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EDITORIALS
Dixiecrat Thoughts
To Avoid Delay
Scuttlebutt Wanted
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VOLUME LVII
United Press
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1948
Phone F-3371 F-3361
NUMBER 12
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merson
s Negotiations Preoared
600 Students
Sign Petitions
To Reopen Shop
By Gordon Huffines
The Armory store "Scuttle
butt" was torn down by a wreck
ing crew yesterday as student
signed petitions poured into the
Student Government office re
questing the University admin
istration to reopen the store,
which has been closed since the
beginning of the fall quarter.
Student government officials
said the order to tear down the
building, which is located near
Emerson stadium, was given by
University Controller William D.
Carmichael, Jr. The building has
served as a refreshment center
lor students on the east campus
since it was turned over to the
University by the Navy Pre
Flight school.
A delegation of student lead
ers had an appointment to see
Carmichael yesterday afternoon,
but were told that he was out of
town for the afternoon.
President of the Student Body
Jess Dedmond protested the issue
to Assistant Controller C. E.
Teague yesterday afternoon pre
senting petitions signed by ap
proximately 600 students re
questing the reopening of the
store.
At that time Teague issued a
statement prepared by the ad
ministration. According to the
statement the administration had
planned to replace the Armory
store with a permanent structure
as soon as it was possible. "After
thorough consideration, it was
felt that the best location for per
manent, sanitary, and healthful
refreshment facilities for the ex
panding east campus would be in
the area of the Monogram club
building. At that time the Mono
gram club very graciously con
sented to permit the club to be
opened as a recreation facility
for the entire student body, par
ticularly serving the east cam
pus, and work was immediately
begun to build quarters which we
believe are as handsome and
healthful as are to be found in
any university in America," the
statement read.
Protesting to Teague, Dedmond
and Worsham maintained that
the facilities of the Monogram
club were inadequate to handle
the increased number of students
on that section of the campus. In
his protest Dedmond stressed two
points: (1) That the administra
tion was not considering the wel
fare of the students, and (2)
Student sentiment was not con
sulted before the building was
removed.
Commenting on the situation
earlier in the afternoon, Ded
mond said, "I can think of no
good reason why the Scuttlebutt
should have been closed. It is
my belief that the University ad
ministration and student gov
ernment are here in the interest
of student welfare and I do not
)!: ; that this action is in ac
cord with this principle."
Dedmond also stated that he
bad conferred this "summer with
Ciumichael on the matter and
had been told that the Armory
store would remain closed on a
three month trial basis to see if
the Monogram club could furnish
i'derjuatc facilities.
The foreman of the wrecking
(-" v. said that the building would
he completely removed by last
r'iht. According to the University
fcui Mings office the materials sal
Vaorj from the store are being
" moved to 603 Park Place drive.
House to Speak
Chancellor Robert B. House
'"ill be the speaker at this
morning's freshman assembly
at 11 o'clockjn Memorial hall,
furth in the series of programs
designod to increase unity and
Carr'Pus spirit in new students.
Chancellor House's subject
' wn be "Your Responsibility to
Yur Own Mind."
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Final Plans
For University Day
By Lincoln Kan
Final plans were made yesterday for the University day
Inn n ct" 12 at a luncheon meeting at the Carolina
Spike Saunders and Norm Sper announced that the entire
service will be held in the area in front of the South building.
. In order to symbolize further the
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A MEMBER of Marshal Vas
sily Sokolovsky's policy com
mittee in Berlin, Herlin R.
Schdarnov is reputed to be the
man the Russians selected to
drive the Western Powers from
Berlin. Schdarnov is held to be
the person who engineered the
Berlin blockade.
AP Bureau Head
Delivers Speech
To Rotary Club
Relman Morin, chief of the
Washington bureau of the As
sociated Press, last night told a
meeting of the Chapel Hill Ro
tary club that "the Russians don't
want war, they want the fruits
of war."
Morin was invited to be guest
speaker of the club in observance
of National Newspaper week. He
has served with the AP in Los
Angeles, New York, London, Al
giers, Tokyo, Cairo, New Delhi,
Italy and France.
