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yyy.,, r ... ey-fr--.,-' ji-. .TJ.T1.C. Library Serials Dspt. CHasol. Hillt 4- vf WEATHER Partly cloudy and cool. Expected high, 60. JEERS The Editor has several for Nas ser on page two. VOL. LVII, NO. 181 Complete VP) Wire Service CHAPEL , HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1957 Offices in Graham Memorial SIX PAGES THIS ISSUE ....... A . u) .hup '0 JSin midT'Siir- Atte n d ance U rg ;e' For Inauguration Pulitzer Prizes Given NEW YORK (AP) Eugene O'Neill vesterdav won the first posthumous Pulitzer Prize ever airliners in which 128 person died.- as President of te Consolidated awarded for his autobiographical! Wallace Turner and William , University of North Carolina, Wed drama "Long Day's Journey Into; Lambert of the Portland (Ore.) :esday ai 10:30 a m- at Reynold's Night." It is a current broadway i Oregonian, were cited jointly f or j Coliseum in Raleigh.' hit. stories exposing Teamsters Union' "Masses hav alld off. The U'te playwright thus joined "vice and corruption" in Portland. and 1 want to take opportunity two other men as four-time win-! The award was for local reporting to vrSe eaclt every P15011 to ners in the 40-year-old history of (no edition time) and each man , atienyd- We in ms studnt genera te awards. The others were the : gets $1,000. i tion n consider ourselves for late nlavwri-ht-hioeranher Robert ! Other awards worP: ' ! tunate for We wU1 have an E. Sherwood and poet Robert Frost. The Chicaej Dailv News reeeiv- ed the 1957 Pulitzer award for: meritoriouj public service for ex posing the llodge scandal in Illin ois. James Reston of The New York Times, won the award for national reporting. Russell Jones of The United Press won the award for interna tional reporting. The Salt Lake (Utah) Tribune ed to the creation of greater in was selected for local reporting (on (See PULITZER, Page 3i $15,000 Grant Given School Of Medicine The University School of Medi-" Scientific director of the Fund, cine, has t ;en awarded a grant of Dr. Francis R. Dieuaide,' announc $15,400 for heart research accord- ed the awards for 1957. He said incr. tn a rerprtt ann.ninrpmnt hv ! f liaf thp awcrris wntilrl siinnnrt the Life Insurance Medical Re-1 Search Fund. The award was made to Dr. Carl Prominent among the subjects Frank Graham and Gordon Gray E. Anderson for research on the of study are diet, stress and other , w ju make short speeches at the chemistry and netAbolisxo:"of - ace-j lac tors in hardening, of the.ar- .inauguration. Botlv'are former Con tal phosphatides. teries, coronary occlusion and high i golkiated University presidents. Gra- The entire resources of the Life Insurance Medical Research Fund have been devoted to heart re search since organization of the Fund in 1954. It has given a total of $9,211,000 for heart research over the past 12 years. GVVS SLATE The following activities are scheduled for Graham Memorial today: Orientation Committee, 4 6 p.m. Grail Room; ' W.A.A., 7-8 p.m., Grail Room; University Par ty, 7-11 p.m., Roland Parker Lounge Nos. 1,2,; University Club, 7-8 p.m., Rslsnd Parser Lounge No. 3; Carolina Symposi ium, 4r6 p.m., Woodhouse Con ference Room; IFC, 7:30-9 p.m., Woodhouse Conference Room; Women's Residence Council, 6:45 p.m.. Council Room; Women's Honor Council, 8-11 p.m.. Coun cil - Room Dance Class, 6:30-8 p.m.. Rendezvous Room; A. P. O., 7-9 p.m., A. P. O. Room? White head Medical Society, -9-11 p.m., A. P. O. Room. 1 V .1 A , - i t I- edition time) for its coverage of the Grand Canvnn trash of two History "Russia Leaves The War." bv George F. Kennan Biography "Profiles In Cour- a iw on t,.v f vru, rn-Ma!,:. v Poetry 'Things Of This World,' by Richard Wilbur. Music -"Meditations On Ecclesi astes " hv Normal DelTo -Tnirv a ; . A special citation was awarded . Kenneth Roberts "for his historical novels w"hich have long contribut- scientists in a broad attack on thecf Wcman's College. vital problem of heart du-ease. '! blood nressure. i blood pressure. In other programs new methods are being developed for the im provement of cardiovascular sur gery, and for its extension to con ditions hitherto inoperable. A total of $1,059,490, the greater part of the 1957 awards, is going to support 66 heart research pro grams in medical centers in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Fellowships have also been award ed to 23 young investgators in ths field. The Life Insurance Medical Re search Fund is supported by 146 large and small life insurance companies. ' New IFC Officers Don Pugh of Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity is the newly elected president of the Professional Inter-Fraternity Council, according to an announcement received yes terday Also elected were Jim Inabinet, Phi D3lta Chi, vice president; Dave Veasey, Delta Sigma Pi, secretary; and Bill Allen, Kappa Psi, treasurer. t The Old Well Is Used Again ' . something to remember . j Photo by Bill King vans Freda v Graham,Gray To Participate William Friday will be inaugurate lur'1!' lo uness an event mat taxes i piace onry once every several ae- pades," said Sonny Evans, president oi w siuaent ,Doay. l nope w i see everyone in Raleigh on Wednes day," Evans further stated. "Over 1500 delegates have ibeen invited from every major university and college, in America and some rep- Resenting foreign unneisities as .... , , well." The inauguration activities will be irrpresisve, with officials of the tUiree Consolidated University units, important political figures, bands and choirs of UNC, Woman's Col lege, and State College participat ing. Gov. Luther Hodges will introduce chaceUors Robert B. House of UNC, William Whatley Pierson of Woman's College, and Carey IL Bostian of State College. He will also present chancellors-elect William B. Ay cock of UNC and Gordon 3lackwell National office holders such as Km So tyhi ii-. tVi TTnitoH ham is now mediator of the United Nations, and Gray is the recently (See GRAHAM, Page 3) Poteat Addresses SP On Freedom's Dangers By WALT SCHRUNTEK Dr. William Poteat, who will soon resign as professor of philo sophy here, spoke before a Stu dent Party assemblage last night on- a subject which he introduced as "something and at the same time everything that has to do with freedom." He directed his remarks toward our present-day attitudes toward the Fifth Amendment, the outright dangers our freedom suffers from totalitarian philosophies, the sub tle dangers we present in our own society and the therat these com binations are to our freedom as students at the University and citizens of a democratic state. At the outset of his talk, Dr. Poteat reviewed the historical arents Sunday last, hundreds of holi- day-clad visitors con-verged on tho f-nrnlino ommn and crood behavior became the order of the day. , , .Sunday was Parents Day at UNC the seventh such annual event to be sponsored here by th? Alpha Phi Omega service fra ternity. And a full day of sche duled and informal activities were planned for visiting Moms and Dads during their stay here. The weather, held up remark ably well for Chapel Hill and even though a slight chill filled the air, the sun's welcome pres ence made the day an enjoyable and comfortable one for those who were on hand to visit and wander through the green expanses of the campus. Visitors made their first visi ble appearances early Sunday morning as new faces could be seen leaving and entering the many churches and chapels around town. One minister was overheard to remark with a knowing smile that he noticed several "strange and delinquent faces in the crowd' that morning. As morning wore into early af- if i 4 . I v ' - I if REV. A. L. KERSHAW SPEAKS AT Y-NITE ... jazz is not the "gutter" type viusic Photo by Bill King Y Has Installation The installation of the YWCA ' and the YMCA executive officers I and cabinet and the banquet in J their honor will take place to night at 5:45 in upstairs Lenoir I Hall At this time The Rev. A. L. Ker shaw, on campus in connection with Y-Nite, will speak on "Chal lenge to New Leaders in the Stu dent Christian Movement". The. public is invited to both the banquet and the installation. Tickets for the -banquet are on sale for $1.25. The executive members of the I YWCA are: Belle Corey, Atlanta, I Georgia, President; Ann Morgan, Charleston, W. Va., vice president, Molly Adams, Wilmington, secre-Jtune, Brevard, publications board; tary; Ann Holt, Sanford, treasarcfIary Jane . Fisher, Bristol, Va., Phyllis Krafft, River Forest, Ilh-1 race relations; Eve McClatchey, noLs, program chairman; and Lu cinda Holderness, Greensboro, membership chairman. The cabinet chairmen and their basis of Anglo-Saxon philosophy relating to the privacy of the in dividual person. He said that "persons who would deny the provisions of the 5th amendment do not recognize the subtle forces which seek to under mine this principle." Pointing out that the problem is not one of politics or jurispru dence, but that' it lies at the root of the concept of human privacy, the Prof, of Philosophy served as example the- totalitarian state where man cannot "exist in an un publicizable relationship with an other person." "Our acquiescence to the misuse of the 5th amendment," he said ."testifies to an increasing degree (See POTEAT, Page 3) rings ternoon, the red-brick walks throughout the campus wsre cov- rort -i1ti cmilintr ctrrl!ers. he- ing led (for the most part) by well-informed guides (sons and daughters no doubt) and annoint - ca with, the outstanding lore anu tradition that is the University of North Carolina. Day.B Early pointsof popularity were formed them that they would Graham Memorial and Morehead . have to wait in the downstairs Planetarium where most parents j Social Room. (No damage or em seemed to have made previous ap- barrassment resulted, .according