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Personality Of Week
Dr. Warner Lee Wells
Robert Bartholomew
When Dr. Warner Lee Wellj was named winner of the 0. Max
Gardner Award here Friday night, the opinion of the people here in
the University community was, "It could not have happened to a
finer person.' ' '
Dr. Wells, an assistant professor of surgery, at the UNC School
of Medicine, is held ?in high esteem by his associates, his students
and all other people who know th genial teacher.
Dr. Wells is a familiar figure in the corridors of the School of
Medicine and the N. C. Memorial Hospital. He is usually seen, wear
ing a white coat, hurrying along
to a class or meeting, but never
in such a hurry that he does not
have time to stop for a friendly
word with a student or colleague.
His office walls are covered
with pictures of friends and col
leagues from all parts of the
world. A visitor to his office will
usuallv find him working at one
of hi.? two desks. One desk holds
his paper work, a microscope is
one the other. v
The modest doctor is a pipe
smoker, a corncob being his fav
orite. He talks as easily on the
qualities of a good pipe as he does
on the history of medicine. He is
a scholar of note in the latter
subject.
Dr. Wells was the ninth winner
of the Gardner Award,, which waa
first given in 1949.
The award is given each year
"To that member of the faculty
of the Consolidated University of
North Carolina, who, during the
current scholastic year, has made
tlie greatest contribution to the
wtlfare of the human race."
The award was established by
the will of the late. Governor
Gardner. It is in- the ferra of a
citation and carries a cash grant
of the annual income from a S25,
000 trust fund. "
Dr. Wells won the award for
discovering, translating and edit
ing 'Hiroshima Diary." This is
the story of the atomic bombing
of Hiroshima, as kept in the diary
of Dr. Nichihiko Hachiya of Hi
roshima. Dr. Wells was in Japan, 1950
52, when he heard of the diary.
After seeing it, he felt that it
should be read by air people. He
began working on the diary and
it was published Aug. 6, 1955, the
10th anniversary of the historic
bombing.
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Spring Is For Birds
And Weather Bureau
' Spring officially came to Chap
el Hill this week. But you'd bet
ter tell it to the birds. And you
might msntion the fact to our
friends at the Weather Bureau at
the Ralsigh-Durham Airport.
Although the plant life in the
area has been quick to recognize
th? calendar claim on the new
season, our winged friends seem
loath to give their approval.
Brother sparrow, friend robin
and the rest of his high-flying
relatives are in apparent agree
ment with those pessimistic
peolpe who chart and predict
that unpredictable commodity
called weather.
So much in agreement, as a
matter of fact, that their pres
ence in Chapel Hill is obvious
by their relatives absences of
numbers for this time of "year.
One student of nature, as a
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The official studentLpublication of the Publications Board of the
University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Mon
day and examination and vacation periods and summer terms. Entered
as second class matter in the post office at Chapel Hill. N. C, under
the cct of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: Mailed, $4 a year. $2.50
per semester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. .
Editor FRED POWLEDGE
Managing Editor ... . CLARKE JONES
Night News Editor
Night Editor
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Staff Writers . Bill King,
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DR. WARREN LEE WELLS
Dr. Wells' citation read, in
part 'When 'Hiroshima Diary
was published and acclaimed by
leaders in all walks of life in the
United State.-, when it sold large
quantities in this country and in
Great Britain, and when it ap
peared in translation in 11 (in
cluding an English edition for
eign languages, Dr. Wells showed
his unselfishness by refusing all
-royalties and -by helping Dr.
Hachiya devote them to the estab
lishment of a foundation for the
education of Hiroshima war or
phans." Last year's winner of the award
was Mereb Ethna Mossmari of
Woman's College. The first win
ner of the award was Louise Bre
vard Alexander of the Woman's
College. The other winners have
been Robert Ervin Coker, UNC,
1950; Donald Benton Anderson,
State College, 1951; Albert Coat
es, UNC, ,1952; Howard Washing
ton Odum, UiN'C, 1953; Franklin
Holbrook McNutt, Woman's Col
lege, 1954 and Zeno Payne Met
cali, State College, 1955.
