V UC LIB7.AHT
SE3IALS SEPT.
CHAPEL" HILL, I.'. C
8-31-49
WEATHER
METEOR
The new season is upon us and
pink horses and meteors are its
harbingers. See p. 2.
Fai and cold today with an ex
peeled high of 45.
VOL. LVII NO. 112
Complete (P) Wire Service
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1955
Offices In Graham Memorial
FOUR PAGES TODAY
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COLUMNIST KRAAR AND WRITER YODER
wiU run jointly for Daily Tar Heel editorship
Two Of Paper's Staff
t o Seek Endorsement
From Both UP & SP
Louis Kraar and Ed Yoder, Associate Editors of The Dai
ly Tar Heel, will run for co-editorship of the newspaper in
the March 29 elections.
The candidates said thev would seek a double endorse
ment from both campus political
parties.
"We can promise the campus
this: a good newspaper, with wider
and more extensive coverage; an
interesting, stimulating ditolrial
page, seeking to give fair treat
ment to all, searching out the
issues which confront the stu
dents on this campus and attempt
ing to comment meaningfully on
them," said Yoder and Kraar in
a joint statement yesterday.
Yoder, an English major from
Mebane, jointed the editorial s'l
i of The Daily Tar Heel as a fresh
f man. For the past two years he
4 has been associate editor, a colum
nist, book critic and editorial
writer. He is a member of Phi EtE
Sigma and Pi-Delta. Phi. .
Kraar, from Charlotte, ha.
served on The Daily Tar Keel
since his freshman year as repor
ter, columnist, managing edi
tor and associate editor. He rep
resented the newspaper and UNC
at the National Student Associa
tion Congress in Iowa last sum
mer. Kraar has worked two sum
mers on the Atlanta Constitution
and served last summer on The
News of Orange County and Ala
mance News. Last spring he won
the Press Club award for the best
column. Kraar a history major, is
currently working on The Chapel
Hill Weekly, and writing his Daily
Tar Heel column, "On the Caro
lina Front."
In their statement yesterday the
two candidates said, "While the
news pages and letters-to-the edi
tor column are designed to re
flect student opinion, we do not
believe that the editorial columns
should necessarily mirror the pre
vailing opinions on campus. Con
stant agreement is dull. We will
attempt, to put out a newspaper
which will stimulate opinion, chal
lenge unjust prejudices and make
students realize why they think
as they do.
"We intend to revitalize the
paper's staff by adding more mem
bers to it" said the candidates.
"In this way we hope to give wi
der coverage and at the same
time increase participation in the
educational activity of putting out
The Daily Tar Heel.
;"As associate etJjtors on the
present staff, we feel that togeth
er we can give the campus the
quality paper it deserves. This
year's paper, under the editorship
of Charles Kuralt, has made great
strides. We affirm the broad points
of editorial policy followed by
this year's Daily Tar Heel. We
hope to continue the progress
. made so far and at a faster rate,"
said Kraar and Yoder.
"If The Daily Tar Heel is to
continue growing, to keep its place
. as an important organ for the
stimulation of student opinion, it
GMAB Film Slated
"Rocking Horse Winner," fourth in the GMAB spring film
ries will be presented at 8 p.m. Thursday in Carroll Hall.
The film stars Valerie Hobson and John Mills.
" 'Rocking Horse Winner is the dramatization of the effect on
bov of the spendthrift habits of his parents, and his wil
a young y .fce his ,ife to bring them contentment and hap
,in9" according to Gordon Forester, GMAB president.
e ester said the J. Arthur Rank production in the best in
I, series. Season tickets will be on sale at the door. No
Individual tickets will be 1.14, Fpre.ter said.
nust remain free from all out
ide control. It must remain un
attached to campus political par
ies or any other group seeking
o control the editorial policy of
he paper.
"We pledge ourselves to keep
Che Daily Tar Heel free, alive, in
eresting, a paper of and for all
he students," concluded the candidates.
Organist's
Concert
Is Tonight
Arthur Howes, American organ
ist, will be heard tonight at 8
o'clock in Hill Hall in a program
sponsored jointly by the music de
partment and Graham Memorial.
His concert is the third in the
music department's Tuesday Eve
ling Series of the Spring semester.
Howes, who first appeared in
concert at the age of 14, playing
he great organ in the Wanamak
r Store in Philadelphia, has pur
sued several fields of musci. Aft
?r concertizing widely as an or
ganist, he became interested in
choral music, especially that of the
medieval liturgy.
In another phase of his musi
cianship, he interested himself in
the Sacred Cantatas of Bach. He
has conducted performances of
more than 30 of them in Philadel
phia, Washington, Houston and
Boston.
