YoL 12. No. 51.
Tin Cali Plague
Grows in Woods
Around Village
Strollers Who Would Enjoy the
Beauties of Nature Are Con
fronted by Piles of Trash
VEGETATION IS DAMAGED
Chapel Hill’s tin can nuisance
Is passing beyond the bounds of
a nuisance and is assuming the
proportions of a plague. Tin
can is used here as a convenient
term to cover all the rubbish
that is hauled out of the village
and diimped in the nearby
•woods.
You fare forth for a stroll, to
uplift the soul by contemplating
the beauties of nature, and pres
ently underneath the boughs of
a dogwood or a hickory, or be
side a copse of beeches and wil
lows, you find yourself confront
ed by a pile of cans, newspapers,
pasteboard boxes, fragments of
wood, broken glass and china,
and worn-out dirty clothing. Sad
ly you turn aside to escape the
ugly mess, and in a few moments
you run into another heap of
Tubbish.
It is not the municipal trash
collecting service that is thus en
gaged in defacing and spoiling
the woods, but individuals who
take their rubbish* out in their
t
own automobiles or hire some
wagoner or truckman to dispose
of it. The wagoner or truckman
is interested only in getting rid
of his load as quickly and as
easily as possible, and any place
along a deserted road or trail,
whefe nobody is looking, is sat
isfactory to him.
The town government has a
remote ravine, fenced-in with a
gate that locks, where it dumps
rubbish two days every week.
The University has a key to the
gate and maintains the dump
jointly with the town.
“We rent this ravine from the
owner, Mrs. Annie Sparrow,”
said Town Manager Caldwell yes
terday. “It is reached by turn
ing off the old Hillsboro road to
the left and is not far this side of
the airport. It is the best place
we could find for dumping, beihg
well away from where people
either ride or walk. We burn
the trash regularly. In fact,
we keep a fire burning there al
most all the time. Everything
burnable is destroyed, so that
the dump is not objectionable
from the point of view of sani
tation.
“For a while we had trouble
from truckmen, not in the em
ploy of the town, who would un
load their stuff on the edge of
the little side road that leads to
the dump, and sometimes actual
ly on the road. This got to be a
serious nuisance, and Mrs. Spar
row and others, very properly,
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Income Tax Reports
The state revenue department
has assigned one of its officials
to Chapel Hill next Friday
and Saturday (March 1 and 2),
90 that aid in the preparation of
income tax reporta may be re
ceived federal and state
representatives at the same
time.
It was announced a week ago
that the deputy collector of in
ternal revenue would be here
March 1 and 2 to aid taxpayers
in making out their, reports for
Uie federal income tax.
The Bank of fchapel Hill will
be headquarters for both the
date'an<jTederal representatives.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
Again Government Puts Men to Work
On the University’s Athletic Field
Work on the University’s new
intramural athletic field—begun
under the C. W. A., suspend
ed, resumed under the E. R. A.,
and again suspended —is
again going forward. The
passer-by sees the field pep
pered with laborers digging, lay
ing pipes, filling ditches, polling
wheel barrows, and tugging piec
es of lumber back and forth.
The on-again, off-again per
formance of the Government,
with respect to this job, has been
confusing. One day the inquir
ing newspaper reporter is told
there is no money, and so the
job must stop. Which is true.
But then a message comes from
Washington to Raleigh, and is
passed on here from Raleigh, to
the effect that fresh funds are
the laborers are
called back to work.
“I believe the work will go
on steadily now until it is fin-
Water-Colorist Will
Conduct Course Here
Nomad Painter Cornea under Auspice*
of Southern Art Projects
Eliot O’Hara, who has won
fame as a water-color painter,
is coming to the University to
conduct a course in water-color
art in the three weeks begin
ning Monday 25. Whoever wants
to get detailed information about
the course should communicate
with Russell M. Grumman, di
rector of the extension division.
The painter is visiting this
and other institutions under the
auspices of the Southern Art
Projects, an enterprise financed
by one of the national founda
tions.
