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if every man were truly as he
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Volume 41, Number 46
1964 Gubernatorial Prospects —VI
Charles R. Jonas: A Hulking Roadblock
Charles R. Jonas of
North Carolina's Eighth Dis
tric is the first Republican to
hr interviewed in the Week
ly’s scries on 196 If Guberna
torial prospects. Contacted in
Chapel Hill during Commence
ment exercises in which his
son received a law degree, he
acknowledged that his candi
dacy was being widely rumor
ed, but he agreed to tht} inter
view only with great reluct
ance and with the understand
ing that its granting would
not. be used as a basis for in
ferring that he is actually
planning to run.
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THE TlDE—There is a tide in the affairs of
man. In winter, the flood is for the parents, who get
some peace and quiet around the house while the
children are in school. In summer, the flood is for the
children, who get some turmoil and noise around the
house while they are out of school. That distant rum
bling noise you may have heard Thursday was the
tide turning—school let out. All over town there was
Chapel llill
CHAFF
By LOUIS GRAVES
I am going to set down here a
few facts about the career of
Pope .John XXIII that I think will
interest those of my readers who
do not happen to have read the
longer accounts of his illness and
death. Most of the following ex
cerpts are from the biography
and other articles in the New
York Times.
Angelo Roncalli, who took the
name John XXIII when becom
ing Pope in 1958, was born Nov
ember 25. 1881. in a bleak 200-
year-old stone house in the village
of Sotto il Monte, five miles from
the town of Bergamo in the Milan
region of Lombardy.
His father was a landless share
cropper. The family had clung
for four centuries to the Bergamo
foothills. Eventually Angelo sav
ed enough money to buy the farm
that he worked. He wrote of his
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Possible YM- YWCA
Building Is Studied
The Recreation Committee of
the Chapel Hill Jaycees is con
sidering the possibility of initiat
ing a fund drive for the construc
tion of a combined YMCA-YWCA
building here.
According to committee chair
man Eddie Mann, at least one
other civic organization and other
interested individuals are also in
the process of inquiring into the
proposal.
Such a building would provide
additional recreational and phy
sical training facilities for much
of Chapel Hill. Estimated cost
wftuld be about $1,300,000.
At present, only investigative
By W. 11. SCARBOROUGH
With one exception those Dem
ocrats either seeking the 1964
Democratic Gubernatorial nom
ination or being widely rumor
ed for it have counted Charles
Raper Jonas a hulking road
block between their intentions
and actual occupancy of the Gov
ernor's Mansion.
Mr. Jonas does not share their
views. In fact few potential can
didates can match him for sheer
elusiveness. He shies from dis
cussion of his prospects like a
ghost hiding in fog, but he is
far from being a phantom cacdi
Mayor Cites Desegregation
Gains; Committee Will Meet
The Mayor’s Committee on In
tegration will meet Tuesday night
to decide what further action it
can take to help solve racial
prdblems' in Chapel Hill.
Mayor Sandy McClamroch,
who serves as chairman of the
committee, said the group would
decide its future course of ac
tion, if any is to be undertaken.
At the same time, the Mayor
made public a survey compiled
at his request by the Merchants
Association.
The results of the survey:
165 retail businesses provide
equal service without regard to
race (an estimated dozen or less
do not).
131 service type organizations
(service stations, fuel oil distrib
utors and the like) have no racial
restrictions on service.
47 professional people (doctors,
lawyers and dentists) have no
racial bars.
work is being done. The Jaycees
invite any and all comments, ad
vice, criticism' and assistance
from anyone at all.
This action on the part of the
Jaycccs was prompted by the
scarcity of physical facilities
available to townspeople in Cha
pel Hill, combined with the ap
parent success of YM-YWCA pro
grams in neighboring communi
ties. It was also felt that since
capital outlay financed by the re
cently enacted recreation tax
will necessarily be small, any
immediate construction of physical
facilities would necessarily be by
private programs.
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date. State Republicans, long ac
customed to hoisting a token sac-,
rifice above the parapets and
watching him mangled by Demo
cratic canister, are counting
heavily on him as the first
strong contender they have been
able to put forward in at least
three decades.