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matter of fact, has seen only
four of our feathered friends to
date. (Other reports from the
field are unavailable at this
time.) -
And those people who are re
sponsible for our daily and
long-range forecasts are telling'
us that the future doesn't look
too sunny." Increasing cloudi
ness with chance of rain and
temperatures in the high 50's or
low 60 s" is th?ir way of saying
"you can't believe everything
you read in the calendar."
Anyway, spring " did officially
corae to Chapel Hill this week.
But if you aren't particularly
friendly with the birds or a
clairvoyant of the plant world of
Mother Nature, you might still
have your doubts.
It has been a little chilly late
ly, hasn't it?
Wally Kuralt
Walt Schruntek
WEEK IN REVIEW
Walter Schruntek, Anthony Wolff.
Earthquake
Mid-East In
World News
Walt Schruntek
A major earthquake shook one
part of the world last week while
tremors from what might have
been the greatest upheaval in
the history of 'mankind were de
creasing in intensity and freq
uency in another area.
San Francisco, victim of the
famous disaster which virtually
destroyed it in 1906, was hit by
strong earth tremors shortly be
fore noon Friday which had
skyscrapers swaying like trees
in a gale, sending thousands of
terror-stricken people into the
streets.
Reported as the strongest earth
quake to hit the area since the
1906 disaster, the series of trem
ors which followed continued
throughout the afternoon causing
no major damage over a 200
mile stretch of northern and cen
tral California.
. Famed Golden Gate Bridge
was set "galloping," the metro
politan area was showered with
broken window glass and high
ways were cut by landslides and
buckled from beneath. Buildings
cracked, gas mains were severed
and more than a dozen persons
were reported injured by falling
debris.
The world of Mother Nature
had turned topsy-turvey while in
other areas the world was re
verberating still from v man's
chaotic treatment of his fellow
man. Two weeks ago the Israeli
army pulled out of Gaza. The
withdrawal was followed close by
Arab crcmons'.rations against
the U.N. Emergency forces for
the return of the strip to Egypt.
Tension gripped the world and
the big question marked hovered
over Egypt's intentions on the
strip and in the Gulf of Aqaba.
Last week, the question mark
was partially erased and tension
eased somewhat as several of the
technical and "ticklish" aspects
of the altercation seemed closer
to solution.
Egypt conceded to allow Israeli
shipping in the Gulf of Aqaba
and stipulated that it would not
send troops into the Gaza strip.
In the first interview he has
granted since the Israeli evac
uation of Gaza. Israeli Premier
David Ben-Gurion stated his be
lief that peace will "eventually
ccme" to the Middle East. He
reiterated, however, that Israel
will defend its rights to passage
through the Gulf of Aqaba to
the Red Sea.
On another face of the Middle
East problem. President Eisen
hower and Prime Minister Mac
millan met in Tucker's Town.
Bermuda, for discussions deal
ing with the controversial dues
on toll payments through the
Suez Canal, the U.N. role in the
Egyptian-Israeli dispute and the
general Soviet threat in the Mid
dle East.
In a news release Friday, it
was learned that Eisenhower as
' sured the British statesman of
the U.S.'s willingness to join the
Baghdad Pact's military commit
tee in a move to check the spread
of communism in the Middle
East.
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Appropriations, Jazz
Walt Schruntek
The focus of attention swung
dizzily about last week as campus
politics, the Carolina basketball
team; a couple of visiting poets,
the Joint Appropriations Com
mittee in Raleigh, and the perils
of Fearless Fosdick caught the
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Sound And Fury Grinds Toward Opening Date
Sound and Fury, student dramatic organizatio was applying the makeup last week ir preparation
for opening night next Saturday. Left to right aro jnd the piano, members of the cast include Miss
Pee Wee Batten, Ken Callender, Hai Henderson an pianist Cecil Harstoe. (Photo by Fred Powledge)
Pay Increase For Teachers, School
For Year Heads State Newsfront
Patsy Miller
The North Carolina Board of
Education recommended a teach
er pay increase of. 19.3 per cent
b?fore the Joint Appropriations
Committee of the Legislature
Tuesday.
