t BE SURE AND SUPPORT this summer's Intramural pro gram. Enter teams in the soft ball, horseshoe, and tennis competition. FOLK FESTIVAL TIME is here again. Don't forget to at tend the third annual Festival opening tonight in Kenan Sta dium. Three big nights Thurs day, Friday, and Saturday are planned. VOLUME II Final Edition Chapel Hill, N. C, June 15, 1950 Phones: F-3361, F-3371 NUMBER! A More Than 3900 Sign For Opening Session By Andy Taylor According to tentative esti mates made yesterday by Sum mer School Director Guy Phillips, somewhere in the vicinity of 3900 students have registered with the University for the first ses sion of summer school. This figure, however, does not take into account the cancella tions which have not yet been received or of the many stragg lers who will sign up before re gistration closes at 4:30 this af ternoon. Of the near 4,000 students ex pected to register, approximately 2100 of them are old students who prc-registered, Phillips reported. Enrollment in the graduate school was heavier than expected, but the ranks of the undergrads got fewer candidates than an Latin American Studies Offered In First Session Williard F. Barber, Deputy As sistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs, Washington, opened on Tuesday the Special Summer Session in Latin "American Studies, with em phasis on political science, which is to be held here during the first term of the Summer Session, June 12-July 20. The Session will be the third in a series of cooperative sum mer schools conducted by the Universities of North Carolina, Texas, Tulane, and Vanderbilt, which are participating in a broad program of Latin American studies with the aid of a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Fellowships are being granted by Carolina, Texas, Tulane and Vanderbilt to permit scholars from these institutions to study . here this summer. . An important feature of the program here will be a Joint Seminar on Latin American Af fairs to be taught by the entire Latin American staff, composed of University faculty members and several visiting professors. Mr. Barber and the visitirg scholars will be guests of honor at a reception in the Morehead Planetarium building Tuesday af ternoon at 5 o'clock. Mr. Barber Vets For Graham A "Veterans for Frank Gra ham" rally is set tonight in the American Legion hut. Graham County headquarters said yes terday. The rally, slated for 8 o'clock, is open to all faculty, students, and townspeople who are veter ans. The affair is called to co ordinate the work of the Gra-ham-for-Senate campaign in the county. Several speakers are on the program including Prof. E. J. Woodhouse, student body Pres ident John Sanders. Jerry Stone. Hillsborough attorney, and Jean McLean, women veteran repre sentative. Women veterans are especially urged to be on hand. ticipated, he said. Phillips also reported that Sat urday classes will be held twice during the first session. The regular Monday schedule will take place this Saturday, June 17, while on July 15, the last Saturday in the term, an other session of regular classes will be held. Last day of classes is slated for Tuesday, July 18, Two days of exams will follow, on Wed nesday and Thursday. On Friday, July 21, registra tion for the second session of summer school will commence and on Saturday, the 22nd, first classes of the second session will be held. Such a tight schedule provides for "no lost motion," in the words of Phillips. will address an opening session in the Morehead Building that night at 8:30. He "will discuss the Latin American policy of the United States. A native of South Dakota, Mr. Barber received his A.B. and M.A. degrees from Stanford Uni versity and did further graduate work at Columbia University where he was awarded the Ein stein Prize for Excellence in American Diplomacy in 1933. After teaching in the College of the City of New York from 1931 to 1933, he became an officer in the Division of American Re publics of the State Department, working on problems of Panama, Haiti, Dominican , Republic and Cuba. Carrboro Stadium Scene Of Picnic A barbecue supper, Bingo, horseshoes, and a baseball game will be the featured attractions at a picnic to be held in Carrboro baseball park next Wednesday afternoon, June 21, at 4:30. The affair is being sponsored by the Chapel Hill and Carrboro Merchants Associations in con junction with other civic clubs and all students and townspeople are invited. The price of admission to the picnic has been set at $1.50 with all proceeds going toward final payments on the baseball park, which was built this spring for use by the high school team and American Legion teams from both towns. Aside from the Bingo playing and horseshoes competition, there will be all the barbecue you can eat with a concert by the Chapel Hill High band scheduled to take place later. A baseball game between the Carrboro Athletic Club and an unnamed opponent will highlight the evening. The Club is re sponsible for the game and will be the host team. Third Annual Folk Festival i ....... Opens Three-Day Run Today By Joe Cherry The third annual Carolina Folit Festival, featuring over 600 sing ers, banjo pickers, fiddlers, and various other entertainers, will get under way tonight at 8 o'clock in Kenan' Stadium. The three-day affair will draw outstanding folklore talent from Dances, Lounge Music Listed For Weekend One dance and a Sunday after- noon musical program by pianist Bob Morris were listed as top events on the weekend's social I calendar yesterday by James Rathburn, head of the Summer Social Committee. "Come and get acquainted," will be the theme of all of the activities, and with special em phasis on the dances. For the Saturday night affair tables will be placed in front of the building and dancing to re quested records will be the order of the evening