North Carolina Newspapers

Chapel rttli v,. - .... ;. r : : EDITORIALS You're Telling Me . Who's What? i Earesdxopping WEATHER Cloudy and Warm. 'OLUME LVIII Associated Press CHAPEL HILL. N. C. TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1950 PHONE F-3361, F-3371 NUMBER 145 Parker Named ME; Robbins Sports Ed Editor-Elect Jones Names New Staff; Neill, Newell, Maynard Get Ed Posts Hoy Parker, Jr., sophomore from Ahoskie, was named Managing Editor, and Zanc Robbins, sophomore from Winston-Salem, was named Sports Editor of the Daily Tar llccl yesterday by Editor-elect Graham Jones. . Tne appointments of Rolfc !iDDS U o DOIT lo) T M5J (Q crp o 1 n Fought Neill as News Editor. WufT Newell as Society Editor, and Don Maynard as Feature Edi tor were also announced. The new ME is a two-.year veteran of DTH work, serving before appointment as News Ed ltur, ana as Managing Editor ol Uie summer Tar Heel last sum mer. Kobbins has also been on the campus uaily two years, serving asl year on' the sports start ana icccuuy as DcaK i,mior. ite i a member of tnc Publications tioard. Parker replaces Chuck Hau- ser, Robbins replaces Buady Vaden. In a statement yesterday, Par ker promised "general improve ment in both coverage ana con tent" o the DTH and issued a call for new staffers. "As is the case every spring," Parker said,, "the DTH staff is down to a bare working, mini mum, and there are several desk and reporter jobs open to qualified newsmen, or women." In announcing the appoint ments Editor-elect Jones. who will be sworn in at inaugura tion ceremonies tonight, assert ed. "I believe the two men ?hi To Debate Recognition Of 2 Countries .' Another Measure May Be Presented liUvil im.iay Ounvv Vv ii Cuit.Aiiac uoaic Oil two recogni tion Ul SptUIl iiilU CvliUUuWliit Ctuna luiiiftiii at :U in uw fiu iiti, i. w udat. itiC ma Vkcij UlilOUUCU at lust WLCK 5 &C00IO11 by ocoi yw' iwuuiaii, cnairiiidii oi liic wujro ana iVicaus iimiuuiee inis is tnc scconu measure m- Uouucca by ivoaman tins quanc ucauu,; tnc American xoieii poucy. On vpra , tuo Asscinoiy )asea a icooiuuoa severely cm icizing Wisconsin senator joscpn ivieCartny lor nis "nicsponaioie aiucKji on tnc biatc ucpartmen aim tnc Truman auuuiwouauun a0 wcu as on several nigniy pa trKlic Americans." -A new icaoiuuon which may hn tnc lloor calls for the nam iiZ u tnc tniee mens uumnwt r. now assigned tnc letters. A 11. and C, on nalcisn Uoad. Tnc the jobs, and am sure they will t x w JAN PEERCE r New Office Holders Tak By Rolfe Neill The legislature will recess at 8:30 tonight from its bud get meeting for a new' cam pus administration to be in augurated in the Di Hall bl efOatti Tonight Old West Building. - Halting in its financial business long enough to enable outgoing student body president Bill Mackie and outgoing Student Council president Dan Bell to Peerces Son Says Father Vad First By Charlie Brewer "He nas aiways been Daa first and singer secona," Larry Peerce, son of Metropolitan Opera , star Jan Peerce, saiu yesterday. Larry is now majoring in. dramatic art at the University ot t ortn Carolina wnere nis lather is scheduled to appear in concert on Thursday nignt under the auspices of the Student Enter tainment Committe. When asked why he chose the University for continuing his ed ucation, Larry answered that he Fleece Tapping Set For Monday Ni The Order of the Golden Fleece, highest men's honorary organization, will, conduct its 47th annual tapping of new members Monday night, April 24, at 7:45 in Memorial Hall, a Fleece spokesman said yesterday.- . W. T. Polk, Editor of the . ght "had always heard a great deal chosen for the top positions, and about dramatics at Carolina, and the other staff appointees, are the best available ' "persons for proposea names lor tne dormi tories arc Uarcmcr, Clark, anu Daniels. . bince several members have certain ' pet alumni,'' hcat-u debate will prouably devefop on the" proposcu names. U. Max Gardner, isr., waj governor ot North Carolina lrom 1323-32 and was appointed ambassador U England prior to his death two years ago. , Hon. Joscphus Daniels Secre tary of the Navy aurmg World War I, was publisher of the Ral eigh News & Observer. Clark Dormitory would be named after the famous nine teenth century Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Walter Clark. Rodman, leading supporter of the bill recognizing the present governments oC Spain' and China, told the opposition to his meas ure laat week that they were "hindering progress in world diplomacy by interfering child ishly into the internal affairs oi foreign states." Robert Hennossce, another (Sec PiI. jvitc 4) Bridge Group Sets Meeting The weekly Graham Memorial Bridge Tournament will meet to night at 7:30 in the Horace Wil liam Main Lounge. Prizes will be awarded and refreshments served. Anyone interested in bridge is invitM to attend and it is open to all whether amateur or regular players. This Is a regular Tues