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VOLUME LVIL
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1949
Phone F-3371 F-3361
NUMBER 121
Tuition Protests
ouncil To
Resolution Hits "
Trustees' Action
In $69 Increase
I By Sam McKeel
I The Student Council of the
Greater University announced to
day that it had mailed copies
of a resolution to each member
of the legislature and to the
governor strongly protesting the
action taken by the Board of
Trustees in the recent tuition
hike.
This action of the board came
after Governor Scott had recom
mended to the board that the
tuition should be raised. The
subsequent passing of the meas
ure, calling for a $69 raise,
brought the wrath of students
from all three branches of the
University on the legislature, the
Governor and the board of Trus
tees. A flood of letters erupted
from the campus at Chapel Hill,
while petitions circulated at both
State and Woman's college.
lhe student council, alter a
thorough investigation, decided
to go on record as being against
the measure.
The resolution mailed to the
legislators and the Governor
said, "the Student Council of
the Greater University of North
Carolina strongly protests the ac
tion of the Board of Trustees
in raising the tuition at the three
branches of the Greater Univers
ity because:
1. It will deprive many young
people of ' the opportunity for
a higher education.
2. It indicates a lack of appre
ciation for the democratic prin
ciples of public education and
a complete disregard of the wel
fare of the youth of North Caro
lina. 3. The increase is an unjusti
fied tax upon those who are less
equipped to pay.
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RUNNING MATES FOR SENIOR class president and vice
president on the University party ticket in the spring general elec
tions are Ed Tenney of Chapel Hill (left) and Don VanNoppen of
Morganton. VanNoppen's nomination by the UP was announced
yesterday along with that of Armecia Eure for the position of
senior class secretary. The University party nominations for
the three senior class positions are the first to be released by
any of the three campus political parties.
Expresses Wish
RALEIGH, March 8 (UP)
Army Secretary Kenneth C.
Royall, evidently anticipating
questions about rumors that he
will resign in the next few
weeks, today repeated that his
wish "has been to return home
whenever I could do so in good
conscience."
To Face Charges
RALEIGH, March 8 (UP)
John Robert Bridges, 23, today
was scheduled for arraignment
in Wake county superior court
on a charge of bludgeoning his
landlord and burrying him alive
in a shallow grave so he could
flee with the victim's pretty
wife.
Wants Program
RALfciuH, March 8 (UP)
The State committee for Traf
fic Safety today began plugging
for enactment of a new "sub
stantial mechanical inspection
program for the state."
Boyd to Run
PINETOWN". March 8 (UP)
Olla Ray Boyd, Pinetown pig
breeder and perennially unsuc
cessful candidate for governor,
said today he expects to enter
the Democratic primary in- 1950
to succeed the late Sen. J. Mel
ville Broughton, who died Sun
day in Washington.
Against Liquor
GREEiN SBORO, March 8
Baptist pastors here today said
they were unanimously against
a measure introduced in the
state house of representatives
to permit Greensboro to vote
on ABC stores here this sum
mer. Suffers Stroke
WILMINGTON, March 8
(UP) State Rep. Thomas E.
Cooper was in a hospital here
today after suffering a slight
stroke.
UP Names Candidates
For Senior Class Posts
University party officials yesterday released the names
of two more senior class nominations.
Don VanNoppen of Morganton will seek the vice-presidency
and Armecia Eure of Raleigh will run for secretary
on the UP senior class ballot in the spring general elections.
The nomination of Ed Tenney,
Chapel Hill, was released yester
day for the office of president.
VanNoppen, Tenney's running
mate, is a commerce major and
a past president of the Minotaur
club, sophomore social club.
He is a member of the Univers
ity club and the newly-formed
Pledge Masters association on
campus. A member of Zeta Psi
fraternity, VanNoppen is a squ.ad
leader in the Naval ROTC unit
here. He graduated from Virginia
Episcopal school in Lynchburg,
Va., in 1946.
Armecia Eure, the UP's can
didate for senior class secretary,
is a journalism major and presi
dent of the Chi Omega sorority.
She also serves as a member of
the YWCA Campus affairs com
mittee. A transfer from St. Mary's in
Raleigh, Armecia was business
manager of the yearbook there,
a member of the honor council,
fashion editor of the school paper
and a member of the May court
for two years.
Student Dies
.
In Car Crash,
Four Injured
Auto Catapults
Into Deep Ditch
. LEXINGTON, Va., March 8
(UP) Albert C. Holland, 17-year-old
Washington and Lee univers
ity freshman from St. Petersburg,
Fla., was killed instantly early
today and four other students
suffered serious injuries when
their car crashed near the town
limits.
