~V«L 13. No. 3.
Board Seeks to
End Dumping of
Trash in Woods
Town’s Collection Service Is
Extended to Families be
yond Corporate Limits
FEE IS 75 CENTS A MONTH
The dumping of trash in the
■woods around Chapel Hill, a
nuisance which has caused much
complaint in recent months,
was discussed by the board of
aldermen at its meeting this
week.
The aldermen decided to di
rect the town manager to place
the trash-collecting service at
the disposal of people who live
on the outskirts of Chapel Hill.
Hitherto the municipal truck
has seryed only families with
in the town limits. This restric
tion has created a situation such
as the one described the other
day by a woman whose home is
just over the line:
“I do not want to contribute
to spoiling the woods, but I And
it difficult not to do so. I must
employ somebody with a truck
to take the trash away, and I
cannot have any control over
where he dumps it. If I were
allowed to, I would be glad to
pay the fee and have the muni
cipal service.”
The fee charged by the town
for collecting and hauling away
garbage and trash is 75 cents a
month (payable by the quarter,
$2.25). The truck comes twice
a week to the home of every
citizen who subscribes to the
service. A requirement is that
garbage and trash be kept in
suitable containers which can
be lifted and emptied into the
truck.
Explaining the aldermen’s ac
tion, Mayor Foushee said after
the meeting: “What the board
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More Hard-Surfacinsr
Tewn Hope* to Add to IU Mileage
of Improved Streets
With a fresh supply of Gov
ernment money in prospect for
work projects, the town of
Chapel Hill hopes to extend its
mileage of streets improved
with a tar-and-crushed-stone
surface. The mayor and the
town manager have been direct
ed by the aldermen to get into
communication with the E.R.A.
authorities with a view to ob
taining aid in labor and ma
terials.
Stretches scheduled for sur
facing, if the enterprise can be
financed, are west Rosemary
street, Church street north of
Rosemary, the easternmost block
of Rosemary, and the Glenbur
nie road block connecting with
east Rosemary. ,
With the aid of the Govern
ment, 70,000 square yards of
Chapel Hill’s streets were sur
faced last year. The cost to the
town waa about SIO,OOO.
Logans Are in Flor-r-rida
Mrs. George B. Logan, her
four daughters (Henrietta,
Alice, Jean, and Georgia),
Nancy Shields, and the three
Scotty pups left for Florida one
<iay last week—all, with several
articles of baggage, in the Lo
gan family car. “Where’ll you
spend tonight?” a friend asked
Mrs. Logan at the post-office
just before she set out. “Oh, I
don’t know,” replied the exub
erant Scotchwoman. ‘‘What dif
fer-rr-r-enee does it make?
Anywhere we happen to be
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
University Coach Keniield To Hold
Tennis Classes for Boys of Village
Something that many parents
in Chapel Hill have been want
ing a long time—expert instruc
tion in tennis for their sons not
yet of college age—is now to be
provided.
In response to many requests
John F. Kenfield, the Univer
sity tennis coach, has decided to
conduct a series of ten lessons.
Robert A. Fetzer, director of
athletics, has authorized the use
of University courts for this
purpose, and the first lesson is
scheduled for 10 o’clock tomor
row (Saturday) morning.
Any boy as old as 10 years,
in either the elementary school
or the high school, is eligible.
The fee is 25 cents a lesson, or
$2.50 for the series. Those who
care to take the instruction are
asked to come to the courts to
morrow. Any parent or boy who
would like to talk with Mr. Ken
field about the project may tele
phone him at his home (No.
4656).
“I don’t know how many will
JL C. S. Noble Is 80
But He’s Still Active; Drives His
Car and Goes to Meetings
Marcus Cicero Stephens Noble
is 80 years old to-day.
Although he is a patriarch of
education in North Carolina
and has the word “Emeritus”
attached to his professorial title,
he defies the years. He still
drives his ,a r, Jfiot only about
the village but also to Raleigh,
where he visits his son and pur
sues historical studies in the
state archives. H e goes to
Greensboro for the meetings of
the board of trustees of the
North Carolina Agricultural and
Technical College (Negro). He
is president of the Bank of
Chapel Hill and rarely misses
the weekly meeting of the direc
tors. And he continues to en
tertain his friends with his rem
iniscences and his wit and his
pungent comments upon the af
fairs of the day.
A horoscopist might say that
the date of his birth—the “Ides
of March,” celebrated in Roman
history—exerted an influence
upon Mr. Noble’s career. May
be upon his parents first, for
they gave him a famous Roman
name. And when the boy grew
up one of his chief delights was
the study of Latin. His gradu
al g thesis here in the Univer
sity was written completely in
Latin, and today his conversa
tion is freely peppered with
Latin phrases.
Because his birthday was
the Ides of March, I have often
wondered why they didn’t name
him Julius Caesar instead of
Marcus Cicero. * Was it because
of the bloody association of
ideas daggers thrust to the
heart on that day of doom in the
Forum? No doubt the choice
of Marcus Cicero was all for
the best Had he been named
Julius Caesar, the boy might
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State Local Total
X, 2, a, 4,6, 8
9, 14, 15, 17 - 60.00 16.60 76.60
6, 10, 16 , 58.33 1646 83.49
7, 11™:! -. ~ 56.66 14.73 71.39
1£ 13 -1. 65.00 14.30 69.30 |
18 51.66 18.43 .65.09
CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, MARCH 15,1935
want to join the class,” said Mr.
