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Voi. 13. No. 21. Lightning Kills Eddie Grady on Athletic Field Holt Brings Instant Death to Negro Who Was Helping Pre pare Ground for Planting PRESIDENT GRAHAM NEAR Witfy the completion of the University’s new athletic field only two or three days off, a force of laborers were engaged in smoothing the upper level Tuesday afternoon. Equipped rakes and shovels and hoes and wheelbarrows, they were getting the ground ready for the final operation—the planting of .grass. Ray Hutchins, the superin tendent, went from one group to another to give directions. At a few minutes before three o’clock dark clouds had massed overhead, and it looked as if a storm was coming. But not quite yet, everybody thought. Maybe in fifteen minutes or half an hour. All of a sudden, without any of the usual warning flickers, a jagged flash of lightning rent the clouds. There was a sharp crack and a terrific clap of thunder. - • - -*■» --- * The bolt struck Eddie Grady, Negro of Hillsboro. For an instant he was rigid, he rose a few inches from the ground, and fell dead. Hutchins, a few steps away, and several of the laborers were stunned by the bolt The handle of the ahovel with which Grady was spreading dirt was shattered. It is thought that the shovel, serv ing as a conductor for electri .city, drew the lightning. President Graham, W. W. Pierson, and W. E. Caldwell were coming down the highway to the field, about a hundred yards to the north. Grady is survived by a wife and two children. Dr. Manning Returns * He Studied Hospitalization Systems in Great Britain and France Dr. Isaac H. Manning of the University medical school, pres ident of the North Carolina Hos pital Saving Association, has re turned from a visit to Europe in the course of which he stud ied group hospitalization sys tems in Great Britain and France. The information he ob tained will help him to perfect, here in this state, his plan for the provision of hospital service at moderate cost to people of small means. He was accompanied on the trip by Graham L. Davis, assis tant to the director of the hos pital division of the Duke En dowment. The North Carolina plan which Dr. Manning has inaugu rated is designed to be mutually beneficial to patient and hospi tal. Under professional aus pices, it is to be non-profit mak ing. We take this passage from an interview, with Dr. Manning which Nell Battle Lewis pub lished in her column in the News and Observer. “To understand the British hospital one must realize the Englishman’s respect for tradi tion and his regard for his civic and social responsibilities. This, I believe, is characteristic of all classes, from the royal family to the humblest wage-earner, and it is no better illustrated (Continued on hut page) The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor Rates for Current* The Federal Power Commis sion’s report on its survey of do mestic rates for electricity in cities and towns of North Caro lina, published this week, shows that in communities of from 2,500 to 5,000 population Chap el Hill has next to the lowest charge for 25 kilowatt hours and 100 kilowatt hours, and the third lowest charge for 250 kilo watt hours. For 25 k.w.h. the charge is $1.63 for 25 k.w.h. in Roanoke Rapids and Williamston and $1.73 in Chapel Hill; the highest charge, $2.50, is in Beaufort, Edenton, Forest City, Laurin burg, and Morehead City. Four of these five towns have muni cipal plants. For 100 k.w.h. Badin is lowest with $3.15, Chapel Hill next lowest with $3.98. Albemarle is highest with $6.05. For 250 k.w.h. Badin is lowest with $6.98. The next lowest charge, $7.25, is in ten towns (Clinton, Dunn, Hamlet, Mount Olive, Oxford, Rockingham, Roxboro, Sanford, Southern Pines, and Wadesboro). Chapel Summer Session Bulletin *■ * . + m. FRIDAY. JULY 19 ' ail 9 A. M.—Conference on Art Education begins in Peabody hall. 2:30 P. M.—Examinations for removal of composition conditions, 201 Mur phey hall. 4 P. M.—Mathilde Parlett, “The Hendrix College Plan,” 103 Bingham hall. Higher Education Conference. 7:15 P. M.— Service at Davie Poplar. 9P. M.—Dance, Bynum Gymnasium. t * SATURDAY, JULY 20 . ' <*• * Conference on Art Education continues. 9 P. M.—Dance, Bynum Gymnasium. MONDAY, JULY 22 4P. M.—D. D. Carroll, “Pressure of the Economic System on Educational Objectives,” 103 Bingham Hall. H. E. C. TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 AND 24 ' ' ' < Examinations. * ' THURSDAY, JULY 25 9 A. M.-5 P. M.—Registration of new students. FRIDAY, JULY 26 ts P. M.—Second Term classes begin. 9 P. M.—Dance, Bynum Gymnasium. Greek Play Is Presented in Kenan Stadium A' temple to Artemis, with marble walls and with broad steps leading up to a great arched portal; curving forward from the ends of the temple, twin hedges of evergreen, tail and thick, enclosing a lawn; in the middle of the lawn, an al tar for human sacrifices to the goddess. This was the setting for the Playmakers’ performance of Euripides’ “Iphigenia in Tau ris” Tuesday evening in the Kenan stadium. The storm clouds of the afternoon had cleared away, and when the play had been in progress a lit tle while a full moon rose above the forest to the east. Marion Tatum, a beautiful woman with graceful bearing and gestures, was Iphigenia, Agamemnon’s - daughter, who had been' brought to the land of the barbaric Taurians to be the priestess of the temple. Urban T. Holmes, with booming