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,For Newspaper Service In Chapel Hiil Dial 8-1281 Chapel Hill News Leader Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas Is Something Wrong? Tragedies such as the Phi Delta Theta shooting prompt questions of self-evaluation, soys Editor Russell. Have we gone wrong? See page 4. ll^LUME 1 NUMBER 2 $4.50 PER YEAR BY MAIL CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1954 FIVE CENTS PER COPY EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSU& iVisiting Committee Suggests Retaining Semester System I GREENSBORO, May 24 — Con- ■ tinuance of the semester system i and “top priority for the critical j culty vcancies, present and in B„.mmediate prospect,” were among ix recommendations for Chapel •Iill made to the UNC trustees ere this morning by the Visiting :ommittee. , Otner suggestions were: 3. Ori- mtation of new students to the ... lims and traditions of the Uni- '.'Tersity at Chapel Hill should be *'*'mproved. 4. More weekend activ- %ies should be arranged for stu- ®f^ents. 5. Efforts should be made ^0 increase the housing facilities dr married students. 6. Efforts diould be continued at fostering ^proved student-faculty relations. The report, written by commit- ee chairman Victor S. Bryant of Durham, was accepted by the rustees at their annual spring neeting, held at Woman’s Col- ege. Seven recommendations for “im- nediate consideration” concern- ng permanent improvements for lhapel Hill were made even hough the committee “deemed it idvisable to give primary consifl- iration to the other needs of the Jniversity” .since “phvsical needs have heretofore been submit- ed by the Budget Committee.” f The seven recommendations yere: 1. Apartment units for mar ked Students. 2 Additional dormi- ories, especially for medical stu- ients. 3. A. new building for the ichool of Pharmacy (the Journal- sm School will get Howell Hall vhen pharmacy vacates.) 4. En- arged and improved quarters for he School of Education. 5. Keno- 'ation of Saunders and Murphey lalls. 6. Adequate facilitie.s cor the \ Sxtension Division. 7. A study of \ he fire escape system of the Caro lina Inn. ' Physical recommendations at I Roman’s College “should be called I 'Critical Vacancies' On Faculty Should Have 'Top Priority' to the attention of the board” and at State were considered “highly important.” Other committee observations included, on salary schedules: ‘At Chapel Hill, there was expressed by some members of the faculty and of the administration the opin ion that the University had been brought, by the last 10 percent increment, to a reasonable com petitive position with the bulk of colleges and universities in the nation .... (However), there if should be no relaxation in efforts their use.” ) to maintain present scales . I and to increase these scales possible.” Faculty Retirement: “Represent atives of the AAUP at Chapel Hill brought specifically to the atten tion of the committee the fact that at present the provisions of the State Retirement System are not as liberal as those in many col leges and universities .... The committee can see crearly that this situation will have subtle but powerful effects on the future of the University, and it urges ser ious study of ways to mitigate it.” Travel Funds: “Reasonable funds for travel by faculty mem bers should be provided, and son)e flexibility should be allowed in Chapel Hill Concert Series To Be Organized On Thursday $10,000 Budget Hike A $10,000 increase in the mu nicipal budget tor the coming year will be recommended to the board of aldermen tonight by its finance committee. Alder- - man O, K. Cornwell, committee chairman, will r'acommend total ' expenditures of $240,072 for the 1954-55 fiscal year, as compared to $229,724 for the current year. Included in the recommended Increases are $4,000 for a new dump truck, $900 for a signal light at the Raleigh Street-Ra- ■ leigh Road intersection, and $1,- ’ 200 for electrically - operated ■ doors to the fire station. 'incorrect' Report Is Charged On Dental Practice Proposal Band Players Given Awards At Concert Awards for outstanding achieve rent during the year were pre- ented to a number of members f the Chapel Hill School Band 'hursday night when the band :ave its spring concert. Earl Slocum, director of the Jniversity Band, said it was one f the best high school bands he ad heard. He, pointed out that he group drew first classification atings in the district and state ontests this year. The Olsen Medal for Best All round Junior Musician went to ohn Hanft. Keys were awarded Id Carolyn Bennett, Gordon Black- yjyell, Rupert Bynum, Frank Car- isle, Richard Jackson, Ka Smith ind Carol Yeager. Letters were awarded to Henry Vndrews, Roy Armstrong, John Ij Ldams, Carolyn Bennett, Gordon j Hackwell, Robert Blackwood, Ru- )ert Bynum, Frank Carlisle, Eliz- ibeth Carlisle, Carolyn Davis, lobby Guthrie, Tom Grassmann, lohn Hanft, Richard Jackson, loss Jervis, Billy Jefferson, Gor- lon Johnson, Calvin Lee, Dianne ^aughon, Marilyn Markell, Wayne i ’oe, Ray Ritchie, Ka Smith, Rickie •. 