day night feature on the Graham Memorial series of entertainments. render excellent service in top DTH jobs." Giles, Wife To Represent University Dr. I. V. Giles, alumnus of the University, will represent the University on April 29 at the in auguration of Harold Wellington Richardson as president of Frank lin College of Indiana. By coincidence, Mrs. Giles has been asked to represent her alma mater, the Woman's College on the same occasion Dr. Giles, who is chief chemist of the Barbasol Co. of Indianapo lis, Ind., received the B.S. De gree in Chemical Engineering in 1918 here, remaining to take the M.S. degree in 1920 and the Ph.D in 1922. Mrs. did graduate study at the University of Chicago and here. was " particularly influenced : by the strong recommendtion of my father's good friend, Norman Cordon." "I am having a wonderful time here, and like the people and school very much. It is quite and experience," he con- j f essed, "as I .- have never been below the Mason-Dixon before." Larry stated that he is ex pecting his Mother, Father and his accompanist to arrive on Wednesday. "I imagine that we will have a little celebration that night," he hinted, "as the date of their arrival ; coincides with my 20th birthday." Inquiring about plans for his career,, Larry said that he plans "to go on with dramatics, al though I don't know which branch, yet." "I love to go to the opera, and go now as much from habit as anything else now, I guess. Like Dad, I enjoy almost any type of good music from jazz to long hair." The son of the noted tenor said that "you can never get away from the singing at home. Dad practices four or five hours each day. However, I always" en joy hearing his voice, and he really is a swell 'Joe." Bunnies Escape Brush Fire The Chapel Hill Tire Depart ment wm celled u yetterday afternoon at 5:30 lo light a brush fire, the fourth In ait many day, which broke out In a wooded gully near North Street ' Aided by townspeople and the Fire Patrol of the Chapel Hill Boy Scouts, the firemen brought the blase under control after a smoky half-hour in which il burnt over half an acre of' land owned by Obie Davis and Collier Cobb. Trailer Residents Use Rakes, Shovels On Fire By Don Maynard ' (that while the Orange County It looked for awhile Saturday i warden was busy chasing a forest afternoon that there would be no 'fire just across the line in Dur- firc warden to supervise the fighting of the woods fire down below the Pines Restaurant, on the Raleigh Road. According to residents of the trailer court located behind the restaurant and on the fringe of the smoking woods, the Orange County forest warden, W. R. Fitzgerald, could not be located in Hillsboro, where he usually stations himself. The inhabitants fought the fire the best they could, using rakes, shovels and pine branches, and managed to keep the fire which never flamed higher, than waist level restricted to the brush. The story behind the story was ham County, the Durham County warden, Gcrric Shepherd, was called to Orange to handle the Pines outbreak. Fortunately no one was seri ously injured by the episode, though a few burned fingers and eyebrows were accumulated. The animal kingdom, however, suff ered a loss. For baby bunnies, only a few day old, were run out of house and home when the fire raced over their grass-covered hole in the woods. They were found, un scathed, and adopted by a trailer family. Perhaps the most exciting fea (See TRAILER page 4) Greensboro Daily News, and member of the class of 1917,xwill address a private banquet for the newly tapped and old mem bers to be held in the Carolina Inn following the ritual. Following the tapping, the an nual Valkyrie Sing will be held. Polk, himself a member of the Golden Fleece and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate, left the Uni versity in 1917 and attended the Columbia ' School of Journalism. From Columbia, he went to the Harvard Law School. A Warrington lawyer, and then Warrington mayor in 1920, Polk left the mayorality in 1934 to join the staff of the - Daily" News. " He accepted the post 'of editor in 1941. , , While at the University, in addition to membership in the Fleece, Polk was active in the Order of the Gimghoul Omega Delta professional iraternity, anu Zeta Psi social . fraternity. He served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Tar Heel and assistant ed itor of the old Carolina Magazine. In 1930, Polk's name was en scribed on the Best Short Stories Roll of Honor for that year. An annual award, Polk's selection was among 20 entered on the roll for that year, being selected from among thousands read by E. J. O'Brien, compiler of the roU. In its 47 years of existence, the Fleece has tapped 469 out standing members of the student body, inducting 17 last year. Judge John J. Parker of Char lotte was rctapped at the ritual last year, and Dr. Walter Reece Berryhill was the faculty mem ber tapped last spring. In past years, the Fleece has inducted such outstanding men as the late O. Max Gardner and J. C. B. Ehringhaus, former North Carolina governors; Sen. Frank P. Graham; President Elect of the Greater University Gordon Gray; Horace Williams and Chancellor of the University at Chapel Hill Robert B. House. Also on the Fleece rolls are Robert M. Hancs, Pulitzer Bou shell, bankers; Thomas Wolfe, author, and Hatcher . Hughes, Pulitzer Prize dramatist; Wallace Winborne,' Supreme Court Jus tice; Sheppard Strudwick and James (Kay) Kiser of the movies, radio and television and Thor Johnson, youngest conductor in history of the Cincinnati Sym phony orchestra. 