TUESDAY. JANUARY 29,
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THE TAR HEEL
Nominations Open
For Internships
In Public Affairs
The National Institute of Public Af
fairs has requested the nomination of
leading students for the '46-'47 in
ternship program for the training' pe
riod extending from September 6,
1946 to May 31, 1947, Dr. C. B. Rob
son announced.
After a one-month internship, stu
dents enter a federal office to learn
executive, judicial, or legislative work
through study and observation.
Former Carolina students who have
been selected include Voit, Gilmore,
who after serving as executive as
sistant in the executive office of the
President, office of government re
portSj obtained an appointment as
clerk of the Special Senate Commit
tee to Investigate the American Mer
chant Marine. In July, 1940, Gilmore
was appointed Director of South
American operations of the Pan
American Airways.
All interested seniors and graduate
students may apply. Selection is made
according to scholastic standing,
qualities of character, ability and ap
titude for leadership, and applicants
must be a citizen of the United States.
Veterans are especially urged to ap
ply. Applications should be made
through Dr. Robson of the Political
Science Department.
McCaskill, Former
Ring Star, Killed
First Lt. Leon F. McCaskill," Jr., a
former Carolina student and outstand
ing athlete, was killed on December 14
in a crasn oi a V-4
transport plane which
he was piloting on the
island of Crete.
McCaskill entered
University in
1940 and left to enter
the air corps in 1942.
While he was here,
McCaskill was a star
outfielder on the Tar
Heel baseball club for
two years and a middleweight on the
boxing team.
; He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L.
F. McCaskill of East Rockingham.
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Bill Brinkley and Wife Betty
Spend College Life in Trailer
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Tar Heel Movie
"The Call of Carolina," a movie de
picting campus life and showing ac
tual Carolina scenes will be shown
oy tne lar Jtieei, tne snowing oi xms
fihn marks the embarkation of the
Tar Heel into the field of pictoral
journalism. Shots from the Duke
Carolina football game, the Southern
A.A.U. meet and baseball games will
be part of the movie.
Give to the March of Dimes
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with JSd ward G. Robinson in "Scar
let Street," a Universal release
playinl Friday and Saturday at
the Calolina Theatre.
By Olive Ann Burns
"Betty, are you awake?"
"You can't sleep either;?" She
sounded tired. A rooster's crow came
faintly through the darkness.
"I just don't know. To buy or not
to buy that trailer," groaned Bill.
They had already discussed it half
the night.
It would cost all his discharge bonus.
(Trailers run from $1,000 to $1,800
second-hand, and from $1,800 up if
new.)
"But in the two years we'll be in
school it would almost pay for itself.
Rent for an apartment in Chapel Hill
if we can find one averages $60."
"Bill, how on earth does the gov
ernment expect a married veteran at
college to live on $75 a month? It
can't be done."
"You can put in capital letters that
it won't be easy for us. But the G. I.
Bill only provides help with expenses.
It doesn't pretend to pay all."
"I guess so." Betty yawned wear-
iiy.
"A trailer will be awfully close liv
ing," said Bill. "You won't be able"
"Bill, let's buy the old thing!" Bet
ty cried suddenly. "We can't stay
awake all night."
Purchase Trailer
So Betty and Bill Brinkley, stu
dents at the University of North Caro
lina, bought a green and gray trailer.
They jacked it up about 8 miles from
Chapel Hill on the Eureka Farm,
owned by a friend, J. B. Fearrington.
"I guess it might not be so much
fun after all," Betty says, "if we
weren't in the country and didn't have
a radio and Zombie. Zombie is our
puppy-dog."
In the small trailer they naturally
get in each other's way. They get
hemmed in when the closet door is
open, and Bill has to stoop to come
in the door. Four people smoking at
the same time can put a smoke screen
over the 18 by 7 feet of space. Yet
in spite of the close quarters the
Brinkleys have entertained as many
as five other persons. After three
months they still don't feel cramped.
Cabinets and cubby-holes are in
every conceivable place. The oven on
the four-burner gas stove heats the
trailer, and there is permanent elec
tricity. The water tank which Bill fills
twice a day gives them running water
inside. For bathing they use the show
ers at the University gymnasium.
The light housekeeping in the
trailer is ideal for students. The
Brinkleys do it on the cooperative
system.
Bill Does Housework
"I really don't think a husband
should have to do housework," Betty
said as she scrambled some eggs.
"When Bill was stationed in Florida
last summer he didn't do anything ex
cept feed the kittens and the rabbits.
But here whichever one has the most
homework studies and the other
cooks."
In the mornings they get up at 7
o'clock to drive to nine o'clock classes.
Bill always makes the bed while Bet
ty gets breakfast. "Bill grumbles
like all men, but he's wonderful
about helping," Betty chatted on.
"only he positively won't wash
dishes."
