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tJ.luc. Library Serials Dept. Chapel Hill, H. c. TODAY'S NEW.S ?Illr win again, pag 3 MarthaR review, pa-jg 2 Phi dbal. pag 4 W E ATH E R Cloudy? . warmsr Thnrsd Brand Fridar VOLUME I.VIII Associated Press Chapel Hill, N. C. THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1950 Phone, F3361 F3371 NUMBER 163 SolonsTo Hear Appointments, Constitutional Laws Tonight O fl mm S3 fta Festival Wk'-S it k it it i? irV k Student Legislature Session Scheduled To Approve Major Sanders Appointments 'Mi Student liTpMature will fare an imposing list of Student Body President John Sanders' ap pointments and pro legislation in troduced to put the new student 'Spring For Sure' Opens For Koch Fund Tonight fly Mark Sumner Th annual Koch Memorial musical, "Spring for Sure," a new j.h"w by Catherine MacDonald with music by Wilton Mason, will open tonight at 8;30 in the Play inakers Theater. The show will be repeated each evening through Sunday, and tickets ..can be ob tained from Swain Hall or Led-better-Pickard's on Franklin street. The play is based on incidents that take place after a chartered airliner is forced down in the wilds of the Tennessee moun tains. Park avenue and the "cab in dwellers' meet face to face, as do martinis and moonshine. Leading actors in the play in clude Lanier Davis as Jeromiah Doris Fowler as Cindy, Mary Jr McLain as Millicent. Lilliar Prince as Maw, Nat White as Paw, Cookie Covington as Mrs Van de Vere, Bill Hardy as the professor, and Flossie Wolff a- C'orretta. Other members of the cast in Chapel Hill JayCees Announce Committees Prv-H.?it Charles C. Phillip? of Hi" Chnpel Hill Junior Cham-b-r of Commerce yesterday ap pointed ir men to .serve as com rnltUe ehairnu-n under a newly-rte.-t,-( slate of officers for th fi.rnl year which began Monday. At the y.am" time. Phillips dis rln.iil tiro Hi'' community pn jerf nf the junior organization rm-irriHy nnl-r way i the ntnmifartur 'd in -tallation of trrc- markers in th Ch"pel IU1J At pircrn. th town's s'reet-?r- id. jiifi'd I iv stencilled, mark- Concert Band Ploys Sunday The University Concert Band m,r)rr t,p baV'u of Prof. F.arl Slo "iin. will imitate ps annual series of "ijt.door eonc rts under the r9vie poplpr this eoming Sunday pf et poop at o'clock. A portion of the program will conducted by graduating mu sic majors who are entering the teaching field next year. In casf of rain the concert will h" held in Hill Hall at the sched uled time. The program 13 spon sored by the Department of Mu sic and is open to the public with out charge. Radio Schedule Th Harmmeer will b doubt attraction on the Unl-' mty broadcasts over WDNC FM today appearing on Feature fdition and a 15-minute pro OMm of music of their own. Broadcasting begins ai 4:30 Mh "Music For You" followed by Feature Edition at 4:55. Ai S o'clock a half hour of concert music will be presented and at 1:30 the recorded musical pro srnm. "Intcrmcxjo." The Har moners will be on the air from 5:5 until 6 o'clock. Broadcasts may be heard oi WDNC-FM at 105.1 Megs., chan nel 266. on the FM diaL Constitution Into effect when it meets tonight a 7:30 In Di Hall. Sanders has named committee, and chairmen for nearly every student government unit. The elude: Bob Thomas, Milton Bliss Jack Clinard, Dick Smith, Lib Stoney, Elizabeth Kearny, Vir ginia Young, Wilma Jones Char lotte Lehman, Pat Hole, Jerry Honaker, Lee Noll, Don Treat Sam Green, Brad Arrington, Dick Lewis and John Lehman, who also served as choreographer for the dance routines. David W. Morris, former di rector of the San Francisco Mu nicipal Theater, directed the show. Morris, who was connected with the Little Theatre of the Rockies, University of Colorado and Goodman Memorial Theater and School, is in Chapel Hill on a special project for the Rocke feller foundation. The colorful sets for the musi cal were designed by Hal Shad well, and lighting is by Richard Verigan. Eugene Jousse is crew chief, and Barbara Skinner is stage manager. Frank Matthews will be at the keyboard of the organ. He has (See SPRNG, page 4) ers on the curbs. The new in spallations will be of the concrete pyramid typ Phillips said. The group lias already installed two such markers. The men named to committee chairmanship by Phillips are Herb Went worth. Project Com mittee; Richmond Sloan. Finance Cummitt.ee; Monk Jennings. Membership Committee; Frank Warrington. Awards Committee; Gran Childress.. Program Com mittee: Paul Williams. House Commit; Bill Freeman. Partic i pat ion Committee. Kenneth Cheek. Agriculture Committee ; Walt Baucom, Safe ty Committee; John T. Gregory, Sports Committee; Oliver T. Watkins. Publicity Committee: Bill Flowers. Youth Welfare Committee: Bud Fox. Christmas (See JAYCEES, page 4) World, Nation, State News In Brief By ihs Associalsd Frss BIRMINGHAM Regular Democrats must await a runoff primary May 30 lo see whether their attempt io wrest Alabama party machinery control from rebel States Righiers will succeed. PAniS United Nations Secretary-General Trygr Lie an nounced yesterday he is going io to Moscow May 10 and he Stalin. WASHINGTON Gordon Gray, special assistant io President Truman, expressed hope yesterday lhat outstanding students from colleges and uniyerslties will meet at West Point Yry year hereafter as they did a few months ago. nALEIGH The State Supreme Court yesterday uphsld the Highway Commission's use of buy road-building machinery and do stabilisation work. PINEHURST Dr. Fred C. Hubbard of North Wilkesbero was named president-elect of. the Medical Society of North Carolina here, yesterday as the society closed its 1950 contention. JACKSONVILLE George Smathers. 