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V K C LXtaj&T SERIALS ZZPT. CZUPHi HILL, H. C. TODAY'S NEWS Metiers Deal Williams, paj 3 Gin drinking coeds, page 2 Society news .page 4 WEATHER Cloudy and warm with possible showers in the afternoon. ZM VOLUME LVIII Associated Press Chapel HilL N. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1950 Phone, F3361 F3371 NUMBER 162 Roth Elected Head Of Grail Honorary Privott Is Scribe; Mclntyrc, Hutchinson Also Named As Officers For Coming Year Bill Koth, senior from Otccn, was elected Delcgata of the Order of the Grail, high campus honorary, at a closed meet in;; last Monday night. until has scrvcu as solicitations Chairman of the Campus Chest;! president of a Presbyterian Stu dent:;' group, president of Alpha I'm Omega, chairman of lied Cmss Student work, Dormitory officer, I)i Senator, in the State Student legislature, and is a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The remaining officers for the coming year are Joe Privott, Senior Class Invitation, or dercd by members ot the Sen ior Class earlier in the year, are ready tor distribution a spokesman of the Grail said yesterday. Seniors may receive their in vitations by returning their re ceipts lo the Alpha Phi Omega room, 202 Y.M.C.A.. anytime between 9 and 1 o'clock each week day for the next week. Scribe; Jim Mclntyrc, Exchequer; and Ub Hutchinson, vice-Exchequer. Retiring officers are Page Har ris. Dckgata; Ed Washington, Scribe; Dick Gordon, Exchequer; and Herb Yules, Vice-Exchequer. The installation of new ofticers will be held as part of the Thirti eth Anniversary Dinner of' the Older of the Grail to be held next Monday. R. Maync Albright, former Delcgata of the Grail and president of the Student body, will address the alumni and ac tive members of the Order. A total of 300 students have been honored by the Grail since its inception in 1 1)20 as an honor ary group brought together to p ndcr service to the campus in a unified effort of fraternity and non-fraternity men. The Grail is dedicated to im proving the Carolina way of life through service. Among its work the Order is in charge of univcr ity scrip dances, senior invita lions. and class rings. Member ship in the Grail is nwarded tt thirteen outstanding campus leaders cadi year. CAMPUS BRIEFS Concert will be given tonight at 8:30 in Hill Hall by the UNC Symphony Orchestra. Pan-Hell meets today al 4:30 in Horace Williams Lounge at Graham Me inmial. CICA meet, K I . 1U RoltuvJ Parker ;m : ;it 7 o'clock. Chemistry Wives "ill have a meeting at 8:30 lo nii:ht in Roland Parker Lounge 2. Appointments meet ; today in Holand Parker 3 at I o'clock. Law Wives will meet tonight at 8o'clock in Holand Parker 3. Radio Schedule rtilnt hrondcaHft from Swam Hnll may be picked up vrr WDNC FM at 105.1 Megs., Hianncl 286. on the FM dial. Program may Uo be heerd in Orhm Memorial end Lenoir 1UU. Bronrlcndt begin at 4:30 with Music for You. At 4s55 on Fea ture Edition a special inierriew with Vaughan Monroe may be henrd, followed by a half hour rf Concert Music. From 5:30 until 6 o'clock the musical program, Intermexto, VV Petition Asks Transit To Add Trips A petition to allow the buses of the Chapel Hill Transit Com pany to adu King Street and Dan iels Road to tneir route is being circulated by the students living in that area of Victory Village. They explained that the bus company had agreed to add the streets to the Victory Village route as an added service, if tne tudents in that area wanted it. The reason behind the petition is that several wecKs ago, me company temporarily added King Street ond Daniels Road to the route, but were stopped by, P. L iiurch, Victory Village manager lor the University. Burch explained that he had stopped the bus company since no official confirmation of the route addition had been obtained from the University administra tion. Students who favor the petition explained that families living on the south side of Mason Farm Road must, at present, walk sev eral hundred yards to the nearest bus stop, a great inconvenience when escorting two or three chil dren in the rain, or when bring ing home large bundles. When signatures arc complete the student group will turn the petition over to the University administration. Registration Appointment Open, Close Appointment books for sum mer school prcregistration will be removed from the lobby of South Puiliding tomorrow and books for fall term preregistra tion appointments will be out for students Actual prcregistration confer ences with the deans for summer school will continue through Sat urday. Those who have not yet made appointments should see Mrs. Barker in South Building Fall term prcregistration con ferences will begin Monday. The books scheduling appointments will be in the South Building lobby from tomorrow through Wednesday, May 17. Registration officials asked stu dents making appointments to be prompt in keeping them. World, Notion, State News In By the Associated Press George