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WEATHER Partly cloudy and colder. Ex pected high in the 50'$. TURNOVER Hail and farewell at the middle f the school year. See editorials, page 2. VOL. LVII NO. 88 Complete VP) Wire Service CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 2, 1957 Offices in Graham Memorial FOUR PAGES THIS ISSUl! i mwh pr.- 1 IS A. . ..KlTT W IK I r Work Has Begun ri Hospital-Wing $300,000 Psychiatric Wing Will Provide Research Space Construction on i new $300,000 wing on the Psychiatric Center oi Memorial Hospital has gotten underway. The addition to the Center will provide more space for research and service functions. Contracts for the new two story addition to South Wing, which houses the Center, were awarded on Jan. 3. . The new addition is located on the east side of South Wing. It will occupy a ground area that was formerly used as a j recreation, area. The new addition 1 will measure approximately 36 by 70 feet. The money allotted to the pro ject will provide for both build ing and new equipment. One half of the $300,000 came from the State of North Carolina and the other 50 per cent was j furnished by the Federal Govern- j mer.t under the Hill-Burton Act. The Hill - Burton Act provides j matching funds for the construe- j tion of hospitals and other health j facilities. ! : i The new structure is scheduled j to be completed by Oct.. 1957. j As a part of the project, extens- j ive alterations will be made in the existing two lower floors oi j South 'Wing, which is a five-story I building connected to N. C. Me- j morial Hospital by an enclosed j passageway. The present unfinished ground floor of South Wing will be made into laboratory space, offices and interview rooms. Research labora tories to be built include those with facilities for bio-chemical in vestigation for electro-physiological studies. Also, space for th detailed examination ' of patients for both investigational and teach- j ing purposes will be provided. j The ground floor of the new ad- j dition will be largely . occupied. by L "an extension of the occupational therapy area. One large room here 1 is designed to have many func- j tions including that of an auditor- j him for larse conferences and i classes. . On the present first floor of South Wing, there will be extens ive alteration both to increase the number of treatment rooms and to improve the soundproofing for greater privacy. The corresponding floor of the j new wing will have a number of j offices and interviewing rooms to j extend the area of the present occupational adult and child psy chiatry area. Salisbury Editor Will Speak Here . The University Press Club will meet Monday night to hear an in formal talk by Spencer Murphy, editor of the Salisbury Post. The mseting will bo held at the home of Walter Spearman, 418 Whitehead Circle, at 7:30 p.m. Transportation will be available at Bynum Hall at 7:15 p.m. Refreshments will be served. All Journalism students and stu dents planning to major in Journ alism have been urged to attend by 'President Charlie Johnson. Murphy graduated from UNC in 1925 with an A.B. He has won state awards several times for his editorial writing. While attending UNC, he was editor of the Yack ety Yack and also worked on the staffs of The Daily Tar Heel, the Carolina Buccaneer and the Car olina Magazine. He was one oi the founders of the Carolina Buc caneer, a UNC humor magazine. GM'S SLATE Organizations who wish to con tinue their room reservations at Graham Memorial should contact the GM office, according to Dir ector Linda Mann. Many organizations who had reservations for the fall semes ter have failed to renew them for the spring semester, she said, Drop-Add Period Ends Mon. Registration and admissions are being concluded as the new se mester gets underway, according to University officials! Registration along with drop adding for the spring semester will end at 4:30 Monday after noon. - About 115 new students have been accepted for admission to the general college. Roughly two thirds of the students are trans ferring from other schools, ac cording to the Admissions Office. Approximately 100 former students will be re-enrolling in the Uni versity. The Graduate School will grad uate 55 students. Eighty-three new scholars will enter the graduate school this semester. The Division of Health Affairs did not disclose any figures at the present time. : Next week the office of Central Records will release final figures on the spring enrollment. GM Calendar Distributed By TOM BYRD The Graham Memorial Calendar for the spring semester is now ready for distribution. This repre sent.. the first time that the cal endar has been ready on the first day of a new semester. Linda Mann, GM Director, prais ed the Calendar Committee for this accomplishment. "They started ear lier and pushed harder," she said. "Not only is this one on time, but it is more complete than previous calendars." The calendar is published and di.'Lributed by the Calendar Com mittee of GM Activities Board. Tom Lambeth is president of the Board. Esther Ballentine and Lloyd Shaw are chairmen of the Calendar Com mittee. Early in the fall semester all the departments of the University were asked for a schedule of their events for the coming semester. A combin ed schedule of campus activities was gathered and was ready for the publisher immediately after ChrL-tmas. This semester 4500 copies of the calendar were printed for distri bution. news in 2F UN, Israeli Forces Clash CARIO (AP) The United