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Serials Dgpt.
Chepel Hill, U. C
2-31-49
WEATHER
Fair, with moderate tempera
ture today. Expected high, 65; low
near 32. , '
RICH
North Carolina is richer for the
life of Governor Umstead, says the
editor. See Page 2
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VOLUME LVII No. 47
Next Tuesday's The Day:
ruAoci uit i mnoTii r - t iu -vi p-- . . . . .
Complete UP) Wire Service
Offices In Graham Memorial
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FOUR PACES TODAY
Graham Rights, of the Elections
Board, said yesterday there will be
approximately 25 polling places
for student elections next JTuesday,
Nov. 16. He hopes this will raise
the fall vote from last year's vote
of a little under 50 percent for the
fall election. , .
' Reuben Leonard, chairman of
the University Party, said, "I think
the students are showing more in
terest in student government this
year, and as- always when their is
more interest shown, there will be
a large turnout of votes. We are
expecting the largest vote the fall
elections ever had. The excellent
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are expecting victory."
Student Party Chairman Joel
leishman said, "I think that there
will be a larger vote ttys fall be
cause the Student Party has made
it easier for the students to vote
by establishing polling places in
all dorms and within easy access
of those who live in town. I feel
that we are willing to wage this
campaign on the basis of the Stu-
Up
the executive branch shows little
imagination and no positive con
structive ideas. These the Student
Party has proposed and carried out
in the past and will continue to
accomplish in the same spirit in
which it has achieved the program
of last fall and spring, which re
ceived the overwhelming" student
mandate."
The following candidates have
on the basic rf the nnil,'f;o;
program President Tom Creasy has ! of the candidates. I think that
outlined can only be accomplished President Creasy has done a good
with a University Party majority job in administering student gov
in the Legislature We are confi- ernment, but his party in the Le
dent students realize this and we islature and his administration of
dent Party program in Legislature; j been endorsed by the bi-partisan
me program which we have carri
ed out; the platform which we
promise to accomplish, a realistic
platform of practical idealism and
Fire Guts K A House
rire oroKe out last night at the also located in the basement. The
appa Aipna House at 110 West entire basement ceiling was dam
Pamornn Street loir, ,lmnc ; veiling WdS Qam
aged by the fire along with the
woodwork and furniture in the
Mem?io
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fT
Cameron Street, leaving almost the
entire ceiling of the house gutted
by the blaze. -.
The fire was discovered at about
9:05 last night and apparently
started in -the basement furnace
room of the KA House.
The blaze is believed to have
started from a pile of trash which
was lying in the coal bin next to
the furnace. The first spread to
the woodwork in an adjacent bar
and to the dining room which is
downstairs rooms..
The floor in the upstairs living
room was also badly charred, espe
cially around the huge stone fire
place.
KA secretary Gordon Forester
estimated damage to be at approx
imately $10,000," including dam
age to the floors, walls, paint and
woodwork.
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Isaac Edward Emerson:
Fund Slated Here By
Bromo-Seltzer Inventor
A second .rW is te es-Iy t0 ,he cost f XJE&ZZ.S
tabhsned here soon in honor of a j Alumni Building and to the Uni- Men's II; Bob Stapleton, Bill Ginn,
napei mil Doy who worked his ; yersity Library. Although resid
way through the University and ' ing in. Maryland the greater part
later earned national famo ; of his life- Captain Emerson re-
tune.
election board: For Men's Honor
Council Seats: Gene Whitehead,
Charlie Thompkins, Bill Pindar for
the one freshman seat; Bill Bob
Peele, Mebane Pritchett, Rick Cok
erfor the one sophomore seat;
James Seely, Tommy Moore, Og
burn Yates for the two junior
seats. Jack Warner and Bill Red
ding are running independently
for the freshman seat,
j Endorse'd for Woman's Honor
j Council were Esten Bahannon, i
I Nancy Jordon, Nancy Capenter,
j Edna Dillon, Joan Palmer, Jean
i Robertson. Lois Owen, Robin Ful
! ler, Pat Dixon.
