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Melton Oh To Forme By Dew James *Perched atop a grass covered mound, almost in the geographic center of the Carolina campus, stands Melton Observatory. Be neathi the dome is housed the ob serva tory's 200-power telescope which enables Carolina students and the public to view the "players" of the universe magni fied 200 times. The immensity of Jupiter, the multiple rings of Saturn, and the huge craters of our own moon has an almost hypnotic affect on the beginning astronomy student. In Memory of a President A distinguished member of the South Carolina College class of 1885, Edwin G. Seibels of Colum bia, presented the observatory to WUSC Presents Radio T ax Clinic A radio Tax Clinic for students will be presented at ten o'clock tonight over campus radio station WUSC. The clinic will be presented by the Columbia Chapter of the National Association of Cost Ac countants. Students may submit questions to the program by calling exten sion 282, or by sending their ques o~ns to the campus radio station. ~The clinic deals with questions concerning students gainfully em ployed, students atn~ding school U~'under scholarships, and ROTC students, as well as many other questions. AX. "SQUARE-CUT OR PEAR SHA Delta's stunt, "Portraits Personified. Thesday in Drayton HaOL (Gabnee ... .. . ....... servatory r Carolina the university on March 28, 1928. Mr. Seibels gave the observatory in memory of Dr. William Davis Mel ton, president of the Carolina from 1922 to 1926. The gift was ac cepted for the university by the late David R. Coker of Hartsville College Students' Photo Contest Is Anounced The Ninth Annual International Collegiate Photography contest sponsored by Kappa Alpha Mu, National Honorary Fraternity in Photo-journalism, is open to re ceive entries. The contest is open to all college students, and pictures sent in must be postmarked not later than April 1, 1954. No entry fee is required. Pictures will be judged in four classes: News, feature, sports, picture story or picture sequence. Pictures must have been made since April 1, 1953. Each photog rapher may enter ten pictures, but not more than five in any single class. First place winners in each class will receive a $25 Government Bond. Judging will take place in Houston, Texas, just prior to Kappa Alpha Mu's Ninth Annual Convention. Here the 50 best prints will be unveiled for show. FED," thee gfil don't lose their "'Kappa Delta won second place i ek phoeo by landi. Perry) [s Tribute President on behalf of the board of trustees. The 15-inch reflecting lens for the telescope was presented to the university by James Wilson Hana han, a lawyer and amateur astronomer of Winnsboro a few years before the building was erected. John A. Brashears of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ground the lens by hand and it was mounted into the telescope by Bausch & Lomb of Rochester, New York. Admiral Charles F. Martin, professor of astronomy, has charge of the observatory. Howard Dilday is the observatory assistant. Astronomy is combined with the mathematics department and four credits are received for three lec tures and one laboratory per week. Though astronomy and mathemat ics are in the same department, no math prerequisite is required for astronomy. Public Use of Melton The public is permitted to use the observatory under expert supervision on Wednesday nights, though it is primarily for the use of students. Recently, ur.der the university's beautification program, the al ready beautiful grounds surround ing the observatory were re-land scaped. Eight large and 112 small azaleas were planted in beds and four sasanqua camellias were planted around the front entrance. A real thrill awaits the student who has yet to visit Melton and gaze at the heavens through her telescopic window. shape as they performn for Kappa a the Sororities' Stunt Ni=ht held Atomic Exhibit Is Presented On Carolina Campus A movable unit of the Atomic Museum of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, visited the University Armory February 18-21. The exhibit was sponsored by Oak Ridge in con junction with the university. Included in the exhibit were an explanation of the atom and its component parts with a diagram matic sketch of the parts of the chain reaction and a model of the atom smasher, the Van de Graaff electrostatic generator. A model atomic energy pile and the ores that radioactive metals are taken from together with the effect they have on a Geiger counter were also shown. One exhibit showed how radio active tracers are used for deter mining cancer in the body. An exhibit showing the path of an electron after being split off from the atom and a gadget deter mining if the subject's watch was radioactive were among other exhibits. Players Will Hold Try-outs For Play Readings for the next Univer sity Players' production, "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare, will be held today in Carolina Playhouse. Gene Crotty, head of the dramatics department, will hold tryouts from 1:00-2:00 p.m. and 4:00-5:30 p.m. Any Carolina student may take part in the production. Meetings of the Players are held every Fri day afternoon at 5:30 in Carolina Playhouse. Pi KA Picks Officers At a recent meeting of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, new of ficers were elected for the spring term. They are: Marion Du Rant, Bishopville, president; Bill Dean, Charlotte, vice-president; Brinson Leaptrot, Columbia, secretary; Ray Behles, Columbia, treasurer; and Charles Joyner, Marion, house manager. ITS AL fyou have agued 9At T here'5~ 0uVe ay10 Theyre RitaM coPR.. sAuacnoacoc,A LUlCKI SHERYL FANNING, daughter o 1519 Columbia (ollege Drive, acts a Van de Graaff Electrostatic Generat the Atomic Energy exhibit here. (Gi Aviation Co. Offer Jobs A representative of North Amer ican Aviation, Inc., the company that. designed and produces this country's top jet fighers, the new F-100 Super Sabre Jet and F-86 Sabre Jets, will be on the campus Monday, March 22, 1954, to inter view June through September graduates for positions at the company's Los Angeles, California, and Columbus, Ohio plants. Junior engineering positions are available at North America. For details contact the Director of Placement as soon as possible. New product: Magnites record ing tape which is unaffected by temperature or humidity and car ries a guarantee never to curl or break in normal use is being put on the market by the Reeves Toundcraft Corp. of New York. L A MAI For B Ct o G,1AsRUrE S TASTI r Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Fanning, s a subject for demonstration of the or in the university Armory during amecock photo by Landis Perry) The human body's quickest automatic action is the blinking of the eyelids, says the Better Vision Institute. It takes 1/20 of a second. Palmetto Sunday through Saturday "KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE" in Cinemascope and Color with Robert Taylor Ava Gardner Carolina Sunday through Wednesday "JIVARO" in color with Fernando Lamas Rhonda Fleming 5 Points Sunday through Wednesday HELD OVER! "FOREVER FEMALE" with Ginger Rogers, William Holden, Paul Douglas, Pat Crowley !TER 01 cleanerOesht smoother srnokel ack 90" tr9' aCe ies scan't ' Torn' Ganliats! Cai ri Whe~n yo ,jiversaty smoke for ment. An matt er of in a cigar, Two fa bet ter. 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