TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday Vol. 33, No. 47 Bennett Says All Colleges Have Housing Complications Almost, all the' colleges and universities m the na tion are experiencing a hous ing shortage akin to that at University here, accord ing to John S. Bennett, U.N.C. director of opera tions. Mr. Bennett recently returned from a meeting of the National Association of College and University Housing Officials at lowa State College at Ames, lowa. Coming- back to Chapel Hill he stopped off in Chica go and inspected new hous ing facilities at Northwest ern University. One of its new dormitories houses 1,420 men. More than 150 college of ficials were present at the conference, and from them Mr. Bennett gained the im pressiofi that “we are no worse off than the rest of them. They all face increas ed enrollments, are confused about what to do, but realize they must build housing fa cilities if students are to be accommodated.” He added that the trend seems to be *kvard erecting self-liqui ting dormitories, as al ready planned at the Univer sity here. He found, however, that the newer dormitories, al ready erected or being plan ned, are far in advance of the “concept and philosophy prevalent around here.” They are bigger and better dorm itories, with social rooms and social equipment, some even with laundries, and al most all with a dining room in each dormitory. The feel ing seems to be that such ac commodations are better for the individuals, that it gives them greater and more so cial contacts, enables them to get along with people, to develop their personalities better. And that there’s no better place for that than ground a dining table. On the other hand, Mr. Bennett foundthat dormitory fees were higher than those here. The prevailing gener al charge elsewhere runs (Continued on page 8) School Board Eyes Important Topics The Chapel Hill School Board was to have met last night (Mon day) to decide whether or not it would be practical to go ahead with plans for the proposed new -gymtorium at the Lincoln high Pschool. Bids for the job, opened last Wednesday, called for build ing costs about $30,000 higher than the funds available. Board Chairman Carl Smith •aid yesterday afternoon at presstime that an integration policy for the Chapel Hill schools was also slated for discussion. Members of the board inspect ed the new addition to the Glen wood Bchool last Thursday and pronounced it ready for use next month. It will afford six new classrooms with a capacity of 180 additional students. Il University Is Honored The University wms honored by the Sports Writers Associs tion at Chicago last week when it was presented with two plaques, one for the facilities of its Kenan Stadium press box and another for services offered by the publicity department of the University. Jake Wade, the sports news director of the ath letic department, was in Chicago and received them. He returned here Saturday. The University was one of only a few univer sities in the country to receive two citations. Paper to Be One Day Early Because of the merchants’ “Dollar Days” program, coming up Friday and Satarday, the next issue of the Weekly will be issued one day early. It will go to press Wednesday, August 17, and be dated Thursday, August It, This ■Maas all news and classified ad vertisements should .he is by net later than 19 sum. Wednesday. Chapel Hill Boy Who Wrote “The Fxsanguination Blues” Pays a Visit to Former President Truman V X. Douglas Harrell, son of Mrs. Myrtie Harrell of Chapel Hill and a fourth year medical student at the University, is traveling this summer for the Pfizer Drug Company. When he was in j Kansas City, Mo., recently he and two of his associates visited Harry S. Truman in the former President’s offce. The above picture, taken during the visit, shows Mr.; George Holton Tells How It Felt to Dive into UNC Pool When It Was Dry George R. Holton, a Winston- Salem lawyer, has the distinction of being the first person who div ed into a University of North Carolina swimming pool when there was no water in it. His dive took place in 1912 in the pool that was in Bynum hall when that building was the University gymnasium. Mr. Holton was in terviewed for the Weekly last week at his home in Winston-Sa lem. The interview follows: Question. When did you make this dive? Answer. When I was a student at the University in 1912. Q. How did you happen to have this experience? A. One evening I came into the shower room of the gymnas ium, the old Bynum building, about six o’clock after class team football practice, with other stu dents; among them 1 remember my roommate Douglas Rights, Phil Woolcott, Lee Wiggins, and a few others. It was the custom to take a shower and then jump into the pool before dressing. The janitor of the gymnasium had given warning that students had better take