University Party candidates for
Legislature are: Steve Phelps and
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Farmer's Son
Goes To Rest
This Morning
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WILLIAM B. UMSTEAD
. . . funeral this morning
'l "Vl " V y- w T . I- 1 i
..t uacMwarofim- In 1927 he gave two .endow-
JS mtthG yea" 3head be" Uents to the University of C-
fac'urer rIand totaling annually fo'r
facturer naval officer, hotel and the establishment of a professor-
In 2 ' bJeeder' shiP in bioIoical testing rdTug
Platl!" . n?0L yacbtsman. assaying and fQr he ntenznee
.me new lijcmunai 10 uaptain
Bill Groce for Dorm Men's HI; Li
onel King and Bill Kirkman for
Dorm Men's IV; John Zollicoffer,
j tained deep interest in his. native Jim Montcith, and Pat Hunter for
state and his alma mater. uorm Men's V; Jack Stevens, Hoke
Emers6n, as he later became
known, is to be called "The Isaac
E. Emerson Memorial Fund." -
It has been established in the
North Carolina Pharmaceutical Re
search Foundation by a gift of
1,000 shares of Class A Stock in the.
Emerson Drug Company of Bal
timore from F. Jackson Andrews
of Baltimore, president of the
company.
Fellowshio Fund
It is expected that this Fund will
yield an annual income of $1,000
which will be used for promoting!
pharmaceutical education and re-'
of a fellowship in pharmacology
in the University's School of Med
icine. Captain Emerson died In ' Bal
timore on January 23, 1931.
Tar Heel Born and Bred
He was a Tar Heel, born and.
bred. His father, Robert J. Em
erson, was an Orange County plan
ter, while his mother, Cornelia
Lewis (Hudson) Emerson, was the
daughter of Colonel Isaac Hudson,
of Wake County. Isaac Emerson
(affectionally cabled "Ike") was
born at Chapel Hill on July 24,
1859.
Energetic and ambitious from
search at the Universty of North earIy byhood, he was one of the
Carolina in the form of research
fellowships, special supplies and
library materials, says Pharmacy
School Dean Edward A. Brecht,
secretary of the Foundation.
first students to enroll in the
University when it re-opened af
ter the War Between the States.
He was a student 1876-1879,
majoring in chemistry and serving
! n O OT rr.rinint I 4.1 l
The first memorial to Captain j cnemicai
Fmercn 9,,ft,.i, ,. laboratories his final year. Dur-
- auuuufill it w ao nui civ l , , , ,
en as a memorial at the time, was part.time ' rrrJ Junior Class officers are: Tom Ben
p.mopcm wtiw urn i..u;v - o . .
neit, pres.; joan f aimer, vice-pres.;
Pat McBane, sec; Ji Ji Rainwater!
iThompson, Larry Cobb, Colin Mc
Millan, Jim Martin and Tom John
son (6 months seat) for Town Men's
I; Laura Ervin (6 months seat).
Nan Brown, Jane Cocke, Luanne
Thorton for Dorm Women's; Bebe
Bauman for (Town Women's; Jim
Exum for Town Men's II; Charles
Ackerman, Watt Huntley (6 months
seat), Kay Wilson (6 months seat),
Jim Beatty and Jerry Harrington. '
Student Party candidates are:j
Louis BrumfiplH .Ra
a j xxa JLVJI
Dorm Men's I; Bob Harrington,
Keith Snyder for Dorm Men's n;
Bob Elder, Jack Hudson, and Bill
Maready for Dorm Men's III; Jim
Armstrong, Bob Young for Dorm
Men's IV; Bill Baum, Chuck Mav.
