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univ Chanel h;, Viorth Carolin 1-31-49 11 .ft. I I r.I r EDITORIALS Forgetful Governor? Slipshod Adminisiraiion The Wayward Busrider WEATHER Fair and cool. njO YY i ill iiiiii i ii i i vii Ei fi ti II mm: :wmm? i t i i -v i i -1 i VOLUME LVII GI Enrollment Shows Slump In North State Attendance Drops 14 Per Cent in '48 WINSTON-SALEM, Jan. 6 A 14 per cent drop in the enroll ment of veterans under the GI in Mortn Carolina schools and colleges in the past year was reported yesterday by J. D. Deramus,. manager of the Vet- I erans administration regional of fice. The enrollment figures were taken on Nov". 30, and show the Drops in Nation WASHINGTON. Jan. 6 (UP)- The Veterans admin istration said today the down ward trend in the enrollment of GI students at colleges and universities is continuing. : The total of veterans enroll ed under federal programs on Nov. 30 was 1,050.668. com pared with 1,235,761 a year ago. This is. a 15 per cent drop. Enrollments on Oct. 30 were down 17 per cent from a year ago. drop from the fall term of 1947. This is the first time that en rollment figures have dropped since the GI bill and Public Law 16 were put into effect early in 1945. Veterans in colleges and uni versities in North Carolina as of the end of November, said Der amus, totaled 18,211, compared with 21,257 a year ago. The number of veterans in schools below the college level under the two laws also showed a decrease in North Carolina this fall, Deramus said. At the end of November, there were 36,315 veterans in these schools, a drop of 16 per cent from the 43,338 reported a year ago. These figures include institu tional on - the - farm training, Deramus said. NORTH STATE ROUNDUP School Report RALEIGH, Jan. 6 (UP) The public school program will cost the state $104, 000,000, not counting trans portation costs and emergen cy capital outlay, if it is adopted in its entirety by the legislature, the State Educa tion commission's Finance committee reported today. Election Blocked N O R T II : WILKESBORO, Jan. 6 t- (UP) This town's plan for a special ABC elec tion apparently was blocked today because its representa tive in the legislature is dry." Editor Dies THOMASVILLE, Jan. 6 (UP) The Rev. John Arch McMillan, 68, for 14 years edi-. tor of the Publican of the Baptist orphanage of North Carolina, died at 6 a. m. today in Winston-Salem. Rules Suicide TARBORO, Jan. 6 (UP) R. II. Williams, 76-year-old Tarboro bridegroom who died in Edgecombe general hospi tal yesterday, apparently com mitted suicide, Coroner J. G. Raby said today. Chauffeur Paroled RALEIGH, Jan. 6 (UP) Grover Wilkins, 29-year-old prisoner who acted as chauf feur for State Highway Com mission Chairman A. H. Graham, will be parofed to go with his boss when Graham leaves office Jan. 30, the Pa roles commission said today. Joint Session RALEIGH, Jan. 6 (UP) The North Carolina General assembly met in joint session in Memorial auditorium today to witness the inauguration of Gov. Kerr Scott and other state officials United Press REPUBLICAN SENATORS Robert ATaft of Ohio and Ken neth S. Wherry (right), of Nebraska, exchange a few ideas in Washington after their election as GOP Policy committee chair man and Senate minority floor leader, respectively. , Repertory Comic Operas Tuesday By Charlie Gibson North Carolina's first touring opera company will present two comic one-act plays next Tues day evening in Memorial hall under the auspices of the Student Entertainment committee. Admission will be free to all students. However, Scotty Ven able, entertainment committee chairman, has announced a pro cedure for selling tickets at 75 cents to faculty members, stu dent and faculty wives, . and townspeople. Faculty members and student and faculty wives may purchase tickets when the doors are first opened at 7 o'clock. At 7:30 ducats will be sold to townspeople at large. This will be the first Universi ty appearance of the new Music Theater Repertory group which is now in its second year of tours throughout the State. The com pany is composed of six Tar Heels and has a selection of seven original one-act operas, the most popular pair of which will be staged Tuesday. Improved Menu Planned by UVA Hot coffee and chocolate will be on the menu at the Univer sity Veterans association club house soon, President Gene Newton announced today. Newton said the UVA was on the market for