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Athens Civilian
Defense Program
Bs Col. F. W, WHITNEY
A city bombed could be more
lan a city laid waste, with death
. inhabitants and destruction to
uildings. If its water supply was
.t off or contaminated, it would
vake living difficult for the sur
~ivors. If its power facilities were
qestroyed or its sewage damaged,
.+ would vastly hamper existance
and recovery.
rngineers might have many dif
si-ult tasks to perform. There
would be great masses cos debris to
move, to get to the buried victims
¢ assault. There would be bridges
to rebuild, roads to clear, utilities
to restore.
From the engineering stand
noint, Civil Defense involves or
«~nization of the skilled manpow
or to be ready for any emergency,
training of rescuers for major
¢loarance jobs; speedy reconstruc
i.a of facilities; supplying, if
psed be, of new sources of water;
renairs to sanitary systems.
In addition, the planning of con
sruction measures for protecting
the people and facilities, of
camouflage, of techniques to
schieve successful blackout and
dgimout if required, etc.
The fourth division of your city
{ ivil Defense organization is un
.er Asst. Director J. G, Beacham,
(ity Engineer of Athens. This di
vision has four sections as follows:
a. Evacuation and Transporta
tion Section.
v7illiam A. Mathis heads this
cortion, the duties of which in
cude the movement of civilians
from their homes to other areas,
either in anticipation of attack or
ater an enemy attack. It involves
the selection and training of lead
ers and staff to direct the evacua
tion process, registration of all who
mav be involved, se'ection of
routes and means of transporta
tion, provision of medicines and
food, ete., arrangement of gather
ing points, assembly areas, recep
tion areas, etc,
b. Clvilian War Aid Section.
This section is under Mr. A. B.
stiles. In the event of enemy at
tack or other great emergency,
prompt action in feeding, cloth
ing, and sheltering the victims
will be necessary. In advance of
the possible needs, plans are to
be perfected, organization es
tahlished and facilities ready.
¢. Communications Section.
Philip F. Jones, an engineer
with the Georgia Power Co., is in
charge es this section. No defense
system that could be devised
would function if its communica=-
tions system failed. Civil Defense
would utilize telephone, tele
graph, radio in all its forms as
well as special systems of all
X L
~ngineering Section,
This section, under charge of
Mr. Lamar Pittard, Asst. City En
cineer, ig further divided into sub=
sections as follows:
(1) Water Works.
. L. Lester and J. T. Loney in
C LT
) Sanitary.
I. Lumpkin and L, F. Mapp
in AT 2C.
(3) Streets.
A. B. Sharp in charge.
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hird Herifage
The third in a series of eight
discussion programs based on the
Heritage of the United States in
Times of Crisis will be held Tues
day night at 8 o’clock in Athens
Regional Library., Readings from
Emerson’s Essays will serve as
Lackground for discussion.
People who are interested in
participating in the discussion may
obtain reading material at Athens
Regional Library. The meeting
will be held on the first floor of
the library building. Mrs. E. Dean
Stith will eonduct the discussion.
The group at Athens Regional
i one of four sponsored by the
library, The fourth group was or
genized Monday night at Watkins
ville when 80 citizens of Oconee
county met in the Watkinsville
branch of Athens Regional Li
brary for the first in a series of
cight diseussion groups sponsored
by the Watkinsville Branch.
The second meeting of the Dun
bar group was held Thursday
nicht at the Dunbar Branch of the
rary in Athens. “The River”
nd “Yours Is The Land,” films
on conservation and resources
vided the program.
In Lexingten the third meeting
o' the Oglethorpe county group
i. scheduled Feb. 27, at 7:45 p. m.
in the Legion Hall.
All discussion groups are a part
of the American Heritage Pro
gram sponsored by Athens Re
eional Library in cooperation with
the American Library Association.
In addition to discussion groups,
the library continues te provide
programs for clvic organizations
and clubs, :
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Hospital Group
B egge
E'ects Hilliard
Oscar 8, Hilllard, administrator
of the Athens General HosPital,
was named president-elect of the
Georgia Hospital Association Sat
urday,
Hilliard’s election came during
the two-day annual session of the
association, held this year at the
“ltmore Motel in Aflanta. Eric
. Barton es Griffin was installed
as president of the iroup.
