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NO. 41
Coro'pZete (P) Wirt Service
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1955
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Part Of Campus As Viewed From' Blimp
)el Hill and vicinity had a visitor over the weekend a
blimp, which floated over the town advertising its pro
day and flashing messages in lights at night: Press Photo
Photographer Roland Giduz, along with other local lens
(k a ride in the blimp which was moored at Horace Wil-
liams Airport untilv Sunday morning. Giduz took this picture, which
shows part of the 'University campus. The big, long building at right
center is Venable Hall, and the Carolina Inn and apartments are at
lower right. That's Phillips Hall at the left side.
Discussion
Loss
ito
J CLARKE JONES
f a'summary of the- action
far by trustees, admini
r.ercants and students in
X the problem of "student
Oct 13 issue of The Daily
I there appeared a state
'; trustee and state Rep.
.instead that the Univer
;not taken any action, to
parking problem.
ni Student Affairs Fred
aed about Umstead's ac
referred reporters to his
'A memorandum directed
ellor Robert House, which
;'it that definite steps had
Jen by the University in
solution to the problem,
memorandum, stated that
emendations proposed by
-ng Committee of the
! Trustees had been' com
h and acknowledged by
ersity. .-.-
commendations- of the
Committee were (1) "That
fnistration attempt to im
e regulation of the use of
J (2)" That the administra
tor seriously the question
session of cars by under
s" UTION
Jent autonobile registra
f arr. according to the me
complied with the first
,frious consideration" giv
6 Problem by the Cbuncil
Affairs, the Admini
Lard of Student Affairs,
pdent Activities Staff,
memorandum, complied
I second recommendation,
pants' Assn. committee,
I at the request of Um
I consideration of the pro
d last week to take a
f the matter. The commit
Mted by Merchants' As-
Lrildent Crowe11 Little
iby Harvey. Bennett,
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Students Have Had Says
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said the. problem of student cars j versity affair.
rested solely; : upon the shoulders j Concerning the question of the
of the University and was. a Uni-i . (See AUTOS, Page 4)
Beauty Queen
jmed Thursday
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GMAB Film Commit tee
Adds To Free Series
Seven additional movies have been added to the Graham Me
morial Activities Board Film Committee's "free flicks" series.
The movie slate will begin this Friday night with a showing of
"Tap Roots," the film adaptation of James Street's novel of the
Civil War in the South. Van Heflin and Susan Hayward head an
all-star cast.
Other movies on the series include "Winchester '73" on Nov.
11, "Son of Frakenstein" on Nov 18, "Because of You" on Dec. 2,
"Sword in the Desert" on Dec. 16, "Has Anybody Seen My Gal?" on
Jan.. 6 and "Up Front", on. Jan. 13. V' -
Purpose of the scheduling, according to. Miss Pat McBane, com
mittee chairman, was to provide a 'variety of films which should
appeal to everyone on campus, A costume drama, a western, a mys
tery, a.mo'dern drama, a war saga, a musical and a comedy are in-
The free movies are shown - every Friday night at 8 and 10
eluded on the slate. r
o'clock in Carroll Hall.
Band Plans
A Combo
For Campus
The University Band has voted
to organize a combo to furnish
music free of charge to various
campus-wide, non-profit , service
functions according to a band
spokesman. "
Such functions and projects as
student-sponsored YMCA and YW
CA events, orientation functions,
campus-wide fund raising drives
and "other worthwhile projects
which reasonably fit into this cat
egory" will be played for the com
bo, he said. ' '
Purks Speaks
Tomorrow To
Pi Sigma Alpha
Acting ; president J. Harris
Purks will speak tonight at the
inauguration ceremonies of John
Curtis ; as : Speaker of the Assem
bly of the Philanthropic Literary
Society. -
; The ceremonies will be held at
8 o'clock oh the fourth floor of
New Eastl Dr. Purks will have as
his topic the lack of contact be
tween faculty and students and the
need for such a contact.
iToliowing Dr., Purks, Curtis, in
his inaugural address will discuss
the Phi as an organ to fill such a
need.
