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WEATHER Cloudier and warmer to day with a high of 60. Yes terday's high, 55; low, mid dle 30's. Palinurus thinks the au thor of that controversial poem should be our new Poet Laureate. See p. 2. Volume LXII NUMBER 77 C'0WlPJc PhOtO and ViT0 Senri ..... ... - . . ..... ..- a n-. nL.i. j tir: o - - EAIID DAftCC. TrtHAV ' ' Beast Of Bladenboro Four Carolina Deces Jon Vampire' Hu'nf By Jennie Lynn Four Carolina students grabbed shotguns4 a regular arsenal" and drove a hundred miles yesterday to join in the mysterious "vampire" hunt in Bladenboro. - Dick Todd, Wade Coleman, Horace Ray and Steve Owen ex plained, "We're serious." The mayor of Bladenboro re ported last night that a large crowd of hunters had left the scene. The four Carolina students are the only ones who are still hunting the beast Only a small group of peo ple awaited results from the dog less crew of four. "Another batch is going to morow," Larry Maddrey said, 'providing they haven't already caught the thing." Stories of the blood-drinking killer of seven dogs have been ' appearing in state papers. On Thursday six corpses with brut ally mangled heads and blood less bodies were found by Blad enboro policemen. The creature has also chased a woman. Stirred By Article The four boys from the Deke house were stirred by the article yesterday morning in Lumber ton's paper, The Robesonian. The Robesonian -pictured the Bladenboro police chief holding the head of one of the dog3 killed by the strange beast The Surprise Negro Janitor Gets Farewell At Bynum Hall About twenty-Eve persons were gathered in the Jourfialism office at Bynum Hall the other day. The object of the gathering was to fete recently retired Negro jani tor Willie Minor with a surprise party for his many years of faith ful service. Half an hour passed. . .but no Willie. A fellow janitor was dispatched to find him. Willie was found sitting noncha lantly at home. He said his son was using the family car. The tardy Willie, on what he thought to be a routine summons, finally ambled into the Journal ism office completely unawares. Willie was flabbergasted by the greeting especially when former Journalism Dean Oscar Coffin, on behalf of everyone in the building, presented him a wallet stuffed with money. There were no refreshments served, but music filled thf. air as Coffin led the company in the singing of old-time hymns, such as, "Amazing Grace," "Blest Be The Tie That Binds," and "By The Grace of God We'll Meet on Ca naan's Happy Shore." Willie joined lustily in the sing ing After a solo, he combined with Coffin and Phillips Russell to pro duce an harmonious trio. Faculty Grant Requests Due By January 15 The money donated by the A lurrni Giving association to the University Research Council is be in? made available to all faculty nif-mbers for research, it was an r. j need by W. W. Pierson, chair man of the Research Council. The 'leadline for tha grant-in-aid appli--anions is January 15. The S3,500 donated will be dis trihu'ed for worthwhile projects '-nder the rules governing the ad ministration of the former Carne 2:e Research Fund. Applications should not in general exceed $500. Applications should be submit ted to the Office of the Graduate School, and may be secured from the Graduate office, 202 South Building. accompanying article told of the animal's attacking its first hu man, being Mrs. C. E. Kinlaw, who said that it jumped on her when she went on her front porch to investigate a noise. It fled when her husband came out, ,s Another Bladenborian saw the animal and described it as "look ing like a cat, dark in color, about three feet long, 20 inches high, with a tail about 14 inches long. Big Hunt Hundreds of rifle, shotgun and club-carrying volunteers swarmed about the mill village, population of 800. They tracked "that critter" to dense swamps Thursday night The Durham Herald reported the animaTattempted to attack a cow and a calf at a stockyard three miles from Bladenboro. Dogs were put on the scent after the creature was heard, and resi dents found the marauder's prints "all around the stock yard." A woman who lives near the stockyard, said he heard cries from the beast before dawn and said it sounded "like a woman or a baby screaming." Key figures in the hunting party agree that the beast is a maddened panther, accompanied by a mate. So many would-be "vampire hunters" showed up, said the authorities, that police were un able to control the crowd. Monogram Club Names Pawlik Prexy For Second Semester . Harry Pawlik was elected president of the Monogram Club for the second time within a year as the club elected it officers for the com ing spring semester. Pawlik, a snior from Albemarle, held the offiee during last spring's term. U. S, Students Go To Istanbul For Meeting The United States National Stu dent Association, of which the Uni versity is a member, will have a delegation meeting with the Fourth International Student Conference in Istanbul, Turkey, beginning to day and running