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SE3IAL3 ZZ2T. CHAP2E SILL II. C 8-31-49 TODAY'S NEWS Tar Heel Alumni. pg 2 Baseball, page 3 Society, page 4 WEATH ER Partly cloudy and mild with scattered showers VOLUME LVIII Associated Press- CHAPEL HILL, N; C WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1950 Phones: F3361, F3371 NUMBER 180 v Escheats May Be Enriched By Fare Funds 1 A mi fix- A C-Tt-n Tllst fl (S , , r .' i mil wmi i , ir Mason Named New Chairman Of Elections -.4 I " : Sanders Appoints ' Several Students Telephone Service Growth Still Lacks Needed Funds Board May Make Claims Against Rails, Business The vssihility of makin; a c ly im Against transportation com panies for a large Mim in un claimed fundi was considered in Kalcih by a committee of the University board of trustees. , L. P. McLcndon, of Greens boro, chairman of the trustee' F.si heats' Committee, said the funds Involved might amount t6 several hundred thousand dol lars. McLcndon said the funds in volved included unused and un claimed transportation tickets and unused and unclaimed pre paid freight charges. Transpor tation companies involved, he said, included bus companies, railroads, airlines and motor freight lines. A committee, composed of Mc I.cndon. Edwin Pate of Laurin , burg and Victor Bryant of Dur ham, was appointed to confer with Attorney General Harry McMulIan and to study the pos sibility of asserting ' the Univer sity's claim on the money. Under the state constitution, all unclaimed property known as escheats belongs to the Uni- versity of North Carolina. The University uses the funds it re ceives from cschcat3 to make loans to students. McLcndon expressed the opin ion that a large number of trans- porlatlttrT' tickets " were sotdto soldiers during the war which were not used and on which re funds were not claimed. The Ejchcats Committee lait year won a settlement of approx imately $230,000 in a suit against railroads f the state. Thi3 re sulted from en increue in pas senger farei the railroads put in to effect during the war and which the utilities commission refused to approve. The commis sion ordered the railroads to re fund the amount of the increase to those who bought tickets dur ing the period. When the ticket holders did not appear to claim their refunds, the money was claimed by the Escheats Commit tee. McLendon reported that ev ery bank in North Carolina, ex cept one, now Is making reports to the committee on their un claimed deposits. He said all these banks have either turned over their unclaimed deposits or have reported no unclaimed de posits. The escheats fund, he said now totals $1,171,601.09. McNccly Is Winner Of Mangum Prize Gibbon McNecly, a senior from Waxhaw, last night won the 72 annual Wiley P. Mangum oratory award when he spoke on "The Problems of the American In dians." Dave Shaxpe was runnerup in the contest held in the Phi Hall. Horace Stacy and George. Rod man were the other' contestants. IDC Elects In Monday night meeting of the Inter Dormitory Council. Dob Creed. Red Graham, and Sid Turner were elected as holdover members of the or ganisation lor lh4 coming year. Creed, from Fayetloville. is the present vice-president of the council and Turner is president. The council also passed a reg ulation providing for a 24-hour quiet period in all dormitories beginning tonight at 7 o'clock. This will last until the end of . exams and was done to enable students to study. 1 i ' 4 a HOMEWARD BOUND, these air-sea and anti-submarine exercises of the British home fleet in the English Channel. The British Admiralty recently was very much concerned over a group of 30 Russian fishing vessels' which anchored suspiciously close to one of their super carriers. ' ; . . .. - ,' ".' Dean Sets For Rhodes Applications for Rhodes Scholarships must be in the hands of the Secretary of the state committee not later than October 28 of this year, General College Dean C. P. Spruill yesterday announced. . Dean Spruill asked eligible students who are interested' to contact him in Room 308 South Building for information and application blanks. To be eligible for a Rhodes , 'Scholarship a candidate must be New Contract Is Negotiated ByGMCCIO DETROIT. May 23 (Jl') Gen eral Motors Corp. and the CIO United Auto Workers agreed to day on a new five-year contract granting pension and a four-cents-an-hour wage increase now and each year for the duration of the agreement. Pensions of $100 monthly, in cluding federal social security benefits, are provided for work ers 65 with 25 years service. Ex cept for the federal benefits the pensions are entirely company financed. If federal payments go up, pen sions go up that much. A cost-of-living formula adopt ed two years ago by CM and UAW is retained. Under it wages (in addition to the flat four-cent hike) are tuned 'to the cost' of living index of the Bureau of Labor statistics except they can't be cut more than three cents un der present levels. ' They could go up indefinitely. - The union estimated immediate benefits totals 19 cents an hour and that the automatic wage in creases will bring them to 35 cents. It demanded 31 cents in opening