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U II C LIBRARY SERIALS DEPT. CHAPEL HILL, N. C. 8-31-49 EDITORIALS Selecting a Cheerleader Tho Political Observer It's Hill---arious , WEATHER Cloud f and warmer with rain and sleet in the -renin3. VOLUME LV1II Associated Press CHAPEL HILL. N. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1950 PHONE F-3361, F-3371 NUMBER 116 CAROLYN BISHOP J i '1 . LILLIAN LAWING V -wo" i ELLYN PELL Cover Girl Contest Ends Today At 5 This afttinoon at 5 o'clock the University will have chosen the coed who will represent it in. tnc Colliers cover um comesi, mq cither Curoly. Bishop, Elleyn Pell or ' UlliW Lawing will bo, .headed for fame in the national contest. . Voting, which has been by ID card since th rontcst entered the run ofT stage Thursday, will end this afternoon at 5 o'clock. Alpha Phi Omega, sponsor of the con test on this campus, will an nounce the name of the Uni versity's entrant in the contest which is being entered by six universities. "To vote a student must pre sent his ID card," Bill Srnithson, chairman of the contest, said. "When we have checked him in the Student Directory, we will stamp his card and he may cast his vote." The three girls' in the run off were Ihe ones who collected the most votes during the contest. Carolyn is con-sponsored by Del ta Delta Delta sorority and Phi Delta fiutcrnity, EUyn is sponsored by Kappa Alpha Or der, and Lillian, is eo-sponsore'd by Chi ()mer;a sorority and Phi Delia Theta fraternity. Invitations Senior class graduation invi tations go on sale for ihe last iimo this week ioday from 9 io 1 o'clock in lh Y lobby. Saloi will be made ' again next week, the Grail laid yes tcrday. The organization is also handling sales of personal call ing cards to go with .the, invita tions. , . 2 r 0 - 4 Town Coal Reserve Critical i As Cold Wave Shrinks Piles; University Will Keep Wdrmi By Don Maynard Chapel Hill's coal situation be came sharply critical yesterday afternoon as the mercury dropped to 25 and blustery March winds drove remaining heat from resi dent's homes. According to reports from the two coal companies in the Chapel Hill area, supplies are down to 15 to 20 tons of , egg-sized coal, hardly enough to last out the weekend, and not suitable for furnace consumption. II. D. Bennett, of Bennett and Blocksidge Coal Co., yesterday said he had "about one ton of coal in the yards and we're try ing to decide who needs that last one the most." Bennett said he had hopes of Hazel Scott To Appear Here For Two-Day Run By Charlie Brewer Hazel Scott, sensation of the Student Entertainment Commit tee scries last year,, is coming back, and the renowned Negro keyboard artist will appear not just one night, as originally scheduled but tn both March 22 and 23 because of a new '"re served seat" system to .be tested at this attraction. Approximately 500 tickets for each evening's concert will be sold. The tickets available for students, student wives, faculty members and townspeople will ,go on sale at 9 o'clock tomorrow at Graham Memorial, and next ! week at Lcdbetter-Pickard Sta- j tionery Store downtown. . These tickets will entitle the bearer to a reserved balcony seat in Memorial Hall on the evening of his choice. Available in Graham Memorial only will also be 150 special "hus band passes" for each night for married students who present their wives' athletic passbook, or other proof of their eligibility. They may buy one ticket and get one free to sit with their wives in the reserved section. Once these 300 special tickets arc gone, however, any other stu dent husbands must buy two tic kets if they and their Wives are to hold balcony spaces for either Scott recital. Hazcl a naUvc of Trini. dad, came to this country and started her musical career with her mother's all-girl band. She became famous in the night club spotlight of New York, and has since starred in radio and movies. Scott is the wife of Congress man Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. of New York. Her program will combine classical, semi-popular music and her individual styling of boogie-woogie. "We are putting these tickets on sale now," SEC chairman Charlie Gibson explained, "be cause Miss Scott will appear the (See HAZEL, page 4) Graham Favoring Farm Parity Prices NORTH WILKESBORO, March 2 (VP) U. S. Senator Frank P. Graham in the first major farm speech of his cam paign for reelection, today came out in favor of parity prices for basic farm commodities. Graham declared that he fav ors the parity price concept in recognition of agriculture as an equal partner in the making of a sound and wholesome society. The stale's junior senator ad dressed a gathering of the com bined civic clubs of North Wilkes boro. Graham suggested that farm ers be given the chance to choose whether they want the parity formula 'based: on the 1909-14 period now used in determining