Jim Turner for Dorm Men's V:
Amy Cooke, Ruth Jones, Mary Ann
Keeter for Dorm Women's; Sue
Fink for a six month's seat in Dorm
Women's; Wayne Brown, Ken
Clark,' Frank Harris, Al Taylor
Herb Wentz, and Pepper Tice (6
months seat); for Town Men's I;
Larry Williams for Town Men's n;
Townsend Holt, Dave Garnise (6
month's seat) for Town Men's III;
and Marilyn Watson for Town Wo
men's. .
btudent Party . candidates fnr
UNIDENTIFIED CHAPEL
KILLIAN checking damage to base
ment ceiling at last nighfs fire at the KA House.
' R. B. Henley Photo.
Dr.
Odum
Dies
Dr. Howard Washington Odum,
70, Kenan Professor Emeritus of
sosiology here and distinguished
Southern educational statesman,
died in N. C. Memorial Hospital
last night at 11:05 .
He had been ill since early in
September.
most 35 years. He was regarded
as one of the nation's foremost
sociologists and teachers in that
field.
He had also won distinction as
an author and was a pioneer in the
betterment of. race relations.
Survivors inHnrlo fii mifa v,
Dr. Odum had been a member ' former Anna Louise Kranz, 'f orm
oi the Universitv-fariiHv fnr oi.i.i r T l. -n
' "i ixd&uvme, xenn.; two sons,
v- j- , . , r aiiu uunna vacation lr
Lmerson Stadium, which for many i tha , , . T .
voot-o 4U tt i the drug store of Dr. A. B. Rober
years was the University s play-
i son.
ing
and track
That was back in 1914 when
Captain Emerson presented to the
University a check for $26,000 to j He opened a drug store at Gilmor
field for football, baseball j In 1881 he became a resident of 1 as., and Donna Ashcraft, sociri
Baltimore and rapidly became id- ' cnJ-, . ,
entifiPH vriih thJ I SP candidates for Freshman class
UUM""a 111 tcl" officers are: Sonnv Evans nre
ests and develonmnt nf that oit i, ' "uuJr xvans, pres.,
we . " f :jerry Mayo, vice-pres.; Nancy Nus-
sear, sec; Jim Dixon, treas., and
nrnrav 4- V. n4 Af :
tc tu,i ui cumuumuuiand Lafayette Streets. Between r, .T,V - '
I sw-Jai cnairman.
which today would be several! 1884 and 1889 he became the
times that figure,
He also contribute! substantial-
(See COLORFUL, page 4)
Fiction Was Too Much Of A Struggle . . . '
University Party candidates for
(Sfe ELECTIONS, page 4)
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DURHAM () The frail body of
a farmers son who became gov
ernor of his state will come home
today to the quiet country church
yard ' of Mount Tabor Methodist
Church.
William Bradley Umstead will
be laid to final rest near the
graves of his mother and father.
in the soil of the northern section
of Durham Count:' where he was.
raised.
Last tributes to the man who
served North Carolina as congress
man, U. S. senator and governor
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! j will be paid at funeral services in
'-1 I Trinity Methodist Church here
I this morning. The body will lie
m state at the church for two
hours before the services at lli lMGV wOYGmOf
a. m.
j Lt. Gov. Luther H. Hodges, who
succeeds Umstead as the state's
chief executive, will join members
of the family, other high state of
ficials anrt Ipsri rmc nf fpiotis -it
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'tht f nal r-itoo ,""J1J'UU. ixuv. o. r. m less
I UmstPaH rq' .- o,-.. than three years fate, has moved
morning at Watts Hospital of HodSes from virtual po
heart ailment complicated by a i LMl SHL t0,-tbe vernor-
" sip nf tr: ui iNuiui Carolina
o tiujjiuiiid. ms wilt;, me
- former Merle Davis of Rutherford
. County, and 12-year-old daughter,
Merle Bradley, were at his bed
side.
Umstead reached but never ful
j itoiucu ma ainuiuon to oe gov- v '.
ernor. Less than three days after
his inaugural he was stricken with
a heart attack and was rushed to
.Watts HospitaL He - remained -at
the hospital and. in bed at the
executive mansion until after the
1953 session of the legislature.
