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CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1944
Editorial: T-iUl, New: F-3146.
NUMBER SW 17
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Fast Crowd Sees Margaret Fountain Crowned Beauty Queen
51 Contestants Participate
In Second Annual Yack Ball
By W. H. Hipps, Jr.
Miss Margaret Fountain of Rocky Mount, and sponsored by Chi Omega,
was crowned Beauty Queen by Lt. J. D. Hill, executive officer of the V-12
unit here, at the second annual Yackety-Yack Beauty Ball held in Woollen
Gym Saturday night. Runners-up, who acted as ladies-in-waiting to Queen
Margaret, in the order of their selection from 51 contestants by the judges,
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are; aviiss rseasie icusseli of Jackson-
ville, Fla., sponsored by Delta Sigma
Pi; Miss Jane Auten of Albemarle,
sponsored by Phi Delta, Theta; Miss
Joy Gilbert of Maplewood, N. J.,
sponsored by Beta Theta Pi; Miss
Nancy Kennickell of Fletcher, spon
sored by third floor Kenan Dormi
tory; Miss Eugenia Pafe of New
Bern, sponsored by Carolina Inde
pendent Coed Association; Miss
Elaine Bates of Leland, Miss., spon
sored by Phi Kappa Sigma; Miss
Betty Yashaw of Chapel Hill, spon
sored by Sigma Nu and Miss Bunny
Flowers of College Park, Ga., spon
sored by Mclver Dormitory.
Lt. Hill was vigorously applauded
by the huge crowd of 2,000 re
portedly the largest crowd to attend
a dance here since the days of the
"big name" bands when he kissed
Queen Margaret upon crowning her.
Officials of the dance said that
crowning ceremonies had to be post
poned half an hour in order that the
exceptionally large crowd might be
admitted in time to witness the floor
show and contest.
Marion Gurney began the floor
show by singing three numbers: "For
the First Time," "Teasin'", a request
which she did without music, and "Do
Nothing Till . You. Hear:FromiMe.?:
Fred Caligan, in addition to per
forming two dances in the floor show,
worked out the complicated crisscross
plan of presenting the 51 beautiful
contestants iri such a way that all the
audience got a good look at them.
He also devised the arch through
which the winners came.
Judges for the contest were: Deans
E. L. Mackie, F. F. Bradshaw, R. B.
House, Commander H. W. Carroll,
Jr., and Major J. W. Marshall.
Freddie Johnson and his orchestra
furnished not only the music for the
See YACK, page 4.
Tar Heel Election Party in
Graham Memorial Election
Night.
Office Seekers
Will Speak
At Reception
Coed Group Lists
Budget For Year
A reception honoring the candidates
who are running in the coming election
will be held in Graham Memorial im
mediately after the coed hour which is
scheduled for ,4: 50 Tuesday afternoon
The entire student body is invited
to attend the reception and meet the
students who are running for office,
The candidates for the major iffices
will compose the receiving line and coed
senators will officiate as hostesses.
At the coed hour in Memorial hall,
attendance to which is compulsory, the
major candidates will be presented to
the coed students.
Political aspirants for the speaker
ship of the legislature, Doug Hunt and
Charlie Hackney; Yack editor candi
dates, Cookie Marett and Jean Parry;
and candidates for the Tar Heel edi
torship, Charles Wickenbergand Jim
my Wallace will each make two-minute
talks.
Mrs. Margaret Maaske and Miss
Helen Blair who are in charge of vo
cational guidance , will be introduced
to the group by Dean F. F. Bradshaw.
They will discuss vocational plans for
the year.
The monthly coed hours are being
sponsored. by the coed senate as a
means whereby important issues and
problems may be presented to women
students as a group.
The senate also announced this
week that elections , for junior offices
in women's government will be held
December 19. Nominations for the
See OFFICE SEEKERS, page U.
VOTE THURSDAY!
..the official slate for november 30 elections
. Office Candidates (vote for one)
VICE-PRESIDENT Bill Crisp, Dal Davis, Archie Hood
SECRETARY-TREASURER Jenks Tripp, Boots Walker
LEGISLATURE SPEAKER Charlie Hackney, Doug Hunt
TAR HEEL EDITOR Jimmy Wallace, Charles Wickenberg
YACK EDITOR Cookie Marett, Jean Parry
ATHLETIC ASSO. PRESIDENT Ted Shultz, Ray Walters
ATHLETIC ASSO. VICE-PRESIDENT Jack Dean, Bobby Weant
ROTC
STUDENT COUNCIL (vote for one)
Laurie Hooper
Mason Whitney
LEGISLATURE (vote for one)
Jim Fowler
Charles McCormick
CIVILIAN BALLOT
STUDENT COUNCIL (vote for 3)
Wally Andrews
Jim Booth
Dick Ford
J. Preston Lemly
Allan Pannill
Bob Parsons
LEGISLATURE (vote for four)
Claude Crocker
Ruth Doggett
Dougald MacMillan
Rene Bernard
Barron Mills
Whit Osgood
Jon Tuthill
Charlie Warren
NAVY V-12
STUDENT COUNCIL (vote for one)
Mac Davis
Johnny Ring
LEGISLATURE (vote for two)
Ralph Dupes ' .
