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VOLUME LVII
Phi Assembly
Votes Against
Parking Rules
Ray, Russell
Talk at Meet
The Philanthropic assembly
Tuesday night unanimously de
feated a resolution to approve the
recent action taken by the Safe
ty committee to further restrict
parking on campus in its Tuesday
night meeting in Phi hall.
Steve Millikin, chairman of the
safety committee, declared that
the proposals were made to pro
tect student automobile owners.
He stated that a few people may
have to walk farther because of
the restrictions but they will at
least be able to keep their cars
in Chapel Hill.
Millikin informed the assembly
that any student actually suffer
ing from the new restrictions will
receive special consideration.
Lack of funds, he explained, has
been the cause for certain po
tential parking areas being left
undeveloped.
Phillips Russell, chairman of
the Parent-Teachers association
safety committee, called for pun
ishment for the "social enemy"
who by reckless driving en
dangers the lives of Chapel Hill
children. Russell said it may be
necessary to ban the "purely
sporting car" from Chapel Hill.
Town Manager Gilbert Ray
saw th problem as one of pour
ing a quart of water into a pint
bottle. He asked for cooperation
which he said makes up more
than 90 per cent of a democratic
government.
Joe Bock supported the com
mittee's recommendations. "We
have got to decide if automobiles
are here to stay," he said.
Jay Herrick, representing Carr
wanted the students in her dorm
itory to be allowed to keep their
cars since automobiles are ne
cessary for their occupations and
since "some of the girls are 40 or
50 years old.
A substitute resolution by Dav
id Sharpe to prohibit able-bodied
students living within one-half
mile radius of South building
from bringing cars to Chapel .Hill
was shouted down.
NORTH STATE
ROUNDUP
Factory Blaze
ASHEVILLE, Jan. 26 (UP)
Fire crews kept up a steady
watch today over the still-blazing
ruins of a sprawling cotton
' rag factory which went up like
a torch in a $150,000 blaze last
night.
School Robbed
TIIOMASVILLE, Jan. 26
(UP) Thieves broke into the
Pilot high school near here and
made off with $115 in cash and
valuables, Deputy Sheriff Kcif
fcr Morris reported today.
May Get Post
CHARLOTTE, Jan. 26 (UP)
North Carolina's top political
leadership pointed straight if
anonymously to Jonathan
Daniels today as the Tar Heel
state's next Democratic Nation
al committeeman.
Will Not Copy
CHARLOTTE, Jan. 26 (UP)
Sen. Clyde R. Hoey, said to
day his senate sleuthing com
mittee has no intention of mir
roring its counterpart in the
house with a communist inves
tigation. To Hear Bids
RALEIGH, Jan. 26 (UP)
Bids for some $864,584 in high-'
way projects were before the
State Highway commission to
day as it prepared its last meet
ing under Chairman A. II. Gra
ham. Face Charges
ELIZABETH CITY, Jan. 26
(UP) Two youths who ran
afoul of the law when they for
got to put a nickel in a parking
meter were handed to Craven
county officers today to face
three charges of breaking and
entering.
United Press
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EXTREME COLD and snow brought death to this steer on the
desert range of Robert Blair of Essex, Calif. Unaccustomed to the
snow which covered their forage, thousands of head of cattle froze
or starved to death. The U.S. Air Force is operating a hay airlift
in an effort to save more than 1,000,000 sheep and cattle threatened
with death on the snowbound western ranges.
Starving Cattle
In Five States
Get Haylift Aid
CHICAGO, Jan. 26 (UP) The
Air Force spread its livestock
saving haylift to five western
range states today while floods
menaced central sections of the
nation.
Ice storms halted traffic in scat
tered sections from the Great
Lakes to Texas and a whirlwind
blizzard in Southern California
threatened livestock in the Mo
jave desert area.
The Air Force, racing against
time to save an estimated 2,000,
000 cattle and sheep faced with
starvation, extended its haylift
from Nevada to sections of Utah,
Colorado, South Dakota and Ne
braska. Bitter cold still gripped these
blizzard-swept range states and
ranchers feared their losses might
total 50 per cent of their herds
despite all aid.
