THE DAILY TAR HEEL
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1946
Peaceful Carolina CamBus Resembles. Wartime Boom Town
Page Two
Editor's Note: The follovring sur
vey was made by a DTH reporter on
the opening day of the quarter. His
accurate observations and interesting
sidelights on one of the current prob
lems of the day should provide readers
with an insight into the tremendous
'job that is being done on the Carolina
campus.
By Roy C Moose
"Strikes and shortages of every
thing from wall board to janitors have
thrown the housing projects into con
fusion. We know that there will be
many inconveniences, but if -the stud
ents will bear with us for a month we
are sure things will be organized to
properly house all enrollees," explain
ed local housing officials in summing
up the congested housing situation
here.
And congested it is, for in the ..past
week the lovely, peaceful Carolina
campus has been transformed, into
something resembling a wartime -boom
town. But it will not turnout weapons
of war. Instead workers ;of peace will
emerge as finished products.
Available Span Filled
Every available bit of space is now
filled with trailers, barracks, and ev
en tents which lend a militant atmos
phere strangely recalling days of It
aly and other overseas posts. From
rural districts and cities alike the
students have come, some bearing
their lodging with them like tor
toises on the highways, others fran
tically ringing doorbells only to hear,
"Sorry we're all filled."
Those students firmly entrenched
in dormitories are indeed the lucky
ones for the late-comers are being
housed anywhere that they will be
able to survive the winter. Places
Tannine from attics and cellars of
homes in Chapel Hill to the basements
of dormitories like Steele to the old
"Tin Can" where formerly students
labored through hours of physical ed
ucation are being used. Row upon row
of double-decked beds, tables, and bu
reaus fill spaces heretofore used as
storage.
Rising like a munif icient benef a'ctor
to married couples is "Victory Vil
lage," when complete, will consist of
sixteen H-type houses resembling
long, narrow barracks divided into
eight individual apartments; eighty
pre-fabricated United Kingdom houses
which are individual four-room homes
originally built for our British allies
under lease-lend, and twelve two
story former Army barracks which
will house 72 families. A total of 6oA
apartments will comprise the village
all of which will be assigned to mar
ried students.
Fully Equipped Kitchen
Each apartment will consist of a
living room, either one or two bed
rooms, and a fully equipped kitchen
boasting a large sink, ice-box, stove
and heater.
Although the housing project wa3
scheduled for completion August SO,
a strike by the plumbers and an acute
shortage of wall board held up con
struction. Consequently, married cou
ples who were assigned apartments
were unable to move into them. As
a result they remain in Whitehead
being rushed to completion and the
dormitory which was assigned to sin
gle students. Until the project is com
pleted single students are being
housed temporarily in the "Tin Can."
Most of the 16 H-type barracks are
families living there are enthusiastic
over the project. As Mr. and Mrs.
T. L. Crittenden of Wilmington stat
ed, "We think it's wonderful.. The
apartments are much nicer than we
had expected In fact, we think they
are better than the ones most fam
ilies found in Chapel Hill." Asked
about heating, Crittenden said, "We
have a coal stove which is O. K. once
you get the hang of how it works."
The only objection voiced was about
the thick, sticky mud that prevails
throughout the camp when it rains.
"And in Chapel Hill it rains every
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sarily those of The Daily Tar iieei.
BILL WOESTENDIEK
ROLAND GIDUZ
IRWIN SMALLWOOD ...
BILL SELIG
BURTON MYERS
"Associatb Editor: Ray Connor.
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Shipley Bob Morrison, Sam Whitehall. Helen Highwater.
Night Sports Editors: Howard Merry. Bob Goldwater, Jim Pharr.
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"Homes on Back"
Happy and free from housing prob
lems are the families who "brought
their , homes on their back," those liv
ing in the trailer camp located a half
mile out on the Pittsboro road. The
large camp will accommodate about
90 trailers, providing bathing and
laundrying facilities as well as elec
tricity. Residents have been indus
triously working to make their trail
er and plot of ground "home com
fortable." The camp is dotted with
tiny gardens, lawns, and white picket
fences.
