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, VOLUME LVIII
Associated Press
CHAPEL, HILU N. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1950
PHONE F-3361, F-3371
NUMBER 146
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Sanders, Jones, Mitchell Inaugurated
Into Top Posts; Davis Cocci Speaker
A new regime formally took
over administration of campus
government last night in a short
inaugural ceremony at 8:30 in
the Di Hall of New West Build
ing. It was really rather an anti
climax, for all three of the offi
cers sworn in were elected in the
general election held two weeks
ago on April 4. A second ballot
ing in a runoff was held last
Tuesday to decide the presidency
of the student body, the editor
ship of The Daily Tar' Heel, and
speaker of the Coed Senate.
John Sanders, new student
body president, in a short inaug
ural talk, thanked outgoing pres
ident Bill Mackie for "the valu
able experience I have gained
while serving with you for the
past year. I expect to see a great
deal done this year. Wc must
re-impress the students with the
value of their student govern
ment." '
New vice president Herb Mit
chell who is legislature speaker
also spoke. "I would like to
publicly re-affirm my intention
of doing my utmost to help presi
dent Sanders with his program,"
said the new law-making group
head. Mitchell charged the legis
Jators with the importance of
"one of the biggest jobs on cam
pus." New Coed Senate Speaker
Kash Davh made a short talk
aboutwhat the senate hopes, to
accomplish during the ' coming
year.
Involved in a heated vcYbal
battie over the new budget, the
legislature recessed at inaugural
time as previously agreed. How-
1 ever, the group reconvened hard
ly before the new ofiicers were
out of the way.
The 27 new legislature mem
bers were sworn in after the body !
adiourned the last meeting fot
Speaker Ted Leonard's assembly
......
President Reviews
Years Achievement
With barely throe hours left as
president of the student body,
Bill Mackie settled back in the
chair he had held for a year yes
terday and , reviewed a 10-point
program which he considered the
main work of his administration.
He listed curriculum, orienta
tion, Lenior Hall commission,
purchase card system, the new
constitution, appointments, book
exchange progress. Student En
tertainment Committee, campus
parking. Hell Week abolition, and
the Campus Chest, as his regime's
main fields of work.
Top achievement seemed to be
in the constitutional and orienta
tion fields, where successful work
bv the Mackie administration has
seen a revamped Student Consti
tution passed,' and an integrated
program of new student-training
initiated.
The joint student-faculty cur
riculum study committee, and the
joint student-administration com
mittee on Lenior Hall were point
ed to by Mackie as examples of
successful work in bringing the
student body and University of
ficials closer together on issue?
effecting both of them.
Continued work on the pur
chase card system, the campu
parking problem, Campus Chest
and abolition of Hell Week were
listed by the president as ex
amples of projects to be continued
by future administrations.
YM Spring Conference
Set For This Weekend
Moves To Prevent
Repetition; Says
'No' To Protest
WASHINGTON, April 18 (P)
The United States filed a stern
indemnity demand on Russia to
day for what it termed the "un
provoked destruction' of an. un
armed American patrol plane
and the loss of ten crewmen in
the Baltic Sea. ,
It also called for steps to pre
vent a "repetition, under what-
ver pretext, of incidents of this
kind." The attack on the plane,
'he U. S. government said, ex
posed the "insincerity" of Rus-i
sians claims of desiring peaceful
relations with the west. . 1
The State Department, in de
livering the stiffy-worded note to
Moscow, rejected outright a Rus
sian protest that the Navy patrol
plane, missing since April 8, fired
on Soviet fighters over Soviet
controlled Latvia.
Investigation, shows, it said,
that the plane at no time flew
over Soviet territory and "it must
be concluded that Soviet aircraft
fired upon an unarmed American
plan over the open sea."
The American government also
called on Russia to give prompt
and severe punishment to those
responsible for the incident which
has put fresh strain on this coun
try's troubled relations with' the
Soviets.
The State Department stand
found quick support on Capitol
Hill. t :
Order Of Old Well Honors
Sixty New Members today
This afternon at 4:30 a group j
of CO students will gather around
the famed Old Well and be hon
ored for the contributions they
have made to the University, the
campus and the. student body.
These students are the ones
who have been selected by a spe
cial committee to become mem
bers of the Order of the Old Well.
After gathering around the well,
initiates and the old members
will go to Gerrard Hall where the
initiation service will take place.
Dr. Arnold Nash, head of the
Department of Religion, will give
the Invocation. . He will be fol
lowed by Pete Gerns, president
of the Order, who will make the
main address of the service.
The speech will be followed by
the Signing of the Roll by the
new members and an election of
officers for the coming year.