. Other officers elected were
«mes W, Brown jr., Grady Hos
pital, treasurer; H W. Smith,
LeGrange, and J, 3 Williams,
'rustees with terms expiring in
19993 Frzs M. Walker, Atlanta
tticgate to the American m&
f}-’@oeiat‘ifi.n. dW. N. i
Gainesville, lflmat‘ delegate.
A. 1. M. Leader
Piggy-back executives, the kind
that ride continually on the backs
of their working brothers, were
cited here yesterday as the chief
cause for the present dearth of top
management men in industry and
business.
Jackson Martindell, president
of the American Institue of Mana
gement, New York, made the ob=
servation in an address at.the Uni
versity of Georgia’s first Executive
Management Seminar.
Some of these piggy-back riders
are sons, brothers, cousins, and
others fraternally on the payroll,
Martindell said. He added, how=-
‘ever, that this is not the whole
.story,
i Middle Management
_ “Middle management is ecrowd-=
‘ing top management less than ever
‘be_fore because the majority of
‘middle management executives
are either piggy-back riders or
lack sufficient visible incentive to
take on added responsibilities.”
Martindell pointed out that in a
recent survey he learned that less
than 10 per cent of a group of
middle management men whose
salaries ran from $12,000 to $lB,-
000 a year would be willing to take
on the presidency of their respec
tive companies.
Most men are unwilling to ac
cept added responsibility and the
burden of advancing their com
pany because:
(1) The company is too big and
the president has to travel most of
the time; (2) They would have to
move and leave their friends; and
(3) The- additional income that
would accrue to a president would |
be taxed away, anyhow.
Main Causes
He added that the biggest reason
for the present - unwillingness to
accept business responsibility is
that since large homes and numer
ous servants are no longer pos
sible to an executive, however
high his salary might be, the social
ineentives are largely automobiles ‘
and television sets. .
“Since even a telephone line
man can now own a Cadillac, and
even a bootblack can afford a tele
vision set, why kill oneself with
added responsibility, away from
home, away from old friends‘ and
under various new pressures,”
Martindell pointed out that the
only way industry can rid itself
of these piggy-back riders is to
provide its middle management
men, not with more training but
with more inspiration.
New Queen Has
Normal Weekend
LONDON, Feb. 16 — (AP) —
Queen Elizabeth IT visited half an
hour today at Marlborough House
with Queen Mary and the Duke
of Windsor as nermality crept
slowly back to Britain in a new
Elizabethan age.
A typical quiet British family
weekend shaped up- in the wake
of the burial of King George VI at
Windsor yesterday. The captains
and the kings who came to honor
him departed one by one.
Elizabeth made the call just
after luncheon on her 84-year-old
grandmother and the uncle who
gave up for love and throne she
inherited upon her father's death
Feb. 6. : ey
The young Queen spent most of
the day at home with her children
and husband, the Duke of Edin
burgh, in Clarence House. Their
only visitors were her widowed
mother and younger sister, Prin
cess Margaret.
Advisors are determined that
Queen Elizabeth should take a va
cation soon to recover from the
strains of her father’s death and
her accession. But the vacation
appears several weeks away. First
she must make decisions which
only the Queen can make.
Home Telephone Lets Bedridden
Student Follow Classroom Activity
By VIRGINIA WOODALL
Though her desk Is empty, 11=-
year-old Leila Ritchie is none
theless the star of her 6th grade
classroom at Barrow Street
School. As a matter of fact, her
story is very much a case of the
mountain coming to Mohamet.
Young Leila has, since Novemn=
ber, been stricken with rheumatic
fever. Although the disease has
taken none of the bounce out of
her enthusiastic personality, still
it has kept her bedridden. Thus,
young Leila began to fall far be
hind her class, though she made a
gallant effort to keep up with her
studies.
