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t ABOARD THE PRESIDENTIAL SPECIAL as it left Washington for Chicago are President Tru
man, his wife and their daughter Margaret. The Truman family flashes cheerful smiles as the chief
executive departs on final tour of his campaign before the November elections. The last stop will be
at the Truman home in Independence, Mo., where the president and his family will cast their votes.
Dorm Election Results
Released By Council
Results of dormitory elections held during the last week
and a half were released yesterday by the Interdormitory
council. The elections began Oct. 18 and ended with runoffs
Tuesday.
Bernard Plemmons is president :
of "A dorm with Fred Ogden
vice-president and Bill Wheeler
secretary-treasurer. Officers of
the other dorms in the same or
der are Alexander, Al House,
Julian Albergatti, and Moe Hunt
ley; Aycock, Bill Payeff, George
Siebold, and Joe Kumpe; "B"
dorm, John Sloan, Hassell Sledd,
and Max Harris; Battle-Vance-Pr.ttigrew,
Sum Miller, Charlie
Clapp, and Ralph Parks; "C"
dorm, Harry Aycock, Dick Bunt
ing, and Bob Payne.
Everett, Benjamin Kilpatrick,
John Baker, and Morris Moser;
Graham, L. A. Coman, Charles
Coggin, and Leon Cowan; Grimes,
Clarence Gilbert, Perry Henson,
and Talmadge Jordan; Lewis,
Carl Harris, John Eaton, and
Coye Rogers; Mangum, Bill Lam
bert, Nat Swann, and Orman
Hutcherson; Manly, Bob Birer,
Clay Brittain, and Joe Bach;
Miller, Dick Underwood, George
Kennon, and Bill Jones; Nash,
Lee Cannon, Charles Thompson,
and William Chambers. j
Old East, LeFoy Milks, Joej
Putnam, and B. B. Ward; Old i
West, Charlie Hayes, Wallace
Thompson, and Fred Patterson;
Ruffin, Bob Marsh, Bill Brown,(
and Jack Ward; Stacy, George
Blackwelder, Charles Bennett,
and Maurice Wilson; Steele, Bill
Rogers, Guy McFarland, and Sid ,
Varney; and Whitehead, Harold
Peedin, Glenn Moak, and Bob
Smith.
Senate Elects
Olga Gernova
Carr Delegate
The Coed Senate elected Olga
Gernova as a representative from
Carr dormitory to fill the vacancy
existing by a resignation of one
of the Senators at a meeting
Tuesday night. Other new mem
bers welcomed into the meeting
were Vivian Wise,. Conner Reed,
Bobbie Stockton, and Eleanor de
' Grange.
Speaker Fran Angas appoint
ed Constitution committee con
sisting of Pat McNutt, Willie Mar
iorie Riddick, Emily Ogburn,
B. A. Pate, and Bobbie Stockton.
A new Coed Elections bill was
brought up and discussed. Vot
ing and further discussion of the
bill was postponed until Monday
evening at 7 o'clock when the
Coed Senate will meet in special
session.
UVA Elections
Set for Nov. 8
The University Veterans as
sociation elections, originilly
scheduled for Nov. 1, have bfen
postponed until Nov. 8, President
Hugh Wells announced yester
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Debate Council
Slates Meeting
This Evening
The Debate council will hold a
practice session tonight, at 7:30
in the Grail room for all students
interested in extemporaneous
speaking, dramatic reading, and
poetry reading.
In expanding forensic activi
ties for the forthcoming year the
Debate council is also instituting
a series of practice and tryout
sessions each Thursday night in
the following fields: oratory, an
nouncing, and informative speak
ing. Successful contestants will
participate in tourneys to be held
this year in North Carolina, Vir
ginia, Kentucky, Michigan, and
Louisiana.
The topics for the extemporan
eous speaking tryouts Thursday
night will be furnished by the
Debate council. The contestants
may select their own dramatic
cr poetry readings, but dramatic
readings are limited to nine min-
;Utes reading time and poems to
'50 lines.
.Tryouts are still being held
for the varsity debating squad
which will begin a northern tour
early in November. A campus
intramural debate tournament is
also scheduled for next month.
Dates and rules for the tourna
ment will be announced later.
