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Briefs From UP
Truman Galls
Conference
To Set Wages
Announcement Hoped
For Inside 24 Hours
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.
President Truman has sum
moned his top advisers to a
White House conference for an
other try at putting together a
wage-price policy that would
end the steel strike and other
industrial disputes. The formula
is reported already on paper.
And barring unanticipated
changes, it is expected to be
completed and ready for an
nouncement within 24 'hours.
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NEWS
Rent Investigation
Stockton Elected
Valentine Dance Tonight
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1946
NUMBER 10
New Reductions Made
For Navy Discharges
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14
The Navy has announced two
new reductions in critical point
scores which will make an esti
mated 13,000 officers and 150,
000 enlisted men eligible for dis
charge. Scores for both will drop
one point on April 15 and an
other point May 2. The slash will
not affect Navy doctors, avia
tors or Marine personnel.
Committee Approves -Workers'
Pay Raise
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14
The Senate labor committee has
approved a bill which would give
nearly 6,000,000 workers an im
mediate pay raise. The measure
s as it now stands would boost
the minimum wage from 40 to
65 cents an hour at once and 75
cents within five years. The bill
has been amended so as to bring
between two and four million ad
ditional workers under the wage
hour law.
Nazi Executioners
Accused by Russians
NUERNBERG, GERMANY
Feb. 14, The Soviet prosecu
tor at the war crimes trials char
ges that the Germans held 10-day
course at special murder schools
to train teams for the depopulation-
of eastern Europe. The
squads were trained in various
forms of mass execution.
Archbishops Arrive
For Rome Ceremony
ROME Feb. 14, Archbishops
Francis Spellman of New York
and Glennon of Saint Louis have
arrived in Rome for elevation to
the College of Cardinals after a
45-hundred mile air journey.
London Selected Site
For 1948 Olympics
LONDON Feb. 14, Interna
tional Olympic committee has de
cided that the 1948 Olympic
games will be held in London.
There for the first time since
Adolph Hitler turned over his
great sports bowl to the leading
athletes of the world in 1936
the Olympics will attract the
best from every land.
ODT Tugboat Seizure
To Remain In Effect
NEW YORK, Feb. 14 ODT
Official Laurence Turner says
the government's seizure order
for New York's tugboats will re
main in effect at least for
awhile. Turner says the ODT
will stand by until it has been as
sured there will be no further in
terruption of service. But he
adds that the order will be lifted
as soon as possible. ... .
In 1933 the Daily Tar Heel
wrote that the tobacco habit
seemed to be firmly embedded as
a feminine habit and that they
wouldn't be surprised to see the
next generation born with nico
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Bob Stockton
Wins Election
In Close Vote
UP Candidate Gets
Big Navy Backing
Bobby Stockton, University
Party candidate, was elected yes
terday to the post of secretary
treasurer of the, student body to
fill the post created by the resig
nation of Joe Mallard recently.
Stockton received a total cam
pus vote of 447 while 'his oppo
nent Blount Stewart received
402. The new secretary-treasurer
will remain in office until
the spring elections.
A breakdown of the vote in
the various polling places indi
cated that Stockton's margin of
victory came largely from the
overwhelming majority he re
ceived from the Navy vote in
Lenoir hall. Final count from
Lenoir gave Stockton 160 to 54
for Stewart.
In the YMCA, Stockton re
ceived a slight margin of 223
votes to 208 for Stewart while
in the other two voting places,
Kenan and the lower quad, Stew
art had a slight advantage. Ke
nan gave Stewart 81 votes to 48
for Stockton while the lower
quad returned 59 for Stewart
against 16 for Stockton.
Stockton is a recently returned
veteran and a member of Beta
Theta Pi fraternity.
Pi Phi Sorority
Elects New Officers
The Pi Phi's elected the fol
lowing officers Wednesday night
who will be installed in about
three weeks : Ann Cutts, presi
dent; Jo Lawler, vice-president ;
Ann Weiderman, corresponding
secretary ; Joan Miller, record-
mg . secretary; unris jsrucn,
treasurer; Ann Brundage, as
sistant treasurer; Marian Stou
demire, rush captain; Jean Kil-
ley, assistant rush captain ; Ann
Murphy, pledge supervisor;
Winkie Andrews, historian; Sy
bil Goerch, representative to
Pan-Hellenic Council ; Fafi Hal
sey, censor; Carlisle Cashion,
censor; Nancy Laird, social
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Rent Control Need
To be Investigated
tLabor Department
Will Assign Staff
For Investigation
House Releases
Trustee Report
Talk on Cuban Paintings
A gallery talk on the exhibi
tion "Cuban Painting Today"
will be given Sunday by Miss
Helene Tiranoff, curator, at 4
p. m. in Person Hall gallery. The
public is cordially invited.
