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Volume 74, Number 77
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 4. 1967
Founded February 23. 1893
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Student Body President Bob
Powell was one of 100 student
leaders who signed a letter
sent to President Johnson last
Thursday expressing doubt
and concern about U. S. in
volvement in the Vietnamese
war.
The signers, all student body
presidents or editors, are from
100 colleges and universities
throughout the country.
Referring to the New Year's
truce, the students wrote:
"The truce seems a suitable
occasion to report to you that
significant and growing num
bers of our contemporaries
are deeply troubled about the
posture of their Government
in Vietnam. We believe the
state of mind of these people,
though largely unreported, is'
of great importance, because
there are many who are deep
ly troubled for every one who
has been outspoken in dis
sent." In rather reserved criticism
of the draft, the letter stated,
"Unless this conflict can be
eased, the United States will
Tomorrow's DTH will con
tain an interview with Student
Body President Bob Powell
about the controversial letter.
find some of her most loyal
and courageous young people
choosing to go to jail rather
than to bear their country's
arms.. - ,
"Contributing to this situa
tion is the almost universal
conviction that the present Se
lective Service law operates
unfairly."
"We write," the letter con
tinues, "in the hope that this
letter will encourage a frank
discussion of these problems.
"To this end, we submit for
your consideration some of
the questions now agitating
the academic community:
"There is doubt that Ameri
ca's vital interests are suf
ficiently threatened in Viet
nam to necessitate the grow
ing committment there.
"There is doubt that such
vital interests as may be
threatened are best protected
by this growing committment.
"There is doubt that a war
which may devastate much of
the countryside can lead to
Oswald Killer Jack
Ruby Dies Of Cancer
DALLAS, Tex., (AP) Jack
Ruby, the volatile strip joint
boss who yearned for "class"
but found instead notoriety as
the killer of President John
F. Kennedy's accused assas
sin, died yesterday of cancer.
He insisted until the end that
he was part of no plot, that he
acted alone, that an accident
of timing and a surge of pas
sion caused him to shoot Lee
Harvey Oswald.
Ruby, a sawed-off, pudgy
tough from Chicago's South
Side, died after more than
three years in jail and only
a month or so short of a sec
ond trial.
But because of his death,
Dist. Atty. Henry Wade said
he would dismiss the murder
charge against Ruby.
"Of course Jack died not a
convicted man," said his Dal
las Attorney, Phil Burleson.
He had been convicted of
murdering Lee Harvey Oswald
and given a death sentence in
his first trial in Dallas in
March, 1964.
His body will be sent to Chi
cago for funeral services.
A sister, Mrs. Eva Grant,
said Ruby died peacefully.
A lawyer, Elmer Gcryz of
Chicago, said Ruby looked 80
years old in his last days.
He was 55.
Ruby stepped from a crowd
of newsmen and officers, jab
bed a snubnose .32 caliber re
volver to Oswald's abdomen
and killed him with one shot on
Nov. 24, 1963, two days after
Signs
W
ar Doubts
the stable and prosperous Viet
nam we once hoped our
presence would help create.
"There is considerable con
cern about apparent contra
dictions in the American po
sition on certain points basic
to any efforts to negotiate a
settlement . . ."
The letter concluded by say
ing, "The rising confusion
about national purpose can
undermine mutual trust and
respect among our people.
Anti- Viet Vigil
Planned At Noon
An hour-long silent vigil pro
testing the war in Vietnam
will be held in front of the
Post Office beginning at noon
today.
A group of 59 area residents
announced the vigil through
newspaper advertisements
and said that the protest ses
sions will continue on a week
ly basis until the Vietnam
war ends.
The participants do not rep
resent any organization though
the action has been endorsed
by t h e Chapel Hill Friends
Meeting.
An advertisement announc-"
ing the vigil appeared in the
Sunday Chapel Hill Weekly
read as follows:
"Until Americans, stop kill
ing and being killed in Viet
nam beginning Wednesday
January 4, there will be a si
lent vigil every Wednesday
noon, 12:00 to 1:00, in front of
the post office to express our
sorrow and protest. We invite
all who are concerned to join
us."
