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U.!J.C. Library Ssrials Dept. Box E70 ft 5 -is- W A T H E ft Not quite to coJJ today with a chaace ( rain; expected high of 43. LITTLE ROCK Election points to hopeful fu ture. Set page 2. ? - '1. VOLUME LXVI NO. 63 Complete tf) Wire Service CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1958 Offices i Graham Memorial FOUR PAGES THIS ISSUE (COT $i if' H if' Phi Betes Tap In Ceremonies Fifteen In Di Fifteen students were tapped Into Carolina's Phi Beta Kappa chapter yesterday in ceremonies In the Di alectic Senate Chamber, New West Hall. Those intiated were Ernest Hamp ton Austin, Hamlet; Robert Wilson Carter, Selma; Nancy Marie Collins, Albemarle; Gabriel Marlin Evans, High Point; Edward Bynum Fowlkes II, Tarboro; Alma Eleanor Graham, Raleigh: Marlon Wiley Harris, Englehard; Paul Donald Herring, Clnton; An nie Nichols Hi;gins, Chapel Hill; Gary Mclvin Hipps, Tryon; Jane Hammond Massey, Charlotte; Will-am Dumas McLester, Rockingham: Carolyn Wlsler Prince, Chapel Hill; Eleanor Belknap Stephens, Ashevllle; and Constance Elizabeth Whltakcr, WhiU'er. Cal. Dean of Awards and Distnctlon3 E. L. Mackie announced earlier that thh is one of the smallest groups elected to the local chapter in re cent years. This small number of initiates is due, he said, to the September 1937 cbanje In requirements for electon to the organization. At this time standards were raised from a "fl average for second semester Jun iors and seniors to a 2 6 average for recond semester Juniors and a 2.3 average for seniors. Under the University quality point system, B's are worn two quality points per semester hour and A's are worth three. In order, to attain a 2.6 average, a student's typical grades per semester wouUi have to be three A's and two Bo. AB ave rage would equal 2.0 and an A ave rage, 3.0 Ordinarily, In the fall, he said, about 30 to 40 persons are tapped. In the spring, from 80 to 100 are usually selected. The change in requirements was also reflected in the election of only 31 students last spring. Spring Set For Bricking Lenoir Area Bricking the area between Lenoir Hall and the Manning Hall may take place in the spring, according to J. S. Bennett in a letter to Student Body President Don Furtado. The Bennett letter came as a re sult of earlier Student Legislature action. Furtado wrote Bennett re questing the project. Bennett explained that the pro ject had been scheduled for two years, but due to insufficient appro prations progress in grading and bricking was slow. He further stated that a retaining wall next to Emer son Stadium and a regrading job of the whole area would be necessary to make a complete Job of the area. By doing both jobs at one time the project could be done more ef ficiently and cheaper, he wrote. He assured Furtado that the job would be done as soon as possible, "after the many pressing things are done first." He added in the letter, "it will probably be spring before we will be able to do this, and even then it will depend on funds available." Furtado said Monday that a letter was sent to Bennett commenting that the student government's un- ldcntanding of the problems -In the . Clcrmoni was named yesterday tolbrlckin2 between Lenoir and Man- replace Jim Potest, who had beennin HaUs. Furtado said it would be appointed earlier thU vear. I appreciated if action could be taken Clemons Gets Playbill Editor Appointment Joel M. Clemons, sophomore, has been appointed by the Publications Board as editor of the new student publication, VlaybV.l. Whyburn Goes To Texas For USE Consolidated University Vice Pres ident William M. Whyburn left Chapel Hill Monday for El Paso, Texas, where he wll attend a meet ing of the Univac Scientific Ex change (USE). USE consists of representatives of 32 educational, industrial, govern mental and military organizations owning Univac models 1103 A and 1405. An 1105 is scheduled for in stallation in the new wing being built onto Phillips .Hall. The group's purpose is the promo tion and exchange of ideas concern ing the operation and development of this type of machine. This meeting, which starts Wed nesday and ends Friday, wll be the first attended by a Consolidated University representative. Whil e there, Whyburn will participate in poiicy-maUng and will learn about the machine's operation and development. One of the principal functions of USE is the sharing of information concerning the working of similar problems by different group mem bers. The exchange of such ideas and procedures should save re searchers much time effort and ex pense. The Consolidated Universty gained membership in USE through its tn- ftajlment plans. Among other mem bers of the organization are Boeing Aircraft Co., Johns Hopkins Univer sity, Ramo-Wooldridge Corp. and the Armour Research Foundaton. ostituf dm Irotnna iona A n Wins M .sis yira fi n n n enclmeoT .rails: . . ... 