There will be an important
meeting of the United Carolina
Party Friday at 4 :15 o'clock in
Gerrard Hall. All members are
urged to attend.
LOVELY Patty Harry is shown above as she was congratulat
ed by a kiss from boxing coach Jules Medwin after she had been
elected Carolina's Hubba-Hubba girl. Patty will reign as Queen
of Hearts at tonight's Grail dance. The lovely in the bathing
suit on the left is Hallie Dockery.
Queen Patty Harry Will Reign
At Valentine Dance Tonight
Grail-Union Sponsored Ball Is Informal;
Woodhouse Will Preside at Coronation
An even dozen of the campus's most beautiful coeds will act as
attendant sponsors to Miss Patty Harry, "UNC Hubba Hubba
Girl," at the coronation ceremony of the Graham Memorial Grail
Valentine Ball tonight. Grail sponsors announced that the dance
will be informal. Proceeds from
the affair will be put in a fund
to be used for the building of a
new wing on the student union
building.
Johnny Satterfield's fifteen
piece orchestra, reputed to be the
best college band in the South,
will play for the affair in Wool
len Gymnasium from 9 until 1.
Ticket Sales
Union director Martha Rice
stated that ticket sales are pro
gressing well, and that tickets
may be purchased all day from
members of the Grail or in the
Graham Memorial and YMCA
offices. "Contrary to what is
printed on the tickets, admission
is $1.00, stag or couple," Miss
Rice emphasized.
Feature of the ball will be the
coronation of the "Queen of
Hearts" at 10 o'clock by Dr.'E.
J. Woodhouse. Attendant to the
queen, chosen by Miss Harry
herself, will be Miss Barbara
Boyd of Honea Path, S. C, can-
Funeral Services
Conducted Here
For Dr. Manning
Dr. Isaac H. Manning, former
dean of the University medical
school, who died early Tuesday
morning alter a long illness,
was buried yesterday in Chapel
Hill cemetery.
Funeral services were con
ducted yesterday morning in the
Chapel of the Cross by Rev.
David W. Yates and Rev. Em
met Gribbin.
Hundreds of messages in tri
bute to Dr. Manning have been
received by members of his
family here in the past two days
and many faculty colleagues and
townspeople have paid their re
spects in person.
Dr. Manning who would have
been 80 next September, appear
ed to be in good health until
New Dorms, Salaries
Principal Targets
By Mary Hill Gaston
Chancellor R. B. House re
leased yesterday afternoon the
report to the Board of Trustees
made Monday by the trustees'
visiting committee which was
here on campus January 18 and
19. Due to the pressing impor
tance of faculty salary increases
and additional dormitory space,
these two subjects consumed al
most the entire report.
As a basis for its report on
findings at Carolina, the commit
tee stated the fact that the nor-
t
mal capacity here is 3,500 stu
dents and that such an enroll
ment would call for a faculty of
218. Today there are 4,011 stu
dents registered, including 1,-
566 veterans, and the faculty
number 241.
Housing Problem
The committee reminded the
trustees that conservative esti
mates indicate 1,000 new appli
cants for the spring term open
ing in March and a minimum of
6,000 seeking admission in Sep
tember. Hundreds of veterans
wish to bring wives here to live
with them but are unable to do
so, since University quarters
are inadequate to care for them
and all snace in Chanel Hill
homes is filled.
'Obviously these conditions
are abnormal," says the report,
which continues with reasons re-
ating to even greater increases
in the future enrollment here.
Salaries Low ,
The committee assumed, the
report says, that the trustees
want a well-run, first class Uni
versity. "It is axiomatic that you
can not obtain a first rate faculty
on a second or third rate salary
schedule. . The present salary
scale, the same one in existence
since 1922, starts with $1400 a
year for instructors and goes to
$4500 a year as the maximum
Result of Hearing
Called by Veterans
Within a few weeks investiga
tors from the Bureau of Labor
Statistics of the U. S. Depart
ment of Labor will be in Chapel
Hill, to ascertain whether rent
control is desirable here. The in
vestigators will come at the re
quest of Mr. Forrest Pollard, Director-Attorney
of the Durham
Defense Rental Area, as a re
sult of hearings held yesterday
on Rent Control.
