Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Game Paper Plac Best Colleg . The Gamecock has been ra 48 Fall term by the annual A ing. One of ten college weel dents class judged superior, out of a possible 1,055 grade Newspapers in colleges thr ' All-American, first, second, t of journalists selected by the As sociation to serve as judges an critics. Scoring is decided according t content, organization, style an leads, with each department grade separately, and accompanied b criticisms from the judges. The Gamecock received higheF honors in coverage, balance i news sources, news writing an editing, feature editing, headlin scheduling, makeup and printinj Special mention was made c the extra issue of Oct. 20, cor cerning the Carolina-Clemson ps rade plans, and to news coverag of campus events. Sports covei age received special recognitio but large society dance layout (ex. Dec. 12) were termed "garis decorations and not harmonizin with the rest of the page." No department of activity we rated below "good," with onl editorial make-up being in thi category. In news values and source! coverage was rated "excellent t superior," vitality and balanc, "excellent," and creativeness an treatment "excellent" for a toti of 225 points in that division. News stories and feature edi1 ing and copyreading were al. judged "excellent," with a 24 score in features. Headlines, t3 pography and makeup were rate "very good to excellent." Cartoons add to display and cot tent of the editorial pages, tf judge said, and the editorial co umns also were rated "very good Sports coverage was judge "excellent," with sports writin and display in the same categor, The Gamecock scored 220 undo the sports section. Publication of Alumr Published In April Says Alumni Secretar The next issue of The Alumi News, official magazine of ti university Alumni association, w be mailed to subscribers duriv April, Ralph L. Lewis, executil secretary of the association, sua last week. "With this issue, The News wi be up to date and will- be comir out every two months hereafter lhe said. During the last fe months, several issues have bc sent out in an effort to make t for the period right after the wi when reconversion difficulties d layed publication. "This number will also be ba< to our standard 24-page size Lewis said. "The first issue of The Alum: News was published in Decembe 1940. We got out only one oth< issue before the war upset oi plan, and then after the wa newsprint and everything else wi so scarce that The News aga made several false starts befo finally getting on its feet." AUTOMOBILES FOR RENT $5 per 24-hr. day Special Rates for Trips Renting hour-S a. in., 'til 7 p. m. DIAMOND DRIVE-IT-YOURSELF Phone 2-6836-100O Maim One Block from Campus ALL SEASONAB ART FLO CORSAGES PHOls 1227 Hampton Street cock - hs In Ten 3Weeklies ted All-American for the 1947. ssociated Collegiate Press scor .lies in the 2,500 to 4,999 stu the Carolina paper scored 926 ioints. oUghout the country were rated hird or fourth class by a board Geology Head J Will Be Heard x At Conference t Dr. L. L. Smith, head of the ge ology department at Carolina an( South Carolina state geologist will be featured on the progran of the tenth annual state chemor gic conference which will be hel< in the Columbia Hotel ballroon e Thursday. Doctor Smith will speal on "Mineral Products in Souti n Carolina." s The one-day meeting is spon h sored by South Carolina Indus Stries, Inc., and will be preside( over by James H. Hammond Other speakers will be D. G. Wil y liamson of the power machiner, department of John Deere Plov Company, Williams Price, Futuri Farmer of America prize winne: of 1947; Ben Wiggins, 4-H farme: of Richland County, and Edwar< Brown of the National Dair: Products corporation in New Yorl City. Also Dr. Berton C. Dickinsoi e of the research department o 6 Sherwin-Williams; M. S. Hudso1 of the Taylor-Colquitt Company d Fred Mathias of the Veteral Farmer School in Lexington Coun ty; and G. C. Robinson of th ceramic department of Clemsoi will be heard. d Placement Bureau Vg Announces Jobs. "In Standard Oil Co Application blanks and informe