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twWVAMiJ V tit A WEATHER Continued warm like Carolina in the spring time, with an expected high of 72. Yesterday's high, 75; GRAY The editor wishes the UNC president would speak up on big-time ath letics. See p. 2. low, 50's. VOLUME LXII NUMBER 98 Complete JP Photo and Wire Service CHAPEL HILL, N. C. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1954 Offices in Graham Memorial FOUR PAGES TODAY Decision Due This Week On Having Library Stay Open Later Saturdays By Babbie Dilorio Flans to keep the Library open on Saturday night at regular week hours are under consideration and may go into effect this week, said Olan V. Cook, the University librarian, yesterday. If approved by Charles E. Rush, director of libraries, the plan would Geiaer Hints Dorms To Get Cash For TV Dormitories may soon get free TV, according to Don Geiger, SP, chairman of the Legislature's So cial Improvements Committee. Geiger said yesterday that the committee would this week hear the wants of dormitory presidents and will decide by next week what the Legislature can appropriate to each dorm. "Although it is a rough esti mate," said Geiger, "it is now felt that each dorm may get between $200 and $300, depending on the situation." He said letters have been sent to all dorm presidents notifying them of the committee's existence and urging them to take part in the program. The program is part of the Stu dent Party "Good Deal," initiated last fall. In handbills circulated before the fall elections, the SP promised a social improvements program, saying, "Make the social rooms social by casting your bal lot for the Student Party." Geiger expressed hope that the dorm requests would be .for spe cific items rather than generali ties, and that they be for concrete improvements rather than parties or other short-term improvements. Geiger said the dorms were sup posed to decide last week in their meetings what they would to have in the way of social improvements. He also added, "I personally believe that this bill is going to do more for the average student than any piece of legislation that I have seen past the Legislature .in my three years here." Little Dog Lost Sandy, Gome Homs, Student Here Pleading A Carolina first year law stu dent pleaded the case for his "little dog lost" yesterday. Fred Mattox from Smithfield said that Sandy, his little red-ish-brown cocker spaniel, has been missing since exam week of first semester. Sandy, a third year man him self, has been coming to UNC with Fred since the fall of '51. 'He had his picture in the Yack-ety-Yack last, year. He has been written up in The Daily Tar Heel for sleeping through Dr. Hugh Lefler's history lectures and is rivaled in campus notoriety only by the fabulous dog, "George. It seems that when Sandy turned up missing during exam week, Fred ran a want-ad in The Daily Tar Heel but with no re sults. Fred had nearly given up hope of finding his little pal when he got a tip that some "self righteous lady" had picked up a coker answering Sandy's descrip tion and turned it over to Dr. Vine, a local veterinarian, to be placed in the dog pound. By the time that Fred received this information and contacted the pound, Sandy had already been, given to a new owner and there was no record as to who it was. So now Fred is trying to lo cate Sandy's new owner and see if he can get his dog back. The law student, Fred Mattox, asked anyone who knew about a little-brown cocker named Sandy to call Fred at the SPE fraternity house. be extended through June 30, as I a test period to determine wheth- er there is actual justification for such an extension of library ser vices. In last Friday's Tar Heel, the editor editorialized that "the library is not open long enough on the weekends. Its 633,000 books are shut up from the 5,800 stu dents on those days when the stu dents have the greatest period of free time." The Library official commented that they would be delighted to co operate, but the main factors under consideration before approving the plan are analyzing the budget and securing competent personnel for the time desired. Cook pointed out that there is a serious problem with regard to the present Library hours in that it is not used as intensely as it should be. "All necessary work could be done as it is" he commented. The Library is at present open as long as any other Universities' in the country lie noted. "Students' attitudes bother me", Cook said, mentioning the fact that there is to much laughing and talking in tlie library and abuse insofar as students litter up the premises with, paper cups and note paper. Cook is opposed to any form of monitor system, but he said as "grown men and women," studen should take it upon themselves to correct the