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CAROLINA. ADOPTS OPEN SUBSIDIZATION PLAl f/ Ac (IA dOCC U, University of South Carolina Volume XXXI No. 11 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1937 McCALLIST Pauly And Stan Released By Be Don C. McCallister, head coach; Frank] Pittsburgh eleven, backfield coach; Ted Peto basketball mentor and a line coach to come w Pauley or Carl Stamman, present assistant handed down by the Committee on Student. Board of Trustees after a six-hour session President J. Rion McKissick's office. Don 0. McCallister was named as head c< with a salary of $4,500, constituting a $500 j salary. Assistant Coaches Pauley and Stamman w ptess notice issued by the Board. They we and are expected to resign officially this week. It is rumored that both coaches will return to Toledo, Ohio soon. Their contracts run until Feb ruary 1. Frank Patrick, Pittsburgh's ball-hand ling fullback who ran interference for Marshall Goldberg in the Panther's back lield, accepted formally a position as as sistaAt coach at a salary of $1,800. It is not known as yet whether Patrick will be able to report in time for spring prac tice as he is finishing his studies in June. It is rumored that he is seeking a month's leave from the school to come to early training in this camp. Ted Petoskey, frosh coach and basket ball mentor, was raised to an assistant coach as well as his continued duties as cage coach with an increase in salary of $200, raising his pay to $1,400. A line coach was not selected but the power to hire one was given to the same committee in conjunction with Coach Don McCallister. It is under stood that the Board's action in sending Coach McCallister and Director Harth to the National Coaches Meeting in New Orleans on December 28 was for the pur pose of interviewing likely candidates for the line position. William I-I. HIarth's salary was in creased by $200 and he was given the I power to select a baseball and a track J. Ric coach for the 1938 season. L. Sumw Rumor has it that the special commit- about g tee on athletics elected to "ivestigate, Professos (Continued on Pagc Four) ,for the y Architect The drawing by Professor R. L. Sumwal shows the plans for the proposed swimmia2 The building will be located at the bach gymnasium and connected to it with a IAINS AS COACI IcKissick Reports onference Action 'Under our interpretation of the action of the Southern Confer past week-end, ample action was taken to allow the Univei abolish secret subsidization and forget the role of Dr. Jekyll , Hyde," was the statement given to The Gamecock this mor President J. Rion McKissick and Director of Athletics Will Harth. "However, if the changed rules are not adequate, y still witl wraw from the Southern Conference," the officialsi thlc ~a will no longeL w required to reporL whether or not receiving any financial aid from sources other than those 1 om they are naturally dependent as the teeth of the Graham re extracted at the meeting of the Southern Conference officia ;hmond the past week-end. (Continued on Page Four) POOL A POSSIBILIT L. M. P I N C K N E Y ROBERT L. SUMWALT University, Lawrence M. Pinckney, State WPA Administrator, and 1 e pictured here. This is the trio of workers whose efforts finally bi wimming pool. Administrator Pinckney phoned President McKissic today, informing them that President F. D. Roosevelt has signed the :hes Propose __ __ __ __ Pe set wide. The building will be Professor R. L. Sumwalt 70 feet wide. The actual pool officials this week and dur in length and 45 feet in width. plete all plans, outlines a -p from 3 1 /2 feet to 12 feet. order to be ready to staa I; 1! ___ ______________________________ ELi { $108,000 WPA Grant - Signed By Roosevelt Copyright 1937 By The Gamecock (All Rights Reserved) BY DINKY WILLIAMS A long-distance telephone call from New Orleans this afternoon nce at 2 o'clock informed THE GAMECOCK that President Fraikit D. sity Roosevelt had signed a WPA grant for a swimming pool for the and University which will cost $108,790 and will be the largest in the Ling Southeast. Liam L. M. Pinckney, State Administrator of the Works Progress Ad we ministration, told President J. Rion McKissick today that the WPA aid. is ready to start work on tha swimming peol aQ seen a the :pcMn o, hey the University, notifies him that it is ready to proceed and to fulfill ipon its financial obligation under the grant. Pan', UNIVERSITY NEEDS $5,000 s in The University under the stipulations in the grant. will have to raise a certain amount of the total. Through efforts of the students, the faculty, alumni and outside boosters, all except. $5,000 has been raised toward securing this sum. Besides the $5,000, the Board of Y Trustees must give their approval to this construction. BOARD WANTS MONEY At the meeting of the University Board of Trustees December 8, President McKissick presented data compiled by Professor R. L. Sumwalt of the School of Engineering as to the cost of mainte nance of swimming pools at several institutions in South Carolina and elsewhere, and as to the probable cost of maintaining a pool at the University. The estimated annual cost is $?,994. It was the sense of the Board that a swimming 1)001 should not be constructed until money is on hand to pay the amount required from the University as sponsor. It was moved and carried that the matter of the swimming 1)001 be referred to the Finance Committee of the Board of Trustees with power to act, with the expression of the Board that construc tion of a pool be undertaken only if and when the University has the money necessary for its contribution to construction of the pool. This Board will meet to take definite and final action next week accorling to an announcement by President McKissick a few min utes before this paper went to press. KSK LEADS MOVE Kappa Sigma Kappa. spirit fraternity on the campus, led in the movement toward securing a pool. Through their efforts and the aid of State PWA Administrator L. M. Pinckney, President J. Rion McKissiek and Professor R". L. Sumvalt, the federal grant has been secured. tobert The pool will be located in the rear of the gymnasium and will ought be connected by a 30 foot passageway, 10 feet wide to the building c, and housing the pool. The building will be 208 feet long and will be grant ( Continued oni Page Four ) d $108,000 Pool c' 54#b tob is working with WPA after the University raises their final $5,000 con ig the holidays to com- tribution. nd list of materials, in This out was made from the only plans of the +t constructIon 10 as proeda pool. ER REh man I ard C atrick. fullback of the key, assistant coach and the ith no mention of Frank L oaches, was the verdict Mr !ffairs of the University b n Monday afternoon in ach for the 1938 season a aise from his contracted wh we ere not mentioned in the Rii re paid off with a bonus EY MAKE RION McKISSICK n McKlssick, president of the alt of the Engineering school, ar vernmental approval for the a Sumwalt from New Orleans oposed pool. Sket( t above passageway, 10 f g pool. 208 feet long and of the will bel150feet 30 foot The pool will dei