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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
.N(C9 Daily
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A Colorful Often
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68
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Past
Without a chorus of "Happy
Birthday," the Daily Tar Heel
today became 68 years old.
Just 100 years after the lay
ing of the Old East cornerstone,
the first Tar Heel made its ap
pearance on the University
campus, Thursday morning, Feb.
23, 1893.
It was a weekly then, pub
lished in Durham and de
signed as the "official organ
of the Athletic Association"
to promote and report ath
letic events. For 30 years the
Association financed the
paper.
Scarcely a month after
Charles Baskerville became the
first editor, trouble developed.
The non-fraternity staff mem
bers, agitated over the paper's
pro-fraternity policy, pulled out
and established a rival paper
the White and Blue which
tried unsuccessfully to Polish
fraternities and the Tar Heel.
Royal Blue Paper
Color was first used in the Tar
Heel five years after its found
ing. The entire paper was print
ed in royal blue ink, proclaim
ing the victory of the Carolina
gridders over Virginia for the
Championship of the South. In
bold blue headlines the game
was termed "the greatest game
ever played on a Southern grid
iron!"
Scatching editorials against
the existing delapidated gym
and abuse of the library ap
peared in 1899. That year the
paper recorded the birth of the
first organized rooting on cam
pus, giving the official school
cheer as "Popsy-Wopsy, Tink-
sy-Tee, Vivela, Vivela, UNC.
Coed Joins Staff
The first (and last for 12 more
years) coed joined the staff as
managing editor in 1901 when
J. C. B. Ehringhaus, later gov
ernor of the' state, was editor.
Photographs were first used
the following year. Prior to
that time, only drawings and
sketches broke the monotony of
type.
"Overwork and tired eyes"
caused Frank P. Graham
(later UNC President) to re
sign as editor after one se
mester in 1S07. The next year
Editor O. W. Hyman turned
the Tar Heel into a six-page
semi-weekly. Lack of finances
two years later changed it
once again into a weekly.
Wartime Editor W. H. Ste
phenson holds the record for
the shortest editorial term one
week. He was elected in the
spring of 1918 to take office in
the fall, but during the summer
he enrolled in a New York avia
tion school, mailing his first
and last editorials to the paper
in September.
The next week the Athletic
Association replaced him with
Forrest Miles, who immediately
gave the paper a "military char
acter and initiated small type
in order to cram six pages of
material into four pages of
type.
Contest For Editor
Uncle Sam got Miles within
a month and Managing Editor
Thomas Wolfe was faced with
the job of editing the weekly.
Wolfe, desperate for staff mem
bers, held a write-in-25-words-or-less-why-you-would-like-to-be-editor
contest and thereby
filled the vacant staff positions.
Miles returned in January
and reclaimed his position.
But Wolfe, who enjoyed being
editor, ran for the position in i
the spring and took office in j
October, 1919. He added
paragraphics to the editorial
page, crusaded against cam
pus thievery and campaigned
for the return to a semi-weekly
printing basis.
His successor, Daniel Grant,
returned the Tar Heel to a semi
weekly and enlarged it to its
present 17x23" size. That year
the paper helped found the N.C.
Collegiate Press Association and
for the first time the "official
organ of the Athletic Associa
tion" slogan was removed from
the nameplate and retained only
on the editorial page masthead.
"Thirty"
When Jake Wade wound up
his Tar Heel term in 1921, his
last editorial was but one word
in a sea of white space: "Thir
ty." The next editor then de
voted his first editorial to an
explanation of "Thirty" the
journalistic symbol for "The
End."
In 1922 the Tar Heel moved
from Durham to Chapel Hill for
printing purposes and the old
slogan was removed from the
paper altogether. The paper was
thenceforth published by Stu-
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JONATHAN YARDLEY, the 89th editor of The Daily
Tar Heel, works about seven hours a day on the paper and
worries about it the rest of the time. The office and pay are
small, the hours are long but it's an experience he wouldn't
trade for anything.
dent Government under the
auspices of the newly-formed
Publications Board.
