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Serials Dept. Chapel Hill, N. C. 8-31-49 WEATHER EDITORIALS I Participants, Please Cans In Basement i For Coeds Benefit Fair and slightly warmer. NUMBER 120 QLUME LVII United Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C. TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1949 Phone F-3371 f-3361 larnanon starters asuir ive Nod To Kerr St'TLn ffi) .n Tf-o-n yrrW Somicbrs Fickddl ly CP Fir 1m life Jn Editorship Race Members of the Tarnation staff, Carolina humor maga zine, yesterday endorsed Tom Kerr, CP-SP candidate for f) the magazine's editorship in the spring elections Thirteen members of the staff : signed a petition supporting Kerr, currently managing editor. In their petition, they stated: "We the undersigned, having worked in many various capaci ties on Tarnation over the past two years with Tom Kerr as managing editor, do hereby en thusiastically endorse his nomina tion for the editorship of Tarna tion for the coming school year; ji and on tne Dasis or , ms souna, (I skillful, faithful and efficient a management, we ao pieage our I full support, not only to his (j campaign, but also to his produc- I tion of an ever-better Tarnation r .. i i c u : i in tne nappy event ux uk eicu- .,tion." Headed by Tom Wharton and Bob Smith, current co-editors of the humor magazine, the petition included, A. Frank Moore, Jack Taylor, Bert Hawley, Bill Bostic, James A. Mills, Dick Stoker, Ted Duval. Bob Sturdivant, Jack Niles, Bunnie Davis and Steve j Horn. Bob Smith, co-editor, in. re leasing the staff endorsement, said, "Tom has been the mainstay of the magazine as long as I can remember. He knows everything there is to know about the tech nical end of magazine production. By this, I mean financial intrica cies as well as layout and print-, ing. ' ; "He has worked industriously and faithfully for two years and has been hand in hand with pro fessional shops working with us. For this reason, we of Tarnation feel that he is the only man on the campus who merits considera tion for the job of editor next year." Kerr is running against Charlie Burns and Lem Whitsett, un endorsed candidates for co-editorship of the magazine. Girls Offer Aid To Fire Victims FARMVILLE, Va., March 7. (UP) Girl students at the State Teachers college here today shar ed clothes and beds with 70 fresh men girls who lost everything but their lives in a disastrous dormitory fire early yesterday. The pajama-ciad girls fled to the lawn shortly after dawn, when great tongues of flame burst through the upper windows and roof of the building. Occu pants of the top floor had moved out earlier, when fumes from an unknown source were noted there. 4 Run Ed ' Jenny For Senior Cresr IN At Dawn 1 ff 1 J. MELVILLE BROUGHTON Rites Are Set For Broughton In Afternoon Nation Mourns Senator's Death RALEIGH, March 7 (UP) The body of J. Melville Brough ton came home for the last time at 7:10 o'clock this morning. The 60-year-old North Carolina Senator and former Governor died" suddenly of a heart attack yesterday, only three months af ter he reached his life-long goal Dr. Frank P. Graham said loday that "in the death of Sen. J. Melville Broughton North Carolina has lost one of her most beloved citizens and nobly useful leaders." "America has lost a leader on the very threshold of high promise and dedication lo his country ai a critical time. "In the threefold University, we have a deep sense of per sonal loss. The University mourns with his family and his state." UP J Candidate Is In Legislature, On Council Nominee Is First On Class Ballot The University party an nounced yesterday that it will run Ed Tenney, Jr. of Chapel Hill for the office of president of the senior class in the spring general elections. Tenney's nomination is the first to be released on the class officer slate. - He is a member of the Student legislature where he serves on the Parliamentary committee and is a member of the Student council of the Greater University A commerce major, Tenney is a member of Jess Dedmond's Coalition cabinet, the Town Men's association and served as an orientation counselor this year. Tenney is a past chairman of the Student party, but ' walked out in December during a polit ical rift within the party. He now holds a seat on the University party steering committee as the representative of Victory Village During the war, Tenney served as a sergeant in the Marine Corps serving more than three years overseas.