1 r council Race; Foul Play Suspected In Backstage Death Serving as business manager for the magazine Is Gary Arzt. Authorized by Student Legislature, Playbill Is a magazlaa which will provide a program for campus ac tivltes and coming events. The new magazine will operate under the Publications Board. Various positions on the new pub lication arc epen. Any person inter esting in gettng further Information has been asked to contact Joel dem ons at 123 Winston or telephone 89125. at the earliest possible date. Comedy Plays At Duke The Dike Players will present Christopher Fry's comedy, The Lady's Not For Burning, tonight through Saturday night at 8:15 in Branson Hall. Tickets, priced at 81, may be re served by calling Duke University extension 223SD; seating is on a first-come-first-served basis. - Due to the small seating capacity of the theatre and the probability of weekend crowds, the management tjfs suggested that those able to at i $jid tonight or Thursday do so. (Phi Alpha Delta legal frater nity each year sponsors a mock trial featuring prominent cam pus personalities as principals The following story is connected with the trial scheduled for Fri day.) Sheriff Jim Fasul yesterday re vealed the posibility of foul play in the backstage death of pretty ingenue, Diana Johnson, during the final suspense-filled moments of the Playmakers production of "Look Homeward Anger Sunday night. "After conducting an exhaustive investgiation," Fasul said, "we have decided there is more than meets the eye in this death." When asked his reasons for sus pecting foul play in the grease paint slaying that shocked the campus, Sheriff Fasul said he was "playing a hunch" backed up by some material evidence the nature of which he refused to disclose. Miss Johnson, who was named 1958 Yackety Yack beauty queen and also Miss Chapel Hill of 1958, was killed during the final act of the Playmakers' production when she was struck by a flying flower. Allen Says Modern Fathers Can Sympathize With Cicero Diplomats Deny Possible Policy Split LONDON UV-British diplomats today denied reports of a rift be tween Britain and Germany over their Berlin policies. They scoffed at a suggestion that West German Chancellor Aden auer had planned to fly to Britain this week to try to heal the breach. Informants emphasized there is no divergence between Britain and Germany over their attitude toward Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's free city proposals for Isolated Berlin. Both nations turned them down. Adenauer had planned to fly here Friday for talks with Prime Minister Macmillan on European trade problems but reports from i-onn ioaay saia nts doctors or dered him to bed with a feverish cold and the 82-year-old Chancel lor called off his trip. G. M.' SLATE Activities for Graham Memorial today Include: Prtaktng Rules Commission, 2-4 p.m., Grail; State Student Legis lature, Ml p.m., Grail; Carolina We-men's Council, 7- p.m., Grail; Paahllenlc, 84 p.m., Grail; Chess Club, 7-11 p.m., Roland Parker I; President's Cab last, 4-8 p.m., Woodhouse Conference Room; Publicity Commttee, 7:33-9 p.m., Wodhotie Conference .Room; Karpa Kafpa (Jajaat, 7-9 p.m., ;C5 Ahr'-j. Modern fathers with boys in col lege will sympathize with cicero, the Roman statesman and leading figure in Roman literature, for bis troubles with his son who wrote home for more money, who wanted to set up his own bachelor quarters, and who devoted a disporportlonate share of his time to extracurri cular activities. ProfcsEor of Latin Walter Allen, delivering the Humanities Lecture at the Universty of North Carolina, told in a speech prepared for de livery last night about Cicero's worry over his son's future. The boy wanted to go and Join Caesar's legions, and Cicero as opposed to Caesar's tyranny and his war-mak ing. The boy also wanted funds to set up a bachelor apartment. Cicero sent his son to Athens to school to get him out of the country. Cicero tried to supervise his son's education from afar, even insisting that his son abandon one study with a teach er who was "too well informed about some extracurricular pursuits," Prof. Allen said. The son, Marcus Cicero, also wrote to Cicero's secretary, asking for money to hire a secretary to copy his notes, which were taking too much of his time. Cicero was able to take these and other tribulations of his life,' be cause he was both a philosopher