existing problems. Di Will Debate Proxy Election The Di Senate will debate a pro posal for the direct election of " the President of the United States tonight at 8 o'clock on third floor of New West. , , . , . , , , The proposal, to be introduced nic piwp ' . by Senator Bob Harrington, calls 3 , , x .... ' . for the complete a'oolition of all deterrents to tne complete direct election of the President. Opposition to such a plan is based mainly on the contention ... . ... i , that such direct election would weaken the influence of the small - er states in presidential races. Students are invited to attend , . , . , j and take part in the debate. Budget Committee iThe Budget Committee will meet at 4 o'clock in the Grail Room, GM, today. Organizations that have u j Kr, or, M,hn not submitted a budget and wno want funds from the Student Leg- islature for next year may submit the tardy requests at this meeting, - f " .- ','1;.... .:,;, ,;, ;.:-::;:::::' - . AT4 ?, ?t : r iv "1 S3fi SFFM W hm Urn I Ray Jefferies, assistant to the dean of students, and a promi nent ' Y-Court member seen watching coeds cross the cam pus from the lofty perch of South Building's second floor windoio. Coed returning to dorm early Sunday morning from sorority house, where she spent the night, wearing fur coat and feet shod in bedroom slippers. CPU To Give TV Program On Thursday The Carolina Political Union will present its first television pro gram, a discussion ot Dig-time athletics, Thursday night at 10: 30 on station WNAO-TV in Raleigh. . Members of this week's panel will be Pebley Barrow, Tom Pea cock, Jim Lamn, and Tommy Sum ner. Thier topic will be "Are Big-Time Intercollegiate Athletics a Threat To Higher Education?" Joel Fleishman, Chairman of the CPU, will moderate the discus sion. The weekly meeting last. Sunday night resulted in a great deal of discussion on the preparedness of our armed forces to fight an idelogical war. It was decided to discuss this topic fully this coming Sunday night at 8 o'clock in the Grail Room. The theme for the discussion will be the preparation cal was as opposed to the prepara for the methods of waging ideologi tin and waging of wars as we have known them in the past. (The faculty guests for this week's program have not yet been announced. Accused Endangered By Bias In Community, Lavyer Says The newspapers took a beating ; last night in a discussion on how the rights of criminally accused 1 persons are being, disregarded. r ,, ,. . . , i The discussion followed the free . . , . movie, "Boomerang," which showed tQ SQme m who fmed Car. HaU fQr YMCA.HiUel presentation. James C. N. Paul, assistant head of the Institute of Government, led the group, which dropped from 400 to about 100 . , after the movie was over, : The movie dealt with actual 'facts of a criminal case in Con- necticut in which a priest was . 1J1U1 UC1 CU UU Lilt OUL L LO QUU Xi . . , . . , , the crime. After talking about the evils of trial by newspaper, Paul suggested what coUid be done. "The main thing," he said, "is to awaken the publicconscience and make peo- Pe sensitive to their rights. We must educate the police and the presg The American public must become aware of the value of pro- cedures." FIREMAN HARRY Lambert rescues Bobby Grumbles, 12, from side of a 300-foot !iff in Hollywood, Calif., hills where he became harooned while Trying to "see what was going on." The lad climbed the cliff o watch firemen rescue a 25-year-ald hiker who'd fallen 30 feet on the same cliff. Bobby had to be' rescued when he reached a spot where he could neither ascend nor descend Ap Wire-ohoto. Premiere Tonight WUNC-FM To Present 'Hearfhfire' WUNC, the University's FM radio station, has scheduled the premiere broadcast of "Hearth fire," one of the programs in the "American Adventure" series, tonight at . 9:30. ; The series, produced by the Communication Center for na tionwide radio distribution, is to be broadcast on Tuesday eve nings at 9:30 through April. "Hearthfire" is a study of home and family the story of a Tennessee family forced to leave the family homestead when the TVA constructs Norris Dam. The cast for this program in cludes Josephine Sharkey, Charles Kuralt, John Ehle and Jean Herring. The series is currently sched- uled for nationwide release in April by approximately 100 sta tions affiliated with the National Association of Educational Broadcasters.' Following that re lease, extensive additional broad cast coverage, both national and statewide, is planned for the dramas. "American Adventure" is a study of man in the New World his values and his character istics, who he is, what he be lieves and what he lives by. The dramas were written by John M. Ehle, Jr. Nine Univer sity professors served as con sultants for the series. The