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VOLUME XLVn
EDITORIAL ?HONE 4JSI
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1938
NUMBER 2
Haymaker's Theater To Be
Rebuilt By January; Fire
Precautions To Be Taken
Bynum Gym to Be
Used Temporarily
As Headquarters
The Playmaker theater, badly
damaged approximately a month
ago by fire, will be completely
rebuilt in detail by January 1,
1939, Dr. Frederick H. Koch an
nounced yesterday.
In addition to the restoration,
proper fire precautions will be
installed. An asbestos fire cur
tain, which the authorities think
would have saved the structure
before had one been on hand, a
fire wall, and modern fire fight
ing equipment such as hose and
extinguishers will be included.
New Equipment
Lighting equipment, curtains,
cyclorama, rooms for make-up,
and a complete touring outfit
with a portable switchboard and
scenery are being purchased.
After giving a story to yester
day's Daily Tar Heel that, the
Playmakers would be located in
Chapel Hill high school audi
torium as the administration
had planned, Dr. Koch found
that Bynum gymnasium would
be available for use as a tem
porary theater.
The commencement platforms
will be moved into the old build
ing for a stage and a number of
chairs are to be placed on the
main floor to substitute for the
theater seats. Black drapes jvill
cover the windows,' making a
lighted stage possible.
All the equipment that is
being bought for the renovated
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Tar Heel Staff To
Meet This Afternoon
YMCA Assistant
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Francis Fairley, former stu
dent body president, who re
turns to the campus this" fall as
assistant secretary of YMCA.
FAIRLEY TO TAKE
POST AS COMER'S
ASSISTANT
Former President
Of Student Body
Returns To Campus
Francis Fairley, former presi
dent of the student body from
Monroe, has returned to the Uni
versity campus this fall to take
over the position of "assistant
secretary of the YMCA, it was
announced yesterday by YMCA
President Brooks Patton.
Fairley, who was prominent
in campus activities here two
years ago, serving as student
body president in the spring of
1936, will have charge of fresh
man work in the YMCA. He suc
ceeds Howard Covington who
was assistant secretary last
year.
A student at Columbia uni
versity law school for the past
two years, Fairley will enter the
local University law school for
his last year of study.
CHEERLEADER PAT
PATTERSON CALLS
FOR COOPERATION
Best Squad in Many
Seasons Is Expected
For This Year
President Graham Formally
Opens 145th Session In
Speech In Memorial Hall
Hark the Sound!
CREEDY CALLS
STAFF MEETING
Mag Editor Issues
Call For New Men
There will be an important
"staff organization" meeting
of the Daily Tar Heel on
second floor of Graham Mem
orial this afternoon promptly
at 2 o'clock.
All students who were mem
bers of the staff last year and
those who worked on the
special edition published yes
terday must be present for the
special session if they plan to
continue 6n the paper this
year.
This meeting applies only
to those mentioned above.
There will be a "tryout" meet
ing for all freshmen anjl
others who wish to join the
staff at 2 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon on the second floor
of Graham Memorial.
Infirmary Closes
Free Tuberculosis
Clinic Today
All Students Urged To
Take Advantage Of Tests,
X-Ray Examinations
The Carolina Magazine's first
staff meeting of the year, ac
cording to Editor John Creedy,
wilLibeWednesday -iru Graham
Memorial. The magazine is
especially interested m verse,
fiction, articles on campus and
social problems, book reviews,
anything in short, that is good
from a literary standpoint.
New men who have had ex
perience in high schol publica
tions and all others interested
in working with the staff of the
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magazine are coraiaiiy mvitea
to take part in this year's Caro
lina Magazine. Prospective con
tributors are asked to bring
ideas or copy with them when
they attend the meeting Wed
nesday evening.
Members of last year's staff
especially asked to be present
are: William Michaux, Adrian
Spies, Miss Margaret Munch,
John Thibaut, Sam Green,
George Foster, Alan Calhoun,
Len Rubin, Miss Josephine Nig
gli, Lee Wigging, Simons Lucas
Roof, Bill Weaver, Edward Meg-
son, Sam Hirsch, HughFoss,
Lynn Gault, Stephen Waff and
Randy Reece.
Today is last day of the annual
student tuberculosis clinic held
this week at the infirmary
through the cooperation of the
state tuberculosis sanatorium,
according to a bulletin issued by
the infirmary staff , -
A special effort has been
made to have all students tested
and those who have not done so
are urged to go to the infirmary
today.
