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VoL 13. No. 24. Inspection Here In September by New Health Unit Sieepiag Quarters and Places Where Food Is Handled Will Receive Special Attention DR. ROURK THE DIRECTOR A thorough sanitary inspec tion of the Uifrversity, all its re lated services, and the village of Chapel Hill will be made, in the three weeks beginning Septem ber 1, by the new health depart ment for the district composed of Orange and Person counties. Dr. Malcolm Henderson Rourk, who has been appointed chief of the department, with the title of district health officer, will di rect the inspection. He will be .assisted by the sanitary inspec tor, E. B. Caruthers. They will give particular attention to sleeping quarters, restaurants, and places where meats, milk, and other food products are han dled and sold. Under the laws of the state they have full authority to or der such changes, in construc tion and methods of operation, as they consider essential to the public health. Dr. Rourk is from Wilming ton. He received the degree of bachelor of science in medicine at the University here in 1926 and the M.D. degree at the Uni versity of Minnesota in 1928. Since that time he has been ac tively engaged in public health work, and this last June he re ceived his master’s degree in public health at. the Harvard University school of public health. Mr. Caruthers is a sanitary engineer with fifteen years’ ex perience. He has served in sev eral North Carolina counties and since 1927 has been one of the district sanitary inspectors of the State Board of Health. As health officer of the Or ange-Person district, Dr. Rourk (Continued on laet page) Text Books for Rent Sjratem, Hitherto for Lower Grade*, Now for High School Also The Chapel Hill school had ex tended its text book rental sys tem, which last year was limited to the grammar grades, to cov er the high school also. This means that the store of books will have to be greatly in creased. For the purchase the school board has allotted S6OO from the capital outlay division of the budget. This is in the nature of a temporary transfer, since the text book rental system Is self-supporting. Pursuant to state law, the school charges for a year’s use of a book not more than one third of the cost (supplies and operating expense being includ ed as part of the cost). “We have been gratified at the good condition of the books that are returned year by year,” said Superintendent Gwynn yester day. “They are standing the wear-and-tear better Jhan was expected. Thus the financial plan, based on the theory that, income from rentals will cover the cost, has proved sound.” A stiff cardboard cover, for protection, is put on every rent od hook every yew. _____ Rock Coming Rome August 18 Frederick H. Koch, who has been teaching at Columbia Uni- The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor School Building Project Approved Orange county’s school build ing project has been approved by the Public Works Adminis tration in Washington. The P. W. A. authorities lifted slightly the figures presented in the county’s application, chang ing the total coat from $471,033 to $472,727. The outright grant from is $212,727, the loan $260,000. It is now up to the county to complete its plfms and specifica tions and to prepare for the is suance of its bonds in the amount of $260,000. The Government has agreed to do its part. How soon con struction begins depends upon the speed with which the coun ty proceeds with the necessary preparations. Herman Baity, director of the North Carolina division of the A Trip by Kayak Taylor and Hairston Saddling down Yadkin and Pee Dee to C^aat Carrying with him a kayak, a covered canoe of the type used by Eskimos, and provisions and equipment for a two weeks’ boat trip, Edmund Taylor left yester day for Cooleemee plantation, on the Yadkin river near Lexington, where he will join Nelson Hair ston and begin a journey down the Yadkin and Pee Dee rivers for Georgetown, South Carolina. If they make Georgetown in the twelve or fourteen days they expect it to take them, they will go on by inland waterways to Charleston to spend a few days before returning by bus to Chap el Hill. If they are delayed, they will probably come home from Georgetown. The kayak, 13 feet long and 30 inches wide, was bought in sep arate parts and assembled by Edmund. Besides food and their regular camping paraphernalia, the boys are taking along rifles, field glasses, and equipment for skin ning rare birds they hope to see along the way. Both are enthu siastic and experienced orni thologists. Although the trip is down stream all the way, they expect to spend the greater part of the morning and afternoon of each day paddling, with a pause of three or four hours at noon to cook, eat, and rest from the sun and the exertion of paddling. “We’ll take time out to swim whenever we feel like it,” Ed mund said. Arnold and Gene Mclntosh are expecting to meet Edmund and Nelson at Rockingham a week from Monday and accom pany them to Georgetown in Ar nold's canoe, which was used on the voyage Edmund and Arnold took last summer down the Neuse river to New Bern. That voyage ended when the boat struck a snag and was split open. —Billy Hudson. Hunting Licenses on Sale Hunting licenses for Orange county are now on sale at these ‘places: W. C. Lyon, Chapel Hill; county clerk’s office, Hillsboro; R. H.. Hester, No. 10 highway; Carl Forest, Efland; C. S. Mc- Dade, Cedar Grove. Bob Linker Bays a House Bob Linker has bought the house on Kenan jrlreefc in which the Elmer Harringtons have lived during the last year. The Harringtons will move out Sep tember 1. ‘ .« . * CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1935 P. W. A., received notice of the Government's approval yester day morning. At the same time he was informed of the approval of Cabarrus county’s school building project and the town of Angier’s water supply and sewer project. Orange county’s plan calls for two school buildings in Chapel Hill, one for whites for SIBO,OOO and one for Negroes for $54,000; for white and Negro school buildings in Hillsboro (aggre gate cost, $213,000); and for an addition in The loan from the Govern ment bears 4 per cent interest and is repayable in installments covering 30 years. About $14,- 000 would have to be included in the county’s annual budget for the debt service charge; this is equivalent to a tax rate of be tween 10 and 11 cents. Pharmacy School Gift C. C. Council of Durham Donates $2,000 for Laboratory A gift of $2,000 to the school of pharmacy has been made by C. C. Council, president of the B. C. Remedy Company of Dur ham, to provide for the construc tion and equipment of a dispens ing laboratory. To every student in this lab oratory, to be directed by Ira W. Rose, will be assigned an indi vidual prescription case designed and equipped as in a regular drug store except that the cases and layout will conform to the composite ideas of several phar macists who have made a study of the problem. Mr. Rose, for many years a successful pharmacist in Rocky Mount, served as a member of the state board of pharmacy un til he joined the teaching staff here four years ago. The laboratory will be housed in Howell hall. Mr. Council received a phar macy degree here in 1907. The modern dispensing lab oratory was listed as one of the twelve principal needs of the University in a recent appeal made by the Alumni Loyalty Fund. - j Bill Sloan, Freshman Tall, Heavy Youth Is Coming Here to Live; Potential Football Star The member of the Sloan fam ily whom the people of Chapel Hill know most about is the man who is to be the new chief of po lice; but within a year or so W. T., Sr., may find himself over shadowed by W. T., Jr., com monly known as Bill. For Bill is a football player; a potential star, say some who have Been him in action. Seventeen years old and just out of the Hillsboro high school, he is going to enter the fresh man class in the University this fall. He is 6 feet, 1 inch tall and weighs 180 pounds. And he is reported to have speed. Bill has two brothers and three sisters who will be in the Chapel Hill high school. Bev,en Eskimo Spits Poppies W. O. Jones has aeven month old Eskimo Spitz puppies at his home about two miles out on the Durham road. They have black eyes mid snow-white fluffy coats and are playful and friendly. Anybody who wants to see them will be welcomed by Mr. Jones. A goed time for a visit is be tween 6 and 6 o’clock in the af ternoon. The mother Spitz is there, toe. , / * V * Chapel Hill Chaff s John Johnston, native of Or ange county and graduate of the University in the class of 1909, came in from Porto Rico last week. When he visited me at the printshop he saw several dozen apples scattered on the ground near my office door— the night’s fall from the tree on Mr. Sorrell’s lot. “You’d never see apples or anything else eatable going to waste like this in Porto Rico,” he remarked. It recalled to me a story I had read once, about a Frenchwoman who came to this country after the World War as the wife of a soldier in the A. E. F. She was astonished, and dis agreeably astonished, by the way in which Americans let good food go to waste, throwing away great quantities of vegetables and fruits and meats. Mr. Johnston told me of the density of population on the is land of Porto Rico and the conse quent severity of flie struggle for sustenance among the peo ple of the farming and .laboring classes. “There has been a great in crease in the population since the United States took charge of the island,” said Mr. Johnston. "This has resulted from the im provements in sanitation and medical service, which have cut down the mortality rate, and also from the better opportuni ties the people have for earning a living. The sugar industry is protected by the tariff on sugar imported into the United States Jrom other countries. Without this tariff the sugar plantations in Porto Rico could not compete successfully in the American market. If the United States gave up Porto Rico the island would face economic ruin, and (Continued on page two) Botanists Going Abroad W. C. Coker and John Couch to Read at Congress in Amsterdam Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Coker left Chapel Hill Wednesday for New York and will sail tomorrow (Saturday) on the French Line steamship lie de France. John Couch will take a later boat and will join the Cokers in Amster dam for the Sixth International Botanical Congress. The University here is the only American institution except the University of California which will be represented at the Congress by two invited speak ers. Mr. Coker’s paper will be about water-molds and Mr. Couch’s about Septobasidium. Mr. and Mrs. Coker will spend about three weeks in England before going to the Continent Mr. Coker expects to visit the great agricultural experiment station at Rothampetead. Mr. pouch is to inspect cele brated herbaria in France, Ger many, and other countries. Freshman Applications Four hundred and ninety-six freshman applications for admis sion to the University this fall had been accepted Tuesday morning, according to a check up made then by the registrar’s office. This is 63 short of the total number accepted at the same time last year. The next check day will be Thursday. University