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Vol. 5. No. 18 BUDGET REVEALS MANY CHANGES IN LAST FIVE YEARS Scope of Municipal Services Vastly Increased; Sur plus in Treasury COST SCHEDULE APPROVED With the 1927-1928 budget which he laid before the board of aldermen Monday evening, and which the board approved, Town Manager Knox submitted a report showing the expansion of municipal activities in the last five years. When the present administra tion came in there was a deficit of $8,134 in the operation ac counts. There is now a surplus of $5,311. The tax rate was $1.42 l /> in 1922; it was $1.38 in 1926. The amount of monies hand led by the town government in creased from $47,500 in 1921- 1922; for the coming year, it is estimated at $259,000. The number of automobiles in Chapel Hill in 1921 was 95; it is now 500. The volume of traf fic on the streets has increased in an even greater ration. Street maintenance was reduced from $6,884 in 1921 to $5,010 in 1926. This reduction is due chiefly to the construction of the streets. In .the last five years $275,000 has been spent for permanent improvements paving, curbs and gutters, new grading and surfacing of unpaved streets7 sewers, lighting, and building. Much has been said, from time to time, about the fact that the University’s property is tax exempt; but Mr. Knox’s report shows that, in place of taxes, the University makes contributions to various services from which it derives a benefit. For exam ple, it stood half the cost of the sewer lines and disposal plant built a year or so ago. And it contributes to the upkeep of the police and health departments. The number of sewer connec tions in the village increased from 180 in 1922 to 440 in 1927. There were 40 street lights then, there are 95 now. Four teen fire hydrants have been add ed since 1922, bringing the count to 39, ami the University’s wa ter department, which serves the village as well as the campus, has laid larger mains in order to provide better fire protection. The annual cost of operating the fire-fighting service went up from $456 in 1921 to $1,770 this last year. Police expense has increased from $3,389 to $6,439; but the net increase to the town has been only S6O, since the University’s contribution has gone up from $360 to $3,000 and the income from court costs from zero to $350. The net cost of the health de partment is estimated at $1,890 for the coming year, as against $925 in 1922. The town now has a full-time health officer and a negro community nurse. Dairies, markets, and restaurants are in spected and must meet tests es tablished by the state govern ment. Story Hour Next Wednmduy Mias Jessie Gay Van Cleve will have a Story Hour next Wednesday afternoon at five o'clock on the cam pus in front of the geology building. Everybody, from six years oid up, is invited. Miss Van Cleve, a specialist in children’s Ptcrature, lx connected with the American Library Association. She is giving courses in children's reading in t hi Summer School. The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor Chapel Hill Chaff Some weeks ago I chronicled R. P. McClamroch’s industry as a gardener. Afterward I learn ed that I had happened to pass the place on the only day in many —months —when —he —had" wielded the hoe, and that it was Mrs. McClamroch who had made and cherished the garden. A score or so of my neighbors came by my lot when I happened to’ be mowing the lawn for the first time in years, and all dur ing the next week they were pay ing me compliments on my care of the grass. One of the shame less abstainers from gardening is E. C. Branson. “Yes, I fre quently do a bit of gardening,” he said in reply to my question; “in fact, I have tried it three times in the last 14 years.” Dr. Charles S. Mangum, when he was first married, gave his wife to understand that he knew nothing whatever about plants or the management thereof, and Uncle Jim Johnson did the work in th<p Mangum garden for twenty years. Then one time, in a period when Unde Jim could not come, the doctor, on a whim, took off his coat and manipulated the pruning shears with an expertness that amazed Mrs. Mangum. He explained that he had received a thorough training as a flower cultivator in his early youth. When she inquired why it had been kept a secret, he answered: “Oh, I (Continued on page four) Uusseirs New Hook Coming Out in August; Author in Chapel Hill for .Short Stay Phillips Russell, member of a distinguished North Carolina family and an alumnus of the University, has written a biog raphy of John Paul Jones. Bren tano’s will put it out in August. This follows closely upon his book on Benjamin Franklin, which was acclaimed by the critics as one of the best pieces of biographical writing .ever done by an American. Mr. Russell was in Chapel Hill Friday, having come by auto mobile from New York with Berkley (1. Tobey, Brentano’s advertising manager, and Mrs. Tobey. They went on to Rock ingham, Mr. Russell’s old home, the next morning. The author’s friends here, as always upon the return of an alumnus who has gone out into the world and achieved fame, in terrogated him eagerly about his activities. They learned that he was merely taking a short breathing spell after his com pletion of the sea fighter’s biog raphy He has already arranged with his publishers to edit a vol ume of biographical sketches of famous Americans. The open ing sketch, on Emerson, will be written by Mr. Russell himself. The authorship of the others has not yet been announced. A Good Fishing Trip Mr. and Mrs. Paul Robertson and Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Wells went to Pamlico Beach on a fishing trip at the week-end. They caught 187 fish Monday morning croakers, sand perch, trout, hogfish, sea mullets, spots, and oystsr toads. The party traveled in the Welts car. Mail Carriers to Meet Robert Neville of Chapel Hill and Messrs. Walker and Liner of Hilla boro will go aa delegates from Or ange county to the meeting of the Raleigh next Monday