negotiations March 29. There are approximately 235,000 workers in 100 CM plants across the country who get the four cents and pensions. " ' World, Nation, State f ' , News In Brief .By the Associated Press BERLIN East Germany's blue-shirted communist youth yes terday got a warning from their own police to keep out of western Berlin on their Witsuntide demonsration march. ; WASHINGTON The Western powers yesterday accused Russia of building a secret German army under the guise of a police force. WASHINGTON Senator - Tydings (D-Md.) yesterday said Senate investigators have been instructed to find out, if they can, why only two persons were f'ned in the "Amerasia" government documents case of 1345. , . . LAKE SUCCESS The Unfied Nations yesterday said 27.000 visitors from 31 countries visited the U. N. during April. destroyers of . ths fifth . flotilla Regulations Schplarship a male citizen of the -United States and unmarried, be between the ages of 19 and 25 on October 1 1, 1951, and have completed at least his sophomore year by the time of application. The qualities which Rhodes specified in his will as forming the basis for selection, are: (1) literary and scholastic ability and attainments; (2) qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devo ship; (3) exhibition of moral tion to duty, sympathy, kindli ness, unselfishness, and fellow force of character - and. of in stincts to lead and' to take an interest in his schoolmates, and (4) physical vigour as shown by interest . in Outdoor sports or in other .ways.'-. ;". Scholarship competition Is or ganized by states and districts. There are eight districts of six states each. Upon recommenda tion by his college or university, a prospective candidate may ap ply either in the state in which he resides or in the state in which he has received at least two years of his college education ' by the time of application. , Each state committee may nom inate two candidates to appear before the district committee, and from the 12 men appearing be fore it, the committee will select four scholars to represent their states at Oxford. Appointments are made for two years in the first instance with a . possible third year for scholars whose record at Oxford and whose plan of study make sufch an award advisable. No re striction is placed upon a Rhodes Schola'r's choice of studies. 1 return to . their, home port alter UNCROTCs Will Cruise In Summer A total of 6 1 midshipmen , from Carolina's NROTC" unit will join over 400 . trainees from 1 6 "other colleges . and, from the Naval Academy in : visits to,East. Coast and Carib bean ports on a training cruise Ihis summer. . V : Captain J. E. Cooper, pro fessor of Naval Science here, ; made the announcement yes-.v: terday," "stating that""" Norfolk, Va., Portland, Me., New York, and one or more unnamed Caribbean ports would be in cluded in the destinations for the. cruise, which will extend from June 5 to July 15.. Taking - part in another training jaunt will be 32 niore University midshipmen who are scheduled' to" go both to .Pensacola and Little Creek, ' Va., for aviation and amphib ious work. The date of this cruise is set from June I 24 through August 5. ' ;,.;' J . Other members of . the Car olina units who .will , partici pate In " Naval activities this summer ' include 17 seniors who are scheduled for duty in junior officer billets oh board active fleet combat vessels, de stroyers and carriers among them.. They will serve as jun ior officers on the particular ship to which they are assign-' ed. ' ' ; ' Five local midshipmen who have elected to go into the Marine Corps have been or dered to Quantico, Va., . for training in the Corps school there. They will report on June ' 19 and stay until the middle of August. ' Two other contract seniors will join in a three-week cruise in the Caribbean from July 6 through 29. ' During these various train ing cruises midshipmen will be given the best on-the-job training," including, practical work in standing shipboard watches, platoon leading, and other drills which will prepare them for their future roles as officers. ' . ' J ... Crop Measurer Jobs Open For Students Jobs of measuring cotton, tobacco jand peanut , acreages paying an average of $10 to $12 . a day but at times as high as $20 are open to students for summer employment. ' Wayland. Jones, of the State Office of the Production and Marketing Administration, will be t present at a meeting in Gerard" Hall tomorrow after-' noon at 2:15 to explain the work. The work will be car Tied on . in every county in -North Carolina. Wages depend upon the worker's productivity. " - cassis.. v New Positions Julian Mason, rising sophomore tfrom Williamston, has been ap pointed by President John San- Iders as chairman of the Elections Board. ' . - Along with Mason, 10 members fat the vote control board were also appointed. ;They are Peggy Warren, Sandra Riach, Tom Co tello, Troy Pate, Betty Cameron, Bill Garrabrant. Al' Donald. Davh Byrd, Bill Rhodes, and Chuck Haywood. , . "The new chairman is at pres ent serving as Assistant Attorney-General, member of the Student Legislature, and .vijee chairman of the Student