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7 Parly Saturday Residence Hails in the Lower Quad will sponsor an all-campus combo party Saturday night from S-12. .The Shalows will provide the music. Everyone is invited. Housing Eaiv The pro-segregation housms rule of the administration must go. See edit, page 2. frog mm Founded Feb. 23, 1893 Sharp, o D iscriminatory Housing Law f SV wm m I II E By FRED SEELY And HUGH STEVENS DTH Editors A University pro-segregation housing rule apparently will be repealed Monday. Dean of Student Affairs C. O. Cathey said yesterday he will propose repeal of tlis rule, which states "insofar as possible, initial room assignments will be made according to race." The rule went into effect Oct. 13, 1963. Chancellor Paul F. Sharp ap parently did not know of the 'rule, and said he -would do every thing possible to gain repeal. It will be considered at the Chan- ir it Spearman Issues Housing Statement ,. Bob Spearman, Student Body President, issued a statement late yesterday regarding the housing law now in effect. He Workshop Meets Oct. 2 UNC Opera Workshop will hold its first meeting of the year at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 2 in Hill Music Hall. Singers who are interested in performing with the workshop may audition for membership at that time. "An opera workshop requires the services of many interested persons," said director Wilton Mason.' "We win be happy to see not only singers interested, in starring roles but also those who wish to be chorus members and spear-bearers." t: "We will need technical help ers, costumers, scene designers, lighting assistants, and the like. They need only have an interest in opera and in what we are try ing to do in these productions," he said.' Singers who wish to audition should bring an operatic or musi cal comedy selection which they think displays their voice. An ac companist will be available. The first production scheduled for this year will be Puccini's masterpiece "La Boheme." FCA MEETING The Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) will have its first meeting on Thursday, Sept. 24 in 304 Woollen Gym at eight o'clock. AH interested persons are urged to attend. Gemini Flight Crew 1 GEMINI FLIGHT CREW pauses patiently for DTH photographer after having just completed five hours of rigorous training at the Morehead Planetarium. The. astronauts are (I-r) Walter Schirra, Thomas Stafford, Virgil Grissom, and John Young. Photo by Jock Lauterer Cathey Against Rule e Repealed Monday cellor's cabinet at 9 a.m. Mon day. The rule was not publicly acknowledged until it was con firmed by Dean Cathey yester day to Student Body President Bob Spearman and the Daily Tar Heel. "The rule was put into effect because of the great number of parents who. might complain of their son or daughter being placed with a person not of their race," he said. A Negro student had complain ed of the segregation to Spear man and the DTH Monday, and student leaders made a spot- made the statement after meet ing with Chancellor Paul F. Sharp. "For many years the Univer sity of North Carolina has aimed to provide equal educational op portunities lor all its students," . regardless of their race, creed, or color. It has spoken courage ously and clearly of the neces sity of equal educational oppor tunity both to the state and to the nation. "Unfortunately the procedures used in housing Negro students this fall were in contradiction with these aims," he added. "Stu dents were assigned together in residence hall rooms solely on a basis of their race. In addition, it is now necessary for students to have special permission forms approved by their parents if a white and Negro student wish to room together. "I feel that the current hous ing policy is fundamentally un just and that it is totally incon sistent with the values which the university hopes to promote. Stu dents should have free choice in the selection of their roommates. The University should not act as. an agent requiring or promot ing racial discrimination. "In the past two days I have discussed this problem with a number of University officials," Spearman continued. "I have been assured by the Dean of Student Affairs, Dr. C. O. Cathey, that he supports a change of policy so that future housing assignments will be made with out regard to race. "I will appear before the Chancellor's cabinet meeting on Monday morning, September 28, to urge that the University im mediately adopt non-discriminatory procedures in the housing of students and the use of special permission forms be immediately discontinued." W ill check of several dorms Tues day night. All-Negro Rooms It was discovered that in many instances rooms were occupied only by Negroes, especially in the Lower Quad. Also, there were several com plaints from Negro and white students who had asked to be allowed to rocm together, yet had been given separate hous ing. - Dean Carney confirmed a re port that parents had to approve any request by their son or daughter to live with a person of a dif ferent race. A mimeographed form has been sent to all such parents in forming them that their child wished to room with a Negro or white student, and the housing office was ordered to split