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"VoL 13. No. 26. Coanty Has Not Made Move to Start Building Subject to Be Discussed at a Joint Meeting of Boards Monday, September 2 FORMALITIES REQUIRED The Orange county govern ment has made no to begin the school-buildinßjrojeet for which the Government, through the P.W.A., has agreed to make an outright of ■5212,000. The county commissioners and the county board of education will hold a joint meeting Mon day after next, September 2, to decide whether to go ahead with the whole project approved by the P.W.A., involving a total ex penditure of $472,000, or with only part of it. This decision must be followed by formalities, as provided by law, such as ad vertising the bond issue. The plans and specifications, thus far only in a preliminary state, must be completed, and that will take at least six weeks; and then there must be advertising for bids from contractors. The Government has set no limit on the time that may elapse before construction begins, but there are those citizens who, bearing in mind the sudden changes that take place in Wash ington, have an uneasy feeling that if the county doesn’t “get a hump on it” something may happen to keep it from receiv ing the grant. An other reason for prompt action, some say, is that the cost of building is apt to rise, causing the county to reap a much small er benefit from its expenditure Jater than it could reap now. Under the plan which the P.W.A. has approved the county would add $260,000 to the grant of $212,000, to make the total (Continued on loot page) Bandits Not Caught Men Who Took 110,525 from Herndon Are Still at Large The bandits who held up R, D. Herndon last Friday, and took from him $10,526 which he was bringing from Durham to the Bank of Chapel Hill, have not been caught. Two Durham men, Carl Regis ter and Richard Chamberlain, are held as suspects. They were arrested Monday night. Accompanied by his wife in his Essex car, Mr. Herndon had reached the old Markham house, about five miles from Durham, when a car came from behind and forced him into the ditch. A man got out, put a pistol to iiis head, took the sack of money, and went off with it. While he performed the hold-up another man sat in the driver’s seat. The bank here, to which the money was being brought for Saturday payrolls, was fully in sured against loss. The bandits are said to have had a gay party in Durham Fri day night, the guests being deni zens of the underworld and their “molls.” The story is that the ■company drank copiously and that the bandits became so gen erous that they dealt out sheafs of banknotes as souvenirs. Harland Has Come Home Mrs. Harland, Br., who was taken to Watts hospital after she fell and dislocated her shoul der, came home Sunday. Her arm is no longer in a sling, and she is walking about the house. The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVEB Editor Proposal lor a New Bos Line Wins Approval of Utilities Commission There is going to be a bus line from Greensboro to Raleigh on highway 54 byway of Chapel Hill. Whether the operator will be the Greyhound Lines, which put in last winter the application for a franchise, or the Carolina Coach Company, which operates the line between here and Dur ham and also the one between Raleigh and Greensboro on highway 10, is not yet known. In announcing that permission would be given for the estab lishment of bus service on high way 54 Stanley Winborne, state utilities commissioner, said that the decision as to which com pany would get the franchise would be made as soon as pos sible, so that preparations could be made for beginning the ser vice in time for the opening of The School Opening Set for Sept. 16, Subject to Permb sion of Health Authorities The Chapel Hill School will open Monday, September 16, J. Minor Gwynn announced yes terday, unless town and state health officers consider infantile paralysis conditions still danger ous at that time. Recent resignations in the faculty have necessitated the em ployment of new history and music teachers. Miss Mattie Erma Edwards, who taught in the high school for the last three years, has given up her position to jfc»rw under C. C. Crittenden on the state histori cal commission. Miss Juanita Huneycutt, who was also a fac ulty member for three years, will teach in the Durham city schools. Because of the new school building program, only repairs that are absolutely necessary are being made in the school plant. Books costing S4OO will be added to the library before the opening date. , The Chapel Hill school has set up an independent textbook rental system, not under the control of the new state Text book Purchase and Rental Com mission, as is permitted under state law. Books will be avail able for rent by high school as well as graded school pupils, at fees not exceeding those estab lished by the new commission. £ L. * '■s. i Death on the Highways The rate of highway deaths based on the quantity of gaso line consumed is higher in North Carolina than in any other state, the national death rate being 23.2 and the North Carolina rate being 36.6 per 10,000,000 gal lons. One out of every three per sons killed in a traffic accident in North Carolina is a pedes triap, and more than one third of the pedestrians killed are chil dren. One fourth of all pedes trian deathq are caused by chil dren’s playing in the streets. Eighty-two persons a month are killed in automobile acci dents in North Carolina. The death toll in 1934 was 986. These are among the facts presented in “Guides to High way Safety,” a booklet just pub lished by the Institute of Gov ernment. The booklet was pre pared by Harry W. McGalliard from data provided by Harry Tucker, professor of