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Library Eox 370 ChPl HiU, r,.c 27514 Fair Today Homecoming Queen Deadline for filing entrees for the Homecoming Queen contest is Friday. Entrance fees of five dollars may be paid at the GM Information desk. partlv cIoudy today. "ie temperature change. 75 Years of Editorial Freednm Volume 75, Number 26 . CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1967 Founded February 23, 1893 CliaecelloF Chain Letteir FCD(B Ilk Tin T Neg TTt o Illega usees By HUNTER GEORGE of The Daily Tar Heel Staff A group of Negroes met for the first time Wednesday afternoon with Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson to discuss charges of discriminatory employment practices. Their action was a follow-up on a complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Labor Sept. 17 alleging unfair hiring on the part of the University. At Wednesday's ' meeting, which was closed to the press, a letter was presented to the Chancellor containing com plaints of scrimination "in both hiring and promotion" in six different areas. Guevara Diary Reveals Failure LA PAZ, Bolivia Cuban revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara felt that he had failed in his mission to foment Communist revolution in Bolivia and was seeking to flee the country when he was slain by Bolivian rangers, his field diary revealed Wed nesday. The key to Guevara's failure and his disiUuSionment was his inability to inspire a fanatic following in the largely Indian population of this landlocked, mountainous nation. The diary, seized from Guevara's knapsack, was made public as the Argentine-bora revolutionary was buried in the tiny and remote village "of Vallegrande, 300 miles southeast of Ea Paz, near the battleground where he fell. Appalachian Aid Is Extended WASHINGTON President Johnson extended the aid-to-Ap-palachia program for another two years today when he signed in to law a $170 million authorization bill to rejuvenate the 13-state area extending from New York to Mississippi. The system of loans and grants to provide improved medical, educational and public works facilities to remote areas of the region was exclusive of a $1,015,000,000 four-year highway building program. Unemployment Rises Sharply WASHINGTON The nation's unemployment rate in Sep tember took its biggest jump in nearly five years, and the Labor Department Wednesday blamed it on an unusually large rise in the number of women seekding jobs. It said the unemployment rate rose to 4.1 per cent in Sep tember, from 3.8 per cent in August. Although the jobless rate for women was unusually high, the rates for men and teen-agers were virtually unchanged. Arthur M. Ross, commissioner of labor statistics, told a news conference, that the sharp jump in the overall unemployment rate did not indicate any weakening in the economy. Sen. Fulbright Blasts Dirksen WASHINGTON Sen. J. William Fulbright, in an acid reply to Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen, declared Wed nesday that the Vietnam war is weakening freedom both in Viet nam and the United States. Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mat tee. gave a point-by-pdint rebuttal of Dirksen's defense last week of President Johnson's war policies. While Dirksen had suggested the war effort would protect "the holy fabric of freedom," Fulbright said, the fabric of freedom in Vietnam is "threadbare indeed." Republicans Stall Tax Increase WASHINGTON Republicans rejected as an fcnpractical gim mick Wednesday a Democratic proposal to end the impasse over taxes and spending. GOP leaders said "the life or death of the President's tax bill is up to the President. Republican House members, meeting as members of the GOP conference, adopted a resolution supporting the decision of the Ways & Means Committee to shelve the administration's tax in crease bill until the President recommends $5 billion in budget cuts. . President Johnson's bill to impose a 10 per cent tax increase on individuals and businesses is stalled because the Republicans, and many Democrats, insist that the President offer specific spending cuts first. Cessna Owner Raps Government ASHEVILLE An attorney for Lanseair Inc., owner of the Cessna 310 which collided with a Piedmont jetliner here July 19, charged Wednesday the main purpose of the federal hearing into the crash was "exoneration of government people.1" Attorney Joe Greene of Springfield, Mo., said in an interview there was "no fairness" in the hearing. Greene said the purpose of such hearings 'should be to "make the airways more safe and on no other basis can it be justified. Eleven Negroes-most of them employes of the school attended the meeting, but a spokesman, Hflliard Caldwell, said they represented "well over 10" persons who work for the University. Caldwell, a technician in the department of medicine at N.C. Memorial Hospital, said after the meeting the group wanted t o 4substantiate" charges made last month by Dr. B.T. Elliott Jr., a doctor at the hospital who sent a letter to the Labor Department. Caldwell said the chancellor was Very receptive" to the group's suggestions and that Sitterson promised "he would !f Daily $ar I?rrl World News BRIEFS By United Press International fflploymenll "look into" the charges. Elliott's letter had referred generally to the University's service plants, telephone com pany, electric company, laun dry, maintenance department and the hospital as places practicing discrimination in hiring. The group visiting the chancellor added charges that: There is no attempt made to hire Negro professors, The University laundry maintains two sets of rest rooms and two separate snack bars for the races. There are no Negroes working in South Building. Sitterson University Day ceremonies will be held this morning at 11 d'clock in Memorial Hall to cemmenmorate the 174th an niversary of the University's founding. Keynote speaker for the an nual celebration will be John W. Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. - Chancellor J. Carlyle Sit terson will preside at the event: President William Fri- day will introduce Gardner. Also in the platform party will be Gov. Dan K. Moore and former Gov. Luther Hodges. Student Body President Bob Travis has issued a statement urging all students to attend the event which will begin with an academic procession from the Old Well and Old East to Memorial Hall. Provost C. Hugh Holman is in charge of arrangements for the ceremonies, including performances by the Universi- ty Band and Glee Club. 'The band will be directed gy Major Prof Gets $500 Fine Professor Earl Wynn of UNC's radio, television and motion picture department was fined $500 and court costs Tuesday on charges of forging prescriptions for a stimulant drug, Seven of the charges asainst Wynn were decided Tuesday by Judge L. J. Phipps of Chapel Hill Recorder's Court. An additional "seven charges will be decided Dec. 1, 1968. Chancellor J. Carlyle Sit terson said the University will give special consideration to Wynn because of his 29 years as an instructor. "The University has special rules for professors with tenure. But I'm not sure just exactly what Wynn's position with the University will be." In addition to the fine, Wynn was ordered to violate no laws involving "moral turpitude" between trials. ws&mufm r-n ,r Mi mm mini i - . i . m ? ? T . . ..... 1 1 - fx V . - -' " . h- """J No attempt is made to hire Negroes in the campus securi ty police. The pay scale for "low in come workers" is too small. The group also said "more employes would have been here (at the meeting) today, but rumor has been that same of them have already been ap proached by someone who told them not to get involved with this . " They did not elaborate. It was disclosed that a se cond complaintthis one filed by a white woman on behalf of Negro friends has been sent to the Labor Department. A copy of the letter was not L- :,. " i v I - t -. - - and Friday meet Gardner ... at Raleigh-Durham airport John Yesulatis, and the Glee Club, by Robert P. Porco. The invocation will be delivered by Dean of Men James Cansler. Secretary Gardner was president of the Carnegie Corp. of New York and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advan cement of Teaching before being appointed to his present cabinet post by President Johnson in 1965. He is a native of Los Angeles, Calif. A veteran of World War H, he served in Europe and the Marine Corps and the Office of Strategic Services. He has also been a consultant to the U.S. Randolf Blackwell To Speak At Second Poverty Progam "The Challenge of Southern and Rural Poverty" will be the topic for discussion here Mon day, at the second in a series of programs on poverty in the United States being held on campus this fall. The speaker will be Ran dolph Blackwell, an Atlanta at torney who has been directing community development pro jects in the deep South. The discussion will be held at 8 p.m. in the faculty lounge of the Morehead planetarium. ' B 1 a ckwell's organization, Citizens Crusade Against Poverty, was set up by Dr. Martin Luther King and Walter Reuther and is funded by the umce oi economic up portunity. Blackwell is project director for Rural Action in this program. Activities of Blackwell's branch of the program include job training, voter registration, and organizing farmer's cooperatives. He has worked in rural areas of the south since 1950. The three-part symposium on American poverty is being sponsored by the University YMCA and YWCA and the Multi-Purpose Training Center. The theme is "Poverty and Af fluence: Two Americas." Leon H. Keyserling, presi- t! VA .c- i - -1- ! Hffliard Caldwell group spokesman made available, but the Labor ; Department has acknowledged receipt of it. Elliott said 'Wednesday he has been advised by officials in Washington that an in vestigation into the charges will be conducted by the Department of Health, Educa tion and Welfare, but the exact time has not been set. Delegation to the United Na tions, the Air Force, the Department of Defense, the Agency for International Development, the U.S. Office of Education and the White House. He is a holder of the highest civilian award bestow ed by the United States, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Air Force Exceptional Service Award. The topic of Gardner's speech will be "Goals for Education" in the United States. Also incorporated into the celebration will be the presen dent of the Conference on Economic Progress and former chief economic advisor . -j-.. tt c t1 spo&e luunuay on viutu axii-ctii Annual Incomes." Prof Calls 'Che By STEVE PRICE of The Daily Tar Heel Staff A UNC professor who once met Cuban un derground fighter Ernesto "Che" Guevara described the m,an as a revolutionist." "His type are a rare breed," said the in structor, who wished to remain anonymous because part of his family is in Cuba. "He was very intelligent, and a finer military commander than Castro." Guevara, sent by Castro to foment rebellion in South America, was one of seven guerillas killed Sun day in a clash in southeast Bolivia. Identification was nmdl- ir By PAM HAWKINS of The Daily Tar Heel Staff An illegal chain letter costing $20 and promising $320 in return has been circulating around the University, Dean of Men James O. Cansler said Wed nesday. Chain letters offering benefits have been interpreted by the state as lot teries. Sending anything concerning lot teries through the mail constitutes a federal offense carrying a penalty of $1,000 or two years in prison. "i know of seven students already who have participated in this chain let ter and these people say that there are more,'1 Cansler said. He added that action would not be taken against these persons because T n V m.roi.ttiPiP tit (Pirh(ThTr1r.& u unnir. 