Th3 appropriation is $27.1
millions beyond the 1957-59 bud
get recommendation.
The Board of Education's re
quest would provide a salary
scale of $2-900 to $4,500 for Tar
Heel teachers.
Sen. J. Spencer Bell of Meck
lenburg warned a Senate Judic
iary Committee early in the
week that failure to reapportion
the Legislature might lead to Re
publican dominance within 4 10
years.
The Committee held a hearing
on a reapportionment bill pro-
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limelight for brief moments of
prominence.
Even the weather got into the
act as spring was officially ush
ered in on the -calendar with a
few sparkling days of sunshine,
a day or two of unseasonable
cold and, of-course, the inevit-
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posed by a study commission. Ac
tion will come later.
The proposal calls for an in
crease in house membership from
120 to 130 members. Senate
.eats would remain at 50 with
senatorial 'districts redrawn on
the basis of population. There
would be restrictions on senator
ial redistribution.
Rep. John Kerr of Warren
County introduced a bill to the
Legislature" Wednesday that
could lead to year-round school
operation on . a staggered basis
in North Carolina.
The measure would permit stu
dents to attend school from Sep
tember to jJune, December to
September. 'March to December
or June to March. Teaches and
pri ip f s could be" employed
on a 12-month basis.
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ible rain of Chapel Hill. ,
Student politics picked up the
tempo as election day' (April 2)
begins" to draw increasingly near.
Exceptions -a;n d disagreement
mingled together in the political
air and "misunderstandings"
and "misinterpretations" were
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The Senate killed a bill to per
mit lowering cf the voting age to
18 Wednesday.
On Thursday the Senate ap
proved a bill to create a new
Dept. of Administration suggest
ed by Gov. Hodges.
The bill combines the Budget
Bureau and the Division of Pur
chase and Contract under one
agency with powers to create
other divisions. ,
An organized effort is under
way to retain Flora Macdonald
College as it is, Virginia Frank,"
president of the Flora Macdon
ald Alumnae Assn. revealed Tues
day. The move results from a de
cision by the Presbyterian Synod
of North Carolina to establish a
four-year Consolidated Presby
terian College at Laurinburg.
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cast about with growing aban
don. ' '
One candidate even called it
a day campaign-wise.
Sprinkled posters and banners
began to appear in various nooks
and crannies of the campus prop
- er, giving evidence to the fact
that the tempo will pick up even
more as elections draw closer
still. '
In announcing their platform,
around which SP candidates will
campaign, the Student Party
pledged its support to: ,
1. Separation of investigation
and prosecution powers of the
Honor Council uJdiciary Branch.
2. Establishment of an arm
of student government Jo assist
in processing campus parking
violations:
3. Removal of parking restric
tions at the earliest possible
time.
4. Faculty and administrative
support to and payment of park
ing fees.
5. Efforts to secure TV cov
erage of all sell-out home basket
ball games. '
6. Efforts to establish later
hours-in the Monogram Club and
Scuttlebut.
7. Cash payment to -student
workers on unused meal tickets.
8. Extension of date-ticket re
bates. 9. Re-establishment of the
campus humor magazine.
10. Efforts toward completion
of a building program for a new
student union building.
UP candidate Bill Baum re
iterated his platform for the
establishment ofv a Student Sen
ate, to be selected from all areas
of the campus, and spoke out
against what he considered a
"misleading and unfair" Tar
HeeL editorial last week.
His opponent, Sonny -Evans,
as the front-running advocate of
the SP platform, elaborated on
the individual planks presented
earlier in the week and outlined
his support for an extension of
GM activities (i.e. Victory Village
programs and' a new student
union planning program).
The Daily Tar Heel editorial
race produced the withdrawal of
one candidate Frank Crowther
and an exchange of approaches
to and definitions of their res
pective stands by the remaining
two.
An exchange of statements un
derlined by "misinterpretation"
and "mistaken" served to color
the editorial campaign to some
degree. Candidate Sloan's criti
cal retort to an earlier statement
concerning closed meetings by
his opponent, Neil Bass, produc
ed the first real "sparks" of the
campaign to date.
