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University of Korth Carolina Chapal Hill, C, 1-31-43 . : WEATHER EDITORIAL Tarnation Rcricw Decision on Hospital Is Everyone a Stinker Cloud? and cool; occasional light rain. VOLUME LVI United Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1S47 Phone F-3371 F-3361 NUMBER 65 n n o nrs o no Til fvi A UL F s , -ft r ST- .1; ' 1 " HI VMM 'J 5: x-::.:v::X'X:rv;: I N sZ' At I I j in 1 . w l.waiSi V; wmw it iim .... i 0W iudenJs, Townspeople Fight Blaze if h Chapel Hill, Dyrham Firemen W . By Chuck Hauser "The bieeest fire Chaoel Hill has seen since 1924." according to local residents, swept through the second floors of two University-owned buildings onFrnnklin street yesterday afternoon to do an estimated $35,000 to $50,000 damage. , As Chapel Hill and Durham firemen battled the flames for almost two hours, University students were notable among those who pitched into the task of extinguishing the walls of flame which leapt from the win- : " : dows and roofs of the University column of smoke cominc' from Service plant buildings. the rear of the building housing Other students, not so civic- the Western Union offices and the minded or eager to get drenched Jefferson Standard Insurance with the hoses being played over mp-any, but within a half-hour, the structures, stood in the streets, the billowing smoke and flames on nearby rooftops, and even in coming from the.toP of lh bu,ld- the steeple of the Methodist m cauM-u evea ulu lul n,LI 1-y. church, cheering the firefighters on with such yells as, "Our town is red hot, beat Duke!" AN EARLY STAGE OF THE FIRE which swept Iwo Franklin slreet buildings to an estimated tune of $50,000 is shown at upper right, as smoke pours from the reaxj and side of the building hous ing Western Union and Jefferson Standard Life Insurance offices. The crowd which later appeared has not yet gathered in the street. At upper left two unidentified students are aiding in removing laundry bundles from the University Service plant building, as water drips around lhem from the burning upper floors. Student Jim Blunt of Wilson stands in the background. Lower left, an other, sjtyd.ent helps Duxha.m Assists Jt Fire. -Chief C. H Lawson pull a hose into position, while journalism major Gus Lacy is shown, lower right, on lop of one of the burning buildings, axe in hand, as smoke almost overcomes him. The fire was reported to be the worst Chapel Hill has seen since 1924, when part of Franklin street went the way of all frame buildings. The blaze took two hours for Chapel Hill and Durham fire-fighters, with the aid of students and townspeople, to overcome. .Photos by Les Bodden) Routine Fight? When the quiet streets of Chap el Hill were first interrupted by the squawking fire horn at ap proximately 3:30 yesterday after noon, no one thought they were rushing to see anything but a routine 10-minute smoke fight, and even pedestrians on Frank lin street hardly noticed the thin Wicker Is Named As UWF Successor To R. G. Baldwin Jake Wicker, of Sanford, was elected new president of the University chapter of United World Federalists in a late af- clifferent Western Union employ ees to scuttle from the burning building, leaving telegrams un sent on the machines. As a fire truck sent from Dur ham thundered up Franklin street at 4:30 to aid the overtaxed Chap el Hill regulars and volunteers, Western Union, Jefferson Stand aid, jukI Service plant housings wore a sogsjy mess of gushing water and falling plaster. As students, without the pro tection of fire helmpiits or other equipment, worked in.side the burning buildings for more than an hour clearing out all perish able material, others climbed the rooftops with the heavy canvas hoses, fighting the blaze which threw enough heat across Frank lin street to warm the faces of the hundred.-; of spectators who com pletely blocked traffic to stand students had formed brigade lines ;md gape at the flames which and were tossing laundry bundles ; spasmodically shot 30 feet or from hand to hand out of the Uni versity Service plant building, the roof of which was rapidly catch ing fire. Florists Worried Filing cases, tables, desks, rec ords followed in rapid order, un- more into the air at the height of the fire. Forty Ex-Air Force Officers Prepare for Second Flight Approximately 40 ex-Air Corps officers now at the University, -who L. formed their own chapter of the Air Reserve this quarter, met yes- I terday for the last time before the Christmas holidays. Highlight of L the meeting was the planning for a second contingent of reservists I I to fly next weekend to the Mari- : ', . . I etta air base in Atlanta, Georgia, y D-JI l Al-nc fnr flight instruction. Ull IMUIWUIbJ Colonel Byron R. Switzer, com-1 manding officer of the local Air j ROTC unit, accompanied ten re- ' serve officers last Saturday in the first of a series of trips to the Ma rietta base. Rink Is Favored Air Reserve and Air ROTC The Air Reserve and the Air ROTC, two entirely different campus organizations, were con fused in yesterday's DTH. While the former is composed of men To further sound public opin ion on the proposed skating rink here at the University, the six- group representative committee took another poll on this question in the Y building yesterday morning. This latest poll, combined with the recent one taken through the forum column in the Daily who were actually officers during Xar Heel, gives majority of 79 the past war, the latter is made up per cent of 611 students polled at present of 30 veterans whojn favor of such a project, were