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Fub ionFo Progress 'FortyfFor PublicationStudent Body UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Volume XLII, No. 17 COL SOUTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 13, 1948 Veterans In( Now Awaits Of Presiden1 Measure Increases ] From.'$65 to $75 for The bill passed by Congres lotments of veterans in train on President Truman's desk a Passed by the Senate last creahe the monthly paycheck < from $65 to $75. Married vet( be raised from -$90 to $105 ai ents to $120. The bill, sponsored in the na tional House of Representative* by Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers of New Jersey, was passed by 870-6 Feb. 3 and had the support of the South Carolina delegation. A second measure, to raise the amount of earnings allowed on the-job trainees from $175 to $200 for single veterans and from $250 to $825 for married veterans, was passed by the House but differed from the form passed by the Sen ate. The differences are now be ing -worked out. W. H. Guest, contact reprehen tative at the university veterans guidance center, said yesterday that he did not know the date set for the bill to take effect if signed. He said that' it would probably be 60 days after ap proval befdre veterans would see any increase in their checks. "In view of the amount of in Crease in living costs since the present allotment was passed, it is evident that college veterans The university veterans center hAa a boo)det listing alt benefits enacted for veterans of World War II prior to September, 1947, Gut said. Copies may be ob tained at his office in the base ment floor of McKissick library. USC Trustees Re-elected By Legislature sity Board of Trustees were re elected by the joint session of the - General Assembly last week. All seven were renamed without op position. Members renamed were Solo mon Blatt, Jr., of Barnwell, see ond judicial circuit; J. Arthur Knight of Chesterfield, fourth circuit; E. M. Simrill of York, sixth circuit; A. C. Todd of Lau rens, eighth circuit; John C. Tay lor of Anderson, tenth circuit; C. B. Seaborn of Conway, twelfth circuit; and Hugh 0. Hanna of Hampton, fourteenth circuit. Knight was chosen vice-chair man of the board in December to replace Dr. R. 0. McCutchen of Bishopville who became chairman. Blatt was elected by the Assem bly last year to fill the unexpired term of his father, Sol Blatt, Sr., who resigned. Fire In Maxcy Lobby * Started By Cigarette, Causes $1200 Damage A sofa in the lobby of Musxcy College was destroyed by fire early Teday morning, and a hole was burned through the floor to the poet office below. The fire, caused by a cigaret, caused a total damage of $1,200, city Fire Chief A. McC. Marsh said. Smoke was detected by students on the floor above the fire, and the alarm was turned in imme diately. -The fairemen arrived a few minutes after 6 o'clock. The night watchman reported that he made his round by the building, but he saw nothing. This is the third fire in the same build ing in the last three years cauksed by a cigaret, and two have been in the same spot, Chief Marsh said. Damage to the sofa, a total loom, was $200 and to the building Chief Marsh estimated $1,000 damage. ~ome Bill 4 ! f I o . SIgnature t Truman . Wonthly Allotment 7 Single Students s increasing the monthly al ng under the GI bill is now waiting his signature. iummer, the measure fill in- r I unmarried veteran students .rans with one dependent will id with two or more depend- I Ben McGuinn 5 Heads WSSF Campus Drive: Ben McGuinn, junior from Co lumbia, wah elected chairman of the WSSF campus drive for this a year at a meeting of represen tatives of all organizations in Flinn Hall Tuesday. George Curry, instructor in his tory, made a brief talk to the representatives on the purposes of the fund and the uses of the contributions. Marie Edwards, YWCA secretary, explained the organization for the drive this spring on the. campus. Other officers named 'were Cur- t ry, faculty adviser, and an exe- v cubive committee composed of Margaret Eleazer, Betty Mood, Al Bahret and Joe Ruthven. The executive committee willit meet to determine the goal for I funds from Carolina and the time r IfA LAIC UrIve. Additionai com mittees will be appointed to as sist, in. rais.irg the funds. Money raised in the United F States is used in aiding college and university students in Europe and the Far East, and in re habilitation of buildings and pur- I chase of equipment. A drive is I conducted each spring on the i campuses in this country to raise the United States' share of the total fund. Goal in this country this year is two'million dollars. t Naval Air Reserve Volunteers to Hold Meeting at Center The third meeting of the Vol unteer Naval Reserve Aviation Unit will be at 8 p. m. Monday at the new Naval Reserve Train ing Center at Wheat and Pickens c streets. All students at the uni versity who are Naval Reserve Air officers or enlisted men with air classification are invited to atted. Commander Richard W. t Molten has been selected com manding officer of the unit which, is officially designated as Vol unteer Air Unit 6-6. Two organi rational meetings have already been held, the nucleus being f formed around 31 officers. The unit is organized followinga the pattern of an air group with the following divisions: