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'C Library Socials Dapt. rarSlde"ble coiidinet and tred ihowcrs. High sr-a. Oc casional rain or scarred powers tonight and Monday. Turning cooler Monday. TT SP 3Icf The Stadest Party will e!t fficers t0r.i.bt at 7: ia 111 Murphey. Stcdt Bdr Vke PretideBt Jed Dieti will speak. 75 Years of Editorial Freedom Volume 75, Number 72 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1067 Founded February 23. 1833 Commodores Too Ouic "UT f! ILlUIiLii! i Up YYW l .V i .1 i 1 f 4 "11 VanderbUt's ))0 fr Viet Cong Apply For U.N. Office . tWnED 'NATlONSSecretary General Thahf said 'Saturday;; the Viet Cong had approached him about setting up. an office, in. the United Nations. Thant said , it was his impression the National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Viet Cong, was not asking to go before the Security Council or the General Assembly. ' He said what they wanted to maintain an office in New York as the Algerian National Liberation front did 10 years ago during the rebellion against France. Thant said he sent the query to the U.S. Mission to determine whether visas would be available on that basis. Special Unit To Try Draft Cases WASHINGTON The Justice Department Saturday establish ed a special criminal unit to prosecute antiwar demonstrators who violate Selective Service laws or interfere with military recruiting. The action was announced in a joint statement by Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey and Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark, who assured Hershey's critics that law-abiding demon strators would "incur no penalty or other adverse action." The ' unit will be responsible for prosecuting those who unlawfully aid or counsel others to evade the draft or violently in terfere with the Selective Service system, the statement said. Allies Smash Communists In Delta SAIGON American troops Saturday drove a' North Viet namese force gathering rice 375 miles northeast of Saigon into the blazing guns of U.S. Air Cavalrymen aboard helicopters. Report from the open paddy field said the U.S. assault killed 99 Communists and left the Americans practically unscathed with only four men wounded. New and more bitter fighting was reported in the swamps of the Mekong River delta 100 miles southwest of Saigon where a force of about 1,000 South Vietnamese infantrymen and rangers with American advisers reported killing 365 Viet Cong Friday in what was described by the U. S. Command as "a smashing victory." Saigon communiques Saturday afternoon said the rice field victory, the delta combat and fighting on the Bong Son Plain along the coast of the South China Sea had killed about 800 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong since last Wednesday. By JOE SANDERS of The Daily Tar ml Staff What is Christmas to a bum? Saturday the crowds choked Franklin Street shops buying," buying, buying for friends and, unable to wait until the 25th, buying for themselves. Few people indeed drop ped their change into the Salvation Army bucket outside Huggin's, but the woman ringing the bell, a portly middle class matron, didn't seem to mind. Fewer people stopped to 7 I V Perry Wallace Takes 1 ' Tljr Dailii aar IJrrl World News BRIEFS By United Press International Christmas Nears, buy sewing needles from the bum. He was an old man who carried his goods in a leather case around his neck: his arms were needed to hold his crutches. His legs were useless. I FIRST saw him when he went into a downtown cafeteria, thrusting his packets of needles in front of lunching cutomers who all nodded denials to his mumbled query, ''Buy some needles?" "Buy some needles, mister?" he asked. I looked up for a brief moment and curtly said, Rebound From UNCs Darirah: Colleges Need Girls By GARY BOYLES Special To The Daily Tar Heel 'Gn-Js are the residencecol-- Teres uilimateneed,' ' says Bill - Darrah, governor of Hinton James. "We want them to have alternate wings in the present dorms or have a dorm of then own close by." Darrah feels girls would add to the social life and round out the total 'living-leaniing' con cept of residence colleges on South Campus by adding the' extra dimension that it now lacks. "The idea of a residence col lege is "the development of a small congeniality group in a large building," he said. "The student shouldn't feel his dorm is just a place to sleep in. He needs friends and activities that Ihe can share. We try to give him something to identify with. He must feel there is sojmething for him." Plans are under way to get professors to act as floor ad visers and help the student realize the ideal faculty-student relationship. If the idea works, they will be asked to stay in the colleges for several hours each day over the weekend to talk in formally with students. This could be anything the student would want to talk over with an adult. Darrah said he doesn't think the present floor system of eight persons to a suite pro motes isolation. "I think floor unity is so good that isolation is no big problem," Darrah said. 