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VOL. LVII -NO. 129
Complete iJPf Wire Service
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1955
Offices In Graham Memorial
FOUR PACES TODAY
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"CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME'
State Appropriations Men
Again Bring Up Question
Of Out-Of -Staters Fees
(From WW Reports)
RAf.EIGH, Marcho-The
question of raising out-of-state
students'' tuitions at the
University of North Carolina
came up again today as the
Joint Appropriations subcom
mittee considered the state's
educational budget. '
The lawmakers were consi
dering budget increases for five
state teachers' colleges when one
member, who must remain un
named under subcommittee rules,
suggested increasing non-resident
tuition at schools such as UNC,
where a large number of non
resident students are going to
school. He continued:
"We've been subdizing people
from the Bronx and Brooklyn so
they can come down here and get
a good education at a small cost.
If they're able to pay, we're glad
to have them but not at the ex
pense of the state of North Caro
lina. Charity begins at home
that was written 2,000 years ago,
and it's still the truth."
The question of raising non-resident
tuition at state-supported
colleges is being studied by ano
ther subcommittee appointed from
the full Appropriations Commit
tee. STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT
DM1
221
48
82
Fowler (I) -
McCurry (UP)
Muntzing (SP)
VICE-PRESIDENT
Stevens (UP) 117
Harrington (SP) 229
SECRETARY
Jane Cocke (UP) - 100
Joan Palmer (SP) ..240
TREASURER
Jim Martin (UP) 140
Joe Correll (SP) 197
CHEERLEADER
Tice 129
Collision 81
Homesley , 122
Fireman, Save My Pants
UNION, S. C, March 30. OP) Smoke billowed from a dry clean
ing establishment here. Fire Chief J. W. Sullivan was down on
hands and knees inside trying to locate the fire.
He saw a man walk quickly into the building, riffle through the
identification slips in a long row of cleaned clothing, select a pair of
trousers and walk out.
Outside the man sought out the proprietor of the business and
paid the charges for his trousers. Didn't want them smoke-damaged,
he explained.
POPULAR PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR:
By LOIS OWEN
Dr. William A. Poteat, profess
or of philosophy, had the kind of
childhood that most young boys
and girls dream about. Had there
been a television set handy he
probably would not have watched
it
Dr. Poteat was born in Kaifeng,
Honan, China, in 1919. His moth
er and father were Baptist mis
sionaries there. The Poteat fam
ily arrived in China in 1917, and
they did not leave until 10 years
later. While they were living in
Kaifeng they began to feel the
vibrations of the beginning of the
Chinese Civil War. The war lords
in the north were moving down
on Kaifeng, and the forces of
Chiang Kai-Shek were coming up
from the south.
BANDIT SERVANT
Banditing and smuggling were
thriving commercial occupations
in Kaifeng. The Poteats discovered
that they had been harboring a
bandit chief in their home, in the
guise of a servant. One day he was
arested by the police, taken off
to jail, and there beaten to death.
When fighting broke out in the
city in 1925, the family was forc
More Returns Are In;
Palmer Is Secretary
Men's Council, WAA
The following run-offs and vic
tories were registered for Men's
Honor Council seats: .
Sophomore seat: run-off be
tween Sonny Evans and Macon
Patton;
Junior seat: run-off between
Bill Morgan, Townsend Holt and
Mebane Pritchett;
Senior seats: Charles Katzen
stein, took a record number of
votes, and Dick Baker took two of
the three available seats while the
third will be determined in a run
off election between Graham
Shanks and Don Huntington. To
fill executive positions on the
Women's Athletic Association
these were named:
Laura Ann Travis, president,
Amy Morse, vice president, Anne
Williams, secretary, Pat ' Oliver,
treasurer, and Betty Stacy, awards
! chairman.
Palmer Secretary
Joan Palmer, SP candidate for
secretary of the student body, won
Election Results
DM2 DM3 DM4 DM5 DW SB G L B&LC VV I Tot.
215 139 146 136 173- 123 98 46 47 13 3 1,360
82 41 105 97 172 33 148 27 87 49 3 1,194
121 93 94 57 112 23 38 28 - 5 10 5 674
85 76 128 126 275 414 205 33 141 35 5 1,613
274 180 206 155 178 64 73 64 21 31 7 1,482
114 84 125 158 262 385 170 54 101 34 4 1,560
246 172 239 145 203 100 109 54 39 29 8 1,584
160 127 156 152 300 367 198 53 108 40 7 1,803
190 122 179 128 142 104 80 42 32 25 5 1,244
136 122 122 83 194 179 122 45 25 34 6 1,197
107 87 133 117 184 129 62 27 28 21 5 971
110 44 85 81 75 155 88 25 80 6 0 871
Bill Poteat's China Childhood Was
ed to live in the basement for
several days, eating canned Nor
weagia'n margarine and powdered
nrrac Whsn the Pntpntc 1fft th
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city they were able to take only
a tew essentials wun mem.