'hurman, Remsen Voorhis, Carol j i^eager. Dale Glover and Gordon - jeGrand. ^ Majorette pins went to Kay Wil- iams, Kristi Pendergraft, and Pat Duke. , Milton Bliss, who has had ex- ^ tellent success in his first year IS band director, was presented an ilectric razor as a token of the roup’s appreciatioa- The Band Parents Club and ilrs. R. W. Madry and Grey Mc- llister were praised for their ork in putting out an attractive rogram that carried a great deal f revenue producing advertising or the benefit of the band. An' interpretation of “Stars and 0 Itripes,” as rendered bv several ifferent na\*bns. and flute and ^ orn solos by John Hanft and,) bhn Adams, respectively, were mong favorite numbers on the rogram. Mrs. Ralph L. Blackwood, pres- dent, announced that the final !• neeting of the Band Parents Club oi; the year will'be held tomorrow «*^iight. May 25, at 8 o’clock, at the chool. Formal organization of the Chapel Hill Concert Series will take place at a public meeting this Thursday night at 8 o’clock in the court room of the Town Hall. The new organization, which is being underwritten for its first year by the Graham Me morial board of directors, will replace the Civic Music Associ ation which was tentatively or ganized last winter. The latter w’as to have been affiliated with a national artists booking agen cy, while the new group will be independent and locally operat ed in every respect. Jimmy Wallace, director of Graham Memorial and treasur er of the Univer.sity Student Entertainment Committee, an nounced the calling of this Thursday's meeting today. He emphasized that the new Con cert Series would be wholly in dependent of the University, ex cept for the underwriting of the first season’s four concerts by the student union directors. Stu dents will be eligible for mem bership in the subscr’otion se ries and all concerts will be in Memorial Hall. Here are the four attractions already signed for the first sea son: October 20, the American Chamber Orchestra, (formerly called the Vienna Mozart Orch estra) conducted by Robert Scholz; February 15, 1955, aft ernoon and evening performanc es by the w'orld-renown Salz burg Marionette Theater; March 31, 1955, Walter Gieseking, pi anist, in his only North Caro lina appearance during his con tinental lour; and April 15, Met ropolitan opera tenor Jan Peerce. Subscription price for all four attractions will be $6 for the general public and $5 for stu dents. A goal of 1,800 subscrib ers has_,been set, and the sale of subscriptions will begin with the opening of the University next fall. Individual admissions to these concerts will be sold on performance nights if space Is available after subscription ticket holders have been seat ed. Everybody interested in the promotion of this Concert Se ries is urged to attend Thurs day’s meeting. It is tentatively planned to set up the organiza tion as a non-profit corporation with .student, faculty, and townspeople all represented on the corporation board w'hich will have complete control ov er its activities. First Doctors Will Graduate j Here On June 7 A class of 48 doctors will be grad-' uated Monday, June 7, from the'. Medical School, the first group to i receive diplomas under the four- year medical program. Commenting on the Division of Health Affairs, the Visiting Com- ■ mittee told the University Board pf Trustees this morning in Greeris- boro: “We were told it (Division bf Health Affairs) is being well oper ated. . . . Some additional staff is required.” The committee . reported there ; are 808 students in the Depart ments of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Public Health, There are 247 beds now activated in Memorial Hospital] with a daily average of 200 bed patients. When 225 bed patie.nts have been reached the hospital will be able to operate within the pres ent appropriations made by the General Assembly, according to Dr. H T. Clark, director of the Divi sion of Health Affairs. The Visiting Committee said in formation furnished it “indicated - '4" ' , 'fi, NEW HIGH SCHOOL OFFICERS—Student body officers at Cnapei Hill High School, chosen for the coming year in general elections at the school on Friday, are (left to right) Martha Ann Cheek, chief jus- j tice of the honor court; Janelle King, head cheerleader; Clarice Merritt, president; Robert "Peanut" Black- j wood, outgoing president; M'ichael Alexander, treasurer; Duck Ray, vice-president; and Connie Ridout, i secretary. (News Leader Photo) ■ High School Student Body Elects Clarice Merritt As New President Stories Wrong^ Five Dentists Jointly State By ROLFE NEILL Newspaper reports last week which said the North Carolina Den tal Society endorsed limited pri vate practice here by Dental School faculty members were “wholly incorrect,” Chapel Hill’s five dentists said in a joint state ment today. “Exactly the reverse occurred,” they said. “An advisory committee did recommend such a practice but the House of Delegates voted not to accept the recommendation. This was in line with our feelings expressed on the matter at the 1953 annual meeting.” The statement was signed by Drs. Duncan M. Getsinger, William T. Burns, Edward R. Burns, (broth ers), Thomas H. Darden, and Carl W, Dickens. These five are all of the private dentists here. Dean John C. Brauer of the Den tal School here had no