim Wallace Prose WCons By HAYWOOD CLAYTON as told to KERRY SIPE I, myself, had never even seen the inside of a prison, so when Jim Hess of Atlanta asked us if we'd like to debate at' the Atlan ta Federal Penitentiary, I had mixed emotions about the whole thing. Bob Powell and I were repre senting UNC at the West Point Debate Regionals in Atlanta. Hess, who was a public rela tions man in the city, worked voluntarily in the Penitentiary Rehabilitations Program. Be tween rounds, at the debate tournament, he asked us if we'd like to debate two of the Federal prisoners. We jumped at the chance. The prison from the distance looked like something from Eliot Ness' Untouchables. It was built around 1890, and the tall rock towers were mossy with age. . We stopped at the prison gate and were searched from head to foot. They took all sharp ob jects away from us and emptied our pockets, completely. At the time, we thought it was rather silly." We had to wait outside' for' some time while our admission was cleared through the War den's Office. . Even after they let -us in the gate, an armed guard followed us around at all times. You would have thought we wanted to steal the place. Our guard followed us up some stairs and into what looked like a typical UNC classroom. We almost felt at home until, we glanced out the windows and saw them barred and locked. Man, they weren't out to take chances at this place! Guards led in the two men who were to be our opponents. One was in his 40's the other about 60. Both were serving life terms for capital crimes. Contrary to what I had expect ed, both were very intelligent and intellectually sharp. They had done a great deal of research on the - topic used by collegiate debators all over the nation, Federal Aid to Higher Education. Both our opponents had apparently spent a great deal of time in the prison li brary. They had some informa tion on the subject that would have stumped a lot of the best teams we met at Atlanta. What surprised me most, I guess, was the - vigor that the Debate amendment permitting voluntary prayers and Bible reading in schools and other public institu tions. Becker's is one of 146 proposed amecdments seeking to override recent Supreme Ccurt decisions outlawing public school devotion als as being violations of First Amendment guarantees of free exercise of religion. No sooner had Becker finished than Rep. Roland Libonati (D- DTH Co-Editor David Ethridge. The group arrived in Wash ington Sunday and visited a number of senators' offices Monday and Tuesday. Many sen ators who support the bill were pleased to see white Southern ers speak in favor of the meas ure, Mr. Straley said. The 11-member delegation rep resented about 200 Chapel Hill residents who feel the bill is nec essary, he said, adding that other delegations from this group would visit the Senate later. M two prisoners used against us. - They, seemed genuinely interest ed and excited at the chance to debate with us. Even men from other parts of ' foe prison came to listen to the debate and, when it was over, they all gathered around to ask questions about the debate and about the world outside the pris on. . A prisoner photographer came and took our picture. He told us it would be used in the prison newspaper and magazine. News paper and magazine! I was be ginning to see the Atlanta Fed- - eral Penitentiary as the self-sustaining organization it was. For a long time we sat around with the prisoners, inside a ring of guards with rifles ready, talk ing about Federal Aid to Higher Education. It was ironic to me that these men, so far removed from so ciety, should be so interested in the topic, while most of my friends in the Higher Educational System really couldn't care less. . Both pur debate and the ques tions afterwards were taped so that it could be played back later .totsome .of thejother -prisoners.- : We won the debate, but it was a i struggle. They were really a couple of sharp men. I'd hate to be a detective trying to pin a crime on one of those guys. ,. - After the debate was over, we were escorted to" the prison din ing hall for lunch. Here I ex pected tojsee rows and rows of long wooden tables with tin uten sils at each place.. It was, in stead, really a very modern room with small tables, and cafe teria style service. The food was even good. We were given the full tour of the penitentiary. From the 1930's cell blocks to the top of the lookout tower. It just didn't seem authentic without Jimmy Casney and his pin-stripe suit and Tommy-gun. . '. In contrast to the rough, vio lent look of the peoDle and the harsh appearance of the place, though, we were treated like honored guests. When the Warden himself drove us back to the airport, I thought the whole day over. We had had a good debate, were treated like kings, and had seen a side of life that had never been presented to us except through the twisted image of a television screen. I was glad we had come. Opens 111.) suggested that his amend ment wculd threaten the Bill of Rights and permit local offi cials to prescribe which prayers