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v7 ii1 hi I, I I ii WEATHER Cloudy and warm with chance of rain in late afternoon, 90 high. VOLUME LXI NUMBER 152 4i r "i - TEX Tex Beneke In Memorial Tex Beneke comes to town to morrow night for the benefit of seniors and juniors, beginning at 8 o'clock at Memorial Hall. The program winds up an ener getic Senior Week which started last Monday with seniors showing off their bare feet. During intermission, Mr. Alum nus and Miss Alumna will be an nounced by Dean Ernest L. Mackie, chairman of a special faculty com mittee. This is the first year that such an award is being made. Beneke-was here last year for a German's concert and dance. Suc cessor to Glenn Miller, Tex sings and plays the saxophone as well as leads his orchestra. When the news came that Major Glenn Miller was missing while in the Air Force in 1944, Beneke secured permission from Mrs. Mil ler, to take over the Miller band 11 is r tV ft !r t : Carolina's NROTC Riflemen Win Cup In National Match WASHINGTON The University of North Carolina's Naval ROTC rifle team took top honors to win the coveted Secretary of the Navy cup in nation-wide competition, Secretary of the Navy Robert B. Anderson said yesterday. Out of a possible team score of 1500, the Tar Heel shooters mark ed up 1411 points. The UNC Mid dies ledabo ut 70 other teams from Naval ROTC units all over the country. Individual cup winner was a middie from the University of Illinois who scored 295 out of a possible 300. An average score is 230. Last year, Illinois took first place, while the Tar Heels were 63th. The five man UNC team and their scores were Joseph F. Rosen berg, Troy, Ala. and Raymond L. White, Columbus, Ga. .tied for top score with 287; John P. Jackson, Eau Gallie, Fla., 233; Donald L. Harley, Haddonfeld, N. J., 282, and Elon A. Abernethy Blowing Rock, 275. TSgt. John A. Quinn, USMC, is coach of the quintet. Captain J. S. Keating, command ing officer of the Chapel Hill Na val unit, commented, "This is the greatest honor we've received in years." For the Carolina riflemen, the Secretary of the Navy trophy was the latest in a series of honors. Fraternities Fined The Inter-Fraternity Council Court this week fined a fratern ity $25 for conviction of a charge of missing two consecu tive IFC meetings. The group pleaded guilty to the charge and was convicted. Under IFC rules, fraternities can't legally miss two IFC meet ings in a row. IS "J BENEKE Serenade Tomorrow as he had planned it for postwar entertainment. Beneke joined Miller in 1939 at the suggestion of Gene Krupa. His best recordings with Miller were "Kalamazoo" and "Chattanooga Choo Choo." At age 13, Beneke organized his first band. The worn out sax that Beneke plays is ten years old. Originally costing $200, Tex has spent over $750 in repairs and refinishing on the instrument. . , . The selection of Mr. and Mrs. Alumnus and Miss Alumna was done by a committee composed of: Dean Guy B. Phillips, Dean Thom as H. Carroll, Professor Walter Spearman, Dean Clifford P. Lyons, Dean E. A. Brecht, Dean Fred Weaver, Dean Katherine K. Car michael and Dean Mackie. The team won the ROTC Southern Conference title, the Sixth Naval District regional area contest, and took sixth place in the William R. Hearst trophy contest. This year, the team has won 33 postal matches out of 34. Competing schools sent in their scores through the mail recently. Officials from the National Rifle Association graded the scores. The silver Secretary of the Navy cup weighs about 65 pounds and is rotated to the new winner each year. Mural Debate Is Tomorrow The annual intramural debate tournament begins tomorrow and is scheduled to run through Wed nesday. The debate topic this year is "Resolved: That the President of the United States should be elect ed by the direct vote of the peo ple." Awards to winners of the tour nament are a large team trophy which rotates each year and two permanent trophies to individual winners. Research material on the topic of debate is available at the Li- brary. Tournament officials said the Library staff will cooperate with anyone interested in gather ing the material. Student Wives Student wives will meet Tues day night at 8 o'clock in the YWCA. Mrs. Virginia Atkins will talk on "How to Choose, Use and Care For Your Sterling. Mrs. Joy Taylor will speak on "Ideas For Interesting Center Pieces." "if u n Klan Fighter On Campus Pulitzer Winning Carter Got Little Police Help By John Jamison He is a young bespectacled fel low of slight build who somehow doesn't look the part of a Pulitzer