Fighter, Patrol, Torpedo and Utility. Com mander Molten announced that actual flight training is expeoted to begin within 90 days but prob ably sooner. The SNJ type plane will be used for training purposes at first and steps will be taken to later add operational planes to the air unit. Stephens, Nates Run For Senior Historian In Balloting Monday ~ A special election for historian U of the senior class will be .con ducted Monday with John Nates b and Betty Ruth Stephens the only ~ candidates. Polling booths in the ODK t circle or the Chapel will be open I from 10 a. m. to 2 p. in., Al Bahi- I ret, .elass president, said yester- e day. Special election was neces sary when Jean Wallace, his torian, was graduated. C Nates served as chairman of a the ele dance committee and Miss Stephens is a member of d that group. r senate . Funds T Maximl tdded Stands ro Be Placed tt South End By BEN McGUINN Seating capacity of the Caro ina Stadium will be increased 0 per cent, through a bill signed y Governor Thurmond Friday. The governor signed the act ppropriating $175,000 from the tate surplus. The bill, first state ride measure of the legislative ession to be r4tified by the Gen ral Assembly, was sent to the overnor Thursday and became 1w with the executive's signa uire. The act was introduced by the rays and means committee last 'ear and after House approval ras sen-t to the upper house where was held up in the finance com 2ttee until the end of the sea ion. The finance 'committee amended he bill so that the necessary sum rill be taken from the state sur lus fund rather than by floating >onds, which was the original olan for receiving the money; hen they brought the act to the loor of the Senate with unani nous approval last week. The present stadium, which has seating capacity of 17,000, will - converted into a new "horse hoe" shape with permanent tands at the south end which ire expected to seat approxi nately 8,000 more fans. With inal completion the stadium will iave a capacity of 30,000, count ng permanent and temporary ar angements. Construction study s in process under the direction if Dean R. L. Sumwalt, head of he engineering department at ,arolina. Vlore Living Space Becomes Available For USC Veterans Construction of 54 additional 'arovet apartments has been ompleted, except for the instal ation of electricity, according to lasil M. Parks, assistant regis rar and director for veterans. P'hese additional units bring the otal of,.family units to 228. "Veterans accepting these units t the present time will do so vith the understanding that fuel il cannot be provided during the uel shortage. However, fuel oil upplies are still being made vailable to the present tenants f .the apartments," Colonel larks said. Extension Di * * * Mrs. Edith Camer The University Extension Di 'ision in co-operation with the k>lumbia Pilot club will be host o a two day leadership clinic or 'civic and community organi ations beginning tomorrow. Mrs. Edith McBride Cameron, sad of the department of audi ory instruction and women's ac Ivities of the University of lorida will act as general leader or the conference. She has wide xperlenee in program planning .nd education committee work, rganising, study course and con ucting institutes. Other guests include Mrs. WiI a Richardson of Macon, Ga, xecutiveasecretary of the Piloit Fakes I Rade A im Cap ] Students lined up in long queue# ror matriculation. Longest lines v was the first step in the process. week. (Photo by Manning Harri Drop In Car In Registrat City Directs Parking Near Field House Capt. B. F. Pruitt of the city police department said yesterday that traffic officers will be sta tioned near the Field House to di rect parking for future athletic events. Students from booth colleges re eived parking tickets after the Carolina-Clemson basketball game Priday. Cars were parked six and seven deep at intersections around the field house and double parked at the curbs, Pruitt said. "This is an impossible situation in the event of fire or an ac eident as traffic is blocked com pletely," Capt. Pruitt said. He has requested that people going to the game pull in to the curb, refrain from double park.. ing, and not park in driveways or on the parkways. ivision Leads * * * on To Head Leader Jp Appr vailable acity o Registration Lineup during the registration days last w ere in the early morning at the j Approximately 4,200 students regif olina Enrolh ion For Sprii A drop in the total enrollment for the university was indicated by the registration for thC spring semester, Capt. R. C. Needham, registrar, said yesterday. Although there will be about 325 fewer students at Carolina this semester than were here in the fall, we will have a larger enrollment than at any previous spring term, Needham said. Registration for the spring se-1, mester had reached a total of 4,264 by Tuesday, which was the last official day of registration for the term. However, some late registrants are expected, "indi cating a top enrollment of 4,300 for the spring term," Needham said. The 4,633 enrollment for the term just completed was an all time peak, but enrollment for this term is expected to be about 100 over that of last spring. Last spring 4,143 studen,ts were regu larly enrolled in the university. Total enrollments since the post-war have increased- each se mester with the peak being reach