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EDITORIALS
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Sharing Discoveries
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VOLUME LVIII
Associated Press
CHAPEL HILL, N. C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1949
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DEPUTY SHERIFFS hurl tear gas to break up a violent demonstration at the strike-bound plant
of the Bell Aircraft Corporation at Buffalo. N. Y., The gas dispersed about 200 striking CIO United
Auto, Workers after they had hurled rocks and sticks at deputies and non-strikers being escorted
into the plant.
UNC Birthday Is Celebrated
In Short, Colorful Spectacle
Music, Pageant,
Prayers Mark
Big Ceremony
By Sam McKeel
A colorful and impressive cere
mony on South Building's steps
marked the celebration of the
University's 156th birthday before
a crowd estimated at around 3,000
assorted students, faculty, alumni,
and townspeople.
The ceremony was simple in
that it lasted only 30 minutes and
included only a short band con
cert, a massed chorus of the men's
and women's Glee Clubs, an in
vocation, and a reenactment of
the cornerstone-laying of Old East
Dormitory.
Although the University was
chartered some years before, the
cornerstone of Old East, the old
est building of the oldest state
university, was laid in 1793. And
it was around this reenactment
of the laying of that cornerstone
that the celebration was held this
year and is usually held each
year.
From 10:50, until 11 o'clock,
while the crowd assembled, the
University band, under the direc
tion of Earl Slocum played
marches. The program began with
the band playing the "Star
Spangled Banner." This was fol
lowed by the invocation by Rev.
Samuel T. Habel, minister of the
Chapel Hill Baptist Church, the
singing of the University Hymn,
the memorial service in memory
of the students, alumni, trustees
and faculty who have died in the
past year, the Glee Clubs singing
"Ro r.laH Thrn America." the
pantomime of the cornerstone lay
ing, and then the singing of "Hark
The Sound," under Davie Poplar
Immediately following the corner-stone
laying ceremony, the
band formed at the head of the
spectators and led a procession
to Davie Poplar for the singing of
the Alma Mater. The ancient tree
is the site where the almost leg
endary Revolutionary War patriot
Davie tied his horse when he first
surveyed and chose Chapel Hill
as the location of the first state
university in the nation.
Color was added to the cere
mony by the costumes that the
Carolina Plavmakers. who acted
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the pantomime, wore and the uni
forms of NROTC students, who
served as a color guard.
Stars and Bars
Director Roy K. Marshall of
the Morehead Planetarium yes
terday hung a 6 by 4 foot Con
federate flag at the entrance to
the Morehead Planetarium.
The occasion was the visit
by a large delegation of the
United Daughters of the Con
federacy to the Planetarium.
The delegation was a part of
lh current conreniion in Dur-him.
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Local Rad io Program
To Be Used On Voice'
The University will add another "first" to its record with
in the next few weeks when a radio broadcast, originated
by the Radio Department, is beamed to India and other Far
Eastern Countries as part of
of America series.
Justice Ervin
Will Address
Law Group
Sam J. Ervin, associate justice
of the North Carolina Supreme
Court, will be the guest of honor
and featured speaker at a meet
ing of Delta Theta Phi law fra
ternity in the Carolina Inn at
7:30 tonight . -
Ervin, appointed to the court
by Governor Cherry in 1948,
stood election in the same ,year
for the past and is now serving
a full eight-year term. He is a
University graduate of 1917 and
took his LLB at the Harvard Law
School.
Other honored guests at the
meeting include Henry P. Bran
dis, dean of the University Law
School, and Robert H. Wettach,
professor of law in the school.
Phi Debaters
Vote Against
A&P Lawsuit
Action of government trust
busters against the A&P grocery
store chain was opposed in a
meeting of the Phi Assembly
Tuesday night by a 30-19 vote.