Chancellor House Appoints
Group for Planning Board
A committee "to consider ways
and means" of re-establishing a
state planning board was named
yesterday by Chancellor Robert
B. House who presided over a
three-hour luncheon conference
at the Carolina Inn, attended, by
than 125' prominent citi-
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zens from all sections of the
State.
rne commiure is (.umpuscu ui
Benjamin Cone, Greensboro,
George Watts Hill, Durham, and
City Manager Robert Flack,
Durham, with John Sprunt Hill,
Durham, as consultant. John A
Parker, head of he Unwersity
Department of City and Regional
Planning, was asked to serve as
executive secretary.
The assemblage included may-j of Durham. "We ought to jump
ors, city managers, faculty mem- j at the opportunity to establish
bers at Chapel Hill, North Caro-. a planning board in North Caro
lina State, and Woman's college, i lina on a permanent basis."
Victory Bell
The statue of James Buchan
an Duke looked on approving
ly, as the Carolina victory bell
pealed merry greetings to Duke
university students at the pres
entation of the Duke-Carolina
version of the "Little Brown
Jug" trophy yesterday at 3
o'clock.
Tar Heels cheerleaders, led
by Norm Sper, announced their
arrival on the quadrangle in
front of Duke Chapel by ring
ing the victory bell as they
drove up. On the lawn in front
of the statue the Duke cheer
ing squad waited. Two Blue
Devils raced around the truck
as it came to a stop.
A crowd of over 150 Duke
students gathered to watch the
proceedings, as the cheerlead
ers exchanged greetings and
lifted the heavy metal cart off
the truck. As the comely coed
cheerleaders of Duke inspected
the blue and white wagon with
a big D painted on the seat
and a NC painted on the lower
stand, Sper formally presented
the bell to Loring Jones, Duke
head cheerleader.
Phi Assembly
Votes 15 to 3
On States Rights
By a vote of 15 to 3, the Phil
anthropic assembly endorsed civil
and states rights during its meet
ing Tuesday night in Phi hall.
The bill, sponsored by Repre
sentative Brion Griswold, explain
ed that the resolutions foresaw
the necessity of federal interfer
ence within states which did not
protect civil liberties.
Proponents of the bill included
Trumanites and Dixicrats. The
Thurmond followers claimed
states rights have been deleted
by Mr. Truman.
and planning specialists from a
number of North Carolina towns.
The group heard addresses by
Walter Blucher, Chicago, execu
tive director, American Society
of Planning Officials; Col. E. W.
Palmer, member of the Tennes-
see State Planning commission
and president of the Kingsport
press, and several state mayors
and city managers, and ' then
VfltPri
unanimously to inaugu
rate plans looking toward the re
establishment of a state plan
ning board.
"This is the most important
, at
Hill, who declared he had been
vitally interested in city planning
ever since he became a citizen
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1948
Kerr -Scott Will
ake Talk Here
By Sam McKeel
W. Kerr Scott, Democratic candidate for governor of
North Carolina, wiU end his campaign Monday night with a
speech in Gerrard hall at 8 o'clock.
Scott, who won the second pri- : 1
mary over Charles M. Johnson,
has been touring the state for
the past 11 weeks. He will speak
here under the auspices of the
Young Democrats club.
Scott entered, the 1948 cam
paign for governor against two
strong candidates, Johnson, and
Mayne Albright.-He came in sec
ond in the first primary, but was
close enough to Johnson to force
a two man run-off. .
Born in Hawfields community
in Alamance county, Scott began
his political career as county
farm agent. In 1936 he was elect
ed state commissioner of agricul
ture. At the start of the primary
campaign, Scott resigned as com
missioner, saying that no man
should try to hold down two jobs
at once. While commissioner, he
sponsored the diversification of
farm products, the doing away
with the one-crop system. He al
so set up such an efficient admin
istration in the Agriculture de
partment that other states sent
representatives to study the sys
tem.
Scott will be entertained at a
banquet in the Carolina inn at
6:30.
Eloise Jacobi
Wins Election
AsCICAHead
Eloise Jacobi, senior from Wil
mington, was elected president of
the Carolina Independent Coed
association by acclamation yes
terday to replace Betty Long of
Salisbury, who resigned.
