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Deke Vampire Hungers
Empty-Handed; Ray Recounts Trek
By Dick Creed
The four Carolina gentlemen
vho, lured by the call of the wild,
ventured forth from the secure
confines of the Deke house in
search of the mysterious Bladen
bora vampire, returned to Chapel
Hill early this morning.
Armed with three rifles and a 32
calibre automatic pistol, the boys
gave up the hunt for what many
are calling a biz mountain cat
about midnight, and the
Tosse," as they call themselves
traveled the 100 miles back to
Chapel Hill empty handed.
iThey went into the swamp alone,
since the people in Bladenboro had
given up the hunt.
And yesterday Dick Todd, Wade
Coleman, Horace Ray, and Steve
Owens related their tale of adven
ture to their frat brothers and to
The Daily Tar Heel.
"We left around lunchtime Fri
day," said Horace Ray yesterday.
"We loaded the car with three
rifles and a 32 automatic and
started our drive to Bladenboro.
"On the way over we stopped at
Lumberton and talked to the peo
ple at the Robersonian newspaper
to find out all the information
about the vampire we could.
"We got into Bladenboro just
before dark. "We talked to the May
or and the chief of police and they
told us the general vicinity that
the cat had been seen in last.
"Thev called the area where the
cat was known to be prowling the
Big Swamp. Its located about two
miles south of Bladenboro. I'd say
the swamp covered 200 or 300
acres.
We drove down to the swamp
as far as we could and walked the
rest of the way. In the middle
there was a big, deep pond of wat
er where it had been raining. The
rest of it was covered by thick
reeds and marshes.
"We used hunting knives a few
times when the growth was so
thick we couldn't push our way
through.
"We wandered around in the
swamp for about six hours, look
ing for the cat with the biggest ,
two flashlights we could find.
"I don't think we were what you
would call afraid. We were cer-j
tainly ill at ease and we were care
ful and cautious. All of us had(
hunted a lot and we went down
there to get the cat.
"About midnight we decided to
give up. On the way back to Blad
enboro we stopped at this little
general store in a little cotton
spinning mill settlement, about a
mile outside of town.
"Most of the men there were mill
hands. They seemed to be scared
to death of the vampire. They call
ed it the Thing, and a lot of them
thought it was a monster of some
kind.
"An old man there said he had
been hunting a long time. He said
he'd never seen any tracks like
those left by that thing. He was
pretty scared.
We went back into town and
talked to the chief of police again.
He said that the people in Bladen
boro had stopped hunting and all
the dogs had been called out of the
swamp. He said somebody had
called him from Wilmington and
wanted to come over and bring
some dogs. But he said the hunt
(See HUNTERS, page 4)
Freight Group
Makes BA Gift
The Pilot Freight Carriers Foun
dation of Winston-Salem has an
nounced a $4,000 grant, to the
School of Business Adminietration
tf finance a research program de
signed to further knowledge of the
moicr freight industry and to
:-r'nthen the school's curriculum
educational resources in the
fid of transportation.
The funds will be used to estab
!ls,i a research fellowship in mo
,fr freight transportation. The
holdr-r of the fellowship will en-"'i'-!o
in operational field research
lr! management problems of the
motor freight industry from which
''ill be drawn instructional cases,
on factual sitautions, for
use in he graduate and under
graduate courses on transporta
tion. .
Race Relations Study Shown
In Original Playmaker Drama
A study of the delicate balance
of relations between the colored
and white people in the South is
depicted in the premiere of a full
length original play to be present
ed by the Carolina Playmakers
next week.
The production, a comedy, is
called "Monkey in the Moon" and
is to be given Thursday through
Sunday, January 14-17, at 8:30
o'clock in the Playmakers Theater.
The author is Thomas M. Patter
son, a member of the Dramatic Art
Department faculty at the Univer
sity, who was bom and reared in
Southern Mississippi. He knows
well the characters in his play,
many of whom were drawn frnm
real life. For this study he learned
to Know the Neero bv workins? in
the Mississippi River valley as the
only wfcite man in a crew of 500.