and Tueaday. The carriers expect to have a con ference with state highway officials about roads on tha rural routes. CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1927 Seiwell Will Cruise around the World on a Scientific Expedition A keen mind, and an enthusi asm for research that never flagged during all his college course, has won for Dick Sei well, who was graduated from the University this year, a glori ous adventure. The Carnegie Institute has selected him to take charge of the biological and chemical ob servations on the good ship Car negie. The vessel is to start out one year hence on a cruise of three or four years. It will go to the Arctic and the Antarctic —as near to* each pole as pos sible—and to all the other seas. Before its mission is ended it will have circumnavigated the globe several times. Primarily it is a physicists’ expedition, with a study of ter restrial magnetism as the chief objective. But the company of scientists must also include a man who is qualified as a biologi cal oceanographer, and Seiwell is that man. He will collect soil frorp the bottom of the ocean, and fauna and flora from the bottom and all the intermediate depths. He will make observations of tem peratures near the poles, in the tropics, and in the temperate latitudes, and at all the levels. And in this work he will have the aid of the finest instruments that money can buy. After the cruise is completed and the Carnegie has been laid up in the drydock, he will settle down in some quiet place—for months, maybe for years—to S. W. ANDREWS GIVES H A complete list of all revalua tions for Chapel Hill was hand ed to me today, .June 27, and l am mailing a notice to each tax payer of the increase or decrease and the date of the county meet ing to hear complaints at Hills boro, which is Monday, July 11. I am frank to say that 1 still feel that the assessments are too high, hut that with a few ex ceptions they are on a fair equal ity basis. Now, what is likely to happen is: that many of our citizens will complain and get a reduction on their property, while the masses will feel that they should abide the apprais ers’ values and groan under the tax burdens. With all honesty, I feel that I)r. Carroll apd Mr. Fowler should make one blanket reduction of from 6 to 10%, and thus keep all on the same equal ity basis and then let the entire town fight any reductions by the commissioners. 1 know how easy it is to slip before the board BROADCASTING STATION AT PICKWICK NEXT WEEK A broadcasting station, to spread through the land all the music, eloquence and wit that University students and Chapel Hill citizens are prepared to sup ply, will be operated in the Pick wick Theatre all of next week. Sidney Shepard, manager of the enterprise and also announc er, arrived here day before yes terday, and he and the Pickwick chief, L. J. Phipps, have been busily engaged in preparations. The broadcasting apparatus will be mounted on a temporary stage in front of the screen. The wave length is 201, and the programs can be heard with in a radius of 1,000 miles. The first broadcasting will be done Sunday avening at nine o’clock, with the ministers of the village and some invited guests write reports upon the secrets he has made the sea give up. A curious thing about the Came trie is that it has to be a~ non-magnetie ship. Otherwise the study of terrestrial magnet ism could not be made from its decks. Therefore it will not have any iron or steel anywhere about it. All its metal parts are to be of bronze. It will be equipped with sails as well as an oil-burning engine. Within a few weeks Seiwell will go to work to superintend the construction of his labora tory on-the boat. The fall, the winter, and most of the spring will be thus consumed, and the expedition will set forth in May. The first destination is the Arc tic; the next, probably, the Antarctic; and thence the Car negie will go to Norway, and to the principality of Monaco on the Mediterranean, and to Na ples, and then-*-everywhere. One thing the scientists on the vessel intend to do is to check William Beebe’s observations in the Humboldt current off the Peruvian coast the current that brings the flora and fauna of the Antarctic northward to mingle with those of tropical waters. And they hope, too, to survey Pacific isles which have not yet been definitely charted. Captain Ault will be both the chief of the expedition and the master of the ship. Dick Seiwell is from Pennsyl vania. In the last two summers he‘has been engaged in investi gations around Cape Cod. IS VIEWS ON ASSESSMENTS and get a little off. This is no time for favoritism, but let all share a reduction if any is to be made, unless some real inequality has been made. With a reduction of farm values all over the county the total val ues will likely full far below 1926, but it is manifestly unfair to make Chapel Hill shoulder the taxes by increasing its val ues. If the taxes must be kept up to the same amount, let the rate be increased, so all citizens will share. Citizens of Chapel Hill, now is the time to act, not after the taxes are levied. Our assessors are honest men. They can be convinced that a reduction should be made if the town feels that way, but they cannot be convinced that a small majority shall have reductions and the rest shoulder the taxes. Most respectfully, S. W. Andrews, i Tax Linter present. The public perform ances will begin Monday, July 4. “We intend to have the'broad casitng at H:ls and 10:15, at the end of each moving picture show,” says Mr. Phipps. “Ev erybody \vho has anything to ‘put on the air’ is invited to come forward and put it there. We plan to have an old-time fiddlers’ convention Wednesday night. Violinist, saxaphonist, pianist, fiddler, singer, orator, monolog ist, joke-teller, whatever you are, step up and tell the world.’’ Mr. Shepard has been going about the country with his ap paratus and he says that every where there have many vol unteers. Anybody w}io wants to have a try at broadcasting is in vited to fill out the coupon (on page 4 of this paper) and send it in to the Pickwick Theatre. Sleep under the Plane Eugene Cate and Bill Proutv Serve as Watchmen fur Aircraft Eugene Cate and William Prouty sleep every night under the wing'of the Ratliff airplane down on the meadow opposite Jack Sparrow’s filling station. • These boys are chums, and ever since they were five years old* they have held to the deter mination to be aviators. It was a big day for them when Mr. Ratliff brought his plane to Chapel Hill, and they were among his first patrons. Be fore he had been here a day he had bargained with them to lx* the night-time guardians of his craft. They have a mattress and three blankets which they place on the ground directly under the spreading wing. The mosquitoes almost devoured them the first night; then they got a net, anil now when they go to bed they hang it from the guy ropes around their bed, ami so have complete protection. Two dollars and a half, joint ly, is their pay for a night’s watching; but they have been taking it out in rides instead of cash. Eugene has made six trips and Bill five. Mr. Ratliff has done a brisk business. On one day he made 49 trips, and on about half of these he took two passengers. At $3 a head this means big money. He plans to leave here for Rockingham in a day or two, possibly to return later on. Jim Snipes Detained Police Doubt llis Ownership of Car; He almost Mis„v» Speech The delegates to the drug meeting in Greensboro last week gave a hearty enough welcome to Jim Snipes, the negro janitor and handyman at Eubanks’ drugstore, but the municipality of Greensboro didn’t show him an agreeable kind of hospitality. From here Jim took a pharma ceutical group to the convention in his Buick car. After he had deposited his passengers at a ho tel he drove round in search of a garage. Wont had gone out to the police of a recently stolen Buick, and presently Jim was stopped by an officer and close ly questioned. His assurances did-not satisfy, and he was taken to the police station. There they continued to ply him with ques tions. He became more nervous every minute. "Boss, I came to Greensboro to hear Mr, Eubanks’ speech,” he pleaded, “and if you don’ lemme go I’ll sho miss it.” At length the officers were convinced that the Buick was Jim’s own property. So he left the station, found a garage in which to leave his car, and reached the druggists’ meeting in time to occupy a seat which Mr, Eubanks had reserved for him. The Koch Household Frederick Koch is a member of the band at Morehead. George Koch is recovering from a slight illness. Mrs. Koch arrived in Chapel Hill Friday night with Bobby and Billy after a visit to her mother In Denver. Mr. Koch is still in California. School Board Remains the Same Dr. E. A. Abernathy and E. W. Knight, school board merobars whoso tarms expired, wans ro-alactad at a joint meting of tha alderman and the school board Ijonday evening. Tha other members are Mrs. W. D. Toy,. W. fi. Roberson, N. W. Wejker, and R, A Eubanks. $1.50 a Year in Advance. sc. a Copy ASKS PERMIT FOR FILLING STATION NEXT TO CHURCH But >lr. Rickard Probably Won’t ~ Press Matter if Much Opposition Develops BO\feD DEFERS DECISION An application from Clarence Pickard for a permit to erect a filling station on the lot next to the Presbyterian church, imme diately across the street from the Graham Memorial building, was submitted to the board of aider men at their meeting Monday evening. They postponed their decision until July 11. Thus far there have been no store or other business struc tures in this part of the village, and a great many citizens of Chapel Hill would like to have the present character of the neighborhood preserved. It is understood that Mr. Pickard is not disposed to press the matter if the prevailing community sentiment is opposed to the de velopment. He is himself a prominent member of the Pres byterian church, and if his fel low churchmen offer objection, he will probably withdraw his application. Two or three years ago this same proposal was advanced, but it was abandoned when pro tests were made. Chapel Hill has no zoning law of its own, prescribing the char acter of structures that may be erected in various parts of town, but the state laws are thought to give the aldermen a wide dis cretion in determining what per mits may be granted. The board has authorized a committee to make a study of the problem with a view to the drafting of a proper ordinance. Interest in the subject was stim ulated when it was learned, sev eral weeks ago, that the lot which M. R. Trabue had bought from H. 11. Williams, at the cor ner of Franklin and Boundary streets, might become the site of a filling station. At this time M. E. Hogan was planning to buy the lot adjoining Mr. Tra bue’s, but would not close the deal until he was assured that Mr. Trabue had decided to hold the corner for the building of a home. In recent years municipalities ail over the United States have enacted zoning laws, and many of these have been tested in the courts. They have been upheld in ulmost every ease. The Su preme Court of the United States recently upheld a statute prohibiting business structures in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Lectures under the Poplar A series of lectures, called the summer school chautauqua, to be delivered under the Davie Pop lar on the campus, is to begin this (Friday) evening at 7:30. Robert B. House, executive sec cretary to the University, will make the first talk, and his top ic will be “North Carolina His tory Prior to the Civil War.” Later on Mr. House will deliv er a second lecture on “North Carolina After the Civil War.” Everybody is cordially invited to hear the speeches. I Mrs. Branson Hurt bjr Fall Mm K C Branson » bad while going down to her cellar last week. One of the bones in her foot was broken, and the foot has had to M put in a plaster cast She goes > about on crutches.
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