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LIBRARY . (Periodical Dept) University of I.'orth Carolina Chapel Hill, N. C. 1-31-48 i a WEATHER Considerable cloudiness; windy and becoming cooler. EDITORIALS General Holdridg Ra'.eijh Restaurants Library Quarterly VOLUME LVI. United Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1948 Phone F-3371 F-3361 NUMHfcrt 10- bow MOWS SaffflM do (low y u wl (- - A'" lv'-. i lIMVni)r-:v;.-;-:. "-""-T '-If " l"l I' H II III M'f - -IH Ml" T HI ill III J STUDENTS ARE SHOWN above removing furniture and per sonal belongings from the Alpha Gam house which was damaged by fire Wednesday afternoon. First estimate of damages was set at $6,000 or more. Members of the sorority have been unable to obtain storage space for furniture while repairs are underway and requested yesterday that anyone having space please notify Barbara Poole at Alderman dormitory. (Photo by Roland Giduz courtesy, of Durham Morning Herald.) $260,000 Bond For CH Street The Chattel Hill Board of Aldermen at. their regular meet- 4 g this week passed unanimously a bond ordinance calling tor the expenditure of $200,000 for permanent improve ments, mainly for a new sewage disposal plant and sewage lines and paved streets, and set Tuesday, April 6, as the date on which citizens will be asked to approve the ordinance by a majority vote of those participa- ting in the balloting. The s'-vafct plant crlit, for m expenditure of $280,000, and new sewage lines arc put down at $192,002. Improvements on the old plant are estimated at $15. 198. These figures total 425.000, and the University, which shares this service jointly with the town, will pay $225,000 of the $ 125,000 or approximately 55 per cent. Constructed more limn 21) years ag9 the present sewage plan', is - niv."JJ00 percent overln.xie l iniHailli;.of!icc:rs say it rofisti 1 1 1 tcra 1' serioas health menace-". to' the: community .r The lines as well as the .-.plant: itself ;' are heavily overloaded, and .the manholes ov- flow in - some - sections of the mtwmity;,ftt' times. ' .; "' A-tut-n-l ,f $35,000 -j; :irt up. in the -bond issue budget 'for r-treet;-. This includes asphalt or tar pav ing for nine dirt streets, totaling 17,000 square yards, and seal coating for 20 streets, totaling Ifj.OOO square yards not covered in last fail's street improvement program. The amount set up for equip ment totals 25,000. This -ncludes the following iems: Caterpillar clam-shell tractor, to be used mainly for garbage disposal by I land fill method, $12,000; raolor i grader, to be used mainly for streets, $5,000; three trucks, $6,- 000, and miscellaneous items, in- uding mowinc machines, sewer cleaning equipment, and new eal Vpi culator and other office equip-'j-ment, $1,400. Gas Fumes Kill Two At Princeton Lab Prinff fon, N. J..Feb. 19 (UP) Tv Prinf-ton university grad nale students and a college em ploye arc in serious condition il Princeton, New Jersey hos pital, after being knocked out by ;:as fumes. Two other .workers were kil l"d by the fumes which escaped while being transferred from a tank to cylinders at the univer sity's chemical laboratories. Issue Passed Improvements Member of Board To Succeed Weil Raleigh, Feb. 19 (UP) Gov ernor Cherry has appointed a member of the State Board of Agriculture to fill the unexpired term of the late Lionel Weil of Goklsboro. Weil died recently in a Baltimore hospitaj. The new board member is Dr. R. E. Earp of Selma. He will serve on the Board of Agricul ture until May 4, 1.949. Earp is a native of Johnston county and operates one of the county's largest farms. He is a graduate of Wake Forest college and the University of Pennsyl vania Medical School. Dr. Earp practiced medicine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and returned to Johnston county in 1936 to take up farming. Plans for Quarterly Up for Discussion at By D, Francis MacDonald As a result of general campus interest shown in a petition which has been in circulation since Wednesday, persons inter ested in forming a literary .quar terly have planned a meeting to be held at 7 o'clock Tuesday night in the Roland Parker lounges in Graham Memorial. The decision to meet formally came- early yesterday afternoon after the petition had been sign ed by over 1,100 persons, more than the necessary one-tenth of the University student body. Next week's meeting is expect ed to include a general discuss 'on regarding the possibility of to replace the 104-year-old Caro lina Magazine, after its announ ced death as a result of Tuesday's magazine referendum. If it is definitely decided that a quarterly-issued literary pub lication should be born, the dis cussion will turn towards the question of a publisher and by what methods funds will be ap Elmcndorf Heads Carolina Co-op For Coming Year John Elmendorf was named to head the University co-operative j for the coming year at the group's j annual meeting Wednesday night j in the Medical building auditor ium. The new board of directors who will take office with Elmen dorf, consists of Tom McDade, vice-president; Joan