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WEATHER i it HA - - - " Mostly sunny and a little warmer today, with expected high of 82. DOOMS DAY Editors discuss doomsday, buf falo students on pg 2. Complete (JP) Wire Service CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1955 Offices In Graham Memorial FOUR PACES TODAY ii ; - "- I '- i Geneml A ssem Gets Appropriations Out bly Stud en $640 Million t Including UNC m f m O ft O O rs i y e Recipient Of Jane Gray Award At Ceremony - The recipient of the 1955 Jane Craige Gray award for outstanding junior coed, Miss Jane Cocke, .is shown at right with President Gordon Gray and Miss Martha May, president of Kappa Delta Sor ority. Miss Cocke won the award on the basis ofscholarship, leadership and character. The award is b'wU.uUuaiiy in memory ot tne late Jane Craige Gray, wife of the Consolidated University dent. Mrs. Gray was a member of Kappa Delta. Henley photo. presi- JURGENSEN TO DELIVER: ....... Humanities Lecture Tonight j k s I K V4 St i sS, i " & 1 KAI JURGENSEN Student Waivers Due Soon Applications for student de ferments from selective service must .be made by May 31. ac cording to an announcement yes terday. Applications may be made in 313 South Building, at the of fice of Col. F. C. Shepard, Ad visor, Military and Veterans Af fairs. Students wishing defer ment Nnust also write to their lo cal draft boards giving notifica tion that they are returning to school for the next year and wish to be deferred as a student, said the announcement. Students whose grades for last year did not make him eligible for deferment for this year may still qualify for t deferment for next year on the basis of his grades . for this school year end ing in June, said the announcement. Prof. Kai Jurgensen of the UNC Dramatic Art Dept. will give the Spring Humanities Faculty Lec ture tonight at 8 o'clock in Car roll Hall. Dr. Raymond Adams of the English Dept., Lecture Committee member, announced yesterday tnat Jurgensen will speak on "The Crimes Against Ibsen." Jurgensen, who has collaborated in the translation of 11 Ibsen plays, some of them produced na tionally, will discuss what has happened to Ibsen in the pro cess of translation into English. lie will show the effect of "Ibsen's being presented to the Vmerican theater by people who tampered with his plays and by hose Ibsen-worshippers who re used to alter the plays at all." The lecture will be one of the quarterly series held for students, 'acuity and townspeople. A member of the. Dramatic Art faculty since 1944, Professor Turgensen worked with Prof. Robert F. Schenkkan in translat ing the 11 plays. His translation of "Peer Gynt" vas used in the National Theatre ind Academy's New York pro luction, with the late John Gar field taking the leading part, and has been used also in a Carolina Playmakers production. Tuition Bill In Assembly The appropriations !' bill .vhicli reached the floor of the Vorth Carolina House of Rep resentatives yesterday after, 4 4 s l our months of study in coni nittee includes a tuition raise non-resident students at Press Banquet Set The University Press Club's an nual awards banquet next Tues day night at The Pines Restaurant will be in honor of O. J. Coffin and Phillips Russell, two long-time members of the faculty of the School of Journalism, according to an announcement last night by Press Club President Earl Mc Guire. Coffin has been a member of the university faculty since 1926. Russell, now editor of the Chapel Hill News Leader, has taught here since 1931. Coffin served as dean of the School of Journalism until 1953. "This is our small way of show ing our appreciation for the years of service these two gentlemen have given the School ot Journal ism and the university,'" McGuire said in making the announcement. The two men will also be given gifts by the club. or ill state - supported colleges md for resident students of onie smaller schools. The tuition raise, which vould increase the- amount now iaid by out-of-state students at he three branches of the Con solidated University by $140 per year, will not apply to non esident students attending state supported schools : on scholar ships unless the bill is amended by either the House or the Sen ate. According to the University Record, the out-of-state tuition 'or UNC is $360 per year. The proposed non-resident tu ition raises affecting other schools are $50 at Winston-Salem .Eliza beth City and Faye'tteville State Teachers' Colleges. Together with the proposed $140 hike for the Consolidated University's three ' sponsored by the Carolina Forum, ' -4 , nil "'-. ..J ! .... , 4,, ' a- ' '1 ' I ' , ' j : r ' "f ' V -' " ' ' 1 iii i ' ' ' ' ! ' it1 ' ' ' f -;- " A ; iw - " i '''''' I - '- --" : : ' -t'- i--.f-J M:' ''' ml 4 J- t ' All I III! I 111 -Iir Debate Starts Today MAYOR ROBERT WAGNER OF NEW YORK CITY ... Carolina Forum brings him here tonight MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY: