THE DAILY" TAR HEEL
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1942
First Issue Lead Printed
20 Days Late on Hand Press
By Paul Komisaruk
Twenty minutes after President Roosevelt asked Congress,, for a
war declaration against Japan, three DTH reporters were on the
Western Union sending the story back from the nation's capitol to
"The Daily Tar Heel, Chapel Hill, Press Rates, Collect."
From the State Capitol a DTH reporter kept after the story of
the Ackland will, and turned in the most comprehensive series of
articles in the state on Carolina's bid for the new million dollar art
school. From Raleigh's airport, famed ;
speakers were met as they alighted have pounded through Carolina's jour
frora huge flying ships, whisked to the nalistic mill, packing the paper's life
Hill, and interviewed on the way over. wjth a 50 year punch.
From Tulane, two DTH sports men wir- Char,es Baskervlile had an idea in
ed results of Carolina's disastrous 52-6 the a of lg92 Hg approached Walter
defeat. . "Pete" Murphey. While Baskerville
... and from the files of the Daily had the idea, Murphey had the drive,
Tar Heel, comes a page out of history ani on February 23, 1893, he first
. " The following members of the Tar Heel, sponsored by the Athletic
legislature composing the visitation association and printed on such poor
committee arrived on a special train paper that most of the copies were blur
Friday morning, February 3," so lef s red, became a reality. Baskerville was
roll out another keg of beer because editor, Murphey managing editor,
those first Tar Heel editors started The Baskerville-Murphey combine
something on February 23, 1893, when worked hard, and worked well, consid
the first hand set Tar Heel chugged off ering the times. They turned out a
the presses 49 years ago today WITH weekly newspaner, worried about copy,
THEIR LEAD STORY 20 DAYS worried about deadlines, ran the Uni
LATE. versity directory on the back page to
Those were the days. The Di and Phi fill up space, and wouldn't believe it if
ran the campus, the YMCA assembled they saw the Campbell-Meyer combine,
four times a week, and a struggling turning qut six papers a week, working
weekly newspaper was handset in a with a staff of 75, throwing stories 20
dilapidated storeroom next to the old
Methodist church.
A half a century ago the DTH's story
began as an idea. And in the. 50 years
that followed five decades of talent
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THE PICTURES BELOW-represent a very brief part of the Daily Tar Heels photographic coverage of outstanding
events at Carolina during the papers 49 years of existence. During these' years, this paper has been extremely
fortunate in obtaining the'services of excellent photographers who have later made outstanding records in national
journalistic fields. i
Congratulations!
to
THE DAILY
TARHEEL
for
Forty-nine Years of
Efficient Service to
The University of
N. C. and Town of
Chapel Hill
FOISTER
PHOTO CO.
hours old in the "hell box," and turn
ing out six papers a week.
Once under way, after a series of dis
turbances in 1894, when non-fraternity
men resigned to start their own paper
the reigns came, and two things be
came obvious: first, the DTH was tak
ing its place in campus life, and be
coming a positive factor in shaping
campus opinion, and second, the edi
tors couldn't stand the gaff. They
came and went, and in the first ten
years there were 23 who took over the
leadership, and either could not or
would not hold it.
Carolina's first coed, Miss Mary S.
McCrae became literary editor of the
staff in 1898 setting a precedent that
has found Carolina's coeds continually
capturing and draping themselves
around the DTH's rattling typewriters'
In 1903 Phillips Russell, now Univer
sity English and journalism professor,
became editor. Russell maintained that
in those days, "'your office was in your
hat." Hand-set, the paper was put to
gether in the University press build
ing, which stood on the site of Phillips
hall between Memorial and Swain.
When in 1907 the YMCA donated the
paper an office "in its new building,"
the DTH came into its own. Oscar J.
(Skipper) Coffin, present head of the
journalism department, took over the
essisrfr,.
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THE DTH STRENGTHENED its past editorial policies of better relations between students of the University of
North Carolina and Duke when it printed this shot of a gat-together between the leaders of both schools.
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reins of the Tar Heel (it was a bi-week
ly then) in 1909. He started using 11
point type, confined his paper to sports,
and split the profits if there were any
with the business manager.
Dean Uradshaw took his hold on
South building as early as 1915. He be
came business manager that year, and
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IT WAS WITH MUCH PRIDE that the oldest college daily in the South
printed the first photostatic copy of a University citation to a president
of the country.
in the first fall issue advertised that
Tar Heel subscriptions could be obtain
ed from "Bradshaw in South 11." It was
the "same building, same Bradshaw."
In 1918 the weekly Tar Heel had four
pages as does the present paper.
In 1919 Thomas Wolfe found himself
long enough to put out a Tar Heel, act
ing during his year as both an editor,
and sometimes managing editor. Again
in 1920, the DTH became a bi-weekly.
Under Walter Spearman, present
professor of journalism, the DTH be
came a daily in 1928 and the modern
era got under way.
The first college daily in the South
has spent these last dozen years with
out any revolutionary changes, but
steadily improving its form and con
See DTH HISTORY, page 7
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