Because Mr. Jonas is held in
such regard by his own party,
he has become something of an
issue in the Democratic eche
lons. One candidate is running
on the basis that he alone can
take Mr. Jonas in the General
Election. Three others expect
to cross swords with him if they
heard the crash of hurtling objects and the cries of
the liberated, which spread outward from such places
as the Carrboro School, above, and gradually began
to center around the children’s homes. “God bless us
every one,” said Tiny Tim, and doubtless many par
ents began to echo Tiny Tim’s sentiments Friday
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In the case of service organiza.
tions and professional people, the
Merchants found none practicing
segregation in service.
Joe Augustine, executive direc
tor of the Merchants Association
who directed the survey, said:
Summer School Has
Record Enrollment
Some 239 new freshmen and
“permanent” transfer students
began arriving on the University
campus this weekend for orienta
tion prior to the opening of UNO's
first Summer Session tomorrow.
The total enrollment for the
first Summer Session is expected
to top 5,000, according to Dr. A.
K. King, director. It will be the
largest enrollment for the first
summer term in the University’s
history.
Added to the freshmen and new
transfer students will be those
students who arc regularly enroll
ed in the University and who
wish to take courses in the sum
mer, and "visiting'* students who
are regularly enrolled elsewhere
but who take summer courses at
UNC.
In addition to those 5,000 taking
courses for credit toward an aca
demic degree, there will also be
several thousand on campus who
are participating in special con
ferences, institutes, workshops,
and short courses such as the
High School Choral Workshop,
the High School Radio-TV Insti
tute, and the Piano Clinic for
Teachers and Students.
To meet the large expected
enrollment, another men’s dormi
tory has been added to the list of
11 men’s dorms which will house
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY. JUNE 9, 1963
survive the primary skirmishes.
Only one Democratic front run
ner sees him as an insignificant
factor.
As far as his own view' of the
matter goes, Mr. Jonas looMk
upon Democratic apprehension
of him as unfounded. He docs
not want to run; there is an
outside chance he might be forc
ed to, but it would be under
duress of the first order.
During a visit to the Univer
sity, from which his son, Charles
Jr. graduated with a degree in
Law, Mr. Jonas hesitantly agreed
to discuss his career as the'
State’s pre-eminent Republican
“We found Chapel Hill to be
the most integrated town in North
Carolina. It is probably the most
integrated town in the country
from a practical standpoint. Seg
regation is much more wide
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male students, and one graduate
women’s dormitory has been add
ed to the list of eight undergrad
uate and graduate women’s dorms
which will house women students
during the first Summer Session.
Two dormitories will be open
to house married students, and
one dormitory will be open to
house students taking bar and
dental board examinations.
Four dormitories, including the
University's two new seven-story
men’s dorms, Craige and Ehring
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Racial Movement: Not Always Clear
By J. A. C. DUNN
All along the Piedmont Cres
cent major racial barriers have
fallen in recent days. Restaurants,
lunch counters, and other public
facilities have been desegregat
ed in Durham, Greensboro, Win
ston-Salem, Charlotte, and even
as far south as Greenville, S. C.
The immediate effects of these
changes are obvious: whites no
longer enjoy as exclusive or as
absolute a supremacy as they once
did; and Negroes can do many
things they once would not have
dreamed of attempting.
officeholder. Once confronted,
however, Mr. Jonas -faced four
square and became candid about
politics as few other skilled po
litical practitioners would dare.
When he talks, there can be lit
tle mistaking why he should
cause tremors along Democrat
ic spines and throbs in Repub
lican breasts.
During a Congressional tenure
that spans the past decade he
has become supremely adept at
tying elephantine bow-knots in
partisan Democratic strategy.
Six badly mauled opponents and
a sorely out-maneuvered Gover
nor Terry Sanford are less than
More Segregation Protest
ff
Demonstrations Planned
Negro Students Transfer
Campaign Now Under Way
A drive is under way in Chapel
Hill to transfer Negro students
to desegregated schools.
The drive is being conducted
mainly by the Fellowship for
School Integration and the Com
mittee for Open Business.