'The tioor omcers are working hard and call frequent meetings during which time a student can gripe or offer praise. 'No thanks." "I've been turned down all day." "No thanks." He hobbled over to an empty table. The manager brought him a cup of cof fee but the old man wouldn't take it. Finally, he reached into his leather pouch and got out a dime. "I don't want no chari ty," he said. The manager took the dime and left the old man staring at the cup of cof fee, rubbing his forehead in exhaustion. The crowds outside the large picture window hur V .. r V 4 i ' : . K !.'-'" ..- K7, . ... v' . f uv " 5 "' -"' - . "! Bill Bunting K . ill iv'L Uu r ) 'Demonstrators' Wait At Airport For Cox DTH To Hold Reunion, Celebration For 75th Annivergarv In Febraarv The Daily Tar Heei wiH celebrate its 75t3i anniversary on Feb. 23 with a reunion cf former editors and staff writers. More than 600 persons have baen invited to the celebration, according to the anniversary committee chairman Hugh Stevens, co-editor of The Daily Tar Heel from 1984r65. CBS newscaster Charles Kuralt, a former editor, heads the list of speakers. The paper was started in 1893 and became a daily in 1928 under editor Walter Spearman, ried past . with their packages and the bum and I watched them he with his cup of coffee and me with my chocolate cake and things I had bought to entertain myself. WHAT IS Christmas to a bum, I thought. And I, well-dressed, well fed had spent more money in an afternoon that he had seen in a week. The cake was no longer appe tizing; the paints and dec orations in the chair be side me no longer pretty- 1 walked over to nis table and sat down across from him. But Special To The DTI I NASHVILLE, Tena. North Carolina, made sluggish by a quick, speedy V&hderbilt team, fell to its first loss of the year here Saturday right 89-76 after two opening wins. The nation's fifth-ranked team let this one get out of ;reaeh in the first half when the Commodores opened up a seven point lead with three straight baskets in the last minute. Net until late in the second period did North Carolina show signs that it wanted Jo make a real comeback when it halved an eight point deficit from 63-55 to 65-61. In the spurt Larry Miller, i who took game scoring honors 77ts M By TERRY GINGRAS oi The Daily Tar Heel Staff "J. P. Cox, we love you!" "Go home , J. P.! Go home!" What would you do if you were an ordinary student at Columbia University, coming to Chapel Hill to ,spend a weekend with an old friend, and were greeted at the Raleigh-Durham Airport by a now a professor in the School of Journalism. The first paper was edited by Charles Baskerville and Walter Murphey. A special commemorative issue of the paper will be published during "the weekend of celebrations. Celebrations will last two days, according to Stevens, and include reunions for separate staffs and parties by local alumni. The list of noted persons who used to be editors of staff members of the Daily Tar Heel To Mum It9s "What are you selling?" I asked. "Needles," he said, pro ducing a packet. His voice was low, and he said "needles" as if it were a word he had been con demned to repeat for the rest of his life. "I've been turned down all day,'' he said hope fully. They were needles you could buy in a dime store for 20 cents and he was asking a dollar. How often bad he been refused by people who, "already had enough needles and, well, I can get them cheaper somewhere else?" with 25 points, made two baskets, and Dick Grubar got one while the Commodores could manage only a free throw by Bo Wyenandt. However, Vanderbilt quick ly opened up its lead to 10 points, and Carolina never came closer than eight for the remainder of the evening. Unbeaten Vanderbilt, now 3-0 and ranked eleventh in the nation, was clearly the Tar Heels superior throughout During the first 20 minutes of play the Commodores neutralized Carolina's heighth advantage with a quick de fense that kept the ball out side. When the Tar Heels were able to bring it in they got the points they wanted. Hoax. Greets huge rally? This was the situation f acicg J. P. Cox as he got off his plane at 9:55 Friday night The rally was organized by the pledge class cf a UNC f r a t e rnity. Mimeographed notices had been handed out a week before J. P.'s arrival prociakming him a member of the President's Council on Stu includes Edward Kidder Graham and Frank Porter Graham, educators and public servants; Lenoir Chambers, editor and publisher of the Norfolk Virginian Pilot and a Pulitzer Prize winner; novelist Thomas Wolfe, and Vermont C. Royster, editor of tin Wall Street Journal. Also, Shelley Rolfe, national sportswriter; E. Clifton Daniel, managing editor of the New York Times, and former, N. C. governor Terry Sanf ord. Other members of the an niversary committee include "Having trouble finding work?" I asked. HE WAS surprized at the question. "Yeah, he said, I can't do nothin' with