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U N- C LIBRARY slrials dept. CHAPEL HILL, U. 8-31-49 .WEATHER Rain, windy, and rather cool. Much colder tonight. VOLUME LIX Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C. ' THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1950 United Press NUMBER 63 6Goeds!T In Early Morning Ceremony In prc-dawn ceremonies hero this morning, six senior coeds wire tapped into the Valkyries, highest woman's honorary society on campus. New members are Anne Brewer, Nancy Her, Judy Sanford, Gre vilda Snyder, Rosalie Varn and Barbara Whipple. The Valkyries select their members on the basis of char acter, leadership, scholarship, and service. Membership is limited to two per cent of the coed student body. In keeping with tne tradition of the organization, the impres sive rituals were carried out in the darkness of early morning' Valkyrie members, dressed in black robes and sounding a gong, walked through the dormitory and sorority halls tapping the six girls. None of the girls knew in ad vance that they were to receive the honor. Draft Officials Ask For Money To Test Students For Deferment Special to The Daily Tar Heel WASHINGTON, Dee. 6 Selec tive Service officials have asked for an appropriation to test the learning capacity of more than a million college students next spring -as the basis of a student deferment program, it was learn ed today. ' First skirmish on the student deferment question probably the most controversial problem fac ing draft officials is expected to come when the money request; sent to the budget Bureau, reaches Congress for action. And at the same time, other developments affecting all male draft-age students include: 1. Increased reports among some educators of opposition and counter proposals to any form of selective deferment of students. 2. Plans by draft officials to invite interested groups to a pub lic meeting here within the next few weeks, when an educational advisory committee will make of ficial recommendations to Selec tive Service Director Lewis B. llershey. The same advisory group, representing- all fields of education, recently proposed a national ap titude test to screen students on their ability, rather than to single out any so-called essential fields -f study. Under the plan, the de ferment would depend also on students maintaining specific scholastic standards. During the last few months, draft officials have been working with a professional testing organ ization on development of an ade quate national test, as well as plans for administering -it. Ex perience, the official said, shows that the cost of giving the test to small groups is about $10 a per son. On a "mass basis," he . said, the cost might be cut about 75 per cent. If, as estimated by one source, the test would be given to about a million students a year, cost of the program, therefore, might in volve about $2,500,000. The cost thereafter would drop sharply, since only freshmen would. have Going Home Eva Rosa Lehrnbecher. 22-year-old member of Ihe Yackety Yack Beauty Court who leaped to her death from a New York apartment window .Tuesday af" lernoon, will be buried in her hometown of Brachial. '' Ger many. The pretty Carolina coed came to this country in Septem ber on a foreign students ex change program. She was staying in the 'apart ment of Marie Sommer, sister of Sebastian Sommer of Chapel Hill. Miss Sommer said her brother and Miss Lehrnbecher became engaged Sunday. No reason for ihe suicide has yet been determined. Honorary Society Observes Tradition In Pre-Dawn Rites Anne Brewer, from Birming ham, Ala., is a member of the Woman's Honor Council, Coed Senate, the YWCA Coed DiscusT sions Committee, YW Advisory Board, Budget Committee, and is a student advisor. Nancy Her Ms from St. Peters burg, Fla. She is president of the Pah-Hellenic Council, a member of the President's advisory cab inet, Orientation Committee, Campus Chest Board, YW Cab inet, and co-chairman of the Mon treat Conference Committee. Judy Sanford is from Chatham, N. J. She is Clerk of the Woman's Honor Council, a member of The to be examined after the first J testing. Officially, draft spokesmen say the agency will have no student deferment plan until Congress approves one. The preliminary Plans Are DTH Plans to rent special engraving machinery to provide The Daily Tar Heel with a continuous sup ply of local pictures