trials IjQjk. Bqx OTO About 1,000 tickets remain for the UNC-Virginia game tonight! They are available to anyone whose name begins with any. let ter from A to Z. How 'bout that. i vitations Graduation invitations will be on sale from 3 a m. to 4 p.m. today in Y-O&urt, This will be the last day of the sale conducted by the Order of the Grail. Ail pro ceeds will go to Grail Scholarship Fund. , , tounded Feb. 23. 1893 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CARQUNArTUDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1965 Volume 72, Number 9G Nod. F Ifff Mm Mckoii9 Wi Malcolm X UNC Visit Recalled Black Nationalist Leader Shot Sunday Sunday, Feb. 22, 1965, will be noted in the small type of his tory books as the day Malcolm X, ex-Muslim and leader of the Afro-American Union, was mur dered in a ballroom in upper Manhattan. , Yesterday New York police kept a wary guard in Harlem, hoping to avoid a gunfight be tween avengers of Malcolm and members of the Black Muslim sect, which he quit in 1963 after jcharging the sect was "not ac tive enough." Spoke Here Friday, April 19, 1963, Mal colm X came to . Chapel Hill. He was still a member of the Muslim movement, and profess ed allegiance to Elijah Muham rhed, the "Phophet of the Mus lim." , With him came a dozen body guards, all dressed in suits and a scowl. Malcolm X was due to speak in Howell Hall, but the crowd that showed up prompted Henry Mayer, chairman of the spon soring Carolina Forum, to hur riedly, arrange for the speech to be held in Memorial Hall. , When the participants took the stage, the biggest hall on campus was 90 per cent full. Debate Planned The program was supposed to be a debate between Malcolm and Floyd McKissick, national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality and a lawyer in Durham. It turned out to be all Malcolm, and McKissick's speech seemed out of place. Malcolm spoke of his move ment, and the people who were his followers. He told, of the enforced cleanliness of the Mus lim, how they were not allowed to drink or smoke and the strict penalties for adultery or other violations against the Muslims moral code.- - v " . . . The Muslims, he said, wanted 'separation, not segregation," and would try to get the Federal Government to give them land 'in the southeastern part of the United States." V "The white man will be de stroyed, and we don't want to be around when it happens." A year later he was to urge Ne groes to form "rifle clubs" to better fight the "devil white man? for civil rights. " He told the audience the Jegro would soon pass the vhite man in technology and in telligence. This would happen, he said, because the Muslims would get a land of their own and there prove they were su perior. j 1 ' No Chance ' "The Negro doesn't have a chance in America today," he added. "The white man has put our people at such a disad vantage they can't show their true superiority." , Malcolm also gave the audi ence his ideas on contemporary American political thought. "The white liberal is foxy where the white conservative is usually honest and lets the Ne gro know what he thinks of him. . "The difference between lib erals and conservatives," he added, "is that the liberals have developed the art of using the Negro." When the speeches and count er - speeches ended, Malcolm walked off the stage and came but in front of Memorial's or chestra pit so he "could be closer to the people and let them hear me better." ; Bodyguards Converge As he came around, several of his bodyguards gathered about him, and as he stood be fore the students he could be heard, but not very well seen. --.He patiently answered the students' questions, almost al ways bending his answer to ex tol the virtues of the "Honor able Elijah Muhammed." And then he left, his body guards still clustered about him. iAnd as he walked past South 5 tSUllUing lO IU5 tai I" mwv head parking lot, he answered the questions of several report ; ers in his calm, polished fas- hion. I -v "Yes," he said just before he stepped into his car, "someday 1 they, will try and kill me. It will be the white liberals who will try. because they know what I say is the truth and will eventually hurt their campaign of using the Negro." -, And on Sunday they did kill Malcolm X, leader of the Afro American Union and past spokesman for the Muslims. The -olice arrested one man and ought four others. All are Ne Toes. Fred Seely. si ft ' ' - - ,,) ' COED . MELINDA LONG (left) gives up 15 cents as she buys one of the Honors Committee booklets on honors programs. Doing the selling in Y-Court are Priscilla Patterson (center) and Camilla Walters (right). . Photo by Jock Lauterer Honors Program Booklet On Sale The booklet "Reading for Hon ors" goes on sale todav m Y- Court and the Book Exchange. The booklet, published by the Student