Brown and White Vol. 75 no. 30

              block talks to students on sncc work in south and ambushed by machine-gun toting whites in another automo bile on another occasion block and his associates had to climb through a bathroom window and over greenwood roof-tops to es cape a lynch-mob armed with guns chains and bricks leflore county in greenwood has definite requirements for negro voter registration first the negro must copy one of 235 sections of the mississippi state constitution then he must inter pret it to the satisfaction of the registrar block said that negroes with m.a degrees from harvard have been failed by the registrar who has only a 10th grade educa tion see block page 3 gave him shelter and assisted him in setting up his offices in the burns home local authorities discovered block and arrested burns on a charge of bigamy on the way to the courthouse to attempt registration block said he was stopped insulted and spat upon by the sheriff who told him to leave the area if you don't want to see me around here then you'd better pack your bags and go block told him similar abuses were suffered and similar actions were shown in other instances and by other sncc men once after a planning meeting in their office the sncc workers including block were followed freedom fighter — sncc field secretary sam block telis of his fight for negro voting privileges as psa president dick babin looks on by chuck tschampion the only way to reach the southern white man is with the ballot box stated sam block of the student non-violent coordinat ing committee sncc here on thursday evening block field secretary for the or ganization of leflore county miss spoke on voter registration in the civil rights struggle before members of the political science assembly and the residence halls council he discussed personal ex periences in the fight for the ne gro's right to vote in greenwood miss he told of the first attempt in 14 years at negro registration in 66 per cent negro greenwood the movement led by the sncc you don't register you attempt to register block said when he came to greenwood block said he could find no place to stay because of his color and slept in a junkyard the first two nights the third day robert burns postal building custodian - -^ of 1964 866-0331 mmmmmm*mr ¦ vol 75 — no 30 pus <¦ "' „*»*« , :; . : . : .: ::: :, : ,:,.-. w : , ¦ ;.;-:-;.: -:.:-¦..: xjwv zgmt'&z&m ' "¦:¦ * ' ''.'¦¦¦ bsss !¦&¦?. wsffi ' '¦. yi % : : : . ss '$:. wwiifmm bethlehem pa — tuesday february lfc campus opinion divided on cigarette smoking by william reamy students who enter the snack bar could be confronted one day by a bored campus policeman smoking a bent cigarette leaning lazily against the cigarette machine and asking then to pro duce their draft cards before using the machine things aren't quite that bad yet but the surgeon general's report on cigarette smoking and lung cancer is causing unusual and often contradictory reactions throughout the country — and at lehigh dr george w mccoy director of the university health service 140,000 senior gift near goal thinks the university has a defin ite obligation to discourage smok ing by students there is no half-way method of stopping cigarette smoking pipe and cigar smoking also create an increased chance of getting cancer he said as he puffed con tentedly on his pipe but the risk is not as great actually the best thing to do is just quit period he said that the cigarette con troversy is very old as far back as the 16th century when tobacco was introduced there was a group that held that it was injurious to health asked what he thought of cigar ette advertisements dr mccoy said the advertising methods that have been used in the past have been misleading as a mat ter of fact at one time advertising went through a phase where it hinted that smoking was bene ficial he said that he thinks filters are really no advantage because see cigarette page 5 josh a relaxed figure folk guitars — alix dobkin left and josh white entertain the 2,000 folk music fans at the class of 66 concert saturday afternoon in grace hall — b&w photos by mci snyder by john kozero soft amber bathing his sweat-beaded face he sat right leg over the back of a wooden chair with a guitar in his hands a gleam in his eye and a smile in his voice the song was foggy foggy dew josh white was in his element four thousand eyes smiled back at him the dean of american folksingers was enjoying him self as much as the audience was enjoying him his simple straight-forward style and his magical string-strumming fingers created an atmosphere of camraderie and warmth with some of the best guitar-picking ever seen in grace hall josh displayed his decades of show manship simply and effectively without strain without thumping theatrics his sense of the blues came across beautifully in his opening tunes benny and du pree and whatcha gonna do yet in apples peaches and cherries the mischievous twinkle in his voice and the sensuous twang in his gutteral chuckle suggested more than could any backroom ballad he used the same carefree attitude in rt sam hall as he balladed about a guy whose spirit was reflected in the phrase goddam your eyes with white stylization and bes sie smith mood josh strummed out nobody wants you when you're down and out even his bass player chuck mathews had a personality on stage as well as see voice page 4 pickin an strummin — the just four folk singing quartet opens the sophomore class concert with whoopee-ti-yi-yo a total of 129,000 has been pledged to the class of 1964 mem orial gift campaign which ended last month the monetary total represents a 55 class participa tion in the campaign the 1964 campaign totals are higher both in participation and in total contribution than the two previous campaigns scott lav 64 chairman of the campaign however plans to com mence a cleanup campaign begin ning the latter part of this month in order to go over the goal of 140,000 and attain a total aggra gato of about 70 participation the soliciting team captained by paul burgowski 64 amassed a total of 31 pledges for 12,400 and will receive a 55 award for soliciting the largest total contri bution during the three week campaign lehigh university brown and white voice of the turtle