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Tuesday, March 9, 1965 Carson Explains Details .0. T ill!! Pige 2 i II S3 ZJIH" Editorial Page Opinions cf the Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. Letters and columns, covering a wide range of views, reflect the personal opinions of their authors. "iff. Wake Forest's Challenge Is Big One of the most promising events on the spring collegiate calendar comes up this weekend at Wake Forest College when. "Challenge 65," the Wake Forest Symposium, tackles the imposing topic The Emerging World of the American ' Negro." "Challenge 65" will run from Thurs day through Saturday, and feature such outstanding figures in the field of civil rights as James Farmer, national direc tor of CORE; Sen. Thomas Dodd (D Conn.), a member of the Senate Judic iary Committee; Rep. Edwin Willis (D-La.), chairman of the House Com- mittee on Un-American Activities; and Hodding Carter, Pulitizer Prize winner from Greenville, Miss. Carolina students who are interested will surely find it worth the time and effort to drive to Winston-Salem and take in some of the sessions, all of w hich will be held on the Wake campus. This inaugural session of "Challenge" holds great promise for the state's aca demic community. It should be a fine complement to our own Carolina Sym posium, which has attracted national at tention for several years, and certainly its topic is one of widespread interest and importance. "Challenge 65" promises to be an overwhelming success. We hope it will be. Ring, Ring, Ring, Ring . . . Ouch! Making a telephone call has never been an entirely pleasant experience in Chapel Hill. For four years now we have suffered through long distance operators who connect us with Goldsboro rather than Greensboro, girl's dorm phones that stay busy for hours on end, and other assorted woes. Now, however, things have taken an other turn for the worse. Some diabolical . genius at the tele phone company apparently decided that the gentle, murmuring sound that tells the caller that the phone he is calling is ringing is altogether too gentle to re main in our age of hustle and harsh ness. Last week, the soft purr that we have been accustomed to hearing was replaced by a shrill noise capable of ir ritating the most patient phone users. Granted, it's a small point but we are not so much concerned about the sound itself as the danger it represents. As it is, telephone manners are not what they could be, and listening to the new "ring" for thirty seconds is guaranteed to make an irritated caller even less dis posed to courtesy. We could appeal for a change, but the phone company is almost as firmly en trenched as the local dry cleaners. So wTe'll simply pass along a reminder that telephoning has become more treacher ous than ever, and ask every Chapel Hill phone user to answer his phone as quick ly as possible not for his own sake, but for the caller's. Let's Stand Up For Chapel Hill The following editorial comment ap peared in The Chapel Hill Weekly of March 7, 1965. The Daily Tar Heel re prints it here for pur readers' benefit, and urges students' and all v Chapel Hill residents to join in the appeal to pre serve the beauty that has made Chapel . Hill a distinct and lovely place to live. The present danger of hamburger ' places in the heart of Town and strip , ping away the area's natural beauty for apartment projects is vexatious and frustrating to those who have been able to appreciate Chapel Hill's great . charm. The assault is especially distress ing to those who decided to live here because in large part, of the distinc tion the Town is threatened with losing. And yet, with all the vexations, frus trations and distress, the present danger might be exactly what Chapel Hill has needed. , With the danger aimed at the heart of Town and at one of our most pleasant residential areas a threat that is all but impossible to overlook the Townspeo ple have been alerted. A good part of what Chapel Hill had is irretrievably lost. We can not tear down the grotesque monuments to our neglect, short-sightedness, irresponsibili tv or whatever it was that permitted them. And we can never recover the woods and dells fallen prey to the bull dozer. But there is still time to save the best of what remains. What is obviously needed is a long- - S:J5 In? latin; (tint Ifl 72 Years of Editorial Freedom is 1 - i The Daily Tar Heel Is the official news publi cation of the University of North Carolina and is published by students daily except Mondays, examination periods and vacations. Fred Seely, Hugh Stevens, co-editors; Mike Yopp, Ernie McGrary, managing editors; Pete Wales, associate editor; Larry Tarle ton, sports editor; Fred Thomas, night editor; Mary Ellison Strother, wire edi tor; John Greenbacker, Kerry Sipe, Alan Banov, staff writers; Pete Gammons, asst. sports editor. Perry McCarty, Pete Cross, Bill Lee, Tom Haney, sports writers; Jock Lauterer, photographer, Chip Barnard, cartoonist; Jack Harrington, bus. mgr.; Betsy Gray, asst. bus. mgr.; Woody Sobel, ad. mgr.; Jim Peddicord, asst. ad. mgr.; Tom Clark, subscription mgr.; John Evans, circulation mgr.; Dick Baddour, Stuart Ficklen, Jim Potter, salesmen. Second Class postage paid at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C Subscription rates: $4.50 per semester: $8 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc. The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for republica tion of all