In Washington, President Tru
man allocated another $200,000
from his disaster fund to the re
lief of the snow-bound states,
bringing the total to $300,000.
The emergency haylift, which
started Monday with 17 C-82 fly
ing boxcars dropping feed to
stranded Nevada livestock, now
mustered 28 planes, including 20
C-82's and eight C-47's.
The Nevada lift was expanded!
to 18 C-82's and ranchers and
towns-people at the hard-hit area
at Ely, Nev., pitched in to help
load the big ships with hay.
It was 27 degrees below zero
at Ely this morning and ranchers
said their stranded stock could
not withstand the cold much
longer in their weakened condi
tion. The Air Force base at Lowry
Field, Denver, dispatched two C
47's to Kearney, Neb., to pick up
hay and rancher-guides for hay
"bombing" on the ranges.
He's Sung 'em All
McPeek Has Long G.&S. History
By Sam Hirsch
Gwynn McPeek, instructor in
the music department and musi
cal director of this weekend's
"Pinafore" has directed, sung,
and acted in every one of the
popular Gilbert and Sullivan
operas.
"I began when I was a young
boy singing the tenor part of
Nanki-Poo in "The Mikado," he
said, "and as my voice changed
Gradually changed parts each
time I played in it, until I had
sung every one of the male leads!"
This is McPeek's first assign
ment as musical director of the
annual opera, but he is well-
known locally as assistant direc
tor of the Choral club and the
director of the music department's
madrigal singers. He teaches
brass instruments ana
music history, and has composed
songs for choral groups, voice
and orchestra, and has seven,
quartettes published.
"I have played sir jostpu
Porter and Captain Corcoran in
Pinafore," he went on, so it ieeis
like old times when I'm in the
pit conducting. I think all my
Solons to Hear
Bill on Tuition
In Legislature
A resolution in opposition to
any raise in tuition at the Uni
versity will be introduced at the
meeting of the Student Legisla
ture tonight at 7:30 in Di hall of
New West.
A proposal to increase tuition
and fees in an effort to help meet
increasing cost of operation has
been made by the Advisory Bud
get commission.
Other bills ..expected to be in
troduced at tonight's session in
clude a bill to provide the proper
form for constitutional amend
ment on the Town Men's asso
ciation; a bill . to fix polling
places; a bill to amend the by
laws of the legislature on con
stitutional amendments; amend
ment for by-laws of legislature
on bills left in committee or ta
bled at the end of a quarter;
election law to correct provisions
of the redistricting bill.
Village Blaze
Damages Heater
A small fire in Victory village
yesterday afternoon caused slight
damage to the water heater in
the home of Thomas W. Aiken,
222 Jackson circle.
Aiken said he smelled smoke
and rushed into the kitchen where
he discovered flames in the flue
of the gas heater.
When the fire department ar
rived, Aiken said, they went to
the wrong side of the circle. "I
ran across to direct them but
by that time the fire was out,"
he said.
"I'm glad I wasn't here by
myself and that fire wasn't seri
ous," Mrs. Aiken remarked.
experience as actor, singer, di
rector and conductor of Gilbert
and Sullivan has given me a fuller
appreciation of everybody's prob
lems on this production."
Five years ago McPeek made
up his mind that what he wanted
to concentrate on in music was
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1949
Registration
Dips to 7,105
This Quarter
Only 820 Coeds
Are Enrolled Now
University enrollment this
quarter dropped to 7,105 stu
dents, a report from Chancellor
R. B. House's office disclosed yes
terday. During the fall quarter the en
rollment exceeded this quarter's
by 498 students. The enrollment
for the winter quarter in
cludes 6,285 male students ana
820 coeds. Compared with last
quarter, this figure shows a loss
of 64 coeds.
Fifty-nine per cent of the en
rollment is made up of veterans,
including 4,307 men and 80 wom
en. Of the total enrollment, 5,498
students are North Carolina resi
dents, and 1,558 students come
from 42 other states. Forty-nine
students represent 27 foreign
countries.