Prize winner. And his face shows a little embarrassment over the whole thing. Horace G. Carter, editor of the Tabor City Tribune, recent winner of the highest honor in journalism, is on the cmapus this weekend for the North Carolina Editorial Writers' Conference. He got here a little early and spent Friday morning chatting with friends and students in Bynum Hall. Carter is very candid now in his criticism of public officials and others who failed to back him up in his long crusade against the Ku Klux Klan, just as candid as he was in the crusade itself. "I never felt that the local po lice officers did anything at all to halt the Klan's activities until the FBI made the first arrests," the 32-year-old UNC graduate said. He recalled one instance in which he proposed to Tabor City officials that an arbitrary drivers' license check be pulled in the town during one of the Klan's automobile parades. The officials, he said, refused to ask the State Highway Patrol to take this action, "or we would have at least known the names of a few Klansmen a whole year before we did." Carter said his "crusade" began back in 1951 when the South Caro lina branch of the Klan moved across the state line into Tabor City one night to stage its first scare parade there. ("About 30 odd cars drove through town and headed for 'the bottom, a Negro section. The lead car carried an illuminated cross on the hood, .nd all the cars had their dome lights on, revealing four or five hooded figures inside. In 'the bottom' four or five shots were fired from the cars.") "In the next issue of The Tri bune I ran an editorial in 10 point bold face type right down the middle of page one. I told mv readers how I felt about the Ku Kluxers, that no group had the right to attempt rule by fear, and that no group had the right to say that one race is superior to another." For a good many months follow ing, The Tribune made an editorial page out of page one, Carter said, and the Klan's activities continued at full speed. Carter received im plied, but not actual, threats, tell ing him he was a "low-grade mor on and a Communist." Little Ku Klux stickers were pasted all ovei his car and his office door. "I was observed in my home on Something New Added New 1953 Full Color The big, blue and beautiful 1953 Yackety-Yack rolled off the pres- ses this week and on to the Caro lina campus. Decorated with a full color cov er, the '53 version of the campus annual will be ready for campus consumption tomorrow. Students may pick up their Yacks by bring ing their ID cards to the Williams Wolfe lounge in Graham Memor ial this week from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The new Yack sports several in novations. Introductory photo pag es are embellished with strokes of Carolina blue. The last page of the introduction is a color shot of one of the most pleasant scenes in everyday Carolina life. As the new Yack says, it in- CHAPEL HILL, N. C SUNDAY, MAY ODOD0S many occasions by Klansmen who would drive silently by the house with their headlights off," he said. But I was sufficiently armed, J think, to put up a good deal of resistance." (He kept firearms in his home but never carried one on his person.) Probably as a result of Carter's newspaper campaign, 19 Klansmen are now serving prison sentences, including Thomas L. Hamilton, the self-made "Imperial Wizard" of the KKK. Hamilton, an ex-grocer and a 32nd degree Mason, is now occupied on a South Carolina chain gang near Myrtle Beach. Why did Hamilton revive the Klan? Carter says he's a shrewd busi nessman and saw in the Klan a good thing financially. He had re cruited 30,000 members in South Carolina at $10 a head. ("All they got for the $10 was a bed sheet and a hood.") In an afternoon-long interview with Carter before the trial, Ham ilton maintained the Klan's inno cence of the flogging charges, de nying the KKK had taken part in any of the 30 beating incidents it had been accused of. But later hjg admitted guilt on two counts before the court. ("He is two-faced," Carter says.) Right now Horace Carter is run ning for mayor of little Tabor City (He declared his candidacy before the Pulitzer Prizes were announc ed). A few days ago a man who was considering running against Carter in the election expressed doubt that he could beat a man who had just won a Pulitzer Prize. A friend, who has little faith in the intelligence of the Tabor City electorate, advised him to spread the word that Carter had bought of pullets. "If they hear he's been tickets to a raffle and won a bunch in a gambling game they'll never vote for