CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1966
No. 4
Friday Says He Will Stick With The University
Vol. 73
Releases Brief Statement
After Departure Reports
Consolidated University Pre
sident William C. Friday yes
terday dismissed reports that
he has accepted a key feder
al post.
In a brief statement releas
ed from his office, Friday
said:
Campus Girls
Told Not To
Walk Alone
A spokesman for the Dean of
Women's office said yesterday
that a warning issued recent
ly to women students against
walking alone "was just fair
ly routine."
Mrs. Dorothy Fulghum, as
sistant dean of women, said
the warning was issued to
all women students after a co
ed was stopped in the Bell
tower Parking lot one night
last week.
Mrs. Fulghum said the co
ed was not injured, "just
frightened."
The notice, issued at called
meeting in all women's resi
dence halls and sororities,
said:
"It is strongly advised that
when leaving or returning to
dormitories at night, women
students use only those walfo
that are well-1 i g h t e d, and
regularlv used. It is also ad
vised that women students
should avoid walking alone on
campus. Whenever possible,
they should walk in groups of
two or three."
Mrs. Fulghum said similar
notices are issued at the be
ginning of all regular and
summer sessions.
Mrs. Fulghum said the in
cident "prompted the issuance
at that time." The meetings
were held last Thursday and
Monday lights.
A little less than one year
ago, a visiting coed from
Greensboro, Suellen Evans,
was slain while walking
through the- arboretum about
noon.
At the same meeting Dean
Carmichael issued other in
structions governing the pro
tection of women students.
Heads Commission
Dr. Stanley J. Weidenkopf
of UNC School of Public
Health has been named by
the Armed Forces Epidemio
logical Board as director of
its Commission on Environ
mental Hygiene.
He is presently a member of
the 16-member commission
which functions under the
U. S. Department of Defense
as an advisory group to the
surgeons general of the arm
ed forces on worldwide mili
tary health problems.
"I feel it a privilege to be
associated with the University
of North Carolina and I look
forward to continuing my
work here."
Later, Friday said a recent
four - day trip to the nation's
capital was not connected with
"the situation."
He had reportedly been ask
ed by John Gardner, secre
tary of Health, Education and
Welfare, to become assistant
secretary of education.
By direction of President
Johnson, the assistant secre
tary is chairman of the gov
ernment - wide coordinating
committee on educational pro
grams. He has authority which
goes beyond departmental lin
es and strong advisory con
nections with the president.
Many administrators feel
that during the next few
months the University will face
one of the most crucial per
iods in its recent history. En
rollments are booming, all
four campuses are expanding,
and the University is heading
in a new direction.
Friday's State of the Univer
sity message delivered last
week was interpreted by many
as the go - ahead for the four
branches to meet new educa
tional demands.
Enrollment is expected to
increase by 10,000 by 1970
and the University is request
ing $179 million from the
State for the next biennium.
Complicating the situation are
two new chancellors D. W.
Colvard at Charlotte and J.
Carlyle Sitterson at Chapel
Hill.
If Friday had left, the "new
direction" of the Consolidated
University would have been
jeapordized during the next
few months.
Friday returned from his
trip to Washington Saturday,
but said the visit had noth
ing to do with the reported job
offer.
On The Inside
Partial Text Of Friday's Address
North Carolina From A Red Carpet
The News Of The Week In Review
UNC Golfer In NCAA Tournament
Pierson Gives Fund
Where Does All The Ticket Money Go
Peace Corps Is Training Here
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It's hot, boy is it hot, and Kessing Pool is the place to go. See story page 9.
Vietnam Experiences Told
By Former Infantry Medic
EDITOR'S NOTE: The fol
lowing is the first of an eight
part series by Tar Heel staff
writer Mike McGee. Mike
spent a year in Viet Nam as a
medic.
By MIKE McGEE
For the past year I was in
the Republic of Viet Nam as
a PFC in the Army. Now as a
private citizen (after three
long years of service) I would
' like to relate
PJ some of what
JPHL might befall the
luckless GI if he
should get to
Vie Mom nnH
Jf , miss the glorious
- ' obU opportunity to
distinguish himself in combat
with the communist foe.
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We were the Saigon War
riors, called that by the infan
try because of our brave ex
ploits behind big desks in the
capital area.
On the plan going over in
May of 1965, images were run
ning through my mind of
crawling through rice paddies,
dragging the wounded (I was
a medic) through a withering
fusillade of enemy fire. Pic
ture my surprise when, al
ready sweating and panting
from the heat, I was taken by
jeep to Ton Son Nhut, to a
pleasant compound with one
story wooden huts, flower gar
dens and banana trees wave
ing gently in the breeze and
an air-conditioned dispensary.
Man In Jail
Charged With
April Break-In
A 20-year-old Chapel Hill
man was bound over to the
grand jury yesterday after a
preliminary hearing in Chap
el Hill Recorder's Court on
first degree burglary charges.
Willie Fikes, of Mitchell
Lane, is charged with break
ing into the home of Univer
sity English professor Lyman
Cotten's home on Hooper Lane
April 21.
Fikes was arrested here last
Saturday on larceny charge.
Chief William Blake said that
Fikes was then linked to the
April break - in.
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The compound was the head
quarters of the 145th Aviation
Battalion, a combat helicopter
unit operating throughout the
III Corps area. I learned in
time that the dispensary was
air-conditioned to facilitate
medical treatment (still, it
was nice).
In our compound we handled
most of the mountain of paper
work that goes with the run
ning of a combat unit. There
were reports, requisitions, or
ders, amendments, recommen
dations and correspondence.
Our unit gathered medical sta
tistics seemingly the ton, along
with our regular medical treat
ment, disease, prevention and
information giving duties.
So I settled down to my
desk. Two weeks later my first
mission came up. There had
been a big explosion at Bien
Hou Air Base, 30 miles north
east of Saigon. That was the
one where the B-57's exploded
on the flight line. Some of our
units had been in the blast
area, so three of us drove up
the next morning to relieve
the medics on duty.
We got there as the last of
the bombs were exploding.
Our Bien Hou dispensary had
set up a tent just outside the
danger zone. There had not
been any serious army casual
ties, just a lot of cuts and
bruises.
Everybody was standing on
top of the bunkers trying to
get pictures of the blasts. A
great cloud of smoke, then a
shattering roar and a shock
wave like a strong gust of
wind would arise.
It was here that I met Capt.
Altomonte, the doctor at the
Bien Hou dispensary. Hearing
(Continued on Pare 7)