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U.K.C. Library Serials Dept. Chapel Hill, N. C. 8-31-49 EDITORIALS WEATHER Write Away. Right Away A Letter Of Thanks Of Cabbages Fair and slightly warmer. VOLUME LVII United Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C. SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1949 Phone F-3371 F-3361 NUMBER 119 Freshmen Into Phi Eta Sigma Seventy-one University students were initiated into Phi Eta Sigma, national freshman scholastic fraternity, in cere monies in Graham Memorial this week. To qualify a student must make half A's and half B's on his courses for either the first quar ter or the first three quarters. Officers for this year are Cor nelius Theodore Partrick, Wil mington, president; John Ran dolph Ingram, Asheboro, vice president; Earl Ray Betts, Jr., Greensboro, secretary; Henry Clendenin Fordham, Greensboro, treasurer; Albert Stowe Blank enship, Jr., Charlotte, historian, and Dean Ernest L. Mackie, fac ulty adviser. Dr. Cecil Johnson, associate dean of General College, spoke briefly at the ceremony. Initiated were Thomas Marion Alspaugh, Winston-Salem; Rob ert Freeman Bailey, Durham; Carl Simpson Baxter, Greens boro; James Andrew Bell, Jr., Greensboro; Spencer Lorraine Blaylock, Jr., Greensboro; Wil liam Augustus Bowen, Green ville; Robert Griffin Brame, Wendell; Wade Melbry Brannan, Jr., Dunn; Robert Barclay Brown, Wilmington; Samuel Davis Byrd, Jr., Goldsboro; Wil liam Davis Cash, Spindale; John Robert Cauble, Salisbury. John Cazin, Jr., Beech Bottom, W. Va.; Lewis Rose Chapman, Jr., Union, N. J.; John Nathaniel Chatham, Durham; Irvin" Marvin Cohen, Lincolnton; Edward San derlin Coley, Elizabeth City; James Halbert Conoly, Philadel phia; Roy Clinton Corderman, Jr., Winston - Salem; Edward James Dalgleish, Pottstown, Pa.; (See PHI ETA ) CAMPUS CALENDAR Today 8:00 & 10:00 CATHOLIC MASS. Gerrard hall. 11:00 SOCIETY of Friends. Roland Parker 1, GM. 1:00 ALPHA KAPPA PSI. Ro land Parker 1, 2, 3. 2:30 STUDENT PARTY Plat form committee. Horace Williams lounge, GM. 3:30 CHAPEL HILL Choral club. Rehearsal of Bach's Minor Mass. Hill hall. 4:00 COSMOPOLITAN CLUB. Horace Williams lounge, GM. 4: 30 UNIVERSITY H OJU R. WNAO, Raleigh. 6:00 HILLEL FOUNDATION. Dr. John Gillin, speaker, Roland Parker 1, 2, 3. GM. 8:00 CAROLINA POLITICAL Union. Grail room, GM. Tomorrow 8 : 00 S T R I N G QUARTET. Main lounge, GM. 3:00 FRESHMEN OFFICERS. Roland Parker ,1, GM. 4:00 RULES COMMITTEE. Horace Williams lounge, GM. 6:30 INTERDORM COUNCIL. Roland Parker 3, GM. 6:30 WOMAN'S COLLEGE Alumnae Meeting. Facul ty Club room, Carolina inn. 7:00 GRAIL. Grail room, GM. 7:00 UNIVERSITY CLUB. Ro ' land Parksr 2, GM. 7:00 MEDICAL FRATERNI TY. Horace Williams lounge, GM. 7:00 "PLAN YOUR Summer Program," Gerrard hall. 7.30 ALPHA KAPPA DELTA. Dr. Richard S. Lyman will speak. Room 403, Alumni. 8:00 CHI DELTA PHI. Closed meeting. Roland Parker 1, GM. 8:00 PANEL DISCUSSION on "Administrative Prob lems of a City Manager." Room 208, Caldwell hall. 8:15 DANCE COMMITTEE. Grail room, GM. 8:30 CAMPUS PARTY. Hor ace Williams lounge, GM. 8:30 "INTER. - AMERICAN Technical Co-Operation." W. E. Dunn will speak. Room 105, Caldwell hall. 9: 00 STUDENT PARTY. Ro land Parker 2, GM. Initio d Danger Over' In Peachland, Firemen Say Town of 500 May Now Rest PEACHLAND, March 5 (UP) Smoke - grimed firefighters, weary after a solid night of pumping water on the flaming mound of sawdust that once threatened to destroy this com munity, reported "danger over" today. It was the best' news for the 500 sleepless residents of the small lumbering village. or a week they feared the sparks showering from the three-acre sawdust pile might wipe out their homes. National guardsmen under Master Sgt. Robert L. McAmulty of Charlotte, firemen from sur roundin cities and volunteers manned pumps and hoses through the chilly night. By dawn they had beaten out most of the flames from the mound, which once stood 100 feet tall. It still burned inside but the threat of flying sparks ap peared at an end. The guardsmen and firemen manned two fire engins and two trailer pump units stretched through field, swamp and woods to bring water from a creek nearly a mile, the nearest source of water. Through the night local citi zens took turns at the nozzles, pouring water on the volcano like mound. Whether they could continue controlling the fire depended on stamina of the pumpSr which had been in operation at full capa city without rest since they ar rived yesterday. But the pillar of fire which for a week had