broadcasts, which have already been produced and tape-recorded, were directed by John Clay ton. The series was produced on a grant-in-aid from the National Association of E d u c a t i o n a 1 Broadcasters, made possible by the Fund for Adult Education, an independent agency estab lished by the Ford Foundation. "These procedures," he added, "are the primary difference be tween our system and that of Russia." Paul commented on the proced ures of an ordinary criminal trial to help the audience get a pic ture of what was wrong in the movie procedures. (The movie ver sion followed a common practice, Paul said, when police delayed a public hearing until they had ques tioned the suspect for many hours and secured a fatigue-forced con fession. In the federal courts a confes sion obtained this way would riot stand up, Paul said. State courts, however, do not offer this pro tection, he said, but the defendant may appeal. What about the defendant's right to communicate with his friends or a lawyer, a listener asked. "Theoretically the defend ant is entitled to contact some person." Is there an Increasing demand among defendants that the deci sion rest with the judge rather than jury? "It depends on the state. Under the Constitution a state is not bound to give a man a jury trial. Some states allow the defendant to decide for himself. In this state a defendant must have a jury trial in the case of felonies." If the defendant thinks the jurors are biased what can he do? "The defense lawyer is expected to ask those summoned for jury duty if they are biased. He has the right to challenge a certain number of jurors and may strike their names if he can prove the charge, of bias." Is it possible to change the trial to another location when public opinion in a certain locale al ready has been moulded by the press and community pressures? "Yes," Paul replied, "the defend ant may have a change of venue, i.e., place of. trial. This is a fairly common practice now that crime is getting such play by press, radio, and TV. It is hard to find a jury that hasn't been influenced beforehand." RN. Folklorist Carl Carmer W7 Speak On American Folk Fancy' Tonight Library Has Display Of Author's Works, English Dept. Is Host Folklorist Carl Carmer will dis cuss the "American Folk Fancy" tonight at o'cock in Gerrard Hall. Besides being a folklorist, Car mer is a novelist, poet and editor of the Rivers of America Series. jHis lecture is being sponsored by the English Department. Following the lecture, a recep tion for the speaker will be held in the Assembly Room of the Li brary, with the English Club as -host. The University Library is cur rently displaying a collection of Carmer's books in connection with the lecture. The display, arranged by the English Club, is located in the basement hall of the Li brary and features Carmer's out standing works in American folk lore. Carmer began his career as a professor of English at the Uni versity of Alabama, where Tie gathered the material for "Deep South," a volume of poetry, and "Stars Fell On Alabama," a best seller and outstanding Literary Guild selection. After a year as columnist of the New Orleans Morning Tribune, he became assist- ant editor of Vanity Fair in New York and later associate editor of Theater Arts Monthly. For the Rivers of America Se ries, he wrote "The Hudson" and edited a book of river songs en titled "Songs of the Rivers of America." Other of his volumes include "Listen For A Lonesome Drum," "Genesee Fever," (his one novel .which was also a Literary Guild selection) "For The Rights of Men" (an historical study of the struggle for civil rights in the United States), and "Dark Trees to the Wind." Carmer has written seven child ren's books, five of which were illustrated by his wife, Eliazbeth Black Carmer, who is accompany ing the author on his lecture tour. "Windfall Fiddle" won a Herald Tribune Children's Book Festival award, and "A Flag For The Fort" was a Junior Literary Guild selec tion. He has been president of the Authors' Guild, president of the American Center of P.E.N, (inter national organization of distin guished writers) for three terms, and president of the Poetry Soci ety of America for two terms. He is now president of the Edward MacDowell Association, a council or of the Society of American His torians and ,a member of the board of trustees of the New York State Historical Association. Carmer is the holder of several honorary degrees, including recog nition from Elmira College, Ham ilton College, and Susquehanna University. In the summer he con ducts a seminar in American Lit erature at Cooperstown, New York. Women's Glee Club The Women's Glee Club will elect officers for the coming year this afternoon. 