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VOLUME LX1 NUMBER 160
CHAPEL HILL, N
THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1953
FOUR PAGES TODAY
History In 3-D
Raleigh, Early NC Are
Period Room Subjects
By Ken Sanford
A visit to the period rooms of the Library's North Carolina Collec
tion is a history lesson in three dimensions. No amount of reading
will produce the same effect as a visit to a historical reproduction of
a scene from the past.
The Sir Walter Raleigh Room was reproduced in part and furnished
with materials taken from f me
English homes of the time in
which Raleigh lived. The room
contains books that have been
written by and about Sir Walter
Raleigh. The room is paneled in
original Jacobean oak paneling of
the late Tudor period, perhaps
near 1590. The furniture is of the
same period.
Three carved statues of old
English oak stand at one end of
the room. The center statue is a
larger than life-size likeness of
Raleigh. It was brought from
England to New York for sale.
There Col. Owen Kenan of Wil
mington bought it and sent it to
the University Library. One of the
smaller figures on either side of
the larger one is of Raleigh and
the other is of Queen Elizabeth.
They came recently from Preston
Davie in New York, a great-friend
cf the Library and a lateral de
scendant of WTilliam R. Davie,
founder of the University.
The other period room is from
an early North Carolina colonial
house. It is a restoration of the
Lane House which stood on Little
River in Nixonton before 1750.
The doors, woodwork and flooring
are original material taken form
that house. All of the other ma
terial was taken from houses of
the 1750 period either in North
Carolina or Virginia.
The room contains furniture and
household utensils that were to be
found in , the average home oL the
colonial period. At the .fireplace
are a low stool, a black iron dutch
oven, a candle mold and a fireside
toaster with its short legs and long
handle.
In one corner stands a walnut
corner case with doors which con
tain handmade glass panes. It con
tains books that were found in
the libraries of the better homes
of that day.
A grandfather clock and a spin
ning wheel are also from that pe
rinci Pine Daneline frames the
tiny windows and low doors.
In the atmosphere that these
two rooms create, one can easily
imagine himself transported in
time back to the time of Raleigh
and Elizabeth or to the pre -Revolutionary
War days in North Carolina.
Sfeve Perrow
Wins John J.
Parker Award
Steve Perrow has been awarded
the John J. Parker Medal ,for
"unique leadership in student gov
ernment," it was announced yes
terday. This gold medal is given an
nually by Judge and Mrs. John J.
Parker in memory of their son,
John Johnston Parker, Jr. It was
established in 1941.
Perrow is a Pharmacy major
from Bedford, Va. He has served
on the Men's Council for two years
and was clerk one year. During
senior week, Perrow was named
"Mr. Alumnus."
The award is given by a spe
cial committee appointed by the
President of the University. It is
awarded "to that student who has
demonstrated most clearly the
highest qualities of leadership in
perpetuating the spirit of honor
and the process of student self
government," according to the
University catalog.
The award committee this year
consisted of Assistant Dean of Stu
dents Roy Holsten, S. B. Knight
and Claude C. Shotts.
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By Bob Slough
. A fraternity-sorority spokesman told the Chapel Hill Town Board
this week that his group feels they have been discriminated against
because a University-owned rooming house has put up fire escapes
that do not meet state fire law requirements.
Jule Rousseau, chairman of the fraternity and sorority fire escapes
committee, did not mention the
name of the building but board
SHOWN HERE FROM LEFT ARE NOMA FLINT, Charles Hadley and Henriette Rhyne who ap
peared last night in Le Petit Theatre Francais first performance of "Les Precieuses Ridicules" in the
main lounge of Graham Memorial. The girls are cast as the two "precieuse" or ridiculous women men
tioned in the title. Hadley plays the role of the Marquis de Mascarilla who introduces the action in
the 17th Century Moliere farce. The final performance is tonight at 8:30. There is no admission charge
(a collection will be taken to cover expenses).