Wagner Talks At 8:30 Mayor New York tonight. Robert Wagner Jr. of , and City will speak branches would ' bring in "an ad ditional $1,027,742 for the bien nium. The increases are slated to go into effect at the start of the next biennium in July unless amendments are made by the House or Senate. Medical Fraternity El wood Morgan was elected president of the North Carolina Beta Chapter of Alpha Epsilon Delta, National Premedical So ciety in a recent meeting. Other officers elected were Tommy Williford, vice-pres! dent; Bill Michael, secretary; Willis Riddick, treasurer; Bob Richardson, historian; and John Curtis, program chairman. WATCH OUT FOR TH E STATE Leaders Comment On Fees By NEIL BASS A poll taken among student government leaders yesterday concerning the May 10 referendum on a proposed hike in student fees resulted in , a wide range of opinions. The present consideration the State Legislature is giving possibilities of a hike in dormitory rents and tuitions influenced several opin-f r ; ' : Liberal candidate that No- here : vember. I As mayor of the world's largest Mayor Wagner's talk will be ! citv' Wagner has introduced the City Administrator into the city s government, whose duties are to modernize the methods and pro cedures of the various city de partments and to make their functions more efficient and eco- which brings to the campus politi cal and other leaders. The speech will start at 8:30 p.m. in Hill Hall, and will be followed by a question and answer period and reception in Graham Memorial. RALEIGH, May S-W-Au appropriations bill authoriz ing state spending of about (ijo million dollar? for the next two fiscal years reached t J ic House floor today. The Joint Appropriations Committee approved the budget last week after four months of study. The appropriations bill was placed on the House calendar for debate tomorrow. Itep. J. K. Doughton of Alleghany, chairman of the House Appropriations Com mittee, reported the bill to ' the House floor. The budget recommended by the Governor and the Advisory I Budget Commission called for ex j penditures, of about 637 million. iThe Appropriations Committee j made changes additions and rc I ductions which brought the fig I ure to 640 million, j Highway fund expenditures were raised by almost four million. The general furd was decreased by more than $1,115,000. Cuts in the general fund -budget included reductions in supcr- I nomical. He revised the New York City ! Civil Service Commission, has; given New York its largest police! Fr.rro in th pitv'; historv and ! has named a Port of New York j visOT' instructional services and Council to assist in promoting ths child health program in the . nnhlio srhnnls and snarn rprlnr- eommerce and tne expansion oi , ' the facilities of the Port of New York. Graham Memorial Director Jim Wallace will introduce Mayor Wagner. Mayor Wagner, elected to his position in November of 1953 by a plurality pf more than 300,000 votes, is the youngest man to hold the mayorship, and one of the youngest mayors in the nation. Wagner was born in 1910 and has been in public office since 1937, when he was elected to the New York State Assembly, writh time out for service in the Air Force. He was graduated from Yale, studied business adminstration at Harvard and later attended Yale Law School. Wagner won the bitterly-contested Democratic primary elect ion for mayor from incumbent Vincent Impellitteri in the sum mer of 1953, and came out on top in the three-cornered race for mayor against a Republican Grail Officers Named The Order of the Grail yesterday announced that Ed McCurry, junior from Shelby, has been chosen delegata for the coming year. Luther Hodges Jr., sophomore from Leaksville, was named scribe, while Gil Ragland, junior from Oxford, was chosen exchequer, and Jim Exum, junior from Snow Hill was named vice-exchequer. The Grail's officers for the past year have been, Osborne Ayscue, delegata; Ed Patterson, scribe; Ed McCurry, exchequer and Johnny Medlin, vice-exchequer. tipns in state spending for travel, printing and binding, and merit salary increments for state work ' ers not under the State Personnel ct. f Upward revisions included a j half million for support of indi ! gent patients in four county-sup ported tuberculosis sanatoriums, and half million for five state teachers' colleges. More than S400.0O0 was added to the budget of Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. Hitler & Friends Set Germamy BackWeyl "Adolph Hitler and his political here party set Germany back at least 50 years and placed that country in a position where it will never again rise to be a world power," a noted mathematician said here Monday. Professor Hermann Weyl, a na tive of Germany and a citizen of the United States since 1939, was to speak before the CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT A constitutional amendment for annual General Assembly sessions, revived after an unfavorable vote, found