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Ltbrz-y Box 870 rf Tar rrs Leave Carmichael At J 1 :15 A.M. For Louisville Happy Eastei 77?p South' s Largest College yeicspcrer Volume 74, Number 131 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1967 Founded Februarv 23. 1893 WOT LM I TNI Rain And Occasional Weathermen NEW YORK (AP) - The lay of the Lamplighter is over, rhe town crier has vanish id. And many a New York t wishes the weatherman vould also disappear into ob ivion. For the third time in a week, the U. S. Weather Bureau fail ed today to predict a severe snowstorm, and then failed to recognize it after it arrived. The snow began at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday and 1 1-2 hours later the weather bureau came up with a prediction of rain. Af ter intermittent snow Tuesday afternoon, the 5 p.m. forecast read: "Light snow occasional ly mixed with rain tonight and ending before noon Wednes day." By 11 p.m., had the forecast er glanced out the window of his Rockefeller Center office, he would have seen white stuff coming down like mad. in stead, out went a forecast that said: "Occasional light snow to night. Mostly cloudy Wednes day with, a few snow flurries likely, and clearing toward evening or .Wednesday night. Precipitation probabiliy 50 per cent Wednesday." By that time, 800 salt spread ers were at work keeping city streets and bridge and tunnel approaches open. The night wore on, the snow came down, the salt spreaders salted and by dawn's early light came the 5 a.m. Wednes day forecast: "Snow tapering off this mor ning becoming partly cloudy this afternoon," it read. It was 7 a.m. before the wea ther bureau learned there al ready were three to five inch es on the ground. Said the jol ly forecaster: '! 'There possibly will be an other inch before it tapers off ' late in the mogning." At 9 a.m., a slight revision was undertaken by the weath er bureau, which said: "Cloudy today with snow tapering off this afternoon with additional accumulations of two to three inches." At that hour, thousands of commuters were already late to work because of delays on the Long Island Rail Road and the New York Central. On the waterfront, 15,000 longshore men were idle because of the storm. An 11 a.m. forecast read: "Cloudy, light snow this af ternoon with little additional' accumulations. Mostly cloudy tonight with occasional snow flurries." . . Meanwhile, at the height of today's nine inches of snow "flurries" New Yorkers heard Sen. Everett McKinley Dirk sen, R-Ill., extolling the ar rival of spring. He declaimed, over the Columbia Broadcast-' ing System: "The warm zephyrs blow and sweeten and warm the soil. . . and then the tulips. The 6G Tar Pep . II TkePeoipie Were Anxious By HUNTER GEORGE DTH Staff Writer They came early and stayed late It happens every election. The campaigners, the count ers, the candidates and the curious assemble in a smoke filled room, sip Cokes and watch that enthralling event known as the Election Re turns. From the election of Presi dent of the United States to member of the student legisla ture or senior class social chairman, there is something exciting about watching the election results as they are posted on the big green-and-white board. And Carolina students are no exceptions. Tuesday i night saw happy faces, sad faces, anxious faces, confident faces, inebriated faces, serious faces but most of all: captivated faces. People came in and went out of the Rendezvous Room downstairs irf Graham Memo rial all night long, from 6:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. They wandered upstairs to Roland Parker Lounge, where about 60 harried and distraught counters were busy recording the ballots from each of 40 precincts. , They went outside for a breath of fresh air, and they peppered the candy and drink machines with change, in an effort to fill the time, gap un til all the results were in. But they always returned,- as if drawn by some internal force that asks the wracking began to murmur then mount question: "Are we gonna win?" ed to a high-pitched shout as You could tell the cam- Bob Travis, SP candidate for paigners. They were the ones president, strode into the room who had spent every waking grinning broadly. rally Uets a roaring start ON TO LOUISVILLE? On to Louisville! An optimistic grotrp of Tar Heel fans has carried a banner with them