Trade Afire The fire department answered a call on the campus Wednesday and put out a blaze on one of the University trucks. Sloan Resigns as Sheriff of Orange County; Will Come to Chapel Hill as Police Chief Electras Coming Fast Id-Passenger Planes to Lear* Raleigh in the Daytime After the article on page 3, about the Eastern Air Lines’ construction program, had been printed, the editor of the Week ly had a telephone call from J. F. Delk, manager of the airport in Raleigh new schedule to be put into efrefet within the next month or so. At present planes leave Raleigh two or three hours after midnight, and the inconvenience of this schedule has had a depressing effect upon traffic. “The company is going to in augurate a service with 10-pas senger Lockheed Electras, be tween New York and Miami,” said Mr. Delk. “At just what hours they will take off from Ra leigh isn’t yet decided, but it will be in the daytime. These planes are fast—they will make the trip from here to the New ark port (across the Hudson River from New York) in 2 hours and 50 minutes.” The New Teachers Miss Craig, Mrs. Garner, and Mr. Ross to Join School Faculty There will be three new teach ers in the school faculty this fail. Miss Elsa Craig, who was graduated from the University in 1931 and won her degree in library science in 1982, will be the librarian. She taught two years at Ellerbe and has had li brary experience in the Canton schools. Mrs. Minnie Noe Garner will teach one of the elementary grades. She taught at Lincoln ton, China Grove, and Moores ville, and was principal at Duke ville. She is the wife of L. L. Gamer of the University fac ulty. L. W. Ross will teach Latin in the high school. In the two years since his graduation from the University in 1933 he has been teaching in Elizabeth City. Mr. Ross is married and has one child. The faculty will have 19 mem bers this year: 8 (including Su perintendent Gwynn) in the high school, 11 in the elementary school. Henderson in State Tourney Archie Henderson entered the quarter-final round of the state tennis tournament at Asheville yesterday, after winning first and second round matches Mon day and Tuesday. Except for Ramsay Potts, Carolina fresh man star of last year, who to playing in Rye, N. Y. ( the field to much the same a* that in the Middle Atlantic tournament laid: week in Charlotte. After up setting Burtz Boulware of Geor gia Tech in the quarter-finals of that tpurney, Archie lost a five set semi-final match to Arthur Hendrix, the eventual winner, who is playing at Asheville this week. Graham at Williams College Frank Graham will speak August 28 hr Wttliamstown, Massachusetts, at the Williams College Institute of Human Rela tions, on "American Aspects of the Crisis in Depaoeracy.” - - Notify the Weekly at once of any change in your address. $1.50 a Year fas Advance. 5c a Copy t "A ■ * * yfj- f ! • '“• ' When He Will Take Over New Doties Not Yet Decided; Perhaps about Oct. 1 HIS SALARY TO BE $2,700 W. T. Sloan has resigned as sheriff of Orange County to be come chief of police of Chapel Hill His salary will be $2,700 a year. His present salary to $3,000, and he receives, besides, certain commissions for the col lection of license taxes. He was the police chief here several years ago. Because of his associations in Chapel Hill he likes the idea of returning to * the village to live. A committee of the board of aldermen approached him epriy last month with a view to bring ing him back to his old post, and since then they have had several conferences with him. After he had presented his resignation to the county com missioners, at their meeting Monday in Hillsboro, they elect ed S. T. Latta, Jr., to succeed him as sheriff. Mr. Latta was formerly treasurer of the coun ty. “I do not know yet just when my resignation will go into ef fect,” said Mr. Sloan yesterday over the telephone in reply to an inquiry from the editor. “Maybe around the first of Oc tober. The tax books for this year will be ready about that time. I’ve got a good many mat ters to clear up, in connection with the taxes for last year. I will accommodate my plans to the wishes of the commission ers.” T. L. Chandler, one of Chap el Hill’s present police officers, has left the force. Whether one or more of the other officers will be retained is not yet known. That will be for Mr. Sloan to decide. He will be re sponsible for the town’s police t service, the aldermen want him t to have a free hand in the se lection of hia subordinates. Mr. Schinhan’a Recital He Will Play Organ st 8:30 Sunday Evening in Hill Music Hall Jan Philip Schinhan, new l member of the staff of the Uni versity’s music department, will give an organ recital at 8:30 Sunday evening in the Hill Mu sic hall. The program will be as follows: Adagio cantabile —Giu- | seppe Tartml; Larghetto, (from | a Sonata) —Giuseppe Tartini; ’ Fantasie in G major—Joh. Seb. ' Bach; Third Sonata—Borowski; | Song of Sorrow —Gordon Balch Nevin; Toccata In D minor— Gordon Balch Nevin; Improvisa -1 tion on a theme given by some-. | one in the audience. The public is invited. Mr. Schinhan, who has just . returned from Europe, will re -1 m4in next year as a member of , the faculty. i New Architect Here . 1 Daniel F. Defenbacher has es tablished an office of the archi tectural firm of Gaines and Def enbacher, Asheville, here In Chapel Hitt. For six weeks he | will be in Mrs. Kluttz’ '•stone , cottage at the corner of Frank ;Un and Hillsboro streets. He is a graduate of the Carnegie In stitute of Technology and has ' been associated with H. I. Gaines of Asheville for several years.
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