"I don't believe anyone will de
liberately start a war between
the United States and Russia,"
Morin said. "However, the ex
plosives are there, and there are
matches lying carelessly around.
But if a war begins, I believe it
will be by accident."
Morin said there were two rea
sons for the Russian blockade of
Berlin. He said one was to gain
control of Berlin, the "psycho
logical capital of Germany," and
the other was retaliation against
American policy in the Western
sector of Germany.
On the United Nations, Morin
said, "We have come to a period
of diplomatic bankruptcy. They
have reached the bottom of the
barrel."
Mardi Gras Back on Campus as S & F
Holds TryoutsV Completes Show Cast
Mardi Gras will eome a little
early this year. All the romance,
gaiety, and music which symbol
izes the famous New Orleans
festival are contained in Pete
Strader's musical comedy, "Mardi
Gras" which will be presented
by Sound and Fury Nov. 4 and
'Casting for the show has just
been completed and Strader, who
will also direct the show, stated
that he was "well-pleased" with
the cast. Hold-overs from the
summer cast include Faith Adams
as Nita; Bill Sanders as Keith;
and Jerry Weiss as the landlord.
Dan Morgan will, play Pa La
Fitte Anita Gates is cast as the hero-
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Are Laid
tradition behind the University,
a faculty member dressed as Wil
liam R. Davie, father of the Uni
versity, will re-enact the corner
stone laying of Old East on Oct.
12, 1793.
"There will be no speeches just
a simple ceremony to commem
orate our birthday," said Saun
ders, executive secretary of the
Alumni association. Sper added,
"We hope to set a new standard
on which future celebrations can
be modeled, and we expect to
present such an interesting pro
gram that all students will want
to be there!"
Promptly at the ten-minute-to-eleven
bell, the University band
will present a short concert as
the crowd gathers. As soon as the
audience is settled, Chancellor R.
B. House, "William R. Davie"
and the faculty will descend the
South building steps and move
to the platform.
After a salute to the national
anthem, the minister will give
the invocation. The audience will
then join in singing the Univer
sity hymn sung to the tune of
"My Country Tis of Thee." The
programs which will be distrib
uted by the Monogram club will
have the hymn and the respon
sive reading which follows the
singing. The reading will then
end in a one-minute silence in
memory of University dead.
The University Glee club will
end the silence by rendering the
"Integer Vitae." Paul Young will
lead a special musical program
by the combined University choir
of over 300 voices.
As soon as the musical part of
the program ends, the mock
cornerstone laying will begin and
will be explained as to its mean
ing and significance to the Uni
versity. Norm Sper will then lead the
audience behind the choir and
the band to Davie Poplar. There
the crowd will disperse after
singing "Hark the Sound."
The book exchange, Y, Univer
sity offices, departmental offices
and the library will be closed be
tween 11 and 12 o'clock. It is
expected that many of the busi
ness establishments in Chapel
Hill will also cooperate with the
University by closing during the
service hour.
WSSF Committee
, Will Meet Today
There will be a meeting of the
WSSF steering committee this
afternoon at 4:30 in the YWCA
office. Anyone interested in work
ing on the committee this year
is' cordially invited to attend.
ine, Meg de Tourleville, and Bob
Thomas as the hero, Beau St.
Charles. Other members of the
cast include: Gladys Levenson as
Zenobia: Fred Young as Charon;
George Grizzard as Art; Bunnie
Davis as Maggie; Alice Ferebee
as Cora; Nancy Norton as Millie;
Jim 'Hammerstein as the Judge;
and George Stephens as Art Jr.
Members of the chorus and
dancers have not yet been an
nounced. There are still some
openings in the S and F orches
tra and anyone interested in play
ing in the orchestra is asked to
come by Memorial hall any night
this week between 7 and 9
o'clock.
HPB Rules
Are Signed
By Officials
The office of the dean of stu
dents, headed by Fred Weaver,
and the office of the dean of
women, Katherine Carmichael,
yesterday approved the House
Privileges board visiting agree
ment, and said it would be avail
able for distribution to fraterni
ties today, according to Jack
Thompson, president of the Inter
fraternity council.