Speaking in opposition to the
government's suit were Herman
Sieber, Dave Sharpe, Sandy
Peake, Huge Cole, Bob Marshall,
Carl Rogers, Tom Rosser and Ted
Frankel. Against the bill were
John Giles, Kent Jackson, Jim
Fouts, Hugh Griffin, Robert Lee
and Bill Kernodle.
Sieber reported a check he
made of Chapel Hill independent
grocers on their feelings about
the A&P. "They believe the chain
serves as a yardstick to control
prices and is an incentive to
American initiative," he told the
Assembly.
In an executive session after
the debate, the Phi accepted nine
applicants for membership, who
are Hugh Cole, Chapel Hill; Ted
Frankel, Atlanta, Ga.; Kent Jack
son, High Point; Bill Kernodle,
nnville. Va.; Bob Marshall,
Raleigh; Bob race, Morrisville;
ca Pake. Kinston; Carl
ocuiuj '
Rogers. Durham; and Tom Ros
ser, Hamlet. They will be mti-
ated at 7 o'clock next Tuesday
evening.
the State Department's "Voice
According to Arthur V. Bris-
kin, production chief for the
show, "it will be the first such
broadcast ever to be completely
produced by an educational ' in
stitution,' ; - -4 : ,'.
The program, planned to co
incide with the visit to this
country by India's prime minis
ter, Pandit Nehru, will feature
an interview with Dr. Raj Chan
dra Boes of the University
Mathematical Statistics Depart
ment, Briskin. said. The broad
cast will be transcribed here and
then sent to Washington for as
signment to the overseas net
work.
Plans are also being made to
transcribe a five to six minute
progam for presentation on a
Hawaiian Network show called
"The Voice of Junior Hawaii."
A feature of the program is en
titled "Junior' Hawaii Away at
School" and Tadio officials on the
Island have requested that the
University Radio Department
prepare an interview with native
Hawaiians who are attending
school in this area, for use on
this feature.
Calls have been made to Duke,
State and the Woman's College
in an effort to round up a num
ber of students to participate on
the broadcast.
'Junior Sculptured Other Head
Of Buchan, Meets Untimely Death
By Don Maynard
A stoney visaged "man," begot
in Germany of a chisler, who has
sailed across the Atlantic Ocean
three times, lived in a girls' dor
mitory for 10 months and was the
hero and entertainer at many
Carolina parties, met a terrible,
shattering death in an auto crash
recently.
"Junior," bosom-friend , of
Daily Tar Heel columnist Bill
Buchan, was all' broken up over
the accident which involved him
self, Buchan and Nelson Taylor,
first-year law student, on the
Raleigh-Chapel Hill highway.
The "man" was actually a
sculptured head of Buchan, which
he had made for himself when
he was in Germany in 1946. The
creator of Wilbur Amberson, an
omniscent, anecdoting character
usually found wandering in
Buchan's column, "This 'n That,"
has been grieving the untimely
1 death of a friend. "He was a part
lof me, Buchan said. "He 6erved
Bus Service
Starts Monday
In Chapel Hill
Victory Village,
Davie Circle Are
Transport- Routes
DURHAM, Oct. 12 The Chapel
Hill Transit Lines, Inc., will be
gin operating regular city buses
in Chapel Hill on Monday morn
ing, James E. Bowling of Dur
ham, secretary of the bus com
pany, said today.
According to Bowling, the bus
es will begin operations on a
daily schedule at 6:30 Monday
morning and will continue until
11:30 at night. Routes have been
planned so the vehicles will make
a round trip every 30 minutes.
Transportation along the routes
will be given free Sunday from 1
until 5 in the afternoon, to
acquaint residents with the bus
stops.
Two buses will be placed in
operation Monday. One route
runs ' from Victory Village
through the campus of the Uni
versity to Sunset Avenue and the
other will run from Carrboro
along Franklin Street to Davie
Circle.-In 30 to 45 days, a third
conveyance will be added to the
lines with a route laid out from
the new Lennox Development,
located on Highway 54, to Frank
lin Street and return.