(eating Retires From Navy;
Other NROTC Instructors Go
Four
Moved Away;
Others To Go
"Four temporary buildings have
recently been disposed of and oth
ers will be removed as soon as
they are no longer needed as class
rooms and offices," J. S. Bennett,
director of operations for the Uni
versity, said yesterday.
Two were removed from their
position beside the Library to Vic
tory Village. There they were put
together to form a nursery and
recreation center.
A third building between the
Library and Venable Hall will be
sold to the highest bidder. A build
ing between the Naval armory and
Venable has already been sold and
removed.
Bennett said that he would like
to see all of the temporary build
ings removed, but that it would
be impossible as long as it re
mains necessary to use them.
Five of the eight officers now
assigned to the Naval Reserve Of
ficers Training Corps staff here
are due for a change of duty - at
the end of the present school year.
Captain J. S. Keating, USN, pro
fessor of naval science at the unit
for the past two years, is retiring
from the Navy after 34 years of
unbroken duty. Captain Keating
plans to vacation in Cape Cod,
Mass., this summer. His plans be
yond that are indefinite. The new
professor. of naval science is slat
ed to be Col. Robert C. Burns,
US Marine Corps. Col. Burns is
expected to arrive in August.
Major Frank C. Caldwell, USMC,
the unit Marine officer instructor,
will be detached on or about June
20. He will proceed from here to
San Francisco, Calif., and Pearl
Harbor, T. H., en route to join
the First Marine Division in Korea.
He expects to be attached to the
First Marine Division for a nine
months tour of duty. Major Cald
well will be replaced by Capt.
Frank G. Good, Jr., USMC, who
has just returned from duty with
the First Marine Division in Korea.
Capt. Good is due to report to
Chapel Hill sometime in August.
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SEEN
LCDR. Thomas E. Bass, in,
USN, assistant professor of naval
science and instructor of ordnance
and gunnery, -has been ordered to
the Armed Forces Staff College,
Norfolk, Va., for duty under in
struction. The course of instruc
tion will last for about five months.
No replacement has beed ordered
for him at this time.
Lt. L. F. Cooney, Jr., USN, as
sistant professor of naval science,
and navigation instructor, has been
ordered to report to Combat In
formation Center School, Glen
view, HI., for duty under instruc
tion. Replacement for Lt. Cooney
will be LCDR. Thomas B. Wheat
ley, USN, who is expected to ar
rive in August.
Lt. L. E. Woodall, USN, assist
ant professor of naval science and
supply instructor, has been order
ed to report as supply officer to
the USS Botetourt, operating out
of Norfolk, Va. Lt. Woodall will
be detached on or about August
15 1953. His renlacement will be
Lt. A. H. Josslyn, SC USN, who frseas, or investing your summer
comes to the University from the
aircraft carrier USS Midway, and
is expected to report prior to the
Fascinated group striding near
CBSrTV camera boorn to listen
to accent of English director.
Male hot weather fad spread
ing as secretary to student presi
dent arrives for work in shorts.
Indiscreet coed greedily gulp
ing high-caloried milk shake.
Dumbfounded delivery man
ffom the Colonial House having
to give up food without getting
paid because he failed to get
it there within the time adver
tised by the restaurant.
Conference's
Leaders Meet,
Make Plans
Athletic directors of the seven
Southern Conference institutions
interested in forming a new con
ference met here yesterday and
completed recommendations to be
offered at the June 14 meeting of
the new group in Raleigh.
Rex Enright, Director of Ath
letics at the University of South
Carolina, presided at the meeting
which was also attended by Sou
thern Conference Commissioner
Wallace Wade and M. P. Knight,
who heads the loop's officials'
booking office.
The main issue of business at
yesterday's session was schedules
in all sports. Sports committees
were also set up and long range
plans for a "playing conference"
were drawn, according to Enright.
"The purpose of the meeting was
to work out details for makins
this a playing conference in a
wide variety of sports," he said.
Enright also pointed out that the
group has no power, and merely
worked up some recommendations
for next month's full meeting in
Raleigh.