local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches. II I I i I i n II I P II 1 II N range plan that will preserve the na tural beauty of the area and the char acter of the residential and business dis tricts. We have no idea what legal problems are involved, but it seems that additional safeguards should be possible in the business district. If the Town Board can prohibit a pool room or bowling alley anywhere in Chapel Hill, it seems reasonable that it could also assume . the power to prohibit such things as construction of a hamburger walk-in next to a church. If permissive legisla tion from the State is necessary to erect such safeguards, now is the time to seek it, while the General Assembly is in ses sion. Possibly even more restrictive zoning of residential districts and those surbur ban areas ripe for development will pre vent further spread of unsightly con struction and will slow the enroach ment of commercial establishments into residential neighborhoods. Preserving the natural beauty of the community will probably be the hard est job of all. The open land proposal being studied by the Board of Aldermen seems to off er the only possibly salvation of this na tural beauty. We have serious doubts about the financial ability of the Town to buy land" and leave it idle, even if there were no legal obstacles. We would also question the use of tax receipts for this purpose without the express con sent of the taxpayers. We do not, how ever, question the value or the pressing need for an open land program in Chap el Hill, and ruling out ad valorem tax funds should not make such a program impossible or impractical. As a first step in setting up a pro gram, the Aldermen might adopt a policy making it clear that land gifts not only will be accepted but welcomed. Beyond that, the Town Board might consider the possibility of placing the University's payment in lieu of taxes (about $50,000 a year and rising) in an open land acquisition fund instead of the Town's general fund. Consideration also should be given, fund to which citizens could contribute we think, to establishing some sort of land or cash to buy open land. Maybe there are other and better ways that the open land proposal can be made a reality. The important thing, though, is not how it is done, but that it be done as soon as possible. If we wait much longer, there will be no open land to speak of, much less to work with. "TVTYTl TrTN 1 1 n TrTrTI Tr ft TI T! 2 rt Jl ill ll rl n V H- fw 13 f 1 II I I if IV U j LLLL y -LL-LL By DON CARSON The need for a campus radio system has been apparent for several years. In fact, some dis cussion of a student - operated station goes back to the admin istration of Inman Allen in 1962 63. Through the proposed sys tem, students could be provided a source of entertainment and diversion which they presently lack (especially at night) due to poor signals from nearby ra dio stations. The other members of the Campus Radio Committee and myself had hoped to have the campus radio station on the air some time late this spring. The present political atmosphere, however, has compelled us to delay further legislation on campus radio until after the spring elecion. This project is one which can be of great bene fit to the entire campus, and I have hoped that it would never become a political issue. I deeply regret that it has been injected into the present cam paign. - I am making all the informa tion on campus radio available through the Student Govern ment Offices in the hope that those who presently find it po litically inexpedient to support campus radio will be able to do so after the spring election. No matter what the outcome of the election, I will continue to support the. Campus Radio project. Student body cohesion and campus "spirit" will be enhan ced through the systematic pres entation of events themselves and information about events on the campus. Programming of the station will be determin ed by a Campus Radio Board 'Do Thev Charge When Wounded?' f ' ' . V ;; ' ' i t: : :': .:i-x.::-'-:r:- : ' : . : vv V.'-':. v5!.:-v.:. .: ; .:.. . .. .f: : : : i. .. : 4 liiiliiiiiiiiilliiii i'-Vi , 'v5 --hv - .fl iff If : - jx .r ..tf. ..r -, .v.n-r.,rn-nnr--.y. ,y . , j j&- j. ,JJJ. la- ifli-- .wwwAwAb. rt-... , wwX Sujs.i t. 2r-wr Letters To The Editors Pub Board Misses Point Pratt Deserving Of Endorsement Editors, The Tar Heel: The refusal of the Publica tions Board, to approve the can didacy of Norwood Pratt for editor of the Daily Tar Heel reveals a quaint and nearsight ed attitude of what the editor ship, requires. The chairman of the Pub Board said Pratt "did not have a record of the prior experience and ability that would be neces sary to get the Tar Heel to : press every day." The incum bent editors, in a recent editori al and before the Pub Board, have urged the selection of can didates who "are qualified to put the paper out every day." . But the real issue is not Get ting the Sheet Out. The issue is: What kind of paper will the candidates put out? And that question of DTH con tent must be left largely to the campus electorate. The issue for the Publications Board was to give all the candidates a fair break. The board's responsibil ity should be to ensure that the editorial candidates themselves can write, and that they can build staffs which can write. And Mr. Pratt's most carping critics will concede that he is intelligent and can write. The frantic question, "Will the paper come out?" is extrane ous. For 