Then, recently the Ritchie’s re
membered an apparatus that had
given considerable aid to a cousin,
who, though a shut-in, managed to
keep *a.breast of class work. At
that “peint, E. H. Massey, office
m_anat of Bell Telephone Com=
pany, fiere was contacted for in=
formation about the new home-to=
school telephone system that
brings classroom actlvities into the
sick room as they occur. And re
cently, the system, & permanent
fixture type, was installed in Lei
la’s home on Highland Avenue,
and a similar one in her class~
room, where Mrs. L, R. Dunsor. is
regent. The system eosts about
$8.50 a month to operate,
Later Leila had an imgrouivo
array of visitors represen ing the
;}3’ school system and the Bell
ephone Company. '§h¢ gentle
men were calling to learn how
Leila fared with her new “toy,”
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FUNERAL CORTEGE PASSES LONDON LANDMARK
—Royal Navy sailors draw the gun carriage bearing the
coffin of King George VI through Lyndon’s Hyde Park
gate on its way to interment at Windsor Castle, March
ers in the mile-long procession stretch out along tree
lined boulevard in the background., — (AP Wirephoto
via radio from London.)
24 th Press Institute
Opens Here Wednesday
Georgia newspapermen and editors — several hundred
?fiong—will gather on the University of Georgia campus
s week for the 24th annual session of the Georgia Press
Institute. g &
The four-day meeting will open here Wednesday night
with a dinner and will close Saturday at noon. During that
period the editors will have & chance to hear more than a
dozen addresses by well-known journalists and writers and
to participate in work-shop sessions during which many of
the everyday problems of editing will be ironed out.
Institute Sponsors
The Institute will be sponsored
jointly by the Georgia Press As
sociation and the University’s
Henry W. Grady School of Jour
nalism.
A number of Georgia daily and
weekly newspapers as well as or
ganizations such as the National
Conference of Christians and Jews
and the Georgia Agricultural Ex
tension Service will cooperate in
presenting the Institute program.
Morse Salisbury, director of the
Division of Information Services
for the U.-S. Atomic Energy Com=-
mission, will be the opening In
stitute speaker. He will give his
address at a dinner sponsored by
the University and the Athens Ro
tary Club. 3
Other Institute speakers and
sessions leaders are V. M. Newton,
jr., managing editor, Tampa (Fla.)
Morning Tribune; Max Ways,
senior editor, Time magazine;
Hugh G. Grant, former U. 8. Min
ister of Albania and Siam; George
W. Anderson, Columbus eivic
leader:; Roxane Cotsakis, author of
“The lWing and the Thorn”; Ed
Anderson, publisher of five North
Carolina weeklies.
Frank Daniels, general manager,
Raleigh (N. C.) News and Ob
server and president of the SBouth
ern Newspaper Publishers Asso
the first such in Athens. They
found an enthusiastie young lady.
She told W. O. McDowell, district
manager of the telephone system,
that it was much better than go
ing to school because this way she
doesn’t have to worry about stay
ing after.
. Follows Class Work
During classroom sessions, Lei
la’s home set, which is not unlike
an inter-office ecommunication set
up, is tuned in, via a private tele
pgone line, to the school. She can
easily hear what occurs from even
the remote corners of the elass
room. If she feels the need to
ask a question, or if the teacher
calls on her for a recitation, she
presses a button on her set, and
without exerting any extra effort,
she adds her bit to the subject
under discussion. Looking rather
resplendent in her high white hos
ital bed, Leila takes notes on a
fittlc green piano-top table ba
lanced across her legs.
Mrs. Ritchie told the visiting
group that she had no trouble at
all keeping Leila’s attention on
the activities that are broadcast,
or rather “telephoned,” from the
‘school. As a matter of fact, Lella
herself admits that she pays more
attention this way than when she’s
actually at school.
Reads Poem
The group left Leila shortly
thereafter to inspect the system
‘ from the school side of the broad
lout, but not before City School
| Superintendent Fred Ayers had
extracted from Leila a promise to
SERVINGC ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY.
Associated Press Service
ciation; Ed Dodd, -ereator of the
“Mark Trail” comic strip; James
Saxon Childers, associate editor of
the Atlanta Journal; Henry M.
Allen, Minnesota Ediforial Asso-~
ciation; Bob Pendergast, Readex
Reader Interestoßeports, st. Paul,
Minn.,
Other Speakers
William M. Bates, United Press
reporter, Atlanta; Cliff H. Bal
dowski, Atlanta Constitution car
toonist; Norman Strouse, J. Walter
Thompson Company, Detroit, Ed
Barrett, Assistant Secretary of
State for Public Affairs, Washing
ton, D. C.; and Alexander Nunn,
executive editor of the Progres
sive Farmer.