highway en gineering in the State College. Included in it, besides accident CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1635 the University. Frank W. Hanft of Chapel ed. But the opposition of Dur- Hill and Fred L. Seely of Ashe ville, Mr. Winborne’s associates on the commission, have been out of the state. That is the Rea son why an announcement about the proposed new line was not made before now. „ The opposition to the grant ing of the Greyhound’s petition came from two sources: (1) the Carolina Coach Company, which said it would be disastrously af fected by the competition, and (2) commercial and civic organ izations of Durham which ob jected to having traffic diverted from that city. The Carolina Coach Company said the new line should not be established at all, but that, if it were, that com pany should get the franchise. Sunday Evening Recital Mr. and Mrs. Sehinhan Will Appear in the Hill Music Hall Jan Philip Sehinhan, organ ist, and Camilla von Egloffstein Sehinhan, soprano, will present the third of the series of faculty recitals at 8:30 Sunday evening in the Hill Music hall. As a contrast to the organ numbers, Mrs. Sehinhan will sing a few of Mr. Schinhan’s original com positions. Mrs. Sehinhan is a graduate of the Cincinnati College of Music. A pupil of Madam Johannes KristofFy of Metropoli tan fame, Mrs. Sehinhan has been a church and radio soloist for many years. Mr. Sehinhan received his early training in Europe and was graduated from the Acad emy of Music in Munich. After his graduation he studied organ and composition with Joseph Renner, Jr., one of Germany’s foremost organist - composers. Later he was graduated from the Church Music School in Regensburg, where he studied under the direction of F. X. Haberl. Mr. Sehinhan was or ganist for the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra for three years. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Mebane are at Nag's Head for a week. Mrs. Mebane will atop in Suffolk, Va., on her way home to visit her sis ter, Mrs. S. E. Everett. statistics, are rules of the road, safety hints for pedestrians, and digests of state laws in regard to speed limits, reckless driving, the mechanical condition of au tomobiles, and drivers' licenses. In an introduction Albert Coates, director of the Institute of Government, says: “One hundred and twenty state highway patrolmen cannot en force the motor vehicle laws on thousands of miles of public highway without the co-opera tion o % city police and county sheriffs throughout the state. Police, sheriffs and patrol cannot enforce them without the sup port of prosecuting attorneys, judges and the agencies of pro bation, pardon and parole. No law is stronger than the police desk, the prosecutor's office, the Jury box, the judge's bench or the governor's chair. All of them together are powerless without the understanding support of an informed public opinion. “This booklet undertakes to (ContiHMsd ♦* test 9*9*) „ Chapel Hill Chaff Henry Rankin, bachelor, who has the Buck Rose apartment in the Stacy house this summer, has become an ardent chef. *He prepares all his meals and, more than that, gives frequent par ties. His guests applaud his skill as a cook and table-setter, and angle for return invitations. Nobody to tell him what is ap propriate to the time of day—he serves just what he fancies at whatever hour. His favorite breakfast is t-bone steak and onion soup. What a contrast is J. Maryon Saunders! He has an apart ment in the same house. When he was a left-at-home husband recently his dominant thought was to escape duties of house keeping. For breakfast he ate post toasties, drank a glass of milk in which he had stirred a raw egg, and ended with tomato juice. This left him only two articles to wash, a bowl and a milk glass. You may ask: what about the spoon and the tomato juice glass? He licked the spoon, and so it didn't need washing. Rings around the to mato juice glass divided it into three sections. He filled it and made the three sections last three days. On the third day he would remove the glass from the ice-box, wash it, and refill it. * * •. Nell Battle Lewis and Robert W. Madry have been having an argument about the University’s dropping mathematics as a re quired study. In her column Sunday before last Miss Lewis deplored this change in the cur riculum. Mr. Madry, in a letter which she published in her col umn last Sunday, wrote: “I had always thought of you as a lib eral, a progressive. And now you come along and spoil my illusion (Continued on last page) Romulus Best Injured He Is in Watts Hospital as the Result of an Automobile Accident Romulus Best is in Watts hospital as the result of an auto mobile accident shortly after twelve o’clock night before last. The x-ray report was not in when the Weekly asked about him before going to press yes terday, but Dr. Foy Roberson said there was some fear of an injury to the spine. An ankle was fractured. “He has recov ered from the shock, and his general condition is satisfac tory," said the physician. Romulus had been to a party at the Roses’ on North street and was driving home with D. D. Carroll, Jr., Marvin Utley, Jr., and R. P. Andrews, Jr. When they came near the Da shiell house, going down-grade along Boundary street, their headlights went out. Best lost control of the car, swerved to avoid a tree, and went into a ditch in front of the Paine house. The car turned on its side, and his leg was caught un- The noise brought resi der it. dedts on the run—the Paines, the Dashiells, the Fieldses, the Coffins, and others. After Best was extricated he was sent to the Infirmary; thence, on Df. Hedgpeth’s advice, he was taken to Watte. Hie other boys in the car suf fered nothing