up students who did not obtain parental permission. The policy of the University in the past few years has been to assign initial rocm assignments without regard to race, and al low anyone who was dissatisfied to move. Last year only one complaint was made by a stu dent, and he was moved im mediately. Dean Cathey also confirmed that Negro housing slips on file -in the Housing Office were mark ed "N", and that a room having a vacancy would have a blue tab affixed to it if an occupant was a Negro. Meet With Sharp Spearman, Student Body Vice President Don Carson and the editors of the DTH met with Chancellor Sharp late yesterday afternoon to tell him of the rule now in effect. Expressing, surprise that such, a rule was in effect, Sharp said he "would fully support repeal." "A thing like this puts us right back where we were, and does absolutely no good to the students or the University," he added. "We have to go slowly in cor recting this. It is a regressive . law, and it will take some time to ' adjust to the change." Neither had any immediate ideas as to what could be done about the situation. Bitter End Singers Friday, 7:30 In Training Here By KERRY SIPE "A knowledge of star positions pulled Scott Carpenter out of a rought spot when his navigation al instruments failed during the 1962 orbital . flight," said Virgil, (Gus) Grissom. He is command-, ing astronaut of the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration's Gemini Space Program. The Gemini is a two-man orbit el flight around the earth to be staged sometime in 1965. Grissom, "co-pilot John Young, and a back-up team composed of Walter Shirra and Thomas Staf ford are in Chapel Hill today for a two-day training period at Morehead Planetarium. - The training sessions are stag ed from a simulated orbital cock-, pit under the dome of the planet arium sky. Actual movements of star patterns on launching day are simulated. ' "A thorough knowledge of the sky is absolutely necessary if you are to know exactly where you are," said Young. "If your instruments go dead an you have to do an out-the-window retro," that is, take man ual control of the ship, "the stars are the only things you have to guide by." The simulator in which the crew will undergo the current training sessions is two padded seats in a housing with a view ing window situated before each passenger's eyes. CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1964 i . jflL POLITICS Spearman Addresses UP Meeting Tonight Student Body President Bob Spearman will give a brief speech on Student Government and the University Party at a UP meeting tonight at 7:30 in Gerrard Hall. Highlighting the program will be a panel discussion of Student Government and student parties. The panel will accept questions from the floor. . The panel will be composed of Spearman, Student Body Vice President Don Carson, party chairman Jeff Adams, and Stu dent Body Treasurer Jim Light. "This will be primarily an or-; ganizational meeting," Adams said. The party will also discuss several formal resolutions which will be introduced from the floor. Join Parties Harriss Urges . . Former Student Body President Bill Harriss urged all UNC stu dents to join a campus political party in an address before ap proximately 150 Student Party members end guests Tuesday , night in Peabody Hall. V Describing student political parties as organizations in which one can become familiar with campus ?ssues, Harriss said, 'There is a lot to learn and a lot to gain from discussion of the University's . problems." Harriss cited the decrease in number of students willing to par ticipate in student government in recent years. Besides the opportunity for forensic development, Harriss said, "the experience and educa tion of campaigning is an impor tant part of party experience." Turning his remarks along party lines, Harriss urged new students at the University to join the Student Party. In an apparent attack on Uni versity Party organization, Har riss said, "Here, you're an indi vidual. Party decisions are not made by an executive committee but in open discussion at open meetings." The party issued its official welcome to Chancellor Sharp at the meeting. After a statement by Repre sentative Don Wilson on the dif ficulty of students getting into student section of Kenan Stad ium for the Carolina-State game, the party agreed to investigate the problem and seek a possible solution. The next meeting was set for 0 p.m. Sunday. At that time the party will fill legislative vacan cies in Mens' District I (area outside the Chapel Hill-Carrboro city limits), Men's District X fEhringhaus), Women's District IT (Alderman, Kenan, and Mc Iver), and Women's District V 'Cobb). More Room "There is considerably more room in the Gemini capsule than we had in the Mercury ship," said Young. "We have much greater freedom of movement." Still, their view will go through a window less than six inches square. Consequently recognition of star positions must be imme diate and accurate at all odds. Grissom will make all com mand decisions during the three orbit flights and will do most of the manual guiding of the ship. 