Smathcrs, 36-year-old Miami representative, had piled up a 221,261 to 179.999 lead over reteran New Deal Senator Claude Pepper in Florida's Democratic primary at 11 o'clock last night. The returns were in from a little oyer half of Florida's 1,595 pre cincts. In other rsces Jojph T. Ferguson led six other candidates in Ohio's Democratic primary at 10 o'clock. He will face Repub lican Hoberl Taft in November. At 10 o'clock in Alabama, with only a handfull of precincts reporting. Senator Lister Hill was leading Slates' Rights adyocstc Lawrence McNeil in the Democratic primary. LAKE SUCCESS United Nations sources said last nigh that Secrelay-General Trygy Lie has decided to go to Moscow within a week on his save-lhe-UN campaign tour in Europe. He is expected to talk with Primier Stalin, LONDON The British Liberal Party last nlsni rejected an invitation to join the Conservative Party In an election deal to oust the Labor gorenment, though ihey are allied against the government In the House of Commons. Talker Award Will Be Given Senior May 23 Oratorical Prize To Go To Senior Winning Contest The Willie Person, Mangum oratorical award will be pre sented to the senior maKing me oeot oration in a contest to Del neid in ine Pni llan oi new. East . ouuuing on luouay, may 26. All acilioi'a Vvno die ocueuuicd to graduate in ltfju are cngioiei ior tne prize, lne contest win begin at c. W, taking piace oi tne regular Pm meeting. HiStablisiied in lii6 in honor of j Mangum, University class ol Itiio, the award is a gold medal given each year by his desecnuants. Miss Preston M. Leach of Wash-! ington, D. C, Willie P. Mangum Turner of Winston-Salem, "and Willie P. Mangum Weeks also 01 Washington, are presenting the award this year. Paul Koth, chairman of the Debate Council, in conjunction with Dean E. L. Mackie, is direct ing the., contest. Roth asked all interested persons to contact him at the Pi Lambda Phi House. Judges will be selected from the faculty. Last year's winner was Charles Dixon. Eight Named In Sanders Appointments Eight students were yesterday appointed to campus offices by president John Sanders. The ap pointments are subject to Stu dent Legislature approval. Taylor (Buddy) Vaden, clerk of the. Men's Honor Council, was chosen to fill the Publications Board seat of retiring chairman Chuck Hauser. Don VanNoppen, Ted Leonard, and Tom Sully were named, to positions of Carolina representa tives on the Greater University of North Carolina Student Coun cil. VanNoppen is president of the Student Legislature. Bob Evans wes selected as member-at-large on the Carolina Forum, Sol Cherry to replace 11. B. Glover as representative from Dorm Men's District HI, and Anne Brewer and. Curtis Ratledgc to the Budget Commit tee. All of the appointments are subject to approval by the Stu dent Legislature, which will meet tomorrow night. Sanders has had a special appointments com mittee hearing applications from office-seekers, as well as consid ering recommendations from Sanders himself. The Lcgislautre approval is a routine procedure, however, and most of the appointees have al ready assumed their duties. f one . mm mi I n ini. juii.11,1 .ii.niii.nni m ..urnii ... Mum iMi.i'imiwii f - ' f ' ' , ' ' , ' I , i , '''',, V V ; , I' . ' ' '' , ' " k I" V. , , ; I frt - I COOKIE COVINGTON (left) plays the role of a dowager New York sophisticate, and Lillian Prince plays a mountaineer "Maw" in the Koch Memorial musical; "Spring for Sure," opening here tomorrow night in the Playmakers theater. Deadline For Seniors To Get Tags Is To Seniors will have their last their identification ards in Hall, and to sign up to attend the Senior picnic, whicli will be held at Ci ear Water Lake from 10 until 2 o'clock Saturday. 4 Activities of Senior Week, . . ';, . ,-. : which began last night when members of the class were hon ored by the Carolina Theater by the free showing of a late movie specially to them, will be con tinued Friday with Barefoot Day. and the first meeting of the en tire class. When the seniors assemble for their first meeting at a time to be announced later this week, a representative from the Alumni office will be on hand to briefly explain the commencement week end, i The representative will also give a schedule of events to take place in conjunction with com mencement and will outline the functions oi the Alumni Associa tion and the local office. Seniors will round out their week Saturday at Clear Water Lake, formerly called Black wood's Lake, with the annual senior picnic. Soft drink3 and food, which President of the Class Don VanNoppen said would probably take the form of bar becues and sandwiches, will be served ' free to the seniors and their dates. In addition to swimming, other activities to take place will be dancing, and many kinds of sports and games, led by former head cheerleader Norm Sper. Transportation to the lake will be furnished, VanNoppen s?kt Members of the class with cars may volunteer their use, and in addition busses