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TJ U C LtWary Ssriala 2pt - 7 v 1 WEATHER Mostly cloudy with occasional rain or driizle. Highest tempera tures generally in upper 60s. KASPERISM The greatest diservice to the English vocabulary says the editor on page two. VOL. LVII NO. 11 Complete Oft Wire Service CHAPEL HILL. NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1957 Offices in Graham Memorial FOUR PAGES THIS ISSUE 7 Levels arapus -u m Officia domMeet T1- i! i i 5 ' inn V-'C 'A h - y in i : ' 1 ( ; "M ' Y fr NOW SMILEI He're is a typical scene in the ba cment of Graham Memorial as one student poses for his Yack picture. Freshmen and law students p .tures are being shot this week in addition to any seniors who failed to appear at the scheduled tim;. Today is the last day for seniors, according to Editor Gene Whitehead, who pointed out that a $ fes wi'l be charged for lateness. A ncansasAjuar Negroes Unescorted dRe ps Gov. Faubus Yields To Court; Ike I o Withdraw U. S. Troops l.iule Hock. Ark.. Oct 1 .V-Guv. "At a meeting of committee for maintaining law and order in Orv.i! r'auhus pledged himself to-' u presenting the Southern Cover- , Little Rock. ni-ht to maintain law and order m.rs Conference this afternoon at j "This has been consistently my outside Central llih School and not the White House, the President was j stand and viewpoint throughout the to olMrai : integration orders of the informed at my request that it has ' controversy. federal courts. ! rover been my intention to obstruct '"On the basis of this assurance. In return. F aubus said. President the orders of the federal courts, that the President has declared that the Fisenlmucr had agreed to return the orders of the federal courts will , Arkansas National Guard will be I he Arkansas National Gutrd tn his not he obstructed by me, and that j returned to my command and ( cmaiaml lo withdraw federal ' am Prepared, as I have always J thereafter as soon as practicable all T."M- M "ns m,ii as In-eu. to-assume full responsibility federal troops will be withdrawn. (rtitiMH fnvn 'i at t icaMe 1 ll.e pc.K v pact, worked out in Washinuton earlier in the day. ap parently presaged tn end to the urave latie Kink crisis over civil i mlits and states rights. Faubus would not go beyond t he comment contained in a statement untamed in a statement he issued to newsmen at his mansion here. It i cad Rushees To Sign Slips In Dean's Office Today The Panhellenic Council an nounces that all rushees who are signing preferential slips must come by the Dean of Wom an's office today between 9 a m. and 1 p.m. Instructions for signing pref erential slips will be supplied by members of the Dean of Women's office. If for any reason, a rushee cannot go by the office between these hours, she must contact Miss Martha Decker before 1 p m. today at 5641. Crack Brigade Of Midshipmen Visits UNC Campus Saturday One hundred and fiftv midship- During half time the Drum and men representing the best bri- Bugle Corps and Companies A, gade at nnapolis last year will(B and C will do precision drill, i be i n campus here Saturday for Midshipman R. Hines Jr. of Kin : IW'C's game with Navy. j ston heads the Drum and Bugle Th? group, which will arrive Corps, while A, B and C com Saturday and be housed some- panics are headed by Midshipmen where on campus, is being given Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 1 (t) Federalized Arkansas National Guardsmen replacec regular Army. troops at Central High School today as Gov. Orval E. Faubus still con sidered the possibility of calling a special legislative sesison to deal with integration here. For the first time since the troop enforced integration began at the school Wednesday, the six Negro girls and three boys walked into the school without a military escort. Faubus, at a news conference later in the morning, said the guardsmen could no longer be con sidered national guardsmen. '"They're not the National Guard," he said. "They are U. S. Army Troops." MAY CALL SESSION Faubus said he expected to decide "this week or next" on whether to call a special session off he legisla ture to deal with the integration problem at the school. Talk of such a session began over the weekend but Faubus appeared yesterday to have cooled off on the subject for the time being, at least. .The governor said he had no plans ol his own to reach a compromise in the integration crisis here and he did not know how it would end. He said he had talked by phone with Gov. Luther Hodges of North Caro lina, one of the four southern eovernors to . meet . with - JPr id Eisenhower later in the day to dis cuss integration. He said