- He is treasurer of the ! Delta Sigma Pi fraternity pledge class. President Valkyries Tap onor Member H , ' ANNE CARLTON of election to the United States senate. Today he was to have made his first speech on the sen ate floor, in the Southern fili buster fight. : Instead he was coming home to the city where he headed North Carolina's government through four critical war years and maintained his law offices han a Quarter of a century. Broughton's body was to lie in state today, andt funeral ser vices will be held at 3 ociock afternoon at the Tab Farmville's fire department got Baptist church, where he to the campus in short oratu, M cun(jay school befqre go and firemen said the girls were j . Washington. Burial will be in Montlawn Memorial Park, 'plained Grads Must Pay Yearbook Charge A charge of $1.50 will be levied upon all spring quarter graduates who wish to have copies of the Yackety Yack, it was announced today by Ted Fussell, business manager of the yearbook. All seniors who will graduate this month and will not be in Chapel Hill during the spring quarter have been asked to con tact the Yack office before Fri day between 2 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Explaining the $1.50 fee, Fus- sel said that the money would cover the regular student fee for the spring quarter. He said that an additional 50 cents will be charged if students wish to have the yearbook mailed. Fussel warned against waiting until the summer to request that a Yack be mailed: "Mail requests for Yacks may not be answered until next fall since staff per sonnel may not be here this sum mer. Therefore, it is imperative that all March graduates come by the office this week to make necessary arrangements, he ex- Compulsory Coed Aleefs Ruled Illegal Council Votes Unconstitutional ' The Student council yesterday passed unanimously on a ruling which would make compulsory mass meetings called by Coed Senate for other than "orienta tion" purposes unconstitutional, Chairman Bill Mackie announced. The council held that the word ing of the constitution which giv es Coed senate power to "organize and conduct" mass meetings does not give them the power to make those meetings compulsory. However, a second ruling was passed which stated that com nulsorv coed mass meetings are I r-nnst it.ut.innal when rfonp in co operation with the campus orien tation committee. This was to be interpreted to include the com pulsory meetings called for by the present Coed elections bill. Last week Lindsay Tate re quested that the council hand Carlton, Currie Receive Honor In a special mid-winter tap ping this morning, black robed and hooded figures paraded the campus, bearing candles and tol ling gongs, to tap one coed and one honorary member into Valky ries, woman's honor society. . The two tapped in this morn- j ing's special ceremonies were Anne Carlton, senior from At- lanta, Ga., and Gay Currie, hon orary member, from Chapel Hill. Regular Valkyrie tappings are held in the spring and fall of each year. Limited to two per cent of the women student body, Valkyrie membership is based on leader ship, scholarship, character and service, and is the highest honor ever given a coed at the Univers ity. Anne is house president of Alderman dormitory and a mem ber of Woman's interdormitory council; an active member of the YWCA cabinet, where she served as an organizer for the Cosmo politan club, as program chair man for the Montreat winter re treat; a member of Baptist Stu dent Union, which she represents on the Council for Religion in Life; a student adviser and a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. Gay has served as executive secretary of the YW since Sep tember. Previously she was With the Orange county public health office in Chapel Hill, bhe is a graduate of Agnes Scott college and of Columbia University's School of Nursing. She is the only honorary member tapped so far this year.' ominee For Major s Las? bsts Candidate Is Present IRC President, Will Also Run for Legislature Post GAY CURRIE Council Meets, Plans Program For Next Fall Top Honors Taken By 'B' Dormitory 'Heading the . list of scholastic ratings in the 22 men's dormi tories is "B" dorm, with an aver- down a decision concerning the a6e of 2-774 excited, but not panicky, as they streamed out of the building. Many had their hair in curlers. and were choking in the heavy smokf;. The building burned out and the walls collapsed, but firemen summoned from several nearby towns including Lynchburg pre vented the flames from heavily damaging the college chapel and main building. Only a charred viiitc column and part of a wall v.xre left of the dormitory-auditorium. Dr. Dabney S. Lancaster, prcs H"nt of the college, said the building was covered by between $80,000 and $90,000 in insurance. He billeted the tirls on their classmates vestcrdav. and said V ur none would be hampered in her school work because of the loss of books ;.nH clothes. Loss was t 'it $100,000, the building was constitutionality of compulsory mass meetings. Her petition was brought about by the action of the senate in making compulsory a meeting on Feb. 25 in con junction with the Women's Inter collegiate Government forum. Yesterday's meeting of the Stu dent