The Fellowship is using a tele
phone ‘ campaign to encourage
Negro parents to request trans
fers for their children.
At a meeting of the Committee
for Open Business last night, the
procedure for requesting trans
fers was explained and parents
were urged to act before the
transfer request deadline next
Saturday. William Darrity an
nounced that a house - to - house
canvass was being planned to
provide parents with information
about transfers and encourage
them to file official requests.
The Open Business Committee
drive is concerned particular
with transfers to the new Guy
B. Phillips Junior High. Trans
fer requests are being urged for
students who graduated this
spring from the all-Negro North
side Elementary and Frank P.
Graham schools. Northside gra
duates have been assigned by
School Supt. Howard Thompson
to the seventh grade at Frank P.
Graham and seventh grade gra
duates at Frank P. Graham have
been assigned to the all-Negro
Lincoln Junior High.
Supt. Thompson had announced
previously that plenty of space
would be available at Guy Phil
lips Jr. High and that transfer
requests would be granted.
One Negro woman at the Open
Business Committee meeting said
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dust. You’d think we were living
in the Heart of Texas—sub-stand
ard, of course.
The long-range implications of
recent racial developments are
not easy to calculate.
Ernest Q. Campbell, an associ
ate professor of sociology at the
University, has been ah especially
interested observer of the current
jpheaval, but there are some
aspects of the racial situation
that leave even a sociologist some
what puzzled.
"The thing about the racial
situation that I find most interest
ing.” he said, "is the response
of the whites.”
Businessmen, political leaders,
mute in their testimony to that.
While representing the State's
Tenth district he introduced a
number of innovations in grass
roots politics that his fellow Tar
Heels had to scramble to emu
late. oftentimes with uninspired
results.
But according to Mr. Jonas
they were not smooth Machiavel
lian political ploys so much as
they were a necessity of political
survival. His pluralities in six
races have at times run well ov
er 30,000, but also less than 5,000.
None of his campaigns has been
anything but an agonizing fracas
against concerted tire no Demo
she had requested transfers for
all her children. There was no
difficulty in getting transfers to
Guy Phillips and to Chapel Hill
Senior High, she said; she was
not even questioned as to reasons
Transfers Granted
17 Students So Far
School Superintendent Howard
Thompson has received, and
granted, 17 requests for school
transfer.
School assignments for the 1963-
64 school year went out Thursday
when student report cards were
issued. The 17 requests had been
received by late Friday afternoon.
Parents have until June 15 to
submit reassignment requests.
Some other requests, however,
while not denied, have not yet
been granted. Dr. Thompson said
these requests were for transfer
from Northside or Frank P. Gra
ham schools to West Franklin
School.
Os the 17 requests granted, nine
are from Negroes. The requests
are for children in grades rang
ing from two to ten. All are ele
mentary students except five
junior high school students and
one senior high school student.
The requests that were granted,
broken down by schools: two re
quested reassignment from Carr
boro to Estes Hills School. Four
requested reassignment from
Glenwood to Estes Hils. Two
from Northside to Estes Hills
School, one from West Franklin
to Northside School, one from
Estes Hills to Glenwood School,
one from Glenwood to West
Franklin School, three from
Frank P. Graham to Guy B. Phil
lips Junior High School, two
from Lincoln to Guy B. Phil
lips, and one requested reassign
ment from Lincoln to Chapel Hill
Senior High School.
Dr. Thompson did not specify
how many requests had been sub
mitted for reassignment from
and other citizens have given in
to pressure from the Negroes for
rights equal to those of whites.
The fact that so many whites
have given so much ground. Dr.
Campbell says, is, in North Caro
lina. at least partly the result
of the nature of the region.
Major racial concessions in the
extreme eastern and western
-parts of North Carolina have not
been observed. The big racial
"breakthroughs” have been in the
Piedmont Crescent region. The
Crescent is heavily populated with
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crat has had to face in North
Carolina for the better part of
this century.
The six campaigns are one of
the reasons Mr. Jonas is not
eager to lay siege to the Gov
ernorship.
“I have under my belt six of
the hardest political campaigns
any man could have,” he said,
settling onto a couch in a bor
rowed University office.