their shower be fore six o’clock for he intended to drain the pool by that hour. I was not aware of his intentions, or I failed to note the lateness of my entry into the shower room. When I had finished the shower, 1 went to the shallow end of the pool and dived in. Q. How is it that you did not know that the pool was empty? A. There waa a cloud of steam in the room and there were no lights about the pool. Q. What were your sensations when you dived? A. That is hard to say. I landed with a thud, mainly on the bridge of my nose, and skidded some feet on the slippery bottom of the pool. I was dazed and didn’t know Norman Jarrard and Mrs. George Hogan Win Mixed Doubles Tennis Championship Mrs. George Hogan and Nor man Jarrard of Chapel Hill won the mixed doubles championship in the East Carolina Tennis Tournament at Rocky Mount day before yesterday. Two men’s doubles teams from Chapel Hill advanced to the semi-finals. They are Norman Jarrard and John Tapley, who won twice Sunday, and H. S. Mc- Ginty and Henry T. Clark, who also won Sunday and may play their semi-finals match here Wednesday afternoon. John Tapley, last year’s men’s singles champion, lost in the semi-finals round, and Mrs. Ho gan lost her women's singles match to the No. 1 seeded player. Tapley and Miss Ann Tomp kins won their first mixed dou bles match, but forfeited the second. In the first veterans’ doubles, McGinty and Dudley Cowden were defeated in the first round. Flay fa the teuranmdnt, sched uled to ahurt lent Wide sod ay, The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents a Copy Harrell (center) standing just back of Mr. Truman. The other young men are students from other medical i schools who have been (traveling with tyr. Harrell, i ( One other such student in |the group was not present ; for the picture, i Traveling by air, the four , young men are calling on t medical doctors in several [Midwestern states. Before what to think. With little effort I managed to get to my feet and groped my way to the edge of the pool where frightened stu dents had come running after hearing me strike bottom with out a splash. It would have been a different story if I had dived ttt from the deep end. Q. Did you feel any ill effects? A. Only befuddled by the blow and the shock that came from realization of what I had done. My worst feeling came when I heard one of the students on the bank make the horrifying re mark “Look at his brains splat tered on the bottom of the pool!” Q. What damage was done you? A. Very little. 1 had a broken nose, a wrenched back, and some bruises and scratches about the face and elbows. After a night at the infirmary I was out again with a strip of tape over the wounded nose. Q. Have you ever suffered from it since? A. No. Q. What was the student re action? A. Sympathetic indeed. There was much relief that I had es caped serious injury, or death. There was even a little humor that cropped out. The campus newspaper had a heading, and I suspect who the writer was: “Holton caught in a Low Dive, or Striking Experiences in a Pool Room.” Q. Do you know of any others who have taken such a dive? A. One was Hughie Jennings, famous baseball manager of the Detroit Tigers. I am told that his face bore lifelong scars as a result. Q. Would you be willing to repeat the performance? A. No. was interrupted by Hurricane Connie; so part of the matches were completed Sunday and part were not. That is the reason the men’s doubles semi-finals may be played here Wednesday with the winners playing for the finals dt some place and date to be an nounced later. At Memorial Hospital Among local persons listed as patients at Memorial hospital yesterday were William Gilbert Aldridge, John Blackwood, Mrs. James Case, Brenda Joyce Cole, Mrs. Curtis Cotton, Mrs. Hal Craige, l)avid S. Evans, Alfred R. Fathman, Mrs. Tempie Flack, Edgar B. Hare, Kenneth Lee Harris, Catherine Hanley, Alex ander Hoffman, Henry C. Hurl burt, Mrs. Leßoy Merritt, Miss Mary J. Neville, Bydney Thomas Noel Jr., Julius Andrews Page, Mrs. James R. Poole, Mrs. Rich ard K. Wagner, Hubert Allen Whitt, aad Dr. Robert Uppa. CHAPEL HILL, N.' C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1955 coming home later this month, Mr. Harrell will have ! visited Springfield, Mo.; Tulsa; Oklahoma City; Wichita, Kansa s City, Omaha, Des Moines, Roches ter, Duluth. Minneapolis, and other Midwestern cities, and also New York City. Just before leaving Chapel Hill this summer, Mr. Har rell and several other stu dents in the University’s School of Medicine made a recording of his song, “The Exsanguination B1 u es, ” which he wrote last spring for the Medical Student- Faculty Day program given in Memorial hall on May 7. The recording, which has proved especially popular among doctors, nurses, and medical students, is on sale at Sloan’s Drugstore. In, answer to many