The vigil today will be one
of 67 across the nation, all be
ing locally organized.
The organizers of the vigil
explained their reasons for
the action in a prepared state
ment: "The Weekly Vigil for Peace
is a recurrent, visible witness,
silently asking American lead
ers and others: 'Are you will-
Oswald was accused of as
sassinating President Kenne
dy. Ruby shot Oswald as the ac
cused assassin was being led
through the basement of the
Dallas City Jail for Transfer
to the county jail.
Oswald died in Parkland
Hospital, the city - county hos
pital where President Kennedy
had been pronounced dead two
days earlier.
Ruby was taken to the coun
ty jail and had remained there
until he was taken to Parkland,
where he, too, died at 10:30
a.m. (CST) yesterday.
Chief Justice Earl Warren
personally interviewed Ruby
as Chairman of the Commis
sion which investigated the as
sassination. Ruby insisted there was no
conspiracy. He said he killed
Oswald to spare Mrs. Jac
quelin Kennedy the anguish of
having to come to Dallas to
testify. At other times, he said
he killed Oswald "to show the
world that Jews nave guts."
It was reported that dur
ing his time in jail Ruby had
hallucinations that Jews were
being persecuted because of
what he had done.
Ruby denied knowing Oswald
and denied knowing Dallas po
liceman J. D. Tippit, whom
Oswald also was charged with
shooting to death on an Oak
Cliff Street soon after the as
assination. One of his last requests in
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letter
"This seems to us as urgent
a problem as any that con
fronts the nation today"
The idea of writing the let
ter to the President arose at
the annual congress of the Na
tional Student Association last
summer at the University of
Illinois.
After a lengthy debate, in
which the exact wording of the
letter was hotly debated, some
200 of the students met and
made plans to draft the letter.
ing to stop this week?' And
asking this question week aft
er week, until we get an hon
est and loving answer. Our
official decision makers . can
file away the letters that we
write, concealing their exis
tence and their numbers from
the general public view. But
they cannot file away recur
rent visible expression of our
concern. Observers of the Vig
il, those who do not partici
pate, find little overt physi
cal action or symbolic con
tent that they can seize upon
to criticize. . .dismiss. . .and
forgetr Since" the Vigil is re
current, persons possessed by
initial doubts have an oppor
tunity to observe our witness,
to reflect upon it, and when
they reach their own stage of
readiness to join it. When
they reach that point, they
have no difficulty in finding
out when and where the Vigil
takes place; and they under
stand its purposes and me
thod. "The Vigil, being silent, cri
ticizes actions rather than
men. It leaves the way open
for supporters of unfortunate
policies to change their stand,
without overt and hostile
criticism which they might
feel impelled to rebut. And it
may help to provide a step
ping stone, with no hostile re
proach, to which our policy
makers can gracefully move."
The Vigil is to be conducted
entirely in silence. The parti
cipants indicated they will
discuss issues and answer
questions only after the Vigil
ends at 1 p.m.
In a note to newsmen, the
sponsors said:
"The participants in the
Vigil insist on spending the
full hour in complete silence.
Therefore, newsmen wishing
to interview any of the parti
cipants should be prepared to
talk with them after 1 p.m.
Since the Vigil is a collection
of individuals who all have
their own ideas as to how the
Vietnam war should be ended,
no one is prepared to speak
for the whole group. Any
statements made would repre
sent the feeling of the individ
ual and not all of the partici
pants." Literary Heads
Talk Problems
This Evening
A roundtable discussion en
titled; "The Small Magazine:.
Its Problems and Purposes,"
will be featured on WUNC
Radio at 7 tonight.
Program guests will be Rus
sell Banks, a senior English
student and editor of LILLA
BULERO; and Michael Paull,
English instructor and editor
of THE CAROLINA QUAR
TERLY. Serving as moderators will
be Dr. Dougald MacMillan of
the English faculty and Ralph
Dennis of the Department of
Radio, Television and Motion
Pictures
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THIRD-RANKED TAR HEELS, flying on a nine game whining
streak, came to a crashing halt against precision shooting by
Princeton, 31-81, here Monday evening.