for a week. However. Carolina will not be represented at the mee NSA com mittee chairman Ken Penegar said yesterday. The Istanbul meeting will be the largest and most representative gathering of its kind ever assembl ed. Participating in the conference will be the representatives of the National Unions of Students of forty nations. The conference, operating upon a system of delegated responsibli ties by which each participating National Union assumes the task of investigating and reporting up- jon certain problems which direct ly affect students as sucn an over the free world, met first in 1950 at Stockholm, Sweden after a number of National Unions of Students concluded that "fruitful coopera tion with the Communist dominat ed International Union of Students was impossible because of the lat ters' partisan political orientation." Literary Mag Asks Material I Student writers who are inter ! ested in submitting material to the 'rarnlina Quarterly for its winter issue are urged to send in theii; manuscripts before the semester break, Carolina Quarterly Editor Charlotte Davis said yesterday. Deadline for submissions is the end of January, and wcrk can be left either at the Quarterly office , r.Mhnm Memorial any weekday ,ff0rnnnn frjni 2 tO 5 O'clock, Qli mailed to Box 1117 here in town. The winter issue of the literary magazine is scheduled to go on sale the first week in March. r - t - . " . rams SF8EEN ; Sion pointing way to Lutheran Church down the wrong way of a one-way street. . . ' Faculty and students meeting in voluntary etxra classes to fill the gap in the semester system. Office Clears Up Confusion On Cut Fines "" Confusion among some students on the University rule that charges them $2.50 for each class missed before and after a holiday was cleared up yesterday by the Cen tral Records Office. The office announced the $2.50 fee which stops accumulating when a student gets $750 piled up against him applies only to the class days immediately before and after a holiday.- If a holiday begins after Saturday classes, for example, students are not charged for clas ses they miss on - Friday, even though those are the last in their Monday-Wednesday-Friday series of classes. . The same rule applies, after hol idays: Fines- are applied only to the first day of classes following a vacation. Central Records Director Edwin S. Lanier issued a memorandum on the subject to the faculty be fore the Christmas hiatus, but some faculty members have mis interpreted the rule. Also elected were vice-president Pete Brumley, junior from State sville; secretary Wilbur Jones, junior from Wilmington; treasurer Gordon Hudson, junior from Winston-Salem; CAA representative, Francis FreCere, senior from Coun cil; and social chairmen Biff Ho ward, sophomore from Charlotte, and Bruce Holt, senior from Dur ham. Hudson was reelected to his post Pawlik has lettered in soccer and wrestling, Brumley in gymnastics, jones in lacrosse, Hudson in gym astics, Fredere in football, Howard in gymnastics and Holt in baseball. Retiring officers are Bull David son, president; Bruce Holt, vice president; Biff Howard, secretary; Harry Pawlik, CAA representative; and Pete Brumley, social chairman. The club has announced a special meeting to be held next Thursday to retake the Yack picture which didn't turn out. Further notice will ! be given later Publications Btfard Meet The Publication Board will meet Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in the Grail Room of Graham Memorial. ROY HOLSTEN, Assistant Dean "of Students, leaves today by plane for Cambridge, Mass., where he will attend a con ference of college personnel ad- ministrators to be held next week on the Harvard University campus. Holsten returns to Chap el Hill Jan. 16. r - . 1 - V - ' " ' x f - I - ' W . f X - - 7 I' r L BEVERLY LOUISE PACK, 20, EI Paso, Tex (center) flashes a big smile after being named Maid of Cotton in Memphis Tenn. On her right ' is Hope White, 20, Uniontown, Ala., first alternate, while Martha Garner (left) was chosen second alternate. She's from Poplar Bluff, Md. Two juniors from Carolina, Anne May, Burlington, and Sue Upchurch, Raeford, were also entered in the contest. AP Wirephoto - ' Plgymakers Theatre Scene Of Twelfth Night Revels Tonight "Saleman Ruptured by a Streetcar" a take off on "Death of a Sales man," "Streetcar Named Desire," and New York critics opens its cur tains tonight at 8 o'clock in the Playmakers Theatre. The burlesque, produced by the annual Twelfth Night Revels, "hits Drive-In Bank Opens Today In Chapel Hill The University National Bank of Chapel Hill will have its formal opening today from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The bank will feature a new banking innovation to Chapel Hill the drive-in s teller -window for those who wish to bank by car. Although samples of fhe bank's stock in trade will not be dis tributed, refreshments will be served and favors, for both adults and children will be given out The bank will also allow visitors to inspect all facilities of the