Na tions announced a bloodless armed t&ash took place yesterday be tween an Israeli army patrol and I a Swedish patrol of the U.N. ! Emergency Force at the Gaza ! Strip. It was the first shooting report ed between UNEF and Israeli troops. The official account from the U.N. Information Center in Cairo (and the Israeli version in Jerusalem) said there were no casualties. (An Israeli army spokesman said an Israeli border patrol had (See WORLD NEWS, Page 3) Spring C S MlQ) ward 1 Gras Her 5 V.. . LOUIS ARMSTRONG Satcluno on the hill r t c acts V- MITCHELL RUFF DUO ... jot Carolina progressives Noted Pianist Is Featured Artist In Petite Pianist Helen McGraw will be the featured artist in Les Petites Musicales concert tomorrow night at 8. Sponsored by Graham Memorial Activities Board, the recital will be held in the main lounge of Graham Memorial. As an interpreter of modern music, Miss McGraw has played extensively in this country and abroad, in concerts, as soloist with orchestras, and with other artists in chamber music. Her American tours have brought her to Chapel Hill on a number of occasions. As a music student, Helen Mc- Graw studied under the Russian pianist, Alexander Sklarevski, at the Peabody Conservatory in Bal- timore, where she was granted pi- ano scholarships and awarded its Artists Diploma. She later contin- ued her studies in Paris. Winner of the Walter Naumburg Foundation, Miss McGraw was given the honor of opening the first annual Festival of Ameri- can Music, held at the National Gallery in Washington in 1944 and broadcast to South America. Ths success of the program led to her reengagement to open the second Festival in 1945. In selecting her music Miss McGraw frequently chooses to present the first performances of contemporary works. While not neglecting the great works of the past, she- seeks out the best .of new piano music. Highlighting tomorrow night's program will be a work which concert audiences in this country have had few opportunities to hear, the Sixth Sonata by Serge Prokofieff. Critics have termed the sixth sonata as "one of the few monumental and philosophical ly profound works for piano writ- M 0 it or Ns - .- ..-.N-i i Musical e ten in recent years gram also includes ." The pro-J works by 1 r ; L ! t j r f ; ; j i j ill i . ,. ... v WIS! Cover Event To Be Biggest !ln Hill Social History By MARY ALYS VOORHEES 'Monitor, N'liC's weekend radio, will he at Chapel Hill Feh. 15-10" to cover the Carolina Mardi Gras, according to an announcement made yesterday hy George Ragsdale, Ger man Club vice president. The nationwide radio will record at various intervals during the dance weekend and play back the entire record ing the following weekend. Ragsdale pointed out that this was the first college dance in this area to he covered hy Mon itor, to his knowledge. t Expected by -Mardi Gras chairman Jim Armstrong and Ragdale to he the biggest social weekend in the history of the University, the event will be spon- sored by the German Club in obser- vance of Winter Germans and GM AB in celebration of its 25th an niversary. According to Armstrong, GMAB had been planning a dance for the entire student body for over a yeir and therefore arranged to be co spoijsors with the German Club for the Winter Germans. A$ a highlight of the weekend, rhe , co-sponsors will present the music of Louior Armstrong and the Mitchell-Ruff Duo. Two types of tickets will "be av ailable for the weekend events: " The GMAB ticket which sells for $2 per couple will entitle the holder to attend the concert by the Mitchell-Ruff Duo- Friday from 8 p.m. to 10 in Memorial Hall and the .formal dance Saturday from 8 p.m. to 12 in Woollen Gym fea turing the music of Louis Arm strong and his All Stars. German Club members will use their bids, which are for the Louis Armstrong concert Saturday from 3 p.m. to 5 in Memorial Hall and hte formal dance at Woollen Gym Saturday night. . ..- - ins Armstrong concert on Saturday afternoon will be for J German Club members only. How ever, German Club members muy attend the Mitchell-Ruff Duo Ccn-! cert Friday by purchasing the $2 ' GMAB ticket in addition to the German Club bid. GMAB tickekts are now on sale (See MARDI GRAS, Page 3) 1 Tomorrow Bach, Beethoven, Ravel and Bar-. tok. I f 4 MISS HELEN MCGRAW . . pianist here tomorrow APO Available For Sale Of Texts The Alpha Phi Omege - Book Exchange Will be open through Tuesday for students "who want to buy and sell textbooks. The exchange, located in Gra ham . Memorial Cabinet Room from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily except Sunday. . There is a good selection of books in most of the depart ments, according to an announce ment from APO. Students selling books have been asked to bring in their books and estimate themselves what they think the books are worth. They have been asked to return on Tuesday to collect money from those books sold. APO is a national service fra ternity and is a non-profit or ganization. ROSENBLUTH ONLY SENIOR Carolina's great basketball team should be even better. in 1958. The ! only senior listed on the present roster is All-America Lennie Ro senbluth.. Night No admission is charged f I the concert. Village Residents efum To No Active Campaign Planned For Better Housing Conditions By PHYLLIS MAULTSBY Sixteen families displaced by the fire which gutted a heating unit in Victory Village have moved back into their homes on the heels of a clean-up job. The heating unit fire, which flared up late on the af ternoon of Thursday, January 