Foster Fitz-Simons of the Play
makers staff is directing the play.
Patterson is no novice at play-
writing. As professor of play writ
ing in the Department of Dramatic
Art, his favorite adage for his stu
dents (referring to himself) is
Them as can, do; them as can't!
teach." With "Monkey in the
Moon," Patterson has proved him
self wrong in that old saw.
"Monkey in the Moon" is not
Patterson's first attempt at such a
play. At Yale, following the last
war, he studied playwriting with
such men as E. P. Conkle and Marc
Connelly, and it was there that he
finished and had-produced a pro-j
jace of some years' work, his Sou
thern tragedy, "American Primi
tive." Although quite opposite in treat
ment to the gently philosophical
comedy now in production at
Chapel Hill, "American Primitive"
was a success in that experimental
showing.
The idea for "Monkey in the
Moon" came to Patterson while he
was studying at Stanford Univer
sity. The first draft was completed
in 1950, and the script has under
gone many reworkjngs since, es
pecially after it was chosen by the
Playmakers.
The play received its first public
reading at Stanford, when Patter
son read the first draft to a group
of friends at the home of Mrs.
Mary Kelsey Brown, who became,
on December 18, 1953, Mrs. Thom
as Patterson. With his new bride,
Patterson will return to Chapel
Hill for the opening, night of , his
play.
This folk comedy is a study in
characters: most important, the old
colored yard-boy, who takes life
Spanish Dancer Jose Greco
Heads SEC Program Friday
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played a superstitutious gypsy bull
fighter in the movie "Sombrero,'
will appear, in Memorial Hall Fri
day night at 8 o'clock under .the
cnsnrshio of the Student Enter
tainment Committee.
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up in Brooklyn, is recognized as
one of the foremost Spanish danc-.t.-
fio will bring
ers m me wvnu.
with him a troupe of singers, danc
ers and musicians.
Greco's mother was Spanish and
from her he learned the language.
He made his initial American per
formance in the opera "Carmen ,
His father, a baker in the, vil
lage of Monterio in Italy, mi
grated to Seville, staying there
three years" before coming to
America. It was there that-Greco
first became interested in Spanish
i dancing.
Following his appearance m
"Carmen," Greco pleaded witn La.
Argentina for an audition for -position
in her Broadway stand.
She engaged him for her com
pany, thinking he was a Spaniard.
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slowly and philosophically, and al
ways has a yarn to spin in answer
to any situation. His employers, a
middle-aged couple recently left
alone for the first time by the
marriage of their son, are a pair
of delightful people the refined
Southern lady who dyes her hair
weekly, with the aid of the cook,
and as a result cannot fire the cook
because the story would get out;
the long-suffering but amiable
husband who loves his wife rieenlv
in spite of her many little foibles.
The situation is complicated by
the entrance of a lovely Yankee
widow, but the yard-boy holds all
together and comments always on
the "peculiarities of these white
people."
Social Science
Experimenting
Goes On Here
Four research projects now in
progress at UNC are listed . in a
report just released by the Na
tional Science Foundation.
The projects are being carried
on in the Institute for Research in
Social Science and the Institute of
Statistics here. fThe report is a
compilation of information on
Government-sponsored social sci
ence research projects. All such
projects cited in the report are
being conducted in non-governmental
organizations and not under
security restrictions.
The research projects listed at
Chapel Hill are:
Human Factors in- Air Force Base
Efficiency, sponsored by the Air
Force and directed by Nicholas J.
Demerath and Gordon W. Black
well; Socio-Cultural Aspects of the
Transference of Patients from Psy
chiatric Hospital to Home Com
munity, sponsored by the Veterans
Administration and directed by
John Gillin and Frank M. LeBar;
Minimax Theory Applied to Socio-
Cultural' Structure, sponsored by
the Committee on Disaster Studies
of the National Research Council
and carried out by George Nichol
son and Gordon W. Blackwell; and
an investigation of Correlational
Techniques appropriate to Spatial
ly Distributed Data, sponsored by
the Air Force and directed by
George Nicholson. This project
deals with a crucial problem of
method in- social science.
