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LIBRARY University of .North" Carolina Chapel Hill, ?J. c. UVA Begins Compmgn For - Veterans' Subsistence Increase Local Chapter To Lead Drive Over Nation Petitions in Dorms, Y Will Begin Drive By Roy C. Moore Begnining today, the University Veterans Association, ' in conjunction with other universities throughout the nation, will launch an intensive cam paign for an increase in the veterans' subsistence allowance. " The campaign will get under way with a petition to be circulated in the YMCA and on the bulletin boards of every dormitory on the campus. UVA President James Chesn"" stated that the organization would carry its case directly to the Congress of the United States. In addition to the petition, a barrage of letters and tele grams are to be directed at Congress. He urged that every veteran on the campus send a personal letter to his congressman, giving his views on the matter and urging Congressional sup port. UNC to Lead Other Universities throughout . the nation have contacted Chesnutt and have asked that the University of North Carolina's University Veterans Association lead this drive. They have proposed . their wholehearted- support in the campaign. Of the 3,724 students on the campus, approximately 65 of them will be affected directly by the increase. At the last meeting of the UVA every veteran indicated that it was complete ly impossible to live on the present al lowance. :' In a vote conducted by Col. F. C. Shepard, Veterans Advisor, the veter ans agreed that the amount necessary to live at the university under present conditions would be $85.00 for single students and $125.00 for married stu dents. Petition Listed The petition to be circulated today reads, "Inasmuch as the student vet erans here at the University of North Carolina , and at other similar insti tutions have found the present govern ment subsistence allowance inadequate to meet necessary expenses, and inas much as it is to be expected that the sharp increase in prices will be aug mented by the lack of an adequate price control law which will further limit the student veterans' ability for meeting necessary expense's, we ; the undersigned veterans, students and faculty, of the University of North Carolina do hereby petition the Con gress of the United States to enact im mediate' legislation designed to in crease to an amount commensurate with necessary expenses, subsistence allowance to . student veterans, said necessary increase to be in our opinion $85.00 for single and $125.00 for mar ried students." GM Cancels Y Dance For This Weekend Due to the one-day: vacation fol lowing this weekend, Graham Me morial will not" present the Y court dance this Saturday evening. The Candlelight Room1 of Graham Me morial will be open Friday night only. . ; French In Saturday t v.: H ii i .uiiM,,iiiij,j,ijii ii in Jin ii i imKmrnmrnmnuKWU i' 9 CLAUDE ARNAUD VOLUME LV .Meeting Hungarian Violinist Balazs To Play Here 'Frederic Balazs, young Hungarian violinist, composer and conductor will bepresented in Hill hall next Thurs day night, July 25, by Graham Memo- rial. .'- :.: . - An outstanding violinist, Balazs, was admitted at the age of six to the Royal Academy of Music, in his native Buda pest, Hungary. Upon graduating with honors i he was concert master, at 20 years of age, of the Budapest symph ony orchestra during the 1937-38 sea son after which he extensively toured Europe before coming to the United States. - American Debut on Air A special broadcast of Hungarian music over a New York station intro duced the young Hungarian to Ameri can audiences and gained him immedi ate recognition. He was chosen director of the summer music festival at Wood stock, N. Y. and became first violinist Playmakers To Present Experimentals Tonight Members of Playwriting Class Wayne Bowman, Paul Jones, Nell Clark Are Play Authors The 11 lth series of experimental productions, under the aus pices of the dramatic arts department, will be given at the Play makers Theatre tonight at 8 :30 o'clock. The three plays to be produced, "Habeas Porkus," by Wayne Bowman, of Chapel Hill; "Down Under," by Paul Jones, of-Salem,-Mass.; and "The Braggart Captain," by Nell Clark, of Tampa, Fla., were written in thp summer playwritmg class, taught by Harry Davis, who has recently returned to the faculty from army service. "Habeas Porkus," which will be di rected by Sara-jean McDowell with a setting by Anne Dubs, is a comedy of human relations. It talces place at a pigpen on the edge of a pocosin in Jones County, North Carolina, on an August afternoon in 1940. The characters are composites of people Bowman came to know while teaching in Jones County. Born in New York state, the son of an immigration official, Bowman spent his boyhood in Princess Anne County, Va. He has just returned to Chapel Hill after four years in the Navy andN is enrolled in the dramatic arts depart ment to continue preparation for teach ing and directing. He has been award ed a graduate fellowship in the depart ment for the coming year. "Habeas Porkus," the second of his plays to be produced here, was pre ceeded by "A New Canaan." "Down Under," directed by Ernest Rhodes with a setting by Jack Corn- ouse Activities Reach Climax Bastille Day Group Hears Talk By Claude Arnaud ; ; By Sally Woodhull "With the tragedy of June, 1940, the war was not over for France. On the contrary, the most terrible part of it began then," said Claude Arnaud, at tache of the French embassy in Wash ington, speaking at a banquet given by hp University for members of the French House Saturday night at thel Carolina Inn, in celebration of iiasuiie Day, greatest of French national holi days. ! , . . "Both the Fighting French divisions overseas and the underground, forces within France were built up