After the initiation service the
Order will honor the new mem
bers at a banquet in the mam
Campu s
Briefs
Cosmopolitan Club
members will meet today at 2
o'clock on the porch of Graham
Memorial for a visit to the Ches
terfield cigarette factory in Dur
ham. The Chapel Hill Rotary
Club'u sponsoring the trip and
will accompany the club.
Officer Elections
for the University Club will be
held at 5 o'clock this afternoon,
and at the same time, plans for
a Faycttevillc concert will be
completed.
Training Program
for coed leaders wilJ ,bc held from
next Tuesday through Thursday,
not Monday through Wednesday
as previously announced. A ban
quet will be held tomorrow night
in honor of the ncwly-clcctcd of
ficers. Home Nursing Class
will bo taught by Mrs. Mary
Webb, R.N., under the auspices
of Chapel Hill chapter of Amer
ican Red Cmss as part of home
economics department for senior
girls of the local high school.
Dr. Hugo Giduz
will read a Daper this weekend
in Rome, G.1.. before the Georgia
chapter of the American Asso
ciation of Teacher of French.
Richard W. Reaves
of Chester, Pa., will represent
UNC May 8 at the inauguration
of Sankcy Lec Blanton as presi
dent of the Cro.er Theological
Seminary in Chester. Reaves re
ceived his B.S. degree in chem
ical encineering here in 1939.
Hooper Test
The University's Hoope
rating surrey was held last night,
and not' yesterday morning as
incorrectly reported in yester
day'! Daily Tar Heel.
Oyer 700 telephone calls were,
made by 41 volunteers between
7 o'clock and 8:30 last night.
The famous pollster. Mr. Hooper
himself, compiled the questions
asked parlies called.
The spring planning onference of the YMCA for setting
up .Jhe program for the fall will be held this weekend, at
Camp Xcw Hope, YM officials said yesterday. Members ot.
last year's cabinet,' prospective members of the new cabinet,
i and anyone on campus who wishes to attend the conference
have been invited.
The conference will get under-t
way on rriaay wiin discussion
croups on major topic areas ofi
Carolina life. Such areas as re
ligion, YMCA publications, and
freshmen orientation will be
covered.
Friday evening the main pur
pose arid objectives of the entire
YMCA program will be discussed
in one large assembly. Reports
of the separate meetings on Fri
day will be presented in a meet
ing on Saturday morning, i Areas
under the main topics discussed
will be taken up, and the action
to be taken will be worked over
Saturday morning. '
In the afternoon additional enj
phasis, missed during the first
part of the conference, will be
brought into the general picture.
With the conclusion of the Satur
day afternoon activities the con
ference will close
This project is preliminary to
the initiation of the new officers
and cabinet Tuesday night at 6
o'clock in the Carolina Inn. Mem
bers of the YMCA Advisory
Board will attend this weekend
planning.
Di To Debate
Farmer Plan
Tonight Af 9
A discussion of the Brannan
Farm Plan is on tap for the Sen
ate of the Dialectic Literary So
ciety in its regular meeting at 9
o'clock tonight in the Di Hall in
New West. .
Preceding the regular meeting,
there will be a special executive
session which all senators arc
urged to attend.
Visitors arc urged to attend
the regular session and enter into
discussion of the subject of the
evening. Following the vote of
the Senate on the Brannan program,-
a vote of the guests and
senators both will be taken.
The farm plan, authored by
Agriculture Secretary Brannan,
has been the subject of nation
wide debate.
Banquet Planned
For Initiates
ballroom of the Carolina Inn.
Dr. Samuel T. Emory, -head of the
Department of Geology, will give
the main address of the evening.
The Order of the Old Well was
founded last spring and had its
first initiation service on May 25.
That afternoon 58 seniors were
initiated into the Order.
"One particularly nice feature
about the Order," Dean Mackie,
one of the founders and present
Recorder, said, "is that both men
and women students may belong
to it. We are not restricted as
to the number of students we
invite to join, so our membership
is always flexible."
To be eligible for membership
in the Order a student must be
a junior or a senior, have an ov
erall C average or better, and
must accumulate a required num
ber of points through active par
ticipation in several organiza
tions in at least two different
fields: .
The executive committee of the
Order sent application forms to
over 200 students who had met
the scholarship requirement and
were known to have been active
in several organizations.
After a form had been filled
out and returned to the commit
tee, the members gave each'
checked activity the number of
points it was allowed to have.
When the total number of points
a student had received was de
termined, the committee was able
to tell whether or not he had
enough to be invited to join. -
Last week invitations were
sent to the 60 students who had
qualified for membership, and
today they will become full-:
fledged members of the Order
of the Old Well.
Solons Slash
Forum Money
In Long Meet
Special Session
Passes SEC Item,
Reaches Debaters
By Roy Parker, Jr.