The Philanthropic Society has,
according to Speaker Curtis, ex
perienced an amazing revitaliza
tion this year Already it has more
than doubled its membership this
year, and the Society hopes tor an
even greater gain, he said. In line
with this program, all interested
students are invited to attend any
meetings and to inquire about the
possibility of membership, said
Curtis. Long active in student af
fairs, the Phi hopes, said Speaker
Curtis, "To become the 'campus
watchdog'," a position it has Held
"much of the time since its found
ing in 1795."
Due to the inauguration cere
monies and the reception which
will follow, the Phi will dispense
with the discussion and debate or
dinarily taken up.
Dr. Purks became acting
president of the Consolidated Un
iversity in July, and has been pro
vost since Jan. 1954. A native of
Bartow, Ga., he is a physicist and
former dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences at Emory University.
In the event that President Gordon
Gray's resignation is accepted,
some observers say Dr. Purks
would be the logical succssor.
, Speaker Curtis, a native of Bes
semer Cityis a history major, al
though, he intends td enter Medi
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'ULYSSES7
Armstrong Named Head
Of Halifax-UNC Group
Darrell Armstrong was recently
elected president of the Halifax
Carolina Club.
Jim" Warren was elected secretary-treasurer
of the group. Miss
Maria Hunter was appointed chair
man of the band committee for the
group's Christmas dance.
The group hopes to hold a dance
between Christmas and New Year's
Eve at the Roanoke Rapids Coun
try Club, according to a spokesman.
Late Permission
Late permission will be grant
ed for coeds competing in and
attending the Yackety Yack Bea
uty Contest Thursday night.
Coeds must return to their
dormitories immediately after
the contest is over, and must
be back by midnight according
to Miss Sue Fink, chairman of
the Women's Residence CCoun-cil.
Playm,akers To Tour ;; .Comedy. 1 ,
Starbuck, played by James Heldman (left), tells young Jim
Curry, piayed by James Seclu-est (right),: "Jim, you're gonna bfe my
first lieutenant," in the Carolina Playmakers' touring production of
N. Richard Nash's comedy, "The Rainmaker." The, drama group will
present the new production from Nov. 9-13 in the Playmakers' The
atre, and will take the show on a tour of 12 towns of North and
South Carolina and Georgia during its 5t)th tour season 'this., fall.'4
Playmakers Wi I Talce
Rain ma
ker
When the Carolina Playmak
ers go on their tri-state tour,
Nov. 14-19 and Nov. 28-Dec. 3,'
they will be celebrating the 50th
tour in a long and colorful tra
dition. n - V
The play chosen for the "gold
en" tour is N. Richard Nash's
comedy, "The Rainmaker'which
will be ; presented in 12 towns
- and " cities in vN,orth'.-a'rid"-South";7
Carolina and Georgia, under the
direction of Harvey Whetstone
after its appearance at the. Play-
makers' Theatre here Nov. 9
13. "The Rainmaker" takes place
during a paralyzing drought in
the West, and revolves about a
plain girl whose father and two
brothers are as worried about
her becoming an old maid as
they are about their dying cattle.
When the glib con man, Star
buck, suddenly appears, he not
only convinces the family that
for $100 he can bring rain, but
Di To Debate Cutting
Money To Newspaper
A bill calling for The Daily
Tar Heel to be put on a subscrip
tion basis will be debated tonight
by the Dialectic Senate.
The Di meets at 8 o'clock on the
third floor of New West, and
guests have been invited to attend.
C. P. SPRU1LL, NOW DEAN OF FACULTY, IN 1920:
3ioniiried A
no
By ROBERT BARTHOLOMEW
"He looks at you straight and
talks to you straight and then
straightway goes and does just
what he said he will do, and yet
(he) is withal a quiet fellow, dig
nified and poplar." ; "
This quotation is from the
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DEAN OF FACULTY SPRUILL
. . . from '16 to '55
1920 Yackety Yack, and it is
located beneath the picture of
Corydon P. Spruill Jr., who was
recently appointed to the . new
position of dean of the faculty
of the University.
LONG TIME
Dean Spruill has been con
nected with the .University most
of his life, entering asa fresh
man in 1916. He, did leave the
University in May of 1918 to
enter, the army as a private in
the air corps, but was discharged
in December of the same year.