“The results have indicated a
good margin of victory, but that
is no indication of how very hard
things were. I had never run for
any public office until 1952, the
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for the transfer requests. She
said she was told, however, that
no space was available to satisfy
a request for transfer to the
Franklin Street Elementary
School.
Northside and from Frank P. Gra
ham to West Franklin School,
but he emphasized that these re
quests had not been denied; he
was only "holding them up,” he
said.
The reason for the hold-up is
that small classes have been set
up in Northside and Frank P.
Graham Schools. The overflow
students from these reduced-popu
lation classes have been assigned
to West Franklin School. But the
requests being held up are for
reassignment of students who al
ready have been assigned to re
duced classes.
Dr. Thompson said that if there
arc not too many such requests
submitted before June 15, he
would honor those already sub
mitted. If there are too many,
he would not honor the requests,
he said.
The problem is maintaining
over-all class size throughout the
school system. According to the
new assignment regulations, stu
dents “shall be assigned ... to
the West Franklin Street School
in accordance with administra
tive discretion to relieve over
crowding in other schools .. .” If
too many requests are made for
reassignment from Northside or
Frank P. Graham to West Frank
lin. thtya classes in Nqrthside or
Graham will be too small, and
classes in West Franklin will be
too large, for the maintenance of
over-all class ,sizc.
"It’s not a matter of who they
arc,” said Dr. Thompson. "It’s
just a matter of class size.”
The single request for reassign
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people who communicate with oth
er parts of the country.
"Even if you’re a secretary, a
letter comes across your desk
and it's your job to read it. and
after the business part of the.
letter there may be a postscript
saying something like, 'Why don’t
you people take some steps down
there?’ or something.”
This is getting another person’s
view. It is only a small example.
But it is a part of the influence
of the nation as a whole, and its
various people, brought to bear
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CHARLES RAPER JONAS
Committee
Calk Off
Moratorium
The Citizens Committee for
Open Business is preparing for
further demonstrations against
segregation in Chapel Hill.
The Committee's Action Chair
man. Robert V. N. Brown, an
nounced at a meeting last night
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further demonstrations were Be
ing planned. He said the new
protests might be in the form of
picketing, boycotting, sit-ins, or
another mass march.
Another meeting will be held
next Thursday, at 8 p.m. at St.
Joseph Church, to announce pub
licly the action to be taken.
The first target of the Commit
tee will be Colonial Drug Store
on Franklin Street. The drug
store has been picketed in the
past, but has continued to restrict
its luncheon facilities to white
customers.
Before next Thursday’s public
meeting, the Committee's negoti
ating team will visit some 10 pub
lic eating establishments to let
the proprietors know the Com
mittee is no longer postponing
action in deference to the May
or’s Committee On Integration.
The Open Business Committee
had called an eight-day mora
torium on demonstrations while
the Mayor’s Committee attempted
to solve the segregation prob
lems here.
The announcement of renewed
demonstrations came after a re
port on the Mayor’s Committee’s
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K(U • Ms") ' '■■•4-'<■>. v.
SCENES
FRANK UMSTEAD. presenting
a Kiwanis Club award at the
High School Commencement
Thursday night, unable to say
during a long, pregnant pause
what the award was for .. . UNC
Housing Director JIM WADS
WORTH reared back on his bi
cycle, cruising down Franklin
Street . . . Sign on the bulletin
board at Dr. Vine's: FREE PUP
PY DAWGS . . . Rash of moving
vans breaking out all over Town.
. . . E. E. STEVENS, UNC Eng
lish instructor during the mid
50’s, turning up at Commence
ment to collect his doctorate af
ter years of labor on Galsworthy.
. . . Lone student holding down
the Y-Court between terms . . .
High School graduates clutching
for cigarettes and lights as soon
as they hit Memorial Hall’s front
doors following Commencement
exercises . . . ARTHUR COGS
WELL rakish as all get-out in
his pew Mack miniature MG ...
Unidentified soprano lending real
class to the Open Business Com
mittee's freedom songs ... Si
lent sorority houses . . . BYRON
FREEMAN rendering a small
segment of the community tem
porarily homeless by impulshvely
closing his M-bour operation.