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Uiversity Party presidential
candidate Alan Albright swept
to ictory Tuesday in a runoff
election in which less than
twenty per cent of the UNC
student body voted.
Final vote returns, which
were posted in the Carolina
Union at about 7:30 Tuesday
night, gave the new student
body president-elect 1,602
votes to 1,293 for his Student
Party opponent, Bob Wilson.
An eleventh-hour write-in
campaign for independent
candidate Bob Lock netted
181 votes.
The total number of votes
cast in the presidential runoff
Tuesday was 3,076.
Approximately 4,000 students
voted in the first election on
March 26.
Albright, a native of
Gastonia, and Wilson, of
Wilmington, led a field of six
presidential candidates in the
March 26 election; but a runoff
became necessary when final
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Town and Goivn", Youth Committees
By MIKE COZZA
DTH Staff Writer
(Editor's Note: The DTH
presents today an interview
with Chapel Hill mayoralty
candidate Howard Lee. The
other announced candidate,
Roland Giduz, could not be
reached for comment Tuesday
evening. This interview is the
first of a series of DTH stories
which will concern the May 6
election.)
Chapel Hill mayoralty
candidate Howard Lee
UNC-G Chancellor
Praises Students
GREENSBORO (UPI) -Chancellor
James S. Ferguson
of the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro praised
students Tuesday for their
restraint during the school's
cafeteria workers strike.
Meanwhile, a meeting
between the strikers and
officials of ARA Slater Food
Service, operator of the
campus cafeteria, got
underway late Tuesday in an
effort to end the walkout that
began last Thursday.
Ferguson told a student
convocation he believed that
"reckless statements" made at
a student rally Monday night
came from someone who is not
a student.
Randi Bryant, outgoing
student government association
president, said she heard an
unidentified person saying
during the rally that unless the
. strike were settled Tuesday,
the black community would
assume a more active role in
the strike.
Some of the persons at the
rally were believed to be
students from nearby North
Carolina A&T University, a
predominantly Negro college
where a cafeteria strike was
recently sttled following a .
clash between students and
police.
Ferguson was applauded
when he told the convocation,
"We do not intend to let
outside forces conduct student
interest in this strike into
illegal outlets which will only
damage the cause."
He repeated a previous
statement that the university
would cooperate in the
enforcement of the law when
necessary.
Several hundred students
had stayed in a campus
building, with the permission
of university authorities, until
2 a.m. Tuesday waiting for the
end of a negotiating session
that began Monday night.
Police were . called to the
scene Monday night but there
were no arrests. They said
nearly 800 white and black
students marched around the
administration building
Monday night during the
negotiations.
proposed Tuesday the creation
of a "Town and Gown
Committee" to advise city
government on problems which
concern both the University
and the town.
"The committee will be
composed of people from all
levels of the University and
concerned citizens of Chapel
Hill," Lee told the DTH
Tuesday evening,.
Lee, a 34 year-old graduate
of the UNC School of Social
Work, is currently director of
employee relations at Duke. He
has lived in Chapel Hill for five
years, during which he has
served on the Citizens Advisory
Committee to the Mayor, the
Board of Directors for the
Community Action Program
and the State Democratic
Legislative Committee.
The biggest issue in the
mayor's race, according to Lee,
is the direction of Chapel Hill
for the future.
"We have to make clear-cut
policy decisions on what we
think Chapel Hill is and how
we want it to grow," Lee said.
"I want to see more
moderately priced housing
facilities, more public parks
and recreational facilities and
zoning policies that are stated,
not subject to the discretion of
city officials."
Lee said he would give high
priority to a public
transportation system in
Chapel Hill. He said proposals
for such a system have been
sitting in the mayor's office for
two years. ;
"I want a system that is run
in cooperation with the
University," Lee said. "I'm not
sure exactly what form it
should take perhaps
mini-buses but the important
thing is that we should begin
working on something."
