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CHANTS. N. M.. March 22 Famed Producer Mike Todd perish
td in flames early today with three others in the crash of his twin
rr.gined airplane "The Liz," named for his actres wife Elizabeth
Tavlor.
The executive-type plane plunged with tremendous force, ex
ploded and burned in the Zuni Mountains of Western New Mexico
M.nthwest of here at 2:05 A.M. (MST) in a storm.
One who died was a movie writer. Art Cohn, who was working on
the story "The First Nine Lives of Mike Todd."
The secretary for the colorful and flamboyant 50-year-old producer
of "Around the World in Eighty Days" said in Los Angeles that
Todd, Cohn, 40. pilot Bill Verner, 45, and co-pilot Tom Barkley, 34,
definitely were aboard. He had seen them off at Burdank at 10:41
V. M. (PST) yesterday.
But officers who made their way to the remote crash scene about
20 air miles southwest of this uranium mine-mill town said they
could recover only what appeared to be parts of three bodies. Con
dition of the bodies made positive identification at least temporarily
impossible.
Wife Collapses
Miss Taylor did not accompany her husband. She stayed at their
West Coast home because of a cold. She collapsed when she heard
the news and was placed under sedation.
Todd, an enthusiastic air traveler, was flying to New York for
a testimonial dinner tomorrow night. Film writer Cohn was along
so they could discuss the book Cohn was writing about Todd, who
often was called the modern Barnum and boy wonder producer.
Cohn wrote a column for the San Francisco Examiner. In his first
one, he wrote. "Things seem to happen where I happen to be, and
I aim to keep that way."
Verner, the pilot, was a major in the Air Force reserves and flew
Whither Thou Goest'
By JAMES BACON
HOLLYWOOD. March 22 UP)
Elizabeth Taylor, filled with seda
tives and fighting a 102-degree
fever, babbled over and over
again today:
'"I can't Relieve it's Mike."
The beautiful star and her hus
band, Mike Todd, had a pact be
tween them: "Whither thou goest,
I goest too."
But Todd broke the pact last
night, despite urgent pleadings
from his wife.
"I just told her: 'Dammit,
you're staying home with that virus.
And that's final,' " Todd told this
(See TAYLOR page 3)
a C46 during World War II over the Himalayas between India and
China.
Co-Pilot Barkley was one obtained at Burbank when the .regular
co-pilot failed to show for the flight, said Dick Hanley, Todd's
secretary, in Los Angeles. j
CAA investigator Glen Hughes said that judging from the wreck
age, the plane appeared to have rammed nose-first into the ground.
Hard To Believe
Like Liz, others who knew Todd found it hard to believe he was
dead. This was a hurricane in human motion, a man always on a
runaway horse.
He was 50 but no one ever heard it wrom him.
"I got a new birth certificate when I married Liz," he once said.
And Liz answered him: "He gets younger every year by marrying
I know I'm going to be olduor him one of these
younger wives,
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aays.
Just the other day he lectured before the students and faculty
at the University of California at Los Angeles about his recent trip
to Russia. . ' ,
"I think I did a lot for democracy ever there," He said, "The
Russian people all were impressed with the fact that a juvenile de
linquent could grow up in America and get a better job that the
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president Elizabeth Taylor's husband."
He also told the students that the Russians were the greatest
showmen in the world.
"I thought all these years I was stealing from Barnum. but I
actually was stealing from them. I went over to see the cold cuts
you know the tombs of Lenin' and Stalin. It was the slowest moving
line I had ever seen and the officials made it that wray on purpose.
I always instruct my ticket-sellers to slow down so the public always
sees people in front of the theater. It's good box office psychology."
Last Of Big Spenders
Liz always called Todd the "Last of the great, big spenders" and
that he was.
, Even when he was broke, he spent money like a maharajah. His
first Hollywood picture' "Around the World in 80 Days" now has
passed the 33 million figure in world grosses. As his son, Mike Jr.,
said recently:
"We expect any day now to be making as much money as dad
spends."
The plane that carried him. to death, a
Lodestar complete with bar and berths and
cost him $6,000 a month whether he used it
(See Todd page 3)
twin-engine Lockheed
accomodations for 10,
or not.
WEATHER
Fair and somewhat wurnirr to
day. Monday, cloudy with occa
sioiuil rain likely.
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In North Carolina, there still
prevails a free air of discussion
to solve its problems. See page 2.