and a humorist. The Roman writer was one of the great wits of the ages, Prof. Allen points out in his lecture "Private and Confidential: Cicero's ' Corres pondence." Dr. Allen said the criticism by some scholars over Cicero's hesti tation and indecision regarding whether to support Caesar or Pom pey when Caesar was waging Civil War against the Republic should no be taken as a sign of weakness, but of strength. What happened was that Cicero was not confronted with a choice be tweed right or wrong otherwise he would Immediately have chosen the right according to his principles. "But te was ccfifrciied:" wi& choice between two bad alterna tives," said Allen. "Cicero saw only too clearly that both alternatives were bad." Pompey's cause in de fending Rome was pot an ideal one, in Cicero's view, but neither did he favor the tyrant Caesar and what he through lack of communication be- pot thrown pursuant to the scriot by Mrs. Marion Fitz-Simons, who played the role of Eliza Gant. -The popular, raven haired beau ty was pronounced dead on arrival at Memorial Hospital. She wis rushed to the hospital by ambu lance soon after her motionless body was discovered in the win.gs even as an enthusiastic audience was applauding the cast on the stage. j Neither members of the cast nor the audience were aware of the grim, off-stage drama until after the final curtain. Sheriff Fasul refused to label Mrs. Fitz-Simons as a suspect, but told a group of reporters surround ing his desk they ."could draw draw their own conclusions." "I'm not going to make any def inite statement in this case until I review and evaluate the evidence we have gathered thus far," Sher iff Fasul said. "One thing for sure," he re marked dryly, "whatever else was in that script I know of one thing that wasn't supposed to be there." "What was that?" someoae asked. "Murder," said the sheriff. 4g rah a n if - i , lilillllilf 904 84 m My 1 u Cheerleader To Be Elected' Revision Of Law Indicated Sandy Trotman and Davis Young won elections last night as a constitutional amendment which would have made head cheerleader an appointive office was defeated. Trotman whipped Bunky Jester, an independent candidate running without selection board approval, 196-162. The two had tied for the third vacant seat in the Women's Honor Council in the regular fall elections 1 Positive Government Action, Minority Rights Expression Urged By Noted C-R Experts .-.v.w.-.Mi:.MC new soph president The expression of minority rights and positive action by the national government were two is sues promoted by civil jights ex perts, William McGovern and Ed ward P. Morgan, during a Human Rights forum this week here. ABC news commentator Morgan also praised the University for be ing a valuable social laboratory to orient a minority group, the Ne gro. He said the Nergo problem today is heightened primarily might do and did do after Rome was taken. Cicero was not one of those who mourned Caesar's assassination. Ie complained that even though the tyrant was dead, tyranny lived on under Mark Anthony. Cicero wrote, in fact, that if he had been invited to the banquet of the assasins, there would have been no leavings. He meant that Mark Anthony would have been killed at he same time. Cicero was the Bernard Baruch of his day. People of both parties, and kings and princes came to him for advice. Dr. Allen shows that Cicero's dis trust of Anthony was fully returned, resulting in Cicero's assassination by Anthony's henchmen, and the date was a day of infany for Rome and significant in our own times, for it happened exactly 2,000 years ago on Dec. 7, the latter date being the aunlvtrsary of Pearl Harbor. Allen states: "Cicero is that rari ty in world history, a civilized gent leman.' . ween whites and Negroes. . Carolina, Morgan said, is ad vancing particularly in promoting an atmosphere where such commu nication is easily available. Russia Claims h ouuuv Guided Missile By JERRY T. BAULCT1 WASHINGTON in Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev was report ed yesterday to have told Sen. Hu bert Humphrey (D-Mlnn) that Rus sia has an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of firing a warhead 8,694 miles. Achievement of such a range would surpass the best U. S. ICBM effort so far the Atlas which the Air Force hurled 6,325 miles on Nov. See KRUSHCHEV, Page 3 By positive action, the two men had reference to such policy-making as: waiting until Little Rock does something about the 1954 Su preme Court decision instead of immediately planning some work able compliance with the high court decision. Also, the men criticized lack of positive policy regarding the