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Coed obviously rebelling
against tall-sox fad, walking
through Y court wearing no sox
at all.
Political science professor in
terrupting lecture to leave room,
explaining that he had crackers
for secretary that he forgot to
give her, saying that he did not
want her to starve.
Freedom Meet
Is In Raleigh
This Thursday
RALEIGH, Jan. 9 Sev
eral . hundred i North Carolinians
will gather here Thursday for dis
cussions aimed to giving new em
phasis to an idea of old as democ
racy itself the right of the public
to know its own business.
The setting for the discussions (
lasting all day,; will be a Freedom
of Information Conference that
will draw many of the state's top
public officials and newspaper
radio and television representa
tives. !
The theme of the conference,
sponsored by North Carolina mem
bers of The Associated Press, is
making "Public Business the Pub
lic's Business.' 'The discussions
will deal exclusively with problems
and responsibilities of news media
in the coverage of judicial and law
enforcement agencies.
Sessions, which will be held at
the Sir Walter Hotel, will start at
10 a.m. The day's program has
been based on two panel discus
sions and a luncheon.
Gov. William B. Umstead will
deliver the keynote address. Holt
McPherson, editor of the High
Point Enterprise and "general chair
man of the conference, will pre
side. The morning panel discussion
will deal with "Relations Between
the Judiciary and the Public In
formation Media." With Charles
H. Crutchfield, vice president and
general manager of Station WBT-
WBTV, Charlotte, serving as mod
erator, five spokesmen will repre
sent the state's judiciary and five
the state's press, radio and. tele
vision outlets.
Chief Justice William A. Devin
of the State Supreme Court, Fed
eral Judge Johnson J. Hayes, Su
perior Court Judge Susie Sharp,
High Point Municipal Judge J. A.
Myatt and Atty.. Gen. Harry Mc
Mullan will speak for the judic
iary. Around the table with them will
be Miles H. Wolff, executive edi
tor of The Greensboro News, who
will discuss "The Rights of a Re
porter in Covering Trial Proceed
ings"; Ward A. Coleman, general
manager of WENC, Whiteville,
who will discuss "Problems of a
Broadcasters in overing Judicial
Proceedings"; C. A. McKnight, edi
tor of The Charoltte News, "The
Rights of a Reporter and Problems
Encountered in Inspection of Ju
dicial Records"; Wiemar Jones,
publisher of The Franklin Press,
"Problems of Covering Court News
in Rural Areas"; and Gaines Kel
(See FREEDOM, page 4) .
Deacon on Toast Of The Town'
Andy Griffith Debut
North Carolina graduate Andy
Griffith's record, "What It Was,
Was Football," has skyrocketed
him to fame, fortune and an
appearance on Ed Sullivan's
"Toast of the Town" television
show in New York tonight from
8 to 9 o'clock.
Twenty-seven year-old Griffith
began, his acting with the Caro
lina Playmakers. Orville Camp
bell, close friend and promoter
for Griffith, who persuaded him
to do the football record, made
the announcement here Friday.
Campbell said that Sullivan
was so much impressed with'
Griffith, that: he. wanted him for
13 consecutive TV shows but that
Andy thought this would be over
doing the thing.- They, finally
settled on four appearances. It
Exhibition
On Atoms
Is Coming
Developments in the field of
atomic energy are being exhibited
in five cities throughout the state,
including Chapel Hill, during the
month of January under the co
sponsorship of the University Ex
tension Division, the American
Museum of Atomic Energy at Oak
Ridge, Tenn., the National Uni
versity Extension Association, and
local organizations in the state.
The exhibit is scheduled for
Chapel Hill January 21-24 in the
Morehead Building, under the aus
pices of the Chapel Hill Kiwanis
Club, the Chapel Hill Rotary Club,
the Morehead Planetarium, and
the Extension Division.
The exhibit will be open to the
public without charge. It contains
more than 30 authoritative sec
tions on various phases of atomic
enrgy, and is transported in a large
truck-trailer. A representative of
the Amefxcan Museum of Atomic
Energy accompanies the exhibit
and serves as manager.