All figures released by House
are based on enrollment as of
Jan. 20. Of the 7,376 students
who registered for this quarter,
271 did not return.
Enrollment by schools is as fol
lows: General college, 2,544; Arts and
Sciences, 1,612; Commerce, 1,244;
graduates in Arts and Sciences,
876, which does not include grad
uate students in Public Health
and Social Work; Law, 281; Li
brary Science, 28; Medicine, 109;
Pharmacy, 212; Public Health,
101; Social Work, 39; and Educa
tion, 59.
There are 1,178 first year stu
dents, 1,450 second year students.
1,562 third year students, lt396
fourth year students, and 87 spe
cial students.
Helpful Hints
Eaton Talks to Chi Delta Phi
On Toil in Process of Writing
"Writing is a long and labo
rious process of toil and work,
and this ultimately discourages
lots of people," said Walter
Pritchard Eaton Monday night
before an open meeting of Chi
Delta Phi, literary sorority, in
the main lounge of Graham Me
morial. "Many people want to go into
writing because The Tree Grew
in Brooklyn to the tune of three
million copies. Some people have
more urge than aptitude, and
these borderline cases never get
very far. The itch to write is not
always an incurable disease. It
can sometimes be cured by a se
ries of rejection slips.
"But if you have the real di
sease nobody can teach you how
to write," the speaker continued.
the job of Choral director and
since then has worked toward
this aim. Formerly head of the
music department at Transylvania
College in Lexington, Ky., and
director of instrumental music
at Birmingham Southern College,
he was guest conductor with the
Birmingham Civic Symphony
Orchestra, and sang and directed
with the Columbus and Cleveland
Opera companies. He studied at
Ohio State, Indiana university,
Harvard, and is now working on
his Ph.D. here.
While at Ohio State, he was
assistant director of the choral
group which won the 1938 Na
tional. Choral Quest sponsored by
the Columbia Broadcasting sys
tem, and was graduated from
there with the highest all-round
distinction.
"I started working seriously
in music when I was 14 and
formed my own orchestra and
choir at Loudonville, Ohio which
later won the state contest for
performance," McPeek added.
"I must admit this show is the
first one I've ever worked on
(See MCPEEK, page 4)
Board fo Fill
Council Post
At Meet Today
Grad Candidates
To Be Considered
Page Harris, chairman of the
Men's Honor council, yesterday
called a meeting today of the
tri-partisan board to consider
candidates to fill the graduate
student vacancy on the council.
The meeting will be held at 2
o'clock this afternoon in the
Grail room of Graham Memorial.
Harris said the board will in
terview all graduate students
who are interested in being ap
pointed to fill the vacancy. The
tri-partisan selection board con
sists of three members from each
of the campus political parties.
Official appointments to fill the
seat must come from Jess Ded
mond, president of the student
body. The appointment must al
so be approved by the Student
legislature.
Two weeks ago, the legislature
approved Dedmond's appoint
ment of Roy W. Holsten, junior
from Glen Rock, N. J., to fill the
other vacancy on the council for
this quarter.
Holsten was one of the candi
dates recommended to Dedmond
by the tri-partisan board.
The tri-partisan method of
nominating candidates for the
Men's council was adopted last
year in the interest of assuring
a non-partisan judicial branch in
student government at the Uni
versity. Senior Class Rings
Are on Sale Today
Senior clas rings will be on
sale today in the YMCA building
lobby . from 1 to 4o'clock this
afternoon. There are the only
official class rings being sold.
"Where you do learn is prac
tice, practice, and more practice
in writing yourself. Persistence
sometimes is a higher attribute
than early promise."
Eaton named two secrets of
good writing: Clear thinking and
the right words to follow a line
of thought. "The first cannot be
overemphasized," he said. "If
you do clear thinking, you will
do clear writing and clear speak
ing. The need of a good vocabu
lary to shade your thoughts is im
portant. "Here at Carolina you toss your
speech around just as you toss
the paper cups you use on the
steps of South building. If we
would .only take more pains with
our conversation, we would speak
so much better."
Eaton advised prospective
young writers to write every day,
to keep a journal, arid to never
be dull. He said writing should
become a habit and a writer
should not wait for inspiration.