'There'll be plenty to keep us both busy," said Young. The two man team will run tests of almost every control sys tem in the capsule. "We'll run tests on food and water, consumption, . communica tions systems, flight control, sys tems, attitude control and a thousand and one other things," said Young. "Actually the duties are pretty well divided between Gus and me." This is the third trip to Chap el Hill for Grissom and the four th for Young on similar train ing missions. "There are a number of places in the country where these ses sions could be held," said Gris som. "But the people here have always given us a great job. They put together this whole set- up with only one week's notice." nn no A . .. --J mm- - ; - r-i - rum, vUiH i L ik 1 ft V BAliV'.X. ....... . . If" ' Nr. r CHAPEL HILL'S FRANCHISE of the New York Times is back in business after almost closing out as a result of a lack of subscriptions. Chris Wright, Chapel Hill area manager, is seen here Times Off ice Is Bustling; Siffii-Uo Deadline Extend By JOEL. BULKLEY Chapel Hill's distribution of fice Of the New York Times was ibustling with activity yesterday afternoon despite rumors that the delivery service would be closed down. Enterprising Chris Wright, 20-year-old UNC student and man ager of the office, said the sub- . scription deadline, originally set for next week, has been ex tended until Oct. 22 in an effort to solicit more subscriptions. Delivery service is now sche duled to begin Oct. 28, one month later than' planned. Wright, disappointed with the number of subscriptions solicited so far from the Times' first stu dent delivery point in the South, said unless the subscription bus iness showed a great increase the delivery service would be cancelled. About 200 daily and 250 Sun day subscriptions have been sold so far, he said, and more are coming in at a rate of aboui Legislature Postponed Student Legislature will not meet tonight as scheduled. The meeting has been postponed until Thursday, Oct. 1.' Speaker Don Carson said the postponement was required by Student Government by - laws, which state that the Legislature may not meet during the first Week of school. Rusk To Receive Secretary of State Dean Rusk i expected to deliver a major U.S. foreign policy speech here Oct. 12. Rusk's topic could not be learned at this time, but it . is expected that the address will deal with a major area of con cern in U.S. foreign policy. He will be here for UNC's annual University Day celebration. . He will be awarded an honor ary degree during foe cere monies, one of three to be pre sented at that time. The address will be delivered in Memorial Hall at 11 a.m on Oct. 12. A formal academic pro cession, complete with caps and gowns worn by the faculty, will form at tlie Old Well and march to Memorial. A reception will be held in Woollen Gym afterward. Rusk's appearance here was planned for some time last year, but was canceled after his sched ule developed a conflict. His visit end the awarding of the honorary degree fellows by exactjy. three years the late CI Attack J: r TL N DAY A 4 v - - V r s- "a dozen a day. " Wright explained that the cir culation office of the New York paper had . paid for newspaper advertising ' and letter mailings to students, faculty and towns people, and that he had sunk nearly $1200 into the business so far to get it off the ground. The Times office is at 207 E. Franklin Street, adjacent to Chez Kemp. Wright said Kemp Nye, proprietor of the record store, had given him two rent free months of office space "to give Chapel Hill a New York Times" ' Wright said he contacted the Times in July about the pos sibility of setting up a franchise to deliver papers here. Since then, an office has been set up and a small staff assembled to handle the delivery once the operation gets rolling.' He said he hopes eventually to get 1,200 daily and Sunday sub scriptions. At that level, he said, a profit could be realized. It I would take two people with a truck four hours to deliver we routes. . . He added, however, that unless 1 200 subscriptions were received it would be a "losing proposi tion." At cur present level, we would lose roughly $100 a week. Subscription rates are eight cents p day for the daily paper, and fifty cents tor the Sunday issue. Delivery A Problem "Our biggest problem," Wright Honorary Degree President John F. Kennedy's ad dress' at University Day cere monies held in Kenan Stadium. At that time, President William C. Friday awarded President Kennedy and Gov. Terry San ford honorary degrees of Doc tor of Law. Rusk was appointed by Presi dent Kennedy as Secretary of State to succeed Christian Her ter. He has served since that time under President Kennedy and President Lyndon B. John son. Rusk served as Undersecretary of State urder Dean Acheson during the administration of for mer President Harry S. Truman. He is a native of Georgia, where he was schooled. Among, his teachers was Kenan Profes sor Emeritus of Greek, Dr. Pres ton H. Epps of Chapei Hill. He attended Davidson College, graduating Fhi Beta Kappa. - He received two degrees as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford Uni versity, England. ed. Witib At Party putting back up his sign over the office, located next to Chez Kemp's. Chris has extended the subscription deadline . for one more month. Photo by