36-year-old representa tive who Tuesday beat veteran Senator Claude Pepper in Flor ida's Democratic primary, asserted yesterday lhat the Republicans could take Utile comfort in his Legislature's approval is usually given without debate, and no fights over appointees have been indicated yet. Chief among the appointees to be approved are those of Dick Murphy as Attorney-General. Julian Mason and J. K. Richard son as assistant Attorneys-General, Bill Prince as head of th Orientation Committee. Dck Allsbrook as Student Entertain ment Committee chairman, ' Ben James as head of the Student Audit Board, and Buddy Vaden. senior member of the Publica tions Board. Yet to be named are Chairmen of the National Students Associa tion Committee, the Election? Committee, and the Budget Com mittee. The enabling legislation for the Constitution which was passed in the spring election is expect ed to be the most important work of the solons during this quarter. Student Body President John Sanders said yesterday that a bil1 sponsored by his office would be presented to codify the summer school student government sec tion of the new supreme law The section was the major addi tion to the revamped constitution. The article provides for a sum mer school board with wide ad ministrative, legislative and ju dicial powers. Enabling legisla tion is necessary to fix proced ures and methods of appointment to the board. Sanders said he also understood that bills would be introduced tc put representatives of the Town Men's and Town Girls' Associa tions on the Dance Committee and the Graham Memorial Board of Directors. The constitution pro vides that they may be added by Legislative enactment. Both groups attacked the re vamped constitution during the spring campaign because it did not specifically put them on the bodies.; They had been put on be fore by constitutional amend ment Speaker Herb Mitchell will preside over the session, first regular one of the Ninth Assem bly, which convened week before last and elected its officers. No bills are pending in any of the body's committees. New Evidence Found In Sea STOCKHOLM, May 3 OF) A life jacket marked "USN" was found in the Baltic today south of the' island of Gotland, a Swed ish airforce spokesman said to night. The jacket may be from the missing Navy Privateer plane which disappeared aver the Bal tic April 8 with a-crew of 10. carry hia "save-lhe-UN" mission hopes directly to Prime Mlniiter secondary road bond money to victory. G raham University Party Names Graft Hea Pencgar, Cubine, Skinner Are, Elected To Other Posts; Paul Roth Is Replaced The University Party elected seven of its members to party offices in yesterday afternoon's Steering Committee meeting in Roland Parker Lounge. Bill Craft was chosen to re- place Paul Roth as party chair man. Craft, a veteran of campus pol itics, is a member of the Stu dent Legislature and the Elections Board. He is a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. In ac cepting the chairmanship, Craft thanked the party for the "con fidence you have placed in me," adding that " will work toward acquainting the freshmen with our party in particular and cam pus politics in general. I am very interested in the new dormitory representative program, and will do my utmost to see it carried through successfully." Dick Penegar, acting president of Kappa Sigma fraternity, a nieniber of the UP publicity com mittee and long-time Steering Committee member, was elected vice-chairman of the party. He replaces Wilson Yarborough. Carol Cubine, an Auri, was chosen UP secretary, replacing Sue Trumbo. Cubine is a mem ber of the UP Steering Com mittee and was selected as member of the Yackety Yack beauty court in last fall's judg ing. Bill Skinner, Zeta Psi frater nity, was elected to the treasur er's post, replacing Bob Holmes Skinner is a member of the Stu dent Legislature, a former mem ber of the Legislature Rules Com mittee ,and has been appointed as Legislature representative to the Publications Board. Ugly Contest Portrait Are Posted All entries in the Theta Chi "Ugliest Man on Campus" con test were submitted to the four judges . yesterday, and today the nine best pictures will be posted in the lobby of the Y for voting. To vote on