ed' this year, although the expect ed figure of 5,700 did not miatricu late. i Civic Clinc * * * ship Conferences club, and Miss Mary Reynolds of Columbus, Ga., district governor. Activities of thi program will include an open forum discussion on planning club programs con ducted by Mrs. Cameron, a work shop on financing club projects under the direction of Miss Ruby Newhall of the University of Flor ida extension service, and a dis cussion of the psychology of working with beople. A dinner for conference dele gates will be held at the Colum bia hotel and a demonstration film forum will be presented. De votional services will be conduct ed Sunday morning at the First Presbyterian church.' Women's orgamzations through out South Carolina have been in vlted to attend the conference. , 0 '0 opriatio For EE r usc Q eek to obtain the many materials registrar's office (above) which ,tered Monday and Tuesday last nent Shown ig Semester IRC Sponsors WIS Program On"eDictators" The weekly University Forum :>ver local station WIS at 2 p. m. tomorrow will be conducted by the members of the International Relations club. Topic for the dis 'ussion will be "The Dictators of Spain and Argentina." Participating on the program will be Marshall Mays, John Chamberlain and Will Parker. Prof. Douglas Carlisle of the po titical science department will act a moderator. The program is presented alter riately by the club and the Eu phradian Literary Society. Last Saturday's discussion concerned :he problem of education for the Negroes in the Southern states. 1947-48 Fall Semester Honor Graduates Led By Flynn and Tupper John Franklyn Flynn, Breckin ridge, Tex., was fig~t honor grad aate in the class which received iiplomas this month, with Nancy Caroline Tupper, Rembert, re reiving second honors, President Smith has announced. Other magna cum laude gradu ates were Robert Cordes, Colum dia, John C. West, Camden, and Angela Barrington, Fayetteville, N4. C. Cum laude graduates include Miary Elizabeth Teachey, Wallace, N4. C.; Philip Ball, Yukon, Okla.; P'ranices Stella Patrick, St. Teorge; Sidney Brandenburg, El oree; Jesse Evans, Pageland; Au rustus T. Graydon, Columbia; Dyril R. Parrott, Timmonsville; Elenry Bell, Camden; Bettie B~rooks Parker, Columbia; Olin S. Pugh, Prosperity; Robert A. Watson, Macon, Ga.; Sophie Mae Wolanin, Sharon, Pa.; and Philip S. Calvo, Columbia. A total of 192 students com pleted academic requirements for legrees and certificates at the end >f the tall term, President Smith ii ns Bill; ilarging 5tadium Change Made In Collections Arrangements The South Carolina Senate yea terday began consideration of the annual state general appropria tions bill which includes the allo cation for the university and other state schools. The Senate finance committee placed the bill on senators' desks Tuesday, but action was delayed until yesterday. Recommendation by the Senate committee for the university was $1,482,859 as compared with $2,293,500 recom mended by the House. The difference in the two amounts was brought about by the elimination by the Senate committee of a bookkeeping ar rangement by which the state would appropriate the entire op eration costs for the state schools and the institutions would then return all collections to the treas ury. Under the Sennte bill, th& c.l lege would retain their collections, an estimated $3,680,516. In his recommendation to the state budget commission, Presi dent Norman M. Smith estimated the enrollment of the university at 4,500 full time students. On this basis, approximately two thirds of the total operation coNt of the university would come from fee collections. The state would appropriate approximately $917, 000 in actual expenditure, accord ing to his Budget commission re quest, made on the assumption that the university would return all fee collections. Appropriations for other schools include Clemson, $1,292,437; The Citadel, $859,744; Winthrop, $952,696; A&M College, $591,825; and State Medical college, $577, 017. Wright Denounces One-Party System At Literary Society "Southern political demagogues come into power as a direct re sult of the South's one-party system of politics," declared Prof. Baskin Wright, of the political science department, in an ad dress to the Clariosophic Literary Society Tuesday. Following Professor Wright's speech, Ed Teague, society presi dent, announced that state Repre sentative Matthew Poliakoff of Spartanburg will address the group Tuesday. Poliakoff will speak on "Contemporary South Carolina Political Leaders." Speaking at the society's regu lar meeting, Professor Wright considered the characteristics of such Southern political leaders as Talmadge, Heflin, Bilbo, and Long. He indicated that each of these men had a considerable flair for ahowmanship, and in this way made a personal appeal to the voters. "It was also usual for such men, dressed for the role they wished to play, to make strong appeals to local prejudices, such as the white supremacy is sue, as a vote getting measure." Editors of Gamecok Offer Staff Positions To Typists, Reporters Students Interested in working on The Gamecock staff are asked by the departmental editors to come to the office in Sims East basement Monday or Wednesday afternoons. Reporters for campus and so ciety news are needed and there are vacancies for typists on the copy staff.