were sum marily cancelled at this week's meeting of the Publications Board because of a serious financial sit uation, the Board announced yes terday. A report by Financial Coordin ator Ernest S. DeLaney showed that Carolina publications could not operate at the present rate without going into the hole finan cially and urged that immediate .steps be taken to correct the sit uation. By unanimous vote of the Board it- was decided that the new engraver would be a "lux ury" that could not be aflqrded. DeLaney also reported that The Daily Tar Heel had bills for per sonal . long distance telephone; calls in the amount of $221.18 still outstanding from last year. The Board ordered "these bills paid by Jan. 5 or threatened disciplin ary action against offenders. , The Board also reiterated a rul ing laid down early this year in which it stated that telephones of the various student publications could not be used for personal long distance telephone calls. This ruling by the Board remains in effect no matter what the Student Council or the Legislature rules. Chairman Zane Robbins com mented, "The action of the Board in laying down specific rules gov erning the use of its telephones is, actually, nothing ' more than good business. We would be fool ish to continue letting- personal calls slip through as' they have done in the past. 'This action is merely intended to sweep clean our somewhat un tidy backyii d. 'A' nunlber of the debts still outstanding were im Phi Asembly Elects Officers For Winter The Philanthropic Assembly has completed officer elections for the. winter quarter. Officers elected are Mel Res pass, speaker; Ham Horton, speaker protem; Ed Rodman, par liamentarian; Al House, critic; Kent Jackson, clerk; Dick Brad shaw, treasurer; and Sol Cherry, sergeant-at-arms. ' For eyries Daily Tar Heel staff, the Yackety Yack staff, YW Cabinet, and is also a student advisor. Grevilda Snyder is Treasurer of the YW, on the YW Executive Council, and is in the Splash Club. In summer school she was acting president of Spencer dorm itory and acting chairman of the Woman's Honor Council. She is from Denton. Rosalie Varn, from Petersburg, Va., is president of Spencer dorm itory, president of the Woman's Interdormitory v Council, member of the Splash Club, YW Cabinet, President's advisory cabinet and the Orientation Committee. From Perry, Ga., Bobbie Whipple is vice-president of the Woman's Glee Club, member of the Wo man's Honor Council, Orienta tion Committee, YWCA, Pan Hellenic Council, Judicial Study Committee, and is a newly elected member of the Student Council. testing work, they say, is nec essary in case Congress goes along with the proposal. - But Gen. Hershey is known to favor strongly the principle pro posed by his advisory group. Canceled Engraver curred as many as two years ago." The Board also pledged $3,000 of its government bonds as col lateral for a loan which Assistant Dean of Students Friday will ob tain for the Board. This money will be used to pay Lassiter Press in Charlotte, printers of , the Yackety Yack, the balance due on printing the 1950 yearbook. Speaker Says Chinese Wont Go Below 38th The Chinese Communists will not try .to go below the 38th parallel in Korea, Charles A. Wells, writer and cartoon ist who has traveled extensive ly in the Orient, said in an address last night before the Chapel Hill Rotary Club. "If the Communists stop at the 38th parallel, as I believe they will, it will then be up to the United Nations to es tablish a strong defense line and , embark on the biggest campaign of ideas the world has ever known," said Wells, who is giving a series of il lustrated lectures in the Chapel Hill Baptist Church this week through tomorrow night. "The Chinese Communists figure they can put us in the role of aggressors if they stop Don't Be Lonesome GM Will Be Open During Vacation; Town Girls Plan Parties And Dance 'Graham Memorial will be open night. Refreshments and enter during the Christmas vacations tainment "are planned for the for the benefit of all students re- evening. - maining on campus and for the use of townspeople as well. - The Town Girls Association has planned a vacation program of varied activities to provide enter tainment for the students remain ing here; On, Dec. 22 there will be a semi formal dance at Graham Memorial featuring the music of Skip Ether idge and his orchestra. The dance will be held from 9 p.m. to mid- Gl Enrollment Is Fifth Lower Than Last Fall State VA Office Reveals Figures To Nov. 1, 1950- Veterans' fall enrollments -in North Carolina schools ..