the strength to pass the House and go to the Senate. If the Senate approves it, the iTvr i proposal will be submitted to a Has Anybody Seen Smith's Baby Turtle? Residents of Smith Dorm have been left grief-stricken at the mysterious departure of the dorm mascot, one small turtle. The turtle either walker, strayed or was spirited away in the pocket of some visitor sometime last Sunday night,' and its whereabouts constitu tes a large-sized mystery to the turtle-loving girls of Smith. Miss Marlyn Zager, dorm spokesman in the mystery of the vanishing turtle, said yes terday "the whole dorm is upset about it (the turtle). He is to Smith what Rameses is to the ' football team." , (See TURTLE, page 4) ions. Four of the six questioned made some stipulation about the "danger" of "raising" fees while the State Legislature threatens to demand more money from stu dents. Student body President Don Fowler, maintaining the same po--J sition ha announced some time ago, said: 'I am opposed to any' student fee raise. I believe it is not advis able to be raising our fees when the State Legislature is still in the process of considering a tuition or dorm rent raise here at Carolina. "If the State Legislature sees us raising our own fees, they will be more likely to levy an increase on our present tuition and dorm fees," he concluded. 'NOT FOR RAISE' . Jim Exum, floorleader of the University Party, said he opposed a "change in- the student constitu tion." ' If the student body passes the referendum, the path will be paved for a $5 raise in student fees. As the , Constitution now states, the fee limit is $20 per year. (See COMMENT, page 4) r ' k) 1 UJ xti ri -All iAh & I: ' P i If j 4 - ' 4 - r r ' ! I - -m irnT-V-r r lit ..-.. -nt.r.. m BiwnMi.!. ililtl.,.riltlMtllltliiriii Mn MMWim.wlWW.--ii.i w.MMmnilli- ir riiinaiw i,r ,1 .in I nut nm 4 . r ii i . : . .1 i and the Duke University Chapters vulc UA U1C 1,1 u,y "L1 of the Society of the Sigma Xi.Sencral lectjon. He spoke on "Practice, Theory j The House vote today for the and Magic in Numbers." j measure was 74-33 on second rr Wovi PmfPRsnr F.mpHt ii nf reading, and 73-36 on third read- 4JUUl,UlUtUJ OI 111V. IllJkllULV Advanced Study at Princeton, N. I J., and often described as the greatest living mathematician, was a personal friend of the late Dr. Albert Einstein. He had worked with Dr. Einstein from time to lime during the past 40 years and stated that Einstein's death "was a siiock to the science world." Dr. Weyl, often described as Constitutional amendments require a three-fifths majority, or 72 votes, to pass the House. On its first test last Wednes day, the bill missed the necessary majority by three votes. How ever, the House reversed its vote the following day and set it for further action. At present the Legislature meets every other year. Support ers, contended annual session the greatest living mathematician, woulcl make ,l easier ,0 deal Wlt said he was considering leaving ; fiscal Problems, while opponents Germany to live in the United ! claimed annual sessions would States when two things happened j 2ive rise to a class of "Profes- sionai legislators weaitny enough Les Brown & Band, Slated To Play For Spring Germans played there for 16 engagements, the standing record for the ball room. Brown, a graduate of Ithaca Conservatory of Music, has been featured as guest conductor for symphony orchestras in several cities. Bandleader Les Brown and friends, shown above, will play for a concert and dance next Saturday, sponsored by the Carolina Ger mans Club. The band is shown at the noted Hollywood Palladium, where Brown is known as "Mr. Palladium." . The Brown band has that led him to America. "In 1933 the Institute for Advance Study at Princeton was organized and I was asked to join it and about this same time Hitler took over the government of Germany," he explained. Dr. Weyl said it was impossible for scholars in Germany to have any academic freedom under Hit ler's rule, and that intellectuals wh0 defied the regime were im prisoned and put to death. Exhibited In Library The Universiy Library Is now exhibiting a scale model of the Monastary of Cluny situated in Burgundy, France. Included in the exhibition are plans, drawings and pictures of the excavated monastary. to afford the trip to Raleigh each year. Annual sessions arc held by legislatures of a number of states, including Jieighboring South Car olina. The constitutional amendment for annual legislative sessions was introduced by Rep. David Clark of Lincoln, who sponsored a similar bill in the 1953 Legislature. It failed to pass the House by a nar row margin. Under ihe proposal, legislators would still be elected for terms of two t years. -Committee assign ments and other organizational work wot'.Id be completed at the first session after their election. The second session would deal solely with financial matters un less a joint resolution was adopted to take up other legislation.