tion can be obtained at the Burea of Placement in McCutchen Hous regarding the expansion of ovei seas operations by Standard 0 ji Company. ie Engineers, accounants, nealt 11 officers, and geologists are necde by the Standard Oil Company i ~e Venezuela and in Arube, Nethei d land West Indies. New graduates receive a salar Iof $326.00, a variable cost of lih gIing allotment approximating $71 n.00; also the Company contribute wi to the employee Thrift Plan an na government decreed profit shai p ing bonus amounting to $66.01 y Future employees are reminde e. that income tax is much loweri these countries than in the Unite k States. Single men are wanted a ", adequate housing will not be prc vided for married for twvo years. ai E!mployee's are given an indot r, trination course, including Spar er ish, in Venezuela at full salar3 ir At the end of the first year en r, ployees are given a two week~ is local vacation and at the end ( in the second year a vacation of 4 re days plus travel time is provide with expenses paid to and fror _Venezuela and Arube to th United States. Application blanks and informi tion can be obtained at the Place ment Bureau in McCutchen. Class Reunions Set For Graduate Week Plans are now being formulate for class reunions of all classe for years ending in '3 and 'J Ralph Lewis, executive secretar of the university Alumni associa tion, said. The reunions will b held around commencement time. The classes of '47 and those whl have already left school from thi '48 class will also be invited bacd In addition, all alumni will be ir1 vited to a luncheon during the re union activities, Lewis said. LE CUT FLOWERS WERl SHOP A SPECIALTY [E 2-6781 Columbia,.S. C. Rates Initiation ceremonies were held r, bers of the group on the campus. 'I F. Thomson, Rudolph M. Jones, Lew W. Thomas, Wilbur B. Thompson, J Watson. Initiation was held at a st Four Forei To Appear d State NROTC r1 Reaches Goal In Enlistment The South Carolina quota for i students entering the Naval ROTC training program in regular, or fully subsidized status, has been filled this year for the first time. The quota of 15 was accepted by a board convened recently for that purpose by the Navy Department. Membership of the board were Dean Francis W. Bradley, educa tional member and chairman, Capt. Marvin G. Kennedy, USN, naval mcmber and Douglas McKay, Sr., civilian member. Meeting March u 25 and 26, the board was con e cerned with interviewing the can -- didates and placing them in rela il tive order of merit. The order 'of merit will deter d mine the choice of the university to which the students will be sent, those high on the list being as sured that they will go to the school of their choice, while others1 must be assigned to fill vacancies.1 A total of 170 South Carolinians originally applied for the 15 ap d pointmients. Of these, 140 com pleted the mental examination and 35 passed. Twventy more were eliminated during the physical ex amnato,leaving exactly th d number required to fill all ap apointments. Only two of those finally selected are high school students without college training, 13 are college students at the present time. Graduating Seniors Must See Postmaster 3 About Caps, Gowns d U. S. C. Postmaster, Joe Law e rence, announced last week that 55 graduating seniors had failed .to contact him about obtaining caps and gowns for the graduat ing exercises in June. He request ed that all who have not seen him about the caps and gowns do so immediately. Lawvrence also announced that d he is not taking any more orders a for invitations but that he has 6 about 300 extra invitations that Y he will distribute to those who want them. SAY... e "I saw it in THlE GAMECOCK" CENTRAL DRUG CO. OPEN 24 HRS. 5197-PHONES--5198 1204 MAIN STREET A11-A Engineer Initiates wcently by the American Society of 'hose initiated Included John N. Cai is D. Prather (second row), Paul ohn S. Oliver, Brooks F. Warner, ag party for members. (Photo by ign Affairs On Town "America's Town Meeting orum which will originate ir Puesday, will feature a panel o: [. Laski, Louis P. Lochner, j . erner, President Smith annol or the discussion