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The Oldest College Daily In The South
VOLUME L
Bosineu: 9887; Circulation: 9888
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1942
.Editorial: 4356; News: 4351: Night: 6306
NUMBER 171
Mud, Rations Didn't Halt Senior Week Fun
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SEVENTEEN ATTRACTIVE young ladies served as sponsors for class leaders who figured at the Junior
Senior series of dances held Friday and last night. Thrae dances were held a formal Friday night and a tea
dance yesterday afternoon and another formal last night. Red Norvo and his famous band furnished music
for the Saturday dances and Lieut. Stanley Brown's outfit from Fort Bragg played for he Friday night dance.
All were Keld in Woollen gymnasium. Left to right: Anice Garmany, Chattanooga, Tenn., with Dean Williams,
. Atlanta, Ga.; Eddie 0'Hair,,Fayetteville, with Sam Ganbill, Elkin, president of the junior class; Jean McKen
zie, West Palm Beach, Fla.,'with Bob Carroll, Hamlet; Sae Wimbish, Greensboro, with Orville Campbell, Hick
ory; and Carolyn Williams, Atlanta, Ga., with Bill McKinnon, Wadesboro, president of the senior class. Remain
ing class sponsors are shown below. '
First War Graduates Finish
Seven-Day Entertainment Slate
Fourth-Year Students Trudge Back
From Annual Grind of Antics, Dances
By Billy Webb
Seniors will trudge wearily back to fraternities and dormitories
tonight reminiscing with a cast of sadness upon the hurrying fun
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oi senior weeK ana upon tne last worry-iree years 01 tneir lives.
For the sixth consecutive year the Junior-Senior dance weekend
has been marked by rain with members of both classes wading
through Chapel Hill mud walking to the dances to save priority
tires and gas. None the less discouraged by the deluge, the dances
were crowded with Carolina gentlemen
in besmudged patent leather shoes and
imports with stockings wet through
evening sandals.
Co-chairmaned by Bill Alexander
and Mac McLendon who worked with
the busy aid of class president Bill Mc
Kinnon, Senior week began Sunday
with a concert of both popular and
classical music played in Kenan stadi
um. Graham Memorial arranged and
paid for the "music under the stars" as
their gift to the seniors. The male po
sition in the social ladder of being the
aggressor in matters of heart were re
laxed and coeds were directed to ask
men for dates.
Seniors laughed and yelled Tuesday
night at 11 o'clock as freshmen at Lum
and Abner's corny performance in
"The Bashful Bachelor," a free movie
reeled off for the seniors by E. Car
rington Smith, owner of Chapel Hill's
theaters. Wednesday featured the
Saddle Shoe Stomp on the tennis courts,
and organizers intuitively arranged
for the hop to be held in the Tin Can
in case of rain, but the clouds held off
until the weekend. Again the "leap
year" principal of coed-grab-date-with-Carolina-gentleman
was instated.
"Tangerine" Hurst Hatch played for
the dance. ,
Lacerated soles and aching corns
were the result of Thursday's day of
seniors creeping along Carolina's grav
el paths barefoot. Penalties for violat
ing the law laid down by tradition were
the men were to suffer the loss of their
pants if caught with their feet incased
in leather and coeds were to have their
hair tied in carrick ben knots executed
See SENIORS, page U
Mable Won't Never
Forget Week's Fun
With a smile playing around the
corners of her mouth, Mable, inter
viewed tonight with Jim as the proto
type of Junior-Senior dance set
couples, remarked that "although I
danced all night with Jim I had the
most wonderful fun I've ever had in
my life and I must admit I've had an
experienced life.
"You see, I've been to Junior-Seniors
three times before and I have
danced a total of approximately 127
consecutive dances with Jim on my
previous visits. I'm used to the dances
being sticky conditioned reflex," she
said urbanely with a wink at Dr. Eng
lish Bagby who was chaperoning.
Continuing in her characteristic
garrulous manner, Mable with arched
eyebrows asserted that "Jim and I
dropped in on several of the fraternity '
houses and to my surprise I found a
large number of the boys had fallen
asleep on the floor and in the oddest
positions. Later up town I saw the
poor students nodding in the booths
of the cafes. I don't think Carolina
students get enough sleep, and further
more they' evidently spend too much
time studying.
"The Sound and Fury show plus the
concert was grand," gushed Mable who
is from Portland, Maine and a junior
at Wellesley. It was . embarrassing
watching those boys climb down that
rope ladder in skirts. Boys don't
See MABLE, .page U
Hunt for $25
Starts Today
A campus-wide hunt for five hid
den $5 bills begins today.