lighted the sky for miles around by night was gone for the pres ent. "Yesterday morning it looked like a volcano," one grimy, weary smokeater said. "Today it's just a big mound of charred, smoking wood! But the fire's still inside." Firemen from Charlotte and Greensboro, 50. miles distant, joined National guard units sent in by Gov. Kerr Scott yesterday. It took all day to lay hose over the rough terrain.' Firemen had to borrow hose from seven .cities before they completed the double line to the creek at nightfall. Poetry Prize Won By Dr. Antonakos Dr. Lillie Antonakos, a mem ber of the University English staff, has been awarded the Georgia Poetry society's annual Popular prize. The award is giv en for the poem judged best of those submitted for monthly read- ings to the society throughout the year. Free Show In Town Exhibits to Be Shown Today On Architecture, Sculpture A color photograph exhibition of Talicsin and Taliesin West, the two houses of noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright, will be on view in the Person hail art gal lery beginning today and con tinuing through the week. The photographs were made by Ezra Stroller and were used by Fortune magazine to illustrate an article on the work of Wright. Both houses reveal the use of native materials which Wright has employed in their construc tion. An exhibition of sculpture in plastics by Leo Amino will also be featured in the Person art gallery this. week. Amino is rec Concert Set By Orchestra In Hill Hall Program Planned Tuesday Evening The University symphony or chestra, conducted by Earl Slo- cum, will present its second con cert of the. year this Tuesday evening at 8: 30 in Hill hall. To be heard on the program will be "Symphony in E Minor," by Brahms; "Concerto in D Min or," by Sibelius; and VirgL Thomson's suite, "The Plow That Broke the Plains." Soloist for the occasion wijl be Edgar Alden, playing the Sibeli us violin concerto in D minor. Mr. Alden, instructor and gradu ate student in the music depart ment, is well-known in North Carolina as a musician of out standing ability. After graduating from the Ob erlin Conservatory of Music, he came to Raleigh in 1937 as teach er of violin and theory at Mere dith college where he was heard in many solo recitals. While there he organized the Raleigh string quartet and also the Raleigh Chamber Music guild which he conducted for many years. Xlden also found time to serve as concert master of the North Carolina symphony and as soloist for the Mozart festival in Ashe ville under the direction of Thor Johnson, present conductor of the Cincinnati symphony. At present he is a member of the University string quartet and Symphony orchestra. Faculty Women Hold First Meet More than 200 faculty and ad-J ministrative wives and widows ; and women faculty members turned out here this week for a tea at the Monogram club at which the new University Wom an's club was formally launched. Mrs. W. Reece Berryhill was elected president of the new or ganization whose members are limited to full faculty members' wives either, active or retired , women faculty members, wives of administrative officials, and widows of former faculty mem bers and administrative officials. Other officers elected were Miss Muriel McLaughlin, vice-president, and Mrs. Herbert R. Baer, secretary-treasurer. Chairmen of standing committees appointed are Mrs. Clyde C. Carter, hos pitality; Mrs. R. D. W. Connor, social; Mrs,. Fletcher Green, pro gram, and Mrs. L. B. Rogerson, publicity. Mrs. Roy K. Marshall, wife of the new director of the More head planetarium at the Uni versity,, was introduced. Her in vitation to the group to use the lounge of the Planetarium build ing as a permanent meeting place was accepted. 197 Driver Permits Revoked In Week A total of 197 drivers' licenses were revoked in North Carolina during the week of February 21- 23, the State Highway Safety di- vision announced last week. ognized as the first sculptor to explore the possibilities of plas tics as a medium for sculptural expression. He has had many years of ex perience in carving and model ing in conventional materials. His sculptures are abstract but they have realistic titles. Strang Landscape, Memory of the Sea, and Modern Totem are the names of some of Amino's works. Amino's works are largely the result of his self-teaching. He has had nine one-man exhibi tions. The present display in Person hall is on loan from the Clay Club Sculpture center in New York city. 1 -x- :'-vu (i - - - if KiLiji ii i i wixniiwiiin-i wtm AS SOUTHERN SENATORS