crutches and I don't know nothin'." He stared at the table. "I don't want to sell these damn things. Last week a man give me $20 and didn't buy anything, but today. . ." "Where you from?" I asked. W inston-Salem," he. said, "You ever been there?" "Just through." I started to ask him if he 6-10 Rusty Clark had eight points at the half as he hit cn all but two of six field goal opportunities. Miller, the ob ject of Vandy's defensive in tensions, was allowed only two field goals in four attempts for four points. Foul trouble also played a hand in the Tar Heels' first hall woes. Both Charlie Scott and Joe Brown, who had six points each at the half, were tagged for three personals. Scott eventually fouled out with 3:45 remaining and Caro- lina trailing 75-65. He finished with 18 points, while Clark had 15. Vanderbilt put all five of its starters in double figures. Tom Hagan, who came into dentWar relations. Needless to say this committee does not exist, but that did not deter students from organizing a viorous rally for J. P. Cox, the inotorious" hawk and right wing supporter of the war in Vietnam. Students were even thoughtful enough to bring their own counter-demonstra- oo Spearman, McNeill Smith, Orvillo B Camnbell. oublisher of the Chapel HiH Weekly. James C. Wallace, and Chancellor J. Carlyle Sit- terson. Also, Edwin M. Yoder, editorial page editor for the Greensboro Daily News; Jonathan Yardley, book editor of the Greensboro Daily News; J. Maryon Saunders, UNC Alumni Secretary; current. Daily Tar Heel editor Bill Amlong, and David Ethridge, publisher of the Carolina Financial Times. i' A (Hi - f i - t r k I """ 1 -Uri- Jl i " ' " . . NoSkimM would go borne for Christmas, but I was afraid of what be might say. "I shouldn't have took that $20," he said, but he didn't say it to anyone but himself. I took the needles and handed him a dollar. Merry Christmas," was all he said. AND' NOW I've got some sewing needles I don't need and the bum is out there trying to sell some more. Perhaps the (man who gave him $20 dollars felt that it was Christmas, after all, and the game with a 31 point aver age, led his mates with 19 points, Wycnandt scored 13. Kenny Campbell IS and Perry. Wallace, a 6-5 center who played a couple of inches tal ler, 13. Gene Lockyear did a fine job as a reserve for the win ners as he scored eight points. The Tar Heels kept the game on even terms most of the first half before Vander bilt made its closing spurt. They held their last lead of the game at 5:02 when Clark got one oi nis lew opportunities inside. Vanderbilt quickly scored three baskets, two by Lock year, to give them the lead (Continued ea Paje 5) Cox tion. Most of the rally was pro Cox, but a few negative yells were mixed in, just for ef fect, Cox had no idea that any rally was waiting for him. His first inkling that something was going to happen came on the plane when the stewardess informed the puzzled Cox that he could get off at the end of the runway if he wanted to avoid the rally. "Sh came down the aisle asking for passenger Cox," said J.P., "I don't know what she wanted. I was even more confused when she told me; I could use the courtesy car if I wanted to avoid trouble." Cox remained remarkably poised, getting off the plane and acknowledging the cheers of the demonstrators. Cox played his role so smoothly that reporters from several local radio ari-d television stations were com pletely fooled. The reporters were running around taking pictures and recording the demonstrators. Cox remained cafai even when called on to make a spesch. He managed to deliver a suitably pro-war speech with coaching from one of the organizers cf the rally, one cf the few who actually knew what was going on. "I've just come from New York," said Cox. "They've got a lot of dirty hippies nmning around." (Cox then stooped to get soma coaching) "We know why we're in Vietnam! (cheers) We're there to fight for right and we'll be suc cessful!" In a more private moment, Cox admitted he "didn't know what to do" when greeted by the rally. "At least they took a good stand," said Cox. Soon everyone left the students pleased with a prank well done; the reporters strll not realizing that it was a prank and .J P. Cox, student at Columbia University, stni shaking his head with the wonder of it alL A soldier, who will be sent to Vietnam in January, stood off side shaking his head: 'If they want to fight all that bad, why don't they enlist and go over?" For Analysis OfUNCFrosh Cage Team, See Page 5 just wanted to give. But for the bum it was just more charity charity that he gets all year when what he really wants to have a job and to work. So when that special time of year comes when some people feel like giv ing, it's ju a dole to the nura who gets an oc- casional dole all round. year What is Christmas when you're too poor to go home, you can't find work, and you feel useless? "What is Christmas to a bum? Nothing. ft X;
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