a 'suitable urn and as soon as one is located it will be installed. The UVA is also planning a social program for the winter. An inaugural party is tentative ly planned for the date of Presi dent Truman's inauguration. Comedy of Errors . . Truman Pays Surprise Visit As Congress Counts Ballots WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UP) President Truman dropped in on Congress, unexpectedly today as it counted the electoral votes that officially made him Presi dent for the next four years. His visit, chiefly to honor the 67th birthday anniversary of House Speaker Sam Rayburn, was attended by a comedy of er rors that included: A sudden alarm because .a seven-foot, six-inch giant wear ing a lumber jack costume and brandishing a double - bladed "axe" turned up in the house corridors shortly before Mr. Tru man was due to arrive. The gar gantuan personage was Len Costley, a guest of Minnesota lawmakers, and his "axe" a wooden dummy. Rayburn missed most of the birthday luncheon in his honor because the President was late, and the Speaker had to rush to the House floor to be present when the counting of the elec toral votes began. Group Plans Among the company are Ted Bodenheimer, baritone; Amelia Card well, soprano; Josephine Fisher,' contralto; Dorothea All corn, soprano; and Margaret Leinbach Kolb and Sarah Ingram, piano accompanists. Clifford E. Bair, nationally re cognized opera impresario of Winston-Salem and founder and first' president of the National Association for Opera, is engaged as stage director for all produc tions by the Music Theater Reper tory group. The two one-act operas Tues day night will be the second Student Entertainment commit tee presentation this year, the first having been a concert last quarter by Hazel Scott, noted Negro pianist. Cosmopolitans To Meet in GM At the Cosmopolitan Club's first meeting of the quarter, Sunday at 4 o'clock in Graham Memorial, officers will be elected to fill vacancies on the execu tive committee. Retiring executive members whose offices will be filled are Glen Fisher and Shantilal Vora, of India. Members will discuss plans for showing four films about Indian life Jan. 14. These films, free to the public, will concern the country's history, philosophy, music, and dances. Plans will alsq be made for the exhibition of pictures from India at the second meeting of the club Jan. 16. Rep. Mary T. Norton, D., N.J., one of the vote-tellers, accident ally gave President Truman the 47 electoral votes of Gov. Thom as E. Dewey's own state of New York and Connecticut's eight votes. Both belonged in the GOP column, and the errors were quickly righted amid much giggling by the lady from New Jersey. And when Wyoming, the last state in the alphabet, was reach ed there was a dispute whether its certificate was in order. But the tally was finally completed and Senate President Pro Tern Kenneth McKellar, D., Tenn., an nounced the already-known re sults: President Truman, 303 elector al votes, Dewey 189 and Gov. J. Strom Thurmond of South Car olina, the States Rights' candi date, 39. Their vice-president running mates had the same totals. CHAPEL HILL, N. C. FRIDAY, Dupont Gives Universities Financial Aid i UNC Not Given Grants-in-Aid WILMINGTON, Del., Jan. 6. (UP) The Dupcnt company an nounced today it will award grants-in-aid of $10,000 each to 10 universities for chemical re search during the 1949-50 aca demic year. The grants are being offered to Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Ohio State universities, the California Institute of Tech nology, the Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology, and the Uni versities of Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Crawford H. Greenewalt, pres ident of Dupont, said the grants are being made to enable univer sities to "make further progress in the stock-piling of basic knowledge, which has been rec ognized as one of the paramount needs of the country for future industrial development and for national health and defense." The company said the awards were being made on a one-year trial basis but that it hoped to continue each of them for five years. The universities can use the money in any way they choose except for construction or endowment, and provided that their research projects are free from any commercial implica tions when the work is initiated. Regional Group Meets Saturday The Executive committee of the