will be "Wh Harold J. Laski, author and hester, England. He is a mer Further Vacancies In Marine School Open For Students Vacancies for five additional :andidates for the U. S. Marine Platoon Leader's courses have been innounced by Major L. D. Reid. rraining classes are to be held at the Marine Corps Schools in Quantico, Virginia. Upon comple .ion of the classes and after grad .ation from college with a bacca laureate degree, candidates are ?ligible for second lieutenants :ommissions in the Marine Corps Reserve. The training periods last six Areeks. Juniors who are honorably :lischarged veterans are required to attend only one period. Fresh nen and sophomores are required :o attend classes for two summers and need have no previous military :raining. Eight candidates have been se ected and the quota has bcen in 'reased to 13. Those interested nay contact Major Reid in Hamil on 202 any day prior to April 24. A.pplications should be in by this late so physical examinations and >ther procedure. may be completed y May 1. Law Student Enters Race For SC House Joe Agnewv, a student at the iniversity law school, has an ounced his candidacy for the south Carolina House of Repre ientatives. He is the first official 'andidate for the 1948 primaries. Agnew completed his academic itudies at Carolina before enter ng law school. He is married to :he former Miss Marion Sherer and they have two children, Joe, fr., four, and Don, a year and a* ~ialf old. In regard to his political pro. cram fom Richland county, he said in announcement would be made it a later date. WOOD MUSIC "WOODY" LATEST RECORDINGS CONN INS' "ANYTHING FROM A 5 POINTS - SALUDA J r erici Civil Engineers for 13 new meni npbell, Lowell E. Culberton, Jame L. Hundley, Ray C. Clark, Georg Richard T. Hardy and Law%ton I Russell Maxey.) Experts Meeting of the Air," national radic the university Field Hous4 experts consisting of Harol< krthur Bliss Lane, and Ma inced last week. The subjec at Next In Europe Now." educator, is a native of' Man iber of the national executivo committee of the Labor Party - Great Britain and a professor o political science at the Universit of London. He was graduated fror Oxford and has lectured at M Gill university in Canada and a Harvard. He is the author of nu merous books and articles in th field of economics, labor, an politics. Louis P. Lochner, foriiur Lea of the Berlin bureau of the A: sociated Press, has had bril!!: career as a liewspaper corresPolit ent, radio commentattr, lecture and author. He is the winner c the Pulitzer prize for distiiguil) ed service as a foreign correspone ent. His most recent book, "Thi Goebbels Diaries," which will b published April 21, has bee chosen as the book -of-thi Imont selection Lor Mlay. Max Lerner is the chief ed torial writer for Phl. hberi'al Ne' York newspaper. lHe was gradi ated from Yale in 19123 and hold the degree of doctor of phijlosoph from the Robert Brook ings gradu ate school otf Economies and Gov ernment. lHe has servecd on th faculties uf Harvard, Sarah .aw rence college, and Willijams col lege, and wa ft ormierly *d itr o, "The Nation." His recent books inld "iii 'dea Are Weapons," "ideas for th le Age,'' and "'The Mlindl and F"ait of Justice Holmes." Arthu li Li ss I aneit, formlel United States amibassador to P't land, is the aiuthor of the rece'l boo0k, "1 Saw Poland F"all." Following his graduoat ion frol Y'ale in 1 916(, lie entered tIhe di pk matic service as secret any to thI American ambassador to Italv. Hi has held posts in the' foreign ser~ ice in Mexico, Nicaragua, E:> tonia, Lithuania. Latvia, Cost Rica, Colombia, England, I"ranelc and Switzerland. In 1944, he ws appointed ambassador to the e>, iled Polish government in I.ol don, The first half-hour of thle broia. cast consists of a dliscussin b I'S, Inc. CENTER WOOD WARD4 vner SONOR A R ADIOS ['RUMENTS hIEEDLE TO A BAND" a BLOSSOM .