Government Committee on Honors, is a guide to the de partmental honors program . for the senior year. - It is -intended ;"as an informa-. f tiye guide or sophomore and jun- " lor students who are interested in reading for honors in their sen ior year," according to Vance Bar ron, co-chairman of the commit- Co-chairman Jane Dallen said students should begin planning as Bill Campbell Heads GMAB William T. Campbell has been selected president of the Graham Memorial Activities Board for 1965-66, current. President Don Chapin announced yesterday. Campbell, a junior from Yazzo City, Miss., was selected by the GM Board of Directors. He has served as chairman of the GM Publicity Committee and is president of Region Five, As sociation of College Unions. He has been affiliated with GM since his freshman year. New offcers and chairmen will be installed in May. DTH By KERRY SIPE DTH Staff Writer Seventy-two years ago today, The Tar Heel, a scrawny, un impressive organ of the Carolina Athletics Association dared to announce that its columns would "be open to discussion on all appropriate subjects with an endeavor to do full justice to every one." On Feb. 23, 1893, there were few editorial battles to wage. Editor-in-Chief Charles Baskerville was obliged to fill the space on his first front page with a run-down of office holders of campus organizations. But, the DTH, being what it is, soon found the controversy which has kept it going for over seven decades. After only one month of existence, the paper had picked its first fight. The non-fraternity staff members, agitated over the paper's pro-fraternity policy, pulled out and established a rival paper The White and Blue which tried unsuccessfully to abolish not only the DTH, but the fraternity system as well. The paper, published in its early days one copy at a time on a hand operated screw press, grew from weekly, to a semi weekly, to a tri-weekly, to a daily. It added pictures, adver tisements, color and national news. But the controversy and discussion that the first editorial promised has continued from the scathing blasts in 1899 against the delapidated athletic facilities provided by the University to the scathing blasts in 1965 during the James Gardner incident. At the turn of the century, when UNC's athletic contests were held either in the open or in an unsafe wooden structure located on Franklin Street, the DTH campaigned for better athletic facilities and got them. S3.. asm tf - - ,, 4 early as their sophomore year if they desire to enter one of the departmental honors program. "We hope the booklet will , make qualified students aware of the opportunities available early enough for them to make ade quate plans," she said. . Barron- said" each Tiepartrnent sets its own regulations so pro grams vary greatly. "Most stu dents who have a minimum of a B average and are interested in pursuing a research project in their major field should enquire about the programs," Barron said. . The booklet lists each depart mental program and its require ment for entry. It contains a bas ic outline of courses in each sub ject. It also lists the name and address of each honors advisor. . The publication of the booklet is an experiment on the part of the committee, Barron said. "Interest in departmental hon ors programs has increased great ly in the past 10 years, although the program itself is over 50 years old. Perhaps every qualified stu dent already knows about these programs, but up until now there has been no simplified source of information. "We will be interested to see if the booklet does meet a need for information, or if it increases interest in the program," he said. The booklet costs 15 cents. This covers the cost of publication and distribution. AND Survives At P Nominating SSL Honors GoToVNC: Session Ends UNC's delegation conped most of the honors in the closing ses sion of State, Student Legisl i- ture in rtaieign Saturday. 'The best delegation award for schools with five or more dele gates went to UNC. This is based -on "over-all participation ar the debate. Pete Wales, co-chairman of the UNC delegation, won best speaker honors in the -House. Bo Edwards, the other co-chairman, received a gavel for serv ing as Speaker of the House. UNC's bill to establish a lot tery in. North .Carolina to raise funds for education passed Fri day afternoon with an. amend ment to hold a referendum on the issue. . . V David Kiel, co-author of .the bill with Jane Dallen,. present ed the bill in the. House. Kathy Cauble handled it., in- the Sen ate. Wales, Dallen, ,Neal Jack son and Paul Dickson . helped fight-for passage. . The Duke . Men's delegation shared the best bill award with Salem College with a proposed revision of the state fornication, adultery and sexual deviate laws. Arouses Controversy The bill aroused