Officers said the car swerved
off the road and catapaulted
into a 15-foot ditch about 10
o'clock in the morning. The, car
snapped a telephone pole, rolled
about 150 feet and exploded.
Officers listed the injured as
Ken Finley, 19, of Clear Creek,
Ind., William Gleason Bean,Jr.,
19, of Lexington; Thomas P.
Whitaker, 20, of Tampa, - Fla.,
and Emor West Bitos, 19, of Tam
pa. Bean, son of a Washington and
Lee professor, was driving.
College officials said Finley
won the southern conference 155
pound wrestling title last week.
Instructor Gets
$25,000 Grant
From Foundation
Dr. John Borden Graham, in
structor in pathology in the
Medical school of the Univer
sity has been awarded a grant
of $25,000 over a five-year period
by the John and Mary R. Markle
foundation as a part of a program
to keep young doctors on teach
ing and research staffs of medical
schools, it was announced here
today by Dean W. Reece Berry-
hill of the University Medical
school.
Dr. Graham, a native of Golds-
boro and a graduate of the Uni
versity Medical school, has been
an instructor here since the war
in which he served as an officer
in the Medical Corps of the Army.
He is one of 13 "Scholars in
Medical Science" in the nation to
receive the foundation's award
this year. The sum oi io.uuu
has been appropriated for their
support, at the rate ot $J,uuu a
year. Under, the program begun
in 1948, 29 doctors are being sup
ported with total grants of $725,-
000.
The 1949 Scholars were select
ed from a group of candidates
proposed by accredited medical
schools in the United States and
Canada and interviewed by re
gional committees appointed by
the foundation.
Grads May Sign
For Yack at GM
Students who will graduate at
the end of the Winter quarter
are asked to contact the Yackety
Yack office in Graham Memorial
between 2 and 5 o'clock any day
this week in order to leave their
address and $2 to cover Spring
quarter publication fee.
More Mountain Music
Lunsford Says Folk Festival
Return Here in Summer
The Carolina Folk festival,
which enjoyed great success when
held at the University for the
first time last June, will be re
peated this summer, according
to plans released today by Di
rector Bascom Lamar Lunsford.
Dates this year will be June
9, 10, 11, and the festival will
be given in Kenan Stadium again.
Lunsford believes the prospects
for an even greater festival this
year are very bright. Many par
ticipants of last ' year's produc
tion have been invited back.
Spectators of the presentation
last June will remember such
performers as the Denton Square
Dance team, under Marshall
Floyd, winners of the dance con
test, who will defend their title
this year, and the group of 45
Texas performers under the di
rection of Mrs. Lillie Lee Baker
The performances this summer
are scheduled for three evening
programs commencing "as early
as sundown." Following each per
formance there will be a recep
tion for the more than 600 par
ticipants and their friends in the
women's gym of Woollen gym
nasium under the direction o;
the sponsoring committee.
SHORTLY AFTER BEING NAMED by President Truman as
Secretary of Defense. Louis A. Johnson (right) is pictured as
he attended an American Legion rehabilitation committee dinner
in Washington. Johnson, a iormer Assistant Secretary of War
and past national commander of the Legion, succeeds James V.
Forrestal, whose resignation becomes effective March 31. With
Johnson is Perry Brown, present head of the Legion.
Suit is Filed
In Asheville
Hospital Fire
ASHEVILLE, March 8 (UP)
A second damage suit was filed
today in the tragic Highland
hospital fire which killed nine
women mental . patients a year
J ago Thursday.
The estate of Janice Rita Boro-
choff, one of the victims, sought
$50,000 damages from the hospit
al, its directors and its staff and
from Duke university, which
owns the institution.
Yesterday a $75,000 suit was
placed before Buncombe County
Superior court by the estate of
Mrs. Sarah Hipps of Asheville
Both actions charge gross neg
ligence" by the hospital staff in
the blaze which destroyed High-
and's central building last March
0 and 11.
W. E. Dunn Talks
On Latin America
"Latin America has been a
useful laboratory for the develop
ment of many of the techniques
which will be applied in Presi
dent Truman's 'Point 4' program,"
said W. E. Dunn, foreign service
officer of the State department
in Washington, who spoke to a
group of students on Latin Amer
ican affairs at the University Mon
day night.
"The 'Point-4' program of tech
nical assistance to less highly
developed areas of the world
which President Truman announ
ced in his inaugural address lends
new emphasis to what is already
being done along this line in
Latin America," said Dunn.
Bill Of Experimental
Gets S"
Farted
Ton
idht
The 129th bill of experimental plays will be given by the
Carolina Playmakers tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30 in "house plan."
the Playmakers theater. Three student-written one-act plays
will be presented free of charge.
