Y r Serials D?pt I ox 870 c. 97 51-- Variable cloudiness through Thursday. Little change in temperatures Thursday. High W to 75. Friday Partly loudy and a little warmer. Winds for lakes mostly northeasterly 5 mph or less tonight and 5 to 10 mph Thursday. See page six or Edicards' football comments. 75 Years o Editorial Freedom Volume 75, Number 2 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1967 Founded February 23. 1893 And The: horn llemlt Lime SUM Stmmds 8 9 By PAM HAWKINS of The Daily Tar Heel Staff Any Wednesday. That was yesterday. Just another Wednesday with clouds hanging heavy and dark in the sky, Franklin Street clogged up with cars jockeying for lanes, and noonday crowds shuffling up and down the pavement. ID Another Wednesday when the. trees and the parking meters and the peace vigilers lined the walk on Chapel Hill's main street. The vigilers who gather every Wednesday from noon until lp.m. in silent protest of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnamese War, formed a line from the post office to the Town & Campus clothing store. It's been going on since last January every Wednesday. The same thing. The same silence, with the only variation being the faces., The group, which had grown skimpy during the vacation summer months resumed a respectable size with the start eace Group Plans Action In Washington, Durham By WAYNE HURDER of The Daily Tar Heel Staff A group of students, faculty and townspeople who organized 'as "Vietnam Summer" plan to participate in the National Peace Mobilization in Washington next month. The same group whose aim it is to organize feeling against both the draft and the Vietnam War also plans a North Carolina Conference on the War and the Draft Oct. 7-8 in Durham. The Chapel Hill Vietnam Summer group was one of about 700 which sprung up throughout the nation during the summer. of a new school year. Standing there, at arm length intervals, they seemed to disregard the jeering remarks of passers-by. or the most part, they were like stone statues, only coming to life when they shifted weight from one foot to the other. A novelty to the university newcomers, they were old hat to the veterans of Chapel Hill who disregarded their ranks as ; if they were fixtures on the side of the street. A policeman propped up on his elbows on the window sill in a dry cleaning establishment, just stood there and watched. In the middle of the block a woman arranged the flowers in It began its fall program by handing out anti-Vietnam and Anti-draft literature to students during registration. An organitational meeting for further activities has been scheduled for 7:30 p.m., Sun day. The thing the group is "going to work on hardest, at first, and which has excited it the most is draft counseling and draft resistance," said George Vlasits a cnember of the ex ecutive committee. "That will involve trying to inform students as to what various alternatives there are under the Selective Service System." he said. Viet War Creates One Million Jobs WASHINGTON The government said Wed nesday the buildup of the Vietnam war has created a million jobs in the United States. It warned of shortages of. considerablft-magnitude The State, The Nation & The World By United Press International among skilled workers if the buildups continue. The estimate was part of the most detailed breakdown to date of the impact of the war on the nation's working force. The study was made by the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics and was published in the monthly Labor Review. Military spending since 1965, the start of the U.S. buildup in Vietnam, has generated three million new jobs, the bureau said. Of this total, "about one million may be attributed Moore Is Chairman ASHEVILLE North Carolina Governor Dan Moore Wednesday was unanimously elected chairman of the 1968 Southern Governor's Conference. The governors. ..meeting in Asheville. . .also voted to hold next year's conference at Charleston, South Carolina. South Carolina Governor Robert McNair was eltcted vice chairman. Moore became the third host governor in as many years to be elected chairman of the next year's meeting. rown Jailed In Va. B The big day for the com 'mittee this summer was Hiroshima Eve, Aug. 5, when the Vietnam Summer group sponsored a march down Franklin St. from Carrboro to Silent Sam. About 200 persons took part in the march. The rest of the summer they went about their work quietly, speaking to immunity groups and passing out literature. They held a couple of small meetings with people who were interested in organizing on the community level. Vlasits said. The meetings were held in Vic tory Village, the Towne House apartments, and the Estes Hills residential area. Most of their work was with professors, Vlasits said, adding that the group had aroused some interest among pro fessional people in Estes Hills. They also did some door to door canvassing 'in both Chapel Hill and Carrboro to find out people's opinions and to distribute literature. Vlasits said there were a "surprisingly high percentage of people who opposed the war but felt that they couldn't do anything about it." At the Towne House apartments a teach-in at tracted 45 to 50 persons, Vlasits said. The speakers were a professor from North Carolina ' College and pro fessors and students from UNO. The anti-war and draft group has also "been in contact with high school students throughout the state," he said. "There is a lot of interest among them, and we're just trying