- Ph. 7344 in Fo: Rooster By RUTH Exchanj Winthrop Aim Ballentine, freshman fron Anderson has beetn named Mis, Wilth1rop to attend the Azalea Festival in Charleston. other Win throp students who will be queens inl the festival are: Joan Andrews, Manning; Betty Byrd, Kingstree; Chevalette Fenton, Orangeburg; and Nancy Scroder, Charleston, who will act as hostes tu Visiting queens. .June Smith, of Charleston, has beeti appointed editor-in-chief of the '48-'49 Tatler, Winthrop year bo,)k. Margaret Vardell, junior of Summerville, is business manager. Lillian Dukes, of Orangeburg, has beeli elected senior class presi dent and Ruth Bundy, of Greeni Sville was elected sophomore presi .'dent. Newberry Professor: "Take this sentence, 'Let the cow be taken to the pas ture.' What mood ?" Student: "The cow!" Furman The Furman Uiiversity Con cert band has been busy making a tour of South Carolina cities. Joe College, campus mascot for tle last 15 years, wvas hung until dead by the Communist party now in power. No funeral service was held after it was learned that his an I Wdather oi htis iilother'., sid hd bei aln atheist drunkard but ;tudents raised immediately a fund for a plaque bearing the inscrip tiona: "H1E WAS A DOG, THAT I .JOSEPH." Speaking of dogs-somewhere irl t Virginia there is a sign advertis mv tachlshund puppies. It reads "Get a long little doggie." Study Of xcaroi I.Shows Increas A study of the number of stu f dents at the univ'erity since i wa> first oponed inl 1805 has re realed that wars ain other event: 'f nat itwide proportion are ful n med by a rise inl the einiolhn lent hi ofI atudenits at Car oliuia. Frinz 1 805, whiena thei. legislator: -of SouthI t'arohina Set up onie 01 the~ first state-supported uuiiver. sitiet--, anid on until 18 11, the num her of students reached 1 18 onl) -Once., whdel~ in 181~2, with the ad. v'enit of lie war with England, the e'nroll ient juingped1 to the greal -figure ofi 171. Fro 151 : to 1 M49 enrtollmnenit did hot e 'xceed't that of I sl1, bti thait ,ear goldl was discovered ii C'al ifoin ia andl a nat ioiiwide t remn tiowvar igll~reatI piospieri ty reisutlted Th'i~at yea r the~. numbaher of st udent: rat (Carolinaa mereiased to :237, a fig I ur htwas notl to he ttopped-t un ttil 190m5. Thien eaine thle War Bet wen tihl St ates, anti the ent ire student body e ex pelts whoit re'preseiat differeni . ies of the qulestioni. The secon. -part featurelts audience part icipa a ttion withi questions addre'ssed t, the spanker's from thle floor. and A SUN C RAYBON - CALA ROBINSON'S 706 SALUI [)AY PHONE 2-5604 Page Three r Fall Pecking NEWELL re Editor Wofford Steel bleachers to seat over 2, 000 people k.are to le viected on the south side of Siiyder field by August I of this year, the presi dent alnoueed. Thi Wofford Cullege Glee Club 1: conducting a C"Wncert tour th i !hOuit thle Itate. The Florida Alligator She: "Do you want to stop the car aid eat, sweetheart ?" lie: "No, pet." The ittle I doughnut said to the three-layer cake: "It I had all your dough, I wouldn't be hiangiig around this hole.--Arkanisas Trailer. Coker Genevieve Chandler has recently been installed as president of the new student government. The new coulicil is composed of Wilma Car Michael, Barbara Ballentine, Lil lian Dillard, Betty Gandy, Nancy Padget, Virginia James, Peggy Jo Tapp, Louetta Coker. Mary Lou Nye, Shirley Prescott, Frances Ani Buffkin, Hat Henderson, Betty Lou Jordan, and Ju Hunter. Florence Yellow Jacket "Why do they have a feince around tile graveyard "' "Why ?" t"Becau, people are dying to ge,t III " 'Twa iI a cafe\ where they met, Romeo and Juliet; He wvishes they had never met, 'Caused Romeo-d what Juli-et. 1ina Enrollment After Wars was eIrolled in the Confederate ariy, an d after thi war, with tihe Reounstruction, Negroes at tended Carolina and the whites sltyed nawiay. But with the I'etUrI I r itile w%,hites t, power in 1876, 'aronianI let urted to he cam iCrohlheunt was slowlyv brou ght back upj aid iincreased steadily un til 1915I: w hen 511 st udett attend ed the session.s. TIheni camei the two World Wars, and. their result alit high enroGlllnwnit econtinue the trend. for Shoes that look like new VISi ROBERTS SHOE REPAIRING SERVICE . 0 0 NEXT TO CITY FIRE DEPT. 1319 Sumter St. djusted [riptions Filled LASSES by LBAR - SOFT-LITE OPTICAL CO. A AVE. 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