EDITORIAL:
Worthy of Praise
Conflicting Statements
Keeping Tabs
NEWS:
Dormitory Contracts
Deep Hirer Singers
Rent Control Begins
-THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN TEE SOUTHEAST-
VOLUME LV
United Press
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SATUBDAY, JULY 27, 1946
NUMBER 12
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Rates Must Be Lowered Voluntarily
To Level Existing March 1, 1945
By Jo Pugh
Rent control will become effective in Chapel Hill and all of Or
ange County next Thursday, August 1, according to a telegram
received last night from Oliver Crawley, director of information
of Jhe state OPA rent control office in
Raliegh.
"All rents must be rolled back to
the level of March 1, 1945," said Di
rector Crawley.
Landlords should automatically re
duce rents without official notice, Frank
Mclnnis, state OPA executive stated.
It will be illegal to charge rent ad
ditional to the amount collected seven
teen months ago. Regulations also for
bid a tenant entering any agreement
with the landlord whereby the tenant
agrees to pay more than the 1945
level.
Office to Be Here
Plans are underway for a Chapel
Hill rent control office under the di
rection of Forrest Pollard of Durham,
who will be in charge of Orange Coun
ty rent control programs. A small staff
will handle routine operations of con
trol. Location and personnel will be
announced within the week.
Plans for registration of living
quarters in the county also will be an
nounced soon. At this time, tenant
rents must be lifted and sworn to under
heavy penalty for fraudulent informa
tion. ,
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Where quarters were erected since
March 1, 1945, the legal rent shall be
the first charged. Other regulations
state that -tinder certain -conditions,
such as addition or improvement to
quarters, higher rent may be charged.
Vet Clubhouse Opens
With Dining, Dancing
The Veterans' clubhouse, located on
the Raleigh road just beyond Wool
len Gymnasium, is now open nightly
from Tuesdays througji Sundays, pro
viding dining and dancing facilities
for all members of the University
Veterans Association.
A large dance floor is available for
dancing and soft drinks, and sand
wiches are sold at the bar. Music is
provided by a juke box.
Herschell Snuggs and Lynn Castle
bury, managers of the club, report
that large crowds are attending night
ly. They plan a series of open house
parties for the various coed dormi
tories and sororities in the near fu
ture. Admittance is limited to members
of the UVA. However, every veteran
is eligible to join the association, and
membership cards are on sale at the
clubhouse.
The club is open Tuesdays through
Thursdays from 8 to 11 p. m. and Fri
days through Sundays from 8 o'clock
to midnight. .
5,700 Students
Are Expected
For Fall Term
As a result of a great number of
returning veterans and a backlog of
high school graduates whose educa
tions were 5nterrupted by the war, en
rollment for the fall quarter will reach
a new high of approximately 5,700,
Roy Armstrong, Director of Admis
sions, stated yesterday.
The previous high was 4,500 who
registered for the past spring term.
Of these, ; 600 received degrees and
roughly 400 are expected to drop out
of school leaving 3,500 old students
returning in the fall.
Estimated new admissions in Sep
tember include 1,700 undergraduates
and 500 graduate and professional
students. This figure does not em
brace the 700 veterans who registered
this summer. .
Approximately 1,000 additional ap
plications are "hanging fire" due to
the housing situation here.
Personnel Group
Will Convene Here
The program for the Institute on
Social Security, to be held at the Uni
versity here Sunday, August 4,
through Tuesday, August 13, was an
nounced today by Dr. Arthur E. Fink,
director of the University's Division
of Public Welfare and Social Work,
sponsoring organization.
Designed for deputies, heads of
divisions, state supervisors and field
representatives in unemployment com
pensation and other public assistance
work, as well as college teachers in
the field of social work, the Institute
will open with registration in Navy
Hall Sunday afternoon, August 4.
A program of , group discussions
and individual conferences during the
mornings and afternoons and , ad
Presses bv well known speakers at
.
each evening session will begin Mon
day.
Assisting Dr. Fink in directing the
Institute will be Karl de Schweinitz,
Director of the Committee on Educa
tion and Social Security. Mrs. de
itz Consultant on Inservice
Training of the District of Columbia
Board of Public Welfare, and Robert
M. Ball, Assistant Director of Mr. de
Schweinitz's committee, will also par
ticipate in the sessions.
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Chapel Hill's noted playwright, Paul Green, is shown above discussing
the musical background of his play, The' Lost Colony, with Jimmy Hart,
organist from Knoxville, Tenn. North Carolina's great historical drama,
The Lost Colony, is now being presented in its sixth season at old Fort
Raleigh on Roanoke Island. In previous summers more than 400,000
persons have seen the drama. It is presented at 8 :15 every night during
the week except Monday and Tuesday and will run through September 2.
Graham Memorial Presents
Famous Quartet Tomorrow
Deep River Singers to Give Concert
Of Popular Tunes in Memorial Hall
The original Deep River Singers, nationally known for their
negro spirituals and American folk songs, will present a concert
sponsored by Graham Memorial tomorrow night at 8 :30 in Memo
rial Hall.