all season read ing "UCLA? Bah! Humbug! ! Carolina's Number 1," but never was this banner so proudly displayed as at College Park Sat urday night as the band played "Hark the Sound" after the" Eastern Regional Championship game. DTH Photo by Ernest H. Robl 1L hour (which was most of the day for them) for the last three weeks visiting students in dorms, frats, sororities, and every other place where they could score a few points and pick up a precious vote or two. . . ' .' They were tired, and they looked it. They leaned over the low red table surrounding the re turns board, which looked ap propriately like a betting ta ble at a casino, rested their elbows on its surface and , strained to see the numbers that were being posted in termittently. There were the counters, who ran back and forth bet ween Rendezvous and Roland Parker, each time, bringing with them news that would inevitably cause cheers' and sighs. And, in many cases, there were the candidates them selves, who stood around smok ing . nervously and chatting with friends and opponents alike. Periodically, a great tumult would be manifest," like when the Nurses Dorm returns were about to be posted. "This is gonna be a big one," somebody shouted. When the first two columns on the board read Travis 154, Purdy 56, the many Travis people in vthe room gave vent to their emotions: "All right! Wow!" . Others sat dejectedly most of the night. At 11:45 p.m. with most of the districts reported voices Meeis 9 . . . -S.f J He was escorted to the front of the crowd and stood before the returns board, which re Dick I Of Undaunted By HUNTER GEORGE DTH Staff Writer Tuesday night saw a lot . of winners and losers. But one thing shone through the entire evening: the personality of Dick Levy. In what has to be called "glorious defeat,' Levy stood stalwartly by as the reporting districts dropped him: lower and lower on the totem pole for Daily Tar Heel editor. Not only that, but his continual wit ticisms sparked life and laughter into a sometimes dejected; crowd. "I feel I am gathering momentum," said the Morrison legislator after the Craige and Ehringhaus returns put him behind by 400 votes (from second place) and 1,000 votes (from first place.) Asked for a statement early in the evening, Levy replied: "My entire ig nominy is due to the Catholic backlash. Also, I lost the Jewish vote because they heard I was going to pledge ZBT.'" Expressing further dismay at his tapering returns, he added "Someone said the ballot boxes had irregularities." When Manley dorm reported only nine votes for him he commented, That galls me." "This was essentailly a class strug CmaM ' r' All f f , - r . ' i 7 - flected a tremendous advan tage for him over his oppo nent, Bill Purdy. Profile Lew: : J gle," he quipped toward the end. "Once again the proletariat has proved its blooming irrationalty. I am the Leverett Saltonstall of this election. "The people are not yet ready for perfection," he mused. "I would like everyone to know I finished second in Spencer, though." The totals for that dorm wer 106 for Bill Amlong, 10 for Levy and 5 for Scott Goodfellow. Levy said one of the reasons he failed to win the election may have been that "I differ somewhat from the thinking of the Tar Heel. I beleive that To Rule Is Better Than To Write.' "I guess its just as well. There is some question as to whether I could take the swearing in ceremonies at GM." At 11:45 when Bob Travis appearec to make his acceptance speech, Levy ob served with sagacity: "I am gratified to see that the per son who got the most votes, won." At 12:50 a.m. the final tallies were in. They showed Amlong with 2442, Goodfellow with 1455 and Levy with 1028. "Shucks, I didn't win," was the re sponse from probably the world's most gracious loser. Bid B - W t ' : f .Si' ' . - 1 I 1 join in the victory sign i ravi BrrpTnr I io. By DON CAMPBELL DTH News Editor Bob Travis won the election for Student Body Presidency rather handily Tuesday night. With all 38 districts and the Infirmary reporting, Travis had beaten Bill Purdy by more than 700 votes 2,849 to 2132. The vice-presidential race between Jed Dietz and Noel Dunivant wasn't a race at all. Dietz carried every district but three, most of them by a 2-to-l majority, some of them 10-to-l. The race for secretary was another story it wasn't de cided until the very last min utes. Ann Lashley won