Jock Lauterer conceded, "will be delivery. Our subscribers are all over the cam pus and the Town." Delivery is expected to be finished by 2 p.m. on "weekdays and 11 a.m. Sun day, he added. The papers are to be flown to Washington and then bussed to Chapel Hill. "It's still a tremendous poten tial market," he said, adding that once the delivery service began it would probably increase at a rapid rate. Maryland Tickets Athletic Business Manager' Vernon Crook has announced that there are 450 student tickets left for the Oyster Bowl game against Maryland at Norfolk, Va., on Oct. 17. . All students planning to attend the game are urged to purchase their tickels NOW because all tickets not rold before Oct. 5 will be returned. Around The Campus CPU To Meet The Carolina Political Union will hold its first meeting of the year at 9 p m. Sunday in Grail Room of Graham Memorial. Gerry Hancock, chairman of CPU, said the meeting will be .brief. Planj for the fall, includ ing procedures for filling vacant seats in U12 Union, will be dis cussed. Purses Found Two pockstbocks thought stolen over the weekend at a DKE fra ternity party were recovered yes terday by Chapel Hill police. Police said one pocketbook was found in the Chapel illll High School playground and the other in a yard of a home on Colony Court. . Police used UNC. ID cards to identify the pocket books as belonging to Cynthia F. Craven and Katybird Hansen. Last year's Student Directory listed Miss Craven as. a junior from Lakeland. Fla. Police said ?.iis Hansen now attends Randolph-Macon College. Reserve Course Naval Reserve Officers in the Chape! Hill-Durham area can earn promotion and retirement credit through participation in t:e Naval Reserve Officers School. Meetings are held each Monday evening at 8 at the NR OTC Armory on S. Columbia St. Associated Press Wire Service All Are Released On Bond Three Chapel Mill men have been arrested, one of them on two charges, in connection with en incident at an integrated stu dent party here last Saturday. The party was reportedly broken up by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Chapel Hill Police Chief Wil liam Biake said warrants charg ing William Earl White with bur glary and resisting arrest and Tommy White and Ear! Holsclaw with assault on an officer were served by Orange Counly Deputy Sheriffs yesterday morning. All three, Blake said, have been released on bond pending trial Tuesday in Chapel Hill Re corder's Court. William White is free on $r00 bond, while the others are free on $200 bond each. Warrants were sworn out Tuesday atfernoon in Hillsboro, one by Joel Edwin Causey, a UNC senior from Southern Pines and one of the occupants of the house where the party took place, and three by Hugh Wil son, constable of Bingham Town ship in Chapel Hill. Wilson said he intended to swear out another warrant against Peter Rashkis of Chapel Hill for reckless driving and as sault with a deadly weapon. About 75 University students and townspeople attended the party on Route 2. University Heights Saturday night and re ported they were repeatedly harassed by a group of about 18 unidentified men. Witnesses said the men were firing rifles and shotguns from the woods nearby. They also said bottles and bricks were thrown at the house. . Chapel Hill Police, Sheriff's Deputies, nnd UNC Security Of ficer Arthur Beaumont were called to the party. But friction between the party and its at tackers flared again whenever officers left. Causey said it was William White's entering the house and his flight that formed the basis for the warrants against him. Burglary is defined as breaking and entering tne dwelling of an other person at night with the intent of committing a felony therein. Wilson said he charged Hols claw and Tommy White with as sault because tney struck him while he was leaving in his pick up truck after police arrived at about 2:45 a.m. Sunday. Wilson also charged William Vhite with resisting arrest. in Chapel Hill. Classes will con tinue through June, 1903. Lt. Cmdr. Robert B. Midsrtto, head of the Chapel Hill division of NROS, said that the program is designed to give Naval Re serve officers, regardless of spe cialty, an opportunity to improve their proficiency and capabilities as Naval officers. Completion of an NROS course credits an officer with 24 promo tion points and a year of satis factory federal service for retire ment purposes. Among the 3 participants in the program ere aviators, physicians, legal spe cialists and supply corps officers a.- well as line officers. The faculty includes Lt. Cmdr. Myron C. Banks, Chief Postal Clerk W. Frank Pcndergraft, and Chief Commissaryman Alfred S. Stephens. Firemen, Engincmen Vote To Strike The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Encinemen announc ed today an "overwhelming" vote for strike action in a wage dis pute with the nation's railroads. H E. Gilbert. BLF&E president, said the vote was more than fO j-er cent in favor of a strike. He said, the union would be free to strike on or after Sept. 25. Under the Railway Labor Act, President Johnson can arpomt an emergency board to report on the dispute and delay any strike action at least 60 days.
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