70-odd years, it has always insisted on coming out despite everything lazy or con fused or misguided staffs and editors could do to stop it. In past years the Pub Board has endorsed several candid ates who have never set foot in the DTH office. Three or four of these have been elected, and a couple have even made good editors. A future shoe salesman and a gas-station-attendant-to-be were endorsed and elected, among others. And the paper still came out, with the only difference from year to year being the quality of the content. The Pub Board verdict also fits into a pattern in which both the newspaper and the student government "establish ment" have had a hand of making the DTH staff self -perpetuating, breeding on itself, finding new editors from the old staff year after year. A new face saying "I want in" brings shrieks of terror and much scurrying around. But the students have the last word. And they should not be- Faculty Member Blasts Library Editors, The Tar Heel: As a long time faculty member and interested participant in school affairs, it is my ardent desire that the University com munity function as smoothly as possible. One very important facet of university life is the University Library and it appears that it is not operating quite as smooth ly as it should, or could. It is a widely known and silent ly suffered fact that the library operates under a terrific amount of pressure and bears up very poorly. As if aware of this fact the people in charge of hiring new staff members have, in the last year or two, hired some very hardy specimens indeed. So hardy, in most cases, that they spend a crood deal of their time on the olaying fields and very little in the library. What they lack in an intelligent and interested ap proach to their jobs, they more than make up for m physical prowess. The library must wake up to the fact that an all masculine facade is no substitute for honest and intelligent service to the Uni versity at large. Name Withheld which will use campus opinion polls indecidng what type of music will be offered. Research already done in this area indi cates a heavy emphasis on pop ular music. Not the least pur pose served would be the op portunity for student leaders and the University administra tion to have an extremely rapid means of reaching a very large portion of the student body on matters of urgency or in emer gencies. Several months ago we began an intensive investigation of the feasability of a "carrier cur rent" system for Carolina. (Carrier current is a method of transmitting an AM radio sig nal over existing electric light and power lines.) Mr. Richard H. Crompton, head of the Low Power -Broadcast Equipment Company in Malvern, Pa., visit ed our campus and surveyed our wiring system. Since that time we have been able to con duct highly successful tests using equipment - supplied by Mr. Crompton and by Bauer Electronics. . From a studio and control room, the radio program will be disseminated initially over a very low power ten watt) FM transmitter located on the roof of Swain Hall. Signals from this transmitter can be receiv ed within a radius of approxi mately five miles on standard FM receivers. Within this "blanket" most of the Univer sity students are located, either in University-operated residence halls or in off-campus housing such as fraternities and sorori ties and individual apartments. To eliminate the necessity for purchasing many individual FM receivers by students living in residence halls and fraternities, approxmiately 15 "master" FM receivers would be installed in appropriate power vaults serv ing residence halls and frater- nities. Signals received by these FM tuners w7ould be fed into low power standard AM "carrier current" transmitters which in turn would feed their signals into the power lines serving the residence halls and fraternities. - Any radio, whether operated by batteries or AC current, would receive the signal exactly like the signal from any other radio station. Thus persons liv ing anywhere within a five mile radius of Swain Hall would . be able to receive the campus radio station on FM. Those liv ing in residence halls and fra ternities would be able to re ceive the station on AM or FM. The signal from the campus radio station will be strong and clear, but will in no way inter fere with the signals of other radio stations or the ability of students to receive other radio stations. "The initial capital outlay for the station for all necessary equipment amounts to $19,7.;o -which is broken down as fol lows: AM "Carrier Current Transmitters $ 2,250 FM Transmitters and Receivers 300 Installation of AM and FM Equipment 00 Electrical Outlets 800 Studio Equipment 4,300 Office Equipment 000 Test Equipment (FCC Required) MOO S19.750 In order to obtain competent and responsible people the sta tion will be operated by salaried personnel. The cost of operating the station each year will be $11,628 which should be broken down as follows: Technical Department: Salaries and wages $ 1,920 Mileage - 2Jp Tubes and parts 520 Program Department: Salaries and wages 2,1C0 Records 1-200 Tapes 400 Telephone lines (for relaying programs) CO News Services (this item may be reduced) 2, ECO General and Administra tive Expense: Postage, tel & tel 130 Dues, subscriptions, and memberships 73 Stationary & supplies 150 Maintenance and re pairsOffice 43 Travel 100 .811,628 I am aware of the existence of a good bit of distortion and confusion about the initial cost