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Complete ) Wire Service
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1956
Offices In Graham Memorial
FOUR PAGES THIS ISSUE
pmsosi Has
J -4 rulUy LvLUl; ii VNJ-aXi l IV IV IS' Iv
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, :
n't ' Been- MckmowBed aed: BrmmHeid
;ideor u
1
i for him would also
jelling my soul to the
titieians who currently
is campus.
if, i junior from Ral
sd forking on The Daily
ii-ee days before he
;;isan classes. He was
biging editor for his
ye3r, and was again
lit position last year.
.-itor of a weekly news
ier of his freshman
i now Chapel Hill cor-
for The Raleigh Times
xlo'.te News. He work
er for the Chapel
i Leader.
::i statement folows:
i Brumfield is elected
The Daily Tar Heel in
.i2j recall election, I
:sy position of manag-
'.Brumfield, who has
-al experience on the
! i ao newspaper exper-
"er, would only serve
sjthing that has been
sjrove the newspaper
iears.
it continue to hold the
-8 my soul to the cor
:ar,s who currently
campus."
onight
fity party will meet
:"30 in Roland Parker
1 8 d 2, according to
'4 Sabiston.
-Sr Heel Editors Loins
f u Yoder and Lewis
-who will oppose the
j ;l3rs in the recall elec
I at the meeting to pre
f nes concerning The
I ad, he said.
Changed
; for tonight's GM
wvc been changed,
. spokesman for the
"Hi-.
sponsor of the
. 4
.r4 11! be shown in Car
!. .P-m. this afternoon
V!:ght at 10 p.m.
"Pickup on
I J starring Richard
Peters. No ad
i " charged
!rfst from McGill
i 5BiM: . "ua, will
tures here on
auspices of the
ogy.
52iUTE
"wt for G
ra-
36.U wuy include:'
.r Round Par-
" Room; Student
W,rn pm-' Wood
H i7 Room'' Elec-
W.. l"ni- Roland
,Hs 330, 1;GMAB
i Unl
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of Religion
italic
1 Hebh.
Recoil Movem
Managing
f. f . IVouc 'SeV
Jot' He Stayed
sing Editor Fred Powledge said yesterday lie would
5 "job if I-ewis Hrumfield is elected editor of The
i Heel next Tuesday.
tiijc told the paper's news staff he "could not con
ydthe position of managing editor, or any other
on the newspaper, under Ikinnfield.
j-would be impossible," he said, "because the very
ean Says
Conformity
Isn't Good
By DON SEAVER
. Dean of Student Affairs Fred H.
Weaver declared in a written state
ment 'yesterday that for The Daily
Tar Heel editors to try to conform
to student opinion would "remove
a constructive influence in the Un-
s
iversity." '
"I certainly do not think the ed
itors should be expected , to- con
form to some abstraction called
'student opinion' , in their editori
als," he said.. . :.. v..
He added, "This student body
has managed for a long time to
contain its differences while main
taining the freedom to enjoy them
and benefit from them in a most
fundamental way."
D
."sanaging editor, or any j
a oa the newspaper, 1 "The Daily Tar Heel affair S a
Seld. That would be student affair and it should be set-
because the very act of tied in accordance with their own
i him would also con-' procedures. However, in order to
comply with the request of a Daily
Tar Heel Reporter, I make this
statement for whatever it is
worth," he said.
"In a lively student- body there
are always students who espouse
widely disparate points of view
some popular, some unpopular."
Green Says
Age Of One World'
Playwright Paul Green told the!
sixth. annual Conference on World
Affairs here yesterday that "mod
ern man is living in what is indeed
the age of one world and one co
operative humanity."
Green presented the closing ad
dress for the day-long conference,
which drew more than 450 persons
to Carroll Hall. Included were re
presentatives of all major women's
organizations in the state, high
school students and foreign stu
dents who are studying in North
Carolina colleges and universities.
The morning's keynote address
was given by Dr. Martha Brans
combe, United Nations official, who
discussed the importance of social
and economic development in achi
eving world peace.
As the world shrinks itself into
a neighborhood size, "we face the
. .. . :,iotvtv ahead of.
cnanenge iuucu.vvV
learning to live as neighbors, ne
said.
The playwrtight, who recently
returned from Asia on a world tour
for the Rockefeller Foundation, de
clared that this revolutionary age
"is the time of jubilation and joy
ous work. The opportunities for
an abundant and inspiring living
are ahead-there is no reason or
room for pessimism and slothful
dismay." ' , .. A
Green warned that in the United
States -some political and educa
tional leaders are unable or un
niin to see the meaning and
mpmpnt of this revolutionary
.. inrM back pro-
Main Lounge. gress and continue Uieir wayward
age, "iney wuu.u -A
men Termed Nt Crusade, But 'Conspiracy
)g Ed If or PowBedge To Quit Of Brumfield Wins
Probers
Call On
Myers
By FRED POWLEDGE
A former UNC professor of ro
mance languages says he has been
subpoenaed to . appear at House
Un-American Activities hearings
next month.