parity, or on the most recently 10-ycar. period. receiving ' a shipment of coal from West Virginia mines Mon day, and that the only hope was for a' warmer break in the Weather. E. G. Mclver,, of the Colonial Ice Co. in Carrboro, yesterday said his company had only some 20 tons still on hand, not suita ble for furnace use. A survey of fraternity , and sorority houses late yesterday af ternoon showed their stockpiles almost depleted. One fraternity house manager said his house was "just about out of it now." He said the fraternity members, were "huddled" about a wood fire in the living room fireplace. . ' The University, however, has approximately 500 tons in its HAZEL SCOTT Last Chance For Entrants To GAA Salon Today is the last day for pho tographers to enter pictures in the Graham Memorial Camera Salon. Pictures should be either 8 by 10 inches or H by 14 inches and mounted. All entries should be turned .in to the main office in Graham Memorial. A gift certificate for $10 at Foister's Camera Shop will be the first prize in the contest, di rector Jim Rathburn said yester day. A gift certificate for $5 will be the second prize, and the third prize will also be a $5 gift certificate. Coeds Wont Bull Sessions, Knitting, Hobbies Survey Shows Town Offers Little Students Want Opportunity To Meet By Wuff Newell With the exception of the motion picture theaters, Chapel Hill offers very little in the way of positive recreation to the stu dent, according to a survey made by the fall quarter recreation class of Dr. II. D. Meyer and re leased yesterday. The survey, which covered 12 places of potential recreation, was made by members of the class. The 12 different individual surveys were then combined in to one complete report on recre ational facilities in Chapel Hill and on the campus. Of 75 students questioned on Graham Memorial and the Y Service Plant yards, and hopes to receive about four carloads or 240 tons weekly from non-union j mines in West Virginia, J. S." Bennett, Director of Operations, said yesterday. -The University heating plant, has cut down to a consumption of 40-45 tons, using 4,000 gallons of oil daily to supplement coal supplies. Bennett said the Uni versity was still short of coal, but that there was no immediate danger, and that the plant could shift over completely to availa ble oil if coal reserves gave out. Chapel Hillians awoke yester day morning to a low 25 degree temperature and winds which sometimes reached velocities of (See COAL, page 4 Mobile TV To Be Here Noon Today The Du Mont Telecruiser will arrive at noon today to begin a two-hour demonstra tion marking the first televis ion broadcast ever to originate in Chapel Hill. The program will be sent over a closed circuit to several receiving sets to be placed near the mobile unit, which will be ""parked in front of SwainHalI from noon until 2 o'clock. Students and townspeople will have the chance to see .themselves on television by stepping in front of one of ihe cameras and looking at their images on .the television screens nearby. In addition, the Harmoneers and Dr. Roy K. Marshall will be telecast. Dr. Marshall ap pears twice each week on na tional television networks, but the Harmoneers will make their video debut. Coed Advisor Applications 1 . Coeds interested in becoming student advisers during the next year's orientation program should contact Pat Bowie, Orientation Chairman, by Tuesday. fab yesterday said tnose. ap plying must be seniors tiext year. Only 50 will be selected from among those who submit their- names. . selection will be by a com mittec of Arden Boiseau, Coed Senate; Sally Osborne, ex-Oricn tat.ion Committee Chairman Charlccn Greer,' student adviser chairman; and a representative from the YMCA who is to be- selected. lobby, almost all wanted a "more normal opportunity" to meet members of the opposite sex. They felt that this could bs accomplished by more informal dances in the Tin Can and iij the Y court and by more com plete advertising of the available facilities. "Very few people make use of the recreational facilities of fered by Graham Memorial," one answer stated. i Approximately 215 coeds be longing to four sororities were questioned by Ruth Baine, who reported that recreation should incline such amusements as play ins .cards in the donns, knitting, UNO Cancer Laboratory Will Be Built Granted $200,000; Will Be Erected With Med School WASHINGTON, March 2 A cancer research laboratory will be constructed with the $200,- 000 grant made to the University by the National Cancer Institute yesterday. National .Institute of Health spokesmen said, yesterday that they understood the laboratory would be part of the new four year medical school at the Uni versity. It would be constructed during the building program. Ifo details on the type or size of the laboratory wece available because of the modifications in the size of the grant. The