He founded the Bach Choir of
Houston and has been conductor
of the Cecilia Society and the
Saint Cevilia Schola Cantorum in
Boston. Recently he has become
the conductor of a chamber or
chestra. He is also director of the
Organ Institute at Andover, Mass.
Forms For Draft Test
Must Be In Tonight
Application must be made on or before midnight tonight to take
he Selective Service College Qualification Test to be given April 21.
The test will be given here by the Univrsity Testing Service, said
veteran's adviser. Applications ar
secured from a local Selective
Service board. After applying, the
student will receive a card through
mail telling place, date and hour
of the test.
Any person registered in college
is eligible to take the test upon ap
plication if he has never had it
Caridbti (For
McCurry
To Be
UP
By LOUIS KRAAR
When the University Party meets tonight to pick a presi
dential candidate it is almost sure to nominate Ed McCurry.
It appeared yesterday that no UP presidential candidate
would oppose the present attor-
ney-general who has long been
talked of as a presidential hope
ful. Jack Stevens, former UP chair
man, is expected to get the nod
for vice-president. However, Bev
Webb and Bill Sanders have also
been mentioned in political cir
cles as possible nominees.
McCurUy when called on the
phone yesterday, said he had "no
comment" regarding his candida
cy. Asked if he'd accept the no
mination if asked, McCurry said,
'Yes, I guess so."
A junior from Shelby, McCurry
has served in all three branches
of student government. Currently,
he is serving as attorney-general
to President Tom Creasy. He has
served two terms in the student
Legislature, and as a freshman he
jerved on the Men's Council.
McCurry is a member of the
Qrd;er of the Grail, served as
Greek , Week chairman last year,
is head of the Dance Committee
Court and vice-president - of the
mterfraSernity Council.
Most observers declared Stev
ens as the most likely running
mate for McCurry. Stevens is from
Asheville.
Methodist Conference
The State Spring Student Con
ference of the Methodist Church
will be held in Charlotte at the
Myers Park Methodist Church 01.
March 18, 19 and 20.
The conference is one of twc
held every year by the Methodist
Students of North Carolina, one' in
the spring and one in the fall.
The conference at the Myers
Park Church will have as its theme
'The Christian Predicament Re
'ating Our Faith to Life Situa
tions." The guest speaker will be
Dr. Edmond Perry of Northwest
ern University. Miss Sarah Puett
of the Myers Park Church will be
the registrar.
Phi Eta Siama
Any freshmen who believes
himself to be qualified for Phi
Eta Sigma, freshman honorary
fraternity, should check by the
office of Dean of Awards Ernest
Mackie in South Building.
jefore. The Selective Service Sys
tem College Qualification Test
can not be taken more than once
A test score standing of 70 for
undergraduates is necessary for
deferment of the individual by his
draft board. For graduate students
a score of 80 is necessary.
"Practically no students are in
ducted during the regular school
year, but are postponed until thp
end of the school year," Colonel
SheDard said. "No student who
meets academic requirements for
deferment has ever been called,"
he added, "and no freshman is ever
called."
The Selective Service System
System College Qualification Test
lasts for about three and one half
hours, and is of the general in
formation, objective type, accord
ing to Colonel Shepard. '
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Likely
Choice
Complaint Session
The Complaints Board of stu
dent Legislature will meet to
day at 3 p.m. in the Woodhouse
Conference Room of Graham
Memorial.
Bob Harrington, chairman of
the committee, urged that all
students with complaints bring
them before the Board.
Today's meeting is the Board's
second one. The Board was set
up by the student Legislature to
hear any complaints of the stu
dents. Medical Art
On Exhibit In
Health Library
A collection of medieal art by
Rembrandt, Daumier, Hogarth,
Toulouse-Lautrec and other masters-
is on exhibition ' in the Divi
sion of Health Affairs Library
through March 11, it was announc
ed here by Dr. W. R. Berryhill,
dean of the School of Medicine,
and Miss Myrl Ebert, health divi
sion librarian.
Entitled "Ars Medica," or the
"Healing Arts," the collection is
composed of 85 famous and rare
nieces of graphic art depicting the
Practice of medicine over the cen
turies. Owned by the Philadelphia Mu
seum of Art, the exhibition is be
ing presented by Smith, Kline and
French Laboratories, under whose
grant the collection was assem
bled. "The scope of the show extends
prom medical illustrations designed
for teaching purposes such as
those of Vesalius, Wechtlin and
others to portrayals and critiques
of medical procedures of the past,"
Miss Ebert said "and is the first
collection of . its kind."