19, left the housing units temporarily without heat and caused considerable soot dam- age. According to Housing Director James Wadsworth, 1 everyone co operated in the house cleaning. The families moved out, and the in teriors of the homes were clean ed and then repainted. The University Laundry Dept. washed all the soiled garments and linen which would stand soap and water treatment, and a local dry cleaner provided free cleaning ser vice. Lenoir Dining Hall reduced the price of meal for those af fected by the fire. Students unable to find tempor ary lodging with friends in Victory Village or in Chapel Hill were sheltered in the old Institute of Government Bldg. on Franklin St. Victory Village Manager P. L. Burch said the heating system had rigadooiV Auditions Here Monday The Carolina Playmakers, UNC j drama group, will hold tryouts for their March production of the j popular musical show. "Briga- j doon", on Monday at 4 and 7:30 ' p.m. in Memorial Hall. Director-1 choreographer Foster Fitz-Simons, UNC Dramatic Art professor, and Mllif5l1 niroMnr Xriltn tnonn f UNC music professor, will conduct the auditions.,.. T; The production, includes, about t?n speaking parts, including one male and one female nging - aft - ing rcle. Twelve dancers and a r , . ; ,.,- .,, needed, as well as some children as extras. - , Copies of the script of ''Briga- doon" are on reserve in the li brary. The production will be giv en at Memorial Hall the weekend of March 1, 2, 3. Book Exchange Flooded After Rains Thursday Two to three inches of water flooded the low spots in the back of the UNC Book Exchange Thursday night. The water, brought by the heavy rains, entered the book exchange through a pipe enclos ing two iteam mains coming from the Playmakers Theater. The flood damaged approximate ly $40 to $50 worth of books, es timated one employee. The water was cleaned up yes terday morning. One clerk said, "it was a mess." UNC Librarian Horn Serves As Assn. Head Dr. Andrew H. Horn, UNC Li brarian who recently tendered his resignation, is serving as the Chairman of the Joint Commit tee of Canadian and American Library Assn. at the mid-winter meeting of the American Library Assn. in Chicago. He is attending the convention's meetings of the Assn. of Research Libraries and Assn. of Southeast ern Research Libraries. He will return to Chapel Hill Feb. 3. IN THE INFIRMARY Students in the infirmary yes terday included: Misses Celia Hahn, LuRuth Sut ton, Alice Reavis, Glenna Megin nis, Jane Stainback and William Stem, William Atkinson, Patrick Leonard, Douglas Sharp, Jef ferson Bulla, Marvin Cowan, Kee Yoo, Robert Williams, and Ken neth Alvord, ec been going for a week or more and the housing units had been ready for the students to move back in by last Sunday at the latest. Burch said the damaged furna ce had been reworked, and new parts had boen added. He said it was unnecessary to replace the furnacj, a-' had first been indicat ed, since extent of the damage was not as serious as early estimates had shown them to be. Burch stat ed any new furnace for the heat ing system would have to be spec ially made. Most of the Victory Village dwel lers affected by the fire indicated they planned no active campaign for better conditions. In answer to a question concern ing rumored petitioning of the state legislature for better housing, Vic tory Villager James Potter quoted Housing Director Wadsworth as saying "it was a good thing to put before the legislators," but, accord ing to Potter, no action has been taken along these lines thus far. Student Aid Issues Spring Instructions The Student Aid Office has is- j sued new instructions for the com- ! in, senwster Those holding University schol- t arshfp's and schoIarships paid tnrough the student Aid office i.., should comp lo ,i, c;, ,, , , . , the Student Aid Office during the : week of Feb. 1-8 in order to pick : wp-seholarship tickets or checks, M according to Miss Edith Winslow, Asst. Director of the Student Aid Office. Those having part-time job awarded by the Student Aid Of fice or under its jurisdiction are to corns by during the weeks of Feb. 1-14 to renew their job as signments. Orientation Files Open This Wee r Orientation and Handbook files will be open Monday-Friday in the Council Room of Graham Memorial from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Applicants who find this time inconvenient should notify Peggy Funk at the Chi Omega House to make individual arrangements. All girls who are interested in either position should look through these files before filling out an application, according to Miss Funk. After becoming familiar with the records, the applicant should submit with her application, orig inal ideas and a plan for this I year s Handbook or Orientation I program. These are to be turned into the Dean of Women's Office no later Lhan Feb. 16. Applicants will be notified by the chairman of the Women's Residence Council to appear be fore an interviewing committee. At this time, the applicant will be given the opportunity to discuss her earlier submitted plan and to answer any questions pertaining to it. The committee will look for originality and organization and will consider the applicant's critical analization of past Hand books or Orientation programs. A theme should be suggested for the Handbook, Miss Funk said. Anyone wanting further infor mation about either position should call Peggy Funk or the personnel staff in the Dean of Women's Of fice.
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