to get them together." In connection with informing students of their alternatives to being drafted the group may form a draft resistors union and organize civil disobedience at induction centers. However, Vlasits emphasized that these plans "are in a very nebulous stage." Of a more definite nature are plans for a training school for draft counselors and possibly an of fice to which students might go for counseling. The group "will probably try to set up a speakers' bureau to get people to speak at different places about the war," ac cording to Vlasits. One area that wasn't covered this summer and to which the group may go this fall is the Negro community, to discuss the relationship between the her sidewalk stand, not heeding the slowly expanding line of vigilers that was in ching her. way. t Wallace Farrar ambled out of Sutton's Drugs where he works and stood looking up and down the row of blank faces. "Just curious," he said. "I always wonder how many of them will turn out. "I" guess I agree with them. But I don't have time to read the papers very much to know what's going on," he said reaching up to scratch - the beard that was beginning to appear on his chin. "People don't really pay any attention to them I don't think. It seems that they would do more good if they went on TV or radio and said exactly what they were protesting." Robert Glenn, a junior at the university, just laughed at the group. "A lot of sore feet for nothing as far as I'm con cerned. "I can't agree with them," he said. "We're just going to hurt ourselves if we get out of Vietnam now. It would look like we were backing down." Across the sidewalk from Glenn stood an old man in a clerical collar with a dimestore American flag clutched in his withered and freckled hands. He was a member of the vigil. : . , "I've been coming here every Wednesday, missed maybe six times," said Father Clarence Parker, an 84-year-old retired Episcopal priest. "We are just attempting to make people aware of our situation in Vietnam in the hopes that they will study their own position and maybe modify their view.! "The flag? That's to remind people of Veteran's Day. Actually, that should b e Armistice Day, but the . ad ministration doesn't like to use that word," he said in a con- fidential whisper.' "We don't want to push ourselves on anyone, that's why we're silent," he ex plained. "We just want to make our views known." Father Parker stood there, with a black umbrella over his arm and a tattered rainhat in his free hand, and added with a genuine smile, "I want peace for my children." Jack Lasley, an attorney, stood at the end of the line behind the info:T.aation table displaying literature for their cause. He was dressed in a dark business suit which was a con trast to his sandle clad and bearded constituents who punctuated the line. "Speaking for none but myself, I consider the war in (Continued on Pare 7) TO) On O .Recraegt i. .Begum TTh , 71 ' By uadeia Guam By WAYNE HURDER of The Daily Tar Heel Staff name of about 300 motorists, both student and faculty. . t t tat "i j . . , . ney got tneir signatures by , o j r r i asKing passers-oy it tney nad a Dale Saville and Ray Saunders, who had to buy "T" parking stickers and didri't like it, set up a table in Y Court Wednes day and started getting signa tures on a petition requesting a change in the present park ing policy. The. result of their work by the end of the day was the car, and if they did. asked if they liked "paying $5 for a parking sticker that lets you -walk to class or $10 for one that lets you park in the grass out at Hinton James." When they get enough signatures they plan to give the petitions to the Dean of Men or get student body presi- j "' "'" 1 "'"' 'wwBiiry;lMyw.i ,q.nipn iiinisamji n . mini ii.k. f t Jr i I m w w I v ' i t I OPPOSE snCKERS 59 (Continued on Page 7) ALEXANDRIA, VA. Black power militant H. Rap Brown, wanted in Maryland on charges of inciting a riot, was arrested Wednesday and jailed without bond to await extradition. At the request of Alexandria officials, he was taken to the city jail in Richmond, Va., 100 miles to the south. His lawyer called it a "legal kidnapping," but Brown sat seemingly unconcerned ' through two hours of courtroom maneuvering reading a small red book en titled "The Thoughts of Chairman Mao." , Brown will remain in jail for at least three weeks until Oct. 3, when a court hearing in Alexandria is scheduled on his. application for a writ of habeas corpus. Carmichael Hits U. S. ALGIERS Black power advocate Stokely Carmichael Wednesday compared his movement with African revolutionaries and said its aim was "to destroy the structure of the United States." The black racist appeared at a news conference sponsored by the ruling Algerian Liberation Party. He told the North African newsmen that black power ad vocates did not seek "peaceful coexistance and we are against those who preach this coexistance." Carmichael, former head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) has been touring Algena this week tollowmg a visit to Hanoi, rie planned to leave later in the week for Syria. "And information on the side . . . . and out came the biggest congregation of girls ever ally Set Tonight Pep R '' ' '' nnmnniimn I il" i '' lfr. " ..J1 w' - - . - -dent Bob Travis to present the petition. Travis said Wednesday that he would "be happy to present the petition to the chancellor," and added that he would "ask the chancellor if he'll try to get the director of parking and so