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LIUPAKY (Psrlolical rapt.) University of1 ''art'. Carolina Chapel Hill, 11. C. 1-31-49 EDITORIALS WEATHER Lower Quad Gripe Encouraging Prospect Hurrah for Congress Partly cloudy and not much change in temperature VOLUME LVII United Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1949 Phone F-3371 F-3361 NUMBER 94 1 0 1 ! 5 V T f 4 fV GAPING GROUND CRACKS in the anthracite mining town of Carbondale. Pa.,, caused by a mine cave-in give the appearance of an earthquake's visit. Houses buckled and tilled on their foundations, breaking water pipes and flooding basements. Four persons were injured. Hospitalization For Gl Families Is Over VA Says The Veterans administration will not provide hospitalization and outpatient treatment for veterans families, Wilson Honey cutt public law 16 veterans ad viser, announced yesterday. Many wives of veterans were treated by Army and Navy doc tors while their husbands were in the service. But when their husbands . were released from military service, medical treat ment by service physicans was terminated. Ex-service men and women only are authorized VA medical treatment in the following cases: if they are suffering from service-incurred injuries, if unable to pay hospital charges, or in emergency cases. Outpatient treatment is avail able only for veterans with ser vice connected disabilities. Each veteran's eligibility must "be de termined by VA before treat ment can be authorized. NORTH STATE ROUNDUP To Take Oath CHARLOTTE, Feb. 4 (UP) Western North Carolina's new federal district judge will be sworn in Feb. 12. Wilson Warlick of Newton will receive his oath of office from Senior Judge John J. Parker of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Identifies Suspect MARSHALL, Feb. 4 (UP) Sheriff Hubert Davis said to day he had identified a suspect who allegedly fired into a loaded school bus in an attempt to halt the vehicle. Davis did not name the man but said he had alerted Virginia and Tennessee police to be on the lookout. Ballot Burning TRYON, Feb. 4 (UP) A man -convicted of burning general election ballots' last Nov. 2 faced five years probation today. Ray Johnson was found guilty in Polk county court of interfering with election procedure at the Saluda polls last fall. Good Average ASIIEVILLE, Feb. 4 (UP) The Asheville burley tobacco market's 31-day season closed today with the highest average season price in the eight-state burley belt, officials said. Solon Dies HENDERSON VI LLE, Feb. 4 (UP) Funeral services will be held tomorrow for former state representative Wade Hampton Whiteside,, 78. Whiteside died yesterday. at his home near here. He is survived by his wife. . . -. ,..f ...-;;.:: 5, ,.,5-.,. 1 V : I. : J ? 5 " - 1 Too Much Paint GREENSBORO, Feb. 4 (UP) They just had to ask the 18-year-old German youth who came here last week to study sociology that old stand by: What do you think of American coeds? Cautiously, young Wilhelm Anders, of Breslau, Germany, paused to think it over. Final ly, in his careful English, ha whispered: "Too much paint." Wilhelm is a student at Guilford college, an institution recommended by the Quakers to Germans intending to study in the UniiechSlates. Southerners Hit Nevr GO? Move WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UP) Southern Democratic senators today asked, and promptly re ceived, support of Senate Dem ocratic leacirs against a Repub lican move to speed up action on anti-filibuster legislation. Chairman Scott W. Lucas (D 111.) of the Senate Democratic Policy committee, said all Sen ate Democrats will be asked to oppose the GOP move when they caucus tomorrow. The issue is a motion by Sen. William F. Knowland (R.-Cal.) to debate the anti-filibuster is sue at once without waiting for the Senate Rules committee to act. The motion comes up Mon day. , Lucas called it "a purely po litical move" and an "insult" to the Rales committee which has put off action on new "gag" rules until next Wednesday. He said he favors legislation to cut off overlong debate, but is against by-passing the Rules committee. "I don't think many Republicans will support the mo tion. . . unless they want to play politics," Lucas added. y Too Hoi to Handle Quick-Thinking Middle-Ager Risks Life, Moves Dynamite PAOLI, Ind., Feb., 4 (UP) Robert Goforth had only a sec ond or two to decide how to save the lives of a lot of people. Goforth had a case containing 25 sticks of dynamite in the rear of his jeep when ho pull ed up at a gas station here yes terday. The dynamite was used by his employers, the C. & D.' Construc tion company of Louisville, Ky., to blast holes for utility poles. Station attendant Earl Lane, Jr., was pumping gasoline into the jeep's under-the-hood intake when the fuel ignited, apparently from a battery spark. The jeep caught fire and the flames spread rapidly toward the dynamite. Goforth thought fast. There wasn't any chance to get the ex : x. .. .-'"wt.. ;v t ' 'i.