From Kaifeng the Poteats went
to Shanghai, where Dr. Poteat's
father taught philosophy and eth
ics at the University of Shanghai.
This city, .too, was an unsettled
one, divided int o sections like
present-day Berlin.
The University was. located
about five miles outside the ''city.
But the American School was in
town, in the French section. Every
morning the University children
would mkae the trip into the city
in a Willys-Knight seven-passenger
touring car driven by a white
Russian cavalry colonel, who al
wavs carried a 45 cal
service
automatic with him. He had been
chosen to chaffeur the children
precisely because he was so tough.
One afternoon the car was stop-
ped at a curb. The driver had
gone into a store on University
business. With no warning a
stream of men and guns came
flashing down the street robbers
chased by huge, strong Indian
by 24 votes announced elections
board chairman Patsy Daniels yes
tertiay. The vote was 1,560 to
1,584.
Tuesday's results proclaimed UP
candidate Jane Cocke the winner,
but yesterday Miss Palmer's cam
paign manager demanded a re
count. "I want to thank everybody for
helping me," said Miss Palmer
yesterday," and I'll do the best
job I can." ,
Beatty CAA Head
Jim Beatty, endorsed by the j
University Party, was named pres
ident of the Carolina Athletic As
sociation after an Elections Board j
session yesterday afternoon.
Beatty gained the post after a
run against Roland. Perdue, Stu
dent Party candidate.
The other CAA officer's spot at i
stake in the elections, the vice
presidency, was taken by Ed Sut-
I ton.
(See WOMEN'S, page 4)
LEGEND: DM Dorm men's;
DW Dorm women's; SB Scuttle
butt; G Gerrard Hall; L Lenoir
Hall; B&LC Big and little fra
ternity courts; W Victory Vil
lage;I Infirmary.
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SEN. HUBERT HUMPHREY
. . . t&momnv night
Humphrey
To Speak
Tomorrow
"United States Foreign Policy"
"will be the subject of a public ad
dress by Senator Hubert M. Hum
phrey (D-Minn.) to be presented
here tomorrow night under spon
sorship of the Carolina Forum,
Senator Humphrey will be heard
at 8 p.m. in Hill Hall.
The Forum, an official agency of
student government, brings to the
campus from time to time "speak
ers who reflect the varying shades
of economic and political thought."
Joel Fleishman is Forum chair
man. Elected to the Senate in 1948
and again in 1954, Humphrey is
presently serving on the Commit
tees on Foreign Relations, Agri
culture and Forestry, Small Busi
ness and Government Operations.
He is also a member of the Presi
dent's Commission on Intergovern
mental Relations and a member of
the .Democratic Steering Commit
tee in the Senate.
An active supporter of the Mar
shall Plan and the Point Four Pro
gram, the Senator is also an ad
vocate' of the Reciprocal Trade
Policy, Mutual Security and North
Atlantic Treaty.
In domestic affairs, he hsa been
a leader in behalf of the Hoover
Commission government reorgani
zation plans, particularly that for
the reorganization of the Bureau
of Internal Revenue in 1952.
Humphrey was also a leading
spokesman for Midwest agriculture
in legislation aimed at price sta
bility, conservation of resources,
rural electrification, development
programs for housing and slum
clearance', civil rights legislation,
immigration and refugee legisla
tion and labor-management rela
tions. Senator Humphrey is a native of
Wallace, S. D. He was graduated
from Denver College of Pharmacy,
the Universitv of Minnesota, where
he received his B.A. degree magna
cum laude, and Louisiana State
University, where he won a M.A.
degree.
Sikhs.
INTERESTING FRIENDS
On the boat returning to China
from a short visit to the States,
Dr. Poteat became-buddies with a
well-tailored, proper six-year-old,
named Harold Ison, who spoke
the language of fashionable boar
ding schools. In view of this al
liance the parents became friend
ly, too.
Soon after arrival in China the
Poteats learned that polite Ha
rold was the son of Maxie Ison,
who belonged to the gang that
had been shot up in the Chicago
St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
The Poteats left China in 1929
and came back to North Caro
lina where Dr. Poteat's father be
came the minister of Pullen Me
morial Baptist Church, Raleigh.
North Carolina had been home to
the Poteats for years. The old
family home is in Yanceyville,
Caswell County.