Pat Persons
A. B. Smith, Jr.
Clive Thompson
Fred Wolfsdorf
MARINES
STUDENT COUNCIL (vote for one)
Don Seipert
Jack Vernier
LEGISLATURE (vote for two)
Forrest Leathers
Ed Markham
Bill McKee
Bill McLean
New Study Hour Rules
For V-12 Men In Activities
Graduate Students
Plan To Organize
An informal "get-acquainted party"
for all students in the graduate de
partment and professional schools will
be given at Kenan hall, December 2
at 7:30.
Headed by Ed Gould, a graduate stu
dent in the English department, the
committee in charge has planned the
party as a means whereby graduate
students may become acquainted with
one another.
The initiative for this party comes
from a series of informal and open
luncheon meetings and is the first step
towards the organization of a Gradu
ate Club.
Playmaker Plays To Open Tomorrow
Play Copped 1942
Pulitzer Award
Thornton Wilder's impudent, cock
eyed satire of Mankind, "The Skin of
Our Teeth," opens tomorrow night at
the Playmakers Theatre with all the
sybaritic flamboyance and mad staging
which made the Broadway production
the most provocative of 1942.
Scenes are played in the aisles,
against the proscenium arch and in the
pit itself. The pit is doubling as an
air raid shelter and asr the beach at
Atlantic City. Frederick Salk, as Mr.
Antrobus, almost meets his Waterloo
in the cabana on the beach.
The play is definitely on the expres
sionistic side and uses tricky scenic ef
fects as an integral part of the action.
Flats behave temperamentally, frags
ments of walls suddenly start leaning
and then slowly right themselves.
Each time that Mankind verges on a
new catastrophe more of the walls dis
appear into theflys. It is only the
mother (Barbara Young) who is able
to right the home at the end of the
play.
Seventeen photographs and cartoons
will be projected on the movie screen
to introduce the audience to the An
trobus family. The photographs were
made by John Stick of Durham and
the cartoons drawn by Wautell Sel
den, Randall Brooks and Dick Kiser.
Foster Fitz-Simons, the Playmaker
designer, has created two highly styl
ized sets for the show. The living room
of the Antrobus home presents Man m
his most surrealistic surroundings.
The Atlantic City boardwalk is of a
much more realistic nature.
The costumes were designed and ex
ecuted by Irene Smart and Lib Stoney.
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A scene from the Playmaker production, "The Skin of Our Teeth"
When faced with the creation of a baby
dinosaur and mammoth for Act I they
resorted to textbooks, cotton padding,
wire and paper mache. "Their moth
ers will never claim them," says Miss
Smart.
"The Skin of Our Teeth" was first
produced on Broadway in November,
1942, and starred Tallulah Bankhead,
Frederic March and Florence Eld
ridge. The play was a smash hit, caus
ing the biggest theatrical rumpus since
Mr. Wilder's "Our Town." A contro
versial play, it won the Pulitzer Prize
of 1942 as the best original play of
that year.
The commanding officer of the Naw
V-12 ; Unit has issued -a -memorandum
giving the Navy and Marine trainees
an opportunity to participate in stu
dent activities to a much greater de
gree than has been possible since the
compulsory study hour regulations
were put in effect last September.
The memorandum provides that
all duly elected officials of campus
organizations may be excused from
the compulsory study hours at such
times as are necessary to perform
the duties of his office. However, the
memorandum also provides that the
privilege is to be revoked in the event
that the trainee fails to maintain a
C average or better.
The text of the memorandum is as
follows:
1. The Commanding Officer desires
that all NROTC Cadets, Seamen and
Marine trainees participate in cam
pus activities to as full extent as is
compatible with the required Naval
training.
2. To this end, all duly elected of
ficials of campus organizations such
as The Grail, Yackety-Yack, Tar Heel,
IRC, Student Council, Student Legis
lature, etc., will be excused from
compulsory study hours at such times
as are necessary to carry on their
duties, provided, that this privilege
will be revoked in the case of any
trainee who fails to maintain a C
See STUDY HOURS, page 4.
Navy Now Training
Radio Technicians
The Navy will accept qualified men
for training 'as radio technicians, ac
cording to an announcement released
today by the bureau of military and vo
cational information in South build
ing. Trainees are given a ten-month
course of instruction that is valued at
approximately $12,000 and upon com
pletion of the prescribed curriculum,
they are eligible for promotion to radio
technician second class, with a base
pay of $96.00 per month, the normal
base pay of all Navy second class petty
officers. Specifically, it was announced,
these men are trained to operate and
maintain radar devices.
Those eligible to apply are men who
have reached their 17th birthday, who
may volunteer for Naval service, and
men within -the draft age who have
been found physically qualified for
service in either the Army or the
Navy. It was explained that any man
subject to induction who has passed
his pre-induction physical examina
tion at an armed forces induction cen
ter can apply for this training.