The exhibit can be seen in the
Library of the Clinic Building of
the N.' C. Memorial Hospital on
Sunday from 2 until 5 p.m., and
from 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday
DEAN NORVAL LUXON
Students Lucky With DTH
By EBBA FREUND
"You don't realize how fortunate
you are with this paper," said
Dean Norvel N.' Luxon of the
School of Journalism in speaking
about The Daily Tar Heel at yes
terday's investigative meeting.
"Neill and (Editor Charles) Ku
ralt are two of the best student
editors I have seen in my 34 years
of experience. Of course, the news
coverage could be improved, but
this is a problem even the New
York Times faces," he continued.
Thursday night's legislature
meeting resulted in the appoint
ment of a committee to investi
gate the "quality and circulation
problems of The Daily Tar Heel."
At the meeting charges were
brought that the newspaper was
not serving the students and that
something should be done about
it. The particular problems refer
red to at that meeting were the
quality of the news coverage and
the circulation.
The main points covered at the
Committee meeting yesterday were
accuracy of news coverage, circu
lation problems and adequacy of
news coverage. The committee will
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Whitman's Book Shows
Whitman, Says St oval I
"Leaves of Grass" is unlike oth
er books in that it expresses com
pletely the qualities of a single
great personality its author, Wall
.Whitman, Dr. Floyd Stovall, pro
fessor of English here, asserted in
-his humanities lecture last night.
Dr. Stovall, an authorty on Whit
man, chose for his topic "Leaves of
Grass: The Evolution of a Book,"
which is particularly timely, since
this year marks the centennial of
the publication of the first edition
of Leaves of Grass. Dr. Stovall's
lecture is one of the first of a ser
ies of commenmoration to Whit
man's book to be held on the UNC
campus. Other observations are
planned throughout the country.
Touching on Whitman's early
life, Dr. Stovall described him as
an ordinary boy with little known
about him which gave promise of
the poet." After writing numerous
conventional verses in his youth,
he began in 1884 to experiment
Crafy WieRencJ: Pink
Horse, Fake Meteor
You seen the huge pink horse at the top of Franklin St. hill
on the way to Durham?
Well, the pink horse now has the measles. "Some hoodlum
painted great big red spots on the horse" according to its owner,
Miss Scarlett Scott.
Miss Scott, owner of a doll shop, got the wooden merry-go-round
horse to advertise her business. She has just moved to
Chapel Hill from Richmond, Va., where she had her shop in the
old section of the city.
"It broke my heart to see my horse desecrated," said Miss
Scott yesterday. She went away Saturday and said that when she
returned she was perfectly astonished to see that such a thing
could happen in Chapel Hill.
Plans for repainting the pink horse are underway.
, Besides a spotted pink horse, a fake meteor added to week
end excitement.
About 11 p.m. last Saturday, flames were seen in the vicinity
of the flagpole in the center of the campus. People were run
ning around yelling, "A meteorite just landed!" according to an
observer. Flames like gasoline fire were leaping high into the sky.
Yesterday there was a crowd continually milling around the
scene. But it didn't fool too many people the sides of the hole
are slick as if dug by a shovel and the sod which was dug up can
be seen nearby.
(For a look at the hole the "meteor" dug, see picture this page.)
TELLS INVESTIGATORS:
hold open meetings today anc"
Wednesday from 2 to 4 p.m. ii
Roland Parker Lounge to hea1
complaints and suggestions abou
The Daily Tar Heel. On Friday th
committee will meet to consider
all problems raised at these open
meetings.
Charles Hyatt brought up the
noint of circulation. Pulling a
stack of newspapers from under
the desk, he asked, "Is The Daily
Tar Heel being read or are there
too many papers printed?"
Kuralt answered that the policy
is and always has been, one paper
for every student. "This year the
newspaper has had fewer circula
tion problems than ever before,"
he added.
Bob Elder then asked what sys
tem The Daily Tar Heel used to
cover news on campus, and if this
system was adequate. Kuralt re
plied "the newspaper tried to print
as much news as limitations of
staff and space allow."
Elder then asked about a column
for announcement of club meet
ings, departmental functions and
guest speakers. Kuralt said the
DBlffiCq
with a free verse form which he la
ter developed in Leaves of Grass,
he explained.