would be recited. Becker replied that his only aim was to clarify the Consti tution. He. said he would not mind changing his amendment to include the words "non-denomi-ational" so that no faith could impose its beliefs on another. Civil Rights Bill Mr. Straley said the 200-mem-ber group was- formed as an outgrowth cf efforts to win a public accommodations ordin ance for Chapel Hill. The failure to enact the ordin ance also convinced Mr. Sraley and his followers that a federal law was necessary, that "per suasion and voluntary action on a local level just won't do the job." - Mr. Straley said they had been unable to see either Sen. Ervin or Sen. Jordan on their visits Demonstrators As VLB J By EDWARD V. MeCARTHY NEW YORK (UPI) Presi ednt Johnson, speaking against a background of chanting civil rigats demonstrators, Wednesday dedicated the 1964-65 World's Fair with a pela for world peace and equality for all men. The heavily guarded Chief Exe cutive, speaking under gray skies in a light rain, dedicated the $500 million fairgrounds in ceremonies at Singer Bowl and the U. S. pavilion. "I prophesy peace is not only I possible, I predict it is coming nearer," Johnson said. . "I am sure, that speakers at the next World's Fair will look back! with amusement at how greatly we underestimated the genius of man," the President ad ded. He recalled that the phophe cies of the 1939 World's Fair, held on the same site, had been "far outstripped by reality." Hundreds of civil rights dem onstrators gathered in and around the fair and scores were arrest ed in picketing, traffic "stall-ins" and subway disturbances. More than 200 scuffling demon startirs inside and outside the fairgrounds were arrested. One policeman was injured. "Just like Birmingham, just like Birmingham," chanted some of the demonstrators as police led them away. This was a refer ence to clashes between police and demonstrators during civil rights sit-ins at that Alabama city. The most serious incident took place during the early moments of. the Fair's two-year run when 20 demonstrators tried to stall a subway train enroute to the fair-' - grounds. . Two of them threw, themselves in front of the train, lying near the electrified third rail, on ties wet from a drizzling rain. It was at the Roosevelt Avenue Station in Queens which is above ground. Other demonstrators lay down inside the train and pre Julia Smith Is Dormitory Woman Of 64 . Mrs. Julia Davis Smith, a se nior from Raleigh, has been selected by the Carolina Wom an's Council as outstanding dor mitory woman of the year. The award is given annually to a Senior woman who has "ser ved her dormitory and the Uni versity with diligence, faithful ness and loyalty, and has proved herself to be outstanding in character, personality, leader ship and scholarship." Mrs. Smith, a nursing student, has served as president of the Nurses' Dormitory for the year 1963-64. She has also served as president of the Nurse's sopho more class, corresponding secre tary of the Women's Residence Council, chairman of freshman counselors and secretary of the Valkyries. Mrs. Smith has also been active in Sigma Theta Tau and is a member of the Order of the Old Lampshades. Chancellor William B. Aycock presented the award. Also honored at the Sunday af ternoon reception were Judy Frieder of Cincinnati, Ohio; Su san Dellinger of Charlotte; Pat sy Leffler of Portsmouth, Va.; and Anne Vick of Alexandria, Va. All were nominees for the CWC award. but had talked with the sena tor's aides. In Mr. Erv'u's effice, he said, they talked with Paul Kitchen, the former 8th District congress man now working for the sen ator. "He tried to argue with us about the bill," said Mrs. Smith. "I wasn't convinced by his argu ments. We've all read the bill. We know what's in it." In Sen. Jordan's office the group was met by William Coch rane, who helped arrange some appointments for them. Open vented the door from closing. Police with night sticks yanked 17 men and three women off of the train and tracks and rushed them to a police station, some in handcuffs and five of them with heads bloodied. Traffic on the five major ex pressways feeding into the fair grounds was "light to moderate," hampering the demonstrators' plans to create a chaotic tie-up. Rain forced a cancellation of the New York Mets baseball game in adjacent Shea Stadium. This ICemp Robbery Is Still A Mystery No new clues were reported yesterday in the recent robbery of Kemp's Record and Art Shop. A total of $16,000 worth of art pieces and records was stolen from Kemp's between 4 and 8 a.m. Monday by thieves who zroke in the rear door. In addition to about 550 rec ords most of them sterephonic jade and ivory faces and bowls, 14 Chinese scrolls (Kemp's en tire scroll collection, some of them 1,400 years old) a carved ivory Ming vase, and Oriental sacrificial cups were stolen. Chapel Hill Detective Howard Pendergraph said that "no new clues have turned up to indicate who the thieves were or where they might be at this time. "The job" Pendergraph said "was obviously a professional