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Climbers
UNC's Mexican Alpine Ex
pedition rolled back into Chap
el Hill Monday after a suc
cessful Christmas vacation as
sault of two of North Ameri
ca's highest mountains.
The six climbers staged
their first climb on 17,800 foot
Popocatepetl on the 22nd and
started the three day assault
of 18,900 ft. Orizaba on Christ
mas day, reaching the sum
mit on the 27th.
The only accident of the
trip occurred on the steep ice
slope of "Popo" where ex
pedition photographer Jock
Lauterer slipped and tumbled
600 feet down the inclined ice
field, stopping himself with
his ice axe. He sustained only
a sprained ankle.
On Popo, John Thome, a
UNC international relations
major, and Gordon Strickler,
former Outing Club president,
were the two climbers to
reach the summit.
Of the six climbers on Ori
zaba, Thorne and Expedition
Leader Hugh Owens and his
younger brother, Barry, were
the men to make it to the top.
Altitude sickness kept Gor
don Strickler and Robin
Wright from reaching the
summit on Orizaba, while
Lauterer remained in base
camp on the dusty flanks of
Orizaba with a bad ankle.
The high mountains of the
Sierra Madre Oriental are
quite different from the friend
ly ranges of North Carolina's
Smokies. These dormant vol
canoes are young mountains,
covered with volcanic ashes
and dust that makes for
treacherous footing on steep
grades.
Both Popo and Orizaba have
fields of permanent snow and
ice that fill the still steam
ing craters and cover the de
scending slopes for thousands
of feet.
The climb to Popo was pre
ceded by three days of con
ditioning and acclimatization
to the thin mountain air. The
climbers left the hut at 13,
000 feet and each day went
higher, permitting their bod
ies to adjust to the rarified
air that robs the blood of
precious hemoglobin.
The pace at the shoulder
i
Find
by the summit consisted of
almost four to six breaths per
step, then resting every 10
steps.
The six climbers struck out
for the summit of Popo 3:30
in the pale moonlit morning
of the 22nd.
They stepped out into the
night like clumsy creatures of
another dim world, hunch
backed with mountain packs
that jutted up above their
goggled heads.
For hours the small party
plodded up the cinder trail in
to the starry night. To the
west Mexico City glowed like
a candle in a pillow case. The
lesser towns miles below in
the foggy valley glowed like
blue-green fox fire.
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GASPING FOR BREATH the UNC Mexican Alpine Expedition
team plods laboriously up the north cinder slope of 17,000 foot
Popocatepetel with Orizaba peeping over the clouds 100 miles
away to the east. The six-man team climbed to Orizaba's summit
rimer
era
A 21-year-old former Uni
versity student who described
himself as a poet was being
sought by military police in
Georgia yesterday after he re
fused to wear a uniform, say
ing he considered himself a
"paid murderer."
Spec. 4 J. H. Muir was in
his second enlistment training
for service in Vietnam when
he asked the Army to dis-
Apartment Fire
Cause Unknown
Fire department officials
and insurance adjusters have
not decided what caused a
fire which gutted a 10 - unit
apartment building in the Col
ony Woods development last
Wednesday.
The second floor of the unit,
called Building F, was gutted
while the first floor was flood
ed by water. Two or three of
the apartments in the build
ing have been reported to be
in fair condition.
Whid Powell, agent for the
apartments, c o u 1 d not be
reached for comment yester
day afternoon.
There were no personal in
juries, since most of the ten
ants, primarily married stu
dents and nurses, were ap
parently out of town for the
holidays.
Estimates of -damages to the
buildings have ranged from
$35,000 and $85,000. Little per
sonal property was left un
damaged. Witnesses said the blaze
was preceded by thick, rolling
'Mountains Don
The crisp air was like fresh
lettuce. To breathe you literal-
ly had to pant like a dog and
take your steps slow, as if
you had lead on your boots.