on the brick walks in front of the building. The Rendezvous Room will be open and refreshments will be on hand along with the services of the juke box. In case of rain the whole affair will move there. The information office in Gra ham Memorial's main lounge will be open all week to receive re quests for records to be played at the dance. On Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock the lounge will be opened to all students and their dates for an informal piano concert. The main point of all of the activities, Rathburn stated, is to get all of the new students, both male and female, acquainted. He promised that there would be plenty of stag girls on hand for those boys without dates. It is hoped that the dances will be a success, in which case they will become a weekly affair on the program of the Social Com mittee. Drastic Auto Coming With Campus car-owners faced an-; other drastic cutback in parking space yesterday as the contract awarding for the new Commerce buildings behind Memorial Hall loomed close. J. A. Jones Construction Com pany, now doing the work on the library and medical school pro jects, submitted low bid for the work on the new commerce con struction. The contract has not yet been awarded. Under an agreement worked out by the Campus Traffic Com mittee in March, as soon as the parking space in the area behind Memorial Hall is taken, all cam pus parking areas, except the space beside lower quad dormi tories, will automatically be re all sections of North and South Carolina, Virginia, and Texas. The festival, one of the most popular summertime events in Chapel Hill, attracts thousands of spectators annually. In case of rain, the three performances will be held in Memorial Hall. Bascom Lamar Lunsford, noted Boys State Sets Voting The American Legion-spon sored Boys State, being held here this week under the direction of the Institute of Government, will roll into its big business tonight wrhen two political parties nom inate candidates for offices. The annual affair, being at tended by some 300 high school boys this year, has included talks by practically all state officials on phases of government. The "Federalists" and the "Na tionalists" will name their can didates in meetings tonight. The election will take place tomorrow night. Today the group will hear talks by State Commissioner of Agri culture Stag Ballentine and Chancellor R. B. House. Tomor row Dr. Henry Jordan, head of the State Highway Commission, State Treasurer Brandon P. Hodges, Dr. Archibald Hender son, and State representative John Umstead of Chapel Hill. The meeting will end Saturday night within an awards , banquet in Lenior Hall. City elections were held Tuesday, and county elections are set for tonight. Space Slash New Building stricted to faculty and handi capped students. Two more areas will also be come restricted. Space at Emer son Field and the Bell Tower will be restricted to red ticket hold ers student commuters. The agreemnt stipulated that the new regulations will go into effect seven days before the Memorial Hall parking area is officially closed. No estimate has been made as to when the construction is to begin, but University officials pointed out that if the Jones bid rthe lowest is accepted, the company will probably begin al most immediately, since its equip ment is already here. folklorist and director of the . Festival, has announced that an added feature this year will be the appearance of Mrs. Lillie Lee Baker and a large group of sing ers and dancers from Austin, Texas. Mrs. Baker, Director of the . Texas Square Dance Festival, and Henry Hudson, outstanding old time Texas fiddler, will bring two squares of dancers and a string band to Chapel Hill. "Some fifteen other large groups of dancers are coming from as many different counties," Luns ford said. Mountaineer dancers from Alleghany County with string band, Virginia's square dancers with Mrs. Anne Chilton and Miss Evelyn Harvey of Randolph-Macon as leaders, and 12 couples from Randolph County will be among those on hand for the Festival. Professor E. K. Thompson is expected to have a group from Colridge this year. A Negro chorus singing traditional spirit uals under the leadership of Susie Weaver of Chapel Hill will be an important part of the program again this year. Officials of the Festival have announced that UNC Summer School students will have to pay the full adult admission price of 75 cents for each of the three night sessions. Square Dance Course Offered At the conclusion of the three day Folk Festival Saturday, Mrs. Lillie Lee Baker, the well-known Texas authority who will be a headliner onthe Festival, will teach a short course in square dancing and conduct a callers' clinic. Sponsored by the Extension Division and the Department of Physical Education of the Uni versity, this course vill be given in two hour sessions 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. three days, June 19, 20, and 21, in the Women's Gym nasium. Fees for the course are $5 for students enrolled in the Univer sity Summer Session and $10 for non - students. Mimeographed copies of all materials will be issued to those enrolled in the course. Reservations are being handled by the office of R. M. Grumman, Director of the Uni versity Extension Division. Summer Tar Heel The summer Tar Heel, official publication of the University during the summer sessions, will be published each Thursday. Deadline for all copy and no tices for the paper is Tuesday afternoon at 3:30. All persons or offices wishing io run notices should contact the office in Gra ham Memorial. Classified advertising will be accepted. The price for such ad vertising is 75 cents for 25 words. The publication is made pos sible through funds made avail able by- the dean of Summer SchooL

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