WEATHER
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Warm and clear with a
touch of Fall breeze.
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' A Freshman Camp photo
- feature appears on page
seven.
VOLUME LXII NUMBER 1
CHAPEL HILL, N. C. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1953
EIGHT PAGES TODAY
Air Switch
May Affect
UNCUnit
A national Air Force Reserve
Officer Training "fly or get out"
ultimatum issued this summer was
modified recently, but just, how
much this will affect Carolina's
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From left:
Cellar Dwelling Temporary
Over TOO Living In Basements
AbdUt 115 men students,
mainly freshmen, are living in
the basements of three dormi
tories as a result of room limi
tations on campus.
However, the University isn't
charging the cellar dwellers
rent until they enter regular
housing facilities..
Cement cellars of Cobb, Al
exander and Stacy dormitories
were treated with seal this
summer to make them more
Sixty Young Carolina S fudents
For Local Naval Contra ct ROTC
Sixty Carolina students, the ma
jority of them freshmen, were se
lected this week for the contract
Naval Reserve Officers Training
Corps program, it was announced
yesterday by CoL R. C. Burns,
USMC, Professor of Naval Science
and Commander of the NROTC
unit.
After physical and mental exam
inations of many ' applicants, far
exceeding the allotted quota, the
;60 young men considered best
SUAB Picture
Series Begins
This Thursday
The Student Union Activities
Board film Committee will pre
sent the first in a series of films
'Thursday night at eight o'clock.
The film, The Grand Concert,"
a Russion production, is con
cerned with the opera and the
"ballet. It is under the direction
of Vera Stroyeva. Galina Ulanova,
'Olga Lepeshinskaya and Elena
Chikvaidze are among the baller
inas appearing in the film.
The music heard in the produc
1ion include the works of Proko
fiev and Tschalkowsky.
The tickets for the season are
on sale at Graham Memorial and
by advisors and counselors, for
two dollars. j
The committee operates on a
non-profit basis. Myron Conkling
and Jack "Markham are chairmen
of the committee: Earl Stevens is
the adviser.
The second film, "The Cabinet
of Dr. Caligari," a German horror
film, will appear October 8. "The
Merry Wives of Windsor," anoth
er German film T)ased on the play
of William Shakespeare will ap
pear October 22.
On November 5, the film com
mittee will present "Night Must
Fall", an American horror film
starring Robert Montgomery and
Rosalind Russel. "The Chump at
Oxford," a Laurel and Hardy com
edy, ' will be presented November
19. On December 3, "A Star li
Born, America's first experiment
in technicolor film production,
will be presented.
UP HOUSE. KEEPING IN
Carol Moore, Ann Huffman ni Patricia Sweeney.
liveable, according to Housing
Officer J. E. Wadsworth.
Many Basement dwellers are
expected to move into town,
Victory Village and fraternity
houses within the next three or
four weeks, the Housing Office
said. The office requested any
of the 2,500 men in dorms who
decide to move to report it im
mediately so that students in
basements may be transferred.
"The Housing Committee,
qualified were notified of theif se
lection. Colonel Burns said quota
limitations prevented accepting
many of the candidates who were
otherwise qualified f of dnYdllffidtit.
These students will take naval
science courses as a part of their
regular college work toward a de
gree. The naval science courses
are designed to prepare the stu
dents for duty as junior officers
in the Navy or Marine Corps. Mid
shipmen who successfully pursue
the program will be commissioned
as Ensign, USNR, or Second Lieut
enant, USMCR, upon graduation.
Those selected were: Charles G
Ashby, Jr., Elkin; Robert O. Ben
son. Indian Head. Md.: William
G. Branch, Winter Haven, Fla.;
Thomas R. Brenner, Riverit Beach,
Fla.; James K. Bryant, Elkin;
James J. Bynum, Raleigh; Fred
rick C. Byrum, Edenton; Morns
N. Broad and Richard S. Sirkm,
Miami Beach. Fla.;1 Benjamin L.
Burbridge, Jacksonville, -Fla
George B. Cashwell, Mount Airy;
Reid P. Carlton, Elizabeth City;
James M. Chamblee, Burlington;
James T. Cheatham, Greenville;
Hilton P. Cooke, New , York,, N. Y.;
James S. Dockery, Rutherfordton;
Charles E. Dameron, HI, Asheville;
James T. Duvall, Long Beach, Cal
ifornia; Fred G. Edison, Elkin;
Larry G. Ford, China Grove; Don
ald D. Freeman, . Great NecK,
N. Y.; Paul Fulton, Jr., Walnut
Cove; Thomas B. Garrett, H, Dan
ville, Va.; Robert G. Greene, North
Wilkesboro; Dewey A. Hildreth,
Oenree P. Hunter. Jr.. David M.