comment to make on the private practice question. He said the two Univers- il.i representatives who addressed the society on the subject gave the University’s policy. “I will stand on what they said,” he add ed. What happened at the Pinehur.st ; meeting last week was this, ; cording to the local dentists: advisory committee of 15 act ac/ fh VP J--. ! the present difficulties are in lin'^^,, j with those encountered in operat- '®^ *11^1 Siben 'G. I ing other similar teaching, hospi-j president of the Chapel j ' tals.” j j general student government elec tions at the school on Friday. A total of 365 out of the 385 stu dents at the school—or 94 per cent of them—voted in the secret jjjjil ballot election. Robert “Peanut” Blackwood, outgoing president, conducted the voting. He was as sisted by a comm.ittee composed of Mike Gallagher, chairman, and Clarice Merritt, daughter ot Mr. Kay McGavran, Connie Rideout, Other candidates for this job were liaison between the society anef Merritl,was ■ VicHtigglfts Jr.,' a'lld' Barbar'fi”G#-g.'’'jBry.te;' Abferiid'th’y'- aha 'Niiriey Til- iUcHtal .School. The committee ^ Miss Merritt has been president port, made Sunday night at the Hill High School student body in ' of the junior class this year, di- i Outgoing officers, besides the ^ opening session of the House of Partly Cloudy, Warmer Weather Outlook Todav The weather for Chapel and vicinity will be fair and slightly warmer today and tomor row with a high of about 80 and a low of 52 for today. rector of the youth choir at Mt.' president, are Kay McGaiTan,. Delegates, suggested that the UNC Carmel Baptist Church, and treas-1 vice - president; Martha Ann : Dental School faculty be allowed urer of the student council. She Cheek, secretary; Clarice Merritt was opposed in the election by secretary;. Mike Gallagher, chief Peggy Hinson and Barbara Cole, justice; and Jackie Partin both rising seniors. cheerleader. a limited amount of private prac tice—not to exceed 10 hours each Duck Ray, sophomore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Boy Ray, was elect- To run ' for these offices the Dc® candidates had to .submit petitions head week.This is referred to in the den- |1al profession as “intramural prac- ed vice-president. The other candi- i signed by 50 students. Where Turned Down Report The Society’s House of Delegates, date for this office was Rosalind | there was only one person so nom- gf 3^ dentist delegates Johnson. inated a student council nomi- of whom Dr. William T. Burns of Measles, Midnight Oil, And Rain- Heroes Behind The Headlines Of The First Edition Were Actually The Printers And The Carrier Boys Connie Ridout daughter of Mr i committee presented a sec- Chapel Hill is one, turned down c-uumr IMUUUL, ucut,.,xur,i ond nomination. The president and j 1 and Mrs. Charlie Ridout, was e-i , j . iustice must both be rising ^ committees report and also lected secretary. She is a rising , believed the committee Despite the mishaps of measles,. the streets. Whether fully merited ; body else had to contend with,, Still, the paper was rolling off edgy dispositions, worrisome in [Or not, the praise was gratefully | their victories were won with the ; the press early Thursday a“er- accepted as the staff kept a stop-; greatest struggles. ; noon. It remained then for the watch eye toward the Monday i pirst nff the shon forc" had to approximately 20 earner boys to issue deadline. | prfnt The Daily ^ their product. — But the men in the back shop, j night of the week, as well as the ; ^'vay a bundle of papers Leader rolled off the press last j and the boys who home-delivered | News of Orange County and The Thursday afternoon. the News Leader throughout the Alamance News, all while the termittent rainstorms, and the gen eral confusion that’s bound to be part of such a new venture, the first issue of the Chapel Hill News The front office staff began re ceiving good wishes in the com munity soon after the paper hit community should have been the ones to receive any such pi’aise. their product. Right of papers was rushed to a waiting salesboy in front of the post office downtown. News Leader’s first issue was go- was selling ’em as fast as he ing to press. For all of the print- For despite the difficulties any- ers this meant long and hard labor could make change, but the estab lished newshawks resented his moving in on what had formerly been their monopoly territoiw. A pretty hot dispute arose and the | tin ran against Miss Cheek for circulation manager had to stop j chief justice, his distribution rounds to arbi trate the conflict. iunior. Cecilia Husbands also ran for this post. ' | Elected trea.surer was Michael | Alexandria, a rising junior, and ! son of Mrs. Louise Alexander, j Nancy Davis was also a candidate for this office. , Chosen Chief Justir’e Martha Ann Cheek, a rising sen ior, and daughter of Mrs. R. G. Cheek, was elected chief justice of the high school honor CNOurf,. She has been one of the four as sociate justices on this court and secretary of the student council this year. The associate justices are elected, one each, by the four classes of the school. Penny Mar- seniors and must maintain averages in their studies. Candidates