considerable controversy in establishing in the definition of such sexual of fenses to include . only public. acts. In addition, persons con victed of public sexual deviate conduct would be examined for nossible Dsvchiatric treatment rather, than., going jail. u Salem's bill would regulate roadside advertising along In terstate highways. Billboards would have to be 660 feet from the roadway and subject to safe ty control from a state commis sion. Duke Women's delegation also got into the sex question with a bill to distribute birtn control information and devices. The plan is based on the Mecklen burg County plan. East Carolina passed a bill to allow liquor by the drink in counties passing referendums on the issue. Jane Levine of Duke was elected President for next year over Chip Andrews of N. C. State. Charles Day' of North Carolina College and Monette Weaver of UNC at Greensboro were elected vice-president and secretary respectively. GALLERY TALKS The second in a series of gallery ttalks at Ackland Art Center will be given at 8 tonight. The exhibit "Ceramics by Twelve Artists" will be discussed by Robert Bernard, assistant professor in the Depart nent of Art. THE BIRTHDAY ROLLS AROUND 72 i---. . ,Zr m,.c ,, f rw.MM DTH STAFF struggles over a question of great importance. Nope, they haven't gonebeatnik, this is the Tar Heel staff about the turn of the century and tie fuzz on the face was quite in style. y- - - '' Photo by Jock Lauterer Paul Dickson (left) and Don Wilson ... to run for top campus positions Playmakers It opens tonight. That's the Carolina Playmakers' production of "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Locked" You in the Closet and I'm Feelin So Sad." The Arthur Kopit comedy will play through Saturday. Minataurs Order Calls It Quits The Order of the Minataurs was disbanded effective last Thursday. A spokseman , for the group, whose members were strongly censured by the Men's Council for social misconduct during the past two academic years, said the action was taken "with the general consent of the members." The spokesman, who asked that he not be. identified, said the ac tion was taken as a result of "difficulties in past relationships with the administration." He said the last meeting was held in December. Years Of Controversy . ill- l "r rp t r 1 t i Mi , V u,m.m v7 . w v, if s n Martha Nell Hardy of Chapel Hill will be. cast in the role of Madame Rosepettle, a widow who carries her husband's corpse with her in a casket. She is described as a "man-hating Dracula of a woman," Michael , Carrington of North Wilkesboro is cast as her son. Sara Kravitz of Chapel Hill will play Rosalie who chases the son. Charles Gray III of Gastonia will appear in the role of Commo dore Roseabove, who almost falls into the sinister . plot of the Ma dame. A starring role is promised from Cleo, the man-eating fish kept by the Madame. Director for the production will be Kai Jurgenson. Scene designer is Tom Rezzuto. Tickets are still available. They can be bought at Ledbetter-Pick-ard or. at Playmakers Business Office, 214 Abernathy. Ope An 1899 editorial calls for an end to "ungentlemanly abuse" of the college library, then located in what is now the Play makers' Theater. In 1919, editor Thomas Wolfe (of "Look Homeward, Angel" fame) took up the banner of the crusading DTH. He is respon sible for the enlarging of the editorial section of the paper to full-page size. A rash of campus petty thefts was attacked by Wolfe editorially, and he campaigned vigorously to put the DTH on a semi-weekly schedule. Editor Walter Spearman, now a professor in the School of Journalism, led a DTH fight in 1923 against the rival Yellow Journal, a scandal sheet circulated by Sigma Upsilon literary fraternity. He won the fight when his opponent had to leave school because of his part in the Yellow Journal. The DTH stepped into one of the major controversies of its history when the Supreme Court desegregation decision of 1951 was handed down. In keeping with the policy of previous DTH editors, Charles Kuralt (now with CBS-TV) editorially supported the decision in the face of considerable criticism. The greatest fight the DTH faced came in 1956 when the editors conducted a hard campaign against the hiring of big-time coach Jim Tatum by the athletic department. Tatum's friends struck back hard. A recall election was held in an attempt to get rid of editors Louis Kraar, and Ed Yoder. Kraar and Yoder won the recall but lost the editorial fight. A year and a half later the DTH saw its second recall elec tion when editor Neil Bass was stripped of his position for "malicious and untrue statements" about certain students and faculty members. For the DTH, then, the motto '72 years of editorial free dom," has become a tradition. Given To McCrary By FRED SEELY DTH