No one need be enlightened
to the fact that the nation's num
ber one undefeated basketball
team made its way ' to Kansas
City last week where it readied
itself for the final stages of the
NCAA championship.
Robert Frost, the snow-white-haired
man of American poetry
and New England vintage, made
his 15th annual visit to Chapel
Hill on Monday and gave read
ings before a capacity crowd in
Hill Hall which delighted and,
as usual, captivated his audi
ence. The week of literary apprec
iation was complemented Thurs
day by the appearance of Dame
Rdith SitwelL poet of interna
tional renown and recipient of
the highest honors presented by
literary circles in America and
England.
President William Friday held
the campus spotlight and a sig
nificant limelight in Raleigh
when he presented a Consoli
dated University request for $1.5
million dollars for increased fac
ulty salaries and more" library
books.
President Friday cited the in
creasing numbers of professors
and instructors who have left
the University for better paying
positions and the need to meet
this crisis if "we are to maintain
our excellent position in the
academic world." -
And Fearless Fosdick, under
paid detective hero non-parallel,
seems once again to have toppled
from the brink toward disaster.
Foiled by the cunning of Ezio
the Pincher, Fosdick is faced
now with the loss of his badge
and the cancellation of his pen
sion. Dum-da-dam-dum.
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Ths New York Times
More than a year ago President
Eisenhower asked the Depart
ment of Justice and Congress to
study measures to resolve the
ambiguity in the Constitution on
these points:
When the President is in a
"state of inability" to perform
his duties, who shall determine
and announce the fact? When
this condition has ended, who
shall determine and announce
that? Since the Constitution auth
orizes the Vice President in the
interim to exercise the powers
and duties of the Presdiency,
how shall it be assured that
these will revert to the Presi
dent at the end oZ his "state
of inability"?
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The Attorney General's pro
posal, as thus far revealed, is
for a constitutional amendment.
In this the President will be em
powered to make his own decis
ion that he is in a condition of
"inability" which could arise
from conditions ranging from
ill health to capture by an en
emy and to depute his powers
and duties to the Vice President
for a period the end cf which
the President is also empowered
to determine. At its termination,
the amendment will prescribe,
the powers and duties of the
office will revert to the Presi
dent. This wholly neglects the su
premely important point raised
by President Eisenhower that
deals with a President who,
though unable to perform his
duties, is either not conscious 0
that or mentally or physically
unable to certify it. And there
is the other conceivable consid
eration of a President who, no
longer competent and conscious
of this, declines to step aside.
The Celler - Keating proposal
would amend the Constitution to
provide that the Vice President
could summon a joint session of
Congress to proclaim, on his own
determination, the "inability" of
the President, and take over the
Government with or without the
approval of Congress. This naive
idea assigns to the chief party
in interest, who might be the
President's v worst enemy or an
outright villain, the power to
supplant the President. And it
leaves only the long and difficult
process of impeachment to get
rid of the usurper.
One obvious reason for the fail
ure of both plans to repair this
serious defect in the Constitution
is that apparently they are ap
proaching the remedy by only
one route that of amending the
Constitution. But there is also
a statutory method of filling the
gap in the Charter.
- By one statute that has been
proposed Congress, acting under
the authority of the constitution
al clause that provides for the
delegation of a disabled Presi
dent's of f ice and powers to-the
Vice President, would set up an
Inability Council. This council
would be empowered to deter
mine when the state of Presi
dential inabiliy existed and
when it terminated, thus also
limiting the acting tenure of the
Vice President or, in the absence
of a Vice President, the tempor
ary incumbent of the White
House already prescribed by law.
In a recent article in the Sat
urday Evening Post Beverly
Smith reviewed the whole issue
and the several kinds of inabil
ity councils that have been sug
gested to resolve it.
1 This statute once enacted the
constitutional amendment sub
mitted by Congress to the states
need only confirm the power of
Congress to enact the statute.
The legislative actions could be
taken simultaneously. This pro
cedure would squarely meet the
serous problems which both the
Attorney General and Congress
thus far have evaded.