meone from the traffic depart ment to meet tomorrow and see if we can't reach some agreement." He explained he would, present the petition because "if . there is this much disillusionment with parking, the chancellor should know about it." One student legislator, Bob Hunter, plans to present the signatures to the student legislature when they meet and ask them to pass a resolution in support of it. . Travis supported Hunter's plans and said he would "ask for a resolution in ,support of the petition." The petition asks that "the 'T' parking sticker fee be eliminated and that a pro gressive parking fee com mensurate with parking ac comodations and proximity to one's destination be instigated at once." Only operators of motor vehicles are asked to sign. Both Saville and Saunders are information sciences ma jors. Saville believes that as result of the present parking policy . "there is a large fraction of the people who aren't register ing their cars." He said "a number of people have walked by and said they Wells Heads Search For Best Talent A unique program to recruit the best talent at UNC for solving the state's toughest problems in tomorrow's -world of business, politics, education and religion will be initiated here this fall. The program to be headed by Dr. Sam Wells, a 1967 Harvard University graduate with a Ph.D. in history will be called the Richardson Fellows Program. , "We have no rigid ideas about the route this program will take," Wells says. ."All we weren't registering their cars." Most of the persons who ad mitted they were car owners to Saville's queries signed the petition, but a large minority walked by . They either ignored the re quests to signed the petition or said they didn't want their names on anything. One in reply to Saville's arguments against the present policy, though fits a great idea to charge this money so we can build a big garage." Saville countered that "if 10,000 people on this campus pay $10 a year, and it's sup posed to cost $10,000,000 to build a garage, it'l ltake 100 years before the University can build one." "Gee that's great," one observer quickly added. "Just think, my grandchildren will be able to park on campus." Saville and Saunders also passed out about 1,000 leaflets in Victory Village and at some residence halls. "T" stickers are "issued to the non-commuting town students who life within ap proximately 30 minutes walk ing distance of the academic campus," according to the "regulations Governing Motor (Continued on Pace 4) I j - -I'-:.. Wi Geoff Seng: A Sense Of Humor hole Thins: Was 6 Situation Comedy9 By HUNTER GEORGE of The Daily Tar Heel Staff Very few people would call being held at gunpoint for two hours a "situation comedy." But that's what Geoff Seng calls it. And he ought to know. Sengf 17, a fresnman at UNC, started things off right this qear by being dragged into a room at the Duke Motor Lodge near Durham Tuesday night, where he was forced to keep an interstate fugitive company for two hours. Tho fnerftivo wrac Vforrv Pntfrvn rlrHrofl rvf Paloicrfi TTo wac know at this point is that we're sougM by FBJ and several forces on cnarges of we'll attemot to develop this 4 J X., UNC cheerleaders practice State" pep rally and parade, at Morrison at 7:30 p.m. for tonight's "Beat The parade begins and ends at the Carolina Theatre on Franklin St. where a pep rally will be held about 8 p.m. stealing a car and passing about $70,000 worth of bad checks in eastern United States. Seng was working his first night as porter at the motel. He wanted to pay his way through school. "He was a real nice guy,'' Seng said of his captor. "You could semester . talk him into anything." The UNC student did. He talked him into giving himself up. What happened during the period they were alone in the room? "It was pretty funny," said Seng. "It all happened too quickly for me to be scared. After the first few minutes I realized he wasn't going to shoot me. He was too scared." So what did they do? "I took off my shoes, propped imyself up on the couch and watched television." Not only that, but they both got a laugh out of Caldwell's dog, who for lack of a place to go, went on the floor. "He messed up the wall-to-wall carpeting. But I didn't clean it up. I'm just the porter." . When Caldwell complained about something in the room, Seng suggested he call room service. After two hours, Caldwell gave Seng the bullets from his gun, and the boy walked out of the room still calm. He wanted to North Carolina and in the iden-. know if he was going to be paid overtime. , . tification and encouragement But Seng is reluctant to talk to the press about the incident, nf marfcpd " innovative and "Everv time somebodv comes un and asks me about it. T have to spend tive minutes explaining tne wnoie wing, ne ex plained. . j.t J- ,o. KA if laicuk uulc vie mm The search for a dozen male sophomores to meet the pro grams requirements will begin soon after tne tail gets underway. Undergradu ates with creative talent. . . innovators. . .young men who can come up with a fresh ap proach. . -the better idea, will be sought Selection of the initial group of 12 will take place in October; freshmen will be selected for next year's pro gram later this year. The experimental program is being sponsored by the Richardson Foundation o f Greensboro. -"The chief interest of the Foundation," H. Smith Richarcson, founder and presi dent ca vs. "is the voutn ot (Continued on Pare 8)

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