Co-Editor Paul Dickson, a junior from Racford, was nominated Sunday night by the Student Party as its candidate for President of the Student Body. The SP also tapped Don Wilson, a sophomore from Birmingham, Ala., as its vice presidential nominee and gave Ernie McCrary, a junior from Lenoir, its endorsement for editor of the Daiiy Tar Heel. Nominations for secretary and and treasurer' were postponed until last night. DTH deadline prevented coverage of the nom inations, as well as a report of the University Party conven tion. Full details will appear in tomorrow's DTH. Dickson will be making his second try for the top campus position. He ran unsuccessfully against Bob Spearman last year. In his acceptance speech, the Air Force veteran promised a "program of workable ideas." "The campus knows of our commitment to programs such as Residence Hall improve ments," he added. "Again this year we will present a solid program based on key issues facing this campus." Other highlights of his speech: "I am committed to giving fraternities and sororities rep resentation on the Faculty Com mittee on Fraternities and Sor orities." "Students should have a stronger voice in the area of buildings and ground and traf fic and safety." "We intend to continue the course evaluation program. We want to exDand and publish the evaluation booklet each year."f "TVio ProcirWif nf thp. StU- dent Body is a leader and a leader is seldom found stradd ling the fence on major issues . . . I will fill this obligation. I will not equivocate." Dickson, currently a member of Student Legislature and chairman of the Honor System Commission, is a past chairman of the Student Party. He attended the Air Force Academy for a semester, and served in Viet Nam for three and a half years. A member of the Residence Hall Improvement Committee, he was a delegate to the Na tional Student Association re gional conference and was for merly president of Everett Hall. Wilson is currently chairman of the Student Party and serves as parlimentarian of Student Legislature. He is a member of the Di-Phi Senate and the Dialectic Society. McCrary is managing editor of the Daily Tar Heel, and has worked with the Charlotte Ob server, Hickory Daily Record and Chapel Hill Weekly. ion 4 Medicare Authorities To Debate The merits and faults of the proposed Medicare plan will be debated by four authorities at 8 tonight in Gerrard Hall. Sponsored by Carolina Forum and Carolina Political Union, the debate will feature a former presi dent of the American Medical As sociation, a prominent state phy sician, a member of the socialist party, and a UNC professor. Former AMA president Dr. Ed ward Annis and Burlington physi cian Dr. John Kernodle, a former president of the Medical Society of North Carolina, will debate against the federal bill to provide medical care for the aged. Socialist Party spokesman R. W. Tucker of Philadelphia and UNC professor of internal medi cine Dr. Frank Williams will speak for the bill. Annis has debated the Medicare issue with -Vice President Hubert Humphrey over nation-wide tele vision, and has debated the same question three times over the CBS network with United Auto Workers Union President Walter Reuther. $700 Stolen From Pines Sunday Night The Pines Restaurant was rob bed of $700 Sunday night by a thief or thieves who entered by a side window and forced open the safe. Chapel Hill Police Chief Wil liam Blake said the robbery was discovered Monday moring about 6:20. "Entry was gained by a side window," Blake said. It could not be determined if the window had been forced open or had just been left unlocked. "The safe was rolled from be hind the cashiers counter into a private dining room. The door of the safe was beat and prised off it wasn't a very professional job." The till from the cash register, containing about $25 in change was missing, but an attempt to break open a cigarette machine failed. Blake said he thinks there is no connection between this safe robbery and the one in January when $4,000 was taken from the Merchants Association safe. "That job was much more pro fessional. The robbery at the Pines was just a strongarm job they knocked the dial off the safe but didn't even try to punch it and they couldn't even break the cigarette machine open." 1 Want A Job? r: n H The DTH needs a night editor. This pleasant job requires work six nights a week and pays the huge sum of $13 for the labor. One advantage is a private office with all the comforts of home 'a chair, a desk, a telephone and a window). Some experience in news paper work is desired, pref erably in lay-cut and headline writing. Interested? Stop by the DTH office in GM from 2 to 3 p.m. any weekday or call the managing editor to make an appointment. :: H u n tt 8 n it

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