Tuesday the directors met in
Durham. The recommendations
were completed yesterday.
In attendance were C. P. Erick
son North Carolina; O. K. Corn
well, North Carolina; Roy Clog
ston, N. C. State; Frank Howard,
Clemson; James Weaver, Wake
Forest; Eddie Cameron, Duke; Jim
Tatum, Maryland, Enright, Wade
and Knight.
Y To Sponsor Round Robin
Letters During The Summer
Are you working in a service
project this summer, traveling ov-
departure of his predecessor.
in some other way?
If so, Susan Fink, secretary of
tho YMCA Cabinet would like to
know about -it. During the sum-
JQEL FLEISHMAN
Fleishman Says
Stevenson May
Speak Here
-Adlai E. Stevenson, Democratic
MnHidate for President in the 1952
election, may be the first speaker
on the Carolina Forum's program
next year," Joel Fleishman, newly
elected chairman of the Forum
said yesterday.
Fleishman said that a great deal
of planning remains to be done
in regard to Stevenson's visit here.
"The Forum hopes to have a
complete schedule ready by the
beginning of the Fall Semester,"
Fleishman said.
Pearsall Heads
SEC Program
For Next Year
Student body President Bob
Gorham recently announced me
aoDointment of a Student enter
tainment Committee to serve next
vear- ...
Harry Pearsall, a rising senior
from Rocky Mount, will serve as
chairman. Pearsall is on the IDC
Court and served on the IDC Dance
Committee for the past year. He
served as an orientation counselor
last year. He is a member of Zeta
Psi fraternity.
Other members . of the commit
tee are Mary Helen Crain, Billy
Barnes, Sherry Smith and John
Page.
Pearsall said that no definite
, nlans have been made for next
v.,r'5 urosram. The committee
met with last year's committee
and discussed tentative plans.
Pearsall said, "We are definite
ly going to investigate1 the possi
bility of including more students -.
in next year's programs.'
There has been much criticism
of the SEC program in the past
because sucn a small part of the
student body could get into Mem
orial Hall to see the programs.
In Newfoundland, No Remains In Sight
Moorhead's Entourage Found
Lindbergh Rival's Wreckage
mer she plans to send out a round
robin letter composed of letters
from Carolina students in various
parts of the world. t
The plan is for students and fac
ulty to write to Sue on July 1
and again on August 1, giving
brief highlights of their work or
travel. Shortly thereafter Sue will
compile the round-robin letter and
mail it to ail who have contributed
a letter.
member P. L. Burch said yesterday
he was referring to the Theta Chi
house on East Franklin Street.
Buich agreed with Rousseau that
the house does not meet specifi
cations set up by state law. Burch
is also Chapel Hill buildings in
spector. Rousseau said his main purpose
in going before the board, how
ever, was to explain the present
situation what he termed "lack of
competitive bids."
"We wrote letters to companies
to ask for bids in March," Rous
seau explained. "We got a response
from only one company, J. D. Wil
kins Co."
He told board members that the
bids made by the Wilkins Co. were
"considerably higher than we
thought they should be" and added
that several of the bids ran over
$1,000 with one bid going as high
as "$1,400 and some odd dollars."
Thirty-five fraternity and soror-
ny nouses were condemned m
January for failing to provide fire
escapes on houses where occupants
sleep on second or third floor.
They were given 90 days to rem
edy the situation. The 90-day pe
riod ended on April 5.
Two weeks ago, the town board
issued a statement notifying fra
ternities and sororities that they
must complete arrangements for
the construction of adequtae fire
escapes by June 5, or the town
will take "all available steps to
prevent their further use as a
dormitory after June 10." Accord
ing to the resolution, the dormi
tory space in" the houses will be
closed unless they are "equipped
or under contract for proper
equipment" by the June 5 dead
line. "I don't think any fraternity or
sorority is trying to avoid this
thing," Rousseau continued. "They
are just trying to get competitive
bids." He said that A. S. Newsome,
another contractor, had made bids
recently and that some of the new
bids were lower than Wilkins had
made previously.
