SERIAHS DEPT.
CHAPEL HILL II. C.
831-49
EDITORIALS
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Meel 'Winn. Williams
Democratic Party
Something Sacred
Clear and warm
VOLUME LVII
CHAPEL HILL, N. C. SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1949
Phone F-3371 F-3361
NUMBER 151
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Undisclosed Number of Men Students
lo be KeceiYcd in Honorary Society
When the Order of the Golden Fleece, the University's
highest hororary society for men, taps an undisclosed num
ber of new members tomorrow evening at 7:45 in Memorial
Hall, the campus ,will be given an opportunity to witness
what is generally considered to be the University's most
imnressive eeremonv.
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The doors to Memorial Hall will
be locked the moment the tap
ping services begin to avoid late
comers' spoiling the solemnity
and suspense. To attend the tap
ping the audience should be seat
ed by 7:45. The annual Valkyrie
Sing will follow the ceremony.
Prior to the tapping ritual in
the Fleece's one public meeting
of the year, the names of the
new members are kept secret,
leaving those who are to be hon
ored completely unnotified be
forehand. '
Black-robed figures with fleece
across their shoulders will stalk
around the auditorium, searching
for those men whose character
and service has qualified them
for membership in this 46-year-old
organization which has work
ed secretly for University welfare
and advancement.
During the tapping, the Fleece
Officers for '48-'49 will be re
vealed for the first time. Follow
ing the ceremony, Judge John
J. Parker will speak to the new
initiates privately in a banquet
at the Carolina Inn.
Students who are now mem
bers of the Fleece are Dewey
Dorsett, Jack Kirkland, Ernest
G. Crone, Bob Stockton, Charlie
Fulton. Ralph Stravhorn, Bill
Miller, Lyn Szafaryn, William K
Tate, Ray Jeffries, Basil Shirrill,
Ernest J. House, Scotty Venable,
Bob Coulter, Charles Warren,
Tom Eller, Wayne Brenengan,
Charles Vance, Jess Dedmond,
and Monroe Landreth. ,
Those who were tapped either
as students originally or more
recently as outstanding faculty
members are: Phillips Russell,
Frank P. Graham, E. R. Rankin,
Robert B. House, H. G. Baity,
E. L. Mackie, A- M. Coates, J. B.
Linker, C. P. Spruill, Ed Lanier,
Fred Weaver, Bill Friday, C. E
Tcague, E. II. Hartsell, J. M
Sannrfprs. E. A. Cameron, Walter
Spearman, H. T. ' Lefler, H. K
Russell. Bill Shuford, and F. W,
Hart. ,"-':,..:
Fleece members now
living in Chapel Hill are Roy
Strowd, Horace Carter, Orville
Campbell, William B. Jones, and
W. P. Jacobs.
Episcopal Students
To Elect Officers
Election of new members for
the Student Vestry of Episcopal
students on .campus will "take
place Sunday evening at 6:45 in
the parish house. This will be
the first congregational meeting
of Episcopal students and the
first time that members of the
Student Vestry will be elected by
such a meeting. A short report
on the years activities: will be
given.
In addition to the nominations
proposed by the Student Vestry,
further nominations will be re
ceived from the floor to fill the
nine vacancies occurring next
year. Election will be on ballot
and after the voting takes place
refreshments will be served.
All Episcopal students are urg-
I cd to attend the meeting..
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j Parties Plan Meets
f In Graham Memorial
I The Campus party will meet
Monday afternoon at 4o'clock in
Graham Memorial Vestal Taylor,
Party chairman said yesterday.
N.C. Students
Will Observe
Own Day Here
Total of 10,000
Pupils to Attend
As chartered busses pull up
in front of the Old Well next
Saturday morning, the campus
will be flooded with high school
seniors who will begin a crowd
ed day of activities at the Sixth
Annual North Carolina High
School Day.