Party. He had previously served as treasurer of the SP. Mason replaces Jim Gwynn,' who headed the board for both of this year's elections. Other appointments announced by the student government office yesterday included those of Gil bert Marsh to the Student Audit Board, Dot Manns and Carolyn Stallings to the Budget Commit tee, and Hamp Davis and Ted Leonard to the Dance Committee. The new appointments virtual ly clean upthe appointive work of President Sanders. Since tak ing over office as president, San ders has made appointments to over a dozen governmental agen cies. A special appointments com mittee of the Student' Legisla ture has been considering the ap pointments, and all appointments made have been approved by the body. The job of filling special sum-; mer school student government jobs has been left up to the chairmen of the Honor Councils, Sanders said yesterday. Under the new student Constitution, the summer school governmental setup will include both Honor Councils and a summer school government board, with- wide executive, judicial and legisla tive functions. . YMCA Sefs New Drive For Clothes ; Clothing is still a scarcity in Europe and the need of clothing over mere is greater than ever. according to the American Friends Service Committee, the YMCA pointed out yesterday. To aid this cause on the UNC campus the YMCA will conduct a clothing drive this last week of school for packages to send to Europe. . The YMCA urged that as the students pack to go home for the summer, they will, instead of throwing away clothes not need ed any more, add them to the drive. And Merchant's Gifts GereWeigand Gets$l45 From Generous Students By Rolfe Ncill ' Any delusions about American friendliness thrust ; upon Gere Weigand Friday after he was robbed while hitch-hiking to Washington, were probably blot ted out yesterday as a campus generosity as warm as the' May sun replaced the German stu dent's stolen clothing and money. Weigand allegedly was the vic tim of a theft when three youths reportedly left him stranded at a sandwich shop on U. S. High way 1 just outside Raleigh as they made off with $125, some By Roy Parker, Jr. The Chapel Hill Telephone Company, University-owned ser vice company, received the green light on its $250,000 expansion program at Mondays meeting of the Board of Trustees, but still faces the problem of getting the needed money. The Board, after hearing a spe cial report on the expansion passed a motion for the telephone company to "do anything neces sary to" expand its service, sub-ney-General as to method." ney-General a sto method." ' The possibility of a government loan had been discussed by the board. ! Trustee D. L. Ward o' New Bern raised the question of whether the Board of Trustees had the Jegal power to borrow the money. Then the substitute mo tion was accepted. Despite the expansion report's outlook, the situation as to phone service in Chapel Hill was con sidered "good." The report point ed out that since 1945 the number of telephones operated from the Chapel Hill exchange had doub led. In the past 18 months a 20 percent increase has been noted. Most of the work now being done is outside the town limits. The situation had been called the main "headache" on the local utilities front when the committee to look into expansion was first set up. The State Utilities Commission conducted the investigation into the need for expansion. The re port itself was released by Gov ernor Scott. At that time Scott said he believed it would be to the best interests of the state tc retain ownership of the company. There had been suggestions that' it be turned over to a private concern. The trustees unanimously de cided against doing away with the present setup. The Utilities Commission report noted that there were some 400 unfilled orders existing in the Chapel Hill area in March, and that present rates are lower than in other Tar Heel towns. The $250,000 figure was considered enough to fill present orders, and to assure adequate service for sometime in the future. The company is expected to pre sent a money-raising plan within Lawyer Tells Radiomen To Beware Of Freedom Broadcast licensees must be vigilant to preserve their rights as citizens as well as licensees, Andrew G. Haley, former Feder-. al Communication Commission counsel, now a radio lawyer in Washington, D. C, warned North Carolina broadcasters at yester day's sessions of the state organ ization here. ! j Haley said that in the "May I flower" decision in 1941, "the clothes, and a valuable camera The money was what Weigand tnnttiiy naa managea to save ., ,. from his State Department allow ance. An Alpha Phi Omega booth set up in the Y Court yesterday col lected $85 from students and others who hated to see the young Munich architect return home with a disillusioned outlook about America. Weigand leaves the University tomorrow with his If fellow exchange students for tour of Eastern America before returning to his homeland, wife, (See GERMAN, page 4) the next few weeks. Trustee John Umstead of Chapel Hill was one of those who asked that the Board of Trustees be given power and authority to borrow money for