Vol. 74
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1967
Number 17
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The SinfonUms
Sinf onians To Play At Hill
Hall 8:30 Thursday Night
Graham Memorial will
present The Sinfonians in con
cert at 8:30 Thursday night in
Hill Hall.
The Sin o n ians-summer
style is the concert version of
The Sinfonians Dance-Jazz
Orchestra. Organized in 1962 as
the private industry of a former
student The Sinf. then became
associated with Alpha Rho
Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sin-
fonia, a national music fraterni
ty-
Graham Memorial sponsored
one of the earliest appearances
of the band in the spring of 1963,
and the next year the group
closed out Jubilee with a jazz
concert at G.M. The student
union brought The Sinf. twice to
UNC the next season with the
Evening of Jazz and as the back
up band for The Platters'
memorable Jubilee appearance
before a throng of nearly 10,000
listeners. Last August was the
scene of a concert similar to the
program planned for Thursday
night, another G.M. presen
tation. In the meantime, The Sin
fonians have played proms,
formals, and concerts throught
the area, including the Bob Hope
Show in Raleigh and the Miss
Greensboro contest.
Leader of The Sinfonians this
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NSA Says CIA
Ties Cut; SDS
Opposes Meet
By ABBY KAIGIIIN
COLLEGE PARK, MD.
Ties between the National Stu
dent Association and the Central
Intelligence Agency are severed,
but NSA delegates and members
of a Students for a Democratic
Society counter-convention here
question the NSA structure
which permitted infiltration by
the super-spy agency.
In the August 14 opening con
tention symposium entitled
"Secrecy in a Free Society,"
NSA National Supervisory Board
Chairman Sam Brown declared
"We're not going to play cold
war anymore."
The opening symposium had
intended to include NSA's most
severe critics from both right
and left. Sol Stern, author of the
Ramparts' Magazine expose,
Andrew Kopkind, Washington
correspondent of the New
Statesman and James Ridgeway
of the New Republic turned the
NSA to speak at the SDS
counter-convention.
Fifteen hundred NSA
delegates listened to an ex
planation of the CIA incident but
the affair became "water under
the bridge" when Brown raised
the question of representation
and said "the NSA was acting to
carry out the best interest of
students. NSA raises questions
where fundamental questions
would never be raised with out
the NSA," he said.
"I think the radicals totally
disregard the nature o f
students," Brown stated, and his
remark was met with near una
nimous applause.
During a question and answer
session following the symposium
a student asked, "How do we
know the CIA tie is over."
NSA president W. Eugene
Groves said, "For all you know,
I could be worki g for the F. B J.
There are all kinds of things
we can't know. It depends on a
degree of trust."
After the NSA symposium,
over 300 students crowded into a
basement room of the Reckord
Armory, convention head
quarters, where the three
speakers who had refused to
speak to NSA launched their
criticism.
Sol Stern expressed concern
over the undemocratic nature of
NSA. Stern said that "the policy
of the convention has nothing to
do with the decisions made by
the national office."
"Part of NSA's problem is
that the conventions seem to be
open, democratic and free, but
this is an illusion," Stern said.
Referring to Groves' state
ment about the CIA wanting to
play cold war games, Stern said,
"The NSA doesn't need the CIA
to play those games."
The Kopkind drew a parallel
between the irrelevance of talks
at the NSA convention and the
talks at the Democratic National
Convention.
Ridgeway said "The NSA is
going to have to start over from
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Rights Worker In Miss. Sheriff's Race
By PETER HARRIS
San Francisco flower power is
coming to Sunflower County,
Miss, in the deadly serious form
of politics.
Margaret Kibbee, a 21 year
old Freedom Democratic Party
candidate, for sherriff is cur
rently engaged in the uphill bat
tle of trying to break the
political-economic domination of
white segregationists in a county
which is 60 percent Negro.
And although her prospects
for winning the November 7th
election appear doubtful, the
determination of this young, San
Francisco born, civil rights
worker is astounding.
"The main problem we face
while working in the middle of
the Mississippi Delta is that
whereas the population is pre
dominantly black, the registered
whites outnumber the Negroes
8,000 to 7,000," points our can
didate Kibbee.
"If we can s u c c e s s f u 1 1 y
pressure State Attorney General
Joe Patterson to allow us to
have an election manager at the
polls, then the problem of mark
ing ballots will no longer sap
Negro votes from FDP candidates.
"Most voters know whom they
want to vote for, but the pro
blem comes with those who are
half-blind or who can't read very
well and need assistance," said
Miss Kibbee.
.The Delta is traditionally call
ed the cotton belt of Mississippi.
Poverty, unemployment and
malnutrition are all common
place in this region of the South.
While school teachers and
undertakers- occassionally earn
up to $4,000, the average yearly
income for the partially
employed Negro field worker is
around $500.
This summer, the first year
that the $1 minimum wage law
has gone into effect, has been
marked by heavy unemployment
and migration by field work into
northern urban areas,
particularly Chicago. The major
reason for the high unemploy
ment rate is that farmers have
begun to use machines in place
of men. However, even though
the minimum wage law legally
hinders the employer's strangle
hold over cotton pickers, the law
is relatively uneffective, Miss
Kibbee reported.
"They still pay $3 a day for 10
hours work. That includes both
field and domestic (maids,
cooks, etc.) workers," she
said.
Miss Kibbee is currently in the
Chapel Hill-Durham area and
hopes to raise money- for
political campaigns in
Sunflower. Finances are badly
needed. Her mailing address is
Miss Margaret Kibbee, Box 398,
Sunflower, Miss. Zip code 387
78. There are five districts in
Sunflower County, and
one district II is so heavily
Negro populated that they hold a
voter registration majority of
2500 to 1500. In that district, the
FDP is running Negro can
didates for County Supervisor
(the same as County Com
missioner here), Justice of the
Peace and constable. They are
also running a candidate for
State Senator, Fanny Lou
Hamer.
Other programs initiated in
unflower, City by the FDP
have included a freedom school
in Indianola, a community
center in the town of Sunflower,
a County Improvement Associa
tion and a sewing co
operative. (Continued on Pare 8)
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Margaret Kibbee, on the left, who is running for sheriff of
Sunflower County, Miss, is shown with a young mother in a home
that Freedom Democratic Party members built for poverty-stricken
Negroes.