an entry a student writes the number of his choice on a piece of paper and drops it in the ballot box. When he does this his name will be crossed off in a Student Directory Tomorrow night the winner of the contest wil be announced at the Blue-White Carnival on Navy Field. He wil be presented with a loving cup, clothing donated by some of the Chapel Hil merchants and an invitation to Terrace View Supper Club for an evening paid for by Terrace View manager Dick Fuquay. ,The rest of his prize will be a Graduating Seniors Must Fill Out Forms All seniors who plan to gradu ate in June should see the dean of the school in which they are registered to fill out an applica tion for a degree. The diploma fee must be paid by May 15. Each department head has a list of the graduating seniors in his department,. If a student who plans to graduate is not listed, he should see his dean immediately. Rally d Long Defends en. In Di Talk Di Senate Speaker Charlie Long-co-founder of the UNC Young Republican Club and ac tive YRC member spoke in de fense of Senator Frank P. Gra ham last night, charging that there was a "concentrated effort in this state to prove that Gra ham was un-American." Liong said, nls remarks were necessary in order not only to defend Graham, but because such tactics were also reflections on the Di Senate. Graham was last year given the annual Di-Phi award, highest honor the 155 year-old-debating society can be stow. "From my own point of view," Long declared, "I speak as one who was born and raised a Re publican and I know- a Republi can when I see one, and I am'not in the least confused as to the political sentiments of Frank Graham's chief opposition, even though he is running under the banner of the Democratic Party. Long called for the opposition to 'cease their attempts to cloud the issues and smear the record of the foremost North Carolinian of our day," and to bring forth I "open charges and proofs.1 In Y Today date with Miss Modern Venus Joyce Richert. Judges for the contest were Dean of Women Katherine K. Carmichael, Dean of Men Bil1 Friday, Athletic Publicity Di rector Jake Wade and Head Foot ball Coach Carl Snavety. Members Of The Graduating Class, foot Day Hits Here Tomorrow, an All eniori By Andv TaTlor 'Take 'em off j'ou lads and ladies of the Class of 1950. Come rain or shine, tomorrow's Bare foot Day and tradition calls for the dainty display of naked toot sies on the part of all seniors. Initiated here some fifteen years ago, the occasion signifies the last carefree fling of youth before these dignified, mature and educated young men and women set out to make their way in the harsh world. Senior Class President Don VanNoppen promises severe pun ishment for those members of the class who refuse to cooperate. He wouldn't state the nature of the chastisement. To Be R. M. Albright Mrs. Tillett Set To Speak Joint Affair Is First Held Here For Former Prexy Raleigh attorney. R. Mayne Albright, candidate for the Dem ocratic gubernatorial nomination in 1948, will be' the featured speaker at a Graham-for-Senate rally at 7 o'clock tonight. Along with Albright will be an imposing list of guest speakers, all avowed supporters of Senator Frank P. Graham. Included in the list are. Repre sentative John W. Umstead of Chapel Hill, Orange County member in the General Assembly, Mrs. Charles W. Tillet of Char lotte, former Director of the Wo men's Division of the National Democratic Committee, and stu dent speakers from the Univer sity neighboring institutions. The rally first public meet mg in Chapel Hill supporting Graham, former head of the Greater University is a joint student-town affair. The meeting, expected to draw up to 2,000, will be staged in front of the Methodist Churcn on Franklin Street. The three main speakers will make 10-minute addresses, while student speak ers will speak for shorter periods Introducing the speakers will be county Recorders Court judge L. J. Phipps. UNC speakers will be Student Body President John Sanders, and debater Herschell Keener. Martin Cromartie, head of the Duke University Graham-for-Senate organization, will also make a short address. . Visiting students are expected to be on hand from State College, Duke, Woman's College, and Wake Forest. In charge of arrangements for the rally is Student Body Presi dent John Sanders, assisted by Sandy Harris of Mebane and Jack Potts of Highland. Sanders said yesterday that a band is expected to be on hand, to provide music during the Franklin Street rallying. Senator Graham himself will not be on hand for the rally. He is at present busy with a cam paign tour. He faces Raleigh at torney Willis Smith and former Senator Bob Reynolds in tlie May 27 Democratic primary elec tion. Will Go Naked -Footed The name and nature cf the day narrowly escaped undergoing a major change this year when a punning officer of the class sug gested it be tagged "Beerfoot Day. because big things, are brewing." It was further proposed