Dr. Poteat's grandfather was
Edwin MacNeill Poteat I, a Bap
tist minister, also the president
of Furman University. His broth
er, William Louis Poteat, was pre
sident of Wake Forest College.
Miss Ida Isabella Poteat, their sis
Three
Junk
High
Thirteen Carolina men were
tapped into the Order of the Grail
last night.
Tne honorary men's organization
lyiuntzmg
Not For
Either One
Statements were issued yester-
v day afternoon by Don Fowler and
Ed' McCurry, the two remaining
'presidential candidates. Manning
Muntzirig, Student Party candidate
who lost in Tuesday's elections,
asked that the "student body con
sider the two candidates in the
light of which one will be able to
dot the most capable job when
elected," adding that at the mo
ment he is "not asking for sup
'port of either of the two" candi
dates in runoffs.
After expressing his gratitude
for the students who "expressed
their confidence in me," the Uni
versity Party's McCurry said,
"... I shall strive to prove myself
worthy, of the student body's sup
port in this final bid for an oppor
tunity to serve in their best inter
est." FOWLER
Fowler, an independent candi
date, said he feels "deeply great-
J)iJndJndeMed. to the st udents
for the "faith and confidence that
they have shown in my candidacy."
He added, "I assure you that your
faith and cnofidence was not mis
placed, but shall grow through the
close coordination that we can es
tablish in- student government."
Fowler said "The student body's
fine turnout for the election is to
Ibe commended. A large turnout
for next Tuesday's runoff will
, show conclusively that the .Caro
; lina students are truly interested
in student government and in the
cause of elevating student govern
ment to its proper position on cam
pus. "I want to think you, each and
every one of you. for your enthu
siasm," he concluded.
MUNTZING
Muntzing said he wanted to
thank the students who supported
him in Tuesday's election, adding,
"1 should like to ask everyone who
did support me to stand behind the
eventual winner in order that stu
dent government may next year be
a united force moving in one di
rection toward the good of the stu
(See RACE, page 4.)
ter, was a professor of art at
Meredith College.
Dr. Poteat's father, Edwin Mac
Neill Poteat Jr., was educated at
Turman. He was active in the
Student Volunteer Movement. It
was at a SVM meeting in Kansas
City that he met his wife. Dr.
Poteat recalled that his mother
and father were introduced by a
Mr. Harry Comer, secretary of
the YMCA at UNC. Years later,
when Dr. Poteat first came to
Carolina, he was an associate of
Mr. Comer's.
SAME PIANO
When the Poteats were settled
in Raleigh they still had the piano
that had been with them in Kai
feng. When they went to Shang
hai, they had to leave it behind.
Later Dr. Poteat's father went
back for the piano and found it
had been chopped up for fire
wood by bandits or fighting men.
Only jthe action was left, which
he brought back to Shanghai. An
English cabinet-maker rebuilt the
piano i and it is 'now in Rev. Po-teat'-s
home in Raleigh.
; Dr. Poteat attended grammar
and high school in Raleigh. Thes?
were extra-curricular days for
'Sobhom
ors Picked
took in three sophomores and 10
juniors in ceremonies last night.
They are: Kenneth Ray Argo, Kan
napolis; Richard Henry Baker Jr.,
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PIANIST WALTER GIESEKING
plays here tonight in Memorial Hall
Concert Pianist Walter
Gieseking Here Tonight
L Walter Gieseking, world famous
concert pianist, will appear in
Memorial Hall tonight at 8 p.m.,
according to Jimmy Wallace, se
cretary of the Chapel Hill Concert
Student Legislature
The student Legislature will
not convene for its regular
weekly meeting tonight. The
agenda interruption is the result
of elections.
him, he said. When he went to
Oberlin College in ,Ohio, he play
ed football, studied hard and me:
Mrs. Poteat, who was two years
behind him.
Dr. Poteat commented that it.
was he who talked her into ma
joring in history with him. She
said she did because it seemed
easiest for her.
Dr. Poteat reminded his wife
that she had been the captain of
the field hockey team one year.
This reminded him of the time
he and some cohorts had dressed
in wigs, skirts, and bobby sox
and snuck into the annual "Yale
Princeton" basketball game and
skits, which was strictly a girls'
affair.
Mrs. Poteat, Marion Kelly be
fore her marriage, was from El
kins Park, Pa., the fourth of se
ven children. Her mother was ol
German descent and her father
was an inventor. He started a tex
tile mill in Pennsylvania which is
still in existence. Originally in
the educational field, Mr. Kelly
went into business to support his
very large family.
After his graduation from Ober
lin, Dr. Poteat went to Yale Di
Colorful
ores
M
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Greensboro; Lewis" Shore Brum:
field, Yadkinville; James Gooden
Exum Jr., Snow Kill; Luther Hart
well Hodges Jr., Leaksville;
Series, Gieseking's sponsor.