University had applied for much larger grant, informed sources said, and had submitted plans for the use of the money They would have included an addition to one of the proposed medical buildings. The $200,000 grant was reconv mended by the National Advis oiry Cancer Council, and ap proved by the U. S. Surgeon General. At the University, Medica School Dean W. R. Berryhill said yesterday that the grant would be used for construction and equipment only, and that the grant must be cleared through the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees. YDC To Give Squar' Dance Tonight At 8 The entire student body and faculty staff are invited to join the Young Democrats in their quarterly square dance at the Tin Can tonight. The dance, which will begin at 8 o'clock and last until mid night, will be free, Acting Presi dent Graham Jones said. Barbe cue and drinks will be served at a nominal price during inter mission. Jones said the fiddling will be handled by Cary Lloyd's hill-s billy orchestra "from the back woods of Orange County' Beside the dancing and the eating, the YDC will observe the "prerogatives" of campus officet seekers, and all candidates who attend will be introduced to the crowd 'for 15-second orations Jones said that the YDC exT ccutivc committee, which in cludes members of both the UP and the SP, has voted to take as one of its major projects a large turnout in the spring elections. Jones urged al new YDC mem bers to attend the dance. And he added that even Republicans are welcome. listening to the radio and re cords, working on hobbies and participating in bull sessions! Six men's dorms were used in the survey with 120 men answer ing the qucstionaires. Of these eight per cent reported that they1 had no regular recreation. Team sports rated the highest in rec reational value with , the men living in dorms. . There is no place on the cam pus available for work in arts and crafts, according to the sur vey by Jim Edwards," who feels that the wood shop in the base ment of Graham Memorial i: inadequate. According to Dick Koral, -man By Revampin VI so resente By Roy Parker, Jr. The Student Legislature received the proposed revamped and speaker Ted Leonard announced a rigorous schedule of meetings to consider the work, which will be voted on in the Product of the Constitutional write of the present campus supreme law, passed in 1946, with but with a host of clarifications Carolina Quarterly Put On Sale Today A short story by novelist Bet ty Smith will be one of the features of the winter issue of the "Carolina Quarterly," which goes on sale today. Entitled "Never Touch a But- terlly's Wing," the story is done in the simple yet eloquent style of the author of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and "Tomorrow Will Be Better." Miss Smith, a Chapel Hill resident, calls he- story "an episode in dialogue." Headlining the non-fictional section of the winter issue will be an article on "The Novels of W. Somerset Maugham." The author, former Quarterly editor, Roy Moose, of ; Mooresvillc, t is now. study in(in Maugham's nat ive England, v r Moose presents Maugham's background and sTiows how h;s life served as material for his gamut of novels which won him the title, "master of. English narrative." ' Two other articles accompany "The Novels of Maugham." They are "Poe's Theory of the Soul" by Dr. J. L. Bailey, University Fee Voting Announced Elections Board Chairman Jim Gwynn yesterday issued his di-l rective on the voting procedure for both next Tuesday's block fee raise referendum and the spring election April 4. Regular polling places will be used for the block fee raise ref erendum. Students will mark a ballot stating whether they ap prove or disapprove a hike passed by the Student Legisla ture. The polls will be open from 9 o'clock in the morning until 6 in the evening. ID cards must be presented in order to vote. The schedule for the spring I election includes: March 23 All nominations Recreation; Each Other ager of the wood shop, however, very few people take advantage, of the facilities offered by the shop. . "Carolina is making strides to ward its objective of excellence in intercollegiate athletics,' Mark Burnham, compiler of the Varsity sports and spectator study, said. 