He was still able to finish along
with his class despite this ab
sence. Also receiving a degree from
the University in 1920 was a six
foot, four-inch mountain lad who
was called "Buck" by his friends.
He later became famous in the
literary world as Thomas Wolfe.
Dean Spruill. and Thomas Wol
fe were close personal friends.
Someone recently asked Spruill
if Wolfe -didn't 'ft!? tXembarrass
his, friends hd"members of his
family by writing about them.
Pop
ar
Spruill replied, "Wolfe was a
warm-hearted and generous per
son and never intended to harm
anyone."
RECORD
Dean Spruill made a good re
cord while a UNC student. He
won a letter in gymnastics, was
president of his class and the
Campus Cabinet. He managed
the basketball team and a board
ing house,- as well as being a
member of the Golden Fleece
and Phi Beta Kappa.
After finishing UNC in 1920,
Spruill. was selected as a Rhodes
Scholar and went to Oxford. Two
years later, he returned and
joined the UNC faculty.
In 1935 the General College
was organized to make certain
that, according to officials "in
a growing body the need of, the
individual student would not be
lost sight of" and to set up a
broad, basic curriculum of stud
ies. When the General College
first began to operate in 1936,
Spruill vvas named dean, a po
sition he has held since until
his recent promotion to dean
of the faculty, with the excep
tion of a leave during the World
War H years.
In 1942 Spruill entered the
army for the second time, this
time as a major. He was dis
charged two years later as a
lieutenant colonel to serve as a
consulting economist in the of
fice of Luther Hodges, who was
at that time assistant to the di
rector of the Consumer's Divi
sion of the OPA in Washington.
At that time, Hodges was on
leave of absence from Marshall
Field and Co.
Dean Spruill, a native of Ra
leigh, returned to the Univer
sity in 1945 and. assumed his
old position as dean of the Gen
eral College, a position he, held
until his recent promotion to
dean of the faculty.
As dean of the faculty, Dean
Spruill represents Chancellor
House in working with deans
and other department heads in
academic matters.
The bill is based on the propo
sition that since The Daily Tar
Heel gets its support from the
student Legislature, instead of di
rectly from the students, it is im
mune to student opinion, accord
ing to a Di spokesman. It calls for
a basis similar to that of Tarna
tion and the Carolina Quarterly
for the newspaper. "This would
mean that the Legislature would
no longer appropriate money for
The Daily Tar Heel, and student
fees could be proportionately re
duced, forcing the newspaper to
seek the support of the students
in order to xist, said the spokes
man. Proponents of the bill are expected-
to argue that The Daily
Tar Heel is no longer a reflection
of student opinion, but a mouth
piece of a select group of student
politicians, and that it is undemo
cratic to force all students to pay
for a publication that many of
them no longer care to read.
Opponents are expected to argue
that The Daily Tar Heel is con
sidered one of the outstanding
school newspapers in the country,
and since the editor is elected by
the student body, the students
have direct control over the paper.
University Party To .
Name Nominees Tonight
The University Party will meet
tonight to nominate junior and
freshman class officers, and legis
lative seats.
The meeting will be held at ,
7:30 p.m. in Roland Parker lounges j
of Graham Memorial. j
On Tour
convinces the plain girl that
every woman is pretty if she's
a real woman.
LIZZIE
The role of Lizzie, the plain
girl whose father and two broth
ers are trying to marry her: off,
will be played by Louise Flet
cher, Birmingham, Ala., who i3
entering her second year, .as: a
Playmaker;T Her two brothers;
one a dreamer, the other too
practical, are . played by veteran
: Playmakers '? James . Sechrest,
Thomasville, and Charles Bar
nett, Hickory. Lizzie's ' father,
who is equally concerned ; over
his daughter's spinsterhobdj. is
portrayed by William Casstevens,
Yadkinville.
Starbuck, the fast-talking and
persuasive young "rainmaker"
who bring fulfillment to the
Curry Household, will be James
Heldman, Durham, who played
the male lead in the Playmakers'
opening production this season,
"Ondine." . The role of File," the
woman-shy deputy whom Liz
zie would like to handcuff, will
be filled by Ken Lowry, Troy,
Ohio, who has spent the past
summer with the Myrtle Beach
Playhouse. Carl Williams, Char
lotte, who acted in "Ondine" I
and was stage manager for that
production, will be the sheriff
seeking outlaw Starbuck.