Special features of the Insti
tute will include a dinner and a
reception for Georgia authors, a
costume party, initiation of Hon
orary members into Sigma Delta
Chi, and the presentation of
awards to the daily and weekly
newspapers in Georgla that have
done the most outstanding jobs of
farm reporting.
Members of the committee in
charge of arrangements for the
Press Institute are Stanley Park
man, Carroll County Georgian,
chairman; Leodel Coleman, Bul
loch Herald, Statesboro; and Joe
Parham, Macon News.
read the group a poem over her
private little radio station when
they reached the school. Leila
readily agreed and in return, Mr,
Ayers promised to secure for her
a microscope for pursuit of her
favorite subject, science,
In the eclassroom, the group
found . that routine was not dis
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Cancer Baffle
Opens Feb. 15
The 1952 battle against cancer
will get under way in Clarke
County on Monday, Feb 25, when
a group of leading citizens go to
Decatur to attend an all-day lead
ershép meeting at the First Bap
tist Church. » it e
Chairmen of the various local
volunteer committees which will
conduct both the educational and
fund raising eampaigns here, will
attend to learn from heads of the
Geox}(i)a Division, American Can
cer Soclety how most effectivel
to combat this scourge which too]{
3,500 lives in this state last year.
Most of these, physicians say,
could have been cured had their
ailment been detected early and
treatment given in time.
A prime objective of the cam
paign is to help citizens detect can
cer early, or seek medical advice
if ‘eancer i suspected, so that lives
may be saved.
ATHENS, GA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1952,
Allies Refuse Communist Bid
Russians Serve In Parley
F. B. . Smashes
KKK Terrorists
In N. Caroli
N N. Laroiina
By NOEL YANCEY
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C., Feb. 16
~(AP)—The FBI today smashed
into night-riding terrorism in the
Carolinas by arresting 10 former
Ku Klux Klansmen on charges
of kidnaping and flogging a white
man and woman.,
Federal agents said the night
riders took the victims across the
Carolinas border, making them
selves liable to the death penalty
under the Lindberg law if cone
victed of kidnaping.
The 10, including a deputy
sheriff and a constable, were
rounded up shortly after dawn in
southeastern North Carolina’s Co
lumbus county. FBI Chief J.
Edgar Hoover, who made the first
announcement in Washington, said
they were members of the Fair
Bluff Klavern in Columbus coun
ty, which was disbanded three
weeks ago. They were arraigned
in Fayetteville and ordered held
in $5,000 bond each for a hearing
before a U, S. commissioner here
Feb. 26 and 27. They are charged
specificially with violating federal
kidnaping and civil rights laws.
The FBI said the victims, Miss
Dorothy Martin, 27, and Ben
Grainger, 40, both of Fair Bluff,
were taken into Horry County,
S. C, last Oct. 6 and beaten by
hooded, robed and armed men.
Columbus county adjoins Horry
County, another Klan hotbed.
Half Dozen Floggings
At least half a dozen other flog
gings, of whites and negroes, have
been reported from Columbus
county in the last four months.
Authorities have indicated that on
ly fear has prevented other vic
tims from coming forward.
The arrests were the first in the
Columbus county terrorism, which
has caused many residents to bolt
their doors at night. One of the
victims, Clayton Sellers, 28, a
white farmer, said “I'd ruther
been dead than beat like that.”
An off-duty white policemen
wearing a Klan robe was shot to
death in Horry county two years
ago. The gunfire resulted from a
I.lan sally on a negro night club
at Myrtle Beach. Since then, there
have been several other floggings
in swampy Horry county. .
In many cases the victims said
the nightriders lured them from:
their beds by pretext of seeking
help.
Deny Allegations
All of them have denied what
they said were Klan allegations
that they drank excessively and
mistreated their families.
The violence has been in a Caro
lina coastal border section rich in
truck crops and tobacco.
Among those arrested was Early
L. Brooks, 44, a constable describ
ed by the FBI as a leader in or
ganizing the Fair Bluff Klavern
last September.