of the radio station. It should be noted that the initial cost of $19,750 is more than $8,000 less than the origin al figure which was given sev eral months ago. There are several reasons for this differ ence. The original figure contained $2,000 in remodeling to Swain Hall which the University ad ministration has now agreed to underwrite. Also, the present figure does not contain a $2,000 contingency fund or seventeen weeks operational cost which were included in the original estimate. There will, of course, be other capital improvements to the station from time to time, Jut these will not place any "serious burden on Student Gov ernment finances. It has not yet been determin ed if it will be necessary to ask for an increase in student fees in order to provide this service. Any increase in the fees, how ever, will be submitted to a vote of the student body. This entire project has al ready been approved by the Chancellor and the University Board of Trustees. I ll come mesmerized by the wolf cry that there is imminent dan ger the paper will not come out if so-and-so is elected. To be decided is the content: will the paper be lively, exciting, infor mative? Or will the only thing you can say in its behalf be: "Well, it comes out every day." Jim Clotfelter Former DTH Editor Otis Wliisling In Wind On Ban Editors, The Tar Heel, The argument over the speaker ban, Mr. Otis (DTH, March 2), is not one concerning the rights of the General Assembly but ra ther the extent of the damage thus done to the University. More over, the assertion of a minimal loss of knowledge is simply whistl ing in the wind; come over to Phillips Hall someday, sir, and let me bring you up to date. Finally, I am happy to provide an answer to Mr. Otis query as to the motives of opponents of the ban. Most of us are simply trying to maintain a first-class university in Chapel Hill. Lawrence Slifkin Physics Dept. Editors Supported On Gardner Issue Editors, The Tar Heel: In light of the criticism being heaped upon you for your editor ial stand on the Gardner "affair" -which was ludicrous from the out setand symptomatic of some thing more dangerous than laugh ablelet me add one small voice in your support. Tom McKenney 103-B Bernard Si. Junk Standard For Ga u llefingee By ART BUCHWAD The New York Herald Tribune President Johnson is trying to beautify America. President de Gaulle is trying to make us go back in the gold standard. Fort Knox is in terrible shape. What does it all mean? It means the United States has to find something besides gold to support its currency. The answer has been staring all of us in the face for years. The biggest problem America faces today is what to do with its junked cars. An estimated seven million of them are clog ging up every yard and highway in the U. S. If we could get rid of them we could beautify Ameri ca and make a great leap forward into the Great Society. Anyone who has seen the film "Goldfinger" knows that in a mat ter of minutes you can, with the aid of a giant press, take a used car and crush it down to a bar the size of a shoebox. Here lies the answer to the gold problem. The first thing President John son must do is announce that in stead of gold we are going on a junked-car standard. He will give everyone 30 days to bring in their junked cars. During that period he will order the U. S. Army to dump all the gold in Fort Knox into the Pedernales Rives to show we no longer consider gold of any value. Giant crushers and presses will be set up next to all Federal Re serve banks and the junked cars wil be pressed into bars and then sent to the Fort Knox where they will be valued at $30 an ounce. In no time at all Fort Knox wil be overflowing with car-bars and the United States can back the dollar with junked cars to kingdom come. No one could ever catch up with us. At first there may be cries of dismay from our allies. The Fench will complain that since their cars are so much smaller than ours they would suffer financially from a junked car standard. The Swiss, on the other hand, would complain because everyone would be sending their junked cars to Switzerland to be deposit ed in their numbered accounts. The British and Germans wou!d have to go along with us, parti cularly ii we hinted that the junk ed car standard was aimed at wrecking the French economy. The Italians never junk their cars. We would have to give them long term junked car credits. But the ones who would be hurt most would be the Russians and Chinese, who have no junked cars at all to speak of. "They would be in terrible shape and would probably be forced to sell the British buses that were recently sold to Cuba. The jewelry industry might gripe at the beginning, but ar rangements oculd be made to sell them junked car bars for the man ufacture of watches, bracelets, necklaces. Economists whom I discussed the idea with can't see any flaw in the plan. Their only regret is that they hadn't thought of it themselves. While this is being written, a messenger is delivering the full plan to the White House, and un less there is some resistance from the gold-producing states the coun try will probably be on the junked car standard by 1966. Even if it doesn't solve our monetary problems, it will take care of our junked car problems and, as far as President Johnson is concerned, half the battle will be won. Best of all. it will give President de Gaulle something mere to think about. -
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