If the agreement is acceptable
to the fraternities, it will go into
effect tomorrow at noon.
The IFC has asked coed house
presidents to familiarize coeds
with the terms, and fraternity
presidents are to present the
agreement to members during
chapter meetings. If the agree
ment is approved by the fra
ternities, the presidents will sign
it and return it to Dean Weaver
Last week the House Priv
ileges board met and drew up the
visiting agreement, which is
identical with the one drawn up
and passed last year.
At the regular meeting of the
IFC last Monday, the members
selected seven from their group
to serve on the IFC court. Those
elected include Andy Cornish,
chairman; Allison Pell, Tommy
Jordan, Marshall Roberts, Bill
Wilson, Charlie Loudermilk, and
Jack Brantley.
The newly elected IFC court
met Tuesday night and tried the
Kappa Sigma fraternity for vi
olation of last summer's visiting
agreement. The fraternity was
found guilty by the board, and it
forfeited the $50 visiting bond,
and was put on an" indefinite
suspension of visiting privileges.
Special Session
Of Legion Post
Called Tonight
There will be a special, execu
tive session meeting of the
Chapel Hill American Legion
post No. 6 tonight at 7:30, Paul
H. Robertson, legion member, an
nounced yesterday.
Although this is an executive
session meeting, Robertson urged
all Legion members to be pres
ent. The calendar, for use of the
hut during the fall and winter,
will be worked out at this time.
All veterans, whether members
of other veterans organizations or
not, are invited to drop into the
Legion hut on Rosemary street at
any time during any meeting.
Draft Offices Are
Open on Thursdays
Students who reach their 18th
birthday today or within one
week of today can register for
selective service in 208 South
building.
The office will be open each
Thursday from 9 o'clock until
4:30.
Radio, Not Brain Reception
Comes Over 'Eeg' Machine
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 6 j
(UP) Jefferson-Hillman hos- 1
pital's "brain waves" had pa
tients and personnel in a dither
today. Incidentally, the World
Series broadcast was coming in
without benefit of radio sets.
It all started when a techni
cian fitted a special machine on
a mental patient to measure his
brain impulse. But instead of a
brain impulse, the startled tech
nician heard a distinct "Ball one,
strike one." i
While he looked around for a
hidden radio, the program
changed from the ball game to
lively jive. That was a week ago
and ever since the hospital ex
perts have been trying to tune
out the radio programs coming in
on their brain-wave machine,
known technically as the electro
encephalograph, or just "eeg."
The machine has no amplifi
cation gadgets but the reception
apparently comes in via extreme
ly sensitive needles. These
needles are supposed to register
Drawings Begun
WINSTON-SALEM. Oct. 6
(UP) A firm of Winston
Salem architects today began
working drawings for the new
$5,000,000 four-year medical
school at the University of
North Carolina.
Preliminary building plans
were approved by the Univer
sity Building committee.
The local firm of Northrup
and O'Brien said the new 400
bed seven-story hospital would
be built east of the present in
firmary on the campus at
Chapel Hill and would in
corporate the infirmary and
the present Medical school.
The 1947 General Assembly
authorized construction of the
new building and expansion of
the medical school from a two
to a four-year course.
Fruchtman Slated
To Play Sunday
At Hill Concert
Efrim Fruchtman, violoncellist,
accompanied by Jeanne Fornoff
at the piano, will present a re
cital in Hill hall Sunday after
noon at 4:30. Seven variations on
a theme from Mozart's "Magic
Flute" by Beethoven, a Debussy
sonata, and Suite No. V in C
Minor by Bach are among the se
lections to be played.
Fruchtman, a Julliard School
of Music graduate, has joined the
University Music department as
an assistant instructor in music,
a graduate assistant, and an in
structor in cello. He has also at
tended the University of Florida
and Teachers College of Colum
bia University.
At the University of Florida,
Fruchtman was assistant to the
director of the band and orches
tra and appeared as soloist with
orchestra. He performed with
chamber music groups in and
around New York.