pointments to meet sons and to information received here yes daughters for conducted tours of terday.) the campus. Toward noon and thereafter, The Old Well, always a popu- empty stomaches apparently over lar landmark at Carolina, was a came the urge to wander and a stopping place . for 'most visitors I great many sightseers could be who came to see what makes UNC tick. The water fountain located at. the well might have been the feature which added to its at traction. Numerous buildings held Open House- as part of the Parents' Day program and Person Hall, New Venable, Swain Hall, the Infirm ary, Morehead Planetarium, Gra ham Memorial and the dormitor ies were much-visited during the day-long -affair. One group of wanderers took v - y t -4 - positions are theg following: Sart'jn iast fans sinai invasion. This Williamson, Darlington, S.C., Cam pus Christian Council representa tive; Margaret Daughtridge, Rocky Mount, conferences; Patsy Miller, Kinston, Dix Hill; Eleanor Wil 'liamson, Winnsboro, Gravely T.B. Sanitorium; Mary Louise Bizzel, Goldsboro, Girl Scouts-. Also, Cindy Seagraves, Jackson ville, Fla., Holmes Day Nursery, Pat Gregory, Benson, Hospital; Jennie Margaret Meador, Charlotte, inter-collegiate relations; Kathie Webster, Princeton, N.J., office force: Betty Carolyn" Huffman, i Catawba, public affairs Also, Mary Moore Mason, Roan oke, Va., publicity; Martha For- Atlanta, Ga., vespers and worship; Debbie Sink, ' Moresville, world understanding; and Daryl Farring ton, Y Night. Don't Despair; Study & Work Summer job necessary? Don't despair; you can take and complete University Correspondence courses in a minimum of seven weeks while on the job. The University offers more than 100 Correspondence courses, that a student may choose from to earn degree credit and quality points. You may enroll at any time pro vided that you are not attending regular University classes. You may send in as many as four les-son assignments a week al though, you are allowed thirteen months in which to finish the course. Correspondence courses ; should be especially appealing to those who are interrupting their college careers to answer the call of the Promise," is expected to be at draft board. tended by 1000 delegates who will Hundreds the Open House invitations posted around the campus too much to ' hMft. h.lwpvpr and stormed the second floor, of Stacey Dorm be- fore being discovered. 1 An alert resident of the dorm spotted and detoured the mixed group of visitors before they reached their objective and in- seen taking advantage-of the Uni versity's green evpanses for pic nic pick-me-ups. Baskets filled with fried chicken, cold ham, pies, cakes and all manners and vari eties, of delicacies found more than one hungry group of fans. A lull in activity could be not ed shortly after the noontime period as, most sightseers were content to rest from their travels and build up a reserve for fur ther strolls around the campus. Most parents, after their noon rshaw Re lOBon hsne8 &S Independence Day TEL AVIV (AP) Israel put on an all-out show of military strength yesterday to celebrate her ninth Independence Day. For nearly two hours, tank, ar tillery and infantry columns pass ed in review. Overhead French and British-made jets of Israel's small air force flew by in close formation. One section of the mechanized columns was made up entirely of tanks, artillery and armored ve hicles caotured from Egyptians included Soviet T34 tanks, Amen- j can Shermans, British 25-pound Howitzers and Czech anti-aircraft j guns. ; Premier Resigns ROME (AP) Premier An tonio Segni resigned last night, 22 ejionths to the day after his coalition cabinet took office. Withdrawal of Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat and three other Social Democrat ministers from the cabinet forced Segni's' step. Left with barely an ally in Par liament for his Christian Demo cratic Party, Segni quit a sick bed, ; went to Quirinale Palace and handled his resignation to President Giovanni Gronchi. Graham Memorial Closed Graham Memorial .will be clos ed Wednesday morning, accord ing to Linda Mann, director. The building will open at 1 p.m., however. NSA Announces Four Interesting . Activities The U. S. National Student As sociation has announced four activi ties coming up this summer- that should be of interest to Carolina students. On August 20-30 the 10th National Student Congress will be held on the University of Michigan Campus in Ann Arbor. Whit Whitfield, UNC's NSA coordinater, urges all those in terested in applying for the ten delegate positions to contact the Student Union Government offices in Graham Memorial. Interviews will be arranged later. . The CongJess, with its theme "The American Student-Profile and To UNC meal, were apparently content to take their liesure and Carolina's i Scenic. tree-lined Walks Were spars2ly populated. The afternoon hours were spent in various atti tudessome