'Records In Jeopardy' Show Students Stage RALEIGH, Feb. 15 (JP) Stu dents stayed away from classes at Shaw University here today, but the president of the Baptist Negro College and student leaders dif fered on the extent of the strik. A 10-member student committee said only a half dozen or less of the 503 students went to classes following an early morning mass meeting to consider an administra tion ultimatum which said those who failed to go to class would place their "academic and per sonal records in jeopardy." However, President William Strassner said the number attend ing classes were gradually increas ing. He stated the strike "seems to be on the road to clearing up." Faculty-student committees will be set up to study a list of grievances submitted by the students, he added. Hi .4! i-t;l t . I- wax : CARL CARMER Folklorist to spin tales in Gerrard Weekend Vandalism Outbreak Damages Fraternity Houses A furniture bonfire, an alleged violation of Dance Committee rul es, and broken windows in a fra ternity cottage were all part of festivities that went astray over the late Germans weekend. The bonfire began at the SAE house where party or parties un known carried the house piano out of the first floor and set it on fire. Bill Ruff in, SAE presi dent, said yesterday that "it was after we had all gone to bed so it must have been around 5 o'clock Sunday morning." The fire department and police were called and, according to them when they arrived several boys were piling more furniture on the fire. Also suffering in the weekend activities was Pi Kappa Alpha fra ternity, across the court from the SAE house. The PiKA's lost a ping pong table and their fraternity sign which hung in front of their resi dence. Jt was reported the two items were thrown on the fire with the piano. Four Carolina fraternities al ii. S. Light Bombers Go To French Indo-China TOKYO (JP) Gen. O. P. Wey land, U. S. air commander in the Far East, said today -more B-26 light bombers are being flown to Indochina to bolster the French air force. He also announced that a regular U. S. airlift is now fly ing supplies to 250 Air Force technicians now k at work in Indo china on an aircraft maintenance assignient. Weyland emphasized that the Americans are "noncom batants." The suspension of six students over the past two weeks sparked the strike which began with a demonstration at President Stras sner's home last Thursday night. Lucius Walter Jr. of Rosell, N. J., student body president, said the' suspensions were merely the immediate cause of the strike, which he stated actually resulted from student complaints built up over several years. The complaints, he said, include inadequate heating, lighting and hot water, as well as "outmoded" regulations covering student con duct. Walker claimed four women stu dents, all seniors, were suspended for being off the campus without permission and riding in an auto mobile with a woman friend, a graduate of Shaw. He said two basketball players were suspended legedly broke Dance Committee rules Friday night when they rent ed a ballroom at the Washington Duke Hotel in Durham and danced to combo music without members of the Dance Committee present. They were scheduled for a hearing before the Dance Committee last night. Two unidentified' Carolina men were charged with a violation of the campus code when they were caught breaking windows .out of the Beta House cottage on Colum bia Street, Sunday night. They will be tried before the Men's Honor Council some time this week. Police records are Incomplete at the present time but other stu dents will come up for trial in Chapel Hill Recorder's court for various other infractions over the weekend. Phi To Debate On Continuing Lower Division Adebate on the continuation of the General College in the Uni versity will be held on the fourth floor of New East tonight at eight o'clock by the Phi Assembly. Those in favor of retaining the General College point out that without a general college the stu dent's personlity is wraped by an over-emphasis on some sub ject. Big Strike after they were accused of setting off firecrackers on the campus. The student committee has asked that the cases . be reviewed, con tending the punishment was too severe for the offenses. Mimeographed sheets distributed to dormitory rooms before dawn today said the 10 members of the student committee would be "auto matically expelled" if normal academic routine were not re sumed within 24 hours. The sheets carried the signatures of Presi dent Strassner and division faculty heads of the college. President Strassner reported to day no students showed up for classes Friday. However, at that time he said he did not consider it a strike and insisted classes were being held as usual with some students staying away.
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