and perhaps a truck will be on hand for the use of the seniors. The booths at which member? of the class may pick tip their identification cards will close for good at 1 o'clock today. Van Noppen urged all seniors to sign up to attend the picnic before that time in order that the food and drinks for the event may be ordered right away. Village More Friday About Better Schools "The Fight for Better Schools." a March of Time feature, will shown at the Village Theater Fri day at matinee and evening shows. "The League of Women Voters and The American Association of University Women, Chapel Hill organizations sponsoring the movie urge the public to see this movie which is based on a study of the public schools of Arling ton, Va. day opportunity today to pick up the lobby or the Y or Lenoir Lottery Bill Is Di Topic For Tonight A bill to establish a national lottery and nation-wide parimutu el betting will be the subject of the Dialectic Senate's discussion tonight, at 9 o'clock in the Di Hall, third floor, New West. Proponents of the bill claim that thp income from such meas ures would alleviate a goodly por tion of the present heavy tax burden,. Incomes from the nation al lottery alone, it was claimed, would support the social security program. Both sides of the questions ere expected to be hotly defended. Visitors are invited to participate in debate. President Charlie Long an nounced that, the Di has com pleted arrangements for the loan of its portrait of James Knox Polk by Sully to the National Art Galleries in Washington, D. C. The famous portrait is to be used in the celebration of the W a s h i n g t o n Sesquicentennial which opens June 15th. Curtis Announces Cast For M ay Day Prod uction By Glm Harden The cast of "Cupid s Courtesy," an original fafce to be preesnted at the crowning of the May Queen in the Forest Theater next Sunday, has been announced by J Nancy Curtis. Director. The cast includes Virginia Young, as Maggie, the old scrub woman; Frank Groseclose, as Cupid; William Collins, as Mayor Springland; Bailey Hobgood, as Hugh; and Lee Noll, as Joan. The play, taken from an old English balad, concerns the dif ficulties of a small village, Olden, England, in having its annual May D.ay celebration when Cupid appears on the scene and begins shooting people with his little bow and arrow. The . farce will follow the Sieber Plan Is Not Policy .. - NSA Group, Says Sanders Of n terd or mi t or y Council Gives Donahue Dance Providing a student is' a senior or a lorm resident, all needed ' is the urgl, dancing " shoes and, if available, a date to attend the Sam Donahue dance in Woollen Gym Satur day night, the Interdormitory Council said yesterday. But getting in on the Satur day afternoon concert in Mem orial Hall won't be quite that simple. For that, (a 50 cent per person price of admission is charged). Tickets will be on sale in the Y from 9 to 12 o' clock every morning through Friday. The Interdormitory Council is bringing Donahue to the campus. The dance will be paid for out of social fees in cluded in regular room rent charges. The Council has in vited all seniors and their dates to the dance in conjunc tion with Senior Weekend. Dormitory men planning to UNC Final The University of North Caro lina Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of its nationally fam ous conductor, Earl Slocum, will present its final concert of the 1949-50 season tonight at 8:30 in Hill Hall. The feature work, of the con cert will be the Concerto in B flat Major for Cello and Orches tra, by the Italian composer Luigi Boccherini, a contemporary of Haydn, and a famous cello vir tuoso in addition to a prolific- output of compositions in all forms, with particular emphasis on chamber music. Recent evidence that this work was substantially altered by the late 19th century German cellist Grutzmacher has had no effect on its poularity. Long a stand ard part of the repertory, the in trinsic value and beauty survived the transcription. Efrim Fruchtman, the orches tra's principal cellist, will play the solo line in the concerto. A graduate of the Juilliard School of Music, Fruchtman joined the faculty of the University in 1948 as cello instructor, and is well known throughout the state through appearances with the University String Quartet and the University Trio. David Serrins, oboist, will play "The Winter's Passed," a work crowning of the Queen of the May and her court, whose inden tilies will remain a secret unti the crowning itself. The queen's court will appear on the stage first in spring frocks of green with a flower print overlay. Then the two maids of honor will ap pear in gold dresses. The queen will wear the traditional white gown. May day comes at the end of a full weekend. The Blue-WTiite game, pitting the "old-timers" against the present varsity team, Saturday afternoon, the senior's barefoot day Friday, then picnic at Clearwater Lake on Saturday morning, and the Interdormitory dance Friday night, ending with the traditional