And, said Prof. John V. Myers
now . a romance languages in
structor at Campbell College "I
shall reveal before this commi
ttee neither my own political be
liefs and associations nor those of
anyone else."
Prof. Myers, who won the
Bronze Star and the Purple Heart
i
in World War II, in 1949 refused '
to sisn a faculty statement here
denying communist affiliations.
In 1949, Prof. Myers said he
could not "offer under duress in
formation concerning my affilia-
tion with the state civic and other
organizations. I cannot cooperate
with the administration and its
employment of the principle of
'guilt by association' to intimi-
date" teachers holding Views con-
trary to those of the trustees and attention to a state of lack of
the legislature." ' energy and accomplishment . on
The- committee hearings he' the part of the student govern
said last night, will be held in Pent' said the statement.
Charlotte on March 12. Purpose1 Four days later, says the state
of the hearings is to consider al-' ment- President Fowler, in his
leged Communistic activities in stale of tne Campus Address,
North Carolina. 1 said' "If the editors continue to
News of Prof. Myers subpoena fail in their responsibilities, then , to intimidate the Daily Tar Heel
came in a letter from him,deliv- j they should be removed from reporters from reporting what
ered yesterday to The Daily Tar office." goes on . . . ..Reid and Fowler
Heel , 1 The speech, according to yes are gravely implicated in this re-
He said in the letter; I today's release, is generally held call question in which they have
"Political beliefs belong in the to have been written by Reid. j professed 'neutrality.' This issue
realm of personal conviction and "Tnus. y the middle of Novem- concerns only their personal re
conscience, and no governmental ber Reid and Fowler were venge against the editors," closed
i!00 vnTiMFR. naaf 4 )
This Is
adherence to old local shibboleths
of superstition and prejudice,"
he said.
Green stated "they, in their con
fusion, are playing into the handa
of Russian communism, by deny
ing the very basic principle of our
democratic philosophy to the ef
fect that all men have a right to
liberty and full opportunity of ci
tizenship as becomes all human be
ings." IN FIRE PREVENtlON:
mage
Charlie Sloan
Following the. oil heater fire
in Victory Village last month,
the Fire Dept. was asked to
conduct an inspection of the
project, Fire Chief J.S. Boone
has reported. ' ' .
The final report of the in
spection has not been released,
but Boone and P.L. " Burch,
Victory Village rental officer,
have listed a few of their find
ings. . .
When asked if the
nrs found many fire
inspect
hazards, Chief Boone said, "We found
a few things. Stovepipes were
the biggest problem." He ex
plained that some of the flues
leaked.
Last month's fire was caused
by soot which had collected in
Four Student Leaders
Present Recall Facts
"The editor recall isn't a crusade; it is a political con
spiracy," said a statement issued yesterday by four students
who. have been active in campus activities for several years.
Signing the statement were Bill Wolf, a history graduate
student and former chairman of the Student Party; Ken
Pruitt, a graduate student in the
band president,; Miss Susan Fink,
a senior majoring in History and
chairman of the Woman's Resi
dence Council, and Dick Baker, a
senior and Rhodes Scholar.
NECESSARY
The ..statement was 'released
since the signers thought it nec
essary that the student body know
certain facts about "this editor
recall business."
- "These facts speak for them
selves, but we think that they
say, specifically, that many stu-
dents, sincerely interested in the
problems oi
general, and
the University in
in The Daily Tar
Heel in particular, have been
made dupes of."
Listed in the two-page docu
ment is a series of events in
Lcnronoiicat order, showing .the
incfcfents "leading to the election '
Tuesday.
On Nov. 6,. in "A reporter ixi
Dreamland , with President Don
Fowler," one of the editors called
mreaiening me eauors.
Party Chairman Says
SP For Yoder, Kraar
The Student Party has an
nounced its support for present
Co-editors Louis Kraar" and Ed
Yoder.
In an official statement released
by Chairman Norwood Bryan yes
terday, the party disavowed itself
from actions taken by "certain
students, loosely identified with
the SP, to oust the present edi
tors." Bryan's statement in full reads:
Kessaersts
the flue and was ignited by the
fire in the heater. According
to Neill K. McMillan, tenant of
the apartment in which the
fire occured, the blazing soot
then ignited a covering which
had been built around the heat
er by an earlier tenant.