He suggested recording briefly
interesting things seen and heard
every day.
Newspaper work, he said, has
been the field which has support
ed more writers than any other
field. The only danger, he warn
ed, is to like newspaper work too
much.
Following a short discussion
period, Mr. Eaton was entertain
ed at an informal reception.
Food Prices Drop
To New Low Level
NEW YORK, Jan. 26 (UP)
Wholesale food prices dropped
today to the lowest level since
OPA price control ended.
Reail food merchants said the
price cuts would be felt at the
corner grocery within one week
and cautiously predicted prices
might drop even more.
Dun and Bradstreet, Inc., an
nounced that its index of whole
sale food prices fell 11 cents
in the last week to $5.91, the
lowest level since Oct. 8, 194S
when most foods still were price
controlled. The Dun and Brad
street index on that date was
$5.40.
WEATHER: Cloudy with little, temperature change.
NCP
With
Three featured speakers and
the annual press award banquet
will highlight the 24th annual
North Carolina Press association
midwinter newspaper institute
opening here tonight. The three
day institute is sponsored jointly
by NCPA, the University, and
W JN I tt' HIS
DREW PEARSON AND FRANK DANIELS (left and right)
are two participants in the 24th annual North Carolina Press associ
ation newspaper institute being held ' here and at Duke today,
tomorrow and Saturday. Pearson, syndicated Washington col
umnist, will speak at 8 o'clock tonight in Memorial hall. Daniels,
general manager of the Raleigh News and Observer, is the presi
dent of the NCPA.
U VA To Sponsor Dance
For Campus Dime Drive
The current Daily Tar Heel-sponsored March of Dimes
fund drive is due for another boost Saturday night when the
University Veterans association holds its admission-free polio
benefit dance, UVA president Gene Newton announced yesterday.
On hand to provide entertain-
ment, instead of the usual juke
box, will be a four-piece combo.
Three attractive coeds will meet
couples at the door and solicit
contributions. Even though there
is no admission charge, it is ex
pected all students will contrib
ute generously, Newton said.
Dougald MacMillan, co-chairman
of the campus drive, said
yesterday he hoped those who
hadn't given their dollar dona
tion through other means would
do so at the dance.
"Although it is not compulsory
for students to give, we feel that
they should donate at least $1.
If some have already given to
the drive, perhaps they could
contribute once more. But to
those who have not yet donated,
we say, 'Give your share, you
may save a child.'
"This year, more than ever be
fore, whole-hearted cooperation
on everyone s part is necessary
to safeguard our children, our
friends and ourselves against the
ravages of polio," MacMillan said.
At present, officials announced
after a survey, there are 2,509
hospital cases in the state, cost
ing $7,000 a month to support.
Funds are needed immediately to
swell the empty national and
state treasuries, depleted during
the polio epidemic last summer.
City Manager Protests
Proposed New Highway Hits
Disaccord Among Durhamites
R. V. Flack, city manager of
Durham, indicated yesterday that
the city is not. in accord with the
route of the proposed new Chapel
Hill-Durham highway or its
routes of access into Durham.
Flack's report was in the form,
of an open letter to persons who
have addressed communications
to the city manager and the City
council concerning the subject.
Flack pointed out that the gov
ernment of the city of Durham
was not represented on the com
mittee which appeared before the
state Highway commission in
Raleigh several months ago arid
A Institute Will Open
earson Talk Tonight
Duke university.
Drew Pearson, Washington col
umnist and radio commentator,
will speak at the opening session
tonight at 8 o'clock in Memorial
hall. He will be introduced by
President Frank Graham. Stu
dents are invited to the address
Marie Nussbaum
Is New Secretary
Of Coed Senate
Marie Nussbaum, junior from
Louisville, Ky., was elected secre
tary of the coed senate Tuesday
night, filling the vacancy left
by Tandy Lacy.
A transfer from St. Mary's,
Marie is a member of the YWCA,
the Glee club, the Daily Tar Heel
staff, and a pledge of Pi Beta
Phi sorority.