Wallace said 300 tickets are
still on hand and may be purch
ased at the door for S3. Student
tickets are on sale at Graham Me
morial for $2.50.
This will be Gieseking's only ap
pearance in the southeast, said
Wallace. His program will include
a sonata by Beethoven, five pieces
by Brahms, two impromptus by
Schubert, a selection by Catelnu-ovo-Tedesco
and other works, in
cluding six preludes by Debussy.
The last presentation of the
concert series will be Jan Peerce,
tenor, who will be here April 15.
vinity School. During these three
years in New Haven Dr. Poteat
held three jobs. He was football
coach for the Sillinian Colltge
team of the University. He was
also dean of men at a nearby
boys' prep, school. But Dr. Poteat
says the job he most liked was
running an elevator in large, ela
borate Payne-Whitney Gymnasi
um. The Poteats were married In
1943, at the beginning of Dr. Po
teat's last year in Divinity School.
"Marion came to New Haven to
support me," Dr. Poteat said. Mrs.
Poteat worked with the New Ha
ven Religion and Labor Founda
tion. When Dr. Poteat first came to
Carolina it was as secretary of the
YMCA, a position in which he re
mained for three years. When
Comer, the man who had introduc
ed the elder Poteats, met them
at the bus he said:
"Marion, you're a brave woman.,
TEACHING HERE
Next Dr. Poteat began teach
ing in the Philosophy Department.
During this time he was getting
his Ph.D. in philosophy of religion
at Duke,
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Claude Edwin Pope, Dunn; Gil
bert Gray Ragland, Oxford; Gra
ham Henry Rights, Winston-Salem;
Hudson Wilson Shoulars Jr.,
Rich Square; John Shorter Stevens,
Asheville;
James Reginald Turner, Winston-Salem;
Perry Burt Veasy, Ra
leigh, and Robert Terry Young,
Asheville.
The Order of the Grail is one
of the highest honorary men's or
ganizations on campus.
According to the statement of
the organization's purpose, "Mem
bership' in the Grail is indicative
only of high recognition for
achievement and unselfish devo
tion to altruistic endeavors, but
also of the willingness to serve and
to exhibit these qualities in the
interest of the student body."
The Order of the Grail sponsors
such campus services as dances
after every home football game,
the sale of class rings and the
composition, sale and distribution
of graduation invitations.
"In the selection of its members
the Grail looks for students who
already bear evidence of public
recognition. Skill and social prom
inence are not considered qualifi
cations for membership in the
Grail. Modesty, self - effacement,
and unostentatious service to the
end of unity, the positive inspira
tion to character, principle and in
tegrity, through exemplary cam
pus citizenship are the values
which are necessary to the realiza
tion of the aims of the Order."
Recitals
Slated
On Campus
Three recitals will be presented
j in Hill Hall within the coming
i week.
! Miss Ann Lee, pianist, will give
a recital at 4 p.m. Sunday. Joseph
'McGugan, baritone, will present a
senior recital at 8 p.m. Sunday,
and David Bar-Ulan, Israel pianist,
' will present a recital next 8 p.m.
Tuesday.
MISS LEE
j Miss Lee is a student of Dr. Wil-
. ton- Mason, associate professor in
the music department, and a sen
I ior in Sanford High School. She
began her musical studies at the
i age of five. Miss Lee was piano
soloist with the North Carolina
Little Symphony in Mozart's Con
certo in B Flat Major at the age
of 15.
McGUGAN
McGugan, a student of Assistant
Prof. Joel Carter, will sing arias
from Handel's Semele and Samson,
Leoncavallo's Pagliaccii, Gay3
Beggar's Opera, Mozart's Magic
Flute and Menotti's The Old Maid
and The Thief.
He is a member of Phi Mu Alpha
music fraternity and has appeared
as soloist with the UNC Men's Glee
Club.
BAR-ILLAN
Bar-Ulan first came to the Unit
ed States in .1947 to attend the
Juilliard School of Music as a
scholarship student. He later
studied with Hans Neumann at, the
Mannes College of Music in New
York.
In 1954 the Israel pianist gave
his New York debut recital in
Carnegie Hall after touring the
United States, Canada, England
and Israel. After playing during
the festivities of Queen Elizabeth
IPs coronation, he received the
medal awarded annually by Dame
Harriet Cohen, pianist to the
queen, on behalf of the British
Music League. Bar-Illan was the
first non-Commonwealth citizen to
Teceive it.
His program here will include
works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven,
Brahms and Chopin.
He appeared on a Petites Musi
cals program here during last semester.