in quiet conversa tion, some in peaceful and rested contemplation of campus pictoral qualities, others in contented, liesurly strolls under the com fortable shade of Carolina's nu merous trees. From 3:30 on, a reception was held under Davie Popular whereby-visitors and guests had an op portunity to meet and speak with various faculty and administra tion members of the university. Later, parents were officially velccmed to the campus by Mr. Roy Armstrong, who spoke to them of the Universitys' position in the south as an advancing, pro gressive institution. He further ?xtended his thanks to the'APO's for making the Parents' Day pro gram available and' the success that it was. A band concert rounded out the day and foot-sore visitors sought welcome rest on the bench es and wide expanses of . green (See PARENTS', Page 3) And Y-Nite Speaker States That Jazz Is Religious By B03 HIGH In his talk lat night, before some 400 students under the Davie Poplar, Rev. A. L. Kershaw spoke on the relationship between re ligion and jazz, the music so many people condemn because they think it was written and inspired in a bawdy house. The special guest of the second annual Y-Nite observance iit UNC, spoke of how neurotic the popular music and old standard.,- are in comparison with the real meaning May 17 Is Date Of Play 7No Exit' An group of dramatic art majors, working under the sponsorship of Professor Foster Fitzsimons and his j the music which was called "gut undergraduate directing class, will , ter" music and indigenous to present a single performance of ' dive," stated Kershaw. Jean Paul. Satre's "No Exit" at 8:00 p.fm. Friday, May 17 at the Playmakers' Theatre: No admission will be charged. The one-act existentialist drama, in a translation from the French by S:uart Gilbert, wMl be direct -.-.d by Russell Link, a junior from Jamaica N. Y., and will star Page Williams, Bettina Jinnette, Taylor Williams and James Sechrest. Al though admittedly only an "ex perimental project" the play will be fully staged with complete set ting and costumes. ' "No Exit" is the stcry of three people who have died and are causht in a particular kind of hell, a hell without demons and red-lio: pincers which is none fh less a con stant torture for its inmates. As the jlay progresses the audience sees why they have been condemned. formultae the policies of the asso- work cf Dynare Barnes contained ciation for the next academic j ear ' .some of th? most influential be and elect national officers who wi'l liefs in the world today and help carry out the legislative mandates Cfl bring the issues to the fore enacted by the student government front. representatives. ! "A fundamental religious in- Guests of the foreign student un ions, educational consultants and members of the press will -be in vited to observe the democratic proceses manifested jin the Con gress. The Congress will provide work-shop settings in which the stu dent leaders of the country can meet and discuss mutual problems and programs. Dr. Buell Gallagher, president of City College of New York, will key fSee NSA, Page 3) VISITORS SUNDAY WERE MOM AND POP . . . by the way, my money . . . Photo by Bill Kinj tiLjt fcmHtii-r of the music which was born in the area called '"Sloryville" in New Orleans. "We called jazz uncultured Ne gro music, but it grew from many sources. The Psalms. Scottish folk music, and great works by the mu scal masters were u.sed in deriving Kershaw went on to say that if the music was of the "gutter" va riety, then it would not have been played in Carnegie Hall, collc-e student unions and it would not have been sent abioad a.s ambas sadors to countries which knew nothing of the music' which ha floated out of the bayous of Lou isiana and swelled from the South Side of Chicago, "Sky. drapers, gadgets and mon ey will not impress the peoples j across this world of ours, but jazz 1 helps .to bring an .individual out, ' that is in a lonely crowd," staled the visiting minister. f Tflc guest speaker condemned iii- awn-nee wciK ryp: of mu.-ic and it drew the biggest burst of response from the audience, sprawled on the lawn in Bermuda shorts and munching barbequc. In speaking on the religion as pect cf his relation between the two subjects, Kershaw said that .s:me of the most accute religious insights of our time issues from the arts. He went on to illustrate that the dramas of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, poe try of Dillon Thomas and the k f ... i sight or experience provides in a single instant th? affirmation of the worth of the individual, inter dependence of persons and tru.it in Providence.'' Kershaw said. Kershaw showed the implicit faith of jazz by stating there was candor and trust in th? melodies. He went on to show how the blues, and pop songs differ in giving a person the true meaning of life. (S.e KERSHAW, page 3) ; - '
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