1 f .Vff 1 V i . Vi , i i i i .il in mi W. T. POLK City Planner Speaks Here At Institute The time will come, perhaps in the near distant future, when every community of any size will have a master plan for develop ment, Hugh R. Pomeroy, disting uished American city planner and director of the Westchester county, N. Y., Department of Planning predicted in an addsess here yesterday. Speaking at a luncheon session of the Institute and Workshop on "The Role of Health Agencies in the Community Housing Pro gram," Pomeroy, who is visiting lecturer in the Department of City and Regional Planning of the University, said that in re cent years there has been a sharp increase in the number of com munities formulating master plans. He stressed the point that plan ning .projects must have ade quate budgets and staffs. It is all right for some admini (See CITY, page 4) swear in 37 office holders, the legislature will reconvene and finish the budget. Then 27 new legislators will be sworn in. The incoming campus officers' were elected in April 4's general election and the ensuing runoff on the next Tuesday. Mackie yesterday said there will be little speech making, keeping the ceremony brief. He said plans are being made for the annual Frank Porter Graham Student "Government Banquet to be held in the Carolina Inn April 27. Officers seated to make short addresses are incoming president John Sanders, incoming vice president and legislature speaker Herb Mitchell, and Kash Davis, I incoming speaker of the Coed Senate. The other top student body officer to be inaugurated is Banks Talley, secretary - treasurer. New Student Council members are Kyle Barnes, Carolyn Bishop, Larry Botto, Pat Bowie, Frances Drane, Bob Evans, Bob J. Holmes, Dick Jenrette, and Nancy Smith. Men's Honor Council members Bynum Brown, Joe Gray, Bob P. Holmes, Jim McLeod, Allan Mil ledge, Horace Stacy, and Taylor (Buddy) Vaden. Women's Honor Council mem bers Jean Bloom, Sally Cox, Judy Sanford, and Mary Wood.- Coed Senate members Liz Gui on, Anne Tcwnsend, Margaret Kuhn, Beverly Serr, Betty Cam eron, Dot Manss, Joyce Richert, Madge Crawford, Beth Ellen Ed wards, Catherine Schiff, Bootsie Taylor, .and Ellen Turlington. Two From NC Get Honors Special Session Set For Money M easure; Fight May Develop . Appropriation Bill Totals $96,772; Debaters, PB Will Seek Adjustments . By Roy Parker. Jr. The 1950-51 campus budget bill totaling $96,772 will go to the floor of a special session of the Student Legislature tonight, and a stiff battle looms over Debate Council and publications items. 1 The measure will come out of ' I the Legislature's Finance Com- Hooperating Will Awaken Folks Early June Grads Must Apply For Diplomas All "students who expect to re ceive degrees in June should im mediately sec the Dean of the school in which they are regis tcred. Only students who do this will receive diplomas, June 5, as ar ; rangements for the diplomas I must be made at once. NEW YORK, April 17 Two North Carolina residents were among, the 158 scholars-and creative workers named today to receive awards of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. They are Dr. George Willard Wharton, Jr., Associate Professor of Zoology at Duke University, and Peter Hillsman Taylor, As sistant Professor of English at Woman's College at the Univer sity of North Carolina. The fellowships are established by the Guggenheim Foundation to permit recipients' to pursue work in those chosen fields. Taylor's project will be cre ative writing in the field of fic tion. ' He was born in Trenton, Tenn., and attended Southwest ern und Vaoderbilt Universities, and in 1940 was graduated from Kenyon College. The University will become one of four colleges in the na tion to conduct a radio appre ciation Hooperating survey when 42 volunteers dial seven hundred Chapel Hill numbers this morning. But the price of glory is ex pensive. And this morning the poll will be taken at the ex pense of students' and towns peoples' sleep. The pollsters will call between 7 and 8:30. The University takes its po sition along with Northwest ern, Columbia and Michigan State Universities when it de termines just how many stu dents and" residents of a college- town give a "whoop" for radio programs. Each volunteer will be as signed a page