It was announced that entries
are now being received for the
position of editor of the Woman's
handbook. The position is open
to all coed undergraduates, and
applicants should send a list of
qualifications including previous
journalistic experience to Emily
Baker, Alpha Gamma Delta
house, before Tuesday.
Five amendments to the coed
elections bill were passed. The
amendments, introduced by Miss
Baker, provided that nominating
petitions be in the hands of the
chairman of coed elections three
days before the first mass elec
tion meeting.
Petitions must be accompanied
hy a typed list of qualifications
of candidates which should be
ready for distributed as the candi
dates are introduced.
that Frank L. Dieter, city plan
ning engineer, is not in favor of
the proposed route.
The city council, Flack said,
has appointed a committee to
study the route of the new high
way. He said undoubtedly the
committee, "and finally the coun
cil, will give serious considera
tion to the advice of the director
of planning."
Attached to the open letter sent
out was a map of the scheduled
route which shows the highwayf
entering highway 751 between
iPinecrest and Cranford roads in
Durham. Flack said residents of
(See FLACK page 4)
NUMBER 86
but 500 seats are on reserve for
those attending the institute.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones, editor of
the Tulsa, Okla., Tribune, and
H. Gait Braxton, editor of the
Kinston Free Press will address
tomorrow morning's general ses
sion in Gerrard hall. Miss Be
atrice Cobb editor of the Mor
ga'nton News-Herald and secre
tary of the association will ad
dress a luncheon meeting at the
Carolina Inn. Both sessions will
be presided over by NCPA Presi
dent Frank Daniels, general man
ager of the Raleigh News and
Observer.
George V. Allen, Assistant
Secretary of State, will address
tomorrow night's banquet session
at Duke University. Allen is a
former staff member of the
Durham Herald. Governor Kerr
Scott will make the annual press
awards after Allen's talk.
A Saturday morning breakfast
at the Carolina Inn will honor
past presidents of the association.
Henry Belk, Goldsboro News
Argus, will preside, and Roland
F. Beasley,- editor of the Monroe
Journal, will be the principal
speaker. A business meeting will
follow.
Two daily groups will hold ses
sions ' today. Hal Boyle, former
war correspondent and now a
roving columnist for the Associ
ated Press will address the state
Associated Press club at 1 o'clock
in the Carolina Inn. Club Presi
dent Jonathan Daniels, execu
tive editor of the News and Ob
server, will preside at the meet
ing. The state association of af
ternoon dailies will meet at 4
o'clock.
New Students Must
Sign Honor Pledges
All new students who hve not
yet signed Honor code pledge
cards must do so as soon as pos
sible in the Men's Honor council
offices on the second floor of
Graham Memorial, Chairman
Page Harris said yesterday.
THE WORLD
IN BRIEF
Von Papen Freed
NUERNBERG, Germany,
Jan. 26 (UP) Franz Von Pa
pen, once the ace of Adolf Hit
ler's diplomatic corps, but now
70 and ailing, was freed today
after serving less than half of
an eight-year prison term at
hard labor.
Vote Confidence
LONDON, Jan. 26 (UP)
Commons gave Foreign Secre
tary Ernest Bevin a vote of con
fidence, 233 to 193, on his Pales
tine policy tonight after the
labor government frantically
rounded up members by tele
phone for fear it would be de
feated. Stop Training
SHANGHAI, Jan. 26 (UP)
The United States officially ter
minated its program of mili
tary training in behalf of Na
tionalist China today at the
same time that Chinese Commu
nist were demanding the arrests
of Nationalist "war criminals,"
including Chiang Kai-shek.
Call Jury
NEW YORK, Jan. 26 (UP)
Counsel for 11 U. S. Communist
leaders called to the witness
stand today members of the fed
eral grand jury which indicted
them last July.
Present Programs
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26
(UP) Twenty-four Senate and
House Republicans today un
veiled two public housing pro
grams which they drafted as
substitutes for the administra
tion's plan.
Seek Injunction
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 26
(UP) The CIO today asked
the national and Tulsa area
housing expeditors to seek a
federal injunction against land
lords evicting tenants.