In spite of his illness, he was
hard at work on plans for the 1955
legislature when he returned to
the hospital last Thursday. He had
been released after a three weeks
stay about 10 days earlier.
Dr.'C. D. Barclift, pastor of the
Trinity Church, will be in charge
Luther Hodges
Rose Quickly
At 4 p. m. today he will be
sworn in to succeed Gov. William
B. Umstead who died Sunday
morning.
In his first political venture in
Tabor; and the Rev. C. S. Hubbard
pastor of the Chapel Hill Method
ist Church.
State offices at Raleigh will be
closed for the funeral, as well as
city and county offices, public
schools and businesses here.
DR. HOWARD ODUM
... educator dies
Dr. Eugene P. Odum, Professor of I f the funeral services- H will be
Zoology at the University nf r.0n.- y r. D. D. Holt of
gia, and Howard Thomas Odum Greensboro, former pastor; the
Assistant Professor of 7nnln J ', Rev- A- D- Clark Pastor of Mount
VUVSJ Hb
Duke University; a daughter, Mary
Frances Schinhan, of Chapel Hill:
a brother, Henry Odum, of Coving- j
con, oa., and two sisters, Miss
Pauline Odum, of Atlanta, Ga., and
Mrs. Roland Bryce, of Tate, Ga.
Born In Georgia
Dr. Odum was born on a farm
near Bethlehem, Ga., on May 24,
1884. His parents were William
Pleasants and Mary Ann (Thomas).
In Howard's youth, for the educa
tion of their children, William and
Mary Odum moved to a farm near
Oxford, Ga., where was then lo
cated Emory College.
In 1905 Odum went to the Uni
versity of Mississippi as instructor
and graduate student in Classics
(See DR. ODUM, page 4)
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LUTHER HODGES
. . . 'not a politician'
1952, Hodges was elected lieuten
ant governor. During his cam
paign he traveled more than 11,000 i hoarse
miles over the state handinsr n,,t i v'isory Budget Commission. At the
cards which read: neanng his voice carried only a
few feet and he obviously was very
ill according to observers.
Classes End
For One Hour
In His Memory
The three units of the Con
solidated University will .sus
pend classes tomorrow from i i
a.m. until noon out of respect
to Governor Umstead, ex of
ficio chairman of the Univers
ity's Hoard of Trustees.
President Gordon Gray said
yesterday that classes will be sus
pended here, at State and at W.C.
Fifteen minute memorial services
were held last night in all the
dorms at W.C.
Appropriate music will be play
ed on the chimes of the bell towr
here and in Raleigh on the State
campus. The bell in the South
Building steeple will toll for five
minutes at 11 o'clock this morn
ing. President of the student body
rTom Creasy said in a statement
issued yesterday afternoon, "I am
sure I speak for the entire stu
dent body of the University when
I say how deeply shocked and dis
tressed we all are over the untime
ly death of Governor Umstead. He
was one of our greatest and most
outstanding alumni. Respected and
admired by all who knew him,
Governor Umstead was a devoted
servant of the people. The student
body joins the people of the stata
and the nation in mourning the
passing of a truly great man."
Chancellor R. B. House, a Uni
versity classmate and a close friend
of the Governor for 42 years, said
yesterday, "During the two years
he- was permitted to serve the state
as governor, Bill Umstead did a
magnificent job as history will
show, and at a great personal sac
rifice of his health. His death is
a great loss to the state, and nat
urally I feel a deep sense of per
sonal loss."
Governor William Bradlev Um
stead died Sunday morning at 9:10
in Watts Hospital of Durham, the
victim of "congestive heart fail
ure," not bronchial pneumonia as
was earlier reported, according to
his personal physician, Dr. Ralph
Fleming, who made a statement
to the press Sunday afternoon.