in the telephone directory from which to dial numbers. The callers will ask authentic Hooper questions, compiled by the famous polls ter himself, of the called par ties. - With this poll, conducted un der the auspices of the Radio Department, the University will become the first Southern college to sponsor such a sur vey. Its purpose it to help rad io major graduates select the most popular programs accord ing to public opinion, a radio department spokesman said. According to the spokesman, the Hooperating is "educa tional, informative, and enter taining." But when a sleepyeyed stu dent answers his dormitory phone early this morning and asks "Well, what's up?" the answer will be "You, brother, you:' Staff Meeting There will be a DTH staff meeting this afternoon at 2:30, All staff members are required io attend and all students who are interested in working with the paper this year are invited to come to the meeting. , 'Angels Full Front' Author Playwright Casey Will Be Writer, Teacher For Burnsville Players Stx-H.Ml to Tbf DaiJ' Tar Heel BURNSVILLE, April 15 Francis M. Casey, author of the new play, "Angels Full Front," recently toured throughout North Carolina by the Carolina Playmakers, will be resident playwright and instructor ' in playwriting at the Parkway Playhouse of the ' Burnsville School of Fine Arts here this summer. ' W. R. Taylor, Playhouse man aging director, head of Woman's College drama department, "made 1hp announcement, disclosing that the Playhouse will ... stage one of Casey's new plays as thrir final production in August. At present serving as assistant technical director of the Carolina Playmakers, Casey studied at the University of Notre Dame and was an instructor in drama at Williams College, Mass. His home is at Turner's Falls, Mass. His first publlcanon wis "The Axe in My Head," a volume of verse, in 1946. Since then his plays "John Shanahan, Me Boy," "Dearie You're a Dreamer," "The j End O Ye'r Days," and "Thcj Boston O'Tonles" have been pub'-! lished by Samuel French, Inc.J New York, and widely produced throughout the country. The Burnsville School of Fine Arts, operated by the Woman., College of the University of North Carolina and owned by the peeple of Burnsville, will open its fourth season here on June 29, continuing through August 19. mittee with $455.45 pared oft the Budget Committee's propos ed $97,227.45. Still completely cut from the budget is the Debate Council item. The Council is asked to operate on a surplus of nearly $4,000, but Chairman Dave Pitt man yesterday declared the Council believed the cut to be , unwise, unthoughtfuland has ty" and said the Council would seek reinstatement of its ap propriation at tonight's session. Publications Board Chairman Chuck Hauser yesterday said he would present facts and figures to the solons seeking reinstate ment of several publication items cut from the budget. AH three student publications, as well- as the Board itself, had budget items reduced by the Finance Committee. The Legislature is meeting in special session so that the pres ent body will hand1" he budget bill. It will convcae at 7 o' clock, adjourn for as inaugura tion ceremonies, and re-convene to consider the measure. The. swearing in of the new Legisla- ture will be held over. until the budget consideration is complete. Raised above Budget Com mittee recommendations in the budget bill is the executive de partment of student government appropriation, the Student En tentainment Committee appro priation, and the Carolina Forum appropriation. Cut below budget' Committee recommendations were appro priations to the legislative and judicial branches of student gov ernment, three campus publica tions and the Publications Board, and the Men's Interdormitory Council and the University Club. Added to the executive de partment budget was a $600 ap propriation Jor the National Stu dents Association, and $420 to the Orientation Committee. Its total is $2,075. lne fetw appropriation was raised from $8,635 to $9,185. Cut were student fee appro priation recommendations for the Publications Board, from $2, 528.45 to $2,335, the Yackcty Yack from $26,925 to $26,165, the Daily Tar Heel from $22,425 to $21,900, and Tarnation from 4, (See BUDGET, po ge 4 Daniels For FPG RALEIGH, April 17 Jonathan Daniels made il clear today he is supporting Senator Frank Graham in the current primary campaign and thai he has no intention of resigning as North Carolina's Democratic National Committeeman be cause of his aciivily. "I certainly am not," va Daniels' reply when he was asked if he was .going to re sign his party post. . "If anybody wants lo know, I'm for Frank Graham." was his answer when asked if he is supporting Graham in the race among Graham, Willis Smith and former Senator Robert Rice Reynolds. "If I ever planned lo resign il would not be al a lime when lhe Democratic National Ad ministration is being attacked in this stale," said Daniels.