Kenfield yesterday, “but there
seems to be a good deal of in
terest in having the school boys
learn something about tennis.
The University students have
the opportunity to play, but
there has been no such oppor
tunity for the younger crowd in
Chapel Hill. We’ll start the
series of lessons this spring as
an experiment, and if it proves
successful it will be kept up.”
A lesson will last about two
hours. The coach will give
every boy individual instruc
tion. Sometimes he will have
the whole company standing
around while he explains and
demonstrates. Sometimes h e
will match the boys against one
another, in singles and doubles,
and will go from one court to
another to watch them and give
them pointers.
Most of the lessons will prob
ably be held Saturday mornings,
but there will be some after
school hours on other days.
have become a soldier. As it
was, he developed powers of elo
quence and persuasion, which
was far better for his native
state and for civilization in gen
eral than if he had devoted his
energies, in the post-Civil War
period, to pacifying the Sioux,
the Comanches, and the Nava
jos.
He was one of that band of
pioneers who, back in the BG’s of
the last century, laid the foun
dations of the public school sys
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Cold Snap Doesn’t Retard March of Spring;
Look at the Beautiful Flowers All Around!
“And, We Trust, No Frost Is
in- the Offing.” This is the
headline the Baltimore Evening
Sun places over a reprint of the
article, in last week’s issue of
this paper, about the daffodils
and the hyacinths- and violets
and the fruit blossoms and the
bees.
Well, Chapel Hill hasn’t had
the frost yet, but not long after
the jubilant welcome to the sun
shine and the flowers appeared
in print the village was gripped
by a cold wave. The fear of this
was suggested in our opening
paragraph: “Os course nobody
knows how long the warm weath
er will stay, but why borrow
trouble from the future?”
That’s the way it is when you
write about the weather, espec
ially at this capricious in-be
tween season: you have to
hedge, to prevent your report
from being absurdly out of ac
cord with the skies and the at
mosphere. You never can tell
what will come about overnight.
It has sometimes happened that
one of our exultant announce
ments of the coming of spring,
written in almost tropical
warmth, has reached our read
ers in the midst of a cold rain
or a snowstorm.
The rain poured and the wind
blew on Tuesday of this week.
Salaries of Chapel Hill Teoohera, per Honth an 12-Montha Basie
1
If State Grant* j
25% Increase
State Local Total
75.00 15.80 90.60
72.91 15.16 88.07
70.80 14.78 85,53
68.75 14,30 83.05
Chapel Hill Chaff
The news of the day is always
mystifying you about geog
raphy. A Japanese army in
vades the Asian mainland, and
the despatches are peppered with
the names of provinces, moun
tain ranges, cities, and rivers
that you either never heard of
before or have forgotten. You
don’t know whether such-and
such a river is as wide as the
Hudson or about the size of Mor
gan’s creek, or whether it flows
down toward "China or into Some
sea up toward the Arctic. Italy
and Abyssinia get into a row,
and all at once Somaliland be
comes highly important. Where
is Somaliland? On the east or
the west coast, or on no coast at
all ? And is it mountain land or
a flat desert ? A rebellion breaks
out in Greece, and you read of
Crete and Kavala and Xanthi
and Salonika and scores of
other places. You recall having
read a lot about Salonika in the
W’orld War, but you can’t re
member which side of Greece
(or Turkey) it is on. And just
where is Crete? Is it east,
south, or west of the Grecian
peninsula? Somehow it is all
mixed up in your mind with
Rhodes and Samos and Cyprus.
Cablegrams bring the news
that the Hyatts of Wadesboro
are safe at Xanthi and that the
Jenkinsas of Franklin are safe
at Kavala, which moves the
News and Observer to reflect
upon the “outlandishneas” of
these places to people in North
Carolina. “Yet in the world’s
knowledge Xanthi looms larger
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It turned cold that night, and
the mercury dropped to around
the freezing point. Wednesday
was fair, and the mercury climb
ed into the 50’s. Again yester
day the sun shone brilliantly.
As this is written the air is los
ing its bite, and the Government
weather forecast says “warmer
Friday.”
The brief cold snap was not
severe enough to retard the
march of spring. Flowers are
blossoming gloriously, and the
trees are beginning to burst into
leaf. One of the most beautiful
sights in Chapel Hill this week
is the golden forsythia on the
McClamrochs’ terrace on Senlac
road. Also, there are forsythia
hedges bordering Cameron ave
nue on both sides between the
Playmakers Theatre and the
east gate. The plum and the
peach are in full bloom, the Ju
das and the Japanese cherry
are adout to bloom. And the
beauty-seeker will do well to go
to the Arboretum for a look at
the Japanese magnolia.
Legion Meeting This Evening
The Chapel Hill post of the
American Legion will meet at
7:30 this (Friday) evening in
the Episcopal parish house. This
is the Legion’s 16th birthday.