statu f of Berlin after World War H until the current crisis. The two men were sponsored here by the YM-YWCA Public Af fairs Committee, headed by Carol Josey and John Casparis. Morgan and McGovern came Sunday for a series of discussions on "Human See FORUM, Page 3 a 1 TT-I sic department lacuuy, as iSt;a millo; Gene Strassler, a graduate assistant in music from Apollo, Pa., as Don Jose; and Martha Fouse, soprano of Chapel Hill, as Micaela. Supporting roles will be handled by Brian Klitz, UNC graduate assist ant in music, singing the parts of Zuniga, Morales and El Dancaixo; James Pruett as El Remendailo; Marilyn Zsctiau unc senior, as Mercedes: and Rebecca Carnes,, a graduate stuceni, as Frasquita. 'Carmen' Conductor Former Accompanist To Lead Singer Metropolitan opera star Claramae are Joel Carter, member of the mu- Turner, who will sing the title role , in Carmen next January here, will take her cues from a conductor who has been her accompanist. Wilton Mason, associate professor of music at UNC, recently played several concerts with Miss Turner when she made a tour of the South. Mason's recitals with the California born contralto gave him the idea of engaging Miss Turner to sing in the Music Department's next opera. Details with her agent, Sol Hurok, were worked out so that she might spend several days on the UNC campus rehearsing with the cast. chorus and symphony orchestra for. this first performance of Bizet's op era in Chapel Hill. Mason, who seems to specialize in music premieres, directed the first televised performance, in America, of Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro This performance was staged by the Music Department and the Playmak ers. . Mason was the composer and first conductor for Kermit Hunter's out door drama, "Horn in the West, when it started nearly a decade ago. In 1950 he conducted, for the Play makers, the premiere of "Spring for Sure," one of his own musicals which is still being performed in the South. Joining . Mason and Miss Turner in this concert version of "Carmen, set for January 13 is MyrtcritU Ha& Brooks Gets Student Party Chairmanship By DEE DANIELS John Brooks was elected Stu dent Party chairman for" the spring semester last night' with only one dissenting vote. In the remainder of the party officer elections, three offices were filled by acclamation and tme was decided by a run-off vote., ...... Dewey Sheffield was Brooks' on ly opponent. For vice-chairman, Sheffield bested Boa Matthews, Davis Yo-ng and Roger Foushee. The final vote was decided in a run-off be tween Foushee and Sheffield. The present secretary, Christy Farnham, was re-elected by accla mation. Pappy Churchill was selected, also by iicclamation, to serve as file clerk. Retaining his position as ser geant at arms is Bill Lamn, the third to be chosen by acclamation. Bob Matthews, Roger Foushee, Martha Morgan and Norman E. Smith were elected to the SP Ad visory Board over Davis Young, Jim Crownover and Frank Elkins from a seven man field. Erwin Fuller, treasurer, will re tain his office until March as set up in the party constitution. At the conclusion of the meet ing, Leo;i Holt, present party chairman, urged members to stick up for what they believe, even if this is unpopular with the mass opinion. He pointed out that without in dependent:, sometimes unpopular opinions the campus would not progress. "I hopes that in the spring you will carry SP to greater heights on stones which others have laid," Holt entreated. There will be no party meeting next week. The body voted to hold the next meeting Monday, Jan. 12. held three weeks ago. Young edged out Charlie Graham by six votes 190-184 for the sopho more class presidency. The match was a revote of the regular election in which Graham beat Young by two votes. Young contested the electios on the grounds that there were no ballots given to Infirmary patients, and that one bal lot box had been collected before the polls closed. Two weeks ago, the Student Coun cil upheld Young's appeal, and the revote was scheduled. The defeat of the constitutional amendment 559-481 will necessitate a revision of the new elections law, which hss no provision for election of head cheerleader. About IS per cent of the student body turned out at the polls. IDC To Set Social Room QpeningPqte Tile date social rooms in men's dormitories will be open to coeds will be announced tonight by Jim Scott at a meeting of the Inter dormitory Council at 7 p.m. in Phi Hall, New East. Before opening its social room, each dorm must secure the approv al of the Visiting Board. The date the board will visit the dorms will also be announced tonight. A