"Many of Whitman's most char
acteristic ideas are to be found in
this early verse the concept of
life as the union of matter and
spirit, the universiality of mind,
the acceptance of evil as well as
good, the immeasurable power of
love, the emphasis upon natural
religion and the frank treatment
of sex in literature . . . all of these
any many other important, ideas
are to be found in his notebooks,"
Dr. Stovall said. 1
"For Whitman, Asia was the
symbol of spirit, of infinity and
the birthplace of religion, where
as Europe was the symbol of mat
ter, of the finite, and the birth
place of science. America, he be
lieved, would show the world the
true relation of matter and spirit,
finite and infinite, science and re
ligion," he said.
What Goes on Here column tries
to do that. But, he continued, this
;s the first column which is cut at
the printing shop whenever there
is too much news. He went on to
say that The Daily Tar Heel al
most started a column of this sort,
but the small size type was not
ivailable.
Jack Hutson then asked why
there was so much space devoted
to large pictures such as the one
of Gene Autry, run last week. Ku
ralt explained that there were
come slow news days and picture?
like the one of Autry were used
as fillers.
The investigating committee, ap
pointed by student Legislature,
consists of Jack Hudson, chairman.
Bob Elder, Charles Hyatt, Ed Lip- j
man. Tom Lambeth and Jim Mon- j
teith. I
Representing The Daily Tar Heel j
were Editor Charles Kuralt, Man- j
aging Editor Fred RowIedge and
Associate Editor Ed Yoder.
Visitors were Charles Wolf, Bob
Byrd, Davjd Red, David Mundy,
Bob Young, and by request Dean
Luxon of the School of Journalism.
1 ' uulOO'il,iSODMr
IDC Chief
Over Don
By NEIL BASS
The Student Party in a lengthy session last night named
Manning iMuntzing- as its nominee for student body presi
dent. The balloting between Muntzing and Don Fou ler, pres
ent treasurer of the student body, ended up with a 49-13
count.
The meeting was slated to cover nominations for two
I offices in the sophomore class and
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SP'S MUNTZING
. . . nominated for President
Miss Connor
Gets Office
j Miss Ruth M. Connor has as
sumed the position of Personnel
i Adviser to Women at the Uni
: versity of North Carolina, Dean
i of Women Katherine Carmichae!
announced yesterday.
Miss Connor fills a vacancy left
by Miss Irma Eich 1 n, who is
now completing her doctor's de
gree at the University of Michi-
J gan.
I As Personnel Advisor in the
! Dean of Women's Office Miss Con
nor will work with the Women's
Residence Council, the graduate
counselors and the Woman's
Handbook Committee. She will un
dertake the interviewing and
counseling program among women
students.
Miss Connor is a resident of
Middle Village, New York. She
received the A.B. degree from
tlunter College, the M.S. degree
rom the Pennsylvania. State Uni
versity, and the Ph.D. degree ir.
Sociology from the University 0
North Carolina.
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Chapel Hill's 'Meteor' & Hole & Scorched Earth
Rock above, found in a scorched hole just east of the Univer
sity's flagpole, was thought by some investigators to be object from
outer space. One student, standing in front of Memorial Hall, saw
a flash of fire and came upon the rock. But further investigation
showed a neat pile of dirt obviously from the hole nearby. Boys
will be boys. (See story of "meteor" and a rockinghorse who got
measles elsewhere on this page.) R. B. Henley photo.
Picked
Fowler
several other posts, but time ran
out after prolonged discussions on
the presidential contestants. The
SPs did find time, however, to se
lect Roland Perdue as their ban
ner carrier in the Carolina Athle
tic Association presidential con
test. The candidate naming got off
to a fast start at 8:15 when Lewis
Brumfield assumed the rostrum to
place Fowler's name in the run
ning. Brumfield, president of Cabb
Dormitory, called Fowler's quali
ications as "admirable and respect
ed." He also pointed out that his
candidate had "served long and
conscientiously in the Legislature."
Next Sam Wells went to the
front of the room and put Munt
zing's name into the contest. Wells
enumerated the Interdormitory
Council president's good points by
saving that he was "capable" and
"the onlv man that the students
'vift elect."
Party Chairman Don Geiger then
invited the two candidates to speak
'heir piece. It was Muntzing who
presented his goals and platform
o the party first. He promised that
his campaign would be "clean" and
his administration for the advance
ment of the "entire student body."
After a stream of orators flood
ed the rostrum for about two and
a half hours, question was called
and the tense moment was at
hand.
A secret ballot necessitated each
v'oter to bring their ballot to the
.ounters one at a time. The crowd,
.ibout 100, huddled around the
counters and added out loud as ihe
names were read and tabulated.
The final 10 ballots turned the
tide, at 10:40 p.m., by a narrow
margin to Muntzing.
The winning candidate vowed
!hat the SP "will win because I
know we will all wot together."