new building. The bank is ocated on West Franklin Street, across from the Chapel Hill bus station, and will be open from 9 to 1:30 o'clock on Monday through Friday and 9 to 1 on Saturdays. Art Exhibition At Person Hal! An exhibition of 45 drawings from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York will be on view at Person Hall through January 28. . These works range in date from 1910 to 1949. and include most im - portant contemporary artists, Eu ropean and American, among them Matisse, Leger, de Chirico, Kan dinsky, Klee, Miro, Matta, Modgli ani, Dali, Stuart Davis, Kuniyoshi, Blume, Graves, Sheeler, Tcheli chew, and the Latin Americans O rozoo, Rivora and Portinari. After its showing in Person Hall Art Gallery this exhibition will continue on its tour of American museums and university galleries. Government Thanks Dr. Jenkins For Help Prof's Microfilm Used Dr. William S. Jenkins, pro fessor of political science here at the university, has played an im portant role in the much dis puted segregation cases now be fore the United States Supreme Court. Dr. Jenkins, an expert on United States Constitutional Law, is responsible for the huge col lection of early state records on microfilm, available at the Library. He is also the author of a book, "Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old South", which has also been called into use in pre paration of the case. However, he insists that he has no legal connection with the case aside from the use of his re - - - V 4 - . - - J 1 new plays, new critics and anything else that gets in the way," said author David Ashburn, Carolina grad student "John- Stockard forced together the sets," said Ashburn, "Charles Jeffers invent ed the lights and Richard Wagner disarranged the music." Players within the play are Hal England, Suzanne Elliott, Don Dea gon and Chris Moe. Dan Reid, Jim Maloon and Harry Davis por tray the critics. The interrupting audience is Jan Carter, Jim Leonard, Suzanne Kra mer, and the stage manager is Charles Billings. The Twelfth Night Revels is pre sented for all students and the public, with no admission charge. Doors will open at 7:15. Refresh ments will be served following the show. Dr. Sundrum Is To Speak At Colloquim Dr. R. M. Sundrum will speak on "Some Problems of Non-Parametric Statistical Inference" at the meeting of the Colloquium Monday at 4 p.m. in Room 206, Phillips HalL Dr. Sundrum is a native of Ran goon, Burma, where he attended the University of Rangoon. His studies there were interrupted by the Japanese invasion. After the war he completed his studies at Rangoon and was appointed to teach economics there. In 1950 he was granted a leave of absence to study statistics un der Prof. M. G. Kendall at the London School of Economics. There he received the Ph.D. de gree this year with a thesis re garded as brilliant, in which he made some new contributions to methods of statistical inference. ference file. Assistant Attorney General J. Lee Rankin, in a letter to Dr. Jenkins before the cases began, thanked him for the "valuable assistance" that the microfilm collection had been in' preparing the briefs of the case. Dr. Jenkins was invited to hear the segregation cases before the Supreme Court by the Depart ment of Justice. He stated that the experience was "particularly significant" to him as a teacher of Constitutional law. As far as his own views on the segregation problem are con cerned, Dr. Jenkins stated that "the segregation block should not be split in a single stroke." Students Oppose Habel In BSU - Church Issue By Charles Kuralt Dr. Samuel T. Habel's suggestion that the Chapel Hill Baptist Student Union be subordinated to the Baptist Church of which he is pastor yes terday met with firm opposition from some of the students involved. Dowd Davis, a BSU member of long standing and a graduate student from Beauford, said nothing pro- ' gressive could be accomplished by such a move. ' "I for one," Davis added,1 "would probably leave the organization" if such a change were made. "This has all been suggested before," Davis pointed out. "The students here, being Baptist stu dents, have the fundamental right to believe as they please and to act according to their beliefs. For that reason, I don't think they should be under any jurisdiction except their own." Davis said he felt it would not be "to the best interests of the BSU" to place the organization under authority of the local Baptist church. BSU president Joe Giles said he would have no comment on the affair until after the special Ba ptist Convention committee prob ing "liberalism" in the Baptist college program makes its report. "Until the report makes recom mendations for changes," Giles said, "the BSU here will continue as it has in the past." A third member of the local Baptist 'Student Union, who pre ferred not to be named, stressed a point of irritation those being investigated have brought out all along that the Convention's com mittee has not made specific charg es which can be answered specifi cally. And he