Heated .wrangling over the
Carolina Forum appropria-tion-finally
cut to $450
slowed down Student Legis
lature consideration of the
1950-51 campus budget last
night, and a heavy fight over
Debate Council and publica
tions items seemed to promise
a long session. '
At 11 o'clock the special sess
ion had just begun consideration
of the Debate Council, which
Educational
Supervisor
Meet Slated
A Work-Conference for Super
visors of Instruction will be con
ducted by the University School
of Education here June 12 to
July 20, the first term of the
Summer Session, it was an
nounced today by Dean Guy B.
Phillips, Director of the Summer
Session.
Purpose of the Work-Confer-j
ence, he said, is the "develop
ment of instructional leadership,
including helping the participants
gain an insight into the nature
and purpose of modern, demo
cratic supervision, build adequate
criteria for evaluating teaching
and school programs, master tech
niques for better leadership, and
understand the human relation
problems involved in supervis
ion." The six-weeks program, he
said, will be developed coopera
tively, "so as best to meet indi
vidual and group needs. Oppor
tunities for study of supervisory
organization; plans, techniques,
(See EDUCATION, page 4)
Yack Editor
To Organize
CameraClub
Yackety Yack editor-elect
Jim Mills yesterday announced
plans for a combination Camera
Club and photography School
on .campus in cooperation with
the Yackety Yack and Graham
Memorial.
The purpose of the club,
Mills said will be two-fold, To
help and instruct those who
desire photo training and to
enter into'- salon competition
with other college clubs.
Mills expressed the hope that
such a school will familiarize
students with 'a few helpful
hints on photography with the
aim of improving Yack snap
shots. Ross E. Scroggs, ' pro
fessor of photography in the
physics department and direc
tor if the University Still Pho
to Laboratory in Swain Hall,
will be the faculty advisor.
Glee Concert
Is Scheduled
.Peer.ce Sing Tomorrow
Last s S EC Presentation
Jan Peerce, top tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, will go
on stage tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in Memorial Hall as the
final artist to be presented by the SEC in the 1949-'50 series.
r Auditorium doors will open at
7 o'clock and students will be
The Legislature quit its con
sideration of the budget at 11:20
last night after refusing to ap
propriate $386.66 to the Debate
Council. .
Speaker Ted Leonard
called another special session
for 7:30 tonight in Phi Hall to
complete work on the money
measure.
UC Selects
J. Sternberg
As President
Dean Of Irish Literature
Poet MacManus, Irish Story-Teller
Will Appear In GM Lecture Sunday
Scunrns MacManus, poet, shan
achic and Dean of Irish Litera
ture, will be presented in a lecture-recital
by Graham Memorial
in the main lounge Sunday night
at 8:30.
For more than 50 years Mac
Manus has been telling stories of
Irish folklore. He was born in
County Donegal. Ireland's north
western cornerstone in what he
calls the "wildest, most remote,
most rugged and most beautiful
corner of Ireland.".
At the age of 16 he began com
posing poems while he worked
for his father. Most of them were
patriotic poems dealing with Ire
land's long struggle for freedom
from England and with the he
rocs who had fought and died
for the cause of freedom through
out the land.
Later MacManus cqme to
America, where he succeeded in
selling several pi his stories to
Harper's for $100 apiece. After
selling the stories he returned to
Ireland but later he again came
to America. ' .'
Since returning to America he
has written many books including
folk talcs, novels and histories of
Ireland. His latest book, "Heavy
Hangs the Golden Grain" con
tains poetry, proverbs, pithy, say
ings, wisdom and humor.
During the winters MacManus
visits colleges in America and
gives lectures, but in the summer
he returns to his native Ireland.
After the lecture-recital Sun
day night Graham Memorial will
hold a reception which will be
open to all students, faculty
members and townspeople. The
lecture-recital is also open to the
public.
The University Women's Glee
Club will present its annual
spring concert Thursday, April
27th, at 8:30 in Hill Hall, the
Department of Music announced
yesterday.
Presenting works by Randall
Thompson, Gabriel Faurc, Gustav
'Hoist, nd others, the concert will
feature Betty Lou Ball and Bar
bara Young, sopranos, May
Marshbanks, organist, and Caro
lina's popular twins, Betty and
Ann McNeely, Who will play sev
eral numbers for two pianos.
Tickets for the concert go on
sale today at the YMCA and
Ledbctter-Pickard's, at a cost of
35 cents
Juniors Reminded
To Pick Up Bids
Junior class President. Ned
Dowd yesterday reminded mem
bers of the class to pick up bids
for the straw hat and shirt-tail
day in the Y lobby. $
The bids are free, Dowd said,
but are necessary so that the
junior committee will 'know how
many people are planning to at
tend the April 28 picnic at Ho
, gan's Lake.