The exhibits, are interestir,
eye-catching, and understandable
to the layman. Some of the major
items include basic ficts about
atoms, radioisotope production,
radioisotopes in medicine, agricul
ture and industry, civil, defense,
atomic bomb effects, atomic pow
er, and 'others. Free literature will
be available.
The hours when the exhibit will
be open to the public will be an
nounced in the local riewspapers
and by radio.
The American Museum of Atom
ic Energy is operated for the Atom
ic Energy Commission and the
U.S. Government by the Oak Ridge
Institute of Nuclear Studies, a non.
p r o1 f i t educational corporation
formed just after World War II
by the University of North Caro
lina, Duke University, and 12 other
Southern universities.
North Carolinians have played
vital roles in the Institute since it
was formed. Dr. Frank P. Graham,
former Senator and President of
the University, was the first presiT
dent of the Instiute. When he re
signed to become a U. S. Senator,
he was succeeded by Dr. Paul M.
Gross, vice-president of Duke. Uni
versity. - '
Schools Plan
Improvements
Leaders of the school of educa
tion staffs of the Consolidated Uni
versity of North Carolina will dis-
cuss ways of improving their mu-I
tual educational program at a
meeting at Woman's College in
Greensboro tomorrow.
The three-college steering com
mittee under, the direction of Dr.
H. Arnold Perry, chairman, set up
the agenda for the program. The
meeting, according to Perry, "rep
resents a constructive step in the
direction- outlined by President
Gordon Gray last year in his ad
dress, 'The Mission of the Consol
idated University,' delivered at the
State of the University Confer-
ence
was reported that Andy will re
ceive $1500 for each perform
ance, grossing him $6,000.
Sullivan said , he considered
'Andy "the most original and re
freshing comic" he had ever
seen, Campbell reported.
It is reported that Andy will
gross more than $75,000 this
year from his records and per
sonal appearances.
Andy is a native of Mt. Airy
and took his A.B. degree at the
University, with a major in mu
sic. His wife, Barbara, is a na
tive of Troy and received her
bachelor cf music degree at
Converse College. She has played
the role of Eleanor Dare in Paul
Green's famous symphonic dra
ma, "The Lost Colony," for six
'
ROBERT FROST
Instruments;
Music Books
Are In Display
A display of books on music and
instruments drawn from the hold
ings of the University of North
Carolina Music Depaitment and
Rare Book Room of the University
Library is on exhibit in the corri
dors of the main floor of the build
ing. Already viewed by musicians
from all sections of the country at
tending sessions of the American
Musicological Society meeting here
jduring the holidays, the display
will remain in the library through
January 15. The display is consid
ered a tribute to Dr. Glen Haydon,
chairman of the Music Department,
whose guidance and care have built
the Department's Library to its
present proportions.
The display has been formed to
follow the chronological order of
music history with additional cases
on the evolutin of music printing,
folk song, and the materials of
Lmusicology.fIhe. traditional "book
of the week" for the week of the
meeting was the very rare first
edition of the second book of Mass
es by Palestrina, one of the great
Church composers of the 16th cen
tury. One display case is devoted to
the music of the primitive peoples.
A relatively new discipline, that
of comparative musicology, studies
this music both for the sake of the
music itself and also to try and de
termine what the origins of music
might have been. Among interest
ing items in this case is an ola
from India which contains songs
of sacrifices 'to be offered in the
"Bali-yaga" ceremonies. The Leip
zig thesis of an American, Dr. The
odore Baker, on the music of Am-i
erican natives, may also be seen
here.
The case on the music of anti
quity, the music of Greece and
Rome as well as other ancient civ
ilizations, contains such works as
"Die Tonleitem und Musiknoten
der Griechen" bv the eminent Ger-
n srhniar Weinrich Bellerman
and the "Antique Musicae Auctor-
es Septem" by Meibom, a volume
published in 1652 and composed of
the writings of classical theoreti
cians. Modern scholarship is repre
sented by, among others, Schles
inger's "The Greek Aulos."