VOL. LXV NO. 125
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State Professor Wins
O. Max Gardner Award
RALEIGH Dr. C. Horace Hamilton, nationally-known head of the
Department of Rural Sociology at North Carolina State College, w:s
named 1958 winner of the Oliver Max Gardner Award last night.
The award, accompanied by a citation, was presented to Dr. Ham
ilton as the member of the faculties of the Consolidated University
of North Carolina who, in the judgment of the Board of Trustees, "has
made the greatest contribution to the welfare of the human race"
during the current academic year.
A veteran teacher and author whose writings have influenced
public policy on medical care and population problems, Dr. Hamilton
long has been one of the nation's key figures in the realm of rural
sociology.
He was president of the Rural Sociological Society in 1949-50 and
is currently president of the Southern Sociological Society.
Author
A prolific writer, Dr. Hamilton is author or co-author of 14 books
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Wins O. Max Gardner Award
John Brooks. Eligibility
Questioned By Off icials
By SARAH ADAMS
Nine candidates for offices in the spring elections may be dis
qualified from running, The Daily Tar Heel learned yesterday.
Word came from the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs that
candidates Doug Bayliff, Leon Holt, Happy Hurst, Carolyn Peal, Buck
Hurdley, Tonny Brannon, Bill King and Dick Stoker will be ineligible
to run.
According to Ray Jefferies, assistant dean of student affairs, the
candidates did not meet the scholastic requirements as set up in Article
VII, Section 5 of the election laws. : '
Also, some question has arisen as to the eligibility of John Brooks,
SP candidate for vice president of the Student Government. Brooks'
case will come before the Elections Board Monday afternoon, Elections
Board Chairman Bob Furtado said yesterday.
Asked to comment on Brooks' status, SP Chairman Pat Adams
maintained:
BLUE-WHITE QUEEN Pretty Louise Crumbley of Charlotte shows a happy smile after being nam
ed queen of this year's Blue-White football game held yesterday in Kenan Stadium. A member of Kap
d Delta Sororitv. Miss Crumbley is a junior Radio & TV major and is active in the YWCA and at
WUNC-TV.
(Buddy Spoon Photo)
IN THE INFIRMARY
Student in the Infirmary yes
terday include :
Misses Carol Suther, Nancy
(irubb, Marion Fells. Ruth Mills.
Gale WUlingham and Jane Pat
ten and John Ward. Gafton An
drews. Claude Giigg. Everett El
linwood. David Goode, Jerry Op
penhelmer, John Koblnson. Char
les Pappendick, Edwin Levy, Joe
Uagendoro, Dean Culbreth, Rob
ert Peebles, Joseph Ferrell and
Edmund Lively.
Charlie Sloan Lists His
Editorial Qualifications
The need for an editor to be
thoroughly familiar with every
phase of the operation of the Daily
Tar Heel was expressed Saturday
by editorial candidate Charlie
Sloan, in a campaign statement.
Sloan continued to say:
"I feel that I have the qualifica
tions necessary to a good editor be-
Sound & Fury
Tryouts Set
Tryouts for this year's. Sound
Fury production, "No Time For
Squares," uil be held , this a(ler
noon and Monday from 2 to f
p.m. in Memorial Hall. Call backs
will be on Tuesday.
The show will be presented on
May 2 and 3.
Cecil Hartsoe, director of the
&how, announced that the follow
ing persons have been selected as
committee chairmen: business
manager. Jack Mitchell; lighting.
Al Sally; costume designer, Anne
Kiggins; stage managers. Lloyd
Shaw and (Jail Rice; publicity
John Harris; music, E. Bruner,
props, Nicey Fleishman and make
up. Barbara Lewis.
Choreography will be done by
Tom Davis, who has been seen in
several Sound and Fury produc
tions and who is well known as
half of the dance duo, Tom and
Chee L'hee Davis.
Elections &
Father Time
Wait On None
By PAUL RULE
If you think you're cramped
for lime, pity the poor candidates
for Editor of The Daily Tar Heel.
Monday night the frantic five
have been invited to appear be
. fore the Student Party at 7 o'clock
and express their views. Also at
7 p.m. they have been asked to
grace an JFC meeting by putting
in an appearance for a similar
reason.
In case they figure out a way to
attend two gatherings at one time,
they won't have many minutes to
linger at either because the Elec
tions Board has demanded their
presence at a public meeting with
all other candidates in the spring
election at Gerrard Hall at 8
o'clock.
One of the candidates considers
these developments of minor Im
portance since he also has other
engagments at 6, 9, 10 and 11 p.m.
the same night. ,
You don't have to have a split
personality to run for editor, but
it helps!
cause I am familiar with every part
of The Daily Tar Heel. j
"Since my first story, a column, j
appeared in the first issue of The !