Work on the marking of bus
stops in the business district of
Chapel Hill is due for completion
tomorrow and residential district
designations will be marked by
Saturday, Bowling stated.
Yack Sittings
Ending Soon;
Proofs Ready
Another week is fast coming
to an end and Yackety-Yack Edi
tor Bill Claybrook is once again
warning students, those with
names beginning L through R, to
hurry to Graham Memorial and
get yearbook pictures taken or
be left out of the 1950 Yack.
Today and tomorrow from 10
o'clock in the morning until 10
o'clock at night will be the hours
for the L-R contingent. Anyone
who misses his or her chance dur
ing that time will be left out of
the yearbook. The line is expected
to be long, but slack business at
the ,first of the week causes this.
Graduate students must pay
an extra $1 for pictures which
are taken in regular alphebetical
order with the others.
Proofs numbered to 1,700 are
checkable in the Main Lounge
of Graham Memorial, and stu
dents are urged to see them as
soon as possible.
as my other head, the one with
the sense."
"Junior" was best, known, per
haps, to the inmates of third floor
Spencer, where he resided in
Emily Sewell's room from last
December until only just lately.
He was the only male, his ad
mirers claim, who ever actually
lived within the sanctums of a
coed's room.
"Junior was happy there,"
Buchan mourned, "until the new
crop of coeds this fall angered
him. One of them insisted on put
ting a pillow slip over his head
each night when she undressed.
"But all Junior ever did was
whistle at her and wink," Buchan
defended. "The insult of the
covering was too much for his
dignity and I had to bring him
home." ("Home" was the elite
Sutton Heights, also known as
Rathskeller Towers).
"Junior" the popular column
ist refuses to refer to him as "'it,"
or a bust was plastered the
Admits 'Haste' I
In Statements
On Tarnation
Party Chairmen
Will Meet Today
To Discuss Issue
By Bob Hennessee
Chairman Fred Thompson
of the Student Party yester
day hurriedly backtracked on
his self -termed "hasty suges
tion" that a referendum be
called to abolish Tarnation
Magazine, but he charged that
the caliber of the pocket mag
had fallen to low depths.
Thompson said he would meet
with Chairmen Fletcher Harris
of the University Party and Ves
tal Taylor of the Campus Party
to discuss the matter this after
noon, even though he agreed that
he had been "hasty in suggesting
a referendum at this time."
Thompson and Vice Chairman
Larry Botto of the SP pointed out
that Thompson's stand on the
magazine question was purely
personal and in Botto's words,
"does not represent the views of
the" members of the Student
Party."
The SP chairman pointed out
that "it was never my intention
to involve Tom Kerr (Tarnation
editor) personally in the matter
as an offender of the Honor and
Campus Codes.
"If my statement of yesterday
caused Tom any personal . em
barrassment," Thompson contin
ued, "I would like to apologize,
as I did not mean to implicate
him in the matter any more than
his official capacity as editor of
the publication would necessi
tate." Thompson said that when the
caliber of the campus magazine
"falls to such depths as this one
has," he felt that it was the priv
ilege of any student to criticize
it and work to improve it in any
way possible. ,
Religious Conferences
To Begin In December
Religious Emphasis- Week, a
program in which Protestants,
Catholic and Jews will co
operate, has been moved from
winter quarter to the first week
in December, Chairman Pete
Burks said yesterday.
The opening service will be
Sunday night, Dec. 4, and sev
eral ' services and discussion
grdups will be scheduled daily
through Dec. 8. Each morning a
first night Buchan met him. An
aged German sculptor created
him in Bremen in March of
1946, while Buchan was on duty
with the U. S. Army. He was
made of plaster of paris, but
painted bronze. His usual costume
was a pair of discarded glasses
and a fatigue hat.
"We became such close friends
after his creation," Buchan said,
"that when I came home on leave
from Germany in the summer of
1946, I brought him with me. I
later took him back and finally
returned him to this country for
keeps in February, 1947."