Michaux, HI, Robert M. Powell, all
of Charlotte; Luther H. Hodges,
Jr., Leaksville; Craig M. Horsman,
Madison, N. J.; William P. Hub
Dialetic Senate To Debate Bill
Outlawing Communists In U.S.
"A Bill to Outlaw the Commun- members, enter in debate, and
ist Party in the United States"
will be debated in the first Dia-1
letic Senate session of the year
Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in
t5 wail on the third floor of New,
West.
New students interested in join
ing this oldest society of the Uni
versity may . meet with veteran
NEW HOME
with thev approval of the admin
istration, felt that it would be
a mistake to place basement
students in double rooms and
have students triple up," Wads
worth said. .
Housing committee members
are Wadsworth, J. S. Bennett,
Dean of Students Fred Weaver,
Dean C. P. Spruill, Dean Guy
B. Phillips, Dean A. K. King
and Roy Armstrong, chairman
and admissions director.
Are Accepted
Unit Program
bard, Stednian; William N; Keevef,
Hiddehite.
Donald C. Kneedler, Jr., Sufi
sota, Fla.; James B. Lacy, NtegSra
Falls, N. Y.; Carter G. Mafdkie
Maplewood, N. J.; Hngh L. Mc
Coll, Jr., Bennettsville, S. C; Da
vid L. McKinney, Marshall; Henry
S. McWhorter, Savannah, Ga.; Ron
ald B. Moore, Franklinton; John
J. Murphy, Jr., Hamlet; Thomas
C. Newman, Canton; Wiley L.
Owens, Fountain; Samuel G. Put
nam, Ja., Washington, D. C; Frank
M. Ramos, Butler.
James P. Raugh, Jr., Rosemont
Pa.; Vade G. Rhoades, Hayes; Lew
is F. Robertson, Jr., Frederick
Md.; James G. Short, Jr., Wades
boro; Theodore G. Simmons, Co
lumbit; William F. Snell, Winston-
Salem; Herman G. Snipes, Knox-
ville, Tenn.; James K. Spencer.
Matthews; Charles V. Stevens, Sal
isbury; Walker Strickland Stone,
Morrisville; Frederick S. Van Win
kle, Atlanta, Ga.; Leon S. Veners,
Jr., Trenton; David L. Ward, Jr.,
New Bern; John.W. Weaver, Jr.,
Durham; Anderson Tj Williams
Wilson; and Joseph P. Wimberley,
HI, Battleboro. . .,. . .
Yesterday Is Today
Due to post office regulations,
today's Daily Tar Heel is date
lined Sunday. However, this is a
Monday edition as far as the
Carolina front is concerned and
a Sunday paper just as far as
Uncle Sam's stamp sellers are
concerned.
Times appearing in stories
throughout the paper are the
same as if this paper were print
ed on Monday.
asK to Decome &enaiors.
Tne bill to be on tne floor
states that since some Americans
have been branded Communists,
the party is dedicated to over-
throw democratic America, and
trial is more effective than in
vestigation committee, the Amer
ican Communist party should be
outlawed'.
AFROTC unit can't be determined.
at once. - '
Colonel George J. Smith, new
AFROTC commandant here, said,
"I don't expect it to have any great
impact." '
Seniors will continue their train
ing and receive commissions if
they fly. Those who don't fly will
receive certificates and will have
to take their chances with the
draft, Col. Smith said.
."This is a result of the reduc
tion of the Air Force budget,"
Col. Smith pointed out.
The Air Force first issued the
ultimatum to students to either
fly or drop out. Later this was
modified to permit all enrolled
students to complete their college
courses. .. .
Those who do not intend to take
flight training must serve two
years as enlisted men after gradu
ation and will be commissioned in
the reserve on completion of their
service. Only flying students will
be commissioned on graduation.
Last week in Washington Assist
ant Secretary of Defense John A.
Hannah warned that comparatively
few ROTC college students would
get commissions unless they sign
ed up to fly or were engineers.
There are 13,000 to 14,000 sen
iors now in the air ROTC and there
probably will be less than 9,700
vacancies.
STANLEY STURM
Befa President
Stanley Sturm
Passes At 20
Beta Theta Pi President Mil
ton Stanley Sturm, Jr., 20, of
Greensboro died suddenly Thurs
day afternoon of a heart attack
while taking 'a nap at his fra
ternity hocse. here. ...
An honor student at the Uni
versity, he was a member of the
Interfraternity Council and Shieks
oiuD. lnis past summer he attend
2d the Beta national convention in
Pasadena, Calif. Sturm made the
dean's list here several times.