council was the second meet ing called to discuss the consti tutionality of compulsory coed mass meetings. Emily Baker, ' (See COUNCIL, page 4) The Men's Interdormitory coun cil in cooperation with the office of the Dean of Students prepared the scholastic averages and rel ative rank of the men's dormi tories for the fall quarter. The alK dormitory average is 3.088. The figures are based on the scholastic records of undergrad- Student Assembly Voted Unfavorable A recommendation for a Great er University day to be held at the University next fall on the dav of the State football game, was discussed at the meet ing of the Greater University Student council at the Woman's college in Greensboro Sunday afternoon. Martha Fowler, chair man of the council, presided over the meeting. The proposal to have the coun cil sponsor the state student leg islature was brought out of com mittee with an unfavorable re port. A measure designed to obtain more quality points for seniors arrying extra-curricular activi ties received a favorable vote and was referred to a special committee. An earlier proposal that copies of the constitution be drawn up in longhand, on parchment, sign ed by the charter members of the council and copies presented to the libraries of each school, received a favorable vote by the council Orchestra Leader Schinhan Had It Tough With Talk from Four Oaks, will seek the office of secretary-treasurer of the student body on the Student party slate, it was announced yesterday. Sander's nomination completes the three-party slates for the top slots in the executive branch of student government. The line-up is as follows: SP Mackie, Hor ton, Sanders for president, vice president and secretary-treasurer respectively. UP Gordon, Leon ard and Williams. CP Long, Talley and Williams (doubly en dorsed with the UP). A transfer from State, San ders entered school here in the fall of 1947. He is president of the International Relations club, a member of the Dialectic sen ate, the Students for Democratic Action and has served since Janu ary as the IRC's representative on the Carolina forum. In addition to holding the spot on the SP ticket for secretary treasurer of the student body, Sanders will appear on the bal lot for member of the Student legislature on the SP ticket from men's dorm district two. Don Shropshire yesterday made the following statement on San ders' nomination: "The announcement by the Stu dent party that John Sanders will be their nominee for the post of secretary-treasurer is an appro priate recognition for a man who is one of the most improved men in student affairs on the campus today. "Sanders has demonstrated his ability, efficiency and willingness to put devotion to the task at hand ahead of his own personal desires in a variety of positions in which he has been of service. There is no doubt that this same rare conviction will enable him to make the job he seeks one of the reallv vital parts of a student government which needs more men like him." 3 X i 1 3 JOHN SANDERS Phi Eta Sigma Photo Is Ready Members of Phi Eta Sigma who uate residents only. Averages wisn to see tne picture hwuc , were computed on the basis of initiation services may see it at rosters. as submitted by the dorm- jDean trnest MacKies omce ou in com By W. P. Covington III "The Beggar's Opera," which olays Thursday and Friday nights 1 J ... n ...;n fnoturn Q Memorial nan, wui - plete 18 piece orchestra unaer . r r- To T Srhinhan. the baton qi ui. - "".r Born in Vienna, Dr. Schinhan has behind him many years of professional conducting of operas. As conductor with the famous German Opera company he came to America just prior to World War 1 With the outbreak of the war, Dr. Schinhan found him self stranded in a strange land S could neither speak nor understand the language. Be cause of the language barrier he was unable to obtain several ccllent professional 0 ex offers in New York. A friend in Cincinnati came tain a job there as organist in one of the churches. He did not have to know English to hold this job. While there he began to learn the American tongue, and today although the Vienese accent is still prominent, he shocks his students and the cast of Beggar's Opera by telling them how not to murder the King's English. For a while he worked in Hollywood for Griffith Films, composing, arranging and con ducting music for the silent films. When asked how he liked Holly wood, Dr. Schinhan replied sim ply but emphatically "No!" He came to Carolina in 1935 from San Francisco conservatory. Dr. Schinhan is now worKing with Dr. Brown of Duke univers ity's folk-lore laboratory prepar ing a volume on folk music as' part of a series of volumes on the subject. The Beggar's Opera orchestra personnel includes some of the finest musicians on. campus, ac cording to Dr. Schinhan: Willis Gates, David McAdams,, William