- and col leges are running about 20 per cent under last fall, the Veterans Administration disclosed yester day. '. On Nov. 1, 1950, the total num ber of veterans attending all types of schools from colleges to grade schools under the GI Bill and Public Law 16 (for disabled veterans) was 26,471. The total a year ago was 33,006. The figures in North Carolina are in keeping with the National trend, which shows" total enroll ments off a like 20 per cent. A year ago the national enrollment totaled 1,628,700 while this year's figure is only i,293,500. College and university enroll- ! ments took the greatest plunge in j Both were nominated by the Bi the Tar Heel totals, dropping 42 , Partisan Board. Love got 467 per cent below last fall. On Nov. 1, 1950, enrollments were only 8, 095, compared with 14,050 on Nov. 1 a year ago. , The number of veterans train ing in schools below the college level on the 1950 date was only three per cent under the Nov. 1, 1949, figure. The, drop was from 18,956 in 1949 to 18,376 this fall. This is in contrast to the na tional figures which show that college level enrollments dropped only 30 per cent while the below-collegc-level veteran enrollees were 12 per cent fewer. This fall's enrollments in col leges and universities are 60 per cent off the 1947 peak of 19,950. The enrollments in other schools held fairly steady, being only six per cent off the peak of 19,597 on Dec. 1, 1949. More than half of the stale's population of World War II vets eligible for training have taken it. at the 38th dividing line," said Wells, who pointed out that Nehru, the Indian Prime, Min ister, "warned the United Na tions after their liberation of South Korea that they would be inviting serious trouble if they continued to the Man churian border." Wells asserted that "we are living in a world in which ideas usually referred to as propaganda are playing a more important role than guns and tanks. Hitler and Musso lini both demonstrated how effective propaganda could be in conquering other nations. I talked with Hitler and heard him speak many times. He, was convinced that ideas would prevail if repeated often enough to large audiences." On Dec. 24 interested parties will meet at Graham Memorial to form a Christmas Carol group. The-group will tour the town sing ing carols and then will return to Graham Memorial for hot choc olate and cookies. Everyone is in vited to participate in this func tion. The Town Girls will hold open house in Graham Memorial dur raw iMrcit: Few Positions To Be Decided In Fall Wind Up ... i Frosh Prexy, Veep, Two Solons Scats Due For Re-Voting By Rolfe Neill A half dozen student govern ment positions will be decided today when runoffs are held for last Thursday's fall election. A light vote is expected. Carolina's fall elections are similar in consequence to U. S. "off -year" balloting. Half of a new Student Legislature is selec ted along with class officers, any seats open on Men's and Women's Honor Councils, and several min or positions. The most important job to be decided in today's 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. voting is the junior seat on the Men's Honor Council. Bob Strickland will face Ed Love. votes last week and Strickland 402. Bill McLendon with 221 was eliminated. Interest will center on the two top posts in the freshman class. After some fancy pre-election shananigans, frosh voted and ended up with a runoff for Stan Tesle (Ind.) and Bob Ellington (UP). Bill Cheshire, another in dependent, who polled but four votes less than Tesler, yesterday threw his support to Ellington. ...Jerry - Hendrick (Ind.) and Mitchell Novit (UP) face each other for the vice-presidency. Hendrick polled 18 votes less than Novit's 162 in last week's vote. Ken Myers (SP) was elminiated with only two less than Hendrick. For the Coed , Senate, ( Helen Brundage and Eunice Bizzell are trying for a six months seat from Spencer Dormitory. Only four votes separated them in last week's tallies. Winx Wheeler, Sara Ann Proc tor, Adair Beasley, Martha Ann Smith, Mimi Weil, Johnnie Ann McClaran, Barbara Chantler, and Frankie Strosnider are in the runoff for four at large seats for the Coed Senate. In the Student Legislature, Mel Respass (Ind.), Ted