In Greensboro he was a mem
ber of the First Presbyterian
Church and the Twenty-One Club.
Born in Dunn, Sturm' came here
with his parents as an infant
Dr. John A. Redhead, Jr., pas
tor of the First Presbyterian
Church, offieiated in funeral serv
ices held Friday in Forbis and
Murray Chapel. Burial was at For
est Lawn Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Allen
Banner, Wallace Horton, James S.
Schenck, HI, John Baldridge, Sam
uel Blythe, Thatcher Townsend,
John McLendon and Douglas Ly-
brook. Honorary pallbearers were
his UNC fraternity brothers.
Surviving are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Stanley Sturm. Sr.: two
brothers, Alfred Burton Sturm
and Theodore Albert Sturm, H; one
sister, Dolly Sturm; the maternal
grandparents, Mrs and Mrs. A. B.
High, and the paternal grand
mother, Mrs. M F. Sturm, all of
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Carolina Life
In Orientation
Orientation week, featuring a
new system of advisors and in
struction, temporarily closed with
a picnic Saturday afternoon. Only
the Coed Ball Friday night re
mains. Celebrity Kay Kyser spokVto stu
dents at Navy Field picnic. Others.
heard during the week included
Chancellor R. B. House, Student
Body President Bob Gorham, and
Girls' Orientation Chairman Nan
cy Horne. Orientation Chairman
Tom Creasy presided at general
meetings.
Eleven hundred freshmen men,
300 freshmen and transfer women,
and 200 male transfers went
through an acquaintance course
which emphasized. . the campus
Code and Honor System and vir
tually all activities of students.
A new system adding ,' faculty
and student counselors to men's
advisers was innaugurated this
year. Under the new. plan, fresh
men are divided into teams of 36,
student counselor groups of 12
and faculty counselor groups of
18.
Men's student counselors dis
cussed problems" of campus and
fraternity life with their groups,
showed them over the campus and
even ate with them to know them
better. These counselors will be
ready to help their boys through
out the year under the new sys-
1 Nerve center of the entire pro
gram was located in the YMCA
where charts and a host of work
ers kept the program moving and
relocated "lost" "boys. .
Both men and women freshmen
and transfers attended the Chan
cellor's reception in front of Gra
ham Memorial and received free
I movie , tickets to a downtown the
ater.
Advanced standing, aptitude
and psychological tests were given
all incoming students. Students
had physical examinations at the
infirmary.
In addition to about 80 men ad
visers, 60 upperclass girls assisted
in the women's orientation. Miss
Thelmer Souder headed the ad
viser training program. .
Women toured the library and
were greeted at Graham Memorial
by refreshments. Dean Katherine
Carmichcael's address, Y W C A
party, play day at Woollen Gym
and interest tests highlighted
their program.
To emphasize student codes, the
Girls' Orientation
Committee;
sponsored a coed hour an candle
light service. Girls' Personnel
Advisers Irma Eichcorn and Fran
ces Sweat were introduced to the
group.
Miss Horn said, "Orientation
Week has been more than a busv
one! Student government acctivi
ties, open houses, .the Chancellor's
reception and the picnic have been
'SOme of the highlights.
, "The success of this program has
been made possible by the full
cooperation of the administration,
advisers and all those connected
with the University family. The
response by all new students proves
that the 'Carolina Spirit' still pre
vails." i
Tom Creasy declared. "The or
ientation program is far' from a one
man job. It takes hundrs of
people in all phases of the Univer
sity to plan and to carry out suc
cessfully such a program as we
have just completed.
"The success of our program
this year could never have been
attained without the wonderful
work of the entire Orientation
Committee, the excellent job done
by each individual counselor, the
splendid cooperation on the part
of the administration, the women's
advisers and every new student
in the University."
The Orientation Committee .was
"omposed of Misses Nancv Fwp
B. O. Anderson, Kit Wallace, Thel
ma Souder, Sue Ambler and Stella
D,'Alea, Obie Lee. Gordon Forre
(See ORIENTATION, page 8)
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- JIMMY WALLACE
GM Director
Jimmy Wallace
Appointed As
GM Director
Jimmy Wallace, new director of
the Graham Memorial Student Un
ion, is presently actively engaged
in making the building fit each
student's desires for after class re
laxation and recreation.
Succeeding Bill Roth, who re
signed to enter professional Boy
Scouting, Wallace was chosen by
the Union's Board of Directors.