Tritt, Sydney Von Lehen, Nancy Smith, Frances Simmons, Wil ton Mason and Bradley Stroup, violins; Dorothy Alden, W. L. Benton, and James Andrews, vio las; Efrim Fruchtman and Will iam Klenz, 'cellos; Eugene Stry ker, string bass; John Kiser, flute; David Serrins, oboe; and John O'Steen, piano and harpsichord. The Beggar's Opera is being produced by Phi Mu. Alpha and1 Sigma Alpha Iota, music fratern ities in cooperation with the mus ic department, Sound and Fury and The Carolina Playmakers. itory advisers. Grimes is second in scholastic rating with an average of 2.783, and the other dormitories are as follows: Battle, 2.808; Old West, 2.844; Pettigrew, 2.924; Vance, 2.933; Whitehead, 2.976; Alex ander, 2.986. Ruffin, 3.016; Manley, 3.052; Aycock, 3.056; "C" dormitory, 3.060; 3.106: Steele. 3.129: Old East 3.161; Graham, 3.171; Mangum, 3.216; Everett, 3.263; Stacy, 3.271; Nash 3.500; and Miller hall, 3.825. South building. Foushee to Talk On Decorating Mrs. John Foushee will speak nn "Interior Decorating Prob lems" at the meeting of the Car olina Dames club tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the main lounge of Graham Memorial. To Hear Reports Phi Assembly Elections Are Set For Meeting Tonight in Hall Sneaker Dave Sharpe an-! A" dorm, 3.066; Lewis, J nounced yesterday that-the Phil anthropic assembly will hold its quarterly elections in Phi hall, New East, at 7:30 tonight. Preceding the elections, com mittee reports will be presented. Speaker pro-tempore Peter Gern3 will give a cumulative report for the Ways and Means committee, and summaries of the activities of the Carolina forum, the De bate council, and the Di-Phi committee. Treasurer Bryan Griswold will account for the assembly's finan cial status. Retiring officers are Speaker Sharpe, . Speaker pro-tempore Gems, Treasurer Griswold, Clerk Bernard Plemmons, Parliamenta ! rian Hugh Griffin, Critic Charles Bill Crurchficld To Teach Dancing Bill Crutchf ield, University graduate -student and assistant on the football coaching staff, will teach the ballroom dancing class in the Rendezvous room tonight at 7:30 in the absence of Lib Stoney. Crutchfield, who taught danc ing at Woollen gymnasium last summer, will continue Lib's pro gram of specializing in the rum ba, fox trot and the shag. Britt, and Sergeant-at-arms Em ily Baker. In last Tuesday night's ex ecutive session the Phi voted unanimously to join the Dialec tic senate in giving an annual award to an alumnus or faculty member "in recognition of his contributions to society, his achievements in his chosen field CP Releases Nominee List Of Legislators Dormitory Slate Includes 14 Men Student legislature nomina tions for the men's dormitory dis tricts were announced yesterday by Campus party chairman Banks Talley. Four candidates were nom inated in district one, which in cludes the dormitories in the lower quadrangle. Nominated for 12-months terms were Dan Ash- by, junior Chi Psi from Raleigh; Jack Rock, freshman debater from Kinston; and Charlie Trent, freshman Student legislator from Reidsville. Hal Darden, rising junior m cnemistry irom ur- lando,' Fla., was nominated for a six-months term. Three men were nominated for 12-months terms and one for a six-months term in district two, which includes the upper quad rangle and C dormitory. Nom inated for 12-months terms were Jim Montague, sophomore Phi Delta Theta pledge from Oxford; Toby Selby, freshman member of the Dialectic senate from Goldsboro; and. Ed Williams, freshman Chi Phi pledge from Seven Springs. Bill Jones, jun ior Chi Psi pledge from Raleigh, was nominated for the tix months term. Three candidates for 12-months terms were nominated from dis trict three which includes the ' quonset huts, Alexander, A and B dormitories. They are Bill Ed wards, freshman Chi Psi pledge from Raleigh; J. C. Rush, junior Sigma Chi pledge from Rocky Mount; and Bob Smith, freshman Student legislator from New berry, S. C. In district four which includes Battle - Vance - Pettigrew, Old East, Old West, and Steele dor mitories, two 12-months nom inations were made. Nominated for these two seats were Jim of endeavor, and his services to tarian of student lcgisIaturc ineumveiwij. uJfrom Willard; and Al Winn, jun- UUTing tne wim-ei me ii discussed Bill Robertson's dis missal from the Daily Tar Heel, coed drinking restrictions, park ing restrictions, publications fee's, the tuition raise, and FEPC. The traditional Di-Phi debate was re newed with the Phi taking a two to one judges' decision while supporting a statewide liquor referendum. ior chairman of the Elections board from St. Petersburg, Fla. In district five, Ed Best, fresh man clerk of the Student legis lature from Goldsboro, was nom inated for a 12-months term. District five includes Whitehead dormitory, and Nash and Miller halls. to his rescue and neipeu xux v,w years old.