Bill, who is from Charlotte, N.C,
met Betty Welles from Fayetteville
in 1941 here at the University. Dur
ing the war he was a pilot in the army
air corps and they were married 1
years ago between his Africa and
China services. Bill is now in the
School of Commerce and Betty in
journalism.
Do you think youH ever do com
mercial flying?" Bill was asked.
Not unless there's ; no other way
for us to eat," he answered. "After
flying for three years, it's no more
thrilling than driving a truck."
"But tell her how I'm learning to
drive the car, Billy," his wife ex
claimed. Betty is tall and loose-jointed, very
blonde. She is gay, clever, and happy,
and when it comes to Bill and Zombie
and the trailer, she is like .a child
playing house. About them she could
talk a deaf person under the table.
Bill, who is 27, is very responsive,
though quiet, and one of those few
men actually handsome with a mus
tache. He is very much in love with
his wife, though, you would never
know it if you had seen the disap
pointment on her face the first day
she was in the infirmary (sore throat).
About nine in the morning she got
a note which Bill sent up by the nurse
on his way to class. She had expect
ed something like, "Missing you ter
ribly, darling. Please hurry and get
well." All he actually said was,
"Finally found some lard. Love. Bill
Zombie Is Dog
The third and most prominent mem
ber of the family is Zombie, a wire
haired terrier. Every few minutes a
conversation is interrupted by, "Zom
bie, go to Bill," or "Zombie, get down
off the bed," or "Isn't Zombie a sweet
puppy-dog?"
They say one can tell a great deal
about people from the books on their
shelves. The Brinkley's bookends hold
things like this: "Backyard Poultry
Keeping," "Webster's Twentieth Cen
tury Dictionary." Sinclair Lewis'
"Cass Timberlane," a volume of
Shakespeare, "Bedroom Companion,"
"Europe Since 1914," Field's "Bernard
Baruch Park Bench Statesman,"
"Five Acres and Independence" by
Kain, and a University of North Caro
lina catalogue.
Life in the trailer is a far cry from
the rah-rah collegiate life on campus.
When studies are done and the coun
try night is still young, a game of
chess is played on the table-of-all-work.
The chess is a prized posses-:
sion which Bill brought to Betty from
India. The board is of inlaid woods
and the chessmen hand-carved.
Visit Town
On other nights they leave the
trailer to visit friends in Chapel Hill
for a movie, or to attend some cam-
Supper Forum
Series Begun
By Y Sponsors
Business Manager
Speaks To Group
Instituting a new series of pro
grams of mock Town Hall meetings,
the bi-weekly YW-YMCA Supper
Forum was held Thursday night at 6
o'clock in the basement of the Metho
dist church. Guest speakers were
Claude Teague, University business
manager, and Robert Morrison, edi
tor of the Tar Heel.
After the usual supper, served
cafeteria style, and social period, Pat
Kelly, acting as moderator, explained
the type of programs planned. He
stated that for- each Supper Forum
a topic of concern to both the Uni
versity staff and the students would
be chosen and representatives from
each group would give the facts of the
case as he saw them. Questions would
then be asked the speakers from the
floor, Kelly said.
At the meeting Thursday night, Mr.
Teague, speaking from the adminis
tration's viewpoint, said that the Uni
versity was just as anxious to re
lieve the crowded conditions as were
the students. He stated that there
were manv difficulties to overcome,
however and many angles to be con
sidered.
Speaking from the student view
point, Morrison cited the cases of
North Carolina veterans not being
able to enter the University and ques
tioned the fact that the administra
tion was doing everything possible to
alleviate conditions.
The main purpose of these pro
grams, Kelly stated, is to show the
administration and the students each
other's views and to try to bripg the
two groups closer together.
Sociology Group
To Meet Tuesday
Alpha Kappa Delta, sociology fra
ternity, will hold a vocational confer
ence Tuesday afternoon, February 5
at 4 o'clock in Room 403, Alumni
Buildine. All students majoring m
sociology are invited to attend.
Members of the department and stu
dents will participate in a panel pres
entation of outstanding vocational op
portunities available to the students
majoring in sociology.
From 4 until 4:30 p. m. the meet
ins will be an informal social. The
discussion will begin at 4:30 p. m
with Miss Faye Hancock, president
of Alpha Kappa Delta, presiding.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Norton is the
student chairman of arrangements.
ADPi Initiates
The following girls have been ini
tiated into ADPi sorority: Carolyn
Warren, Mary Wright Summers, Dee
Sweat, Shirley Small, Mary Britt,
Marion Parker, Herdon Vaughan, and
Jean Hayes.
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CHARLIE McCARTnY is no dummy, according to 9-year-old Hannah
Toomey of New York City, when it comes to a good cause such as the
current March of Dimes campaign. Edgar Bergen, looking on, will pre
sumably boost Charlie's weekly allowance for this special occasion. A
victim of poliomyelitis, Hannah was aided by the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis, which derives its funds from the annual March
of Dimes. Make your contribution now.