Others applying for the position
were . Bill Amis, Pebiey Barrow,
Bill Brown, and Jane Dicks,
The new director received his
BS iii physics, AB in mathematics'
and law degree from Carolina. Af
ter teaching in Robersonville sev
eral years, Wallace returned here
as a part-time instructor and grad
uate student.
During his undergraduate years
he served on the Daily Tar Heel in
every capacity except editor, was
president of Interdormitory Coun
cil, chairman of Carolina Political
Union, in student legislature and
a member of Golden Fleece. He
was on the 1945 committee that
drew up Carolina's constitution.
Wallace is engaged to a former
associate editor of the Daily Tar
Heel, Nina Gray of Robersonville
Two New Plays
Set This Year
By Playmakers
The Carolina Playmakers open
their 36th season this fall with
a new twist. Two full length plays
will be presented as major ' pro
ductions to expand-the program
from four to six major plays.
. Broadway comedy, success "Mr.
Roberts" is the opener on Oct.
21-25. This comedy of war aboard
a cargo ship was written by Thom
as Heggen and Joshua Logan.
"On Borrowed Time," Paul Os
born's popular comedy, will be
given November 18-22, after which
it will be toured through the state
November 30-December 12 and
through several other southeast
ern states March 22 -April 3.
Cole Porter's "Kiss Me, Kate,"
the musical of the season, will be
given one of its first amateur pro
ductions by the Playmakers since
its release this past summer on
March 5-6. ,
The outdoor production in the
Forest Theatre May 14-16 will be
"Dark of the Moon," a folk fan
tasy with music and dance by Wil
liam Berney and Howard Richard
son, the latter a former Playmak
er. The two new additional produc
tions will be chosen later in the
season.
According to Parker, in addition
to saving one-third of the admis
sion price to six plays this year,
season ticket holders will have re
served seats available in advance
of general sales, as well as receiv
ing notice of all Playmaker ac
tivities and special events through
out the season. Tickets went on
sale at the Playmakers business
office in Swain Hall this week.
Single Platoon,
Six Day Week
Greef Students
Almost 6,000 students return to
day to single platoon football, Sat
urday classes, a semester system
and Carolina.
Early enrollment figures show
ed a total of 5,900 students regis
tered for the Fall term, the first
semester under the new six
day. week. There are about
i.OOO freshmen, 900 coeds and 400
transfers this term, according to
early Admissions Office -figures.
Enrollment is up by over 430
students. Last fall, 5,474 registered
as compared to the 5,900 . this
year. Large numbers of veterans
were expected this Fall and appar
ently may partially account for the
rise in enrollment. Definite fig
ures weren't available yesterday,
At least 150 ef the m mea
dorm dwellers were crowded out
into the basements of Cobb, Alex
ander and Joyner. But by late
yesterday, a check showed only
115 still remained in the cement
floored rooms. Housing Officer J.
E. Wadsworth was optimistic about
shifting the remaining 115 soon
into rooms within the next few
weeks.
As early as two weeks ago, up
perclassmen started arriving in
Chapel Hill to help in the Orienta
tion and Freshman Camp pro
grams. Almost 200 freshman stu
dents attended the YMCA camp
at New Hope with .over 20 VVP?i"
classmen as counselor.
Ninety-eight upperclassmen and
60 coeds from 28 states returned
a week early to help the newcom
ers feel at home in the Carolina
way of life.
With a total of 158 older stu
dents to help the faculty advisors,
administrative sources felt that
freshmen and new students this
Fall received more individual at
tention in getting acquainted.
The Saturday class - semester
switch seemed to cause many a
furrowed brow about camnus while
eager Tar Heel football fans won
dered what another change, the
one from two to one platoon foot
ball, would do for the recently
sluggish Carolina gridders.
Russell Heads Journalism
School In Interim Period
Professor Phillips Russell was
appointed recently as the School of
Journalism's executive officer to
serve an interim appointment
pending selection of a new dean
to succeed Dean Oscar J. Coffin,
who asked to be relieved of his
administrative duties.
No recommendation of a suc
cessor has been given by a joint
committee of faculty members and
newsmen appointed by Chancellor
R. B. House.
Russell has been a faculty mem
ber since 1931 and has devqjed
major attention to creative writ
ing classes. Coffin will continue
teaching in the School of Journ
alism.
BE SURE TO READ
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STARTING in TODAY'S
DAILY TAR HEEL
As we meet the Abner Yokum
family today in Dogpatch, we
find that Li'l.Abner has declared
a hunger strike for the new baby
against its wishes, of course.
The idea is, he wants the baby,
who has been caught in a "Y"
drain pipe to slip out so he can
see what sex (if you'll pardon
the expression) it is. Turn to
page two and see how it's going.
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