Templeton, secretary; Dan Price, treasurer; Clay Cochran, J. M. Lear and Henry Saunders. Co-op members also heard the financial report for the past year and voted .their thanks to the i retiring treasurer, Dr. Kottke. Elmendorf said the excellent financial conditions of the Co opcrators allowed a 5 per cent dividend on all stock held in the concern, and also an additional 5 per cent return to ex-GJ. pur chasers on sales received in the group's grocery store. McNairy is Chairman The Co-ops Education commit tee was increased at last Wed nesday's . session, and Herbert McNairy was chosen as the new chairman. Members at the meeting also discussed the possibility of oper ating a Co-op filling station in Chapel Hill. "The Co-op board of directors wants to thank all members for their support and cooperation during the past year," President Elmendorf said. "At the same time, it is definitely urged that all those who feel able to help in any of the work of the Co-op make themselves known to us. We have already solved some of our hardest problems, but there remain still more ways in which to work together to help provide some relief from the pressure of high living costs here in Chapel Hill." Nazis Ruled Innocent Of Killing Prisoners Washington, Feb. 19 (UP) The American War Crimes court in Nuernberg, Germany, has ruled that it was no crime for the Nazis to kill captured mem bers of resistance forces who failed to live up to the rules of war. The Tribunal says most of the partisan bands that harrassed German troops in the Balkans didn't wear proper uniforms or insignia. Therefore, says the Trib unal; they didn't follow the rules of war and thus weren't entitled to be treated as prisoners of war. However, the American coirt did take action against Nazi de fendants found guilty of killing other Balkan civilians who had attacked the Germans. Literary Magazine Meeting Tuesday propriated. Also on the meeting's agenda will be the possible election of a committee chairman to head the motion, a secretary and four possible committees executive, finance, prospect, and organiza tion. The petition, which began its campus circulation Wednesday afternoon, reads, "We, the un dersigned students, urge the establishment of a literary quar terly at the University of North Carolina." Before the Student Legislature, expected to bring the referendum results up for comment, met last night, the document bore the names of Tarnation Editor Tookie Hodgson, Mag Editor Fred Jacob son, Mag Managing Editor Char lie Gibson, Tarnation Business Manager Pete Gerns, Mag Liter ary Editor Bill Sessions, DTH Editor Barron MMls, Tarnation Associate Editor Tom Kerr, DTH Managing Editor Ed Joyner, and other prominent publications figures. Jack Girard Seeks Senior Presidency On UP Ticket By Herb Nachmann Jack Girard of St. fc-tersburg. Florida, will seek the office of president of the Senior class on the University party ticket. Girard is a member of the Student Legislature, member of the Inter-Fraternity council, ser ved on the Yack staff for two years, and was president of Chi Phi for two terms. He entered the University in the fall of 1942. "After serving in the army, he returned to Caro lina last fall as a commerce ma jor. His running male will be Ed Davenport from Winterville, N. C. Davenport is a member of the Legislature and the Elections committee and is chairman of the Kappa Alpha rushing committee. He is a transfer from Wake For est where he was a member of the debating team. Pie served in the Navy during the war. Seeking the office of Social chairman of the class will be Jack Thompson, a transfer from Tulane university where he was freshman and sophomore class social chairman. A Sigma Chi, Thompson is Di Senate Endorses Magazine Petition; Racial Question Brings Hot Discussion An endorsement of the current petition for a campus lit erary quarterly was the one measure passed Wednesday night in a two-hour meeting of the Dialectic Senate which featured numerous other bills and substitutes, ammend ments and counter-ammendments, and a veritable circus of tabled ideas. The strongest contention of the evening was Senate Bill No. 4 to the effect that Negro students should be given equal educa tional opportunities in the South. The bill, reported out of th3 Ways and Means committee by James Soutlierland, proposed that committees from the legis latures of the Southern states should meet to plan and request state appropriations to establish regional - schools for ' colored people. Bill Jernigan spoke to brand regional' schools idealistic but impossible, citing the existing fourteenth amendment of the constitution and past legal cases as evidence of inadequacy. He presented a substitute bill main taining that the legislatures within the respective states should plan and finance their own schools individually and not with the states combined-into regions. Run on Amendments Several ammendments arose. One was Charlie Hodgson's move that the states decide the amount of their own appropria tions, and his views were quick ly defeated by oral vote. Anoth er idea was