he expect ed to hear from Hodges after the meeting. He said the conference would not be binding on him. : . !;.' -CI K'f 7 i" S A ( V ' " t f n x r. - fvv f f W( "I DEAN FRED WEAVER On Official Forces 4i CHANCELLOR AYCOCK Confers With Students places U'.S.TYoo Problems Of Students Discussed With Aycock By BILL CHESHIRE Student leaders and administrative ollieials met vestenlay in the lirst of the ret ently-inautuated meetings hetneen these two levels of campus ollic ialdom. The invitation Irom the ('.haniellor to attend these meet ings was extended to the students in a surprise move last week. This was seen as a step toward keeping the student body more closely abreast ol the University's Ions ranc plan ning. Chancellor Aycock described the meeting as "'wholesome and very desirable. The inlot mation and discussion was val uable to us as well as to the student representatives. It work er! both ways." Avcock said. s Student Body President Sonny , that the coming months will Evans said that he was "certain j bring forth various will Final Arrangements Being Set For Norman Thomas' Speech discussions all gain a Final arrangements have been i on the Socialist ticket, will speak made to bring Norman Thomas to the campus as the first speaker fort the fall of the Carolina Forum, according to Chairman Jim Holmes. Thomas, six time campaigner for the presidency of the United States si ews J,.u.j.mmiln.ia.j..M.i.!M. Resigns Commission MANNING, S. C (AP) State Sen. James Hugh McFaddin of Clarendon County has resigned his commission as an officer in the U. SI Army Reserve because ! Par,y the trip to Saturday's game as a reward for their performance last year at the V. S. Naval Academy. The group will sit in a block on the Navy side of the field. A dance sponsored by the Quar terback Club will honor the mid-j shipmen Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Naval Armory. The group will not march at halftime: however, the UNC Na val HOTC precision drill teams will perform. Battalion Commander W. C. Roth will lead cheers for Navy ; and Carolina before the game. l ' ' v . . . I I ' ; t ' , t ' '.,V ' ' - q "t? 'J . , I ' r i r - ,. ",; . -y. ' ' ' " t-k 5" M. C.latzer. Kingsington, Md.; L. C. Wardrup. Middlesboro, Ky.; and J. R. Alexander, Lake Wales, Fla. Also taking part Saturday will be the drill team headed by E. V. Butchart of Greensboro. Frosh, Law Students Yack Pix Being Taken Freshmen and law school stu dents will have Yack pictures taken this week every day from 1 till 7:30 p.m. in the basement of Graham Memorial. Men must wear dark coats and ties. The dead line for Senior pic tures has been extended through today. A late fee of $1 will be required, however. ACCUSES HOOVER Faubus accused J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director, of using "Lawyer Language" in denying that his agents had held teen-age high school Kit id HK.UUllimilll.tlUU iam 1..IV 1UI I TT- r ( i j. i . High School m Little Rock, Ark. questioning . lie saiu iiuovcr puL-t-u that denial next to one he had made Monday, Oct. 28, at 8:15 p. m. in Carroll Hall. The public is invited and a recep tion will be held in Graham Memo rial immediately following the speech. Born and raised in Marion, Ohio, he graduated from Princeton Uni versity in 1905 and later became a Presbyterian minister. . Pur ing World, War 1, he, 4,ok..a I definite anti-war stand. resigning his missionary post because sup I porters were withdrawing aid from fhe parisli on account of his soc ialist and anti-military views. I Thomas was one of the organizers of the American Civil Liberties j Union. After joining the Socialist he took part in many free rni II III IMJiinMMMMMaWMMWfWMM - - : , y f, . "fie A I ' " ' - I iMMMMMiMMiiiwiMni r ii n Hi! AmmmimasmI of the presence of federal troops to enforce integration at Central that his agents had not tapped the telephone lines of the governor. "The way he placed the two statements together does not mean that I lied in any respect." Faubus said. Faubus said he thought the guardsmen would find their duties escorting the Negro students into a "forcefully integrated school dis tasteful." Maj. Gen. Sherman T. Clinger, commanding general of the Arkan sas National Guard, appeared at the school today. When asked what instructions he had given his guardsmen, he replied: "What do you think any general says to his troops when he's proud I of them? They have been given no special instructions. They are doing McFaddin's move followed by on ly a few days the announcement of South Carolina Gov. George Bell Timmerman Jr. that he had resigned his commission from the Navy Reserve in protest of the situation at