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Herren, caught
cleaning their lawn, expressed the
feeling of all trailer dwellers, "Our
trailer is the smallest of the lot but
we would prefer it to any apartment
because of the privacy and the at
mosphere of having your own home.
And besides, we think we're saving
Indicative of the ingenuity display
ed by the trailer residents are Doris
and Charles Thomas from Athens,
Tenn., who not only brought their
trailer but also their own meat! les,
we went home and killed one of the
cows on the farm. Now we have plen
ty of meat, including steaks," said
Doris while waving around a frying
pan full of those steaks.
Single Student Trailers
Trailer camps for single students
have sprung up on the campus pro
per. .At present there are three camps,
one behind Swain Hall, another be
hind Battle-Vance-Pettigrew dormi
tory, and the third one back of the
Journalism buildingrElectricity is pro
vided, but the students must go to
dormitories for bathing facilities.
Davis Flinchum of Julian, solved
his own individual problem by pitch
ing a regular 8x12 tent behind the
Journalism building. "I built it my
self, floor and all, and brought it
down on a trailer. They gave me per
mission to set it up and then enroll
ed me in school. It's different from
the Navy but I like it," said Flinchum.
Cfcuonset Huts
To alleviate the crowded conditions j
of sinele students, 36 Quonset Huts
are rapidly nearing completion on the
old Macadam tennis court back oi tne
Monogram Club. Thirty of the huts
will be living Quarters, each contain-
in r twentv students. Three will De
study halls and three will consist of
latrines. Single students now living m
the basement of Steele dormitory and
thP "Tin Can" will be given pre
ference in the 600-bed project. The
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huts will be ready for occupancy with
in a month. If these prove satisfac
tory, housing officials stated that oth
ers may be procured.
Alexander dormitory has been clear
ed of married students and fresh
men now have filled it, being placed
three to a room. Whitehead, now con
taining married students, will be
emptied as soon as the housing pro
jects are completed and freshmen now
in the lm Can ' will, be assigned
there. Nash and Miller halls, the bar
racks behind the Carolina Inn, are
filled to capacity with single stud
ents. Students housed in the base
ments of dormitories will be given
their choice of remaining there or go
ing to Quonset Huts. Students unable
to get rooms on the campus are com
muting from as far away as Burling
ton and Durham. Still others are be
ing packed into already crowded fra
ternities and sororities.
Three New Dorms
The hope of 1947 is the three new
dormitories being constructed around
Alexander dormitory. Work is sched
uled to be completed in the summer
of 1947 and it is expected that the
dormitories will be ready for occupan
cy by the fall of 1947. Each dormi
tory, to be patterned after Alexan
der, will contain 96 rooms, housing
3 students a room. A total of 864
students will be accommodated. These
three new dormitories coupled with
the graduating class will mean ac
commodations for many new students
for the fall of 1947.
Presently Congested
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the present congested housing diffi
culties. During that time both the
Quonset huts and "Victory Village"
will be completed giving better facil
ities to both married students and the
single students now enduring make
shift quarters.
Without being overly optimistic the
administration said they believed that
soon adequate facilities will be found
JletteM.
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Dear Editor,
This is an open letter to anyone in
the administrative position controlling
the seating of spectators at the foot
ball games in Kenan Stadium. I can
be reached at Box 1091.
Can you tell me why Carolina stu
dents never got any closer to the cen
ter section of the grand-stands than
the forty-five yard line on one side
of the field? I had the impression
that students were the school, the sup
port of a team, that the team was
theirs. I remember when students sat
from one thirty yard line to another,
not lost from the cheering section be
yond the goal zone, not sitting in
temporary bleachers, not standing.
Come along, gentlemen, the dollar
sign can't be worth breaking the faith
of your students. Remember the Geor
gia Tech incident. Write above ad
dress.
ART GOLBY.
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". . . the hope of 19U7 . . . 865 students ivill be accommodated ..."
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. now we have plenty of
for all students and that Carolina
would again settle to normal life. As
for the students, they all chimed,
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