until they united practically all Frenchmen," he 'declared.' Evidence of their strength was seen in the part both groups play ed at the time of the Normandy inva sion, he said. No French Strikes Speaking of conditions following the liberation, Mr. Arnaud stated that there had not been a single strike m -THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- United Press Of A Next Thursday of its string quartet. , .Before becoming a technical ser- geant with the American field artil lery, he appeared as soloist .with the New York City symphony orchestra and toured the eastern, midwestern and southern states. Put in charge of an army warehouse loading trucks he used his spare time to practice, was overheard and asked to play jji a church at Grenada, Mississippi. After playing up. the Mississippi Valley he was the star of a "21-Star" series sponsored by the government and broadcast na tionally from Chicago.' - - . Over 300 Concerts Discharged last January, after a sojurn of four years in the army, Balazs immediately started on a tour of 30 concerts covering five states. In all, the Hungarian violinist has given over 300 concerts in the United States in five years. I well, deals with the war in the Pacific early in 1942. The setting is laid in the operations hut of a fighter squadron jn port Moresby, New Guinea. The author, Paul Jones, became a fighter pilot in the Southwest Pacific soon after the attack on Pear Harbor. At the end of the war last summer he was with the 14th Air Force in China. A graduate of Duke in 1939, he is studying for his Masters here. "The Braggart Captain," . directed by Louise Bonner with a setting by James Riley, takes place on a quiet street in a residential section of Athens around 500 B. C. Nell Clark, the author, is a native of Tampa and an incoming senior at Florida State College for Women. She frankly admits that "The Braggart Captain" is adapted from the "Miles Glorious" of Plautus. Although she has written and directed many skits at Florida State College, this i3 her first attempt at a one act play. Sara-jean McDowell is stage mana ger for the experimental productions. Costumes and makeup will be handled by W. P. Covington III. Celebration ...jxhuC- J- 'f-r 1 n n .) HUGO GIDUZ French industry during the reconstruc tion period. "It would be completely See FRENCH HOUSE, page 4 . V ' A wiv If 1 CHAPEL HILL, N. C WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1946 indents Called Today Non-Returning Vets Should Notify Records Office c Veterans who are planning not to register for the next term of the sum mer quarter must notify the Central Records office (302 South) and the Veterans Administration of their in tention to interrupt their training. Form letters for this purpose may be obtained at the Veterans' Advisor's office in 208 South building. r Upon their return to the University J in September or later veterans must notify the Central Records office on VA form 572, giving the address to which they desire that their checks be mailed. . Form 572 can be secured at the Vet erans' Advisor's office or 119 Peabody. The carrying out of this procedure is imperative if veterans wish no delay in the resumption of their subsistence checks upon their return. O. W. Hungerford Redesigning Swain Hall Radio Center O. W. Hungerford, who was with the Office of Strategic Services in Washington during the war, has been j appointed technical- director of the new communications center to be set up in Swain Hall. He will be in charge of the redesigning of Swain to pro vide radio and photographic studios and of the organization of this work technically, and. will be director of the proposed state network of fre quency-modulation stations. Holding the equivalent rank of colonel with OSS, Mr. Hungerford was senior equipment engineer, chief of the 16 millimeter motion picture studio division, and assistant chief of the production unit in Washing ton. He was in charge of the produc tion of specialized motion pictures used by chiefs of staff for planning purposes, and of special training films of highly secretive nature. Mr. Hungerford, who is an active member of the Society of Motion Pic ture Engineers, was before the war president of "his own motion picture company, and has been associated at some time with all of the larger mo tion picture concerns. In 1937 he was radio operator and. commentator with an expedition of the American Mu seum of Natural History to South Africa, during which time he broad cast from points 500 miles away from civilization. Betty Smith Ends Second Novel Betty Smith of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" fame has just completed her second novel, which is also about Brooklyn and entitled "Tomorrow Will Be Better." According to the editor of Harpers, Ed Aswell, "the book will be our lead ing fiction the season of its publica tion in the early months of 1947." Mr. Aswell is known to many people here, particularly for his having handled Thomas Wolfe's later books. Miss Smith's next project will be the writing of a movie for Lazar Wechsler, the Swiss film producer, who came here to see her after read ing her first novel. She will go to Switzerland to write the film. In the New York "Times last Sun day A. H. Weiler wrote: "Having im pressed American moviegoers with his fine Swiss-made films, .'The Last Chance' and 'Marie Louise,' producer Lazar Wechsler departed for his homeland last Sunday with a deal for the services of Betty Smith, who will write 'an original story about Amer ica.' ; "According to Mr. Wechsler, the au thor of 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' will go to Switzerland in the fall to do the yarn dealing with 'American youth,' with filming slated to begin in this country in the spring. vf Will Discuss Of Increases in Dorm Rent Rise Is Part of Self -Financing Plan To Pay for Building New Dormitories Chancellor Robert B. House has called a mass meeting of the entire student body for today at 3:00 P.M. in Memorial hall. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the possibility of in creasing dormitory rents as a condition necessary to the building of new dormitories on the self-financing plan similar to the one ! used to construct Lenoir hall. Council Given Of Operation Student government officers yester day reached a decision permitting the student council to operate under the provisions of the new constitution. Previously this point had been "held in abeyance" pending results of a series of discussions being held by a joint student-administration commit tee studying the student government document. Up to this time, the powers of the Student Council have been under dis cussion. However, yesterday, it came to the attention of student leaders that the powers of the council were no longer in dispute. Members of the Men's and Student Council have met and decided on appeal procedure. The student council nas two main functions: to decide. on the constitu tionality of acts of the legislature; and to hear appeals from students con victed by lower courts. Jefferies em phasized the fact that students con victed by lower courts or by the stu dent council also have the right of appeal to a faculty committee. Four one-hour conferences have been held by the group studying the constitution since the document was first presented to the administration. Some progress has been made, par ticularly in defining terms and dis cussing what was intended by the dis puted provisions of the constitution. The major specific point taken up in the meetings was the student activi ties fee. Purpose of Meetings Purpose of the meetings is to find out the administration's specific ob jections to the constitution, to decide on what changes are necessary. The student members of the committee will then submit them to the student legis lature in a constitutional convention for debate and action. Dewey Dorsett, student body presi dent, was unable to attend the meet ing held yesterday in Dean Weaver's office. The members of the commit tee agreed to postpone further action until the beginning of the second sum mer term. SCHW Will Discuss Price Control Bill The SCHW will meet this evening in the Horace Williams Lounge of Gra ham Memorial at 7:30. Further dis cussion will take place on the present situation of price control. All students interested are invited. AVC Meeting : The AVC will meet next Tuesday evening at 7:30 in the Presbyterian Church. Full Powers Exam Schedule " FRIDAY, JULY 19 8:00 A.M.-10:00 for 8:00 A.M. classes 11:00 A.M.- 1:00 for 9:00 A.M. classes 3:00 P.M.- 5:00 for 10:00 A.M. classes SATURDAY, JULY 20 8:00 A.M.-10:00 for 11:00 A.M. classes 11:00 A.M.- 1:00 for 12:00 noon classes 3:00 P.M.- 5:00 for afternoon classes and all others not provided for in the above schedule NOTE: Examinations for double-hour courses will be governed by the hour of the first class meeting. EDWIN S. LANIER, Director, Central Records Office. I NEWS: Vet Drive Starts Student Body Meets Experimentals Tonight NUMBER 10 Possibility Chancellor House announced that the increase in rent would probably be about 50, or around $3.00 per person per month. He further stated that if the dormitories were '. to be built on the self-financing plan, the bids would have to be in by July 24. Will Answer Questions Scheduled to be present at the meet ing are President Frank P. Graham, Chancellor Robert B. House, Con troller W. D. CarmicKael, Jr., Busi ness Manager C. E. Teague, and mem bers of the Building Committee of the Board of Trustees, who will an swer all questions concerning the various aspects of the proposed build ing program. Since the action to be taken will affect every student living on the campus, 'the Board of Trustees ex pressed the desire to secure the re actions of the students before taking any action. At the meeting every stu dent will be given a chance to ex press his opinion on the matter. It was pointed out by the trustees that if the dormitories were not con structed under, the self-financing plan, construction would have to be post poned until after January, 1947, when the State Legislature is scheduled to meet. Doubt Legislature Approval During an interview yesterday, C. E. Teague, business manager and as sistant controller, expressed doubt of the State Legislature appropriating the necessary funds to erect the five proposed dormitories in view of the fact that the erection of a medical school here is probable and so many extra classrooms will be needed. rtIf we postpone the construction for legislative action, I am afraid that building prices will soar higher than they are now," remarked Mr. Teague. He approximated that at present building prices the dormitories would cost about $4,300 per room. He further pointed out that even though the administration awaits legislative action, the buildings very probably would be erected under the self-financing plan anyway. In calling the meeting Chancellor House said, "I want to confer with the student body on the possibility of increased rents as a condition neces sary to the building of new dormi tories under the self-financing plan. The proposed increase will be about 50, or around $3.00 per student per month." Dorm Residents Asked To Turn in Room Keys W. L. Smith, manager of men's dormitories, asks that all residents of men's dormitories not planning to return for the second summer term bring their keys to office 02 in the basement of South building before they leave. "There is still a scarcity of metal for making additional keys and the cooperation of all students will be appreciated," stated Smith.
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