Merle Stevens's mo- tion that admission to Southern graduate schools should not be determined by race or color. It was defeated. The last opinion formally voiced was Gran Child ress's insisting that before any thing was done to afford Dixie Negroes "education comparable to that received by students any where in the country", as the ori ginal bill specified, white students in the South, too, should be given educational facilities equal to those already enjoyed by stud- i cnts in the North. This, too, met defeat before the entire Negro educational measure along with Jernigan's substitute bill was tabled for Di debate at some later date. The magazine referendum was (See DI SENATE, page 4) social chairman of the fraternity- and originated the Sigma Chi sweetheart derby and ball. While in Louisiana, Thompson was as sistant manager of the Colonial Golf and Country club. Running for the-office of sec- retary on the UP slate will be Elizabeth Leggett from -Anna- pons, Md. She; was a member of the Honor council and on the dean's list while in junior colleg! Since entering Carolina she has been active in "Y" work, has slores In tfie United btates be been on the dean's list and is lon to an association of any the University party representa- kind- Volger cited both the need tive from the Tri-Delt sorority. and influence of the Food Deal Rita Adams from Scotland ers association. Neck, N. C. and a transfer from I Recalling the days when he Agnes Scott college in Atlanta, first entered the business world Ga., will seek the post of treas- as being a lonesome, hard jour urer. While in Agnes Scott she neV) ne said the North Carolina was assistant editor of the Agnes association had been largely in Scott newspaper, member of the fiuential in having certain house freshman cabinet, debating so- hold necessities removed from ciety and was division chairman the saes tax list in this state and of the Lecture association. I pointed to present efforts of the Since entering Carolina she association to break the taxes on has served as a member of the House conucil at Mclver dormi tory, is a member pf the DTH staff and the University News bureau. Joyner Discusses Lawyer Problems Practical problems facing the lawyer in the removal of suits from the state courts to federal courts were discussed by Colonel William T. Joyner of Raleigh at a luncheon session of the Vance Inn chapter of Phi Delta Phi, international legal fraternity, at the University. The luncheon, held at the Caro lina Inn, was the occasion for the installation of officers for the spring semester of the Uni versity Law school. New officers are Robert Stock ton, Winston-Salem, magister; Livingston Vernon, Morganton, clerk; Walt Brinkley, Lexington, exchequer; and Francis Parker, Charlotte, historian. x3 A 'A - 7 ( ' fy - h - 1' iA - 7 ft I C , f"f A.5 :S Vi 1 1 tot, r II'" -jw : Af 1 ' - A FARMHOUSE NEAR EAST BRADY, Pa., is completely engulfed by Ihe rising flood waters sweeping over Ihe banks of the Allegheny River as heavy ice jams back Ihe waters up in many sections. Several buildings in Ihe area were demolished as Ihe ice choked waters surround them. Officials called Ihe situation "unpredictable," reporting lhal a long Ice gorge continues lo jam Ihe section. Commerce Frat Hears Jas. Volger Discuss Business "Success is the ability to grow to a respected position in your own community, James B. Vol ger declared at a banquet spon sored by the Delta Sigma Pi pro fessional Commerce fraternity at the Carolina Inn last night. Mr.. Volger, executive secre tary of the North Carolina Food Dealers association and candidate for State Treasurer, reviewed the history of small business asso- ciations in North Carolina and . the nation. Stating that only some 70,000 of the more than 400,000 food oleomargarine. Urging the members and guests reVe object f money ii um meu yinumons, me speaK er stated that the fundamental ingredients of thrift, honesty, and dependability, coupled with vision and a - willingness to change with the times, will auto matically bring success and friends. He asserted "There Is as much opportunity for success in small business today as there was 30 years ago, and perhaps more." Pointing to small businesses as "the backbone of the nation," the Charlotte legislator cited such or ganizations as the Lance Pack ing company and Radio Station WBT as having been humble be ginnings by men, "willing to see j an idea through." Following the talk a Delta Sig ma Pi key was presented to Mr. A. C. Gaskill who was recently initiated into the fraternity as a faculty member. LEGISLATURE ABSENCES The following members of the Student Legislature were absent from last night's meeting and are requested to turn in their ex cuses to the Rules committee by the next meeting of the law making body, according to Rules committee Chairman Jim Fort: Margaret Allred, Dick Alls brook, Norman Black, Len Butt, George Drew, Edie Knight, Dan Logue, Wally Robertson, Jim Volger. Women's Council Holdover Ameidmanl Is Passed; Other Changes Proposed Literary Quarterly Magazine Proposed In Bill