What other bust can boast of
crossing the ocean three times?
It was when "Junior" came to
live permanently at Number six
Sutton Heights, that Buchan and
his room mate this writer
discovered that the girls in Spen
cer had taught the impressionable
bust bad habits. He had taken up
smoking, chewing, cussing like a
(See JUNIOR, page 4)
Student Legislature
Primary Election Bill Tonight
By Roy Paxker. Jr,
A bill that would institute a
"primary" election to keep the
fall balloting from conflicting
with final exams and still stay
within the Student Constitution,
Burl Ives Will Perform
In Memorial Hall At 8
By Charlie Gibson
Burl Ives, when he opens the Student Entertainment
Committee's 1949-1950 series tonight in Memorial Hall at 8
o'clock, will sing approximately two dozen of his American
ballads and folk songs in a concert that is admission-free to
all University students who present their I.D. cards at the
door.
Ives, the guitar-strumming -
troubador of nightclub, stage,
screen and radio fame, will be
making his first University ap
pearance as part of a current
extensive tour embracing all 48
states of the country.
The 270-pound ballad singer is
well-known for his roles in such
movies as "So Dear to My Heart,"
and "Smoky" as well as Broad
way plays including "This Is the
Army" and "Sing Out, Sweet
Land." He has written "The Way
farin' Stranger," an autobio
graphy titled the same as his
weekly 15-minute National net
work radio programs.
For Burl Ives sjjaow tonight,
according to the Student . Enterr
tainment "Committee announce
ments, University students will
have definite priority on the 1800
seats in Memorial Hall. When the
doors are opened at 7 o'clock
exactly one hour before the per
formance starts, only students
with I.D. cards will be admitted.
If there is. still room in the
hall at 7:40 after students have
entered free for 40 minutes, then
one-dollar tickets will be sold to
all interested faculty members,
(See IVES, page 4)
convocation service will be held,
and Chancellor R. B. House said
yesterday that all University
classes will be dismissed during
the hour of this service. The con
vocation will be at a different
hour each day so that a class
will miss only one meeting dur
ing the week.
Prof. Albert Outler, professor
of theology at Yale, will be the
leading speaker for the week. An
outstanding theologian, scholar
and speaker, Outler formerly
taught in the Duke Divinity
School and is a North Carolinian.
Although a theme for Religious
Emphasis Week has not yet been
selected,- Burks said that the
morning services would, be con
cerned with the foundation of
faith and the evening discussion
groups would take up the appli
cation of this faith in labor rela
tions, race relations, citizenship
and its responsibilities, and world
relations.
No definite plans have been
worked out yet as to where the
discussion groups will meet, but
the committee is studying the
plans used by other colleges for
their Religious Emphasis Weeks
and also the plan used here last
year.
The committee for the Week is
headed by student chairman Pete
Burks, faculty advisor Prof.
cernhard Anderson, and execu
tive coordinator Claude Shotts.
Groups participating in the plans
are the YMCA, YWCA, Hillel
Foundation, Aquinas Club and
the Protestant churches.
another to amend the freshman
class officer -elections statute, and
appointments will be business
before the Student Legislature at
its meeting, tonight in Di Hall.
The session, second of the year,
Coed Senate
Seeks Power
To Call Meets
Plans for getting constitutional
authority to call compulsory mass
meetings for coeds prior to fall
and spring elections were dis
cussed at Coed Senate in its first
meeting of the year Tuesday
night. -
Speaker Pat Stanford told the
Senate that she felt that coeds
should be required to attend the
meetings in order that indepen
dent coeds without the backing
of a sorority" should have a bet
ter opportunity to be nominated
for coed officers. At present nom
inations are made by petitions,
and few independents are able to
secure sufficient backing to re
ceive nominations.
