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VoL 13. Now 18. Resurfacing on Raleigh Road Is Now under Way Stretch of 5% Miles Is Being Treated with Combination of Asphalt and Crushed Stone JOB TO BE FINISHED SOON At last the 5-mile stretch on the Raleigh road between here and Nelson, which was torn up about a year ago and has been rough ever since, is being hard surfaced. Closed to traffic last Friday, it will be reopened about July 5. Until then travelers be tween Chapel Hill and Raleigh must go by Durham, a trip nine miles longer. Highway Commissioner Way nick’s desire to put down con crete could not be realized, and the new surface will be of the same type as the old one, a com bination of tar and crushed stone. The contract calls for an Outlay of about $25,000; if the change to concrete had been made, not only would the state have had to cancel the existing contract, necessitating an in demnity to the contractor, but also the cost would have been in creased to around $125,000. First, in the reconstruction be gun last week, the asphalt prime was laid. A few days were al lowed for curing, and now a mix ture of 2-inch crushed stone and hot asphalt is being put down. After the road has been in use for two months the seal-coat, %-inch stone and more hot as ph ;H, will be applied.. “Why did that stretch wear out while the stretch nearer Chapel Hill, with the same type of surface, remained in good condition ?” Resident Engineer Will C. Kanoy was asked yester day. “Because of the foundation,” he replied. “The soil was what we call ‘buck tallow,’ a sort of mud that holds water and causes the surface to weaken and then to break.” * The Pahlows Have Gone Mrs. Edwin W. Pahlow, Hugh, and Miss Trudis set out for the North last Sunday by automo bile. They went by Norfolk so that Hugh could call on Miss Letty Osborn. In New York the youngsters left their mother to go on to the home of their grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Brown, in New England. Mrs. Pahlow will sail tomorrow on the steamship Europa and will be met at Cherbourg by Mr. Pahlow. They will be in France and Spain for the next- few weeks. Their address is: care of the American Express Com pany, Paris, France. Protest against Letter Carriers’ Meeting William S. Bernard has sent the following letter to Robert B. House, the University’s dean of administration: “I wish respectfully to enter a protest against the meeting in Chapel Hill of the Letter Car riers of the state. “If the State Board of Health and physicians and health of ficers in many towns and cities of North Carolina are advising the calling off of all religious, civic, business meetings and gatherings of all kinds, it seems to me a most inadvisable step to permit a gathering of people from every section of North Carolina, the most exposed to contacts of any othef* vocation The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAYEB Editor Chapel Hill Chaff Miss Gattis, assistant to Mr. Scott in the Service Insurance and Realty office, is a stern dis ciplinarian. She makes her so called boss walk a chalk line. That is, most of the time. Now add then he veers from the line and, in fact, disappears com pletely from the scene of duty to engage in what Miss Gattis con siders iU-timed frivolity. I dropped in and asked for him on Monday of this week, the day the University lake was opened to fishermen. With un mistakable disapproval in her voice, Miss Gattis said: “He went out to the lake to fish early this morning. Here it is three o’clock, and I haven’t seen him yet. I don’t know when to tell you he’ll be back.” I am informed that Mr. Scott turned up about the regular clos ing hour with a slinking step and a hangdog look on his face. He has the imposing title of vice president and general manager, but that gives him no protection at all. On such an occasion as this one, to his assistant he is just a truant. I don’t know what she told him. Maybe she said nothing. Maybe all the dressing-down he needed was the glint he saw in her steely eye. Whatever it was, it was ade quate. When I saw him Tues day and Wednesday he was on the job, as meek as a lamb, hardly daring, I believe, to sneak up to the drugstore for a coca cola. • * * Sometimes I devote an hour or so to loitering upon the street, (Continued on laet page) Coffer-Miller Players Troupe Will Appear in Comedies by Sheridan and Moliere Sheridan’s “The Rivals,” and “The Merchant Gentleman,” adapted from Moliere’s “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme,” will be presented in Memorial hall Tuesday afternoon and evening by the Coffer-Miller Players of Chicago. This professional company, led toy its stars, Martha Miller and Jess Coffer, has presented these two famous plays in towns and cities all over the country with great success. Although the language of “The Merchant Gentleman,” written by the great French dramatist, is a translation and not the original, the Coffer- Miller Players are reputed to have created an excellent adap tation. Sheridan’s play will begin at 3:30, Moliere’s at 8:30. The admission fee will be 50 cents for each production. or business, to assemble here in perhaps the most vulnerable spot in the state. I feel that the citi zens of Chapel Hill and our chil dren are thoroughly justified in such protest.” Health Officer Nathan said yesterday that Dr. Hamilton of the State Board of Health, whom he had consulted on