The test, a reliable indication
of tubercular infection, is harm
less, has no unpleasant after
effects, and costs nothing.
X-rays of those showing a posi
tive reaction are also made free
of charge.
Those who have had positive
reactions before are urged to be
re-X-rayed this fall.
All the cooperation and spirit
the campus can give are the most
important things the cheerlead
ing squad needs this year, an
nounced Pat Patterson, head
cheerleader.
Patterson expects to have one
of the best crews the University
has seen in many moons, and
emphasis will be laid on enter
tainment, tricks, and gymnastic
feats, particularly during the
football srame halves. "Since
many of these features will be
surprises," said Pat, "it would
spoil their effect to reveal them
now."
The first call for tryouts was
made last Monday and about 30
students came out. The group
will be narrowed down the latter
part of next week, and probably
half the squad will be freshmen.
Paul Harper is the only holdover
member from last year. All those
who want to be cheerleaders,
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nowever, sun nave tne oppor
tunity to try out, since the final
selection has not been made.
"I'd like freshmen to know
that cheerleading is a good
extra-curricular activity and
provides plenty of healthful
physical exercise," said Patter
son.
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This boy, any cheerleader, is
a link binding the Carolina stu
dent body to its teams in action.
Surprise 5c
One of our less-conventional
coeds once had a habit of leav
ing the contents of her soft
drinks to the discretion of soda
jerkers. After a shopping pil
grimage in Raleigh this summer
she parked in a drug store booth
and when the white-clad boy
asked for her order she laid down
a nickel and said, "Just surprise
me."
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ie starea at ner ior a mo
ment, yelled "BOO!", picked up
the nickel and walked away.
Freshmen, New Coeds Invited
To First Assembly Meeting
PUGH CALLS FOR
NEW BUCCANEERS
Editor Says That
Mag Must Be Funny
Editor Carl Pugh of Carolina
Buccaneer puts it this way in re
gard to the outlook for the cam
pus humor magazine, "We're
going to have more dust than
dirt and as much dust as we can
get away with . . .The magazine
must be funny." A particular
aim of the staff will be to use
unusual, striking covers. First
of the eight issues will appear
October 10.
Freshmen, upperclassmen and
others who are potential-Frank
Sullivans, Bob Burnses and Bob
Benchleys are asked to report
Monday night at the Bucaneer
office in Graham Memorial for
the first staff meeting of the
year. Official time will be an
nounced later in the Tar Heel's
bulletin board. Everyone who
turns out for the meeting, Pugh
pointed out, will be on the staff
for the first issue.
Several important positions
on the staff are yet to be filled;
students with unusual talent are
asked to come to the meeting
Monday "night especially art,
music, photography and sports
aspirants.
Here We Go Again
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Boake Carter To Open CPU
Program Late This Month
Chairman Gilmore
Announces Union's
Plans For Year
Radio News Commentator
Boake Carter will open the Caro
lina political union's fall pro
gram late in September, accord
ing to plans announced yester
day by Union Chairman Voit
Gilmore.
Also contacted for tentative
speaking dates are three other
prominent men, with a strong
possibility that President Frank
lin Roosevelt may appear in Me
morial hall sponsored by the
union sometime this year.
. Carter h a s definitely ex
pressed his interest in the or
ganization's work, and his desire
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Miss LaRochelle
Announces Marriage
Miss Virginia La Rochelle of
Longmeadow, Mass. and Donald
Wetherbee of Greenville, Miss.,
both former students of the UniT
versity, were married August 21
in the chapel of Mt. Holyoke col
lege in Northampton, Mass. The
bride was a junior coed in
Chapel Hill two years ago, then
transferred to Mt. Holyoke for
her senior year. .
The groom graduated from
Carolina in 1937. He was vice-
president of Phi Beta Kappa,
president of Ampoterothen,. and
a member of 4Jelta Psi fra
ternity. The pair honeymooned
in Bermuda and plan to settle in
Greenville.
YMCA Cabinets, YWCA
To Sponsor Lemonade
Hike To Battle Park
Boys Asked to Meet at
YMCA and March on
Spencer Hall in Body
A lemonade hike to Battle
Park, sponsored by the sopho
more and junior-senior YMCA
cabinets and the YWCA will be
held Sunday afternoon, begin
ning at 4 o'clock. New girls are
particularly invited.