Roy Armstrong, director of Ad
missions, who issued invitations
to all North Carolina seniors,
principals, and chaperones es
timated that 10,000 visiters were
expected Saturday.
The group will be guests of
the Monogram Club and the Uni
versity Athletic Club at the three
sports events scheduled for the
day. At 11 o'clock the seniors
will attend the track meet be
tween State College and the
University, and that afternoon
they will sit in a special section
in Kenan Stadium for the Blue
White game. Following the game,
the visitors will attend the base
ball game between Wake Forest
and the University.
High School bands from Chapel
Hill and the surrounding vicin
ity will play college and high
school songs at the Old ' Well
where the visiters will assemble
on arriving at the University.
The group will be greeted by
Ike Rolander, president of the
University Club, and other mem
bers of the organization. The
club will be host of the seniors,
and h.ave planned an extensive
tour of the campus to orientate
the group. At the Old Well stu
dent leaders will be introduced
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CHARLIE LOUDERMILK. RIGHT, and Bill Mackie. student
body president, are shown as they made final plans this week
for the conclusion of the cancer drive which ends tomorrow.
Loudermilk. chairman of ihe Interfraiernity Council, is serving
as chairman of the cancer drive on campus.
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Valkyries Hold
Yearly Con test
After Tapping
Twelve Groups Are
Entered In Program
Twelve dormitory, sorority
and fraternity groups competing
in the annual Valkyrie Sing will
take the stage of Memorial Hall
tomorrow night following Golden
Fleece, tapping ceremonies.
Because of the impressive na
ture of the Fleece ceremonies.
the doors of the hall will be
locked during the tapping, be
ginning at 7:45.
Judges for the contest will
be Dr. Samuel Seldon and Fos
ter Fitzsimmons of the Dramatics
Art Department; Miss Jane Grills
of the Radio Department; Mrs.
Robert Wettach,' and Norman
Cordon, Metropolitan Opera star.
The winning groups in the
men s division and the women s
division will be awarded loving
cups on the basis of musical
presentation, originality, and stag
ing. The cups are rotating, be
ing retired only when won by
one group for three consecu
tive years.
Sponsors of the annual song
fest, the Valkyries are the high
est honorary organization for
women on the campus. Limiting
their membership to two per
cent of the coed enrollment, the
group selects members on the
basis of scholarship, leadership,
character and service.
Surprise Hail Storm
Hurts State Crops
Scotland Neck, N. O. April 23
(UP) ARt exactly 6 p.m. to
night, an attendant in a service
station 10 miles north of here
looked at the thermometer. It
read 80 degrees fahrenheit.
Two minutes later it was down
to 40 degrees, aond hailstones
some of them more than an inch
in diameter were storming
down out of the skies.
"They ranged in size from
nickels to hen eggs," a startled
motorist reported.
Start photo by Mills
StaiT p!ioio by Mills
DEAN FRED H. WEAVER is shown above addressing the banquel for new officers which was held
in the Pine Room of Lenoir hall last Wednesday night. Shown wiih him are Miss Gay Currie. YWCA
advisor; Emily Baker, retiring speaker of the Coed Senate; Jess Dedmond. retiring president of the
student body; and Miss Twig Branch, personnel advisor io women.
UNC Publications
Win Press Awards
Tarnation Chosen Best Humor .Magazine;
Joyner's Editorial on Polio Is Winner
University student publications walked off with seven
of seventeen awards presented at the annual North Caro
lina Collegiate Press Association convention which closed
in Raleigh yesterday. Only Yackety-Yack failed to win at
least one prize. :
The Daily Tar Heel won three
awards, including the honors for
best editorial, best news story,
and best sports column. Former
editor Ed. Joyner won first prize
in the editorial field for "This
Might Have Been You," an edit
on infantile paralysis. Managing
Editor Bill Buchan won the news
story award for his story on
Dr. Graham's appointment to the
Senate. Billy Carmichael won the
sports column award for "The
Sporting Picture."