said, in speaking of the local situation, "An old friction exists between the students and the church in Chapel Hill. Dr. Habel's suggestion, If carried out, would make the situation worse. I think the student program should be even more completely divorced from the church than it is now. I think we should have a separate student center. ' Students would, of course, continue to . attend worship services at the church." The report of the group in vestigating the student program in the state is expected before the end of the month. It is anticipated that this committee may make re - commendations for changes in the relationship between the Chapel Hill Baptist church and the BSU. Newswomen To Hold Spring Conclave Here WINSTON-SALEM The North Carolina Press Women will hold their first annual institute for women's page editors and writers Saturday, March 13, at the Caro lina Inn in Chapel Hill. Miss Frances Griffin of Winston Salem, president said the institute would be held in conjunction with the press women's spring meeting, which has been scheduled for Sun day, March 14. UP Caroline Davis Gets Clerkship Of Legislature The name of Caroline Davis (UP) was omitted from the list of officers elected in the new stu dent Legislature appearing in The Daily Tar Heel yesterday. Miss Davis was elected clerk, the only Legislature office held by the j UP. In Segregation Case He said he believes that "we in North Carolina have in recent years made great strides in working out equable relations between the races" and that the state "has taken the lead among Southern states in advancing public education." "It would be my desire to maintain the gains we have al ready made. I feel that the social upheaval which would inevitably result from an abrupt abolition of segregation in - the public schools would imperil much of the advance which has been made in the interest and to the advantage of both races," Dr. Jenkins concluded. Dr. Jenkins and a photograph UNC Hospital Not On Skids Cadmus Says By Dkk Creed The new North Carolina Memor ial Hospital here "is not on the skids," said Dr. Robert R. Cad mus, director of the hospital, yes terday. The hospital recently closed a ward of about 40 beds and dis missed 20 part-time employees be cause of a decrease in the number of patients, not only here but in hospitals all over Piedmont North Carolina. The hospital will fill the empty beds within the relatively near future, he said. And Dr. Cadmus went along with other state hospital administrators who won't say that the decreased occupancy indicates that the state has built more hospitals than it needs. "There is no question that the state needs, this hospital," he said. "This is a proud, going con cern. Misinterpretation of the facts could be harmful. We feel that we are doing as well as could be dreamed." He said that the hospital occu pancy was down all over the coun try and that the situation in Pied mont North Carolina was supple mented by these "economic and geographic" factors: 1. A relative increase in the number of beds in the Piedmont area. 2. A mild drought season with the result that less money was available for spending on hos pital care. 3. A relatively mild winter so far with no major outbreak of respiratory disease. Likening the hospital to a busi ness concern, Dr. Cadmus said that "in an expanding economy it's jeasy to sell a pr0(iuct -hen there I a demand. When money gets tignt people won't use hospital facilities as freelv. anv more than they will buy goods as freely when conditions are better." About the dismissal of the 20 part-time employees, he said, "Just like the Carolina Inn or Lenoir Hall, when you have more employees than are needed, some of them have to be dismissed." He said he does not want other hospital employees to get the idea that these people were fired or that other positions are in dang er. The hospital employs '639 people. A story in the Durham Morning Herald yesterday stated that Pied mont North Carolina has been "over-primed" by the good health program started in North Carolina in 1945. It pointed out that the number of patients at Duke and Watts Hospitals have dropped five per cent within the past 90 days. The Durham Nurses' Registrar, which places private nurses in the Durham-Chapel Hill area, was re ported as having nurses waiting for assignments. The story said also that the num- ber of patients in the ncvly-opened (See HOSPITAL, page 4) er travelled some 65,000 miles in a decade of making the micro films, the only collection of it's kind. This is not the first time the films have been called into use. In 1938, his "card index" on Constitutional Amendments was used in the government briefs of the child labor cases. Earlier last fall. Dr. Jenkins recieved tribute from the meet ing of The American Philosophi cal Society in Philadephia for assembling "these rare histori cal documents in facsimile." Dr. Jenkins has been a mem ber of the University since 1930, and recieved his diploma from Carolina.
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