him." McLeod Heads Men's Council At a recent meeting of the Men's Council, George McLeod, president elect of the Senior Class, was chosen as chairman of the Coun cil. McLeod, who is from Florence, S. C. is also a member of Phi Eta Sigma and has served on the Orien tation Committee. He is a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. At the same meeting, Herbert Browne of Columbia, S. C. was chosen clerk. ITS Yackety-Yack Has Cover Photograph i eludes the happier memories beauty contests, dances and famil iar South Building steps. Also it records a few sad memories hours spent in required courses, news of Saturday classes and Ken an Stadium during football sea- son. Beauty is represented in a big way in this year's Yack. Twelve queens or princesses, as Yack editors say adorn the beauty sec tion. The comely coeds include Ruta Bergmanis, Mase Chapin, Kathleen Dover, Bish Fox, Peg Hall, Ann Hartzog, Mary Elizabeth Lindeman, Beth Lloyd, Page Moore, Sara Rose, Carman Nahm, and Virginia Wilson. The inside cover contains a black and white panorama of cam mm 17, 1953 v DAG HAMMARSKJOLD, ' new United Nations Secretary-General, puffs on a cigar as he holds his first press conference since succeeding Trygve Lie. Ham -marskjold said that he believes "there is a very long way to go" before a Korean armistice is reached. NEA Telephoto. Teachers Will Take In Picnic Tomorrow PM Final plans for the School of Education Student-Faculty Picnic tomorrow have been completed. The menu for the picnic will be hamburgers, hot ;dogs, potato chips, ice cream, soft drinks, and sweet, sour and dill pickles. Plan ned recreation will include relay races, horseshoe pitching, darts, archery and square dancing. There will also be a supervised children's recreational program, separate from that for the adults. , As previously stated by letter and newspaper, the picnic will be held at camp site number one in Crabtree State Park near Raleigh, and the price of tickets is 75 cents, with children admitted free. The picnic will start at 5 o'clock, with the serving of food set for six and recreation at seven o'clock. Seniors and juniors will be able to return to Chapel Hill in time for the Tex Beneke concert at 8 o'clock. Free transportation will be leaving from Peabody Hall at 4 o'clock. There is shelter available at the park in case of rain. Lazy Literates Dr. Robert Mann, of the Mathe matics Department, will talk to the Lazy Literates Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Subject of Dr. Mann's talk and the discussion following is "Christianity and Communism pus activities. Pages of candid photos give samples of the lighter side of Carolina life. The sports section, edited by Tom McDonald, bears the outline of the football squad's formation with lines from positions to each player's picture. Hugh Gale is editor of this year's Yackety-Yack. Russ Cowel is business manager. Other staffers include Managing Editor Bob Col bert, Senior Class Editor Helen Gustafson, Graduate and Profes sional Schools Editor Mary Lilla Browne, Freshman Editor Sarah Jane Capps, Photography Identifi cation Editor Hartwell Conklin Junior Editor Margarite Grady Fraternity Editor Gene Hafer and Sophomore Editor Mary Mitchell Tok 20TKDL n Sudd on Golfers Eleven Over Par; Sylvia Defeats Bradford By The Sports Staff The Tar Heels came out on top in two out of four of the confer ence tournaments this weekend. The dominated their competition, the baseball team came in second all of which added up to a successful weekend for Carolina. Led by Jimmy Ferree, UNC senior, the golf team had an 11 over ' ; par 579 to set a new conference Concert Band Will Perform . fii Davie Poplar The University Concert Band, under the direction of Earl A. Slocum, will present the second of its 1953 series of lawn con certs today at 4:30 by Davie Pop lar. In case of rain the concert will be held in Hill Music Hall. Included in today's program are: "Men of Ohio March," Henry Fillmore; "Suite of Old American Dances," Bennett; "Selections from Porgy and Bess," Gershwin; "Psyche and Eros,' Franck; "Spite in F," Hoist; and a number of light, popular arrangements. The pro gram conncludes. with the tradi tional' 'Hark! The Sound." The public is invited to attend. YWCA Group Receives First Currie Award For having rendered constant service, while upholding the Chris tian outlook of the YWCA, the Hospital Committee of the Y re ceived the first Gay Currie Serv ice Award recently at the instal- ation program in Gerrard Hall. The 53 Y Cabinet set up the award to be a reminder that the work of all