The FBI chief said “shortly aft
er its founding the XKlavern
adopted the name of Southlands
Sports Club of Fair Bluff to avoid
suspicion, and was disbanded in
January, 1952
W. A. Murphy, special agent in
charge of the Charlotte FBI Bu
reau, said Klan regalia and a whip
allegedly used in the Martin and
Grainger beatings were found at
a garage at Brooks’ home, He
described the strap as a two-foot
plece of machine belting nailed
to a cut-down pickaxe handle.
The FBI did not give a motive
for that Klan Foray—which was
the first public account. But a
bureau spokesman said “a group
of Klansmen apparently set them
selves up as self-designated moral
pursuaders.”
Byrnes Warning
In his inaugural speech last
year, Gov. James F. Byrnes of
South Carolina warned the Klan
that authorized peace officers
could cope with any violence. The
grand dragon of the Carolinas
Klan, Thomas L. Hamilton of
Leesville, 8, C., withheld comment
on the arrests until he studied the
details.
The FBI told how CGrainger and
Miss Martin were sbducted Into
South Carolina by hooded, robed
and armed Klansmen.
“The victims were driven into
a remote area on a side road, and
at the site of the flogging were
removed from the car in which
they had been transported.
“Grainger was made to lean
over a front fender of the auto
mobile and was flogged with a
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Sunday clearing and warmer.
Monday fair and mild. High
Sunday 55. Sun rises 7:18 and
seis 6:17,
G E O R G I A—Diminishing
light rain or drizzle and contin
ued cool Sunday morning. Slow
clearing and not quite so cool
Sunday afternoon.
. UN Negotiators Nominate Three
Other Nations To Police Truce |
BY OLEN CLEMENTS b
MUNSAN, Korea, Sunday, Feb. 17— (AP)—Commun
ist negotiators expressed surprise Saturday at the prompt
Allied rejection of the Red proposal that Russia serve as
one of six neutral supervisors of a Korean armistice.
Allied delegates nominated Switzerland, Norway and
Sweden as neutrals to help police a truce, The Reds indi
cated acceptance. i L R
Governor Vefoes
Consolidation
A proposal to consolidate the
offices of County Tax Collector
and Tax Receiver into an office of
Tax Commissioner came to an end
Friday, when the measure was
vetoed by Governor Herman Tal
madge.
The bill was introduced in the
State House of Representatives by
Clarke County Representatives
Grady Pittard and Chappelle Mat
thews as the result of a publie
meeting held in December,
The bill provided for a re
ferendum on the proposal and
stipulated that the salary for the
Tax Commissioned would be set
by the Board of County Com
missioners, the maximum to be
$7,500. It also provided that such
referedum was to be called by the
County Ordinary .not less than
twenty days nor more than thirt!
dgys after the measure was signed.
Representatives Pittard and
Matthews introduced the bill in
the house and a public hearing was
set on the proposal. No opposition
was voiced at the hearing, the
result, opponents said, of a mis
understanding as to time and date
for the hearing. Mrs. J. J. Lenoir,
chairman of a Citizens Committee,
spoke in favor of the bill,
Second Hearing
The bill was passed by the
House and sent to the Senate and,
in order to give a fair chance to
opponents to give their view,
Senator Robert G. Stephens called
a public hearing, at which time
both sides of the controversy were
represented and spoke. The bill
was then passed by the Senate,
and sent to the Governor with the
Governor's veto following late
Friday.
The following statement by Mrs.
Lenoir, chairman of a Citizens’
Committee which sponsored the
measure, was given to the two
radio stations yesterday and the
Banner-Herald was requested to
publish it today:
“We are very much surprised
by the governor’s veto of the tax
commissioner bill for Clarke
County. The bill was thoroughly
democratic, giving the voters of
the county the right to decide
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Twelfth Night
Drama Group Presents
Shakespearean Play
Of more than usual interest to
local audiences will be the Uni
versity Theatre’s presentation of
William Shakespeare’s romantic
comedy, Twelfth Night on Feb
ruary 26th, 28th and 29th at Fine
Arts Auditorium. Staged by Leigh~
ton M. Ballew, Chairman of the
Department of Speech and Drama
the play will be, in setting and
costume, a finished reproduction
of an Elizabethan performance.