Weaver Urges
Dorm Unity
At IDC Meet
First Annual
Banquet Held
Dean of Students Fred H.
Weaver urged "a closer unity in
dormitory life" in his address to
some 45 members and guests at
tending the first annual Men's
and Women's Inter-Dormitory
council banquet Monday night
in the Carolina inn.
The speaker said that dormitory
residents should have "a sense
of belonging to their respective
dormitories where there should
be a sort of brotherhood." He
continued that a fraternity house
is based on brotherhood while
a dormitory is "just a place to
live."
In contrasting dormitory life
with that of the fraternity, Dean
Weaver said that both were nec
essary to college life, and that
"no one should drive a wedge be
tween them" whether it be in
campus politics, social life, or
scholastic standing.
While commending both dor
mitory councils for their efforts
to improve the living conditions,
he named two main goals for
which the councils should aim:
First, he said that there should
be "the same kind of autonomy
in dormitories as there is in fra
ternities." Second, he called for
the eventual initiation of the
Donations to Aid
Clothing Problem
Of Fire Victims
FARMVILLE, Va., March 8
(UP) Some 70 girls who fled
in their nighties early Sunday
morning when fire destroyed their
dormitory at Farmville State
Teachers college were ready to
buy new clothes today after cit
izens here chipped in $4,200.
Some 400 residents . held an
emergency meeting in the court
house here last night to discuss
getting the ladies clad again.
When the meeting was over
there was $1,200 in cash and
$3,000 in checks on the table.
The Red Cross planned to give
$600 worth of blankets. Local
merchants promised a 30 per cent
discount on clothes and personal
belongings the girls wanted to
replace.
Dr. Davney S. Lancaster, presi
dent of the college, said, "We'll
see to it that no girl has to leave
college because of the losses suf
fered in the fire."
Applicants to Meet
With Dean Wettach
All students who plan to apply
for admission to the University
law school for the fall term are
asked to meet with Dean Wettach
in 201 Manning hall Thursday
at 2 o'clock.
"Snnur PallintT " a fframa Vvir
John Ehle, Asheville, takes place
in a city factory area last Christ
mas, and is directed by Eliza
beth Stoney, Winston - Salem.
Playing parts are Blanton Miller,
Boone (Jake), Edward Lassiter,
Newport News, Va. (Customer),
Ralph Long, Durham (Law
rence), Nathaniel White, Chapel
Hill (Pop), and George Carter,
Atlanta, Ga. (Steve). Stage man-J
ager is Ethel Perry, Zirconia.
"A Brighter Star," a domes
tic comedy by Nancy Wallace,
Wilmington, is set, in an apart
ment' in a small American city
the afternoon of a spring day in
1946. Director Patricia Peteler,
Glendale, Gal., has cast Lon
Braxton, Burlington (Harley
Phelps)', Frances Sowers, San
ford (Mrs. Phelps), and Ruth
Kirk -(Edna Phelps)"." Anne Mar
tin, Cherokee, is stage manager.
"Jersey Birt'day," a rough
house comedy by Ralph Long,
Durham, has its action in Ma's
Boarding House in New Jersey
one afternoon at 5:30. Actors, un
der the direction of Suzanne Da
vis, Chapel Hill,, are Ralph E.
Mulford (Frank), Edward Moss,
Burlington (Al), Gwyn Finley,
North Wilkesboro (Dorothy), Jo-
(See PLAYS, page 4)
Galloway Announces Closing Dates
For Positions With Civil Service
Joe Galloway, director of
Placement service, yesterday
called attention to March clos
ing dates for submitting ap
plications to take the follow
ing civil service examinations:
Historian, intelligence spe
cialist, general 'and technical,
foreign affairs office, social
science analyst closes March
15, and is found under civil
service, announcement 157.
Meteorological aid closes
March 15, and is found un
der announcement 158.
Treasury enforcement agent,
announcement 4-39, closes
March 17. '
Zone deputy collector and
office auditor, under announce
ment 4-44, closes March 17.
Statistician, under announce
ment 152, closes March 30.
Students interested in tak
ing these civil service exam
inations may secure detailed
information from the Place
ment office, 209 South build
ing or from the Post office,
Gallowav- said.
Expanding upon the "house
plan" idea, Weaver said that dor
mitories came closest to that
goal in 1935 when the first inter
dormitory council was formed.
He said that at that time men
paid a $1 social fee which paid
for radios and other furnishings
in .the social rooms of the men's
dormitories (now used as living
quarters.) Speaking of present
conditions, Dean Weaver said
that "the university should and
must improve facilities of the
dormitories."