Stage manager for the produ
tion is Lewis Goldstein, Balti
more, Md., who directed the
fighting for "Ondine," and June
Eschweiler, Parma, Ohio, will
again be master electrician;
John Cauble, Hickory, is design
ing sets and lighting, and James
Sechrest and Sue -Whetstone will
be in charge of costumes and
make-up.
In his review of the first pro
duction of "The Rainmaker,"
Brooks Atkinson of The New
York Times said, "Nothing so
original and jovial has turned
up on our stages for a long
time." Two recent Playmaker
tour productions have been
"Arsenic and Old Lace" and
"On Borrowed Time."
By CURTIS CANS
Prof. Weston Labarre of the Duke
University Anthropology Dept.
called James Joyce's Ulysses the
greatest novel in the world, in a
lecture sponsored by the English
Club.
Prof. Labarre felt Ulysses had
more to offer the individual than
Tolstoy'-s War and Peace.
Labarre, whose lifelong interest
has been Joyce, took the author's
works in chronological order, be
ginning with the Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man. Of Fin
negans Wake, Joyce's last novel,
the speaker said he felt that it
would remain a sort of mystery to
readers and -critics alike.
Professor Labarre laid particu
lar emphasis on the writer's style,
which ; utilizes the vocabulary of
several different languages, and
the punctuation which is highly
irregular. He noted the influence
of the Freud and Jung school, pro
bably picked up by the author in
Zurich, where Jung was at the
time.
However, the speaker felt that
two things in particular were bas
ic in all of the Joyce writing. The
first was a cyclical interpretation
of history, and secondly the out
pouring of his own schizophrenic
tendencies.
He pointed out that Joyce, in
writing his various books, plunged
deeper and deeper into the heart
of his problem, and buried the
problem underneath his own sym
bolism. Prof. Labarre recommended the
works of Stuart Gilbert and Ed
win Wilson as being the best crit
ical works on Joyce on the mar
ket today.
In the question and answer ses
sion that followed, Morton Jacobs
of the UNC English Dept. drew a
parallel between Ulysses and Ho
mer's Oddysey.
Following the speech, Prof. La
barre invited those present to in
spect his collection of writings
and criticism of Joyce.
The next English Club speaker
will be E. E. Cummings, co-sponsored
by the Graham Memorial
Activities Board, in Hill Hall on
Nov. 9.
Vic
Discusse
By CPU
State Files
Appeal For
Negro Ruling
Notice of appeal was filed yes
terday by the state from the spe
cial Federal court ruling which
permitted three Durham Negroes
to be admitted to the UNC under
graduate 'school.
Notice of the appeal to the Su
preme Court was filed with the
Durham lawyers who represented
the three students.
Qualified applicants to the Uni
versity could not be denied simply
because of race or color, said the
three judge court.
A resolution which proposed to
repeal all laws which legislate in
any way personal vice was dis
cussed at the Sunday night meet
ing of the Carolina Political Union.
The resolution, introduced by
Jim Turner, included laws pertain
ing to prostitution, gambling, al
cohol, bigamy and Sabbath activ
ities. Jim Doar, CPU secretary, called
the resolution one that involves
one of today's forgotten political
problems, that of personal liberty.
Turner, in presenting the bill,
said an individual can do anything
as long as he doesn't involve
others. "The government is con
cerned with the likes and dislikes
of society rather than with the
individual, he said.
"In these days of totalitarianism,
even in the United States the bas
ic political axiom that the individ
ual is sovereign in his personal
actions lies covered by years of
legislative and judicial encroach
ments," said Turner.
Officials at the meeting said no
vote was taken but all that was
present agreed with the persons
arguing for the bill.
Doar said that the proposal is
meant to apply to fully mature
individuals only and not to child
ren. "It does not purport to en
dorse any of the vices but merely
to free them from legislative con
trol," said Doar.
YMCA-HILLEL FILM FORUM
The, YMCA-Hillel Film Forum
Committee will meet today at 1
p.m. in the YMCA Cabinet Room.
All persons interested in working
with the committee have been sk
ed to attend.
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