The ice-axes chuncked me
talically in the pebbles and
cinders as the column inched
upwards into the growing
morning. The sun shoved over
the ash slope and a vicious
wind began to bite and finger
its way over the snowy
ridges.
The party picked up Hugh
and Barry Owens on a 14,000
foot shoulder where they had
spent the night to conserve
energy. The wind gathered
force and soon became a ma
jor nuisance, spitting tiny
particles of volcanic ash, dust
Un
charge him because he was a
consciencious objector.
The army refused to dis
charge Muir, but offered to
place him with a medical
unit.
Muir refused to wear a uni
form Friday and was con
fined to quarters. AWOL
charges were filed against
him when he failed to report
for duty yesterday.
smoke from the top of the
apartment building. Minutes
after the smoke appeared a
window exploded and almost
simultaneously- the roof was
enveloped in flames.
The roof was a "mass of
flames" when the three fire
trucks arrived shortly after 9
a.m. The firemen, working in
the 31-degree weather, had the
blaze under control in about
half an hour.
The Red Cross chapter has
asked that persons wishing to
donate clothing or household
items to the victims to call
942-4471 or 942-4862.
Investigators from the gas
company that served the
building said they had not
found any evidence that fur
nace equipment was faulty.
No definite conclusions on
..the cause havewbeen reaehed,
Fire Chief Baldwin said.
The-fire was the second ma
jor fire in Chapel Hill in two
months. The Varsity Theatre
building was damaged $300,
000 on Nov. 16.
and ice through the air.
The. climbing of Popo re
sembled scaling a steep moun
tain in a Saharan sand storm.
The wind was estimated to be
gusting up to 50 m.p.h.
The climbers put on their
spiked crampons when they
came to the foot of the ice
field. For the next two hours,
they cut their way up the
loose, deep snow and solid
ice. It was at about 16,900
feet, almost to the top of the
first ice shoulder, that Laut
erer lost his balance momen
tarily and went silently shoot
ing down the side of the
mountain.
"He went by quick, just
like that, it happened so
fast. . ." commented Hugh
on the 27th after a three-day assault that began Christmas day.
'Popo' was scaled on the 22nd and was used to condition the
team to the climate' and the terrain.
DTH Photo by Jock Lauterer
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According to the UNC Rec
ords office, Muir attended the
University the fall semester
of 1963 and dropped out during
the following semester.
He served 17 months in ar
tillery units in the United
States and Germany, mostly
on administrative duty. Muir
received an honorable dis
charge in 1965 and reenlisted,
applying for officer candidate
school, with the intention of
becoming an officer in the
Corps of Engineers.
"The engineer OCS is far
more academic than the oth
ers," Muir said in a state
ment, "And I spent more
time studying the ways of
war and more time thinking.
Sixteen weeks and many
poems and letters later, I
quit the OCS."
He said he finally declared
himself a conscientious objec
tor in August and asked for a
discharge. The Army declined,
and offerd him duty in the
medical corps.
He is the great, great nep
hew of the late Josephus Dan-
ieis, iormer secretary of the
Navy under Woodrow Wilson
and edito of the News and
Observer of Raleigh, N. C
Muir said he considers him
self a poet and that one of his
original reasons for entering
the Army "was to erase paci
ficist leanings so common in
poets and artistic people in
general."
The Army said no final de
cision has been made whether
Muir will face a military court
because the charges still are
on his company level. The
spokesman said Muir is charg
ed specifically with refusing
to wear his uniform when or
dered to do so by his com
manding officer.
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Owens. "He fell with his head
down the mountain for a cou
ple of hundred feet, then flip
ped over, snow and ice spewed
up, and he had stopped him
self 600 feet down the moun
tain with his ice axe."
Upon seeing Lauterer fall,
Barry Owens also slipped and
slid some 20 feet down the
slope, but arrested himself
quickly.
Robin Wright helped Laut
erer off the ice and down to
the cinder slope while the
rest of the party regained its
composure and pushed ahead
to the crater's summit by mid
afternoon. Leaving Popo, the club
spent two days in Mexico
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