Before Mr. O’Hara won a Gug
genheim fellowship and went to
Europe with his family for two
and a half years of painting, he
conducted an enamel factory in
Massachusetts. A life-long de
sire to paint had been encour
aged by the success of a one
man show in Boston and by the
acceptance erf some of his water
eolors at exhibitions in New
York and Philadelphia. Since
1932 he has lived in Washing
ton, and this summer he is to
open the fifth season of his
School of Water-Color Painting’s
at Goose Rocks Beach, Maine.
Play for the Legion
At their meeting Monday eve
ning the directors of the Chapel
Hill Movie Guild decided to con
tribute the Guild’s net proceeds,
from one Sunday’s play, to the
local post of the American Le
gion. The money will go into
the fund that is being raised for
the reconstruction of the build*
ing (the old Methodist church,
recently the quarters of the
MacMillan Motor Company) at
Rosemary and Henderson
streets. This building was
bought by the post last month.
The play chosen for the Le
gion's day is "Life Begins at
Forty,” in which Will Rogers
will appear here Sunday, March
10.
Paul Robertson, George Tlel
len, and Sergeant Keller, con
stituting a committee of the
Legion post, came to the direc
tors’ meeting and told about the
plans for making over the build
ing. From $1,200 to $1,500 will
be needed.
Mr, Williams Convalesces
Horace Williams is recovering
from an illness. V * ;
CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1935
ished. or certainly with not much
interruption,” said George H.
Lawrence, Government relief
representative in Orange coun
ty, yesterday. “This is one of
those projects, left incomplete
when the C.W.A. went out of ex
istence, which the Government
has decided to complete, and
special provision has been made
for the purchase of the necessary
materials and for the skilled la
bor. The unskilled labor has to
be paid for out of the regular
relief funds, and it was the ex
haustion of those funds that
forced the suspension of oper
ations last week.”
A person looking at the field
has seen very little progress in
the last three or four weeks.
That is because the work has
had to do mostly with drainage.
Now that the pipe lines are laid,
and most of them are covered up,
the construction of the bank of
concrete seats will begin.
Scouts to Assemble
At Dogwood Festival
Joint Celebration at End of April;
Many Exhibits Are Planned
The Dogwood Fastival this
tpring-—April 25, 26, 27, and 28
—will be combined with, a Boy
Scout Jubilee that will bring to
Chapel Hill around a thousand
Scouts from all over the state.
Many of them will live in tents
in the woods around the campus.
Harold D. Meyer is chairman
of the Scout Jubilee committee,
and he will be aided in making
the arrangements for the event
by Obie Harmon and P. L.
Burch.
Russell M. Grumman is pres
ident of the Festival, and Ar
thur P. Hudson is program chair
man.
Exhibits of the arts and crafts
of youth, C. C. C. Camps, and
veterans’ hospitals, will be dis
played in the Graham Memorial
and the Hill music hall. Awards
will be made in every classifica
tion. In the Dogwood Poetry!
contest one prize will be pre
sented to a resident of North
Carolina, and there will be an
other prize for the best poem
from the Southeastern states on
any springtime subject..
The Boy Scouts, in their sev
eral activities, are to be direct
ed by national, state, and local
council executives. A “mass pro
gram” is announced for one eve
ling in the Kenan stadium with
iddresses by Governor Ehring
iaus, President Graham, and Na
tional Scout Executive James E.
West.
Senator Nye to Speak Sunday
United States Senator Gerald,
P. Nye will speak at 8 o’clock |
Sunday evening in Memorial hall
on “Munitions Rackets.” Mr.
Nye is chairman of the Senate’s
munitions investigation commit
tee. The public is invited.
Community Club Meets Today
The Community Club will
meet at 3:30 this (Friday) af
ternoon in the Episcopal parish
house. The art department will
be in charge. Mrs. Phillips Rus
sell will give a demonstration of
wood carving.