Walter Spearman, now a
journalism professor, inherit
ed a tri-weekly Tar Heel and
added the first regular sports
page in 1928. He led an edi
torial fight against the rival
Yellow Journal a scandal
sheet circulated by Sigma Up
silon literary fraternity which
delighted in calling the Or
der of the Golden Fleece, the
"Order of the Gilded Fuzz."
Spearman relinquished his
position in April, 1922, to Glenn
Holder (vho left school one
month later due to participating
in the "Yellow Journal) only to
edit the paper aagin during
Holder's absence.
Becomes A Daily
Spearman's "second term"
saw 'the transition to a daily
paper and the addition of that
word to the nameplate.
Voted in by a 666-148 stu
dent vote, the debut as a daily
came during the three days
of commencement instead of
waiting until fall (as a tri
bute to visiting alumni and
departing seniors).
Holder returned in Septem
ber, adding telegraphic service
to the Tar Heel.
In 1943 the Tar Heel once
more took on a military charac
ter and was returned to a week
ly. When Walter Damtoft was
called into military service after
his first month as editor, Kat
Hill was elected by a 3-1 vote
to finish his term and become
the first female editor of the
paper in its 50 years of publica
tion. Proving that women can
run a paper, she boosted it
to a semi-weekly.
The following year Editor
Horace Carter joined the Navy,
leaving another coed, Muriel
Richter, to assume the editor
ship. Youngest Editor
A freshman, Robert Morrison,
was elected editor two years
later and still holds the record
as the youngest Tar Heel edi
tor. Although defeated for re
election, he returned the paper
to a daily and published , the
rst "extra" edition (occasioned
by Franklin Roosevelt's death).
It was during these turbulent
war years, when staff turnover
was at its greatest, that one staff
member was defeated four dif
ferent times for editor.
Graham Jones in the spring
of 1950 became the only edi
tor to flunk out of school edit
ing the paper and return the
following year to graduate
with a Phi Beta Kappa key.
Roy Parker, Jr., not Jones,
edited the paper that fall,
adding comics and a syndicated
column to the Tar Heel.
The former Miss Glenn Har
den, daughter of former staff
member John Harden, was
elected by a 2-1 majority to
head the paper. She remains
the first and last peacetime fe
male editor. Exercising her fe
male prerogative to change her
mind, she also changed the paper
into a daily tabloid in 1951.
Until 1957 the Daily Tar
Heel sailed a relatively smooth
course. Then Editor Neil Bass
was accused of libeling cer
tain members of the student
body and faculty, agitating
students and prompting a re
call election. He was defeated
and the victor, Doug Eisele,
took over the editor's chair.
Throughout the years the Tar
Heel has tried to mix liberalism
with good sense and to inform
and direct student thought. Col
umnists then complained much
as columnists now of football
over-emphasis, student apathy,
student cafeteria food and stu
dent government's inertia.
Widens Scope
The difference lies mainly in
scope; for with the addition of
wire service coverage, editor
ials took on a national and in
ternational character.
Prior to World War I, when
UNC was small enough for most
students to know each other,
society notes received large
readership. Jokes were used for
fillers and professional activi
ties received pitifully little at
tention. Freedom of expression is
the Tar Heel's most prized
possession. Since its founding
the paper has been published
by a student staff under stu
dent supervision. It is not
subject to censorship except
by students and cannot be si
lenced by faculty or adminis
trative action something few
college dailies can claim.
With campus elections sched
uled for next month, the 90th
editor will soon assume control
and the paper will add a new
personality to its basic charac
ter and rich heritage.
SHE WON'T DO
RUGBY, England (UPI)
The magistrates refused an of
fer by James Cleary to leave his
wife as a deposit while he went
to get money from his brother-in-law
to pay a fine.
DELAY INDEFINITE
MOBILE, Ala. (UPI) James
E. Williams, 18, in court on a
four - count robbery charge,
asked for a delay in sentencing
while he decided whether he
stood a better chance with a
jury trial. While the court
pondered the matter, Williams
walked out of the courthouse
and disappeared.