Pete Parker Returns To UNC
With Stories of War in India
By Sam Summerlin
Out of a side alley and into the
biggest and busiest street of Calcut
ta, India, walked an old Indian, stark
naked. Obviously a devout member of
one of India's numerous religious
sects, the dark figure meandered un
molested across the crowded street,
and disappeared into another alley.
This is one of the many odd sights
seen by Roland J. Parker, former
acting Dean of Men at the University
pus function which Betty has to
cover for her newswriting class like
the speech Georgia's Governor Arnall
made recently at Memorial Hall.
Then on warm afternoons they take
long walks through the fields or down
the wagon road. As they walk toward
the farm buildings they get whiffs of
the smell of fermenting hay. Oh their
cabin porches little Negro children
line up to stare at them, while Zom
bie has a happy time chasing hens and
kittens.
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during his fifteen months service with
the American Red Cross.
Only recently released from the
Red Cross, Parker has returned to
Carolina and is now an assistant vet
erans' adviser.
Entering the Red Cross as a field
director in July, 1944, Parker re
ceived his training in several camps
in Virginia. Then he was sent to Los
Angeles, where he shipped out for
Bombay, India. Once in India, Parker
was sent to Calcutta, the crossroads
of China, India, and Europe. There
he established his headquarters, and
most of his vivid experiences oc
curred in that city.
Handled Marriage Problems
As a field director, Parker's work
encompassed a wide variety of jobs,
but none was so difficult to handle nor
so often tragic in its outcome as that
of aiding native women who had mar
ried G. I.'s in Calcutta before the
soldiers were transferred back to the
United States.
Most of the cases which he en
countered were the same story repeat
ed time and again. The G. I. married
the girl (or promised to do so), and
when his orders came to return to the
States, he would say that he would
send money enough to furnish her
transportation to his home in the U.
S. But often the money never came,
nor was any word heard from the de
parted husband. At this point, it was
the job of the Red Cross to try to
locate the husband, and ascertain his
future intentions, all the while pro
viding financial aid for the wife until
some settlement could be reached.
However, every case was not tra
gic. For example, Parker remembers
well this Hollywood-type story. A
beautiful girl, of mixed blood, fell in
love with an Army captain while she,
as a volunteer nurse, tended his
critical wounds. When he regained his
health, they were married, against
Gen. Stilwell's orders that no man
under his command could take up a
wife. The captain was immediately
busted down to a second lieutenant,
' and soon ordered back to the U. S.
The husband wrote to his wife fre
quently, and said that he was sending
her money. But the money didn't
come. After months of waiting, the
girl sought out Parker for advice.
Shortly thereafter, it was discovered
that the husband's money ($1100) was
being held up in a bank in New Yot
After this matter was cleared up, tk
money reached the girl. Parker and
several of his friends went with her
to see her off, and latest reports are
that the couple is happily living in
the soldiers' home in New York State.
Soldier Problems
Other field director duties, besides
settling matrimonial difficulties, were:
granting loans to soldiers who were
out of money, aiding American mis
sionaries who escaped from Jap-occupied
China, and fulfilling requests
from parents who had lost a son in
the CBI theater. Along this line, the
Red Cross took numerous photo
graphs of soldiers' graves to send
home.
One of Parker's most interesting
experiences concerned the rescue of
a B-29 crew stranded in a Burmese
jungle. The bomber, returning to
Calcutta for a raid on Sumatra, was
forced down, luckily in a clearing.
In' an attempt to contrive some
means of being rescued, one of the
crew suggested that a helicopter be
flown to India from the plant in Ohio.
The suggestion was radioed from the
disabled B-29 to the American base
near Calcutta, and the idea was ac
cepted. Within a matter of hours, the
helicopter was on its way to India,,
and subsequently to the stranded
crew, all of whom were removed from
their isolated position to the Cal
cutta base. There the two holicopter
pilots met Parker, who exchanged
their American money for Indian
currency. The two wanted to have a
big fling in that city which neither of
them would probably ever see again
after they bid it farewell the
morning.
V-J Day
Parker recalls that his greatest ex
perience during his stay in China
was the V-J celebration staged by
the men of the air base at which he
was stationed. Immediately after the
Jap surrender had been announce
over the base radio, pandemonium had
set in. Flares lit up the ?kj', an"
bottle after bottle of whiskey, wbich
had been carefully saved for this very
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time, the men broke up, by states,
into little groups. An ardent lover "
Carolina joined Parker in singinjj
"Hark the Sound," and then "I Dn;
Give a Damn for Duke University,
until, after three lines, they were sud
denly stopped by a flood of condem
nations issuing from the mouth of
base chaplain, a graduate of the Dut
Divinity School.
Parker observed that the
people, on the whole, were extremes
kind to the Americans, and ofte"
greeted them on the streets
"Hello, Joe." But the G. I. met wiU
one failure; they could never "get t
first base" with the Hindu women,
many of whom, Parker said, were ex
tremely beautiful.
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