Little Rock. New Judge LITTLE ROCK, Ark. AP) Federal District Judge Roy W. Harper disclosed in St. Louis that he has been assigned temporarily to Little Rock, but he apparently will not sit on the bench on pro ceedings involving the racial in tegration case here. Grady Miller, federal district court clerk here, said that Judge Harper had been assigned to Lit tle Rock to help Judge Ronald N. Davies "clean up a backlog of cas- speech fights and in many other struggles in support of the rights of workers to organize. He has run for many offices, including the presi dency of the United States on the Socialist Party ticket in six elections. NORMAN THOMAS Speaks Here Oct. 28 Seeing the plight of southern ten ant farmers. he organized the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. Thomas is also the" author of numerous books and pamphlets. UNC Officials Attend Meeting At The University Of Georgia from which we great deal. "We should also like to thank Chancellor Aycock for the oppor tunity of such a worthwhile ex change of ideas," he said. At the outset of the meeting. Chancellor Aycock clarified the new policy on student participa tion in the conferences. He ex plained that student leaders will net be expected to attend every meeting of his cabinet. Instead, they will meet with the cabinet on the first Monday of each month and at any other times upon re quest. PROBLEMS DISCUSSED During the hour-and-a-half ses- tsion in the Chancellor's office the i.4r-5uP---c-- various . student. , problems as well as the function I and hopes for the future of the I Chancellor's Cabinet. Quoting from the in3ii?ural ad dress of Student Body President Evans. Chancellor Aycock told the meeting that "Student Gov- ! ernment must present a unified front for the new administrative ! officials ... if we are to con ' tinue the respect that is so neces ; sary t- achieve." I Avcock added that "we (stu dents and administrtaion ) are all working for the same purpose." TV REPAIRS The first of the student prob lems taken up by the group was that of dormitory TV repairs. In the past, it was explained, these sets have remained out of order for extended periods of time. Administrative officials inform ed the aroup that in the future Two UNC officials. Dr. James i Other North Carolinians who at Godfrey and Dr. William M. Why-j tended the meting were Chancellor funds for the repair of these sts burn, attended the annual meeting ; Carey Bostian and Dr. Donald ' will be provided from the profits of the Southern Association of Land Anderson of State College in derived from the campus stores Grant College and State Universities : Raleigh. j (vendin gmachines. Book g, Cir- at the University of Georgia in Dr. Anderson, dean of graduate (vending machines. Books, Cir Athens. Sept. 30 through Oct. 2. j studies at State College, participat- j PARKING SITUATION Dr. Whyburn. vice-president for ed on the program, discussing) Parking was also taken up at graduate studies in research of the "Edcation in the Sciences." Other the meeting. The University's Consolidated University represented topics included problem of higher Business Manager Branch explain the Consolidated University while ; education, means of improving re- ed that weather difficulties have Dr. Godfrey, dean of the UNC search and training, the use of held up construction of the new es. He will handle all cases ex-' faculty, was the official representa- entrance examinations for selective narking facilities in the Kenan (Sec LITTLE ROCK, Page 3) cept the integration case.' I tive of the University admission and faculty-student ratio. Bells Have Always Called UNC Students To Class By JACKIE HAITHCOCK If peeves are your specialty, the source of your pet one probably les within the confines of an oc tagonal tower atop South Build ing. "It." of course, is the bell that rins forth from South Building I'.t every day '10 minutes before thej '-i. hour and then again exactly on j the hour. It wouldn't be so bad if this noise maker didn't insist on drag- started ringing and have contin-l dently" hit the wooden tower ued unceasingly through 'the years The lattice work caught fire and War. Then came the Reconstruc to annoy a long train of students the sonorous bell and its wooden j tion period that marked another . .. i r i r 4 u bell continued until after the Civil ' that ran down to the first floor of South Building. Then, until 20 n the University's history. confine The details have chanced, of stroyed course. One of the first univer sity bells found its home in a lattice-worked, wooden tower locat ed where the Old Well now stands. ' were completely de-' i 4mmm.,. ... ' - . -.' -"" RISE