May Day cele bration in the Forest Theater. aympn attend the dancf should ob tain their tickets from their' dorm advisors or presidents. Seniors will be admitted by their lapel t.ags? which can still be picked up al Lenoir Hall and the Y. A major change in the attire for the dance has been made due to popular 'demand. In stead of semi-formal as ori ginally scheduled, the affair will be informal. Donahue, who is bringing his band straight from New York where he has just fin ished a 5-weck engagement at the Paramount Theater, will play from 9 until twelve. Following the Blue-White game in , Kenan Stadium, the orchestra will give a concert in Memorial Hall at 5 o'clock. Donahue will be accompanied by pretty Ginger Lamare who handles the singing chores. ir ony uives Concert Tonight for oboe and strings by the con temporary American, Wayne Barlow. The remainder of the program includes the Overture to "Semiramide" by Rossini, the great Symphony No. 38 in D Major (Prague) by Mozart, and the popular Polka and Fugue from "Schwanda" by Weinberger. The concert is sponsored by the Department of Music, and the public is cordially invited. rovements Being Made On Campus Director of Operations, J. S. Bennett, reported yesterday that the grounds maintenance and im provement group has a busy schedule this spring. i A brick walk is being laid from Swain Hall to Old West, and walks to New West have been re-located. A second walk will also be laid from Morehead Planetarium to Davie Building, he said, afford ing a continuous surfaced walk from the dorms to uptown dis trict. The brick work should be completed in about ten days. Bennett said that work on the parking lot in back of Peabody will be completed soon, affording space for cars now using the area back of Memorial Hall, which will soon be used for con struction of th new commerce building. Venable X and Y are to be moved to clear the area. Also scheduled to come down are the quonset huts by the Monogram Club. According to the director, this space will be cleared for the new men's dormitory on which bids are to be let May 9. Students Top 29 Million WASHINGTON, May 2 JP) A record number of 29,300,000 persons enrolled in school or col lege at the beginning of the cur- I rent school year, Census Director Roy. V. Peel reported today. Still Pushing Purchase Card, Asserts Prexy Investigations Being Conducted Not Yet Ready l'Oimer .National . Student As5jcicuion vuiiuuiaee Unuir limu iiviuiau oxcuer S propos al tu juiiit. tiie puiciiciofc! card . oj'oi.ciu iu lavui ui a stuuenl wusiatss toluol ooara is deii nuciy not student overn iiiciit puticy, ntsiaent jonn uanucio sxiu ycsfccraay. "vt m auuv.it go v ci iiiiienl are 6liL mm iu our oeiiel that the institution of tne iNjai. purchase cam system is a delmite possibil ity in Chapel Hill," Sanders de clared. Admitting that Siebera plan caning ior a board, witn power to investigate prices and decide on reasonableness had good points, banuers asserted tnat "the" niiimation thus lar gain,ed is not sufficient to reacn any Uelinito conclusion as reacned Dy Sieoer." Sanders said tnat '"investiga tions are currently being carried on by student goyernment in co operation with the Criaptl Hill merchants "regarding !the various aspects ot tne purcnase card sys tem as would apply under local conditions." lie pointed out that a survey ' conducted ny .tne Merchants As sociation for the NSA Committee on tne system in other communi ties had not yet revealed enough information lor the coimnittee to make definite recommendations. Other student government of ficials pointed out that the pe culiar conditions here in Chapel Hill made the system a hard one to work out for this campus. Most PCS arrangements, they pointed out, had been made in communities where competition allowed stores using the system to force other stores into the sys tem because of lower prices. The system calls for students to get discounts on necessity items from stores which coperate in the plan. Sanders said that he will, within a few days, appoint a new NSA committee. Sieber had served chairman during the past two quarters. His plan was back ed in a statement by former NSA boss Gran Childress. It was pre sented in the form of a letter to President Sanders. Z ink Given Legion Award The American Legion Medal, presented annually to the out standing Air Force llOTC cadet in the University, was awarded to Cadet H. Jay Zink, freshman, from Moundsville, West Va., dur ing an inspection and review it the Unit in Kenan Stadium yes terday afternoon. ? The medal was preesnted hy D. L. Hardee, Colonel USA, Re tired, president of the Hardee Concrete" Company, Durham. UP Election The University Party vill meet this afternoon lo choose a new chairman. The meeiing, scheduled for 2 o'clock in Roland Parker lounga of Graham Memorial, will select a person to replace Paul Roih, who served as boss of the party during the spring elections. Roih is resigning lo lake over as president of the Debate Council!