SET UP STATION
MOSCOW (UPI) Soviet cx
olorcrs have set up a new scien
tific station in Antarctica, the
Tass news agency said Monday.
The agency said the Novolaza
revskaya station is in Queen
Maud Land and will be manned
by a 11 -member crew through
out the winter.
INVESTIGATE REPORTS
BRASILIA (UPI) The gov
ernment Tuesday' investigated
reports that eight Paraguayan
refugees were killed on Brazil
ian territory by Paraguayan sol
diers. If the shootings are con
firmed, a strong protest is ex
pected. The refugees were op
ponents of Paraguayan dictator
Alfredo Stroessner.
A Talk
Frustrations And
In a cramped and dirty office
Dn the second floor of Graham
Memorial lives each year's
Daily Tar Heel editor.
For at least six and a half
ours daily plus several each
night Jonathan Yardley works
urrounded by Kennedy cam
paign posters, typewriters, tele
hones, mounds of books, news
papers, cigaret packs, stacks of
nail and piles of miscellaneous
papers.
"The student body doesn't
ealize that when it votes in
an editor, it is condemning him
o year-long torture," the 89th
editor of the campus newspaper
;aid.
"The Tar Heel is something
in editor never escapes for a
minute until his term is over.
It follows him 24 hours a day
md cuts into his weekends. He
goes to bed thinking of it, wakes
up thinking of it, eats thinking
of it, studies (if he has time)
thinking of it and occasionally
sleeps dreaming of it.
"Always there is the burden
of people who think you're
wrong. Or worse, the burden
of those who think you're right
for then you are obligated to
uphold that standard or better
it.
"The job is depressing. There
are very few praises to off-set
the large quantity of complaints.
And sometimes it hurts al
though you try to steel your
self against it when you've
worked hard on something and
no one comments on it.
"I get paid $15 a week which
is nothing for the worry, time
and energy it takes to be edi
tor. "Just take one day. I get up
and read the Greensboro Daily
News to see what's happening
in the world. Then I pick up
the Tar Heel mail at the post
office, sort it and take it to the
office just after Graham Mem
orial opens.
"During and between classes
I go over the day's Tar Heel
for mistakes, check it for lay
out, read every story written
by the staff and make notes to
give the staff.
Many Distinguished
Although a Daily Tar Heel
editor is the campus whipping
boy while in office, he often is
the object of public esteem in
later years.
Many Tar Heel sons have
gone on to prominent careers
in journalism, government, edu
cation and business.
In journalism, some of the
bright lights are Charles Ku
ralt, CBS commentator; Jona
than Daniels, Raleigh News and
Observer editor and publisher;
Lenoir Chambers, Pulitzer
Prize-winner and Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
editor and Jake
Wade, UNC sports publicist and
former Charlotte Observer
sports editor.
Other journalists who began
their editorial career on the
Tar Heel include Orville Camp
bell, Chapel Hill Weekly pub
lisher; Baron Mills, Randolph
Guide editor; Bill Woestendiek,
Long Island Newsday editorial
director; Charles Gilmore, To
ledo (Ohio) Times editor and
Martin. Harmon, Kings Moun
tain Herald editor.
Don Bishop is with the NBC
press department, Roy Parker
Jr. with the Raleigh News and
Observer, Rolfe Neill with the
Charlotte Observer, Ed Yodcr
with the Charlotte News, Louis
Kraar with the Wall Street
Journal and Fred Powledge
with the Atlanta Journal.
Graham Jones is Gov. San
ford's press secretary, Alonzo
T. Dill is free lance writing and
Doug Eisele is with the States
ville Daily Record and Land
ma rk.
Thomas Wolfe, of course,
wrote a few books.
In the field of education, the
Daily Tar Heel boasts of the
two Grahams (Edward Kidder
and Frank Porter both former
With
The
"All day I'm thinking of edi
torial subjects.
"I ret to the office about noon
and begin my first editorial
around one. It takes from 15
minutes to an hour and a half,
depending upon the topic.