Graham Memorial, Bill Cochrane
and the New Carolina Magazine will
give away $5 every day this week ex
cept Saturday, when they will spon
sor a Pirate's Ball in Graham Memor
ial lounge.
Under direction of Walter Klein,
the Treasure Hunt awards a total of
$25 to any five students who are
clever and quick enough to solve the
clues, published' daily on the editorial
page, and to track them down. No
entry blanks or strings are involved.
The idea for the Hunt was originated
by Cochrane and Henry Moll, former
Mag editor.
First set of clues, both leading to
the same $5 bill, are published in to
day's editorial columns. The clues
lead to two places on the campus
where code directions can be found
to the location of the hidden $5. The
money is expected to be found by noon
today, but the possibility exists that
no one will be able to solve today's
clues. In that case $10 will be offered
in Tuesday's Daily Tar Heel.
News of the winners and accounts
of their adventures "in tracking down
the clues will be published each day,
provided the winners report their
findings immediately. Hunt directors
ask students not to try for more than
one prize.
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also printed on today's editorial page,
with full instructions.
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MORE JUNIOR-SENIOR SPONSORS. Top row: Helen Hope Hale, Bluefield, W. Va., with Goodman Jones,
Bluefield- Martha Brandon, Scotland Neck, with Bill Alexander, .Mooresville; Jane Putman, Beckley, W. Va.,
with Sam Thompson Mt Oiive; Mary Holcombe Turner, Blackstone, Va., with Stewart Richardson, Macon, Ga.;
Holly Smith, Kinsto'n, with Charles Neaves, Elkin; and Jackie Hardin Boone, with Roger Mathews, Thomas
ville Second row: Blanche Poole, GreenvilIe,S. C, with Fletcher Mann, Pittsboro; Johnnie Bennett, Winston
- Salem, with Bert Bennett, Winston-Salem; Ardis Kipp, Miami Beach, Fla., with Floyd Cohoon, Columbia; Mary
Belle Marsh, Greensboro, with Pat Winston, Chapel Hill; Bernice Robinson, Jesup, Ga., with Al Rose, Durham;
and Elred Brown, Kannapolis, with Floyd McCombs, Kannapolis.
Golden Fleece
Taps New Men
In Open Ritual
Tonight at 8 .
Tonight will mark the election of
new members to the Golden Fleece,
campus honorary organization.
The 'annual tapping ceremony, com
plete with some weird selections from
Wagner, will be held in Memorial hall
beginning at 8 o'clock. The rituals
are open to student body attendance,
but the doors will be locked at 8:30.
As a prelude to the actual tapping,
the legend of Jason and the Golden
Fleece will be read by Dr. Urban T.
Holmes. Following this" reading, 'Ja
son, the president of the organization
during this year, will identify himself
for the first time and explain the rea
sons for the Fleece along with the
basis for selecting the new men.
While this goes on in the darkened
hall, a spotlight will outline the symbol
of the Golden Fleece above the stage.
When the actual tapping begins, two
robed figures will nter from the rear,
moving through the audience with
lights following their path. When a
man is tapped, lights will be trained
on him for an instance so that spec
tators can see who he is.
I After all the men have been tapepd
and introduced to the audience, a ban
quet will be held in the Carolina Inn.
Speaker for the occasion this year will
be Dean of Students F. F. Bradshaw,
an early member of the Fleece.
Members of the Fleece, commenting
on the selections, yesterday stated,
"Every year the campus criticizes the
Order because of the selections it
makes. Some criticize men who are
elected and others because certain men
on the campus weren't elected. It is
impossible, of course, to please every
body. "The Fleece does not expect the
whole student body to be in accord
when it is so extremely difficult for
those few members in the Order to
agree upon the men to be tapped; it is
necessary for them to spend many
hours for week after week in doing
this.
"The Fleece as a body tries to pick
men whom they believe to have an un
impeachable character, who have done
outstanding jobs in one particular field
or who have been active in several
fields, those men who have gone out
of their way to be progressive student
leaders instead of doing just routine
jobs."
Graham Invites
Labor Leaders
To 3-State Meet
Reminding labor of the "decisive
part" it will play in winning the war,
President Frank Graham and a mem
ber of the National War Labor Board,
this week issued invitations to all labor
organizations in North Carolina, South
Carolina and Virginia to attend the
first tri-state Conference on Labor in
the War here May 23 and 24.