the project. He said a short age of living space was forcing many people to live outside of the town limits and asserted that Alumni Association Bids For New Members By Wuff Newell With commencement less than two weeks away, a great many seniors are beginning to wonder if they will continue to keep up with the doings of their classmates or if they will soon lose track of them. Last Recital Is Scheduled For 4 Today The final weekly student re cital, featuring " students in the Department of Music, will be presented this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Hill Hall. The featured works on this af ternoon's program win be a per formance of the Third" Sonata for Flute and " Piano by Handel, played by Camille Turner,' Hut-j ist, accompanied by Betty Cpmp-! ton at the piano; and the first movement of the Brahms Sonata in F minor, Opus 120, No. 1, for clarinet and piano, - played by Clarence Hayes, clarinetist, and Wallace Zimmerman, piano. George Williams, ;: organ, will play two Chorale-Preludes by Bach, and the remainder of the program will consist of a-group of Chopin works f or the piano, played by Sue Black, . James Wpodward, and Benjy Haywood. FCC held that licensees could not express their own opinions on priving licensees of basic consti- controversial subjects, thus de tutional privileges. "For eight years licensees fol lowed this prescription because apparently none undertook to spend the time or money to fight it, ' he said. "Licensees are al ways in deathly fear of losing their licenses which is the death penalty in their business. "In 1949 the FCC on its own motion removed the ban against stations' editorializing. But this important episode in living as second class citizens for eight years should cause the licensees to be vigilant in the future and to oppose as a group further en croachments on' their constitu tional rights." Other speakers on the program, presided over by Robert Wal lace, Station WOHS of Shelby, president of the State Association of Broadcasters, included Harold Essex, Fourth District Director, National Association of Broad casters, and Rodney Chipp, Di rector of Engineering. DuMont Television, ,New York. A final business session was held this afternoon following a luncheon at the Morehead Plane tarium building and a special Planetarium show, "Trip to the Moon." ' was the place where expansion was especially needed. Several student surveys of the phone situation have pointed to a lack of adequate service in the system. One conducted by the University Party was the basis for a plank in the UP platform asking- for improved service. Realizing that most students do not want to forget about their friends and associations here, the General Alumni Association has issued an invitation to all seniors to join the one big group that almost always knows the where abouts of University graduates.' Formed to promote interest in the University and education in general the Association serves as a. liaison between the University and the alumni body. It ac- , complishes this purpose by keep ing up to date files on as many as possible of the 45,000 gradu ates in every state and 44 foreign countries. Headed by Alumni Secretary May r on ; Saunders and Assistant Secretary Bill Shuford, the As sociation issues The Alumni Re view several times a year. Each week during the fall the Asso ciation publishes a four page football supplement giving a play by play account of the game as well as action shots and com plete statistics. Membership in the Association, which includes a subscription to the Review, is $3 a year. Gradu ating seniors, however, pay only $1 for their first year's dues. "Over 400 members of the sen ior class have already joined the Association, and we hope .that 1,000 will join by commence ment," Shuford said. "University alumni in many different states have regular meetings, and- we want this year's graduates to be able to participate in them, too." Shuford added that the Asso ciation keeps a complete file on names, addresses, classes, wed dings and honors received by all graduates of the University. When an alumni group in any city wishes to have a meeting, the Alumni Office here is able to send them a list of all alumni in that area. News of alumni is also printed in the Review. Shuford also requested that all alumni notify the office of any changes in addresses so the Alumni files can be kept accur ate and up to date. Degree Candidates All degree candidates who ex pect lo participate in commence ment exercises will meet to get instructions in Memorial Hall at 4:15 this afternoon. Dr. J. C. Lyons, faculty com mencement marsh all. will ex plain commencement procedures to the group, which will Include over 1,500 students expected to get degrees. 'Lyons will explain gradua tion procession problems, cap and gown details, and review the program planned, for the commencement week. All degree candidates are urged to be at the meeting, since much of the information to be given out will not be repeated again. The Daily Tar Heel will carry a . complete roundup of graduation week exercises to morrow. '
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