UVA Request
The hearing was held by Mr.
Pollard at the request of the
OPA in Washington. Washing
ton acted as a result of the peti
tion brought to the capital some
time ago by Ken Willis on be
half of the University Veterans
Association and the student
body.
Representatives at the hear
ing, which included members of
the administration, representa
tives of the Veterans Associa
tion and local real estate inter
ests, were unanimous in agree
ing to the BLS investigation,
and agreed that a further public
hearing before the investigation
would be unnecessary. They re
quested that the report be sub
mitted for further testimony at
an open public hearing before
being sent on to the capital.
At the hearings it was revealed
that a committee empowered by
he Board of Aldermen of Chapel
Hill two years ago to investigate
he desirability of Rent Control
here had reported favorably,
but that the report which was
to have been forwarded to Wash
ington via local Navy channels
was "lost" somehow, probably
due to "personal jealousies."
It- was brought out by the
representatives of the veterans
and by others that sworn
testimony on rent gouging was
difficult to obtain, as people are
afraid to risk being evicted if
for full instructors." The visit- they complain publicly. They
about six weeks ago when he didate from the Monogram Club
suffered a severe heart atack. See QUEEN page u
City of Charlotte Once Proposed As Site For
Establishing University Before Revolution
By John Giles
Nearly every "Carolina" stu
dent knows that the cornerstone
of the University was laid in
1793 but few know that the year
1770 was one of equal implica-
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tions. wnue ramoiiug m me li
brary's North Carolina Room,
the other day I came across the
first copy of the "Carolina" Mag.
n turning the dusty pages this
interesting fact caught my eye.
"A controversy with the Crown
. was scarcely ended, when
the friends of education carried
through the legislature a charter
for a college. Its place was to
be Charlotte ; and the act itself,
which was passed in 1770, was
sent for the royal sanction, but
was not approved."
Along came the Revolutionary
War and all plans were aban
doned until, 1789. As a result
Charlotte was dropped as the
University site. "Six years after
peace, the subject of education
was brought up at the General
Assembly. The preamble of the
bill reported, said: "In all well
regulated governments, it is the
indispensable duty of every
legislature to consult the happi
ness of the rising generation,
and to endeavor to fit them for
an honorable discharge of the
several duties of life, by paying
the strictest attention to their
education ; and a University sup
ported by permanent funds, and
well endowed, will have the most
direct tendency to answer this
purpose." Therefore on the 11th
of December 1789 "The Univer
sity of North Carolina" was
established by the legislature.
When General Davie took an
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ing committee recommended the
salary scale listed in Wednes
day's Daily Tar Heel, which was
passed unanimously by the
board.
The report listed a number of
compelling reasons for the sal
ary increase, paramount being
that Carolina can not get or
keep the best teachers here if
she fails to pay them salaries
comparable to those offered by
other schools. "If you are will
ing to accommodate only 5,000
students at Chapel Hill, 71 ad
ditional faculty members will be
needed. To obtain competent men
for these positions the salaries
paid must be increased to the
figures recommended." .
The University ranks among
the lowest in salary schedule of
the 34 universities included in
the Association - of American
Universities, the report says.
Second recommendation of
the committee was that five new
dormitories and as many tempo
rary houses for veterans as pos
sible be obtained as soon as pos
sible. "Nor should there be over-
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were thoroughly convinced,
though, that some renters in
Chapel Hill are guilty of charg
ing unreasonable rentals, espe
cially in the "furnished room
racket."
Owners Disagree
Representatives of the real
estate owners disagreed with
the contention of the veterans
that Rent Control would be de
sirable. They warned that homes
now rented would be sold if land
lords were forced to roll back
rentals to 1942 levels. Mr. 'Pol
lard retorted that landlords are
making 20-40 per cent more
profits with Rent Control today,
due to full occupancy and failure
to provide pre-war redecorating
services.
Valentine Party
The Baptist Student Union is
sponsoring a Valentine party to
night at 6:15 o'clock in the base
ment of the Baptist Church.
This will be given along with the
.regular Friday, night supper
forum. The regular price of 35c
will be charged. Everyone is in
vited.