-'-:;,-:'--. ! Local Hospital Gets Approval For Federal Aid WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 Final approval has been given by the United States Public Health ser vice for construction of hospitals in Chapel Hill and Burlington with federal financial assistance, Rep. Carl T. Durham said today. Durham said he had been in formed by STar.geon General Leonard A. Scheele that the Public Health service had ap proved federal aid amounting to $1,500,000, to be paid in three annual installments beginning this year, for construction of the University of North Carolina hospital at Chapel Hill. The hos pital, estimated to cost $5,290,000, will have a 318-bed capacity. Tentative approval of the al lotments had been announced earlier, but Scheele' said the granting of final approval would enable sponsors of the hospitals to begin drawing, up plans and specifications for them. Paramount- Asks Playmakcr Script Gene McLain, author of "In herit the Wind," yesterday re ceived a wire from the New York representative of Para mount pictures corp. asking for a copy or the play to con sider its possibilities for a movie treatment. .Tuesday's New York Times drama page carried a notice of the premiere of the play which was produced by the Carolina Playmakers last Wednesday and Thursday. The wire was sent to the play wright in care of the Carolina Playmakers and was read to the capacity audience Thursday "night before the show opened. plosive out of the jeep. He could run and save his own life. May be he could yell to Lane and they ceuld both run. f In either case the dynamite would explode, setting off the service station's gasoline tanks. Nearby houses, where residents were asleep or eating breakfast, would be set afire. Goforth, who is middle-aged, leaped into the jeep, started the engine and threw it into gear. The jeep roared down the street 100 feet to a point where the ex plosion could not set any houses on fire. v Goforth barely got clear be fore the dynamite ' blew up. The jeep was destroyed. But the blast only shattered a few win dows and knocked down plaster in nearby homes. v . .-'-.. av.v - x . v.' ..-..-. .::. ena?e nears To - Boost RALEIGH, Feb. 4 (UP) The State Senate today re ceived a bill to add 40 trustees to the University of North Carolina and spread the membership of the Board of Trustees evenly over the state. Sen. Henry McKinnon of Six Schools Will Attend Forum Here Coed Government To Be Discussed Six Southern colleges have ac cepted invitations to attend a forum on women's student gov-. ernment to be held here Feb. 25 and 26, Edie Knight, chair man of the forum committee, an nounced yesterday. Sponsored by Coed senate, the forum will have about 50 dele gates, Edie said. Colleges which have accepted are Sweet Briar, Hollins, St. Mary's, Woman's College, Queens, and Duke. Re plies from 11 other schools which have been invited are expected in the near future. Dr. James Wood, former pres ident of Stephens college and a well-known figure in the field of women's education, will, present the keynote address for the con ference at a mass meeting Fri day afternoon, which will be compulsory for University wom en. Delegates will attend work shops Saturday to discuss such topics as enforcement of social rules, honor systems, all-girl en tertainment, extra-curricular, ac. tivities, faculty-student relation ships and orientation and officer training. Other features of the confer ence will include informal recre ation, sightseeing and a banquet at the Carolina Inn. Members of the planning com mittee include Joan Lucas, in charge of registration; Sue Stokes, housing and entertain ment; Bobbie Lowe, finance; Fran Angas, program; Emily Ogburn, food; Gussie Young, -recording secretary," and Mary Anne Daniel, corresponding sec retary. Charles Davis Talks To Jaycee Members Charles Davis, superintendent of Chapel Hill schools, spoke at Thursday night's meeting of the Chapel Hill Junior Chamber of Commerce. Davis said that the facilities for the local schools were not suffi cient to meet the growing needs. Specifically he said that there were not enough rooms for the classes in the elementary grades now, and with the expected in crease in school children during the next year or two it would be almost impossible to hold classes in the now existing space. He added that he believed the county commission would take the matter up in a bond issue. School Paper Drive Planned Tomorrow A paper drive sponsored by Chapel Hill high school will oc cur tomorrow afternoon begin ning at 1:30. Collections will be made from the curb, and every one is requested to leave old paper in front of their home. Chapel Hill Choral Group Wants Chorus Voices for Mass by Bach A special drive to obtain a chorus of 200 voices for a per- ' formance of the Bach Mass in B minor was announced yes terday by the Chapel Hill choral club. The performance of the Bach oratorio is scheduled for com mencement week, as part of the regular annual activities of the choral club, which is made up of citizens of Chapel Hill and surrounding commu nities and of students and fac - Trustees It i Lumberton introduced a meas ure to give the board 140 mem bers, 15 of them women. They would be picked by joint ballot of the legislature. Present law sets the board at 100 members, 12 of them women. Under McKinnon's measure, 120 members would be elected from various counties, distribut ed on the same basis as the state's 120 representatives. The other 20 would be picked from the state at large. Staggered terms of the new board would begin next July 1, and thereafter members would be elected