Westbrook (SP), Hilliard Staton (SP), and Don Evans (UP), are In a runoff ! from Men's Dorm Two for three one year terms. P. J. Warren (SP) , Jo King (SP), and Peggy : Stewart (UP) will be trying for two terms in the Legislature from Dorm Wom en's One. Julian Mason, Chairman of the Elections Board, yesterday asked all people interested in counting ballots to come to the Graham Memorial Roland Parker Lounges as soon after 6:30 p.m. as possible. He added that complete elec tion returns for last week's elec tion and the runoff soon will be available in the student govern ment office. , Students with delinquent ex pense accounts have until 6 p.m. today to turn them afid $1 in to Mason. ing the entire vacation. There will be dancing in ; the Rendezvous Room every evening, and bridge and canasta in the main lounge. Another attraction will be the awarding of prizes to the high scorers in the canasta and bridge games. The Town Girls Association has especially planned this program for the benefit of students who will not be able to make the trip home for the , holidays, and for those foreign students on campus. t II t SSI ImSSSS mS8 22 i M arines Break Out Facing Possible 'Dunkerque 'Advance Units Reach Hcmmcd-ln Yanks At Koto; Artillery Support Greatest Ever t - TOKYO, Thursday, Dec. 7 (UP) Fifteen thousand U. S. Marines and Army infantrymen smashed out of a Communist en circlement at Hagaru today and dashed 10 miles toward a possible Northend Selected As Rhodes Scholar Charles Allan Northend, Carolina student from Chapel Hill, and William Lee Baldwin, Duke University student from Durham, were winners last night in the state competition here for 'Rhodes Scholarships for the next academic year. The two winners, among nine competing on a basis of interviews with members of the state committee on selec tion, will represent the state in the district contest in Char lotte Saturday when applicants from North and South Caro lina and Virginia will compete. Judges here .were Dean C. P. Spruill of the University, secretary of the selection com mittee; D. Ed Hudgins, Greens boro; Dr. Robert Lee Humber,.. Greenville; Bishop Edwin A. UNC Hour Begins New Series Today The University Hour will be broadcast tonight over station WDNC from 10:30 to 11 o'clock as the Greater University pro gram begins its first week of broadcasting this season. "Not by the Book," a Civil Wax action drama, based on the career of General James Johnston Pet tigrew, will be heard on the Durham station. The drama is the story of a courageous former Car olinian who led his men at Ceme tery Ridge. Forty-five stations are broad casting .the 13-weck University program which is returning to the air for the fourth straight year. All the programs are produced in the Communications Center stu dios here where they are tran scribed or sent by wire to radio stations. WRAL will broadcast the pro gram every Saturday at 3 p.m., and will feature the Pettigrew story this Saturday. Tom Tucker of Monroe portrays General Pet tigrew, Jim Heldman of Durham plays his aide, and Walt Whitaker of Graham is featured as General Wade Hampton. - Singing the mountain ballads which provide background for the story is Horace "Skip" Mann of World Peace To Be Topic -. "Is There Any Hope Tor World Peace" will be the topic of dis cussion at a meeting sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconcilia tion to be held Friday at 7 o' clock in the Presbyterian Church. George Houser, staff member of the reconciliation group, will speak. The organization is a group working for peace trying to educate and carry out a pro gram of peace for the world on a personal witness and individual level, a spokesman for the group said. All students are invited to attend. ! Dunkerque evacuation by sea. Advance units of the fighting Marines swept ahead 10 miles to reach . Koto where , 5,000 other Yanks had been hemmed in. The beleagufed 1st Marines Penick, Raleigh, chairman of the selection committee; and William - A. Rosenborough, Durham. Besides Northend and Bald win, applicants today were Ar thur John Stringer, Jr. Mt. Lakes, N. J., Duke University; Theodore Joseph Ziolkowski, Montevallo, Ala., Duke; John ' Victor Hunter, III, Winston Salem, Davidson College; Ar thur Gage Murphy, Jr., Macon, Miss., Carolina; and Sydney M. Cone, III, Greensboro, Haverford College. One applicant, Richard L. Powers, St. Pauls, who has studied at