'The two fields of recreation in which both the campus and the town fall down arc nature and outings and positive recreationa facilities. "Some definite action should be taken on the camp site owned by the Physical Education De- (See SURVEY, page 4) Constitution spring election. Revision Committee, the "streamlined constitution is a re and codifications of student English professor, and "The Snare of Caesarism' by Dr. Wal ter Allen, professor of Latin, also here. The article on Poe is car ried as one of the Quarterly's reg ular features on Southern writ ers. This will be the magazine': fifth issue and Editor Harry Snowden's second. Advance re ports indicate that the new is sue is the best yet in regard tc range of material. Improvements in make-up enhance the literaryi magazine's apponrance. Editor Snowden said he be lieves the Quarterly has a good chance of becoming an establish ed regional magazine. He points out that other regional maga zines r are "professional publica tions, while the Quarterly is pub lished by students on a profes sional basis. Completing the list of fiction headed by Betty Smith's story are "The Ellipse" by John P. Kellogg, "In Some Casual Way" by Tread Covington, "Crickets" by Charles Brockman, and "An gela and the Magic Box" by Alta Carsen. Procedure By Gwynn i must be in to the Elections Board. March 28 Mass meeting of all candidates to hear election rules. Required. April 3 All expense accounts must be in to Elections Board. April 4 Election day. April 10 Expense accounts from runoff candidates must be in to Elections Board. April 11 Runoff election day, if necessary. District boundaries and polling places: Men's Dorm District 1 consists of all residents of Stacy, Graham, Aycock, Lewis, and Everett. Vot ing in Aycock. Men's Dorm District 2 includes Manley, Mangum, Grimes, Ruflin, Emerson Field House, and C Dorm. Vote in Mangum. Men's Dorm District 3 includes Alexander, A and B Dorms, and Quonsct Huts. Vote in Alexander. Men's Dorm District 4 includes Steele, Old East, Old West, B-V-P, and V-B-P Trailer Court. Vote in Memorial Hall. Men's Dorm District 5 includes Miller, Whitehead, and Nash Vote in Whitehead. Men's Town District 1 includes Victory Village, Pittsboro Arailer Camp and areas reached through Victory Village. Vote cither in Memorial Hall or in Service Building No. 1. Men's Town District 2 includes all students living in the south eastern section of Chapel Hil bounded by South Columbia Street up to the Carolina Inn then straight out West Cameron Avenue. All fraternity houses facing on Cameron will be in eluded. Vote in Memorial HalL .Men's Town District 3 includes all students living in northwest sections of Chapel Hill to north of Cameron and west of Old (See FEE, page 4) g Group student Constitution last night. few major content changes, government practices. John Sanders, student . govern- ment Attorney-General, report ed the work of the Revision Committee, . which he headod, to the solons. Sanders has been in strumental in the revision of the constitution, and did a major portion of the rewriting. Speaker Leonard called spec ial sessions of the Legislature for four nights next week to consider the work. The body will sit as the constitutional con vention, and will vote on the pro posed law section by section. The constitution will go into effect if passed by a majority of the Legislature and a majority of those voting in the spring election April 4. Sanders outlined the major points of change in the work, fhey include a provision for summer school student govern ment, revamped sections on cam- pus judicial system, a combined coed Senate and Woman's Inter dormitory Council, and a general constitutional codification of some student government agencies that have been established by the Legislature. Sanders also outlined plans for presenting enabling acts, and oth er legislation thai , will maie operative sections of the new constitution. Only other business on the Legislative agenda was the ap proval of the appointment of Ann Brewerito the Budget Com mittee. A total of 41 of the 50 legisla tors , were on hand for the ses sion. Rules Committee Chairman George Rodman asked that the nine absentees hand in excuses to the committee as soon as pos-. sible. Absent were Hal Darden, j Bunny Davis, Charlie Foley, Don J LaRue, Ed Love, Jim Montague, and Guy Rawls. Debaters Set " V - For Tourney In Hickory " Part of the Carolina debate team left yesterday for Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory, whefe they will compete in the South Atlantic Forensic Tournament, while part of the squad meets William and Mary here today. Alan Tate and Edgar Love will be the affirmative team for the question of nationalization of basic non-agriculture industries at Lenoir Rhyne. This trip is their first competive trial. Lillian Wilson and Carolyn Stallings, Carolina's coed team, will represent the negative side of the proposition. William and Mary will debate against UNC in Phi Hall at 4 o' clock. The public is invited to attend the debate. College Gambling - NEW YORK, March 2 In a crackdown on college gambling, the Brooklyn District Attorney today held as material witnesses three men said to be eastern agents of a nationwide Minneapolis gambling syndi cate. District Attorney Miles Mc Donald said ihe trio operated from a relay station in Man halan's Greenwich illage, fun neling sports betting cards to students of Brooklyn College. Two of ihe men, named by McDonald as bookmakers, were held in $10,000 bail each.