A transfer student from Wom
an's college, Miss Jacobi was a
member of last year's Yack staff,
treasurer of the Wilmington
Carolina club, and CICA vice-r
president. Marty Hinkle of Winston-Salem
was 'elected to re
place Miss Jacobi as vice-president.
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The club discussed plans for
the annual Sadie Hawkins' day,
which will be held on campus
early in November. Plans are
under way to begin the activities
at 1:30 with a parade from the
Y to Fetzer field, where the
"Human Race" will be staged.
Marty Hinkle and Gwen Baber
were appointed to work on the
Sadie Hawkins committee with
members from the Town jGirls'
association and Western Carolina
club. The group will meet today
at 5 o'clock in front of Memorial
hall.
Meeting time for CICA has
been set for 7 o'clock every Wed
nesday night. Members are re
minded of volley ball practice to
be held at 4 o'clock today.
Dorm chairmen were appoint
ed as follows: Joyce Harris, Al
derman; Betty Long, Mclver;
Martha Hughes, Smith, and Ren
ate Hoke, Archer House.
University Press
Has Book Honored
"Bold Galilean," a novel of the
time of Christ by LeGette BIythe.
published by the University of
North Carolina press, has been
chosen as a spring, 1949, selection
of the People's Book club.
This is the first time that a
novel published by a university
press has been selected by a major
book club and only the third time
in publishing history that any
book of a university press has
been so honored. A rrfinimum of
125,000 copies of "Bold Galilean"
will be sent by the club to its
members after March 15, 1949.
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The author,. a Charlotte news
paperman and an alumnus of the
University, has written two other
books, "Alexahdriana," and a
biography of Napoleon's marshal,
Michel Ney.
Ten ROTC Men
Receive Honors
For Unit Work
Ten men in the Air ROTC unit
have been designated as distin
guished military students by Col.
Byron R. Switzer, commanding
officer for the unit, and 'Chancel
lor Robert B. House. This is the
highest honor that an ROTC stu
dent can' receive, Col. Switzer
said.
The distinction is given only
to those students who have shown
outstanding qualities of leader
ship both in academic work and
military science. Students who are
named as distinguished military
students are eligible to apply
for appointments as 2nd Lieuten
ants in the regular Air Force, Col.
Switzer said.
The 10 men who have been
designated are; Cadet Major Rob
ert M. McAllister, Cadet Lt. Col.
Paul J. English, Cadet Capt.
James W. Geiger, Cadet Capt.
Robert A. Gray, Cadet Lt. Albert
F. Howell, Cadet Capt. Lester P.
Martin, Cadet Lt. Grey L. Adams,
Cadet Capt. John D. Brown,
Cadet Lt. William T. Luke, and
Cadet Lt. Thomas E. Cunning
ham. Safety Council
Recommends Ban
On New Areas
At the Tuesday meeting of the
Safety council it was decided to
recommend to the administration
that two new areas be added to
the restricted parking areas,
Steve Millikin, council chairman,
reported yesterday. Dormitory
students living in the adjacent
areas are to be given red stick
ers which carry parking priv
ileges up to Sept. 1, 1949, Millikin
said.
Areas recommended are be
tween Cameron avenue and the
county health office, and be
tween Cameron avenue and the
Alumni building.
Representatives of the student
body, faculty, and administration
were present for the meeting.
The members present agreed that
the traffic situation on campus
has been vastly improved by the
present system of red and blue
stickers, Millikin said.
Elections Committee
Will Discuss Bills
Members of the elections com
mittee of Student Legislature
will meet today at 4 o'clock in
Horace, Williams lounge, Graham
Memorial in order to act on two
bills before tonight's meeting of
the Legislature, Joe Leary an
nounced yesterday.
NROTC Students Hear Talk
By Rear Admiral J. W. Roper
By Leonard Dudley
Rear Adm. J. W. Roper, deputy
chief of naval personnel, address
ed a group of 350 Naval ROTC
students here yesterday in obser
vance of Navy day.
"People ask why in this atomic
age do we need a large Navy,"
Admiral Roper said. "We need it
to establish and maintain control
of those strategic areas which we
use for our commerce."