committees is worthy of mention and for a challenge to future servers of the Y. The title of the award went to Gay Currie, executive director of the Y, who after assisting the YW for five years, leaves Carolina in June. The Hospital Committee, under the leadership of Rosemary Sco- vil, helped at the Memorial Hos pital throughout the year. Coeds were "ward clerks" Monday through Friday during fall quar ter and everyday Winter and Spring Quarters. These girls work by the side of the nurses recording tempera tures and pulse rates, feeding the patients, reading to and writing letters from them. Other small but appreciated jobs and going to the hospital shop to get magazines, candy, drinks or helping some one into a wheelchair, putting him on the elevator and into the car. The committee meets about two times a quarter to schedule its duties and to hear speakers in this field whose guidance and ideas are helpful. This year they heard Dr. Forigs, Butner Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center psychiatrist, and Sucille Spalding, director of nursing of the hospital. Loyal workers for '53 are Con nie Lassiter, Alice Chapman, Jan- ie Carey, Janice Jurczak, Peggie Jean Goode, Alice Jones, Margaret Padgette, Alice Jane Hinds, Mary Grace Houser, Virginia German, Bettv George Williams. Louise Taylor, Alice Clifford, Ann Mc Culloch, Pat Smith, nad Jean Rat liff. Mason, Painter, Hardy Are Awarded Fellowships Three more seniors have been awarded distinguished fellowships and scholarships for graduate study next year, according to Dean Ernest Mackie. FINIS A complete wrap up on all Spring sports tournaments in today's issue. FOUR PAGES TODAY golf and tennis teams completely repord and win the Southern Con ference championship by three strokes. Ferree had 140 strokes for 36 holes to win the individual cham pionship. His win was doubly sig nificant because the tourney was held on Winston-Salem Old Town Country Club course where Purvis Ferree, Jimmy's father, is the pro. Bob Black, another Tar Heel senior, yas three storkes behind Ferree and finished third in in dividual standings. Freshman Bil ly Ford and sophomore Bill Thornton had the next lowest scores for Carolina. Ford had a 147 and Thornton had a 149. The baseball team started well by beating Maryland, 13-2 on Thursday as Chal Port picked up his ninth win of the season. How ever, they ran into trouble when they met Duke Friday, and George Carver handcuffed them, 7-2. Friday night looked like bat ting practice for the home team when they trounced Maryland, 15-0, behind the three-hit pitching of Don Marbry. It was Marbry's fourth win of the season against no defeats. Going into Saturday's play, the Tar Heels needed a double win over Duke to take the champion ship. Port started the game, and everything yas going well for Car olina when they got two runs from Duke's star pitcher, Joe Lew is, in the first inning. Duke went hitless until their half of the fourth when ail-American Bill Werber singled through center. An error, sacri fice and a single tied the game up. lead in the seventh inning on sue- cessive doubles by Wayne White and Ed Hooks. Hoyever, this lead was short-lived, for Duke had a three-run surge in the top of the eighth to sew up the game and the championship. The track team, although plac. ing third in the conference, made a much better showing than was expected. The team was nosed out of second place by a 3 4 point margin, Dukea gain playing the villians orel '. Harry Brown took the only first place for the Tar Heels. His vic tory came in the javelin throw. Sophomore Joel Shankle, Duke's one man team, took individual honors for the meet by collecting 19 points. He took first place in the high hurdles, tied for first in the pole vault and high jump and was second in the low hurdles. Carolina ran away with the ten (See SPORTS, page 3) Wave Officer Will Interview Lt. Helen M. Home, WAVE pro curement officer, will be at the Placement Service tomorrow after noon to discuss opportunities for women in the Navy. College graduates between 21 and 26 years of age are eligible. Duty will begin on September 1, and pay starts at $338 per month. For additional information and to arrange interviews, contact the Placement Service, 204 Gardner Hall. Spaghetti Tonight : Delta Delta Delta sorority will have a spaghetti supper at the house tonight from 6 to 8. The price is $1 per plate, pro fits to benefit the Tri-Delt scholarship fund. Tickets may be purchased at the door. The ad dress is 210 Pittsboro Street. 3m. mm
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