Daily Tar Heel in the fall of 1955
I when 1 was a freshman, I have
held the position of reporter, co
lumnist, associate editor, manag
ing editor, night editor and proof
reader. "In addition I have substituted
for regular staffers as editor, news
editor, sports editor and photo
grapher. "But The Daily Tar Heel isn't
the only place where I have had
newspaper experience. In addition
I have had stories printed in The
Arlington Citizen, The Northern
Virginia Sun and parts of publicity
releases printed in the Washing
ton Post and Times Herald and
the Washington Sunday Star. I
have had pictures published in the
Durham Morning Herald and The
Charlotte News.
"YeJ the best experience necces
sary to a good Daily Tar Heel edi
tor is experience gained on The
Daily Tar Heel. Almost three years
of work on the paper have given
me this experience. An editor who
knows the entire paper can make
the editorial page one of the best
in the country, and assure that the
rest of the paper lives up to the
standards of the editorial page."
and monographs. 67 scholarly ar
ticles for professional journals and
other periodicals and 10 special
rural sociology reports.
The award citation declared that
; Dr. Hamilton "has been applying
! norse sense to the science of soci
i ologv lor more than 30 years as
i teacher, scholar, interpreter of so-
I cial problems, social statistician
and social philosopher.
"He has published in so many
fields that some of his associates
classify him as a sociologist, some
l as an economist and still others as
an authority on medical care . . ."
Friday Presides
President William C. Friday of
j the Consolidated University presid
ed and introduced previous recipi
ents of the Gardner Award. The
award was presented to Dr. Ham
ilton by Mrs. P. P. McCain of Wil
son, a member of the Gardner
Award Committee of the Board of
Presentation of the award was
the highlight of the 10th annual
Gardner Award dinner, held in the
main ballroom of the State College
Union Building.
Candidate John Whitley Discusses
Editorial Policy Of Daily Tar Heel
Candidates' Meet
All candidates up for spring elec
tion must meet Monday at 8 p.m. in
Gerrrad Hall, according to the elec
tions Board.
"The editorial policy of the cam
pus newspaper should meet issues
squarely on the nose," John Whit
ly. candidate for editor of The Daily
Tar Heel, asserted today. "I feel
the current policy is in the middle of
the road. However, the editor should
neither be too liberal or too much
of an extramist."
"First and foremost, the editorial
page should represent a fair and im
partial opinion; the editor taking all
facts into consideration before writ
ing. The student editor should pre
sent his own personal convictions.
and realize that public opinion can
be and often is wrong.
"The Daily 'Tar Heel should con
fine its editorial comment chiefly to
local issues, with its purpose to
strive for the good of the student
and the welfare of the University.
"I see the need to keep the student
body up to dateon those prominent
national and international issues,
but feel that chiefly only those world
issues which affect the students di
rectly or reflect on the University,
and on which the student editor is
qualified and prepared to speak
should be discussed on the editorial
page.
Interpretative Edits
"M o r e interpretative editorials
and those in a lighter vein should
appear on the editorial page. In
many cases, issues arise with which
the average student who is not in
volved or is not a member of the
specific organization or group not
only doesn't understand, but knows
nothing about. I see the need to ac
quaint the average student better
with his University.
"I feel that guest editorials should
appear only when they, are very
outstanding, or discuss issues of ex.
treme importance jto the student.
"The campus needs to be better
unified. Because of their great num
ber and individual. diversity, the
dormitory students, can nod work
with the speed and the harmony
that smaller groups can The stu
dent newspaper owes it to the stu
dents to strive for a stronger uni
fication of the campus.
Library Books Drive
To Run Monday-Friday
SP Invites Candidates
All editorial candidates have been
invited to the Student Party meet
ing Monday at 7 p.m. in Roland
Parker l'& 2 in GM. Party Chair
man Pat Adams announced that the
platform will be presented at that
time and SP will decide whether or
not to endorse an editorial candidate.
A drive to round up all library
books which are "illegally held"
begins Monday and will last
through Friday, March 28.
All of these books are to be
brought to the Student Govern
ment office on the second floor of
Graham Memorial. No questions
will be asked and accumulated
fines will be cancelled.
The books will be returned to
the library by this committee.
This campaign is being sponsor
ed by the Student Library Com
mittee, which along with conduct
ing drives also reviews the prob
lems of the library from the view
point of the students.