to eight-year terms. The Senate and House ad journed until 10. o'clock tomor row morning, when only local tylls will be considered. Meanwhile, North Carolina public schools wanted the legis lature to increase their budget by a whopping $102,899,000 for the next two fiscal years. That request probably repre sented the biggest single prob lem the legislators would be called upon to handle during the entire 1949 session. The request for additional school money dwarfed the total of all other requests presented to the joint Appropriations com mittee to date. It was like asking for $1 to go with ever $1.65 the Advisory Budget commission had planned to give the schools. Biggest single item educators asked was a $50,000,000 perma nent improvement appropriation ! for state aid to school construc tion. It was in line with recom mendations made following the exhaustive study of the State Education commission. Funds to establish the salary scale recommended by the Board of Education and the State Edu cation commission accounted for $39,683,000 of the requested boost. That money would pro vide a $2,400 minimum and a $3,600 top salary for teachers holding "A" certificates, togeth er with proportionate increases for other teachers, principals and superintendents. For the purchase of new school buses by the state to expand the school bus fleet, the educators asked $2,100,000. 'Among other sections of the plea were requests for an addi tional $1,100,000 for vocational (See LEGISLATURE, page 4) Association Grants $30,000 for Study A grant of $30,000 by the Southern Association Coopera tive Study in Elementary Edu cation to continue elementary educational work in the South was announced yesterday by H. Arnold Perry, association chair man. The association met here re cently to plan a summer elemen- tary eaucauon conierence mis year. The date was set for June 27, 28, and 29. Visiting speakers and conference leaders from through out the nation will appear on the program. Dean Guy B. Phillips and Dor othy McCluskey of the Univer sity School of Education attend ed the meeting. ... , . ulty of the University. Paul Young, associate professor of music, is director. Mrs. G. A Harrer, president of the choral club, said that since the Bach Mass presents an unusual opportunity for a chorus, a special effort is be ing made to see that all poten tial members know of the pro ject. First rehearsal for the B Minor Mass will be held in Hill hall at 7:30 Monday evening. Administration On aiur Trustee Cobb Says Faculty Downed Plan Weekly Story Is 'Unofficial' Administration officials re fused to comment yesterday on a "completely unofficial" news story in the Chapel Hill Weekly which said the University would definitely not institute Saturday class es, but a member of the Board of Trustees admitted that a joint faculty-administration committee had dis approved of the plan. Trustee Collier Cobb said last night, "It is completely un official that the University will not have Saturday classes. Mem bers of the faculty and admin istration met with the visiting committee of the Board of Trustees and presented views. "They thought that Saturday classes would be unwise. I am not in a position to saj' what the committee will recommend to the Board of Trustees." The Weekly article said the visiting committee, chairmanned by Victor Bryant of Durham, voted unanimously one week ago yesterday to accept the faculty administration report against Saturday classes. The headline (See SATURDAY, page 4) Art Exhibition In Person Hall To Begin Today Person hall art gallery will feature the 12th Annual Exhi bition of North Carolina artists in both the large and small gal leries today through Feb'. 27. Sponsored, by the North Caro lina State Art society, this year's exhibition will include some 85 works oils, water colors, draw ings and sculpture. The exhibit was judged by a jury consisting of Hobson Pitt man and Isabel Bishop, noted painters, and Alonzo Lansford, associate editor of the "Art Di gest." The first appearance of the display was in the state art gal lery in Raleigh, Dec. 1. . John Rembert, assistant pro fessor in the Art department, was awarded a purchase prize of $200 for his painting, "By the Wind Grieved." His wife, Jenny, also represented in the present exhibit, last year won a similar purchase award. Other Chapel Hill artists rep resented in the show arc Ben Williams, sculpture, Arnita Joy ner, Joseph Bolt, Marianne Manasse, J. Louis Cobb, Archie Daniels and Paul Sink. Nine Miles in 114 Golfer, Pianist For Campaign By United Press A cross-country golfer and a marathon pianist turned their novel labors into more than $1, 300 for North Carolina's March of Dimes yesterday. The long-distance linksman Dugar Aycock, who putted and plowed the nine miles from Lex ington to Thomasville in 114 strokes. In Charlotte Jerry Ball took over a downtown store window and played a, piano all day, charging $1 per tune from the shopping crowds. Dugan, a veteran pro, chose his cross-country course from an airplane and set out with a doz en balls and six caddies at 8:10 in the morning. Five hours after he left downtown Lexington he day Art Department Heads Laud Ackland Decision By Margaret Gaston Officials from . the University Art department yesterday expressed extreme satisfaction