2 Class By WAYNE HURDER of The Daily Tar Heel Staff The judicial committee 'of Student Legislature passed out favorably Wednesday a bill to restructure the class officer system, and reported out un favorably a bill to abolish thesii. Both bills will come before Student Legislature tonight. The bill to abolish officers was introduced by Rep. John Williford, MD IX (UP), the cither was introduced by Rep. George Krichbaum, MD VII SP).v - The" 'deciding vote on both tills was " cast by acting chairman Tom Benton, MD X (SP), because of ties. Williford's bill would abolish class officers for all but the senior class. Krichbaum's ball would get rid of the offices of secretary, tation of a portrait of Professor Emeritus A.C. Howell to the University at 3 p.m. in Gerrard Hall. It was painted by AsheviHe artist Mrs. Lowell B. Wright. Chancellor Sitterson will ac cept for the University. Howell has been a member of the Department of English since 1929. He has taught courses in Seventeenth Century English Literature and in Milton. He also developed cocn position courses for science students wMch received na tional attention. All classes will be suspended from 10:30 until 2 p.m. Word was received Wed- nesday that Daniel P . - . , . Moyninan, former assistant Secretary of Secretary of Labor, will not 10. speak as planned on Nov. made by military officials there. "I met Guevara in 1959 when the State Depart ment asked me to bring some sociology students from the University of Havana to the United States for study and visits, said the instructor. "Guevara was president of the National Bank in Havana then, and I had to go directly to him for funds for the students. "He was extremely in telligent and at that time I guess he was about 30 years old. I never talked to him again, though I heard him speak several times. "Guevara had that rare they had not to his knowledge used the mails to perpetuate the chain. "My basic reason in publicizing this is to make the students aware that participating in this chain letter circuit is illegal," Cansler said. He said he was informed of the lettei Monday when a male student who got it from another student over the weekend brought it to him 'after deciding not to become involved. "My guess is that most people will lose all or part of the $20 they originally paid rather than getting any more back," he said. Most students are now aware that chain letters of this type are illegal, Cansler said. it n T Officer treasurer, and social chairman for the freshman, sophomore and junior classes. The presidents and vice presidents would become members of a special student Government committee which would include a representative .of each class to be appointed by the president of the student body. The committee would "pursue a course of in vestigation, research and review of any problems of a general class nature or student nature as seen fit by the Presi dent of . the Student Govern ment," according to the bill. Discussion centered around whether the problem of class government was caused by its structure, as proponents of the Krichbaum bill f said, or whether it was a .matter of personalities the inability to get good officers, as sup porters of Williford's bill Said. Rep. Carl Younger, MD XI UP), also questioned whether "you would necessarily have a revival of class interest under Krichbaum's proposal because of the interclass committee. Rep. Tom Banton MD X (SP), said the officers wouldn't relinquish their functions under the committee form, but would be able to better define their jobs. Rep. Bruce Jolly, MD XI (UP), questioned whether , there could be any kind of identity under any class sys tem and whether "it would aid the University." Benton said it was important to keep the class government in order to offer students as many opportunities to participate in student activities as possible. Younger commented that he didn't think "any kind of change could alter" the type candidates there are for class officers. "Its not what kind of pro grams you have, it's how you come across" that decides wiio gets elected, he added. Jolly explained that Krichbaum's bill "wouldn't streamline class offices, but strengthen them." "There will be more in terplay between class officers 9 4 Rare talent of being able to gear his speeches to his audiences," said the in structor. "He had studied medicine in his early education; but I heard him give an economics talk us ing technical terms very accurately." The instructor said Guevara had lived most of his life in political myth, and that factual in formation about him is scarce. "He came irom a well-to-do family in Argen tina," he said, "and after studying medicine, h e traveled over Latin America. "He met Castro in Mex ico City in 1953, when Castro was in prison, "and mg yf"k i Bills and Student Government" under it, he said. Younger questioned the good of class activities and pointed to the present senior class mum sale. "If this is what the seniors are supposed to do, why do they have to have the sororities sell them; and why do they have their pledges sell them?" Lagrange To Speak JL On Court Justice Maurice Lagrange of the Conseil d'Etat, the highest administrative court in France, will speak at noon, Friday upstairs in Lenoir Hall. The speech, "The French Council of State", is sponsored by the John J. Parker Society of International Law. In his 40 year career, Lagrange, has ' held several positions of importance. He was legal expert of the French Delegation at the Shuman Plan Conference which established the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). From 1952-1953 he was Advocat' General at the Court of Justice of the ECSC. Later he served as Advocat General of the Court of Justice for the European Communities. Lagrange was first appointed Justice of the Conseil d'Etat in 1945. He served for five years in this position and was reap pointed in 1964. Lagrange has had numerous articles v published in law reviews. The major topics have were the institutions of the European communities and the European Court o f Justice. Lagrange was a delegate to the Congress, of Latin American Integration in 1967. Breed the two became close friends. When Castro's ex pedition to Cuba was ready to depart, Guevara was probably the man closest to Castro. "He probably remained close until his disap pearance about two years ago." The professor remained skeptical upon reports of Guevara's death. "He could be dead, and again it might be a case of mistaken identity," he said. "When he disappered from Cuba, there were many different versions of what happened to him. At any rate, I'm sure we won't get any official word from Cuba. I 4 S n
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