Mike Simpson, chairman of the
committee, will report to the Stu
dent Body President at the con
clusion of the book drive.
"Our business is to have the
book available to anyone when
it is needed," University Librari
an Orne commented.
He explained that the library
was interested in fines only as
means to get the students to bring
the books back on time so that
the books will be there for other
students to use.
The fines are turned over to the
North Carolina Treasury, and the
library gets no benefit from the
money.
However, if a book is lost, the
library gets the money the stu
dent must pay to buy another
book, and it is replaced if it is
possible.
Throughout a year around 200
volumes are lost from the library.
Miss Frye States Views
On Fraternity Clauses
ivun rrye, uany lar ileel editor
ial CttUuiuuic, Oai csscU llcl' OpiUluil
on me inaiier oi uisci'imuiaiory
ciauses m iraiernity clauses in a
siaieuienc baiuruay.
ine" jusiuicauoii of the exist
ence oi 'lraveinuics at tuts tm
veisuy ciepenuS upon their poT
ucipauori m enoris nienuoneu 10
n-rticrnuy pieoges recently oy Dr.
james liocnres, uean ot me lacui
ty: development ot intellectual ao
nuies, gruw'iu oi moral stamina ana
me promotion of selt-discipune
among tne members.
"The .'.nurturing of these quali
ties, I feel, wouid be impared it
fraternities were compelled to eh-,
minate any clause from their char
ters, which are national in origin.
Tne prestige, if not the actual
broken tie, of a local fraternity
with the national organization
would have a detrimental effect on
the fraternity, I feel.
"Let me state that I think any
discrimination as to religion, race
or economic status is morally
wrong. However, I cannot attack
fraternities on the . basis of dis
criminatory clauses because I con
sider fraternities to be private or
ganizations'. "I conceive of a fraternity as a
private corporation, which is sub
ject to the rushing rules and social
Council just as, for example, any
business organization is subject to
commerce and tax laws of the
state of North Carolina and the
United States."
Pipkin Names
Campaign Staff
Cowles Liipfert, a sophomore
from Winston-Salem, has been
named manager of Pringle Pipkin's
campaign for the Editor of The
Daily Tar Heel.
Mary Alys Voorhees, managing
editor of The Daily Tar Heel, and
Sarah Adams, news staff member,
will help in the campaigning with
the coeds.
Bill Pfefferkorn, junior from
Winston-Salem, will take care of
arranging public meetings.
The telephone number of the
campaign manager is 89068 and
his address is the Beta House, 114
S. Columbia St.
IFC Invites Candidates
The Inter-Fraternity Council has
invited all editorial and presidential
candidates to appear at a special
IFC meeting Monday at 7 p.m. in
regulations of the Inter-Fraternity 1 105 Hanes Hall.
"The Elections Board has been
furnished the information concern
ing the requirements for being a
candidate in any position. It (the
boafd) now has to decide whether
the candidates are eligible to run.'
Election Laws
Article VH, Section 5 of Election
Laws asserts:
"Any candidate for appointment
or election to office in Student
Government shall meet the follow
ing qualifications:
"(A) K said student shall have
completed only one semester in
residence at this University prior
to that semester in which he is
nominated, he shall have an over
all scholastic average of "C" or
higher.
"(B) If said student shall have
completed two or more semesters
in residence, he shall have an over
all scholastic average of "C" or
higher for the entire period in
residence, in addition, said student
shall be credited with 27 semester
hours for the two semesters imme
diately preceding the semester iu
which said student is nominated,
or 30 semester hours of summer
school or correspondence work is
necessary' in addition to the two
reguliiX terms preceding his nom
ination." SP Replacements
SP Chairman Fat Adams an
nounced the following replace
ments for disqualified SP candi
dates:
Misses Martha Turner, junior
from Miami, Fla., and Betsy Miller,
junior from Coral Gables, Fla..
will replace Happy Hurst and Caro
lyn Pual in the Dorm Women's leg
islature district.
Warren Jackson, a freshman
from Chattanooga, will replace
Leon Holt in the race for the leg
islature seat from Town Men's IV.
Buck Hurdley, will be replaced
by Rudy Edwards,' a junior from
Rutherfordton, in Dorm Men's U.
No replacement has been named
as yet for Doug Bayliff who was
running for Treasurer of the Sen
ior Class.
UP Replacements
UP replacements, as announced
by UP Chairman Syd Shuford, are:
Hamp Lefler, a junior from New
ton, will replace Bill King as the
UP candidate for vice-president of
(See ELECTION page 3)