"Interruptions eat up at least
three and a half hours a day
staff conferences, phone calls,
visitors, people with letters,
people with complaints, people
with requests and people with
suggestions.
"I maintain a constant check
on every department of the pa
per, because I want to know
what's going on and often I
have a particular way I want a
story or layout handled. I am
especially concerned that World
News in Brief be given enough
space.
"Then there are the functions
I absolutely have to attend.
Symposium meetings, Publica
tions Board meetings and other
conferences usually three de
mand at least two hours a week.
"It's after 6:30, when the sec
ond editorial is finished, that
the job really gets to be hell.
Each night 7-10:30 I'm either
working in the office, chasing
a story or worrying at the shop.
Castro Courting
Latin America
Fidel Castro is making an
all-out effort to patch Cuba's
impaired relations with the rest
of Latin America.
Immediate objective of the
campaign is to head off any at
tempt by the Organization of
American States OAS to once
again put Cuba on public trial
as it did in San Jose, Costa
Rica last year for its ties with
communism.
Because he conceives of the
United States as a leader in the
campaign to get the OAS to
consider collective action against
Cuba as a Communist SDear-
head, Castro has held out ten
Where Are They Now?
UNC presidents), UNC Alumni
Secretary J. Maryon Saunders,
the late O. J. "Skipper" Coffin
(former Dean of the Journalism
School) and UNC Journalism
Professor Walter Spearman.
The first editor, Charles Bas
kerville, later was a UNC chem
istry professor and R. D. W.
Connor taught history here
until his death.
Active in governmental af
fairs have been former Gov. J.
C. B. Ehringhaus, UN Mediator
Frank P. Graham and Assistant
to Gov. Sanford, Tom Lambeth.
Lawyers to come out of the
Tar Heel editorial chair include
W. H. Yarborough Jr. (Raleigh),
Charles G. Rose (Fayetteville),
and J. Mac Smith (Greensboro).
Curtis Gans, editor two years
ago, is with the Miami News.
Last year's editor, Davis Young,
is still going to class here.
Never editors-m-chicf but
once managing editors, have
been Sigma Delta Chi prize
winner and Gainesville, Ga.
Daily Times Editor Sylvan
Meyer and New York Times As
sistant Managing Editor Clifton
Daniel.
The Tar Heel also gave a
journalistic beginning to High
Point Enterprise Editor Holt
Mcpherson, UNC News Bureau
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Tar Heel's Editor Shows
Pleasures
"The night editor brings me
the proof sheets around 11 and
Rip Slusser (my roommate and
sports editor) and I argue about
it until one or two. This gives
me several hours to cool off
about mistakes so I won't blow
my top to the staff, the next
day. This is a lot of fun but
it isn't sleeping.
"The big problem is being
able to relax. After the office
it usually takes me two hours
and three beers to uncork. Then
I'm completely shot, so I read
C. S. Forester and J. P. Mar
quand to relax. I sleep seven
hours a night and study be
tween everything else.
"It's a hell of a life but I
wouldn't trade it for anything.
It's the most valuable experi
ence I've ever had.
"Currently the Tar Heel is
operating with less than a mini-
The material on this page
was compiled and written by
Feature Editor Susan Lewis.
We are all deeply thankful to
her for contributing a page of
such value to the annals of
Daily Tar Heel history. The
Editor.
tative olive branches of peace
to Washington.
However, he has pre-doomed
these to failure by specifying
among other "conditions" for
peace talks, a U.S. acceptance
of the Cuban role as a Soviet
satellite.
Counting On Cardenas
Because only the week pre
vious he had stated publicly
that Cuba reserved the right to
export its revolution to any
Latin American country which
did not agree with it, Castro
was forced to "reverse" himself
in a subsequent press inter
view.