Under the supervision of Paul
Camp, technical director of the
University Theatre, students in the
department have assembled a
Shakespearean stage within the
conventional proscenium arch of
Fine Arts Auditorium and it is on
this replica that the colorful ac
tion has been mounted. The num
erous scenes will flow swiftly from
outer stage to study, to wupper
stage and back again to the other
areas in varying sequence. It is
only in this organic setting that the
full import of Shakespeare’s dra~
matic genius can be realized, since
it is only by the rapid contrasting
of one scene against another that
the true texture of the play ap
pears. Shakespeare often suffers
from having his plays interspersed
with descending ecurtains which
destroy the total effect in much
the same way a movie would be
destroyed by having the projector
stopped intermitteu’ throughout
the course of the filmT.
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The costumes have beén de
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Then, after Saturday’s brief ple
‘nary session on a post-war politi=
Ical conference, North Korea Col
onel Chang Chun San proposed
abruptly that the Soviet Union,
Poland and Czechoslovakia be the
other three neutrals invited to
supervise a truce.
Celonel Don O. Darrow, the se
nior Allied staff officer, replied
*promptly:
“I am authorized to state that
Poland and Czechoslovakia are
acceptable to the United Nations
Command. The Soviet Union is
not acceptable.”
Chang showed surprise, raying,
“We fail to find any reason why
your side should oppose our sug
gestion.”
Darrow reminded him that both
' sides had agreed to invite only
those nations “which have not
Iparticipated in the Korean war,”
and added: .
“I should think it would be ob
vious to your side why the Soviet
Union is not acceptable as a neu
tral nation.”
Soviet Russia trained and equip
ped the North Korean Red army
which started the costly eonflict
June 25, 1950, with an invasion of
the U. N.-sponsored Korean Re
public in the South.
~ Russian Equipment
The Russians since have sup
plied the Communist armies with
‘planes, tAnks and other war ma
teriel. The Air Force has not said
\ Russians are flying the formidable
Soviet-built MIG-15 jet fighters,
but a spokesman commented that
the Red pilots speak the Russian
language.
The Communist nomination of
Russia came at the staff officer
session on the broad issue of ar
mistice supervision. Other staff
officers, meeting on the prisoner
exchange questicn, reported no
progress,
Nor was any progress reported
on the fuli-dress plenar{ session
earlier Saturday. General Nam 11,
the chief Communist delegate,
suggested briefly that the govern
ments represented at a high-level
Korean peace conference choose
their own agenda. |
The new Red proposal said such
a political conference should be
held within three months after an
armistice is signed and should
discuss withdrawal of foreign
troops and “the peaceful settle
ment of the Korean problem, etc.”
Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy,
senior Allied negotiator, raised an
eyebrow at the “etc,” and com
mented “it could mean a lot of
things.” But he sald he would not
attempt, at the moment, to inter
pret the Communist psoposal.
POPULAR WAVE
OAKLAND, Calif.,, Feb. 16 —
(AP)—Moffett Field’s most popu~-
lar wave, Grace Shaull, 23, leaves
for Warm Springs, Ga., Monday
with the best wishes of the Navy
airmen and Bluejackets.
The -Charlotte, Mich.,, woman
was stricken with polio at Moffeit
in October and hag been present
ed with almost everything from
flowers to a television set by the
gang from Moffett,
signed by Miss Gay Dangerfield,
Junior-Artist-in Residence from
London and formerly of the Old
Vie Theatre School. Miss Danger
field has had extensive experience,
lboth with Old Vie and elsewhere,
in Shakespearean design and pro=-
duction, and brings with her to this
job a knowledge and feeling which
are apparent in the finished sets
of costumes. This is the first time
that the costumes have been de
signed and made in entirety, by
the Drama Department for a
Shakespearean production. Mich
ael Sinclair, also a Junior-Artist
in Residence with the department,
has been responsible for the tech
nical decor, including daggers,
swords and halberds.
As director of Twelfth Night,
Ballew has brought a freshness
and inventiveness which may be
appreciated all the more when it
is realized that the play, because
of its many performances through
out the years, has inevitably be
come laden with many ‘“traditional’
I;:iecel of staging and business. He
as introduced several original
touches which- heighten the ¢om
edy and bring added charm to
the romance.