To Appear Before Carrboro PTA Candidates for the Board of County Commissioners v.dll be quizzed on their recommenda tions for the school program at tomorrow night’s final meeting of the year for the Carrboro Parent-Teacher Assoeiatibn. The meeting will be held at 7:30 in the school auditorium. , Mrs. R. B. Studebaker is in charge of the progr.am and al ter Clark, Jr., will be chai’-man "of a forum on the schools situ ation. Candidates will be given three minutes to speak on this Janelle King was elected head j matter and the floor will be cheerleader for the coming year, opened for question.?. I 5.' \-j! ''''J Crossed signals between boys who waited at the wrong loca- j tions for their bundles of papers I put several of them hours behind j schedule and accounted for a num- i her of distressed mothers. (Some ; boys didn’t finish their routes'" un- I til 10 p.m.) The intermittent rai’i continued and bicycles mired in ruts, boys delivering on foot got soaked to the skin, skinned their knees, and tried in vain to keep their papers dry. Monogramrhed paper bags had been on order and were several days past Sue to rr- rive. Through it all, however, the carriers exhibited a dogged de termination and lovalty to their new j-obs akin to the traditional I tc be illegally established, sinc-a' , d. was not according to the society’s j constitution. I Last year, the Society General,— made up of every dentist attend ing the meeting—had already vot ed to go on record as opposed to Ihe intramural practice. The so ciety’s position does not itself de termine the UNC policy but is in tended to be a representation of private dentists’ views. “We do not object to the com petition from these men,” the five Chapel Hillians said. “We object to that teaching time which will be used for private practice and the idea of the state setting up a man in business. It is not the com petition but the method. If any of them want to establish an office (See HOUSE EXPLAINS, page 2) Sixty Delegates From Orange County Attend State Democratic Convention In Raleigh Several Are Elected To Political Offices; Delegation Is A Center Of Scott Spirit Orange County ' Democrats—60 , committee, Mrs. George Shepard, of them—Jwere among the several thousand party delegates who con verged on Raleigh last Thursday for the biennial party convention. The political doings began Wednesday night at the county dependency of the U. S. mailman. I caucus,, held in a parlor room of Then out in Glen Lennox one boy broke out in measles right in the middle of his rounds, A sub- William S, Stewart, and Jerry B. Stone; solicitorial district commit tee, Charles Hodson, 'Mrs. Manly Snipes, and L. J. Phipps; state delegates a buffet luncheon of sandwiches and salad in the Caro lina Hotel on Thursday noon bo>v^ fore the convention. He told the group that the purpose of the convention was to promote party harmony for the November elec tion though they might be divid ed before the primary. Mr. Phipps, speaking for the delegation, ex- senatorial executive committee, pressed his appreciation to Mr. Mrs. Charles W. Stanford; Con gressional district executive com mittee, Oscar 'Coffin, Alexander Heard, and Miss Harriet Herring. Mr. Forrest was temporary *4 -r 'ROUND-THE-CLOCKERS—The first issue of the Chapel Hill Nevifs Leac'er came out as scheduled last Thursday, but only through the round-the-clock efforts ot the mechanical force of the paper, some of v/hom are shoWn above just after Vol. I, No. 1, rolled off the press. Left to right are linotypists Bernard Holland and Charlie Inman, plant superintendent J. B. Holland, and linotypist Neal Clark. Not shewn are A. L. Strum and Tom Shanklin. (News Leader Photo) the Carolina Hotel. County Chair- m.an Bob Forrest of Hillsboro pre sided over the meeting at which stitute completed his route the ' county . representatives to j chairman of the district caucus higher political bodies were nomi-1Nichol- nated. They were all formally e- elected an assistant v'ce- lected in routine fashion at the president of the state convention Congressional district caucus Ibi- ^ ^jjjg group, and sat on the plat er that evening. j form at the convention Thursday Those elected from Orange were; afternoon Mrs. George Nicholson, assistant next day. A carrier for one route in Carrboro failed to matei'i'alize at the last minute and the front office force—with the assisfence of two young boys—had to fill in the breach and carry several hundred papers through the steady mid-evening downpour, district secretary; state executive committee members. Bob Forrest and Roland McClamroch;- judicial Orange County Rep. John W. Umstead Jr., as has been his hab it In past years, gave the Orange Umstead for the luncheon. Scott and Lennon banners were sprinkled all over Memorial audi-i torium during the convention. The Orange delegation of course was n’t on record favoring either of these candidates. But it was def- initely a big center of Scott dem-.: onstrations which took place sev eral times during the meeting. A number of the eonventioners from Orange waved large Scott ban ners during the hullaballoo for the various state primary candi dates.
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