Candidates Will Address
Student Body Wednesday
By Jim Dillard
Climaxing almost a month of campaigning on the part of candidates for
seven major campus offices and a host of smaller ones, the campus-wide elec
tion to be held Thursday, November 30, will determine the student leaders
who will guide the University's student government as well as student pub
lications. Opposition is expected to be keen for all of the major posts since
all candidates are faced with at least one opponent and in the case of vice-
president of the Student Body there
are three candidates with Bill Crisp,
Dal Davis and Archie Hood seeking
election to that post. Crisp is an in
dependent . candidate without any
party affiliation while Davis and Hood
are representing the Student Party
and University Party respectively.
For secretary-treasurer of the stu
dent body there are two candidates
with Jenks Tripp representing the
University Party and Boots Walker
representing the Student Party.
Charlie Hackney and Doug Hunt
are the candidates for Speaker of the
Legislature. Hackney is a member
of the NROTC Unit representing the
University Party, while Hunt, a civil
ian law student, represents the Stu
dent Party.
The slot of Tar Heel editor is being
sought by two candidates. Jimmy
Wallace, a civilian law student, with
more than four years' experience on
the Tar Heel staff, is running against
Charles Wickenburg, a Marine
trainee who is now majoring in
journalism.
In the race for editor of the Yack
ety-Yack, Cookie Marett and Jean
Parry are the two candidates. Both
See ELECTIONS, page t.
Chemical Show
To Highlight
Rally Today
County Bond Quota
Set For $283,000
A chemical warfare demonstration
and war bond rally will be held this
afternoon at 4:15 on Fetzer field it
was announced by J. Maryon Saun
ders, secretary of the Alumni asso
ciation and Orange County chairman
of the Sixth war loan.
Soldiers from Camp Butner, through
arrangements with the post command
ing officer will put on the show. Local
arrangements are in charge of Lt.
Comdr. W. C. Clark of the Pre-Flight
school and H. W. Wentworth of the
munitions plant at Carrboro.
The 225th Army Ground forces
band, under the direction of Chief War
rant Officer Chauncey Kelly will ac
company the chemical warfare team
to Chapel Hill and will play during
the -program; - v;
The demonstration consists of lay
ing smoke screens, the use of colored
smoke signalling and hand grenades
in chemical warfare, and the use of a
giant flame thrower.
No admission will be charged, the
demonstration and rally being ar
ranged to stimulate the sale of bonds
in the current war loan drive.
Orange County has accepted an E
bond quota of $283,000 and reports
at the end of the first official day of
the drive showed $46,000 already pur
chased in E bonds alone. The Pre
Flight school personnel last Decem
ber 7 bought $87,925 in war bonds
and is hoping to exceed that amount in
a special sale this Pearl Harbor day.
Employees of the National Munitions
Company in Carrboro have accepted
a quota of $30,000 in E bonds.
Bull's Head Tea
Dr. George Barton Cutten will speak
at the Bull's Head Bookshop tea to
morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. His
! subject will be "Old Silver." The pub
lic is cordially invited.
DKE, ATO, Win
PiKA Cup, Bond
Approximately 20 entries were
judged in the annual Pi Kappa Alpha
Duke-Carolina Weekend Banner Con
test and 26 entries competed for first
place in the House Display Contest.
The PiKA cup for the best banner
went to the Alpha Tau Omega Fra
ternity while a $25 war bond was
awarded to the Delta Kappa Epsilon
Fraternity for the best House Dis
play. Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity won
the Banner Contest with their entry
which depicted three rams, the rear
one being carried in a stork's sling,
butting a Blue Devil, while above the
picture were the words: "Tar Heels
Will Beat Duke in '44, '45 and '46."
Delta Kappa Epsilon won the house
display with their exhibit of a ram
repeatedly butting down a Blue Devil
which repeatedly got up while a
See DKE, page 4.
Dr. Ullman's Interest In Latin
Began With 4th Grade Reader
By Lucille Cathey
A little Yankee once read in his
fourth grade reader two of Pliny's let-
ters about the eruption of Vesuvius in
the year 79 A. D. The details remained
vividly in the lad's mind; he started
thinking. And zingo! this lad turned
out to be one of America's leading La
tinists, Dr. B. L. Ullman.
Dr. Ullman of the University of Chi
cago came to Chapel Hill as the new
head of the Department of Classics of
the University in September of this
year. He says he decided to come here
for two reasons: he visited Chapel Hill
last spring for the first time and was
deeply impressed with the remarkable
cordiality and friendly atmosphere
around the town and campus. Second
ly, he came to the University of North
Carolina because it "has a very good
reputation." Professor Ullman thinks
that some Carolinians don't realize
what a fine thing they have here and
seems quite concerned over the fact.
A psychologist might say one can
find a cue to the career and views of a
person by looking into his past life. A
Don't forget the reception
to meet the candidates this
afternoon in Graham Memorial.
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DR. ULLMAN
look backward shows that Berthold
Ullman got an A.B. from the Univer
sity of Chicago in 1903, a Ph.D. in
1908; studied at the University of
Munich in the summer of '06 and was
an American scholar of classical stu
dies at Rome from 1906-08. Professor
Ullman spent approximately five years
abroad during which time he traveled
all over western Europe and northern
Africa.
One of his favorite stories is that of
See ULLMAN, page 4.