Tickets for the play are priced at
85 cents for townspeople andG 55
cents for students and may be
obtained by calling the Depart
ment of Speech and Drama, 4600,
Extension 228. .
o A
Steel Dispute ,
On All lssues:
By JAMES DEVLIN
NEW YORK, Feb. 16 — (AP) ~=
Hearings in the fateful steel wage
dispute concluded today
management and labor d ‘
on every issue. i 1
A special six-man panel es
Wage Stabilization Board I‘:’z
for 14 days to frequently mevim
onious exchanges and found itself
faced with: {
A warning by the industry that
granting the demands eof CIO
Steelworkers Union would lead to
higher steel prices and meore in-|
flation and threaten the mation’s
economy. l
A union denial of the Mm:a
predictions and a threat o .
650,000 steel workers out on strike
if the demands are not met.
Now the panel will wade
through almost 1,000,000 werds of;
testimony and report to the WSBy,
The WSB will hand down the de«
cision—but it is not binding. I#
has only the force of a recoms=
mendation. L
The union postponed a ghco
duled Jan. 1 strike to Feb. 24 is,
await the WSB decision but panel,
members said it was doubtful the,
WSB could examine arguments on ‘
the union’s 22 proposals and reach
a decision by that time. '
Top policy-makers of the union ’
will meet Feb. 21 in Pittsburgh te
decide their course of action,'’
Sources close to the hearings be- ;
lieve the union will again wst- )
pone the strike pending the WSB;
report, bt union officlals have:
declined to eommit themselves in |
advance,
! A rebuttal by union witnesses to .
“the company's case rounded out*
| the final day of the hearings,’
which began in Washir‘xfm Jan.,
| 10 and moved to New York after
a recess. .
5 Bulk of Testimony
| The bulk of the testimony was
| statistical with each side presemnt-’
]ing professors and economists to
back its argument, but this heavy
evidence was interrupted by bit
ter flare-ups.
Chief antagonists were Philip
Murray, sharp, quick-witted pres
ident of both the CIO as a whole
and of the CIO Steelworkers, and
John Stephens, stock, bass-voiced
field general of industry forces ut
the hearing.
Murray termed industry testi
mony “filthy” and “lying”—parti
cularly a contention that steel
workers alread were the “eco
nomic royalists” of labor with
easy jobs in a “push button” in
dustry.
Stephens denounced as “balder
dash” and “poppycock” Murray’s
contention the Industry wanted a
strike so it could get higher
prices and Murray’s hint that “Big
Steel” had arsenals ready to mow
down workers In event eof “an
economie upheaval.”
Most of the economic arguments
centered around the possibility es
further inflation,
The companies gaid granting the
union demands not only would
force an increase in steel prices
but would lead to a sixth round of
wage Increases in other industries
and boost other prices.
The union argued that the com
panies easily could meet the
steelworkers’ demands without
raising prices. They said higher
wages simply would enable steel
’workers to “catch up” with in
'creases granted last year in other
industries and would not touch off
a new round of pay boosts.
Even the present wage of the
steelworkers was in dispute. The
union has estimated it at from
$1.68 to $1.92 an hour, and the
industry contends it is $1.97.
Power Company
®
Denied Increase
ATLANTA, Feb. 18 — (AP)—
The Georgia Public Service Com
mission said today that the Geor
gia Power Company is now mak
ing a fair profit and is not en
titled to a rate increase.
After nearly eight months of de
liberations, it denied the Comp
any’s application for a $4,275,000
annual rate increase.
The company, citing increasing
operating expenses and higher
taxes, said It needs more maoney to
maintain a rate of return which
would attract Investment eapital.
But the Commission in its order
today estimated that the company’s
earnings this year will represent
a return of 5.7 per cent. PSC
Chairman Matt T, McWhorter said
the Commission believes that will
Fermit the company to maintain
ts dividened payments and im
prave its surplus, :
Most of the Increased operating
costs cited by the company were
accepted by the commission.
But, the ¢ommission said thH#&
company had failed to take into
consideration reduction of the
state property tax and elimination
of a federal excise tax, which
would reduce operating expense
by $1,627,431 annually.