wprse than bruises. Vaccination Is Compulsory Vaccination against small pox is compulsory for children ca tering school next month. Prices of Food Are Mounting; Due to Shortage of Supply and Processing Tax, Say Retailers “Expedition” Expected Action on Projects Approved by the P. W. A. Muet Be Prompt Herman G. Baity, state direc tor of the Federal Public Works Administration, was asked yes terday what would be the effect, as far as his organization was concerned, of delay on the part of Orange county in proceeding with the $472,000 school-build ing project which the P. W. A. has approved. • “There is no definite period within which the county must proceed,” he replied, “but the Government expects every ap plicant whose project has been approved to proceed with all pos sible expedition, else the offer of a Government grant will be canceled.” Mr. Baity said that he had just received from Washington instructions to issue a notice that September 16 had been fixed As the last day on which appli cations would be received by the P.W.A. Burglary in Village Police Suspect 13-Year-Old Louis Cobb; Hold Him for Questioning As a result of three attempted robberies, two of them success ful, committed Wednesday after noon and early yesterday morn ing, 13-year-old Louis Cobb, Negro, son of a cook in one of the student boarding houses, was in the village jail yesterday afternoon awaiting questioning by the police. Louis is a very small boy, not much over four feet tall, who has given his father and the police considerable trouble by running about the town at night and sleeping under other peo ple’s houses. Chief Hubert Wright said yesterday after noon shortly before this paper went to press that he would question the boy last night or this morning. Raymond Zauber, summer ses sion student from Greensboro, came to his room in the Zeta Beta Tau house on West Frank lin street Wednesday evening after supper to find that some one had entered his room and taken sl2 from his trousers’ pockets. No one else in the house had lost anything. Between 2 and 4 o'clock Thursday morning, $l2B worth of clothing belonging to Carl Anderson of New Haven, Conn., was stolen from an upstairs hall in the home of Mrs. Mae W. Macßrair, who lives diagonally across the street from the Z. B. T. house. Entrance had been made through a bathroom win dow downstairs. Anderson, a cousin of W. A- Olsen, has not been in the village this summer. Although other clothing was also in the Hall, nothing else had been bothered. Shortly after 4 A. M., Mary Hartwell Bishop, daughter of David H. Bishop, visiting pro (Continued on neot page) ; . ... ,m*m .■■■rnfr-.... <l|, || n , Miss Alice Noble Is Traveling Miss Alice Noble set out this week. One of her tenets is, when she goes away on a vaca tion, not to remain on the North American continent. Before she gets back she will have taken aa ocean trip end possibly tfill have set foot on the Canadian cos it cl an island in thlrWisi Indies. $1.50 a Year fas Advance. 5c a Copy r It Looks as if Rise Will Offset to Large Extent Recent Boost in Salaries Here PORK PRODUCTS LEAP UP Soaring meat prices, resulting, according to grocerymen, from government hog reductions, drought, and shortage* of live stock food, have left village housewives wondering what good petty salary increases, hailed as indications of better times, are going to do. Meat, all the way from fat back to sirloin steak, has risen to from one and a half to almost two times the price of last Aug ust ; and no recession is predict ed. Within the last two months the prices of pork products— fatback, country sausage, bacon, and pork chops—have gone up, in some instances, as much as in the preceding ten months. No such sudden general rise has taken place during June and July in the prices of staples like sugar, flour, and potatoes. According to a letter sent out from the Richmond headquar ters of the Kingan company to its salesmen, the shortage of hogs is greater than it has been since 1902, pork on the hoof now bringing $44.45 per hundred pounds, including the processing tax. Flour, sugar, eggs, potatoes, and other staples have shown an accompanying, though not pro portionate, rise in most cases. Os 14 representative food com modities, only one, coffee, shows a decline in price. The following prices are quot ed at three stores in Chapel Hill: Cash and carry store No. 1: fatback, 12Vs5 cents a pound in (Continued on laet page) Prize to Be Increased Manager Smith Announces It Will Go Up from S2O to s3s Manager E. C. Smith of the Carolina theatre announces that on the first Friday night after the next award the cash prize will be increased from S2O to $35. if the holder of the lucky number is not present, sls will be added every week thereafter until the money finds an owner. Miles T. Winslow did not an swer to his name when his num ber was drawn last Friday night, and so the prize tonight will be S4O; S2O will be added every week until the person whose number is drawn is in the audience or in sound of a call from the lobby. It is after the present accumulation is claimed that the new schedule will go into effect. Then, $35 will be the prize on every Friday after the Friday on which the holder of the lucky number is present. f Summer Session Bulletin Vesper services. Monday through Friday, 7 P. M„ at the Davit Poplar ; dances, today and tomorrow (Friday and Satur day) and Tuesday, 9 P. M., By num Gymnasium; organ and voiee recital, Mr. v and Mrs. Jan Philip Sehinhan, Sunday evening it 8:30, Hill Music hall. Exami nations Friday and Saturday, August 30 and 81. . New York Sunday morning. He went there to give some advice to the MaeSflfch bompany. \ "J
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