Tarnation won two top awards,
one for being the best humor
magazine, and an individual
award to Tookie Hodgson for his
"Dairy of The Carolina Gentle
man, as the best numorous ica
ture. Ruth Wolfe's Carolina Quarter
ly article, "I Go Haggling," won
the best general feature award, ,
while Nancy Norman won the
top prize in poetry for "The Ac
counting," which also appeared
in the Quarterly.
Other awards given included:
Best state 4A' paper, The Caro
linian, Woman's College; best
state 'B' paper, Maroon and Gold,
Elon; best state C' paper, Hill
top, Mars Hill; best editorial car
toon, Dot Swann, Lenoir-Rhyne;
best headline, Technician, State
College; best humor cartoon,
Clarence Brown, Duke and Duch
ess. Best news photo, Bcnnie
Batchclor, Technician; best short
story, "Spring and Fall," Bob
Loomis, Duke; best general col
umn, Jim Playter, Lenoir-Rhyne,
and Hoyle Adams, Technician.
Best literary magazine, Caroddi
and Archive; best technical maga
zine, Duke Engineer; best year
book, Pine Needles, Woman's
College, and a special award to
Wake Forest's "The Student," a
campus magazine which mixes
both humor and serious articles.
Insurance Teacher
To Speak Tomorrow
Dr. Dan McGill, author of "An
Analysis of Government Life In
surance," member of the Ameri
can Association University Teach
ers of Insurance, and present
head of the Department of In
surance of the School of Com
merce, . will speak Monday eve
ning at 8 in 103 Bingham Hall.
Dr. McG ill's speech, "National
Service Life Insurance and Its
Dividend Prospects" is being
sponsored by the Alpha Tau
Chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi,
national commerce professional
fraternity, and will be open to
the public.
Symphony Slates
General Meeting
Here Saturday
Norman Cordon, Chairman of
the local North Carolina Sym
phony Committee, has invited all
members in Chapel Hill to the
annual general meeting of the
Symphony Society, which will
be held here on April 30.
The meeting is scheduled to get
under way at 4 o'clock in Me
morial Hall. According to Spencer
Murphy, President of the Society,
a special program has been plan
ned for the members preceding
the meeting.
Featured on the program will
be Miss Josephine Cunningham,
17-year-old soprano of Ashcville,
who will sing several numbers
including "Tell Me Fair Ladies"
from Mozart's "Marriage of Fig
aro." The Full Symphony Orchestra
will also be present to play sev
eral light selections. Among these
will be "Chicken Reel" and "Clair
de Lune."
Blow In The Head Made Him What He Is
Dr. Franz Polgar To Make Third
Appearance On Campus Tuesday!
For anyone who wants lo be
come ' a first-class telepathist or
hypnotist, it really might help to
be hit in the head by something
the size of a bomb, according to
Dr. Franz J. Polgar, mental wiz
ard who will appear here Tues
day evening at 8 o'clock in Me
morial Hall under the .auspices
of the Student Entertainment
Committee.
"The Amazing Dr. Polgar", as
his publicity agents and critics
alike term him, has not always
been that amazing. Born the per
fectly normal son of a small
town school principle in Enying,
Hungary, young Franz was a shy
youth and grew up among friends
in the peasant class, spending his
summers on farms and dream
ing a great deal. As a boy, Pol
gar says, he was haunted contin
ually by the thoughts of great
mental and physic powers. How
ever, he did not show anything
unusual along this line before
war broke out in 1914.
, Fourteen years old and a stu
dent at Szekesfehervar when
World War I began, Polgar hur
ried through school and enlisted
to become a second lieutenant
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Debate Teams
Plan Finals
Aycock Memorial Cup
Is Goal of Debaters
High school debating teams
which were successful' both in
the state-wide triangular com
petition of April 1 and in the
district contests held during the
period April 7 14 will enter the
final contest of the North Caro
lina High School Debating Union
for the Aycock Memorial Cup
in Chapel Hill April 28 and 29,
it was announced today by Sec
retary E. R. Hankin. -
The list of high schools whose
teams will enter the final con
test, together with the district
contests in which they emerged
as champions, follows:
Greenville, affirmative, and
Rocky Mount, negative, from the
district contest held at East Caro
lina Teachers. College, Greenville,
on April 7.