Virginia-Carolina regional organization of the National Stu dents association will meet here Saturday night at 3 o'clock, Jess Dedmond, president of the stu dent body, announced yesterday. The meeting of the executive committee of the regional organ ization, composed of colleges in West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, is being held to draw up final plans for a regional assembly to be held in February. Members of the executive committee are Jess Dedmond, regional chairman; Jim Godwin, secretary - treasurer; Jo Anne Strauff, Randolph - Macon, re gional vice-chairman; Wendell English, president of the student body of Lynchburg college and regional vice-chairman for in ternational affairs; and Richard Gilmore, Virginia State college, publicity director. North Carolina 70 Years Old, RALEIGH, Jan. 6 (UP) J. W. Williams, the 72-year-old North Carolina "wild man" who for 20 years lived as a hermit along the isolated banks of the Cape Fear river, was in a marry ing mood today. "They call me the wild man," he said. "I mean the newspapers. But the women don't. One of them called me Nature Boy. I been looking them over." Williams spent his first Christ mas in "civilization"' in 20 years last month. Police investigating the "wild man" reports from anxious residents along the river near Fayetteville found him liv ing alone in a shabby, primitive hut. Feast of Lights Service Is Scheduled For Sunday Night at Episcopal Church The oldest known Christian play, the Feast of the Lights service, will be presented at the Episcopal church Sunday night at 7:30. Symbolically depicting the coming of Christ as the Light of the world, tle play features the Twelve Apostles and the Three Wise Men in a solemn candle-light ceremony. In the opening moments of the ceremony the beginning verses of St. John are read, prophesy ing the coming of Christ, as a single canHle is lighted, repre senting the Light shining in the JANUARY 7, 1949 WSSF Drive Taking Shape; Deadline Set Meeting Slated For Solicitors Among the final plans for an active campus-wide drive to be conducted next week to raise a University contribution to the World Student Service fund are a meeting tonight of 115 door- to-door solicitors and a deadline today for submitting candidates for the "Miss Payoff" beauty con test. Edie Knight, supervisor of the charity beauty balloting, stated yesterday that many nominees for the "Miss Pay-Off" crown have already been entered by sororities, dormitories, fraterni ties, and other campus organiza tions. However, as there are still a few vacancies to accommodate more beauty contest contestants, the first interested organizations to contact Edie by telephoning the first floor of Alderman dormi tory will be allowed to enter the cogds of their choice. Each beauty must be accom panied by a $5 entrance fee. This fee will be tabulated as the initial 50 dime votes towards Y lobby balloting for the WSSF queen this year. Tonight at 7 o'clock in Gerrard hall, 115 canvassers who are to contact University students per sonally for donations will meet to be indoctrinated on the work of the international charity in aiding students throughout the war-devastated countries of Eu rope and Asia. At this meeting a twenty-minute movie vividly depicting the need for financial aid in the midst of chaos abroad this year will be shown. The same group will assemble again Sunday night at 7:30 o'clock in Gerrard hall to see a demonstration of an actual door- to-door solicitation. Poetry Anthology Will Include Yow Archibald Yow, senior from Henderson, will be among col lege poets in the United States who have poetry published in the 1949 Annual Anthology of College Poetry. Yow's poem, entitled Destiny, was submitted to the National Association of Poetry this fall ! ! i t T-i T-i rr 4 l-i n annual nnptrv pnn- test. Swamp Man, Seeking Wife He told them he left his Ala mance county farm and went to the woods about 20 years ago after his wife died. Sympathetic Fayetteville residents bought him new clothes, set him up in a rent free bungalow and arranged for him to receive an old-age pension. "I'm still in the woods, though," he said proudly. His, new home is not far from the old hut. "Towns ain't for me. I need room. I just happened to be in Raleigh because I was passing through." The wrinkled ex-hermit chirp ed he was sure he could find a wife. ' "I tell you, I been around. But you don't have to be a city