continued their oratorical siege against the move to "gag" filibusters. Senator Tom Connally (left) Texas Democrat, discusses strategy in Washington with Sen. Richard Russell (D-Ga.), leader of the fight against anti filibuster legislation. Meanwhile, administration supporters intend lo file a cloture petition to shut off debate in the upper house. Job Discussion Meet Is Planned Tomorrow Opportunities for jobs and I YMCA centers where students ipecial study during the summer may take special Y courses. vacation will be discussed at 7 j'clock tomorrow night in Ger rard hall, it was announced yes erday. Due to the many requests about work and other activities chis summer, a group of student leaders have outlined a program which will include talks and pic tures about locations where work and study is available. Those in charge of the program are Bill Brown, Mrs. Lorita Fishe, Ed McLeod, and Buddy Crone. . For those interested in a vaca-i tion and earning money at the same time, positions are open at resort centers such as the Blue Ridge mountain assembly and at Number of Views To Be Presented On Marshall Plan A discussion of the Marshall plan with participants from five Marshall plan countries will be featured this afternoon at the meeting of the Cosmopolitan club in Horace Williams lounge. Cosmopolitan club members who will represent their own coun tries in the discussion are Ken Lowry, England; Mogens Blegvid, Denmark; Genevieve Foussie, France; John Kennedy, United States; and Arthur Xanthos, Greece. The mediator in the discussion will be Uttam Chand of India. Refreshments will be served at the beginning of the meeting and he public is cordially invited to attend. Dr. Perry to Head Meet in Salisbury Dr. W. D. Perry, director ot the University testing service and associate professor in the edu cation department will preside over the opening meeting of tho North Carolina Vocational Guid- ance association s meeting ra,i j uja icuicimum, c Salisbury Friday. Dr. Perry is vice-president of the association. Roman Catholic Mission to Begin Here Today; Rev. Koch Will. Speak Rev. Frederick A. Koch of Raleigh will deliver the first in a series of four sermons at 8:30 tonight in -Gerrard hall as a part of a Roman Catholic mission celebrating the begin ning of Lent. He will speak on "Sin." Father Koch's other three addresses will be given at the same time in Gerrard hall starting tomorrow and contin uing through Wednesday. The Lenten devotion, "The Way of the Cross," will precede his sermon tonight, and Mass will be offered at 7 o'clock each morning during the mission. ?T- ! ? Y . A. 4 -V vj-j $--x-.x.-m- t?-,.-4 -.v, Camp councelors are also needed in various places. Help is needed in industrials plants and in state mental hos pitals. Chances to study govern ment and be empolyed in a gov ernment agency is being offered this summer in Washington, D. C. Study opportunities include an international service s em in a rf where foreign students study in ternational relations and a United Nations seminar in New York city. Conducted travel tours are being arranged in Europe which will offer recreational possibilities including youth hos tels. Patrolman Warns Motorists to Get Lights Repaired State Highway Patrolman E. C. Parnell yesterday warned all owners of automobiles in the Chapel Hill area to have lights on their cars functioning proper ly when traveling at night. "The state automobile inspec tion law has been repealed, but there is still no excuse for driv ers to operate cars with improp er equipment." Parnell said he had noticed a decided increase in the number of cars traveling with improper lights since the repeal of the State inspection law. The highway patrol is still spot checking cars to make sure equipment is in order, and one truck was stopped last week that did not even have wiring for a tail light. Voting Clarified Georgia Citizens ATLANTA, March 5 UP) Citizens of Georgia who can es- 'tablish a valid registration as of last Feb. 25 are eligible to vote torney General Eugene Cook rul ed unoffically today. Rev. Francis J. Morrissey, pastor of the local parish, has issued an invitation to attend the mission to all members of his parish, Catholic students, and others who wish to take advantage of "beginning the Lenten season well." Father Koch attended the University's school of journal ism and was assistant to Fath er Morrissey during the sum mer of 1947. At present he is pastor of St. Eugene's church at Wendell and editor of the "North Carolina Catholic," a weekly newspaper published