by less than 200 votes over Gail Poe, 2,540 to 2362. Hugh Saxon, running for treasurer of the student body, was unopposed but had both parties' backing. There will be a runoff for the DTH editorship on April 11. Bill Amlong fell just short of getting a majority, of the ballots cast. 1 He took 49.5 per cent of the vote with 2,442. Scott Good fellow ran second with 1,455, and Dick Levy ran third Loser Ajmim ' ex . r1 ' 1 1 "fc I ' ' 4 r' k i v 'a 3 C "Yi -V'., i ' A v - v . . . wins TTD prf rainoii with. 1,022. Amlong made the following statement about the election yesterday: "I am very grateful for the tremendous support shown me in Tuesday's election. And at the same time I humbly ask everybody to help me at the polls again during the run off to assure a total victory." Levy could not be reached yesterday but said jokingly Tuesday night that "this cam pus is not yet ready for Dick Levy. I was the victim of a Catholic backlash," he said. In the race for delegate seats to the National Student Association, Bob Powell led the four winners with 3,102 votes. David Kiel ran second with 3,068 votes Karen Gib bon ran third, with 2,892, and Sharon Rose ran fourth with 2,436 votes. Bill Miller, Tom Manley and Ken Day rounded out the NSA field on the losing end. In the race for the Carolina Athletic Association presiden cy, Bob Orr was unopposed. Counting of votes for class officers, student legislators, MRC and WRC officers was continuing Wednesday after STP Recruiting By WAYNE HURDER DTH Staff Writer The Student Teaching Pro gram, a non-profit education al organization, is recruiting graduate students at Carolina to teach at predominantly Negro schools in the South this summer. The program is looking es pecially for graduate students in English, Mathematics, and art, but will take teachers from any fields. The organization "would like for applicants to have masters, but it isn't neces sary," according to Bob Self, a UNC English grad student who is doing the recruiting for STP. "Also, they'd like for you to have teaching experience, but, again, it isn't neces sary," he says. Although the program em phasizes summer teaching, it is also looking for persons to teach year round "since that will provide much more con tinuity," states Self. The organization has three types of programs. One is similar to the Up ward Bound program of the federal Poverty Program. In it the graduate students teach pre-high school children. Major emphasis, however, is laid on pre-freshman reme dial training. Teachers will try to strenghten the students f -.. A V ... . ' "Jr '. L . v - ' - i - . & il l v-i'uCei if??; c (s f til -i Hoist the mike for big Rusty UPI photo by Ernest RoW .Big; Set noon. Votes on the three consti tutional amendments will be counted later. What is obvious in all this is that the Student Party swept the election. The vote counting was slow Tuesday night, but it was steady. By 12:50 a.m. all the votes for the 10 top offices had been counted. Doug McKeown, adminis trative chairman of the Stu dent Elections Board said he "had never seen an election night go so smoothly." He at tributed this to the many helpers who spent nearly sev en hours sorting and counting the ballots. Legislative Seats To Be Announced knowledge and ability to use English and math. Finally, some of the grad uate students will teach regu lar summer school courses as replacements for professors that are doing summer re search. Teachers are guaranteed $50 a week and room and board. Last year over half the teachers made more than $50 a week. The program is divided into five-week, six-week, and eight week sessions. Thirty five schools have participated in the program since it was started in 1964 by Yale grad students. Two North Carolina schools, N.C. College and Bennett College take part in it. Applicants may request the schools they would like to teach at, or the schools they don't want to teach at. STP receives financial sup port from foundations, includ ing the Carnegie Corporatldn and The Fund For The Ad vancement of Education. "Conditions are generally very amiable," according to Self, who taught at Alabama A & M last summer. Over 300 instructors have participated in the program. Deadline for applications is May 1. Persons interested in teaching should see Self in Bingham 303. N f f A . 9- 1 III f W QUTH 0
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