AND SHINE In those days, the first ringing of the bell in the wee hours ging you out of the sack every marked the rising time for all stu morning and causing you to havej dent and faculty members." The words with that prof who is a , second clang meant that everyone should be snuggly seated in his chapel seat. (Chapel attendance was a requirement for all.) stickler for punctuality. "MISERY LOVES COMPANY" If such inconveniences now . breakfast at 7 a.m.; another for lion, mere may ue Jllc vouiiuii, So the schedule ran. A clang for THE SOUTH BUILDING BELI It's something that's part of the Carolina Way of Life, something that leads you to class, something that wakes you up, something that's just as much a party of history South Building itself. in the old adage "misery loves company." In the case at hand, the "com pany" dates back to Feb. 12, 1795. when Hinton James walked 150 miles from Wilmington to enter UNC as the first student in its history. At that time, the bells literally , ! classes to begin at 8 a.m.; one for lunch at 2 p.m. and a final ding- dong tor a 6:bU p.m. supper. TOWER BURNS By 1856, the sound had become unbearable. One evening a group of students were throwing fire balls made of cloth saturated in alcohol and kerosene -and "acci- The silence was short-lived.; however. Soon after the bell tower "burning, an old-fashioned eight inch dinner bell made by a Rowan County blacksmith was used to perform the customary bell duties. This same bell now lies in the vault of the University library. In 1860, history marked the erection of the present beJfry on South Building complete with a new bell. Students, not to be outdone, took revenge by ringing the bell at all hours, causing a general pandemonium. Phillips Russell, former profes sor of creative writing at UiL who was living in South Building as a student at the time, recalls! that he used to hide the rope to the bell in order to get some sleep. five-year period of silence for the bell and almost complete extinc tion for the university. For five years after the war the bell rang only once. Then only to ; janitor bell-ringers was years ag3, the bell was rung with out incident by a janitor with a dollar watch. "HORNY-HANDED" HENRY One of the best-known of these bid farewell to Miss Nancy Hil liard, beloved boarding house mis tress to 'many former students. On March 20. 1875. however, the Senate passed a bill calling for the reopening of Carolina. Cor nelia Phillips Spencer, who had been working for the reopening, got news of the action in a tele gram from A. D. Mickle. She ran up the gravel path to South Building, climbed the stairs to the attic and tugged the bell rope ringing the mes sage of reopening across the countryside for four miles around. . , With the reopening of the'Vni- Stadium ar?a. He predicted that. with sood weather, these fac ll t'es should be available around the middle or latter part of this month. Evans then pointed out that fi nil decision on who will use the lots can only be decided after the res'st-ation of all student au tnmobilfs. He sitf this fhmiJd be around Oct. 15. DATE TICKETS "HomV-' mv: 'm-mu ui iuuci pi iv r.i ! fr rt-'t tickets tT athlPtic events. I vcock su?gsted that it might Handed" Henry Smith. Smith's nnt'stAnriinw achievement was nrob- ablv the gaining of an honorary he sim,er ,0 work out a solut'on title from Frank Graham who lhi Plem two or three yenrs r.amed him the "Learned Lawyer in advance. By way of explanation UNC CLOSES And so the regular and irregu lar clanging of the South Building Din? Dsnger." . The time of pranks and hon orary bell-ringers came to an end in 1936. During that year, an automatic clock system was installed and a bell-ringer at tached that copied the exact sound made when the janitor rang the bell. (See PROBLEMS. Page 3) IN THF INFIRMARY Students in the Infirmary yes terday included: Misses Dorothy Pittman, In grid Clay, Mary Lou Tincate, So if vour frustration becomes i Mable Bridgeman, Carol Martin unbearable don't go hunting for I the nearest ianitor or climbin" i the South Building belfry with i fireballs. These phenomena have versity came more bell-ringing j pranksters who continued their noisy habit until the rope was fi- paed on with history. You have only two alternatives. Try tranquillizers, or better yet, a hally placed inside a metal tube j little cotton in the ears and Marshall Sampson, Jesse Caston, Edward Jennings, Carl Barkely, David Jones, Richard Bordogna, Henry Caldwell, Stu art Golann, Philip Ordway, Leonard Carpenter, William Bickgrof, James Smith, Charles Trado and Shelton Austin.
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