Lee said an important aim of
his administration would be a
Government Advisory
Committee to encourage
students to take an active part
in city government. He said
such a committee would be
composed of both University
and high school students, and
would advise the city on what
young people were thinking.
Lee said he wants the
community to have a
man-power . development
program for job training and
placement. He also hopes to
secure a Chapel Hill branch
office of the State
Employment Security
Commission.
returns from that election
showed that Albright, the top
vote-getter, was short of the
majority needed for victory.
Albright won approximately
47 per cent of the total vote in
the first election as opposed to
26 per cent for Bob Wilson.
John Kelly, with
approximately 13 per cent, led
a list of four independint
presidential candidates.
In the runoff Tuesday,
Albright captured 52 per cent
of the toal vote, Wilson had 42
per cent, and Lock had
approximately six per cent.
The National Student
Association referendum which
was originally planned for
Tuesday to be held in
conjunction with the
presidential runoff was not
held because the petition for
the referendum had not yet
been validated. Instead, the
NSA referendum, in which
students will be given the
opportunity to vote for or
against continued affiliation
with the organization, will be
held on April 22.
Another student
referendum, concerning the
proposed establishment of a
black student court, will be
held in conjunction with the
NSA referendum
Alan Albright, in his
victorious campaign for the
studnent body presidency,
called for the establishment of
a Faculty-Student Council and
a reformed General College
curriculum which would give
students the opportunity to
choose between two flexible
"tracks" of study.
In addition, he expressed his
feeling that some
decentralization "in the courts
and judicial system" is needed
and in "the funding of a
number of papers in various
areas."
On the residence college
system, Albright said "The
residence college system will
have to be diverse in its
orientation" with a "structure
for funding flexible enough to
respond to creative ideas in
different areas."
Albright also promised to
throw the door to his office
open onco a month for visits
from members of the student
body.
Albright, a former
presidential assistant to Ken
Day, said during the campaign
that "Student government has
not been responsive to basic
student needs" and that it
"lacks credibility."
New Fraternity
Anyone interested in
participating in
the establishment of a new
chapter of a major national
social fraternity here is invited
to call Bryan Deans or Bob
Bass at 933-2412 or Rex
Funderburk at 933-2485.
Black Elected
To Male Court
Herbert Tyler, a junior from
Greensboro, is the newly
elected member of the Men's
Residence Court from James.
There's nothing new about
an election of a court member,
however the election of
Herbert Tyler is a first because
he is the first black member of
the court at UNC.
Color Tel
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Apollo
evision Possible
Moon Flight
SPACE CENTER, Houston
(UPI) Apollo 10's astronauts
may transmit live color
telecasts back to earth during
their moon orbiting flight in
May, Apollo spacecraft chief
George Low said Tuesday.
Color television from a
manned spaceship would mark
a space first, although
unmanned spaceships already
transmit color TV pictures of
the weather.
Low said
addition to
Sea Power In Danger-Chaff ee
WASHINGTON (UPl)-Navy
Secretary John H. Chafee
warned Congress Tuesday that
increasing Russian naval power,
particularly in the nuclear
field, was threatening
America's control of the high
seas.
The former Rhode Island
governor, in his first detailed
report on U.S. Naval posture
since he took office in January,
said the Soviet strategic nuclear
force
than expected, both in quality weapons in the 1970s,
and in number." Chafee said the Russians
It has grown so fast, Chafee were also trying to counter the
told the Senate Armed Services U.S. surface fleet by
Committee, that it now posses "developing the capabilities of
"a serious and growing threat the terminal-homing cruise
to our continued supremacy of missile which may be launched
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His private report to the
committee his declassified
statement was made public
later was another in a series of
Pentagon warnings about
has grown more rapidly increasing Russian capability to
challenge U.S. strategic power.
Chafee said new classes
submarines and nuclear attack
vessels were becoming
operational and "more of these
new types have been launched
than foreseen a year ago."