Rudy VaHee Here Next Week
“Sweet Music,” with Rudy
Vallee and Ann Dvorak, will be
the attraction Monday at the
Carolina Theatre. “After Of
fice Hours,"” with Clark Gable,
will be shown Tuesday and
Wednesday. N *
Chapel Hill Chaff
Never a week passes that a
village editor doesn’t receive a
suggestion that he write some
thing or other about this or that.
I like these suggestions and fre
quently follow them out. Some
times, when I am asked to ex
press another person’s opinion
as my own and am not quite
sure I want to commit myself to
the proposed laudation or ex
coriation, I reply: “You write it
and sign your name to it, and I
will be glad to publish it.” I
have observed that often that re
ply brings a look of consternation
to the face of my neighbor and
he drops the subject abruptly.
The trouble about some of the
proposed topics is that I neglect
to note them down and so forget
all about them. One that I for
got was this: “I wish you would
write something about what is
proper telephone procedure. I
am surprised at how many
people don’t say who they are
when they call you to the phone.
It seems to me anybody ought to
know that the caller should tell
at once who he or she is. This
is the considerate thing to do,
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University Students and Professors Join in
* A Celebration Called “Student-Faculty Day”
The University had on Wed
nesday a celebration that was
called "student-faculty day.”
The main idea was for the stu
dents and the professors to get
better acquainted with each
other. Students had the profes
sors as guests at luncheon and
dinner, at the Carolina Inn, at
fraternity houses, and at restau
rants; and the professors held
open-house for the students in
the various department offices.
Then there were exhibits, some
depicting the history of the
University, others illustrating
the activities of the depart
ments. They Anged from the
English department’s rare vol
umes and prints through the
psychology department’s white
mice to the medical school’s
hearts, livers, and tumors. W.
C. Coker’s herbarium made a
great hit.
There was a convocation in
the morning with talks by Kemp
D. Battle and Frank P. Graham.
The holiday closed with a stunt
program in Memorial hall; one of
the headliners for this occasion
Garden Club Meeting
The Chapel Hill Garden Club
will meet at 4 o'clock Monday af
ternoon in the Sunday school
room of the Presbyterian church.
Mrs. Clarence Heer will talk on
raising flowers from seeds sown
in the open ground.
Ribbons will be awarded in the
following classes: (1) arrange
ments of bulb flowers, all of one
kind; (2) arrangement of more
than one kind of bulb flowers;
(3) arrangement of flowering
shrub or tree; (4) a plant or
bulbs grown indoors; (5) collec
tion of flowers and bulbs; (6)
any arrangement other than
those specified.
Every exhibit should be
brought to the Sunday school
room by 3 o'clock, with a card
bearing the name of the member
and the number of the class in
whiefl the display is to be en
tered. • -
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TheJPender grafts’ Daughter
A Daughter was born to Mr,
and Mrs. Odis Pendergraft
Thursday, February 14, in Watts
Hosnital. ' * * •
Concrete Surface Suggested
For Section of Raleigh Road
That Is to Be Rebuilt Soon
L. R. Wilson Coming
Louis R. Wilson, formerly Li
brarian and member of the fac
ulty here, now dean of the grad
uate library school in the Uni
versity of Chicago, has accepted
an invitation from the Univer
sity to be a guest lecturer in
the Summer Session. During
the fifth week of the first term,
in mid-July, he will participate
in the course in the program of
educational reconstruction (S
--107) and the course in higher
education (S-200).
Library administration and
reading habits are two of the
topics which Mr. Wilson will
discuss.
Another announcement from
the office of E. W. Knight, di
rector of the Summer Session, is
that Willard E. Givens, former
superintendent of schools in
Oakland, California, now secre
tary of the National Education
Association, will give two public
lectures here Monday, August
19.
was Robert B. House, dean,
with his mouth-harp; and Fred
dy Johnson’s orchestra played
lively tunes.
One of the exhibits was that
of the Alumni Association, re
flecting the University’s con
tacts with its 17,000 alumni.