All boys are requested to
gather at YMCA building. They
will then march in a body to
Spencer Hall where the girls
are to r meet. At Battle Park
there will be a surprise for
everyone.
. Every student on the campus
is a member of either the YM
or YWCA and all are urged to
attend.
Readmissions Board
In Meeting Today
C. P. Spruill, dean of the
general college, announced
yesterday the meeting of the
readmissions board this morn
ing at i0 o'clock. All men af
fected must report at this
time.
Speaker Rankin
Gives Report On
Phi Activities
Speaker John Rankin of the
Phi assembly announced, this
week that the first meeting of
the year for the assembly will
be held next Tuesday night in
the-Phi hall on the fourth floor
of New East at 7 o'clock. The
session will mark the opening of,
the 144th year of operation of
the forensic group. ,
i The opening session will be
devoted t o introductions o f
freshmen, new coeds, and all
others that will join the organi
zation this year.
At the meeting Speaker Ran
kin will make his inaugural ad
dress in which he will explain
the plans and policies of the pre
sent administration for the ac
ceptance or rejection by the
house.
Business Session
Following the Speaker's ad
dress the calendar will be cleared
of all old and new business and
the assembly will be adjourned
for a social honoring its new
members and guests. The social
will probably be held in Graham
Memorial. '
All freshmen and new coeds
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Following were confined to
the infirmary yesterday: E.
Tankersley, J. Phillips, Don
Baker, F. D'Elia, S. E. Fuchs, C.
Falls, J. Thomas, S. Hatcher, F.
Tunick, E. Coffin, D. Seligman,
E. Holt, G. Bullock, I. Nemtzow,
Andy Bershak.
Explains Student
Government, Campus
Traditions
Formally opening the 145 ses
sion or university or Worth
Carolina, President Frank P.
Graham, spoke in Memorial hall
yesterday, departing from the
conventional type of address and
devoting most of his talk to tra
ditions of the campus.
"I am trying, he explained,
to help you get the feel of the
place, so you will be able to
carry on the precious heritage
handed on to you by your prede
cessors."
Dr. Graham stressed the view
that the institution's trustees,
faculty, students and alumni
"have always been noted for
their loyalty, devotion and high
ideals."
Student Government Is Old
We have here a student gov
ernment and an honor system
that are almost as old as the
institution itself. You have
pledged yourselves to uphold the
principles of that government."
Praising the loyalty of the
faculty, he said that "during the
darkest days of the depression
the darkest days the University
has experienced since the carpet
baggers closed her doors at
least 60 members of the faculty
turned down tempting offers
from other instittuions that
would have increased t heir
salaries by a total of $100,000
and elected to remain in Chapel
Hill and help us fight out of the
depression, strong in the faith
that better days would soon
come."
Rating Is Still Good
And though many had said at
this time that the greatness of
the University was doomed, Dr.
Graham pointed out that the
American council on education,
after a recent survey based on
ratings by departments, placed
this University at the forefront
of similar institutions in the
Southeast.
Complacency and contentment
with the University as it is, he
declared, had been avoided like
a plague, lest dry rot and de
terioration set in. As an advance
this direction, Dr. Graham
in
pointed out the recently estab
lished general college, compris
ing a basic two-year course of
study for beginners, which was
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3,298 Students Registered;
All Carolina Records Broken
Tar Heel Hits New
High In Circulation
The Daily Tar Heel has
hit a new high in circulation
this quarter. Four thousand
copies, the largest circulation
in the ; history of the paper,
will be distributed, and copies
will reach practically all the
states of the Union, according
to Jesse Lewis, circulation
. manager.
Student circulation follow
ing Thursday's registration
is 3350. The Tar Heel
reaches a number of foreign
countries and possessions in
cluding Canada, the Pillipines,
England and France.
The student operated journ
al is also distributed to every
home and business concern in
Chapel Hill.
Co-Ed Enrollment To
Reach 400 Within
Next Six Days
Breaking all existent records,
registration soared yesterday to
a total of 3,298 students enrolled
in the University.
With six days left in the fall
registration period, I. C. Griffin
of the central records depart
ment expressed hopes last night
of reaching the 3,500 mark. Last
year's enrollment at this time
was 3,207, a record already
broken by 91 students this fall.
Although official figures will
not be available until next week,
it is believed that the total for
freshmen will reach 850, and the
total for women students gener
ously exceed the 300 mark.
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