The famed negro quartet, after a tour of America covering a
period of nineteen years' continuous booking, has just finished
repeat engagements in over one hun-
dred colleges and universities through-
Building To Take Place
Across From Woollen Gym
Work Will Begin in Near Future; Expect
Completion by Early Part of Next Summer
By Sam Whitehall
Contract for. the construction of three new men's dormitories
was awarded yesterday to a Charlotte construction firm, Thomp
son and Street. The . dormitories, to be built on Alexander field
across from Woollen gymnasium, will be of brick construction and
will cost $1,066,098. Of this amount, $999,118 will go to Thompson
$ and Street for construction, and
$66,980 will be paid to Thompkins
Johnston company of Charlotte for
plumbing.
Gardner's Band Is Featured
At " Y" Court Dance Tonight
By Helen Highwater
Scott Gardner's 17-piece orchestra
will play for Graham Memorial's in
formal "dancing under the blue" to
niffht from 8:30 until 11:30 in the
plaza immediately in front of the
University YMCA.
The affair will mark the first per
formance of Gardner's complete or
chestra on the campus although the
nucleus of the band as a seven-piece
combo has played twice for the weekly
Friday Night Frolics in Graham Me
morial's Candlelight Ropm.
"Strictly Informal"
In an attempt to clarify the some
time misleading word "informal,"
Martha Rice, Student Union director,
stated, "These 'Y' court dances are
Planned for summer dancing pleasure
ar'd in this hot weather that means
no coats, no ties and even no shoes
if that's the way the students want
it." .
She also emphasized for the benefit
of the new coeds that it has been the
practice in past "Y" court dances for
both coeds and male students to come
stag if they have no date. "One of the
purposes of Graham Memorial," she
stated, "is to help the students get
acquainted."
Recorded Dance Tunes
" On succeeding Saturdays during the
summer when no classes are scheduled
the music for these dances will be fur
nished by recordings featuring the
latest popular dance tunes.
The double-breaking policy will be
the rule for tonight's dance and Di
rector Rice expressed the hope that
more coeds will cooperate in breaking
down the heavy stag lines .usually
present by equally breaking with the
mA record-breaking crowd is expected
for this first "Y" court dance of the
second term of the summer session
and Gardner has announced that sev
eral specialty
ranged including the singing of Dick
Son in the "Scat" Davis style.
out the nation.
In "Swing Mikado"
All the members of the company
were in the original production of
"The Swing Mikado" which ran for
two years in Chicago at the time of the
Worlds Fair there, later moved to New
York, then toured the country.
They have been featured in floor
show productions in the more famous
night clubs and in the larger thea
tres of the country in addition to their
many coast to coast radio programs.
Recently they signed a contract
with the Music Corporation of Ameri
ca, which handles, only top salaried en
tertainers, and after September 1, it
was announced, the price for perform
ance will be $1000 and up.
Program Features'
Their program features plantation,
songs, spirituals and work songs, as
well as standard classical numbers and
is given added color by their use of ap
propriate costumes.
The program for tomorrow night in
cludes "Po Lil Lamb," Brahms' "Lul
laby," Selections from "Porgy and
Bess," .'several negro spirituals and
folk songs hummed and sung by
America for generations.
Di Considers
Councils Bill
Clarification Needed
To Stop Duplication
House Loan Plans
Near Completion
J. S. Bennett, University engineer,
returned Thursday morning from At
lanta where he conferred with Feder
al Housing Authority officials con
cerning plans for the 80 individual
houses which will be set up on the
Mason Farm road.
These houses are being loaned to
the University and were offered to
this school by the Atlanta office. They
cannot be purchased.
Plans, which were submitted by
Bennett, are still under consideration
at the Atlanta office. It is hoped that
they will be approved with certain
changes and returned to the Univer
sity the first of next week.
STUDENT PARTY MEETING
The Student Party will meet next
Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock in
Gerrard halL
A large majority of the students
attending Wednesday night's session
of the Dialectic Senate felt that great
er clarification was needed of the pow
ers of the Student Councils and the
subsidiary councils.
Eddie Black, member of both the
Di and the Student Council, intro
duced a bill to give the right to the ac
cused to face the accuser in the Men's
and Women's councils. Carrington
Grettur, a former president of the Di,
proposed a bill to have only one coun
cil to be composed of both men and
women and to have original and final
jurisdiction.
Would Stop Duplication
Neither Black's or Gretter's bill met
with much favor, and the Senate rec
ommended only constitutional clari
fication which would prevent duplica
tion' and conflict between the various
branches of the student judiciary.
Following a final vote on the Stu
dent Council issue, Daniel McFarland
introduced a bill to deprive Germany
of the Ruhr industrial region. Mc
Farland argued that Germany had on
three or more occasions plunged Eu
rope into selfish and destructive war,
and that France, Belgium, and Hol
land should be given access to the na
tural resources and industrial poten
tion of the Rhine area and Ruhr val
ley. The Senate was divided on the
i&sue, but the bill was defeated.