report will be given on the progress of the Dorm District Court system. The date the courts will go into operation in the dorms will be announced. A report on the progress of ob taining money to pay the dorm intramural managers will also be given. The council will discuss quiet hours in the dorm, how well they are inforced, where the problems lie and how the problems can best be solved. The council will also hear re ports on plans for a blanket party tennis court dance this spring and the Mardi Gras sponsored by GM and the IDC also scheduled for the spring. Phi Defeats Militia Bill The Phi Society defeated a bill to establish a national militia in place of our armed forces by a unanimou? vote last night. Rep. Don Jacobs, who introduced the bill, argued that the prohibi tive cost of maintaining a large standing army could be reduced by instituting a naional militia. The program would have all men and women take basic training and two weeks of summer camp every year thereafter. Arguments against the bill center ed on its impracticability in an age of "push-button" warfare. Rep. Bill Jackson said that we are not threa tened by ground attack and thus do not need a large, half-trained army. Rep. Bob Morely pointed out that, since most of our commitments are overseas, it it would be ridiculous to transport troops abroad for two weeks. The vote on the bill was 5 to 0 against. UP Meeting The University Party heard dis cussion on several bills pending in the Student Legislature in a short meeting last night at 7:15 p.m. Bills, discussed included those deal ing w ith th single spring elecion for the legislature, the $100 appro priation for the State Affairs Com mittee, and a bill concerning the in stallation of washing machines on campus. Treasurer David Green presented a brief financial report. It was announced that the elec tion of new party officers will be held next Tuesday night. t - v, ;v - , '? t if ' ' - I H ' l 1 t ; -.V, I r 1 ': -is-it-' 1 GONE? To answer the question yes, evidently gone until spring. Jim Kendall, senior from Chirlotte, is shewn enjoying the Indian Summer as it put in its last dying gasps shortly before the current cold snap brought students" ovt in their winter clothes, . -: - - photo by Bob Bingham? Juror Interviews End Today is the last day for inter views. The interviews are being conduct ed by the Honor System Commission from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Honor Coun cii Room in Graham Memorial. A ppointments may .be made in the Student Government office. Appli cation forms for prospective jurors will also be available in the Studen: Government office. INFIRMARY Students In the Infirmary yester day, included: . Sandra Rush Roberts, Donna Jean Thompson, Sally Rich Me Crory, Julia Floyd Brott, Charles Howard Brown, Louis Elton Fein berg, Edwird Neal Rimer, Johnny T'omas Watkins, William Parker Hodges Jr., John Larston Ritzel, Wilson Rosser Carter, James Lee Norton, Margaret Pennington Ad-" dison, Nicholas Barton Bragg, Charles Robert Lee Jr., John Chalmers Eagle and George Ell Jackson, Albert Wisi&igtdai Choral Club Presents Bach Christmas Oratorio The first three parts of Bach's Christmas Oratorio will be per formed by the Chapel Hill Choral Club Dec. 16. The 8 p.m. concert in Hill Hall is the sixth of the Tuesday Eve ning Series presented by the club directed by Dr. Joel Carter. This oratorio written in 1733-34 is divided into six cantatas. Each cantata was meant to be perform ed on a different day beginning on Christmas Day and ending on Epi- phan'. . Seven members will perform as soloists. Pkobert Melton, a staff physician at Duke University Hos pital, will sing the tenor role of the Evangelist. All alto solos will be sung by Betty Jean Smith of Chape Hill. Dr. U. T. Holmes, Kenan pro fessor of romance languages, will perform the bass recitatives. Bar bara Peacock of Chaoel Hill, will sins the soprano recitatives. Other soloists include Marvin Tatum, UNC graduate student, bass ;Beth Diaz, of Durham. ?n prano; and David L. Vaughn, UNC graduate student. Let Bostian, graduate assistant in music and the regular accom nanht for the Choral Club will rlav for the soloists. Miss Kay Knight will join Bostian in a two- piano araneement for the orches tral aecomnanimTits for the chor uses. Dr. Glenn Watkins. UNC ? s?sta:it professor of organ, will plav fen aU of th rpoitativ:. The Chanel Hill Choral Club is comnosed of about 85 town?oeorle, faculty and students. It has bepn in existence for over 30 years. Its maiT annearanres each year during the Christmas season and .wainehceiaest, ....
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