Gov. Umstead entered the hos
pital Thursday afternoon after he
had appeared pallid weak and
at a hearing of the Ad-
By BARBARA WILLARD
ouis Graves Is The Weekly
The New York Times once call- He was varsity ' quarterback for
ed The Chapel Hill Weekly
"unique in American journalism;"
The New York Herald Tribune
declared: ' "What ' the country
needs is more papers like The
Chapel Hill Weekly." Meanwhile,
Louis Graves, who created this ex
ceptional newspaper in its pres
ent form, stands . back while his
brainchild is showered with bou
quets. ,
Graves, a native of Chapel Hill
now residing at. Ill Battle Lane,
ran The Weekly for 20 years and
only last year exchanged the title
of editor for that of contributing
editor. He said on the 27th birth
day oftthe paper in 1950. "I have
been running this paper for 17
years and I'm tired of it." Even
now, though, he spends most of
his time on the Weekly.
Graduating in 1902 from this
University, as the youngest man
in the class, Graves was Phi Beta !
Kappa, although he says it seems
to hint he devoted most of his
time and enthusiasm to football, three years.
To New York
XUfi'753i -rrom tne university m 1902,
if--
When asked why he didn't con- munity and uses" the paper to
tinue to write fiction, he replied, create this image. Author Noel
attention. It is heard each year on i governor was to preside over
"It was too much of a struslp " nnBnr. , j several nunared radio stations ini xvoj Senate and to name Sen-
"wWWu, ouumci iiiLivtf til i.nsnp i tha irn tnj
tr- i iuc wiiiicu Oldies
tTJIl 1 . .
"My name's Luther Hodges. I'm
not a politician, but Pm runnin?
for lieutenant governor and I hope
you'll vote for me."
Hodges, 56, who has proved pop
ular as lieutenant governor, was
associated with Marshall Field. Co.
"He was very sick Friday," Dr.
Fleming said. "He improved Sat-
j urday morning and was much bet-
'Adventure'
Tryouts Are
Slated Today
Tryouts for "American Adven
ture," a nationally broadcast ra
dio series produced on the campus
will begin this afternoon at 2
o'clock, Director John Clayton an
nounced yesterday. I Hieutenant- governorship as his
Those who try out need have nrst political ambition "because T
no previous radio acting experi-j knew it was a job offering tremen-! governor until his death at 9:10
ence, though such experience is : dous Possibilities for good. A man I a m-
valuable, Clayton said. The series, can make it a big or little job, 1 The last time a governor had died
wmcn is transcribed annually at , 11U 1 mtena to make it big.
ter. He was sitting up and didn't
want oxygen.
"Satlirrtav aftnrnnnn ha krt
for 30 years, retiring in 1950. Dur- tire." Saturday night his condition
ing that span he rose from office worsened.
boy to general manager of Field-1 "I was not at all satisfied with
crest Mills and later vice president I his condition " rr Fif.; c-;h
fof the company. He called Mrs. Umstead ahm.t 7
Hodges once said he chose the i o'clock a.m. Sunday. For about 30
minutes Mrs. Umstead and their
daughter, Merle, chatted with the
the Center, has attracted national
One of Hodges' duties as lieuten-
T rlflpiHo T j-)in4. l i i .
'uui nave enousn or Hi whn i an ovnr;onnn
from then until 1921, be built a what is called Natural inventive- , , . !