East Carolina Teachers College and Louisi " ana State. .University, was not present. Norfolk, Va. Both students and townspeople are working for the productions. The University Hour portrays the lives of outstanding men and women of the University. Accord ing to Arthur V. Briskin, producer-director of the Hour, "The series this year iij even better. They are a high standard of dram atic radio which wc hope will help North Carolinians to under stand better all divisions of their University." Dr. Graham Asks UN Veto Be Abolished RICHMpND, Va., Dec. 6 P) A former United States Senator said here today that the veto in the United Nations should be abolished or subject to "rigid restriction." In a plea for stronger UN, Dr. Frank P. Graham also urged that the organization have an in ternational police force and a world court with jurisdiction over crimes of individuals against the UN. Dr. Graham, former Senator from North Carolina and ex President of the University of North Carolina, spoke at the third general session of the 55th annual, convention of the South ern Association of Collpges and Secondary Schools. Turning to ..this, nation,.. 'Dr. Graham said that now the elec tions are over, "we must now close ranks as Americans . . .as citizens of our common country in a world threatening to human freedom." Another speaker told the edu cators today that American col leges must take the lead in the "campaign of truth" to combat the lies spread by the Soviet propaganda machine.. Of Trap, were making a desperate fight for their lives as they struck southward from the Chosin Res ervoir area through a valley of fire. They were supported by the greatest concentration of artillery fire ever to work with the Leath ernecks while Marine, Navy and Air Force fighter-bombers pro vided a solid canopy of 'bullets and bombs. The fighting retreat began Wednesday at dawn. By early morning today the advance -elements cleared the path to Koto WASHINGTON. Dec. 6 (UP) President Truman and British Prime Minister Clement Atllee axe firmly resolved not to with draw their out-numbered forces from Korea unless they are crushed by the Chinese Com munist hordes, it was disclosed today. first objective of the forces try ing to smash their way through Communist hordes to the port of Hamhung. With the Marines were 7th Di vision elements and the Royal Marine Commandos, a small British unit that was the only force to break through the en trapment from the south with supplies and ammunitions. x Between these forces and the Allied-held flat country north of Hamhung were 20 miles more of treacherous artillery filled val leys, ice-glazed mountain roads, rand hairpin turns made to order for enemy ambushes. . Along and near the nightmarish escape route are the remains of at least six Chinese divisions and probably more who have been getting into position for two weeks to try and stop the retreat to the sea. Marine officers said the road to safety could be the toughest bat tle in Marine Corps history. Playmakers' Program Free Here Tonight The Carolina Playmakers will present a bill of three original one-act plays as the second in a series of six student productions tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. There is no admission charge, and a discussion will follow. Nancy Henderson's "A Sea Change" is slated as the curtain raiser. It is a flok comedy set in a small fishing village on the west coast of Florida. Written last summer, it deals with the humor ous problems of the Greek fish ermen who settled the area. "A Spell for Davey" by Frank Groseclose is scheduled second. Described as a folk tragedy, the play is built around a study of a particular case of racial preju dice which led to murder in a small Georgia village. ; A fast paced comedy, "The Tiff any Touch" by Albert Klein, will conclude the performances. The hilarity results from .the conflict between a small town jeweler, who lives for the art of salesman ship, and his son who delights, in pricking the old man's vanity. i, Concert Tonight ..The Men's and Women's Glee Clubs will hold their last per formance tonight in Hill Hall at 8:30 in the annual Christmas concert. The group will present a va riety of selections including 17th century chorale music, old English carols, and traditional carols. Admission to the concert is free. The public is cordially invited.
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