NEGRO
. Present v ;
State Local Total
19, 29, 23, 29 88.66 7.01 45.67
- 24, 25 87.38 6.76 44.09
80 - ; ...... 86.00 6.53 42.63
• a -.t . 6.80 40.96
99 • 1 33.88 6.04 39.87
i] 27 28 580 37 80
Government Plans to Spend
$165,000 in This County
For Rural Electrification
Wine, Beer, and Liquor
It is sometimes said that in
the United States, except in
communities where there is a
large element of the foreign
born, drinkers do not have
much taste for beer and wine,
that what they crave and insist
upon having is spirituous liquor.
This statement seems to be jus
tified by the consumption of vast
quantities of liquor, legal and
illegal. Yet the greater demand
for the milder beverages, in cer
tain parts of the country, leads
some people to believe that a
change in governmental policy,
federal and state, might make
Americans more of a wine- and
beer-drinking, and less of a li
quor-drinking, people. Nobody
knows how much truth there is
in this belief, but, in view of the
general agreement that fer
mented and malt drinks are less
injurious than spirits, it would
seem worth while to make an ef
fort, at least, to frame tax laws
and restrictive laws in such a
manner as to encourage people to
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Hunt to Open Garden
He Is to Moke a Beauty Spot of Lot
on Cameron Avenue
At their meeting Wednesday
evening the board of aldermen
granted the request of William
Hunt to open a horticultural gar
den on the old Wilson Caldwell
estate on Cameron avenue be
tween Ben Pritchard’s and the
old Lloyd house now occupied
by Leon Wiley. Mr. Hunt made
the request to the aldermen in
order to be sure that the enter
prise would not conflict with the
town’s zoning regulations.
He will use the lot for the pro
pagation and display of many
varieties of flowers. He expects
to make his new place even more
beautiful than the iris garden
which he has had on North
street for the last few years.
Do Your Part to Help End
This Nuisance
If your garbage and trash
are being disposed of in such
a manner as to deface the
woods around the village, in
quire at the town hall about
the municipal garbage-and
trash-collection service. It is
now available to the families
outside of the town limits as
well as to those inside. Read
the article in column 1, page
1, of this issue? Do your part
to end the nuisance of dump
heaps in the woods.
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Runners Leave for New York
The University’s two repre
sentatives in the 68th annual
Indoor Games of the New York
Athletic Club will leave for New
York today. Harry Williamson
will compete In the mile race ar'’
Hawthorne in the 60-yard high
hurdles.
If State Grants
»% lucre**#
State Local Total
48,82 7.01 55.33
46.86' 6.76 53.42
46.00 6.53 51.58
4 43.82 6.80' 49*62
41.66 6,04 47/70
I * 40.00 5.80 45J0
$1.56 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy
Decision Is Result of Prompt
Survey and Presentation of
Clear Statement to EJLA.
PRATT AND WEAVER AIDED
*
The United States Govern
ment’s Emergency Relief Ad
ministration has approved an
allotment of $165,000 for rural
electrification in Orange county.
This does not mean that the
work will begin at once, for the
money cannot be spent until a
relief appropriation bill becomes
law; but it does mean that the
construction of the electric lines
will be put under way when
funds for work projects are vot
ed by Congress.
The reason Orange is on the
preferred list for this type of
improvement is that Relief Ad
ministrator George H. Law
rence, County Farm Agent Don
Matheson, County Accountant
G. W. Ray, and County Com
missioners Hanner, Berry, and
Durham, with encouragement
and aid from Colonel Joseph
Hyde Pratt and D. S. Weaver,
the state supervisor of rural
electrification projects, were
prompt and vigorous in formu
lating and presenting a plan to
the authorities of the E.R.A
The leaders in the enterprise
enlisted the cooperation of
farmers throughout the county.
Community committees were
formed, and these wofked with
E.R.A. agents, deputed by Mr.
Weaver, in making a survey to
ascertain the extent of the de
mand for electric current and to
map out routes for pole-and
wire lines. All the farmers in
the county were canvassed. The
result of this survey was the de
spatch to Raleigh on the first
day of last November, and the
forwarding to Washington, of a
carefully prepared, clear state
ment setting forth all the facts
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The Recess
Examinations End Tomorrow and Sta
dents Aro Leaving for Holiday
The examinations for the
University’s winter terra are
now being held. They began
Wednesday and will end tomor
row morning.
Now will come a week's re
cess, and most of the students
will leave the village for their
homes. A considerable number
of faculty members, too, are
planning to get away, and the
village will lapse into the quiet
that prevails when the Univer
sity is not in session.
The student paper, the Tar
Heel, has suspended publication
until Wednesday, March 27.
Candidates for the baseball
team may be called back before
the end of the recess.
Ceunty Need Not Borrow
Orange bounty has in the
bank the amount of money nec
essary to meet the April Ist pay
ments on its debt (interest and
installments) and therefore dess
not have to borrow on “tax an
ticipation” notes. In this respect
It Is in a better situation than
most other counties in the state.
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Library Honrs during Recess
During the recess thrUniver
jsity Library will be open fwm
9 to 5 o'clock on weefcfe