The plan was 'turned over to
the Ways and Means committee
and they will make a complete
report on it at the next Senate
meeting.
The Senate also discussed a
point system which some of the
members are advocating. The
system would make it impossible
for one girl to hold more major
offices than she is capable of fill
ing. Plans for the point system also
went to a committee to be stucf
iea. Recommendations for coeds to
fill vacancies created by several
members not returning to school
were made to the speaker. The
recommendations will be given to
President Bill Mackie, who must
approve them before the Senate
votes on them.
Gretter Is
Doing Fine
ROCKY MOUNT, Oct. 12 W.
Carrington Gretter, former grad
uate student at the University of
North Carolina, is "getting along
fine" in his recovery from virus
pneumonia here, doctors said to
day. Gretter is at the Park View
Hospital here recuperating, and
will resume his teaching duties at
Louisburg College before too
long. While in Chapel Hill before
he began teaching in Louisburg,
Gretter worked in the Library
and for the Alumni Association.
He may be written by simply
addressing letters in care of him
at the Park View Hospital, Rocky
Mount, N. C.
Hero Risks Neck
Saves His Horse
GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Oct. 12
(JF) Jack Strasburg, stable
manager for the Grand Island
Saddle Club, has added a new
twist to a familiar table of hero
ism. Strasburg risked his life to save
a horse from drowning.
To Hear
will consider five appointments
to fill vacancies in its depleted
membership and hear reports
from two campus committees.
The election bill would arrange
a system to keep the fall elec
tion runoff voting from coming
during final exams. The Student
Constitution provides for the
holding of a "primary" on Nov.
30 for all those offices with more
than two candidates.
This would, in effect, call what
has heretofore been the "regular"
election simply a primary, and
the old "runoff" would become
the general election on the day
provided for by the Constitution.
Last year, the election was
moved back from the Constitu
tionally legal date so the runoff
a week later would not conflict
with exams. The Student Coun
cil ruled that the move was un
constitutional, but did not take
any action.
The freshman election voting
procedure bill would allow fresh
men to vote for freshmen officers
at regular election polling places,
instead of simply at Gerrard Hall.
The freshman election will be
held on the same dates as the
regular fall election.
Filling empty seats in its own
membership will be a happy job
for the legislators. Forced to
swear in four replacements' last
Thursday before a quorum could
be' mustered, the body "should fare
better tonight. Five more re
placements are ready to take the
oath.
Archie Myatt and John Hazel
hurst are Campus Party-recommended
vacancy - fillers, Dolly
Colwell, Jackie Burke and Wal
ter McCraw are up for Student
Party seats.
The University Party has a half
dozen vacancies to recommend
replacements for, but will not
make their selections until next
week.
Reports from the heads of the
Safety Committee and the Fac
ulty Evaluation Committee will
also be heard by the solons. The
reports are the first in a series
of talks by the chiefs of campus
governmental agencies.
Bouncing Herring
Causes Rhubarb
GLOUCESTER, Mass., Oct. tt
(JP) A few herring caused
plenty of damage in this old fish
ing port today.
The fish were strewn over Es
sex Street when a barrel of them
bounced off a truck.
A second truck skidded on the
herring and hit a tree.
The tree crashed through the
roof of a house.
Graham Says Yes
WASHINGTON. OcL 12 (JP)
Senator Frank P. Graham
(D. N.C.) today voted yes with
six other members of the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee to re
lease a measure to the Senate
that would permit more of
Europe's homeless to come into
this country.
With three Senators voting
against the measure, which
would increase the number of
displaced persons eligible to
come into this country from 205,
000 in two years to 339,000 in
three years, it is thought that
the bill may have rough sledding
when it comes up for Senate
approval probably at the end
of iHis week.
In the last campaign. Presi
dent Truman asked for what he
called a more liberal displaced
persons law. He said the present
law, passed by the 80 in. Republican-Controlled
Congress, was
Anti-Catholic and Anti-Semitic,