this matter, had told him that he did not consider it necessary to .call off such a meeting of adults as the Letter Carriers’ convention. Questioned further, Dr. Nathan said that some adults, estimated at 20 per cent of the whole adult population, were susceptible to infantile paralysis and that adults not themselves affected could disease. CHAPEL HILL, N. G, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1935 The New Athletic Field People passing along the road do not see the most interesting part of the layout here described by Billy Hudson. Whoever wants to get a good view of it should go to the top of the con crete stand and survey the lower level with the track, the varsity practice field, and the field house. — L.G. With a natural setting like that of Kenan stadium, the new intramural fields and varsity track on the Raleigh road south of the campus are almost com pleted and will be ready for Uni versity athletes when they re turn for the fall quarter. The project, begun in Novem ber, 1933, and carried on with the aid of Government relief funds, includes six intramural football fields on the upper ter race, and, on the lower level, a quarter-mile track 30 feet wide encircling a football practice field, permanent concrete stands capable of seating 6,800 specta tors, and a small field house. As many trees as possible have been preserved, and honey suckle is being planted on the high clay banks surrounding the field, so that a track meet in the new arena will rival a football game in the Kenan stadium for color and natural beauty. Summer Session Bulletin FRIDAY, JUNE 28 10 A. M.—E. W. Knight, “Education in Previous Depressions,” 103 Bingham hail. Secondary Education Conference. 12 M —E. W. Knight, “Education in the Present Depression,” 103 Bingham hall, S. E. C. . 4 P. M.—E. W. Knight, “The Continuing Problem of the College Curriculum as Shown by Early and Recent Discussions of the Subject,” 103 Bingham hall. Higher Education Conference. 7:15 P. M.—Vesper service at the Davie Poplar. 9 P. M.—Dance, Bynum Gymnasium. SATURDAY, JUNE 29 9 P. M.—Dance, Bynum Gymnasium. MONDAY, JULY 1 10 A. M.—Holland Thompson, “The Rise of Industry in the South and its Effect upon Culture and Education,” 103 Bingham hall. S. E. C. 12 M.—Paul C. Packer, “The lowa Plan of Teaching,” 103 Bing ham hall. S. E. C. 4 p. M.— Paul C. Packer, “The Responsibility of the Higher Edu cational Institutions for the Preparation of Teachers,” JLO3 Bingham hall. H. E. C. 7 p. m.—Dr. Eugene Willison will begin Red Cross course in first aid for instructors, 101 New East. Every evening except Saturday and Sunday for two weeks. No registration fee. 7:15 P. M.—Vesper service at the Davie Poplar. 8:30 P. M.—Organ recital, Leslie Spelman, Hill Music hall. TUESDAY, JULY 2 10 A. M.—Guy B. Phillips, “Education for the New Era,” 103 Bingham hall. S. E. C. 12 M.—Guy B. Phillips, “Education for the New Era,” 103 Bing ham hall. S. E. C. 3:30 P. M.—Coffer Miller Players present “The Rivals,” Memorial hall. 4 P. M.—Paul C. Packer, “Some Major Problems in Collegiate Education,” 103 Bingham hall. H. E. C. 7:16 P. M.—Vesper service at the Davie Poplar. 8:30 P. M.—Coffer Miller Players present “The Merchant Gentle man,” Memorial hall. WEDNESDAY, JULY 3 10 A. M.—J. L. Meader, “Obligations of the School for Pupils' Health,” 103 Bingham hall. S. E. C. 4 P, M.—J. L. Meader, “Obligations of Higher Educational Insti tutions in Matters of Student Health,” 103 Bingham hall. H. E. C. 7:15 P. M-—Vesper service at the Davie Poplar. 9 p. M.—-Dance, Bynum Gymnasium. THURSDAY, JULY 4—Official University holiday. 4 P. M.—James L. Meader, “The Revision of the College Curricu ... lum,” 103 Bingham hall. H. E. C. FRIDAY, JULY 5 10 A. M.—Frank Misner, “Curriculum Construction,” 103 Bing ham hall. S. E. C. 12 M.—Harry W. Crane, “The Teacher as a Mental Hygiene Fac * tor,” 103 Bingham hall. S. E. C. 4 p. m.—Francis Bradshaw leads discussion of lectures and work up to this point in the Higher Education Conference, 103 • Bingham hall* . ■ 0 7:15 P M.—Vesper-service at the Davie Poriar. 9 p. M.'—Dence, Bynum Gymnasium. ' v ' . The practice field in the cen ter of the track has been seeded, and a good growth of grass, which is being watered thor oughly every day, has sprung up. The upper level is now be ing graded and prepared for seeding. Driveways will be con structed leading into this field, so that it can be used for park ing purposes to accommodate football and track meet crowds. The seats on the concrete stands are of California red wood, laid in two parallel strips to allow for drainage of water and to prevent %arping. The 30-foot track is wide enough for seven official running lanes or eight lanes three inches short of official specifications. A 220-yard straightaway, begin ning at the east end, will take care of the dash and hurdle events. The jumping, pole vault, javelin throw, discus throw, and shot put will take place on the edge of the football practice field, which has 30-foot margins on both sides. The new field will do much to broaden the scope of intramural activities and will eliminate crowded c.onditions on Emerson field, where in the spring track and baseball are carried on at the same time. —Billy Hudson. A Request by the University This request, signed by R. B. House, the University’s dean of administration; Dr. W. R. Berry hill, the University physician; and Dr. S. A. Nathan, munici