by the N. C. Catholic Lay men's Association. I Truman Asks More Powers For Johnson Defense Secretary Would Unify Groups WASHINGTON, March 5 (UP) President - Truman today asked Congress to give the Sec retary of Defense complete con trol of the nation's military with .broad enough powers to weld the three services firmly into one ! mighty fighting unit. His proposals would make the secretary second only to the President himself - in supreme command of the Army, Navy and Air Force. They also called for a new "chief of chiefs" of the various armed branches who, in effect, would be the country's ranking military man. Mr. Truman told Congress the proposals represented a swift step toward the long-sought unifica tion of the armed services. The last war, he said, proved such a program "essential in the modern world" to protect the nation or to fight any kind of new war. In general, Mr. Truman fol lowed recommendations of the Hoover commission in his special message to Congress. That com mission urged demotion of the secretaries of the three branches and a combining of work duties for more efficiency. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, former Army chief of staff now on leave from Columbia univer sity, is serving temporarily as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to work on unification. It was believed Mr. Truman had the full benefit of Eisenhower's wartime experience as top allied commander in making today's recommendations. The President said the need to unify the armed forces -was learned the hard way in World War II when rigid divisions ham pered the country's effort. "No one advocates a return to the outmoded organization of the days preceding the (1947) Na tional Security act," he said. "On the contrary the issue today is not whether we should have uni fication, but how we can make it more effective . . . the effec tive and workable organization . . . of our armed forces is essen tial in the modern world." Mr. Truman's recommenda tions came as his newly-appoint ed Secretary of Defense, Louis A. Johnson, prepared to take over the job from retiring Secretary James ForrestaL who leaves March 31. Fraternity Group To Hear Dr. Lyman Dr. Richard- S. Lyman; of the neuropsychiatric- department ' of the Duke medical school; will ad dress Alpha Kappa Delta sociology fraternity at its meeting Monday night at 7:30 in Alumni halL He will speak on "Preliminary Com ments on Social Influences in Negro Psychiatric Problems." All students are invited to at tend. Refreshments will be served. Started at 50 Lawson Built Golf Course, Then Learned to Play Game Hewing a nine-hole golf course out of rocky, red-clay hills is a big order; particularly when it is done as a hobby, and with the help of only one assistant. That's just exactly what Dr. Robert Baker Lawson of the University. Physical Education department, has done. Taking over some of the worst sort of hilly land, which had three make shift holes from which to start, he began work during the early days of the depression and worked ceaselessly until he had completed the nine-hole course that now provides recreation for professors, students, and the townspeople of Chapel Hill. Not only did Dr. Lawson build this course, but he started from scratch and learned the game of golf after he was 50 years of age. Student political activity at the University, intensifying in preparation for Spring elections, tightened up still more yesterday with the announcement that nominations for coed officers must be turned in to Chairman Eleanor de Grange in Smith dormitory by midnight Monday, March 14, ac companied by a list of qualifications. - Nominations for legislature STA Elects First Slate Of Officers Reardon of Duke Named President Yesterday morning 55 delegates in the Playmaker theater saw the formation of the Southeastern Theater association, with Kenneth Reardon of Duke, President; Mrs. Katherine Battaglia of Norfolk, Va., Little theater, vice-president, and John W. Parker of the Play makers, executive secretary treasurer. Dr. Thomas E. Poag spoke on "The Negro in the American The ater" in the morning's session. Following his talk, the following council members were elected by the body: Roger Sherman of Wil liam and Mary (Virginia and West Virginia); Sam J. Francis of the Little Theater of Greenville, S. C. (North Carolina and South Carolina); Howard Bailey of Rol lins college, Winter Park, Fla. (Florida and Georgia); Telfair Peet of Alabama Polytechnic insti tute, Auburn, Ala. (Alabama and Mississippi); and Dr. Thomas