'The Navy's mission," Adm.
Roper said, "is to keep the peace,
and if we don't keep the peac,
to win the war. There are many
who feel that armaments cause
war. That's " like saying that if
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Pep Rally
Tookie Hodgson, vice-presi-ident
of the University club
announced yesterday thai the
pep rally preceding the Ten
nessee will begin in front of
the Andrew Johnson hotel in
Knoxville ai 12:30 Saturday
afternoon.
Students will assemble in
side of the roped-off area in
. front of. the hotel and then
march along a special route to'
Shields-Waikins stadium. Norm
Sper, head cheerleader, will
lead the parade.
University students visiting -Knoxville
who wish to stay
overnight may obtain aid from
members of the University club
who will be on hand to assist
in obtaining hotel reservations,
lodgings in tourist camps and
to render general assistance.
Lois Cranford
Resigns Post
With Merchants
Lois Cranford has resigned as
secretary to the Chapel Hill
Carrboro Merchants' association,
its was announced yesterday.
Miss Cranford, for the past four
and a half years has been em
ployed by both the Merchants
association and F. O. Bowman,
dividing her working day be
tween them.
"Both the association's needs
and the requirements of Mr.
Bowman's work have expanded
to the point that each needs a
full-time secretary," said Miss
Cranford. "I have elected to be
come a full-time secretary to Mr.
Bowman, and for this reason
have asked to be relieved of my
associational duties."
The board of directors in
structed the president to appoint
a committee to study all aspects
of setting up a separate office for
the Association, which has been
using Bowman's office, under the
direction of a full-time secretary.
Mr. L. V. Huggins, president of
the Association, named L. J.
Phipps, chairman, Harvey D.
Bennett, and E. C. Smith to serve
on this committee.
Hazel Scott Concert
Is Scheduled Tonight
By Margaret Gaston
Hazel Scott, who will appear tonight at 8:30 in Memorial
hall, has selected a program which includes classics, semi
classics, popular pieces, and original boogie-woogie composi
tions. She will also render her interpretation of "Fur Elise"
by Beethoven, in jazz time.
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Four Speakers
Will Continue
Debate Series
Continuing in line with last
night's Di Senate forum on the
qualifications of the various pres
idential candidates, Al Lowen
stein, Charles Long, Gran Chil
dress and Aubrey Williams will
discuss "How Best to Further
World Government in the Com
ing Election."
This debate, sponsored by the
United World Federalists, will
be held in Roland Parker Lounge
No 3 this afternoon at 5.
we do away with automatic pistols
we won't have burglaries or rob
beries," Adm. Roper said.
In trying to determine the size
of our navy, Adm. Roper said that
this would depend on several
factors: the kind of world in
which we live, what kind of sup
port we wanted to give friendly
nations, what kind of war we
were fighting, and how we plan
ned to fight it.
Adm. Roper pointed out that
the size of the navy is determined
by the government- The navy
must be large enough to ward off
the initial blow of an aggressor
nation and give us time to pre
pare for war, he said.
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egisfrars
Stay Padlocked
By Herb Nachman
Local registration books for Tuesday's general election
remained tightly closed last night despite a student's charge
that an elections official promised that books would reopen if
voters could prove they were unable to register between the
hours of 5:30 and 6 o'clock last Saturday.
R. J. Smith of Hillsboro, chair-
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Negro aruaenrs
Are Concerned
In AVC Motion
The American Veterans' com
mittee held their weekly meeting
Tuesday night in the Presbyter
ian church, passing a motion to
establish a special committee to
investigate and assist other or
ganizations in programs working
towards the admission of Negro
students to the University gradu
ate school.
It was unanimously moved that
letters be sent to Gov. Gregg
Cherry and Judge Hubert T.
Olive, chairman of the State board
of elections, urging that civil lib
erties of all voters be respected
regardless of race or party affilia
tions in the voting on Nov. 2.
A proposal that AVC request
Abernathy's book store to pre
serve the unity of the United
States by discontinuing the sale
of Confederate flags was voted
down by a majority.
At the next meeting of the AVC
members will vote whether to
have an open, public debate be
tween Junius Scales, Communist
party representative and Charles
Sellers, on the aims of the Com
munist party within liberal, non
Communist organizations.