pal health officer, was issued yesterday: > “In view of the increasing number of cases of anterior poli omyelitis (infantile paralysis) throughout the state, the Uni versity requests that all Sum mer Session students remain in Chapel HiH, especially on week ends. So far there have been no cases reported in Orange county, but we feel that it is safer for you and everybody else in Chap el Hill for everyone to forego week-end pleasure trips away from the Hill for the duration of the Summer Session. "It would be wise for every one who has not had typhoid vaccination within the past three summers to be vaccinated at the Infirmary as soon as possible. Two cases of typhoid fever have been reported in Orange county within the last week. “The University asks your cooperation in observing the above precautionary measures in order to safeguard the health of the community.” One of the two typhoid cases in this county is Acie Crutch field, a Negro woman living on the W. I. Suitt farm in Bingham township. She has been taken to a hospital in Durham, and rel atives have taken charge of her children. The other case is John Sykes, white, who lives near Hillsboro and about 12 miles from Chapel Hill. Ferger and Heer to Go One to Spend Year in Washington; the Other in Chicago Leaves of absence for one year have been granted by the Uni versity to W. F. Ferger and Clarence Heer of the faculty of the school of commerce. After July 1 Mr. Ferger is to be on the staff of the Secretary of Agriculture in Washington; and Mr. Heer is to be in the de partment of public administra tion of the University of Chi cago. The Heers started out three weeks ago on what was to be a leisurely trip. In Rochester, N. Y., they got a telegram from Chapel Hill saying that Charlton Chute, who had come here to join the staff of the Public Works Administrator Baity as finance examiner, would take their house for a year if he could get it July 1. So they hurried on to Chicago to rent an apartment. They were back in Chapel Hill this week, having traveled 3,900 miles, to arrange for the ship ment of their furniture. Planning Typhoid Vaccination Clinics Dr. G. H. Sumner of the United States Public Health service was in Chapel Hill yesterday to con fer with Dr. Charles S. Mangum and Health Officer Nathan about the progranf of tree vaccination for typhoid. * The vaccine is provided with out charge by the State Board of Health, and the injections will be made by physicians connected with the new Public Health Ser vice unit which has its head quarters in Chapel Hill. Everybody who has not been vaccinated for typhoid within the last* three years- should take the treatment. „ $1.50 a Year ii Advance. sca Cepy Mack Will Head The University's Chemistry Dept. Professor at Ohio State, Emi nent in Research and as a Teacher, to Come Here A NATIVE OF THIS STATE Edward Mack, Jr., professor * of chemistry in Ohio State Uni versity, will come to Chapel Hill in September as head of the chemistry department of the University of North Carolina. He was here at the last week-end for a conference with President Graham, and the visit was fol lowed closely toy his decision to accept the University’s offer. (The election of Mr. Mack to his new post is not technically complete, since it must be rati fied by the trustees. But this is a formality, since the President had what was equivalent to full authority to make the selection.) Though only 42 years old, he has won a national reputation both by his researches and by his abilities as a teacher. In re cent years he has combined with his duties at Ohio State consul tative work for some of the A country’s largest industrial con cerns. The University here is exceptionally fortunate in being able to add him to its faculty, for it is known that, as far as finan cial reward is concerned, he has far better opportunities else where. He was born in Goldsboro, and his kinships and friend ships in North Carolina, as well as his regard for the Univer sity, undoubtedly had much to do with persuading him to come to Chapel Hill. Son of the eminent theologian, Edward Mack, and the late Mrs. Mack (Mary Ashley Kirby), h^ \ Continutd on hut page) Chess Club Monday Evenings The University Chess Club will meet at 8 o’clock Monday evenings this summer in the Episcopal parish house. Every body interested in chess is invit ed. Those who have boards and chessmen are asked to bring them. Summer Session Enrollment The enrollment in the Univer sity summer session in Chapel Hill is 895. The enrollment in the three branches of the Con solidated University here, in Raleigh, and in Greensboro is 1,764. Merchants Association Officers Clarence Pickard has been elected president of the Chapel Hill Merchants Association, Bruce Whitmire vice-president, and Mrs. Camilla G. Crabtree secretary-treasurer. On account of the prevalence of infantile paralysis, parents are advised not to bring their children to the clinics for the present. “Typhoid hap not become so general as to justify alarm/* said Dr. Sumner, “but of course every precaution against it should be taken. Experience has proved that vaccination is an ef fective preventive.” The formal approval of the county board of health is re quired before the program can be launched. Look out for the announcement,of the schedule of clinks, on posters and in thp -newspapers, *- t* • V'4 ***■' ■ -g. ' **
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