Editors
head Pete Ivey, Associated Press
Latin American bureau chief
Sam Summerlin, poet Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, Raleigh Times City
Editor A. C. Snow. Greensboro
Daily News Sports Editor Smith
Barrier, Charlotte News Man
aging Editor Dick Young Jr.,
UNC Journalism Professor
Stuart Sechriest, Greensboro
Daily News Associate Editor
William Snider, News of Or
ange County Editor Roland
Giduz and Greensboro Record
Sports Editor Earle Hellen.
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mum staff. It seems absolutely
ridiculous to me that with so
many capable people on campus
and a great many who'll wind
up on a newspaper so few
come to work on the Tar Heel,
which is the best laboratory
available for this work.
"The Tar Heel is taken for
granted because it's always
there. No one stops to wonder
how it got there. Those who
complain about the quality of
the paper should come up and
help us.
"We need ten more news re
porters, four more sports re
porters, three more feature
writers and three more regular
columnists to do the job well.
We need better salaries for those
who are salaried now and sal
aries for those position holders
who aren't paid now.
"I hope that the Tar Heel
will become a six-page daily in
a few years, with a lot more
world and campus news. I think
the Tar Heel should assume the
role of a community daily pa
per." The telephone rang for the
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"I'VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU"
I know all of you have important things to do in the morning
like getting down to breakfast before your roommate eats all
the marmalade so you really cannot be blamed for not keeping
up with all the news in the morning papers. In today's column,
therefore, I have prepared a run-up of news highlights from
campuses the country over.
SOUTHERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
Dr. Willard Hale Sigafoos, head of the department of anthro
pology at Southern Reserve University, and internationally
known as an authority on primitive peoples, returned yesterday
from a four-year scientific expedition to the headwaters of the
Amazon River. Among the many interesting mementos of hi3
journey is his own head, shrunk to the size of a kumquat. He
refused to reveal how his head shrinking vras accomplished.
."That's for me to know and you to find out," he said with a
tiny, but saucy grin.
NORTHERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
Dr. Mandrill Gibbon, head of the department of zoology at
Northern Reserve University, and known to young and old for
his wrork on primates, announced yesterday that he had re
ceived a grant of $80,000,000 for a twelve-year study to deter
mine precisely how much fun there is in a barrel of monkeys.
Whatever the results of Dr. Gibbon's researches, this much
is already known: What's more fun than a barrel of monkeys b
a pack of Marlboro. There is zest and cheer in every puff,
delight in every draw, content and well-being in every fleecy,
flavorful cloudlet. And what's more, this merriest of cigarettes
comes to you both in soft pack and flip-top box wherever cig
arettes are sold at prices that do no violence to the slimmest of
purses. So why don't you settle back soon and enjoy Marlboro,
the filtered cigarette with the unfiitered taste.
EASTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
The annual meeting of the American Philological Institute,
held last week at Eastern Reserve University, was enlivened
by the reading of two divergent monographs concerning the
origins of early Gothic "runes," as letters of primitive alphabets
are called.
Dr. Tristram Lathrop Spleen, famed far and wide as the dis
coverer of the High German Consonant Shift, read a paper in
which he traced the origins of the Old Wendish rune "pt"
(pronounced "krahtz") to the middle Lettic rune "gr" (pro
nounced "albert"). On the other hand, Dr. Richard Cummer
bund Twonkey, who, as the whole world knows, translated
"The Pajama Game" into Middle High Bactrian, contended
in his paper that the Old Wendish rune "pt" derives from the
Low Erse rune "mf" (pronounced "gr").
Well, sir the discussion grew so heated that Dr. Twonkey
finally asked Dr. Spleen if he would like to step into the gym
nasium and put on the gloves. Dr. Spleen accepted the chal
lenge promptly, but the contest was never held because there
were no gloves in the gymnasium that would fit Dr. Twonkey.
(The reader is doubtless finding this hard to believe ss
Eastern Reserve University is celebrated the length and breadth
of the land for the size of its glove collection. However, the
reader is asked to remember that Dr. Twonkey has extraor
dinarily small hands and arms. In fact, he spent the last
war working in a small -arms plant, where he received two
Navy "E" Awards and was widely hailed as a "manly little
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