On the program, released today, dis
cussions are scheduled on the new role
labor plays in prosecution of modern
"total war." Participating will be rep
resentatives of the Army, War Pro
duction Board, Manpower Commission,
Office of Price Administration, the
Office of Civilian Defense, and leaders
in the south of the American Federa
tion of Labor, the Congress of Indus
trial Organization, and the Railway
Brotherhoods With the University,
these organizations are joint sponsors
of the conference.
Graham's letter noted that in this
conflict "nowhere is labor more loyal,"
and declared "the national agreement
between labor, management and the
government for no strikes and no-lockouts
for the period of the war has been,
in its results to date, without parallel
in history."
DTH News Staff
Ordered to Meet
Entire news staff of the Daily Tar
Heel must meet tomorrow afternoon
at 1:30, so that the editor can give
them hell for various and sundry mis
demeanors. -
IRC Executives Meet
Members of the IRC executive com
mittee will meet this afternoon at 2
o'clock in Graham Memorial small
lounge. '
t 's Highway
Air p or
Ends Former Strife,
Complaint, Injuries
By Paul Komisaruk
The State Highway Commission's announcement last week that
a highway from Chapel Hill to the University airport will go into
construction shortly, brought to an end year old complaints from
CAA students and officials, who have eaten dust on the tortuous,
twisting soft surface road, and lost more flying time as a result
of injuries incurred on the road, than in sickness or accidents due
to actual flying.
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Grumman to Preside
At Extension Meet
Russell M. Grumman, director of
the University Extension division, as
president of the National University
Extension association, will preside at
the 27th annual sessions of the organi
zation at Pennsylvania State college
tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Mr. Grumman will deliver the annual
president's report at the opening meet
ing tomorrow morning.
Films Picturing
Growth of Co-ops
Shown Tonight
The Carolina Cooperative and Union
Young People's group will jointly spon
sor a motion picture, "Here is Tomor
row," tonight at the Methodist church
at 7 o'clock.
, The movie, which was produced by
the same professionals that released
"The River," will show the growth of
cooperatives in the United States since
1930, Dr. L. M. Brooks of the Sociology
department said yesterday.
The development of the cooperative
movement will be traced in the petro
leum, fertilizer, poultry, animal hus
bandry, and other industries as well as
in the operation of wholesale and re
tail cooperative stores and the central
See COOPS, page U -
Statements issued by W. Vance
Baise, chief highway engineer, assur
ing -officials that the new road will
receive priority ratings under the Ac
cess Roads classification, indicated a
hasty though well-planned beginning
on the project.
Staked out some eight months ago,
construction on the new road was un
explainedly delayed, when bids for
grading and surfacing of the new
highway were not let out. Twice last
January it was announced bids would
be let, but no action was taken. Lat
est announcement declared bids on the
2.4 mile long road would be let on
May 20. Starting at North street, the
road will continue to the airport.
Blueprint plans, tentatively drawn
up in March, 1941, indicated that the
road would continue on past the air
port to the Orange church. This, sig
nificantly, was only two miles from
highway No. 70, which has been des
ignated as a special defense highway.
It was stated at the time that a
cross link between Chapel Hill and
No. 70 would furnish a connection be
tween the highway and Fort Bragg,
without the treacherous curves of the
Durham road or the Raleigh traffic.
The present airport road is almost
"impossible" according to airport
heads. Impassable in. rain, always a
danger with its 23 sharp curves, the
road has been a constant hazard and
time loser. From the air it bears a
striking resemblance to China's now
closed Burma road.
Blueprints drawn up last year re
vealed that the new road would elimi
nate all but three of the curves.
Commission announcements that the
construction would include a 38-foot
culvert mean that a creek, now span
ned by a hazardous, single lane
bridge, will now be eliminated, and
that the route from the creek will go
as directly as possible to the airport
passing near the ends of the new
mile-long runways.
An expected width of 35 feet, and a
road surface of tar and crushed stone
can eliminate the last vestiges of dan
ger on the two-mile journey to the
airport. .
Extension of the new road to the
Orange church links Chapel Hill di
rectly with a major traffic artery.
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SPONSORS for the houseparty staged this weekend by Gamma Nu Zeta
chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity include the following coeds:
Top row Miss Mary Warren, Durham, with James Mitchener, the fra
ternity's High Alpha from Edenton; . Miss Mary Bowen, from Burgaw,
with Douglas Conrad, High Epsilon from Winston-Salem. Bottom row
Miss Jane Pittard, Nelson, Va., with Bill Smoak, dance committeeman,
Winston-Salem; Miss Fran Moore, WCUNC, with Roy Thompson, High
Beta, of Winston-Salem; Miss Rebekah Taylor, Durham, with Wade
Clawson, dance committeman, from China Grove.