voice and black beard and a royal swagger, was Thoas, king of the Tauriani. The other leading ac tors were Richard Walser (Or estes), Fred Howard (Pylades), Kenneth Bartlett (a herdsman), Lawrence Cheek (a messenger), Josephine -Nlggli (the goddess Pallas Athene); and Athena Campftdrakis (leader of the CHAPEL HELL, N. G» FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1935 Hill is third lowest with $7.63. Laurinburg is highest with $12.00. Albemarle and Laurinburg both have municipal plants. The survey discloses one fact that is no doubt a surprise to most peopje: that it is in the largest cities of the state that the highest rates prevail, wheth er for small, medium, or large consumers. It will strike most people as remarkable, too, that rates are so much higher in some of these cities than in oth ers. Os the eight cities with popu lations exceeding 25,000, resi dential consumers in Asheville and Raleigh are shown to pay 26 per cent more for 25 k.w.h and 43 per cent more for 100 k.w.h. than in Charlotte, Greensboro, and Winston-Salem. In the 10,000-to-25,000 popu lation group, Elizabeth City’s municipal plant charges 60 per cent more for 25 k.w.h., and Shelby’s municipal plant charg es 62 per cent more for 100 k.w.h., than users of these (Continued on hut page) chorus). The director, who did not appear, was Harry Da vis. It was evident that the play ers had rehearsed diligently and had been well directed. They spoke their lines with a delibera tion and a restraint that made for dignity, and so clearly that their words could be understood even to the farthermost seat. And with proper feeling, too. The dialogue was well matched by the singing and the dancing, the costumes, and the scenery. Altogether, a most satisfying spectacle. Scanlon First Union Preacher The first union service will be conducted August 4 by Rev. Da vid H. Scanlon of the First Pres byterian church in Durham. The ministers for the other union services, to be held during the month of August in the Baptist church, have not yet been se lected. Travelers Are in Normandy Mrs. A. W. Hobbs and Miss Mary Thornton had intended to go to Grenoble, but after they reached France they changed their minds and decided to go to Yport on the coast of Nor mandy. In a letter to her hus- Mrs. Hobbs says that tbsy are 4 enjoying life there. Chapel Hill Chaff “Did I leave my glasses there last night?” asked Mrs. Baity over the telephone the morning after she had dined with the McConnaugheys. The answer was no. After she had made an other fruitless search in her own home, she called a second time—in fact, two more times. “They are positively hot here,” Mr. McConnaughey assured her. “We’ve looked everywhere.” That evening he went to a movie play that he had been anticipat ing with unusually keen inter est. When he looked at the screen his wife was startled to hear him exclaim: “My, God! I’ve gone blind!” He had put on the pair of glasses that he, had been carrying around with 1 him all day—Mrs. Baity’s. • • • The f omen ter s of the Writers’ Conference next month have no fund, hence it must be a Dutch treat affair. R. M. Grumman, when he sent an invitation to W. O. Saunders, informed him that the living expenses at Blue Ridge would be about S6O. “It will be worth SSO to me to see Phillips Russell,” replied the Elizabeth City editor, v The letter was turned over to Mr. Russell, and he wrote to Mr. Saunders: “It will be worth SIOO to me to see you, and so 1 will owe you $50.” After that luscious, apple sauce, I don’t see how Mr. Saun ders can fail to attend. * • • Some of the summer session students had a watermelon par ty on the campus one evening (Continued on hut page) The Second Term To Bogin at End of Neat Week; Good Attendance ia Indicated Classes in the second term of the summer session begin next Friday, July 26. The registra tion may be larger than it was this term because of the number of students expected from State College and the Woman’s Col lege, which will have no second session. Estimates by the Y. M. C. A. and the summer session office indicate that the majority of the students already enrolled intend to stay in Chapel Hill for the second term. Examinations will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, and registration will be conducted from 9 until 5 o’clock Thursday. Late registrants must pay an additional $2.50 fee Friday or Saturday and $5 Monday, July 29, or Tuesday, July 30. No reg-, istration for credit will be ac cepted after July 30. The second term reception will lie given Monday evening, July 29, in the Graham Memorial. Because the Woman’s College will have no second term, cours es in elementary education will be offered here, according to the demand for them. E. W. Knight, director, who is teaching at Columbia, will be in Chapel Hill from the 19th to the 21st to supervise the opening of the term. Arrangements for the Parent- Teacher Institute, the coaching school, and other public gather ings scheduled for Chapel Hill month of August are still being made tentatively, pending developments in the in fantile paralysis situation. The social program will not be cur tailed, but attendance by outsid ers is being discouraged at present. Work on New School Buildings May Get under Way This Fall Dr. Man&um 65 Dr. Charles S. Mangum was 65 years old last Sunday, July 14. Now beginning his 40th year in the University faculty, he ranks second in seniority among the members in active