enlisted men but are now hi m of the representative a two-year-ti-amin pro to Me, inves,ating the earn commissions m the air force t lfTheeROTC curriculum trains jon the campus say they are .now supply and statistical control spe . I looking into the construction de- Teaching Hospital May Be Built Here As Merger Fails Reasons for the previously re ported rejection of the plan to combine the University teaching hospital and the hospital being built at Greensboro under the Cone foundation became clear here yesterday. According to a statement re leased after the meeting Tuesday between the University trustees and the hospital trustees, "It is impossible to work out a plan of merger which will enable both in stitutions to perform their respec tive functions and, at the same time, comply with the limitations and mandates imposed on them by the terms of the Cone trust . . . and the policy ... of a state insti tution." As, under the provisions by which the Cone foundation ha3 been set up, the hospital at Greensboro is to be operated pri marily for the benefit of the res idents of Guilford county, use of the hospital as an adjunct of the University could be considered to be a violation of the trust require- Missing $7,000 Package Is Gloom-Causer in Yack Office By John Stump All was gloom in the Yack office yesterday afternoon as the editors and a few of the more it for $5,000. However, yesterday the Yack staff was a little confused. The package with its year's work hardy staff members sat biting and $7,000 contents had simply their nails and writhing in the disappeared. . 4;io oc in whpther the structure cialists and has no provisions for permanent or pre- night instruction. However, v,uu-1 . . d . nature and the ments and "could result in for gressmnal legislation now unaer . - each consideration allows ten hours of PluUd" flight training to be given Air Many favorable comments on nnTn -f in universities thP rrrDosal were received ' ' t i Li. i Ui i-O Ul " " " ' ' x 1 in this latest quiz, such as "a skat ing rink would be something throughout the United States, m- cliirlinc r'nrnlinn. Those working for air reserve new", ana wouiu eivC commissions this term are vet-j dent body "a much needed re- erans in the junior class. In Jan- creation." uary elementary courses of the Air ROTC will start for freshmen with no previous service in the One student wrote on his ans wer blank, provided by the mmittee. that a rink "would armed forces and sophomores provde additional recreational with high school or military faciiities, , especially if run in a school ROTC experience. Enlist- manner whereby dances, and ments in both of the new pro- fjgure skating could be held." grams are now being accepted ai the barracks annex behind Naval armory. the feiture of the entire trust in favor of certain other beneficiaries." ROOM KEYS All dormitory residents not re- VILMINGTON CLUB ..,: in Januarv are requested . There will be an emergency to turn in their xoom keyo BtU meeting of the Wilmington-Caro- Smith, Room 02. South lina club tonight at 7:30 in Ger- before leaving for the Christmas However, according to state ments made yesterday by Gover nor Cherry and others, the failure of the plan may result in the con struction of a teaching hospital in Chapel Hill. Cherry's statement issued as a result of Tuesday's meeting indi cated that plans for the construc tion of a hospital at Chapel Hill would be continued. An appropri ation of $3,790,000 has already been made for such an institution by the General Assembly, and this amount is expected to be aug mented by a Federal grant of $1,500,000. - The money has not been so far officially released, but the Uni versity has. been authorized to have the architects' pliss draws. throes of "the worst scare to visit a campus organization this year. It seems that last Saturday afternoon, as is their custom whenever anything is to be sent to the engraving company, the members of the staff put the finishing touches on several pho tographs and sent them across the street to Ab's bookstore there to be wrapped and sent Railway Express to Charlotte. The package contained all of the individual pictures taken thus far this year, the sports section to date, a part of the opening section, and the pictures taken of campus organizations. Its value, as conservatively esti mated later, was $7,000. According to an official of the bookstore, it was wrapped ac cording to the Yack editors' re quest and picked up Saturday on schedule by Railway Express. He added that the package was insured for $1,000 because it seemed valuable; although he stated the Yack editors had not asked that it be insured. A check with the Railway of fice revealed that the package to the best of their knowledge had not been insured. To the best of the Yack editors information, Ab's had been asked to insure The fact was announced to Ruth Evans in a telegram from the engraving company in Dur ham which stated simply "Yack ety Yack pictures not arrived yet: please advise so that we may begin tracing". Railway Express immediately put a checker on it, and an of ficial here explained that the reason for the disappearance was probably the current Christmas rush. With matters standing still, Gene Johnstone received the fol lowing late yesterday "Yackety Yack photos received. Will notify engraving company. (signed) Herb Hitch". With the Western Union office slightly burned up last night to send or receive messages, the mystery of where the package spent the last 5 days remains unsolved, but Johnstone remark ed that "The stuaeni body has just saved $7,000, and the ser vices of suicide-bent Yack work ers." According to Johnstone, "It would have been comparatively easy to locate the expensive pack et, but the fire yesterday had to mess up Western Union so that they were unable to give us any service." RUSSELL G. BALDWIN ternoon meeting yesterday. A junior and a political science major, Wicker succeeds Russell G. "Baldwin, of Leland, in the position. Other nominations include: vice-president, Dean Matthews, of Decatur, Georgia; recording secretary, Betty Shouse, of Char lotte; corresponding secretary, Joy Blumenthal, of Greensboro; and treasurer, Herman Sieber, of Hendersonville. First On Roof Two students, Kurt Clauson and Charlie Stancill, were credit ed with being the first two men in rr:tri ihn inn nf 4Via Vi 1 1 t- n I n rr 1:1 1 A 41 v" ' "" '"f . . .. . , . . I buildings and play the first the students pitched m to remove i . . . ., : , x, TT . streams of water on the con- the contents of the University fUlf,ration which lasted for a, Florists store next door, whose 'most twQ hours occupants were becoming worried . wii,0fir.miMhMrpilnvpr Wlth damage estimate run- into their building. ning as high as the $50,000 figure ed by Ed Bradshaw, University light and water head, to $35,000 The flames were brought un rlpr rnnt. ml annroxiinatp v 5: 15. K..,tt.r ttf:. ..n.mr.nhinrr.. thr- by. Reco-der's court Clerk Moody contents of the upper floors of the two - buildings nearest the Porthole alley. The lower-floor offices of the A re Th ey J ok i n g ? The following notice was tel ephoned into the editorial of fice yesterday afternoon at 3:15. Laundry plans may have been changed since that time. The University laundry will be closed Christmas week De cember 22 through 27. Pickups will be made December 15 through 20 and December 28 through January 3. after which the laundry will revert to tho two week schedule. Included in the next laundry bundle will be a new schedule effective De cember 29 through June 2. At the expiration of this pe riod weekly service will be ren dered throughout the summer months. We wish to take this oppor tunity to wish all a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! University Laundry. Durham. Superintendent of Utili ties Grey Culbreth figured that the cost of replacing the property destroyed was "intangible." Local residents described the fiic as the worst blaze to hit Chapel Hill since 1924, when several Franklin street frame buildings went up in flames. The last serious fire to be reported here was in 1942, when a school building, located on the present site of the Pittsboro road trailer camp, disappeared in smoke. Not much more than a week ago, local fire-fighters were call ed to combat a blaze in the Hill bakery, which is located only a very few doors down from the ill-fated buildings of yester day's catastrophe. Looting of laundry bundles from the Service Plant offices was observed yesterday, but in the confusion of trying to fight the surging flames, police officers and other local officials had their hands too full to attempt to stop thf. law-breakers. Other students were conspicu ously observed wearing Univer sity florist carnations in their I buttonholes. Playmaker Head Samuel Selcfon to Read Dickens1 rA Christmas Carol' Tomorrow Samuel Selden, director of the The group met in the Grail Carol". The reading, which is being presented to the students as a UNIVERSITY SCHEDULE Carolina PJaymakers, will carry on with a tradition started here 30 years ago by the late Frederick . Christmas greeting from the Uni "Prnf" Kwh framHt.p nf thnl... :.. j v . lounge of Graham Memorial in!, : . iVLIMl I! Vi oe Slven m ine s . . . iPlaymakers, when he gives a playmaker theater at 3 o'clock. reading tomorrow night of, and will be accompanied by Dickens' "A Christmas special music. the last UWF session before Christmas holidays begin. Retir ing President Baldwin set Jan uary 3 as the date for a meet ing of the steering committee. An announcement, said Baldwin, will be made at a later date for the first chapter meeting of the quarter. Charles New Officers Named jBy Phi Kappa Sigmas December 16, 17, and 18 Class tickets delivered to all pre-registered students, Registration hall. December 13 through 18 Final examinations for fall quarter. December . 19 through January 5 Christmas recess. Saturday, January 3, 1948 Winter quarter registration for new stu dents and old students not pre-registered, Registration hall. Monday, January 5, 1948-Winter quarter classes begin. Fall quarter pledge master; Jim Munden and grade reports issaei Resistratipa hill. "jarues Austin sergeants at arrss. Members of Phi Kappa Sigma have elected new officers for the year. Going into office are George McLeod, president; Floyd Huff man, vice-president; Farrel Potts; treasurer; Bill Egeler, house- manager; Morris Knudsen, cor responding secretary; Dave Miles, : :..".: 1 SAMUEL SELDSH I "Prof" Koch, before his death j in 1943, had given 278 readings ! of "A Christmas Carol" from Carolina, including four times in New York's Town Hall and twice at Columbia University, over a period of 38 years. In 1942, Koch gave 19 readings of the piece in 17 North Carolina towns. Selden joined the Carolina Playmakers in 1927. Before that, ha was a charter member of the Yale Playcraftsmen, and his original play, "While the Horses ! A .n I" . L. CI me oauuicu , wuu me oiuau prize there. Later, Selden was with the Province Town Play house in New York, where he played Swanson in O'Neill's sea play, t::.!c2r; of the Car:bbfc".
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