Boone commented that sev
eral of the hazards found were
constructed by tenants who had
not asked the rental office's
permission to make changes.
In "many cases, said Boone,
clotheslines were hung too
close to the heaters.
Another widespread condi
tion found by the inspectors
was the presence of extra wir
ing or overloaded circuits.
According to Boone, the in
Chemistry Dept. and former
rtn Tsn in TtQirM PuiI qclroH
Stan Shaw about a candidate to
run for editorship, in case a re
call petition should happen to be
presented," said the statement.
The release next cited a story
appearing in the . Jan. 10 Daily
Tar Heel subheaded,' 'Attorney
General Gives Coed Hotfoot,' in
which an incident involving Reid
at a Student Party meeting was
reported.
'Within ive days the recall pe-
tition was Mimeographed."
Also mentioned in the paper
is the fact that E.L. (Junior)
Nance, who started the petition,
lives in close proximity- to Reid
and Lewis Brumfield in Cobb
Dormitory.
yhen Johnathan Daniels, Ra-
leigh News and Observer editor,
wrote an editorial strongly con-
demning the recall, "Reid and
Brumfield (not Nance, please
note,) dnove over to Raleigh to
straighten out the News and Ob-
server," according to the state
ment. "No other conclusions are pos
sible except that the editors' re
call is a political conspiracy to
shut up the editors who have ob
serveu Reid and Fowler fall, and
tne statement
"Last spring, after serious con
sideration, the Student Party nom
inated Louis Kraar and Ed Yoder
for editors of The Daily Tar Heel
Since that time, the SP has seen
no reason to desert its candidates
of last spring and does not pro
pose to do so now.
Until the Student Party finds
some reason to withdraw its sup
port and cooperation from the edi
tors, ,
spectors started off by check
ing every apartment, but,-since
they found a large number of
duplicate conditions, part of the
inspection was carried out by
simply spot-checking different
apartments. A few fire escapes were
blocked by oil drums, said
Boone. Burch said the oil drums
were placed there when tenants
converted from coal to oil heat.
He said the conversions were
made at the expense of the ten
ants, adding that the present
tenants will not be charged for
any alterations mavde to clear
"the fire escapes.
Burch said that Victory Vil-,
lage employees followed the in
spectors and made notes of con
Cooperative
District
Four
Set-Up
HUHBBaaBMaMiia
By NEIL BASS
The Student. Legislature last
night stamped approval on a bill
making Victory Village a sepa
rate electoral district.
The measure was passed by an
11-vote majority 25 to 14. All
of the negative ballots were cast
by members of the University
Party.
The Village will become town
men's IV and will have two Legis
lature representatives. It was
formerly a part jof town men's I.J
Thus town men's I will lose two
student legislators.
Debate on the bill, introduced
by Student Party Legislator Miss
Pat McBane, went on for nearly
an hour. -
Other measures passed by the
body were:
CIX A bill appropriating $65 to
the Women's Residence Council
for printing purposes.
, (2) A bill to insure order and
stability in student government
finances.
. The principal protest the UP
had against the Victory Village
ii jf viimgc
reapportionment bill seemed to
be expressed by Floorleader Har-1
ry Braxton. Braxton said, "Only
60 out of 30O (residents from Vic-
tory Village voted in the last
election." Then Braxton asked the
Legislature if it thought such "in-
terest"- merited two legislative
seats.
Bob Homick (UP) said, "If
they're 352 strong, they could
elect a representative as the dis-
tricts stand now if they wanted
to."
Miss McBane, intrdoucer, and
the chairman of Victory Village's
Board of Directors argued that
the Village was a "distinct area"
with "problems" not similar to
the campus proper.
Decision On Alcohol
Is Individual' One
A Presbyterian minister told Me
thodist students here this week the
question of alcohol "is an individ
ual decision" which they must
make "against the background" of
their Christian experience.
The Rev. Reid Montgomery, Pres
byterian minister from Greensboro,
ditions which could become fire
hazards. He explained the ten
ants will be notified, if they
haven't been already, of dan
gerous situations.
Boone spoke favorably of the
safety from fire in Victory Vil
lage, commenting that the buil
dings are "pretty well equip
ped with fire extinguishers."
He said the extinguishers lo
cated in the buildings play a
big part in putting out fires,
adding that there were occas
ions where fires were out when
the Fire Dept. arrived,
i "I think we've had mighty
fine cooperation from the ten
ants. Looking back over a per
iod of time we find little dam
age done by fire," said Burch.