Two cases are provided for med
ieval music. The first is devoted to
monophonic music, pne-line music
which can be sung by the human
voice without any accompaniment.
The rare book has contributed a
bound manuscript which contains j
(See INSTRUMENTS, page 4)
On Television Tonight
years and often appears with him
as singer and interpretative
dancer while he plays the guitar
and sings folk ballads.
Andy has played the part of
Sir .Walter Raleigh for five of .
the seven years he has been , in
"The Lost Colony" cast.
Last September Andy made a
record giving a country boy's
version of "Romeo and Juliet"
which is becoming increasingly
popular with young and old
alike. He has also done his ver
sion of "Hamlet."
The secret of his recent fame
lies in the completely natural
way he explains things to his
audience, which enjoys the buco
lic humor of the situations pre
sented by this open-faced coun
Poet Frost
Returning
January20
Robert Frost, continuing an an
nual tradition, will lecture and
read his poetry to students and
townspeople Wednesday night,
January 20, at 8:30 in Hill Hall.
Last year during Mr. Frost's ap
pearance, he lectured to an en
thusiastic full house. The 79 year
old poet came on stage, wearing a
black robe, a head of snow white
hair and a friendly smile. After the
lecture he walked over to the book
store to autograph his books.
Although he was born in1 San
Francisco (in 1875), Mr. Frost has
spent most of his life in New Eng
land, the idiom and folk-ways of
which are reflected in. much of
his poetry. Educated at Dartmouth
and holding numerous honorary
degrees (the latent a Litt.D. from
the University of North Carolina,
in June, 1953), Mr. Frost is a man
of many talents.
Though best known as a poet, he
is a distinguished lecturer and
teacher. After a beginning in Pink
ertoh Academy, Deny, New Hamp
shire, most of his active teaching
years were spent at Amherst Col
lege and the University of . Michi
gan. From 1912 to 1915 he was in
England, where the English poets
Wilfrid Gibson and Lascelles Aber
crombie were his neighbors for a
time.
Few poets have received more
honors during their lifetime than
has Mr. Frost. He was named Phi
Beta Kappa poet at Harvard in
1916 and was elected to a fellow
ship at Pierson College, Yale, in
1933. He was awarded the Levin
son Prize by the magazine "Poetry"
in 1922; the Pulitzer Prize for poe
try in 1924, 1931, and 1937; and the
Russell Loines Prize of the Nation
al Institute of Arts and Letters in
1931.
Although Mr. Frost's earliest
poetry was published in American
magazines, his first two books, ':A
Boy's Will" and "North of Boston,"
were published in England and
established him as an important
American poet. Of his many other
volumes, "Mountain Interval,"
"New Hampshire," "West-Running
Brook," and "A Further Range"
are among the most significant.
fThe "Collected Poems" won his
second Pulitzer in 1931; a new edi
tion of "Collected Poems" appear
ed in 1939; and a volume of select
ed poems is now available in a
Pocket Book.
No admission will be charged.
Legislature Clerk. Davis
Member Student Party
Caroline Davis, newly elected
clerk of the Student Legislature,
is a member of the Student Party
and not the University Party as
was " reported in The Daily Tar
Heel yesterday.
This means that all legislative
offices are held by the SP, which
has a 31-18 majority.
Human Relations
The Human Relations Institute
Committee of the YMCA will meet
at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon on
the second floor of the Y, instead
of 3:30 in the Cabinet room as it
was announced Friday. The com
mittee will plan a week of inten
sive campus study on the problem
of segregation. ,
try boy.
Andy met Earbara during his
senior year at the University
and they were married r. year
later. She is a tall, slender, tal
ented girl with a deep personal
desire to do serious acting, some
thing she intends to begin worfe
. ing on when they get to New
York. Her performances are so
phisticated and her dances cre
ate a mood for an audience as
she pantomimes the. words of a
ballad Andy is singing.
"The audiences love her," her
husband reports proudly.
Andy and Barbara are still
giddy from all that has happened
and their reaction is still one of
pleasant, surprise that it has all
come about.