one. They knew what they wanted when they went in there. All the things taken were of definite value." - Pendergraph said "there : was no indication the thieves had been International Awareness (Editor's note: The following article, written by UNC student Masa Nishihara of Japan, is the third in a series of four articles written by foreign students now attending the University. The series is running in conjunction with "International Student Emphasis Week.") This week is the International Emphasis Week with colorful programs and exhibits for the whole student body, projected by the International Student Board, a Student Government committee. The aim is, needless to say, to promote our awareness of inter national affairs and to fix, as students, our responsibility to world peace. The National Student Association has recognized the import ance of national understanding to world peace, and believes that stu dent organizations on the national, regional, and local levels must co operate in bring to their groups an increased awareness of, and sensitivity toward world affairs, and international relations. Mny may ask. why do we students have to be involved in inter national problems? " - We have to see that" history has made up a world community of mutual dependency, regrettably, of mutual distrust. We ' students must be aware that students should join in striving for the estab lishment of a world community of mutual trust which is imperative for world peace. We students have failed to assume this respon sibility in today's world. - - Our responsibility- is not to become direct policy-makers, but to build up a basis from which a world of mutual trust may become possible. Students have been a "hidden" class, neglecting the poten tialities of their own strength. We are responsible, like other classes of people, for getting rid of the basic obstacles to desirable inter national relations. Mutual trust will be born only through mutual understanding. Mutual undestand'ng will come'about only through humble and sin cere attitudes toward the problems of our world. By sincere. at titudes it is meant that we should be open-hearted and open-minded. The humble attitude urges us to develop positive ones of respect for the qualities and potentialities of men and women outside the boundaries of the nation in which we live. Those who have been brought up in this continent find it difficult, at the outset, to believe that non-Christian, non-democratic, and non-indu&trial peoples may possess civilizations which, although pro foundly different from their own, nevertheless have values that at he very least deserve their respect, and at the most, their admira tion and desire for emulation. To have a positive attitude of resnect for non-Western civilizations :s not to deprecate or even repudiate tie civilization of the West, but, on the contrary, to enlarge and enrich the lives of Westerners. The ame thing is quite annlicable to non-Westerners. Students of non Western cultures should learn humbly what . the Westerners have achieved and contributed to the world, and at the same time they should soe the mistakes of Westerners, and try not to repeat them. Furthermore, all of us must keep ourselves from the temptation of confusing material poverty with cultural backwardness, lack of hygiene and meiical facilities with ethical shortcomings, and the absence of modern industrialization with a primitive mentality. Those students who make these errors should attend a Cosmo politan Club meeting. Those who believe that non-whites are somehow less capable and less intelligent than whites should go to foreign students on campus and check with them. Chant F air lessoned the traffic load. Several cars ran out of gas, a couple had "motor" trouble, and at least one car stalled with two flat tires. But as fast as the demonstrators stalled their auto mobles, police with tow trucks, dump trucks and even bulldozers moved them out of the way. Inside the fairgrounds, James Farmer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality CORE, was arrested with a doz en others in a sit-down demon stration at the New York pavilion. operating in this area prior to the Kemp robbery, believed to be the lacgest in the town's history. 4 Everything but the records is irreplaceable. Kemp collected the items while serving as a Marine courier at the American Embassy in Peking from 1932 to 1940. Since 1955, when trade with Communist China was prohibited, the value of his collection has increased considerably. The value of the art items stolen made full in surance - too expensive. Only 63 per cent of their value is recover able. The thieves apparently were scared off in the midst of their dawn raid on the store, because thousands of dollars of records and other art items were stack ed at the back door. Among thern was a $1,000 tapestry, several phonographs, an 'Oriental stone head, and about 400 more rec ords. ' "Price didn't seem to matter to them;' "said Kemp. "They took whatever appealed to them." - r

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