The Di will meet in executive ses
sion next Wednesday night at v 8
o'clock. At 9 o'clock a regular ses
sion will be held to discuss limitation
of the G.I. Bill as a means of allevi
ating the tremendous over-flow of stu
dents now seeking admission to Ameri
can universities and colleges. A bill
will be introduced to require a higher
level of qualifications for receiving
the federal subsistence and probably
to reduce the amount of payments.
Regular class sessions will
be held in all departments of
the University this morning:.
AVC Demands
Pay Increase
Ask Maximum Use
Of Campus Space
At the meeting held this past Tues
day night, the American Veterans
Committee, Chapel Hill chapter, au
thorized its .members on the joint ac-
tio.n avu-uva committee to coop
erate with the UVA in every respect
in its drive for increased veterans'
subsistence.
The chapter voted to send letters
to the North Carolina Congressmen
asking that they support such a bill,
if and when brought up in the legis
lative bodies.
Local Problems Considered
Action on several local problems
was taken favorably by the chapter,
including motions , to represent the
AVC on the Negro Community Center
committee to work for the improve
ment of the Negro community of
Chapel Hill, to appoint two delegates
to meet with other organizations to
wards establishing a consumers' co
operative and to petition the Univer
sity administration to use all avail
able dormitory space placing four
students to a room, except where ex
ceptional circumstances make it unfeasible.
Completion by Summer
Work will begin in the near future
on the new dormitories and will be
completed early next summer. Archi
tect for the job is Raymond Weeks of
Durham.
Notice of the letting of the contract
climaxes several months of negoti
ating by University officials. At a
student meeting several weeks ago,
veterans openly declared that they
felt it unfair to increase rents by
several dollars a month to pay for the
new dormitories.
Financed by Loan
Consequently, the University ar
ranged to finance the new buildings
by borrowing the money from the
Wachovia Bank & Trust Company of
Winston-Salem. The finished units
will amount to a total of 10 men's
dormitories for the University, in
cluding present men's dormitories. In
addition, there are six women's dor
mitories and four dormitories for mar
ried students.
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Advocated By SCHW
At its previous meeting the campus
chapter of the Southern Conference for
Human Welfare pledged full member-
Among those bills on which the ship support in favor of cooperating
chapter decided to write for imme-1 with other campus organizations in a
diate Congressional approval are the
LaFollette-Moroney bill, providing
for increased efficiency in the legisla
tive branch of the government; the
bill concerning compensation for en
listed men's unused furlough time and
Senator Aiken's resolution calling for
investigation of charges of excessive
war subsidies to private merchant
marine lines.
It was stated that $3,000, of which
$500 was contributed by the students,
was collected during the recent
UNRRA drive.
Lawn Concert Offers
Music by Beethoven
The music of Beethoven will be
featured tomorrow night when Gra
ham Memorial presents its weekly
lawn concert from 8:30 to 10:00.
Broadcast from the Graham Me
morial office, the music is intended
for listeners throughout the campus.
The program will include, in addi
tion to Beethoven, selections from
Victor Herbert, Chopin piano music
and Mozart's Quintet in G minor.
campaign to admit additional students
to the University by allowing four
students to a dormitory room. While
supporting more rational use of avail
able space, the chapter will also drive
for an enlarged faculty staff and an
increase of faculty salaries.
Letters written to senators and the
governor of the state were signed, urg
ing the defeat of the Bulwinkle bill.
This would prevent railroad trusts
from continuing present and future
trust action in the south.
The library committee in charge of
continuing the present library book
'drive for Negro Community Center in
Carrboro, requests the continued sup
port of all faculty and students in book
contrabutions. Ralph Hyde, chairman,
stated. "Book-drops remain in the
YMCA and in various churches to re
ceive your needed contribution."
Chapter chairman, Bob Gurney, ex
tended an invitation to all students in
terested in political action and present
problems to attend the next meeting
to be held in the Horace Williams
lounge of Graham Memorial, next
Wednesday at 7:30.
Student Council Reports
Facts: Three men students created a series of disturbances in,' and around,
three women's dormitories after closing hours. There had been drinking
among the group previous to the events. At the first dormitory, one of the
students scaled the outside wall and disturbed the occupants of nearby rooms.
At the second, the third floor was entered via the fire-escape. After some
disturbance along the length of the hall and outside the building, the stu
dents left. At the third dormitory, there was a noisy scene.
All three students were reported for violations of the Campus Code.
Decision of the Men's Council: Appealed. -
Decision of the Student Council:
1. In the case of the first student, the decision of the Men's Council for
indefinite University Probation was upheld.
2. In the case of the second, the decision of the Men's Council for suspen
sion until January 1947 was upheld.
S. In the case of the third, the decision of the Men's Council was upheld,
but sentence was waived and he is placed on University Probation until grad
uation. The Men's Council concurs in this action.