Jerry Sternberg, rising senior
from Asheville, has been elected
president of the University Club,
club spokesmen said yesterday.
Sternberg, representative of
ZBT, has been active in club af
fairs for two years and has seryed
recently in the capacity of the
"Music Under The Stars" pro
gram. Paul Winslow, rising soph from
Raleigh and UC representative of !
C Dormitory, was chosen as vice
president. Daggie Ogg, Alpha
Gamma Delta senior from Clear
water, Fla., was selected secre
tary and Duffield Smith, rising
junior from Dallas, Texas, and an
ATO, was chosen treasurer.
The University Club is now
working oh plans for several
spring quarter activities. Among
programs being lined up are
"Music Under The Stars" and the
High School Day program. The
UC is working in conjunction
with several other organizations
on High School Day.
Jock Holcombc is the retiring
president of the club.
admitted free upon presentation
of their I.D. cards. Tickets for
remaining seats will go on sale
for one dollor at 7:40 for faculty,
student wives and townspeople,
Dick Allsbrook, chairman of the
Student Entertainment Commit
tee said.
. A native "of New York, Peerce
is now in his ninth season with
a
the Metropolitan Opera, where he
has established himself as a pe
rennial favorite since his phe
nomenal debut in "La Traviata"
in 1941. -
The rioted "bel canto" expert
is recognized as a master of the
Italian style although his train
ing is exclusively American.
Pcerce's association with Ar
turo Toscanini has been the high
point of the tenor's career. In
twelve important assignments
within a decade, the famed con
ductor has used Peerce as a key
soloist and has further termed the
dynamic singing performer his
"favorite tenor."
Movie fans have seen him in
the United Artists release "Car
negie Hall" and Universal-International's
"Something in the
Wind."
Last year Peerce became the
first singer in the 73 year history
of the New York College of Mu
sic to be accorded the honorary
doctorate of music degree. - .
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Davis, Fowler Take
'Spring For Sure Leads
Director Dave Morris announced known Playmakers troupers, Lil-
had been asked to operate on a
surplus. It requested $3,730,10,
aW"Cnalifman-Dave Pittman had
said Monday that he would fight
for re-instatement of at least
some of the appropriation.
The budget bill totaling $96,
772 came out of the Finance
ummniee as a minority re
port, since only legislators Ben
James, the chairman, and John
Sanders were on hand over the
weekend to work on the bill after
receiving the Budget Committee's
recommended budget.
Before the Forum tangle, ap
propriations for the executive,
legislative, and judicial branches
of student government, and the
$9,185 Student Entertainment
Committee appropriation had
been passed as presented in the
budget measure.
The motion to cut the Forum
appropriation in the budget bill
at $575 was made by legislator
Duffield Smith, after he pointed
out that -the figure was above
that recommended to the Finance
I Committee by the Budget Com
mittee, and said he believed this
showed "favoritism" on the part
of committee member John San
ders, who has served as Forum
head this year.
Daily Tar Heel Editor Graham
Jones, asking the group to think
of what is best for the student
body," asserted that it looked to
him as if publications items had
been put at the end of the bud
get, "so that, rafter all these first
items are passed as they are, we
will have to take what is left."
He said he realized that "all
of us have a selfish interest in
things we are interested in," but
questioned whether . "one-night
stands" by Forum speakers and
SEC entertainers were as. neces
sary and useful as "the DTH ev
ery day of the year."
Sanders explained the proce
dure of the Forum in acquiring
(See BUDGET, page 4)
yesterday that Lanier Davis and
Doris Fowler have been cast as
the romantic leads in "Spring for
Sure," the new musical play by
Catherine McDonald and Wilton
Mason.
Davis will play the part of
Jeremiah Jones, an altar-shy hill
billy who is being sought for by
a pretty girl named Cindy Hig
gins, played by Miss Fowler. In
the play, his object is matrimony.
Cindy's Maw and Paw are be
ing played by a pair of well-
lian Prince and Nat White
A passel of city slickers, name
ly, Mrs. Van Devere III, played
hv Catherine Covington; her
j -
niece Milliccnt who loves mus
cles, curvily portrayed by Mary
Jo McLean; and Professor Percy
Shelley Brown, acted by William
Hardy, invade the mountain home
of the Higgins.
"Spring for Sure" is being pre
sented in the Playmakers' The
atre on May 4, 5, 6. and 7 as the
annual Koch Memorial show.
No Guns
The Interfraternil? Council
last night passed a ruling pro
hibiting firearms in fraternity
houses. !'
The ruling follows last week's
re-assertment by the Inlerdorm
itory Council of a rule prohibit- -ing
guns in dormitories. The
move was motivated by the
Bennett - Smithey murder -suicide.
Violators will be tried before -the
IDC court, president Dale
Morrison said.