Knoxville Train
Leaves at 7H5
The leaving time of the special
train to Knoxville Friday night
has been changed to 7:15 in the
evening, instead of 8:00 o'clock
as had previously been an
nounced, J. S. Bloodworth, of the
Southern Railway said yesterday.
Sponsored by the Student .Ln
tertainment committee, the pro
gram will be available to stu
dents and faculty members only,
Scotty Venable, student chair
man of the committee, reported
yesterday. Students must present
their identification cards at the
door for admittance. Venable
warned that a "first-come, first
serve" basis will be used in de
termining who is to get the 1,850
seats. He urged students to come
as early as possible, as a capacity
crowd is expected. -
Miss Scott has appeared in mo
tion pictures, radio and night
clubs. Her talent for blending to
gether classics and boogie-woogie
makes her popular to both Jazz
fans and music-lovers alike.
The Student Entertainment
committee met yesterday to dis
cuss future plans for the enter
tainment series. Tentative plans
have been made to stage a series
of five programs for the student
body.
Legal Fraternity
Hears J. C. Smith
Julius C. Smith, Jr., executive
vice president and general coun
sel for Jefferson Standard Life
Insurance Co., Greensboro, spoke
yesterday to the Ruffin chapter
of Phi Alpha Delta legal fra
ternity at the Carolina Inn.
Introduced by Bob Perdue,
third year member of the fra
ternity, Smith spoke briefly of
the basic aualities required of
lawyers. Chief among those
enumerated were character, for
which there is no substitute, the
speaker said, and common sense,
without which brilliance of mind
is of no use.
NUMBER 30
Books
man of the Orange county Board
of Elections said flatly last night
that the books were closed as of
5:29 Saturday evening and as
far as he was concerned would
remain closed.
Smith said the state election
laws specify that the books must
close at sundown on the last
night of registration. "It doesn't
make any difference if there are
100 people waiting, they won't
get to register after 5:29," he
pointed out.
J. B. Johns, member of the
Chapel Hill Elections board, last
night denied a statement he made
two days ago' that registrars had
been instructed to remain at their
posts until 6 o'clock Saturday
evening.
Johns also retracted a promise
that qualified would-be voters
who could prove they were at
town hall with the intention of
registering between 5:30 and 6
o'clock Saturday evening would
be given another chance to reg
ister. Smith explained that the south
precinct in Chapel Hill had re
mained open the first two Satur
days of registration until 6
o'clock but he said the law speci
fies that on the last night, the
books must close at sundown.
"They can stay open all night
if they want to, until the last
night, then they must close at
sundown," he said.
Johns reported that the Rev.
J. R. Green, registrar of the
south precinct, had said that he
would stay open until 6 o'clock
the first two nights since he
wasn't sure of the exact hour of
sundown.
Mrs. John Gillin, president of
the Chapel Hill League of Wom
en Voters, said last night that
the League was acting in good
faith when it distributed signs
saying that registration would be
conducted until 6 o'clock. "Elec
tions officials in Chapel Hill
should be given a pat on the back
for keeping the books open until
6 o'clock. The league acted under
instructions from Mr. Johns
when issuing the signs.
The student who filed the com
plaint with Johns was unaware
of the ruling that on the last
night of registration the books
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Late News
Bulletins
New Party
COLUMBIA, S. C, Oct. 27
(UP) South Carolina support
ers of President Truman to
night formed a new state Dem
ocratic party and named a re
placement for Gov. J. Strom
Thurmond as party national
committeeman.
Truman Lashes
BOSTON, Oct. 27. (UP)
President Truman lashed out
anew at the spread of Com
munism tonight and pledged
that this nation "will not re
treat" from its stand on the.
Berlin crisis.
Dewey Disagrees
CLEVELAND, Oct. 27 (UP)
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey took
'issue tonight with President
Truman over Communism, pic
turing the chief executive as
an unwitting exponent of Com
munist propaganda.
Steel Increase
NEW YORK, Oct. 27. (UP)
Two subsidiaries of the Un
ited States Steel company an
nounced tonight they were
making increases in the prices
of zinc-coated steel products
because of a rise in the price
of zinc.
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