Town Men's Group
Sets Meeting Today
The Town Men's association
will meet this afternoon at 5
o'clock in Horace Williams
lounge of Graham Memorial,
John Van Hecke, president, an
nounced yesterday.
All members who have joined
during the past three days are
especially invited to attend the
meeting.
Van Hecke also announced that
the membership drive which has
been in progress since Monday
will be extended through today.
A table will be set up in the Y
for the convenience of any town
men who wish to join.
Fiction Group
To Meet Tonight
The Carolina Science Fiction
association will meet tonight at
9:30 in Roland Parker lounge 3,
Graham Memorial.
brain impulses on a graph but
this week they have been acting
like phonograph needles.
The reception first came in
only from frequency modulation
stations but lately all 10 of the
stations in the Birmingham
Bessemer area plus the Birm
ingham police department radio
have been heard on the brain
wave machine.
The machine manufacturers in
Quincy, Mass., could not supply
the answer. The weatherman
couldn't even find a sun-spot
which might have given the hos
pital something to blame it on.
The hospital is sending out an
SOS for help, but not over the
machine. It won't transmit.
Brazen Pillars
Slate Meeting
The regular meeting of the
Brazen Pillars will be held in
Phi hall tonight at 7:30. All stu
dent masons are cordially invited.
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DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Harry Truman
(arrow) is welcomed on his return to Washington, D. C. by a
large crowd with a sign spelling out "Our Man." Truman had just
returned from a trans-continental speaking tour.
At Least Eight Dead
In Bomber Wreckage
WAYCROSS, Ga., Oct. 6 (UP) A B-29 bomber exploded
over Waycross today and at least eight of its occupants
perished but "three or four" others miraculously survived
by pulling their parachute ripcords as they were blown
into space.
The big superfortress was be-
I D. D! Ilieved on a secret experiment
Offered by UVA
Tuesday Evening
A jack-pot prize of $35 is
waiting for some lucky student
to win Tuesday night at the Uni
versity Veterans association quiz
show, Hugh Wells, president of
the UVA announced yesterday.
The $35 does not have to be
won by a campus Einstein, Wells
said. Any student who attends
the show will have a chance to
win the $35 or a consolation
prize.
The quiz show will be run
along the lines of a "Doctor I.Q."
radio show. Participants will be
picked at random from the audi
ence and Bob Allison, announcer
for radio station WTIK, will
serve as master of ceremonies.
Parents Invited
To Nursery Meet
The Baptist church nursery
school is available again this
year for eight-hour nursery care
if the need for such care can be
ascertained, J. C. Herrin, Baptist
minister, announced yesterday.
All parents who need the serv
ice f or their children are urged
to be present at a meeting this and "saw pieces of metal flying
evening at 7:30 in the student about high in the air. The ex
lounge of the Baptist church. plosion left a long vapor trail."
Charles Eaton Will
Of Chi Delta Phi
Charles Eaton of the English
department will be guest speaker
at the first open meeting of Chi
Delta Phi, Monday evening at 8
o'clock in Horace Williams
lounge of Graham Memorial,
President Sally Woodhull said
yesterday.
Planned especially for girls in
terested in joining the group, a
national literary sorority, the
meeting will be devoted to a dis
cussion of the opportunities for
young writers on the campus and
in national fields. All coeds in
terested in writing are invited,
whether or not they plan to join
this year.
Members of the sorority are
chosen on the basis of their writ
Reported
flight, possibly involving cosmic
ray research, when it met dis
aster high in the clear blue air
over this south Georgia city.
Thirteen men, some of them
believed civilians, were reported
aboard the plane when it left the
Warner-Robins test base near
Macon, Ga., an hour earlier.
The disintegrating bomber
crashed in smoking fragments
covering 20 acres of marshland
on the edge of the Great Oke
fenokee swamp.
With a roar like a clap of thun
der, the blast ripped the big
bomber as it cruised at 8,000 to
10,000 over the heart of Way
cross, eyewitnesses reported.