boy to get the girls." darkness of the world. As the words of St. John are read, the Three Wise Men present them selves before the Light, bearing gifts, followed by the Twelve Apostles who light individual candles from the Christ-candle as their names are called, with which they go among the wor shippers to distribute the light. Acting as the Wise Men will be Dr. U. T. Holmes, Jr., William' A. Hover and Edward G. Ledter. All denominations are welcome at the service. Phone Party Chairmanship Posts Given To Childress, Leary UP Picks Morris As Vice-Chairman To Replace Butt Joe Leary, senior from Edenton, will take over the reins of the University party at the next meeting of ' the group. He will succeed Thurman Williams of Fayetteville whose one-year term as UP chairman ran out this week. Leary, a Sigma Nu, was elected to the chairmanship at a meeting of the UP steering committee Wednesday. Newly elected vice-chairman of the party is Carlyle Morris of Raleigh who succeeds Len Butt. Morris is a member of PiKA fra ternity. Faith Adams, Tri-Delt from Coral Gables, Fla., was elected to the post of secretary to fill the post formerly held by Marietta Duke. The post of treasurer was filled by Jay Mills, Phi Kappa Sig from Wadesboro. Mills succeeds Bob Preece. Other officers elected by the party are Dick Jenrette, Raleigh. Publicity director and Jim Gwynn, Qualifications committee. Jenret te is a member of Chi Psi frater nity and Gwynn is a Sigma Nu. Scott Inaugural Creates History As Biggest Ever . j . RALEIGH, Jan. 6 (UP) Kerr Scott, a blunt and husky dairy man wearing a tailcoat and smoking a cigar, paraded through downtown Raleigh and took the oath as governor today in the biggest inaugural in North Caro lina's history. Tipping his top hat, Scott rode in a cream-colored .convertible Packard sedan with his predeces sor, Gov. Gregg Cherry, through streets lined with an estimated 30,000 citizens. The day was warm for January, and a sheet of high clouds hardly dimmed the bright sunlight. Scott spent last night in Raleigh, and his family drove here today from their home in Haw River. Scott and his wife arrived at the governor's mansion 15 min utes before parade time to find Gov. Gregg Cherry awaiting them on the steps. "Glad to see you," said Scott, shaking hands with Cherry. "I'm .certainly glad to see you," Cherry replied. "Come in and bring your merchandise with you. You'll find some mighty nice, folks waiting for you in here." They went indoors. A few minutes before the (See SCOTT, page 4) Jacksonville Pinch . . . Late Temple Evidence Shows Youth Made Two Florida Trips NEWTON, Jan. 6 (UP) Fur ther investigation of Carroll Temple, Jr.,'s alleged spree with his father's fortune showed to day that the youth, then 14, probably made two trips to Flor ida in 1947. Temple, senior, has sued the First National Bank of Catawba county for $50,000, charging that the bank permitted his boy to take that much cash from his safety deposit box, plus a quanti ty of bonds. ' The father charged that young Carroll blew the entire stake, except $6 cash and a $50 bond, on one super junket to Florida sometime after May, 1947. It was in that month, Temple's suit charged, that Carroll made the last of five or six trips to the bank to milk his father's lock box. Jacksonville, Fl., police rec ords showed, however, that if F-3371 F-3361 Vinson Says UMT Plans Good as, Dead WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. (UP) Universal military Training, despite President Truman's endorsement, is a dead duck. Chairman Carl Vinson said today his House Armed Ser vices committee won't even take up the question of UMT, at least not before 1950. Other members of the com mittee apparently agreed with Vinson that UMT is not practical as long as the draft is in effect. The Selective Service law doesn't run out until June 24, 1950. ' President Truman, in his State of the Union message yesterday, restated his belief that UMT is an essential part of the national security pro gram. That was almost his only specific proposal about na tional defense. He said that we must keep strong armed forces, and that "further im provements" are needed in our security laws. Mr. Truman did not men tion veterans. For this he was criticized by Rep. James T. Patterson, R., Conn, who said ex-servicemen "should be the first beneficiaries" of social legislation proposed by the president. A UMT bill backed by the