Bragtown, affirmative, and
Roxboro, negative, from the dis
trict contest held at Meredith
College, Raleigh, on April 14.
Maxton, affirmative, and Fair
mont, negative, from the district
contest held at Flora McDonald
College, Red Springs, on April
11.
Reidsville, affirmative, and
Richard J. Reynolds of Winston
Salem, negative, from the dis
trict contest held at Woman's
College of the University, Greens
boro, on April 13.
(See HIGH SCHOOL, page 4)
in the Hungarian army before his
eighteenth birthday. The year
1913 marked what he describes
as the turning point in his life.
In his earliest combat on the
Italian front, a well-aimed en
emy shell buried him alive in
a trench and blotted out his
memory for half a year.
He remained under a pile of
dirt and rock for three days be
fore being dug out and sent first
lo a field hospital at Udine, Italy,
and then on to a base hospital at
Graz, Austria. For six months
he was listed as suffering from
amnesia and aphasia before a
strange thing took place. Slowly
regaining his senses, Polgar
frightened a nurse with his first
intelligent words. He had antici
pated her actions, was actually
reading her thoughts. Before long,
he became the talk of the hos
pital and then was written up in
medical journals in Austria and
Hungary.
Soon the war ended, but his
mysterious fame did not. When
Polgar arrived in New York, he
could not speak a word of Eng
lish. "But," he says with a smile,
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ees Links Battle
By Billy Carmichael III
PINEHURST, April 23 Tar Heel Harvie Ward won
everything here this afternoon but the 36-hole finals of
the 49th North and South Amateur Golf Tournament.
That well-deserved honor went
YWCA Installs
New Officers
This Afternoon
Ashby to Address
Candlelight Service
A candlelight service in Ger
rard Hall open to all Y members
will see some 30 coeds installed
lac -iffifm-c anH r-aKinof mpmhpr?
of the campus YWCA today at 5
o'clock. Warren Ashby of the
Philosophy Department will give
a short talk following the service.
Mary Anne Daniels, retiring
president of the Y, is to have
charge of the installation with
old cabinet members taking part.
Officers to be installed are:
Anne Chandler, president; Kitty
Altizer, vice-president; Jean Ser
pen, secretary; Ruth Whalen,
treasurer; Julie Compton, mem
bership chairman; and Sally Os
borne, program chairman.
New cabinet members will be:
Edith Winslow , cabinet worship;
Jean Menshew, spark plug; Mar
kie Hubbard, dorm vespers; Ann
Faulkner, public affairs; Mina
Lamar, careers; Lenore Williams,
human relations; Caroline Brun
pr, publicity; Nancy Black, cam
pus affairs; Nancy Curtis, publi
cations; Jean Rankin, social serv-
ice;
Barbara Payne, ballet class;
Tommie Olive, baby sitters; Pat
Chandler, dorm stores; Mary Copen
haver, conference chairman; Mar
jorie Holland, cosmopolitan club;
Jackie Burk, Crill; Pat Sullivan,
Jr. Y-Heens; Preston Westcot, Sr.
Y-Teens; Jean Hines, recreation;
Marie Nussbaum, book club; Janet
Lewis, music appreciation; Sarah
Oliver, office force; Peggy Neal,
campus vespers; and Betsy Ross,
freshman council.
Gov. Scott Appoints
Minister to Board
RALEIGH, April 23 (UP)Gov.
Kerr Scott today named a Baptist
minister and educator as State
Parole Commissioner.
The governor appointed Dr. T.
C. Johnson, pastor of the Fihst
Baptist Chuch at Newton, to be
come Commission May 1.