requests, it has been played over Chapel Hill's radio station WCHL. Mr. Harrell , and his mother live on the Durham road across from the radio 1 broadcasting station. He is a nephew of Mrs. W. T. Mat tox of Cameron avenue and ' the late Mr. Mattox. Accountants Licensed i Raymond Rains, of Chapel Hill, administrative secretary of the State Board of Certified Public Accountant Examiners, announ ced yesterday that 24 of 33 suc cessful candidates taking the May examinations had been li censed to practice accountancy in North Carolina. The next exami nation will be given November 2-4 at the University here and at Catawba College at Salisbury. Going to Turkey Miss Betty Bolton, daughter of Mrs. R. L. Bolton of Chapel Hill, left yesterday for Ismir, Turkey, to teach and be librarian in a Navy Department school. She has been spending the summer here with her mother. Last year she taught in the Navy Dependents School in Naples, Italy. At Presbyterian Church The Rev. Robert J. McMullen will preach Sunday, August 21, at the Presbyterian church. Oth er guest preachers there during th Rev. Vance Barron's absence will be Charles J. Ping of Duke on August 28 and Bernard Boyd of the University here on Sep tember 4. The colored shoe shyie man purchasing a bottle of wine to ride out the hurricane. •• * , Dick Young and Monk Jennings attuned to broadcasts, and Bill Cherry long-distancing to learn if their vacations were being bl ♦r-r—'-C*'",- -T- - . ■•ffaas^syasßi.'^ TUESDAY* ISSUE Next Ihm Friday * Members of the Board of Directors of the Chapel Hill- Carrboro Merchants Associ ation met last night (Mon day) to discuss a successor to Jake Trexler, Executive Secretary, whose resignation becomes effective today. Crowell Little, the Asso ciation’s President, told the Weekly at presstime that there were seven applicants for the job. “We hope to arrive at a decision at the meeting,” he said. “If we don’t take action, we will certainly narrow the field down to two or three candi dates.” An unofficial poll of the Board of Directors by the Weekly seem to indicate that the job would be offered to Mm. Jane Whitefield. Mrs. Whitefield, the former Jane Smoak, held the position from September 1953 until August of 1954. She is now employed as bookkeeper for the Pritchard-Little Motor Company. One member of the board sett that “Mrs. Whitefield did a good job for us when she was Executive Secre tary. She has the experi ence, is well acquainted with the merchants of Chapel Hill, and she understands our problems. If she will ac cept the job I feel that a lot of our present problems will be solved.” Mrs. Whitefield was ques tioned yesterday concerning the job. "If it is offered to “1 am cwtojto he jwat'Hkf ♦» nip am perfertly happy hi my present position at Pritch ard-Little. I do feel, though, that the Merchants Associa tion job is a real challenge, and that it has a very fine future.” “Deadwood Dick” Is Set for This Week ‘‘Deadwood Dick,” described in press notices as an old-time, rootin’ tootin’ melodrama, will be given at 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday of this week in the Play makers theatre by the Jun ior I‘laymakers, composed of high school students studying here this summer in the Univer sity’s department of dramatic art. Reserved seat tickets are on sale (at 75 cents each) at Led better-Pickard’s and at the Car olina Playmakers’ business office in Abernethy hall. Vic Huggins, tall handsome son of Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Hug gins of Chapei Hill, will be seen in the leading role of Nick Har ris, alias Deadwood Dick. An other Chapel Hillian in the cast is Nixon Lauterer, son of Mrs. Myra Lauterer. The play is being directed by Mrs. Louise Lamont. Costuming r is by Bob Snead, the settings by , Harvey Whetstone. Four N«w Grandparents Four Chapel Hillians became grandparents for the first time at 1:30 a.m. Saturday when George Michael McGinty was born at the Memorial hospital in Gastonia. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George C. McGinty of Gastonia and the first grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. McGinty of Chapel Hill and Mr. and Mrs. D. W. King of Chapel HilL The baby’s mother was formerly Miss Norms King. His father, who was graduated from the University this year, is to begin his new dut ies next month as coach and di rector of athletics at the Arling ton junior high school in Gas tonia. Busses Recommended Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lacock think air-conditioned bnsaea are a fine mode of travel. On a recent trip to visit relatives in Brooklyn, N. Y., they rode such busses, both going agd coming, and say that they had an unusually anjctyable trip. Rwt«n| frpm Canada Mr. aad MkL J. Phtppa aad Mr. Md Mrs. H, A. Jolly .hate returaad team a motor tote to I Canada gad tha Naw England •**»» 5