career in the "big city." He was ness.' I decided newspaper writ- Z tCV C
on the staff of -the New York ing was my dish." !fld f t WeekIy' ,and 50 of
Times for four years, did pub- Graves-Weekly Svnonvmnu w ,1 ,' t , CnaPC1
licity work for the Pennsylvania Gne Zf "Ji Sv"onmous Hill almost always remarks how
Railroad and other railroads; was wi?hfL ? k Z, f"1"'. Sfrene and Pleasant
a New York Citv eovernmpnt nf ?lthout talking about The Week- the town is, how it seems to be a
fir and w . J t iS 3 Chapel HiI1 m3n- Pl3Ce where most of what hap-
S in Wd vJ l J"' d The Weekly is a Chapel HiH pens is good. The Chapel ffiU
tt j j o , newspaper. Although articles Weekly is remarkable for the way
He did Sunday free-lance writ- from The Weekly have been used it reflects in print these impres-
ing during his years m New Yorlj. in papers in and out of the state sions of the town's personality
His first short story appeared in (The New York Sun had an ar- The Weekly itself is attractive,
The Atlantic Monthly and later tide based on something in The with easy-on-the-eyes type and
Stt'S?8 lH;-Tht Saturday WeekJy every : week " or so for makeup, it speaks pleasantly, its
Evening i-ost and other maga- years, and The Baltimore Sun has attitude is serene, and just about
aTo,t Je Urned t0 ChapGl HiU written articles about i4 ad re- all the news it carries is good
m 1921, to become a professor of printed scores of its editorials and news.
JUU,"Tr ,e naa Planned to stories), Graves is much more in
Applicants for "American Ad
venture" parts should go to Stu
dio B, Swain Hall, from 2 to 4
today or from 4 to 6 tomorrow afternoon.
Di To Debate
Dixon -Yates
At 8 Tonight
The Di will debate the Dixon
Yates power contract tonight at
8:00 p. m. in Di Hall, New West.
Senator Larry McElroy will in-
teacher anyway; so he resigned
LOUIS GRAVES . from his faculty post to devote
the town's sage chronicler all his attention to The Weekly, sees Chapel Hill as a typical
firmative position is that the Dix-!
i troduce a bill DroDosin? to halt
combine teaching with a : : . " "s m. L .d 1U no ine 'jon-Yates contract. The af-
, . , - ltlcaicu i vdiue as a cnapei uung eise, a person might get
newspaper, but fouad it didn't Hill; community paper than in its the idea, he lived in a Utopian
fc tUL uul tu oe a OUISiae Wortn. wnrlr. Rut read as a mmn,n;n
Chapel Hill, A Utopia to the daily press, its pages pro
file man behind the newspaper
com- (See GRAVES, page 3)
ate committees He streamlined
oenaie operations by reducing the
number of committees from 37 to
28. The action, he explained, was
to save money and promote effici
ency. Hodges had been mentioned as
a possible candidate for governor
in 19o6. Questioned about this on
one occasion, he remarked, "Every
decision I make now will be made
without regard to future conse
quences. I am interested onlv in
doing a conscientious job as lieu-
iciidni governor.
The youngest of nine children,
Hodges was born on a farm in Pitt
sylvania County, Va., on March
9, 1898. His father, a tenant farm
er, moved to Leaksville and began
work as a carpenter in a Leaksville
er.
on-Yates contract with the AEC , m He later became a storekeep-
is detrimental to the national de
fense,' TV A is important to the
national defense, TVA would be
damaged by the proposed contract. (See NEW page 4)
.With $62.50 in his pockets, Hod-
in office was in 1891. He was Gov.
Daniel G. Fowle, who died on
April 7 of that year.
Umstead was only the third N.
C. governor to ever die in office.
Almost immediately after his
death condolences and expressions
of sympathy started pouring in
from all over the country. All of
his friends in Washington express
ed their shock and regret at his
death.
-President Eisenhower Sunday
sent a personal telegram to Gov.
Umstead's widow and issued a pub
lic statement expressing his regrets
over the governor's death.
The President's public statement ,
said, "The people of the State of
North Carolina h ave lost an experi
enced; ana devoted public servant
in the passing of Gov. William B.
Umstead. As a representative, then
senator and finally chief executive,
Gov. Umstead served his state wit'
integrity and distinction.
"His passing is a loss not only to
North Carolina but to the nation."
The state's highest offices passe
automatically to 56-year-old Lieut-
(See GOV., page 4)