about the latest court decision to place the Ackland Memorial Art building at the University. "The art building will mean a Aldermen Put OK on Transfer Of Jury Trials Proposal Subject To State Approval In a special session Thursday night, the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen passed a proposal which would transfer jury trials from Judge Henry Whitfield's local Recorders court to Superior court in Hillsboro. The proposal is subject to ap proval by the North Carolina legislature before it can go into effect, Town Manager Gilbert Ray said yesterday. Ray also reported as result of action by the board, he will ap pear before a meeting of the Or ange county commissioners on Monday to request that school taxes be collected by the county instead of the city. Previously, school taxes were collected for this area at town hall. Ray said that some confu sion has resulted from people living outside the city limits who have' been accustomed to paying their taxes here. J. T. Gobbel of the Chapel , Hill bank will accompany Ray when he meets with the corn- missioners. Play Competition Deadline Is Today The close of the production contest of the Carolina Dramatic association has been announced for today by John W. Parker, executive secretary. So far 20 groups have regis tered for the CDA festival to be held here March 23-26. Appearing in one-act plays will be representatives from Durham, Raleigh, Winston Salem, Salisbury, Rocky Mount, Asheville, Charlotte, Goldsboro, Hickory, Laurinburg, Hcnder sonville, and Gastonia. The Betty Smith original play award has attracted 33 new short plays. In addition, two long plays and a new symphonic drama have been submitted for the Playmaker award. Mrs. Paul Green, Kai Jurgenscn and Wal ter Pritchard Eaton will judge the entries. Earn Money the Hard Way had made it to the ninth green of the Thomasville Country club. The Carolinas PGA president charged $1 per guess with prizes donated by civic organizations going to those who most nearly predicted his score. One of the guesses said it would take 2,265 strokes to cover the nine miles down highways, over fields, through woods and across rail road tracks. Total proceeds will exceed $500, he said today. The Charlotte pianist charged his listeners $1 for every tune he could play on request and himself $1 for each one he didn't know. It cost the crowd $801 and Ball $23 All of which went to day to the March of Dimes. Silent assBs great deal to progress in art on campus and to the whole South," John Alcott, head of the art de partment, said yesterday. "This museum is very much needed, and could not have come to the Uni versity for a long time, if ever, from the state." Alcott said the Ackland trustees made the initial recommendation that the University be the site of the memorial on the basis of a comparative study of the two campuses involved. Officials from the art department made a pres entation to the trustees of the work already done in the depart ment as well as future plans. Dr. Clemens Sommer, profes sor of art history, said the gift was a tremendous boost for the department. He said definitely that interest in art would increase as well as enrollment in the de partment. Sommer said that activities of the department could be centra lized in the building, which would be a tremendous improvement over the present set-up. The United States Circuit Court of Appeals of the District of Col umbia awarded approximately $1,500,000 to" the University for the construction of an art museum under the terms stated in William Ackland's will. Ackland died in 1940, leaving his entire estate, valued at ap- proxjmately $1,500,000, for the es tablishment of a museum of fine arts. Duke university was offered the museum, but refused to ac cept it. Since that time the Ack land heirs, Rollins college in Florida and the University have fought in court for the possession of the money for the museum. Thursday, Justice Wilber Miller reversed a previous decision that granted the bequeath to Rollins college,, and held that the site of the museum would be at the Uni versity. Ackland's will specified that the museum should contain his personal belongings and effects. The location was to be a college campus and the interior was to shelter, in addition to objects of art, a marble sarcophagus in which his remains would rest beneath a recumbent statue. THE WORLD IN BRIEF Guerrilla III ATHENS, Greece, Feb. 4 (UP) Gen. Markos Vafiadcs, leader of the Greek guerrillas, is seriously ill and has been relieved of all Communist party duties, according to a guerrilla radio broadcast reported tonight by the Greek general staff. 'Political Sop' WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UP) Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. O) said today the administration actually has few objections tc the Taft-Hartley law and is call ing for its repeal only as a poli tical sop to labor. Tighten Up BERLIN, Feb. 4 (UP) The United States and Britain tight ened their "counter-blockade" against the Russian occupation zone today. Backs Labor Bill MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 4 (UP) The American Federation of Labor today endorsed the ad ministration labor bill now be fore Congress. j
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