There was one report that the
B-29 trailed a. plume of black
smoke just before the blast.
The B-29 fluttered down and
began falling apart, witnesses
said, but the momentum carried
the larger pieces of the wreck
age beyond the city.
"It fell to pieces," said A. C.
Harvey, Jr., a filling station oper
ator who served with the air
force in the war. "It was about
8,000 to 10,000 feet in the air.
I saw at least one parachute, but
the plane was falling in so many
pieces that there may have been
more."
John Pobola, manager of radio
station WAYX, said he ran out
Speak at Meeting
Literary Sorority
ings. Manuscripts for tryouts
should be turned in to the infor
mation office at Graham Memor
ial before Wednesday, Oct. 20.
Any type of creative writing is
acceptable, and no set amount is
required. Coeds desiring further
information may contact Presi
dent Woodhull, Pi Phi house.
Throughout the year, the group
will sponsor a number of similar
open meetings, to which the en
tire campus is welcome, with
speakers from this area. At
closed meetings, members read
and discuss their own writings.
Other activities of the group in
clude cooperation in campus
wide projects such as May day,
sponsored jointly by CICA, Pan
Hel, and Chi Delta.
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Student Solons
ToHearRodman
Lowenstcin Talk
A report on summer action of
the Student Legislature, one on
the National Student association
convention, and the filling of sev
eral vacancies will occupy the
time of the first fall meeting of
the Legislature this evening at
7:15 in Di hall, New West build
ing. George Rodman, presiding of
ficer during the summer, will
present the report of summer
activities. During the first term
two bills were passed, the first
an appropriation of $40 for regis
tration fees for University dele
gates to the National Student as
sociation, and the second estab
lishing an order of ascendancy to
the temporary duties of presi
dent. The only bill passed in the sec
ond term was a resolution peti
tioning the administration to
rescind an order banishing dogs
from the campus.
Al Lowenstein, one of three
University delegates to the NSA
convention at Madison, Wise,
will present a report of the meet
ings, at which there were nearly
800 representatives from schools
throughout the country.
Several vacancies in the legis
lature will also be filled at to
night's meeting. Two names al
ready submitted, which will have
to be approved, are Monroe
Landreth, to replace Ben Kistler,
and J. W. Anderson, to replace
Bill Jernigan.
Housing Office
Names New List
The names of 25 students have
been released from the housing
office as eligible for dormitory
rooms. They must contact the of
fice by Saturday for assignments.
Those who do not contact the
office by that date will have
their deposits refunded, for it
will ' be assumed that they are
not interested in obtaining dorm
rooms.
The following students are list
ed: John Talmadge Adams, Rod
eric C. Bellamy, William Earl
Bellamy, Jr., John II. Boone,
James Edward Bowden, Royce
Everett Brewer, Richard H. Fer
guson, Richard B. Fuquay, Fred
erick A. Galton.
Billy Louis Hair, George P.
Harris, Gene K. Herring, Law
rence A. Holt, Jr., Lawrence B.
Jacobson, Howard E. Kivett, Jer
ry W. Moody, Alex P. Rickman,
Paul L. Ritch, Jr., Eli M. Ritter,
Jr., Clyde L. Sawyer, John Teig
land, Jr., Earl E. Williams, Calvin
Woodward and James B. Za
Ianka. Quarterly Staff
Will Meet Today
The entire staff of the Carolina
Quarterly will meet this after
noon at 3 o'clock in Roland Park
er lounge 3 of Graham Memorial,
according to Editor Bill Sessions.
The subscription drive, manu
scripts, and progress of the maga
zine thus far will occupy discus
sion. It is urgent that all staff
members attend, and that they
bring in their subscription books.
Chow Line
The cafeteria on the Wake
Forest campus will open Sat
urday morning at about 10:30,
according to Manager E. T.
Cummings, in order that Uni
versity students going over
early to avoid traffic may eat
lunch before the game.
The staff estimated that they
can take care of about 2.003
people. They will remain open
as long as seems necessary be
fore the game, and open for
supper immediately after the
game.
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