Pete Gerns, president of the
Men's IDC, presided at the ban
quet. He called upon Sue Stokes,
president of the women's coun
cil, to recognize representatives
of the women's dormitories which
led : in icampus activities. Gerns
recognized the men.
ARC Workers Asked
To Turn in Funds
All campus Red Cross workers
have been asked by Bill Pritch-
ard and Dick Gordon, co-chairmen
of the drive, to check in
all contributions from their re
spective areas before 3 o'clock
this afternoon. Collections will be
accepted at Dean Bill Friday's
office in South building.
Members Join
CP in Giving'
Endorsement
.J
Wins Nomination
By 27 to 7 Vote
Dick Jenrette, University party
nominee for the Daily Tar Heel
editorship, received the Campus
party endorsement for the post
and almost at the same time
received the nomination of the
Di'H staff for editor.
CP officials announced early
yesterday that Jenrette is their
choice for the editorship.
In a special meeting yesterday
afternoon staffers whose names
appear in the masthead, mem
bers voted 24 to 7 to back Jen
rette for editor.
Al Lowenstein, present associ
ate editor, was the only person
besides Jenrette to receive any
votes. Lowenstein said that he
was never an actual candidate
for the position but would run
"if the staff desires."
Jenrette, in accepting the staff
endorsement, said, "If elected I
will do my best to give the cam
pus a top-notch Daily Tar Heel.
I will expect the utmost coop
eration of the stall."
A rising junior from Raleigh,
Jenrette joined the DTH staff
in the fall of 1947 and has worked
on the paper continuously. He is
present assistant sports editor and
is the UP candidate for junior
member on the Publications
board.
Jenrette is in Phi Eta Sigma,
honorary freshman scholastic fra
ternity, and is a journalism ma
jor. He is a correspondent for
the Raleigh News and Observer,
where he has worked during the
summers for three years.
He is publicity chairman of
the University party and holds
a seat on the steering committee
of the group. He is a member of
Chi Psi fraternity and the Raleigh-Carolina
club.
THE WORLD
IN BRIEF
Season Highlights
Concerts on Out of State Tour
Scheduled by Little Symphony
Highlighting the second half of
the North Carolina Little Sym
phony tour season will be out-of-state
.appearances in Johnson
City, Tenn., and in Demarest, Ga.
The Little Symphony, under
the direction of Dr. Benjamin
Swalin, is now touring the west
ern part of the state. This in
cludes appearances at Banner Elk
tomorrow, Appalachian State
Teachers college at Boone on Fri
day, and Mars Hill college on
Monday.
On Tuesday the group will
travel to Johnson City, Tenn.,
to play in that Tennessee town
for the first time. A soloist from
Johnson City, Roger Griffith,
pianist, will be featured in this
engagement.
From Johnson City the group
will return to North Carolina for
appearances in Waynesville March
17 and in Andrews-Murphy March
18. Then the orchestra will journ
ey to Demarest, Ga., for a con
cert at Piedmont college the night
of March 21.
Following the Demarest ap
pearance, the Little Symphony
will continue its tour of the state
This will include concerts in
Franklin March 22, and in Ruther
fordton-Forest City Mahch 23
Kings Mountain is on the schedule
for Msrch 24.
New Deputy Premier
LONDON, Wednesday, March
9 (UP) Moscow radio said to
night that Alexander Ilariono
vich Yefromov had been named
a deputy premier and thus had
been freed "of the responsibili
ties" of Minister for the Machine
Tool Building Industry.
Would Have Stayed
WORCESTER, Mass., March
8- (UP) Rev. G. Antonio La
berge, A. A., American Catholic
chaplain in Moscow, would have
been ordered to remain in Rus
sia if it were known that he
would be denied permission to
return after his vacation in the
United States, it was announced
today. Father Labergc was noti
fied orally by the Soviet em
bassy in Washington that his
re-entry visa had been annulled.
Flood Waters Rise
CHICAGO, March 8 (UP)
New flood dangers arose on the
Missouri river in the vicinity
of Omaha today as four central
states battled high water in their
lowlands and river towns. The
big Missouri, shaking loose win-,
ter ice in its annual spring break
up, was boiling down to the
Mississippi, leaving behind thou
sands of acres of flooded farm
land and thousands of homeless.
Odom Ends Flight
TETERBORO, N. J., March 8
(UP) Lanky Bill Odom made
good today on a 5,000-mile non
stop flight across half an ocean
and all of a continent in a plane
smaller than the one Charles
Lindburgh flew to Paris 22 years
ago.