Introduced by Basil Shcrrill By Chuck Hauser After being revised by amendmeiits tjo num.ViS t count, a new slate of campus election laws was passed u.i animously by the Student Legislature last night. : The new set of regulations was Snavcly Comments By United Press Football Coach Carl Snavely has admitted having "seme discussion" with ihe profession al Los Angeles Dons. Snavely has opened up j usi a little following published re ports lhat he has been offered the job as coach cf the Dons, members of the Ail-American Football conference. The Carolina coach pats il this way. "The Los Angeles Dons and I have had some dis cussion relative to 'their coach ing position, but no commit ment of any kind has been made." Declining to say anything more ' than that, Snavely goes on to announce ihe Tar Heel football learn will begin winter practice sessions next Monday. The practice has been post poned several limes because of bad weather and field condi tions. Los Angeles, Feb. 19 (UP) The Los Angeles Dons admit ted today that ihey have offer ed iheir head coaching posi tion lo Carl Snavely of North Carolina, but Ihe club says thai the Grey Fox has nol signed yet. He is expected lo give an answer within the nexl few days, il was reported. Cold Wave Heading Towards East Coast By United Press Old man winter still seems to have plenty of life left. The north central states are m the grip of another cold wave, The Chicago weather bureau says the cold will go as far South as Oklahoma and Arkansas and Probably will reach the Atlantic coast by Saturday. The mercury has dropped to below zero at many places in the midwest, registering drops of ;uu ,u ucSlc ""u-jdusion in the constitution the IZt l !Pwer of the Co"rt of the Inter With the cold wave fanning out ifratcrnity council to t it3 own over the northern part of thcjcases with regard to vioation3 country, the South is having itsi, t . j- ui a j by fraternities of standing agree- troubles with floods. Army engi- . ... . . . 4u iments set up within the frater- neers say more than 400,000 ac- . ra rU . ..... . ... . . , . . . mty system. This addition to the res of low land in the Mississippi , , . . . ., , , . . (oocument is in answer to the at- uena aie uhuit waier. in ivhssi ssippi, national guardsmen are working shoulder to shoulder with 300 convicts to reinforce the levees south of Greenwood. (International Soundphoio) I j brought out of Jos Dedmond'i; j Elections committee early yestcr , day evening, but the evening was worn late when Speaker Jack Folger's gavel rapped to an nounce the approval of the meas ures by the Legislature. Council Amendment The constitutional amendment providing for a holdover member on the Women's council alsc passed the law-making body, with only one opposing vote. The amendment will go befen? the j student body for ratificr tlon in j the April 6 general campus elec , tion. J Under the ' heading of new business on the agenda, Legisla ' tor Basil Sherrill introduced a bill to establish a literary quar terly magazine on campus, to be known as the Carolina Magazine. Underwrite lo $2,030 The bill provides for the Mag to be supported through volun tary subscriptions and adverti sing, and to receive no appropria tion from the Legislature. That body 'is to underwrite the pub lication to the extent of $2,000, however. An amendment to the consti tution brought to the floor from the Ways and Means committee by Sherrill in the absence of Chairman Tag Montague was recommitted by motion of Jo Farris. The amendment provided for all business passed by the Coed Senate, with the exception of social regulations, to be un proved by the Student Legisla ture. To Abolish HPB I Speaker Pro Tempore Miles Smith introduced an amendment to abolish the House Privileges board. As in the case, of other new business introduced, it was referred to committee for con- sideration at next week's session. Ernest House, chairman of the Finance committee, also brought forth changes to the constitution two of them. The first amendment House presented provided for the in- j tacks on the Interfraternity coun cil which have recently charged the council with violating the constitution. i Impeachment Power The second House amendment provides for the power of im peachment of student govern ment officials. Provisions of the measure specify that a majority vote of the Legislature will be necessary to start impeachment proceedings and that a two thirds vote of that body, fitting :n judgment on the accused, will be necessary to oust the person concerned. Executive appointments from President Tom Eller's office ap proved last night were all con cerned with seats on the Student Legislature. The following per sons were seated by the body: Joe Leery, Gene Turner, Johnny Clampitt, Herschel Keener, and Ralph Sherrill. Mike Rubish's name was approved by the Legis lature but he was not present to be sworn in with the others yes terday evening. The elections laws, as present ed out of committee, as amended, and as finally passed will be dis cussed at length in a future issue of the Daily Tar HeeL 12:00