service. H. V. Wilson is first. H. H. Wil liams and M. C. S. Noble re ceived last year the title of pro fessor emeritus. Dr. Mangum and D. Sparrow are the only male white resi dents of Chapel Hill now who were here when the University reopened in 1875. Women resi dents who were here then are Mrs. Cornelia Roberson, Mrs. Julia C. Graves, Mrs. N. H. D. Wilson, Mrs. Tenney, Mrs. D. Sparrow, and Miss Laura Ward. If Dr. Mangum’s service as gymnasium instructor is taken into the record, his connection with the faculty goes back not 39 but 43 years. He was gradu ated in 1891, stayed on as a med ical student for another year, and won his degree at the Jef ferson Medical College in 1894. Maddry Home Now in Richmond, Vi., He Will Visit Chapel Hill Soon Rev. Charles E. Maddry, ex ecutive officer of the Southern Baptist church, who set sail for the Far East last January to make an inspection of missions in China and Japan, has re turned to his home in Richmond, Va. Within the next two or three weeks he will attend the annual homecoming at Orange church, three miles north of Chapel Hill. - «- “We will have the homecom ing on either the last Sunday in July or the first Sunday in Aug ust,” said Mrs. S. J. Brockwfell yesterday. “Charles has writ ten me to tell him what day we decide on and says he surely will be here.” Mr. Maddry will tell, the con gregation of his travels in the Orient as he told them last year of his visit to the countries of southern Europe. Freshman Applications An unfavorable difference re vealed in a recent comparison of advance freshman entrance ap plications this year with those last year was explained yester day by Ben Husbands, associate registrar, as no cause for alarm. On July 13, 1934, 420 applica tions had been accepted; and on the same day this year 333 had been accepted. 'This difference is offset by the fact that of the 767 freshmen registered last fall, 37 were freshman girls and 103 were first year engineers, a total of 140 students in groups that cannot be accepted for reg istration this year. Thus the low count of advance applica tions this summer should not be taken as indicative of a registra tion slump in other fields. The next check day will be July 29. ■ ! A Mr. and Mrs. Downs Move Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Downs have moved out of their house on Vance street. They live now on Ransom street back of. the Chi Fai house. Vesper services will be die continued during the coming week, but will be held again be ginning Monday, July 29. sl-50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Cepy P.W.A. Authorities in Washing ton Making Final Exantinatfam of Orange County Project “RED TAPE” DIMINISHED t. Orange county’s application for Government aid in the con struction of new school build ings has gone through the ex amining procedure so promptly at the P. W. A. office here that «s work on the project may begin this fall. No formal announcement of the preliminary approval of this project has been made, for it is the practice of state head quarters not to make known its decisions until the final word comes from Washington; but information that came out of one of the work relief offices in Ra leigh recently make it certain that Orange county is one of the local government units whose proposals, in the judgment of the state organization here, meet P. W. A. requirements. The application and the "sup porting data,” embracing infor mation about the county’s finan cial condition as well as about the project itself, were taken to Washington last week by S.tate P. W. A. Director Herman G. Baity and are now going through a second check-up at national headquarters. Not more than two or three weeks should elapse before the final decision is made, and if that decision is favorable the papers w ia be aunt back here to Mr. Baity with instructions to “go to it.” - One of the cardinal points in the Government’s construction plan is that there shall be no un necessary delay—no prolonged passing of documents back and forth between one office and (Continued on loot page) Cruise on Freight Boat Chadbourn and Jenkins Wilt Sail on the Steamship Olympia Monday J. L. Chadbourn and William S. Jenkins, members of the Uni versity faculty, (Will sail from New York Monday for a cruise of 47 days on the steamship Olympia. They will get back to North Carolina about September 10. The Olympia is a Danish freight boat that takes along a few passengers, perhaps a doz en or so. It provides accommo dations not so ritzy as those on the regular passenger boats but good enough for two professors who want as much travel as pos sible for the cash In hand. The freighter will call at Bar celona, Genoa, Lisbon, and pos sibly at a Moroccan port. At every stop, while cargo is being unloaded and loaded, Messrs. Chadbourn and Jenkins will have time for a tour on land. They haven’t decided yet just where they will go. Wherever their whim leads them. Among the cities they will probably visit are Madrid, Floience, Rome, and Naples. , The Crepe Myrtles The crepe myrtles broke into blooms of many colors all over the village thia week. One of the most glorious bursts of watermelon-red is at the Uc- CiMnToche gateway. tfnk pre dominates at Mrs. Neal's, and lavender-pink at the Mangum’*, At the MacNider’s are blooms of every hue, from the deepest of the reds to pure white. >, i * - '■ i&'tr A"iiV s ' f -J4jT ”
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