Rousseau assured the board, "If
the other houses get bids, I see no
reason why they won't be signed
by June 5."
By Richard Creed
. Lt. CoL Jessie J. Moorhead,
commanding officer of the Air
Force ROTC at Carolina for the
past four years, will leave Chapel
Hill this Summer.
Colonel Moorhead will go to
Maxwell Field, in Alabama, for six
month's study in the Air Com
mand and Staff School, after which
he will be reassigned ' by the Air
Force. "
The Colonel came to Chapel Hill
in August, 1949. He wanted to
be assigned to a university since
"I thought it more of a challenge
to go to a school where ROTC f
was optional with the students. He
was commissioned a second lieu
tenant in the Army from Clemson,
where ROTC was required of all
students, in 1937. Commenting on
the natural beauty' of Chapel Hill
and the attitude of students and
faculty, he said, "I don't think I
could have gotten a better assign
ment." He was originally assigned
to the AROTC at Duke, but the
Air Force, changed its mind a few
weeks before he took the position.
son, he went to Georgia, where
he spent two years with the Eighth
Infantry. In 1940 he requested
transfer to the Air Force. From
Georgia he went to the Langley
Field Bomber Squadron.
At the outbreak of World War
H be went with the bomber squad-
ron on an anti-submarine patrol
of the Atlantic to Newfoundland.
He recounts that while in New
foundland a passenger steamer
which had carried hjm over to
Nova Scotia was sunk by a Japa
nese submarine about a month I
later.
In his flight to and from New-
When he graduated from Ckm- LT. COL. J. J. MOORHEAD I (See MOORHEAD, page 4)
Mann To Lead
YMCA Board
Dr. Virgil Mann, of the Geology
Department, was recently elected
to serve as chairman of the
YMCA Advisory Board for the
coming year, according to Ned
Harbin, YMCA president for. 1953-54.
in ois mgni io ana irom xNew- Reverend Richard Jackson, of
foundland he traveled over theithe Congregational - Christian
same terrain wnicn Lindbergh de
scribes in the story of his trans
Atlantic flight in The Saturday
Evening Post. One of his parties
found in Southern Newfoundland
the wreckage of a plane whose
log showed that the pilot, a man
named Smith, also was attempt
ing a trans-Atlantic flight at about
the same time as Lindbergh in
1927. Colonel Moorhead "says no
remains of the pilot were found
J and indications are that he left
the plane in the wilderness and
tried to find his way back to civ
I ilization on foot. At the time Colo-
nel Moorhead's squadron was in
1 Newfoundland there was but one
J railroad across the forest covered
island.
Trading Post
Open Monday
Church, will serve as vice-chairman,
and Donald Hayman, of the
Institute of Government, will be
the secretary.
These officers will replace Wil
liam Noland, Sociology Depart
ment, who was chairman of the
board for 1952-53; the Rev.
Charles Jones, formerly of the
Presbyterian Church, who was
vice-chairman; and Dr. Mann, who
was secretary.
Two new members were also
elected to serve on the board to
replace the retiring members, Carl
Smith and Dr. Cecil Johnson.
W. J. Graham of Business Admin
istration, and A. C. Shearer, Chap
el Hill businessman, are the new
members of the Advisory Board.
The Textbook Trading Post, op
erated by Alpha Phi Omega in
the chapter room in Graham Me
morial will be open Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday of next week
from 2 to 4 p.m.
Students may pick up their un
sold books upon presentation of
their claim checks. Books that are
left in the Trading Post over two
quarters automatically become the
property of APO.
Students may leave Books to be
sold next fall.
Fletcher Green Elected
To Board Of Editors
. Fletcher M. Green, Kenan pro
fessor of history and new chair
man of the History Department,
has been elected a member of the
board of editors of the "Mississippi
Valley Historical Review."
Senior Rings
The last orders for class rirrgs
this quarter will be taken from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in the
lobby of the "Y." The rings will
be delivered in eight weeks to
the student's Summer address.