Another was a lay-out of ath
letic trophies. The dean of stu
dents’ office depicted the wel
fare program. The Playmakers
showed stage models and scen
ery. Charts and graphs were
shown by’ the school of com
merce, and books by the Univer
sity Press. Many of the exhib
its were in the Graham Me
morial and the Library; the sci
ence departments displayed
theirs in their own buildings.
Because of ttye keen interest
in the exhibits, and the expres
sion of a desire, by parents and
friends of the students, to see
them, it has been decided to
keep them open through tomor
row (Saturday) night. Many
people, scattered over the state,
have sent word that they ex
pect to be here tomorrow.
“Student-faculty day was a
success in every respect,” says
the student paper, the Tar Heel,
in an editorial. “We believe that
all concerned enjoyed the rela
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Woman Is Killed
Effie Markham, 20-year-old
Negro woman, was shot and
killed by Floyd Norwood, 26-
year-old Negro man, Saturday
night in a home near the west
end of Franklin street. Then
Norwood was shot by John Mark
ham, the woman’s brother.
Norwood, now in Lincoln hos
pital, Durham, is held without
bond on a charge of murder.
Markham is held in jail in Carr
boro; the charge against him
cannot be determined until it is
known whether or not Norwood
will recover.
Coroner Nathan, who held an
inquest, said that there was evi
dence indicating that the bullet
that killed Effie Markham waa
meant for another woman.
Norwood admitted that he did
(be shooting but said the fatal
result was an accident.
11*50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy
Traffic, Already Heavy, Stead
ily Growing, and Highway of
Best Type Will Be Needed
ECONOMICAL IN LONG RUN
It has not been mentioned in
the public prints, and has been
talked about very little else
where, but the fact has become
known that a concrete 1 surface
has been proposed for the 6-mile -
section of road, on route 54 be
tween here and Raleigh, that is
soon to be reconstructed.
A contract for reconstruction
with asphalt and crushed stone
—the same type oi surface that
wore out and was torn up—has
already been let, and the change
to concrete would necessitate a
$150,000, whereas . the contract v
The cancellation might be ar
ranged, through negotiation and
adjustment, but there is another
difficulty: the 6 miles of con
crete, laid according to the lat
est approved specifications, with
a width of 20 feet, would cost
$150,000, whereas the contract
now standing calls for an expen
diture of only $22,000.
Some of the most respected
engineering counsel offered to
Capus Way nick, chairman of
the state highway commission,
is to the effect that financial *
common-sense demands concrete
on this stretch of road. No. 54
(Graham - Chapel Hill - Nelson)
provides the shortest route be
tween Greensboro and Raleigh.
The traffic over it has grown
steadily, and there is no ques
tion that it will continue to
grow.
The Greyhound Lines an
nounced recently that they
would soon apply to the Utilities
Commissioner for a franchise to
operate busses over No. 54, and
their application, backed vigor
ously by Chapel Hill and other
communities along the route, is '
apt to be granted. And more
and more trucks and ordinary
passenger cars are passing over
the road. Under this heavy
volume of traffic the asphalt
and-crushed-stone surface will
not stand up for long.
When Mr. Waynick was here
at the .week-end he was asked
about the prospect for concrete.
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The Ballet Russe
The advance sale of tickets
for the performance of Colonel
W. de Basil’s “Ballet Russe de
Monte Carlo” in the Page audi
torium, Duke University Mon
day evening, March 4, is remi
niscent of the company’s first
appearance in the United States
last season. At that time all
seats in a large New York
theatre were reserved more than
three weeks before the opening
night and a four-weeks’ engage
ment was extended to ten weeks.
i J. Foster Barnes, local man
ager, reports that three weeks
before the scheduled date for
the appearance of the dancers
here the entire mezzanine and
balcony sections of the locqj au
ditorium are already reserved,
and many choice seats on the
orchestra floor have been taken.
Approximately 300 persons
were turned away at (he box of
fice when the company appeared
here last March. Mr, Barnes
expects all seats to be taken
several days in advance. The
performance Durham this
year will be the baHct’s only
stop in either of the Carolines,