E. Poag, Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State college, Nash ville, Tenn. (Kentucky and Ten nessee). Two additional officers elected were Mason Bliss of The Barter theater, Abington, Va., represent ing the commercial theaters in this conference area, and Dr. Poag, who will represent the Ne gro theatrical activities. Highlight of the afternoon talks and demonstrations was Fred Koch, Jr., who discussed his ex periences with the "Theater in the Round," a new form of stag ing plays in an arena-type theater, with the audiences around tho actors. As Koch described this central staging method, "it is just like a hot dog wrap the audience around the actors and there you are!" Fred Koch, Jr., son of the late "Proff" Koch, is chairman of the department at the University of Miami. He had, at one time, three theaters operating at the same time, but recently lost one when the southern section of the uni versity was disbanded. He is a graduate of the dramatic art de partment at this university. He learned so well that he won most of the seniors champion ships in this section at one time or another, and tutored his daughter, Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page, to the national Women's Amateur championship and the role of an internationally known golfer. Dr. Lawson's contribution to golf in Chapel Hill was the sub ject of an article in the current issue of Golfdom, a national pub lication, which was written by Jim Kluttz, of Chapel Hill. The article points out that "Not only did Dr. Lawson per form the seemingly impossible, but he gave all this time and ef fort to the project without re ceiving one penny of remunera tion, in fact he has paid his own club dues during the club's existence." mm must be accompanied by a peti tion signed by 25 coeds. Nomina tions for Honor council, officers of WAA, and speaker of Coed senate must be accompanied by a petition of 15 names. Nominations for senators must be accompanied by a petition signed by a majority of girls in one social organization, and no one may sign more petitions than there are existing vacancies. Nominations made by the ex-, ecutive councils of WAA and Coed senate need not be ac companied by a petition. Meetings of the town girls and of the girls in each dormitory will be held Tuesday. The first undergraduate compulsory mass meeting for preliminary elimina tion elections will be held Wed nesday, March 23, at 5 o'clock in Memorial hall and the official list of candidates will be posted in the Y court and in each dormi tory the following day. A mass meeting presenting all campus candidates to the student body will be held in Memorial . hall, Thursday, March 31, at 7 o'clock. Coeds are invited to come at that time, but the actual com pulsory coed mass meeting will not start until 8 o'clock, when coed candidates running for major offices will give short speeches. All expenses are due by 6 o'clock, April 4, for the April 5 elections. Runoff expense ac counts are due by 6 o'clock, April 11, for the April 12 elections. THE WORLD IN BRIEF Flames Retreating PEACHLAND, March - 5 (UP) Leaping flames retreat ed tonight to th interior of a three-acre, 100-foot pile of sawdust and tho commander of firefighters said the danger of annihilation was over for the sawmill community. Gromyko Promoted LONDON, March 5 (UP) The Soviet Union promoted An drei Gromyko, former ambas sador to Washington and Chief Soviet United Nations delegate, to First Deputy Foreign Minis ter tonight. Negroes Organize JACKSON, Miss., March. 5 (UP) A group of Mississippi Negroes fromed the Mississippi State Democratic association here this week-end. The edi tor and publisher of the Jack son Advocate, Percy Green, was elected president and executive director of the new organiza tion. More Investigation WASHINGTON, March 5 (UP) House spy hunters soid today they may investigate charges that Soviet delegates to the United Nations have en gaged in espionage activities in the United States. Molotov's Future? LONDON, March 5 (UP) Western Europe looked today for V. M. Molotov, relieved of his duties as foreign minister, to be given even more power in the Soviet Union as Premier Jo sef Stalin's top deputy. Some observers believed he might even become premier. Defendants Plead SOFIA, Bulgaria, March 5 (UP) Fifteen Protestant churchmen, four of who face death by hanging, pleaded for mercy today in dramatic final statements to the three-man court which is trying them on charges of treason, espionage and blast marketing.
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