Last-Minute Candidate
Tells Why He Entered
The editors of The Daily Tar Heel "have not acknowl
edged student opinion in a manner that would put it on an
equal plane with their own opinions," said Lewis Brumfield
yesterday.
Brumfield, last-minute candidate for editorship of the pa
per in Tuesday's reca-U election, yesterday released a state
ment explaining why he is run
ning for editor
"Every time anyone criticizes
the press," he says, "all the news
papers rise up and cry, 'They're
trying to take away freedom of
the press.' I ask the students to
please remember this: nobody
says that the editors cannot say
what they want to say. The ob
jection I have is that they have
j not acknowledged student opinion
in a manner that would put it on
an equal plane with their own
opinions."
Brumfield said "I am running
for editor because I believe that
the editor should do his best to
try to give student views as prom
inent a place in the newspaper as
his own. Student opinion has been
pulverized, rather than .stimulated,-
by the vindictiveness of the
present editors,
"If the students themselves do
not , represent student opinion,
who will? Is . there any use for.
us to gloss over student feelings
to suit the faculty and adminis-1
' , , ; m
"My experience in newspaper
work is limited, but I know that
can do the job if the students
.g've me their sanction. I will stay
down there from noon to midnight
to get out a good paper if I have
. to.
j "Chuck Hauser will really have
a good time criticizing me. The
i last night before election he can
sneak around the campus putting
: out leaflets saying l am uave
Reid s stooge. .
"I like a good fight, especially
when my opponents are as respec
table as Kraar and Yoder are.
"Maybe this race will inject a
little spirit into student affairs,"
he concluded.
spoke to the "over 21" group at
the University Methodist Church.
He spoke on "The Christian's Re
sponsibility Towards Alcohol."
j Rev. Montgomery is a religious
consultant at the Glenwood Park
Sanatarium for Alcoholics.
He told the student group alco
hol constitutes "an individual de
cision which he must make against
the background of his Christian
experience."
He considered the problem of
college students in relation to
drinking a matter of the individu
al's own ideals.
"The body in which he lives is
a temple of purification," Mont
gomery continued. He discussed
the ill effects of excessive alcohol
as a drug upon the coordination
and vision of a person who is un
der its influence.
A person who is insecure and
"not rightly related to God" is apt
to turn to alcohol, he said. Ten to
15 percent of all drinkers become
alcoholics, and "when you cross
the line you never know."
Sixty to 65 percent of the cases
are cured through the AAA be
cause they are taught to live with
out this harmful drug.
"We must have a .new moral
ity," he went on to say. "The only
solution will be for people to
drink in moderation or .be wise
enough to leave it alone."
CANDIDATE BRUMFIELD
. . can do the job'
Riggins
Crowned
Sweetheart
Miss Eleanor Riggins, graduate
student from Knoxville, Ky., was
crowned the "Sweetheart of UNC
Dorms" at the Interdormitory
Council meeting Wednesday night.
Miss Riggins, who edged o u t
candidates nominated by most of
the men's dormitories on campus,
wa presented a dozen red roses
and a loving cup by IDC Social
Chairman Sonny Hallford. She was
sponsored by Aycock Dormitory.
The primary item of business
settled by the council concerned
the appropriation 'of IDC funds.
Last semester, the council, in ac
cord with an inauguration proposal
by President Lewis Brumfield, ap
propriated all of its $4,000 social
fund to the individual dormitories.
Two officials of the group pro
posed to abolish this plan and re
vert back to last year's apportion
ment proposal which allocated the
dormitories $2,000 and retained
$2,000 for discretionary distribu
tion by the central IDC social com
mittee. The council killed the new pro
posal and voted to retain last se
mester's proposal by an overwhel
ming majority. Thus the individual
dormitories wjll again receive the
full $4,000.
According to President Brum
field, the Council's Executive Com
mittee is now working on revisions
for dormitory regulations. Sucn
revisions are to be announced
sometime in the near future.
IN tHE INFIRMARY
Students in the Infirmary yes
terday included:
Mrs. Ruby T. F. Batten, Miss
Linda L. Blaney, Miss Caroline
F. Hune, Miss Sallie S. Robeson,
Miss Anne'F. Mehon, Miss Jane
T. Stainback, Jasper H. Cheffon,
Christopher M. Douty, Dell P.
Lindley, Walter M. Hopper, Har
ry H. Summerlin, Robert O. Boy
ette, Aaron D. Graff, Robert A.
Brand III. Paul R. Winslow,
James G. Goad, Barney L. Rick
enbacker Jr., Thomas B. Jackson
Jr., Roland L. Mayberry, DonalJ
L. Patterson and Andrew J. Pl
lard.