Chafee's declassified
statement did not go into
detail on Defense Secretary
Helvin R. Laird's warning two
weeks ago that the U.S. Polaris
submarines, which launch
ballistic missiles while
submerged and which once
were considered invincible,
may be challenged by Soviet
from aircraft, surface units,
surfaced submarines, or land
sites, at short or long ranges."
Because of this threat,
Chafee told the committee,
"cruise missile defense has
been assigned a place of high
priority,, alongside our ASW
(antisubmarine warfare)
efforts."
the feat, in
providing the
public with glimpses of the
awesome sights such as earth's
blue and brown globe seen by
the astronauts, would be of
engineering interest because of
the added detail live color
pictures could provide
instantly.
He said the color television
system being considered for
Apollo 10 is a technological
breakthrough he learned about
only two months ago. He said
there is a 50-50 chance it can
be included aboard the moon
orbit flight, scheduled to start
May 18.
"This is a very preliminary r
idea, and it's awfully late in the
game to start considering it,"
Low said.
"If we can get a color
system available that gives us a
picture of good enough quality
to fly and if we can have it in
time and try it out during
launch rehearsals in early May
at Cape Kennedy then I
would be willing to fly it as an
experiment."
Apollo 10 Commander
Thomas Stafford is enthusiastic
about the possibilities of trying
out the color camera during his
mission. He has talked about
transmitting a total of several
hours of television during the
flight, compared to TV shows
from past flights that were
measured in minutes.
A roommate of Tyler's once
told him not to knock student
government until he tried it; so
he's trying it. Tyler feels
"student government doesn't
work. It's gotten in a rut and
doesn't effectively represent
the students."
Tyler, who says he ran as an
interested student but more
importantly as an interested
black student thinks "student
government has not done an
effective job of representing
the black students on campus.
Positive work for the blacks
has been done through their
own efforts only."
Although Tyler is allied with
the BSM, he says his feelings
about the BSM will not be
reflected in his judgments
connected with his new
position.
Concerning improvements of
the court system, Tyler would
like to see each residence
college handle infractions
occuring in the dorms as "well
as minor offenses connected
with the Campus Code.
Buses Cease Runs
The campus transit system will terminate
operation for the duration of the Easter holiday
break tonight with buses departing for final runs at
9 o'clock from the usual points of departure. Bus
service will resume following the vacation on the
first day of classes.
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A Guitar For Distraction And The
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sun For Warmth
Afternoon.
SAIGON (UPI) - US
co mmanders Tuesday
announced the return of the
nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
Enterprise to Vietnam waters
as a weapon against the
Communists' spring offensive.
But air strikes by B52 jets,
mightiest bombers in ne
American arsenal, were being
cut back to slash war costs.
With the Red offensive in its
'cciik ioi mjiiiorv nrces said
"ail vajr,
this war has killed
Americans than the 33,629
Americans slain in Korea from
1950-53, thereby making it the
fourth most costly war in
terms of U.S. dead in American
history.
American headquarters said
the Enterprise, biggest ship
afloat, rejoined the war
Monday for its fourth tour and
within hours launched jet
fighter-bombers in support of
U.S. trnnns hunting
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more Communist forces near Cam
Lo, eight miles south of the
DMZ.
The Enterprise strikes were
flown over a mountain
battlebield where American
foot soldiers reported killing
more than 250 North
Vietnamese regulars in heavy
fighting last week.
Defense Secretary Melvin R.
Laird, announcing the
reduction in B52 strikes, said
in Washington the move was in
line with orders from President
Nixon to trim defense costs.
Air Force pilots have flown
thousands of missions in the
eight-engine jets of the
Strategic Air Command since
they were first thrown into the
war on June 17, 1956. The
planes can carry up to 15 tons
of bombs.
Six B52 missions were flown
Monday against targets
northwest of Saigon and in the
Central Highlands.
Military headquarters
reported only scattered
contacts involving American
troops Tuesday, but sometime
during the past 48. hours the
33,630th American died in
combat in Vietnam since Jan.
1, 1962, when the first wa
slain.
Only the civil war and the
two world wars have claimed
more American lives.