"I certainly didn't seem to have
much trouble understanding what
people tried to tell me." Ap
parently. thoughts speak a uni
versal language.
New York nightclubs, circuses,
and vaudeville houses had heard
of Polgar. However, he refused
all their offers for exploitation
and took a job as a waiter in
restaurant. And even at that, he
was amazing again. He mysti
fied customers completely by
watching them, catching their
mental decision as they read the
menu, and then, without bother
ing to consult the diners orally
bringing the correct dishes that
they had decided on.
By popular demand, the Stu
dent Entertainment Committee is
bringing Polgar back, his per
formance Tuesday evening being
admission-free to all University
students in keeping with SEC
policy. Tickets will also be sold
to faculty members, student
wives, and townspeople at
o'clock when the doors of Me
morial Hall onen one hour be
fore "The Miracles of the Mind
show begins.
to one Frank Stranahan of Toledo,
0. , who made the best of the after
noon round to defeat Ward, 2 and
1, and avenge the defeat he had
suffered at the hands of Tar
Heel ace in last year's North and
South finals.
But aside from the match
honors, Ward took home with him
the much bigger trophy of the
hearts of the majority of the
3,000 peoplelargest crowd ever
to pack the Pinehurst Country
Club course who played every
stroke and felt every success
and disappointment right along
with the Tarboro linksman.
Rarely, had there been seen
a goner at this capital oi uou
dom who so captured a gallery,
arid gained such a victory even
in defeat.
For a while in the morning
round it looked as if Ward would
gallop through his famed op
ponent when he toured the first
nine holes some four strokes un
der par and as far along as the
12th hole, had a 3 upjmargin over
Stranahan.
Ward won the first hole when
his putt stymied Stranahan into
a bogey, and then added two
more holes on the 3rd and 4th
with pitch shots that left birdie
putts almost a formality. Strana
han, . meanwhile, won the 2nd
and 5th holes, but then the Tar
Heel unlcased a string of three
straight winners on the 6th, 7th
and 8th.
At the 13th hole, Stranahan
still three holes in arrears, start
ed the long road back. He won
that hole when Ward strayed into
the woods and added the par-3
15th on another Ward bogey. The
Toledo Muscle Man then evened
the match with a birdie on the
ong 16th. That's the way they
went to lunch.
In the afternoon round the
ead seesawed back and forth with
Stranahan winning the 1st and
3rd and Ward the 2nd and 4th.
Ward missed two straight shots
on the short 6th for a bogey and
Stranahan, with a par, was again
out in front, this time to stay.
The 8th put the defending
champion 2 down when Ward
missed a 12-footer for a chance
to halve. Ward dropped his tee
shot on the 9th within 4 feet of
the pin but Stranahan rammed
home a startling 40-foot uphill
putt, which, resulted birdies for
both-
The par-5 10th .hole probably
decided the match. Stranahan s
second wood sprayed into the
rough behind several pine trees.
His recovery was well-played,
a hooking iron to the green, but
the ball was speeding well over
the green when it hit a locka-
instcad at the edge of the green.
(See GOLF, page 4)
Foundation Pays
Tribute to Hanes
Gov. Kerr Scott and members-
of the North Carolina Business
Foundation met here Friday to
pay tribute and bid bon voyage
to their president, Robert M.
Hanes, Winston-Salem banker.
Hanes leaves soon for Europe
where he will be chief of the
mission in Belgium and Luxem
bourg for the Economic Corpor
ation Administration, administra
tor of the Marshall Plan.
Luther Hodges of Spray was
elected general vice-president to
serve as head of the organization
during Hanes' absence.
Regional vice-presidents elect
ed were William H. Ruffin, Dur
ham, J. G. Cowan, Asheville, ' R.
O. Huffman, Morganton, J. E.
Dowd, Charlotte, George E. Par
rin, Greensboro, Hayman Battle,
Greenville, and Hervcy Evans,
Laurinburg.
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