that class members make their way about campus with beer cans lashed se curely to their feet. The motion was quickly and thoroughly snuf fed out. A part of the current Senior Week functions all seniors, male and female alike, are expected to go through the whole day minus any form of footwear. The juniors inaugurated a sim ilar affair last week when' they Held House Designates Week, May 14-21, For Program Will Feature Beaux-Arts Boll, Concerts, Exhibits, Athletic Contests - By Wuff Newell " The week of May 14-21 has been designated by Chancellor Robert B. House as Spring Festival week. The purpose of the Festival according to the Festival Committee, is three-fold to exhibit the work of the Univer sity over the past year, to foster among students, faculty and administration a feeling of common purpose and to extend an invitation to the people of the state to visit and become ecquainted with their University. ; Special events from voice re Seniors Given Hour's Grace From Classes Tomorrow Sees Upperclassmen I n First Meeting By Caroline Bruner The University's Administra tion will pay its tribute to sen iors during the highlight of their week tomorrow when it will ex cuse them from their 11 o'clock classes to attend the first meeting of the Senior Class in Memorial Hall. The announcement that seniors will be allowed to 'miss their classes to attend the meeting came yesterday from Chancellor R. B. House. . The seniors aire being called to gether to hear the outline cf com mencement week given by Mary on Saunders of the Alumni As sociation, and to hear him. dis cuss the activities and values of the Association. Following his talk, the seniors will use the remainder of the hour to discuss the success of their class activities. Although the official senior class activities will close with a picnic at Clear Water Lake from 10 until 2 Saturday, the Men's Interdormitory Council has is sued an invitation to all seniors to attend free of charge the dance, which it is staging in Woolen .Gymnasium at 3 o'clock Saturday night. held the first annual Shirttail Straw Hat Day. Tradition has it that the da; began when it was claimed tha' Carolina students, among othei things, had bigger and better fee' than any other college coulc boast. ' A welcomed change from th" days of yesteryear will be in ef fect tomorrow. There il be no harsh gravel on most of the paths to bruise tender white feet thanks to the age of brick. So pretty up those blisters anc" bunons, gang, and make an ap pointment with your manicurist tomorrow's the big day. 9 onign Festival citals to baseball games hava been scheduled for the week-long Festival. The entire program will be climaxed Saturday night with a Beaux-Art Ball in Woollen Gym from 9 to 12 o'clock. Roy Cole and his orchestra will play for the Graham Memorial sponsored dance, and students, faculty, administration, towns people, and visitors are invited to attend it. Prizes will be awarded for the best costume in the var ious divisions, and a . King and Queen will be chosen. Sound and .Fury, will furnish entertainment, and, according to Graham Memorial Director Jim Rathburn, there should be fun for alL The Festival will open at 4:30 Sunday afternoon, May 14, with a talk in Person Hall by John Al cott, who will speak on "Con temporary American Painting." At 8:30 that night Carl Perry will present a voice recital in Hill HalL Perry has already given sev eral recitals on the campus and has always attracted a large aud ience. Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock the Freshman baseball team will play the Duke freshmen on Em erson Field ,and from 4:30 to 6 o'clock the Communication Club will hold open house in Swain HalL Tuesday . night at 8:30 Robert MacDonald will present a piano recital in Hill Hall. The freshmen baseballers will again take the field Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock when they play the freshmen from Wake Forest. At 3 o'clock the finals in the table tennis tournament will be played in the main lounge of Graham Memorial. The winner will represent the University at the Big Four Intramural Meet at State College May 18. At 8:30 7ednesday night tha Men's Glee Club will - combine with the Greensboro College glea club to present Faure Requiem in Hill HalL Thursday night at S o'clock there will be a Sybyl Moholy Nagy Art Department lecture and reception sponsored by the (See FESTIVAL, page 4) Senior Invitations Seniors can now pick up Ihs graduation invitations which they ordered last quarter, in the Alpha Phi Omega room on tha second floor of lha Y building. Members of the Order of iha Grail, who were in charge of Or dering the invitations for ihs seniors, will be in the APO room io distribute ihem from 9 un til 1 each morning for the com ing week. Dave Sharp said the invita tions hare already been made up info the individual orders so there will be no delay in hand ing them out. . ,
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