American legion was intro duced in the Senre yester day by Chairman Millard D. Tydings (D-Md.) of the Sen ate Armed Services commit tee. Tydings said it would be given early consideration but a spot check of senators indi cated the measure faced an uphill fight. Vinson said he agrees that UMT is a good thing. But he added that the time to take it up is when the draft can be allowed to die. He said he sees no prospect that this will be before the expiration of the draft law. In a reference to recent Army orders cutting back draft calls originally planned for early this year Vinson added: "It appears that we can't even get enough money to take care of the draft. In view of this fact, I don't think we should go into consideration of universal training." UMT, strongly backed by veterans' organizations, con templates training of all fit young men. It does not call for actual military duty. Un der the draft selected young men are called into regular military service. the dates in the suit were cor rect, young Carroll laid the groundwork for his grandscale trip with a visit to the Sunshine State earlier in the year. A Carroll Temple, Jr., of Ca tawba county was found wan dering about the Jacksonville bus station on April 7, 1946, the docket showed. He was placed under arrest and his father noti fied. The elder Temple went to Jacksonville to take him home, the police said. When picked up, Carroll, Jr., had in his possession only 70 cents and a package of cigarets and matches. Jacksonville Detec tive E. J. Langdale, who was a juvenile officer at the time, said the boy did not mention having had a large sum of. money on that particular trip. Temple's suit charged that the boy was absent from home three months later in the year. And, (See SPREE, page 4) NUMBER 69' Complete Slate Of New Officers Elected by SP For the second time in his campus political career, Gran Childress, senior from Oxford, is chairman of the Student party, SP officials announced yester day. He succeeds Ed Tenney. Childress served as chairman of the party during spring quarter of 1943. SP elections took place in a meeting held the last week of fall quarter. A spokesman for the party said the elections were originally scheduled for the first week in January but were preci pitated by a proposed plit in the party which failed to materi alize. In addition to Childress, the party re-elected Walter McCraw, sophomore from Burlington, as vice-chairman. McCraw had been filling the unexpired term of Lindsay Tate. Larry Botto, freshman from Bradenton, Fla., was re-elected to the post of treasurer and Daisy Belle Anderson of Greensboro was chosen secretary of the group. Rounding out SP's slate of new officers are Bill Prince of Roches ter, N. Y., who succeeds Chuck Lineberry as campaign manager, and Dick Murphy of Baltimore, Md., publicity director. The five seats open on the SP steering committee were filled by Gray Sanders of Lumberton, Emily Baker and Harry Horton of Asheville, Ben Jones of Elgin, 111., and John Harris of New York City. A proposal to increase the size of the steering committee from five to eight members is now under consideration by the party. Next meeting of the Student party is scheduled for Monday night at 9 o'clock in Graham Memorial. LATE NEWS BULLETINS Plea for Tigers WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UP) William C. Bullitt to day handed,, a Congressional committee a plea from top Chinese leaders for' immediate revival of the wartime "Fly ing Tigers" under Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault. Egypt Stronghold LONDON, Jan. 6 (UP) Well-informed British quar ters charged today that the Is raeli army had established a military stronghold inside Egypt. Requests Raise WASHINGTON, Jan. G President Truman today ask ed Congress to raise the salar ies of top-level federal offi cials to enable him to "get and keep" good men for key posts in his administration. KKK Parade COLUMBIA, S. C., Jan. 6 (UP) A mile-long parade of more than 100 Ku Klux Klan cars garnished with lighted crosses and sirens drove through three suburban cities near here last night, police said today. Atomic Clock WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UP) An atomic clock that can split seconds with the ex traordinary accuracy of one part in 20,000,000 was added to the arsenal of research sci ence today. "'V-- I
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