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Tot 13. No. 27. Sherrill Held Up by 5 Thugs; Knocked 1 Cold Police Came Just in Time to Nab Men Who Tried to Rob University Professor ALL OF THEM CONVICTED Robbers are. cheap at six cents apiece, thinks R. H. Sher rill, member of the faculty in the University school of com merce. Just back from New York City, where he was teach ing at New York University dur ing the summer session, Mr. Sherrill relates how he was held up, robbed bf thirty cents, and figured in the capture of his five assailants. The professor had to pass through a rather tough district on his way home from work, and one afternoon as he was walk ing along five men stopped him and asked him for a match. As he obligingly reached in his pocket to comply, one of the five men thrust his hand in another pocket and took out thirty cents. Os course Mr. Sherrill had more than thirty cents on his person, but he had thoughtfully put his bills in the watch pocket of his trousers. “Before I thought I took a crack at one of the men and caught him in the mouth,” he says. “He was a little off bal ance and the blow knocked him to the sidewalk and his head struck the pavement, knocking him out. I turned to look for help and spied a taxi driver whom I asked to call a police map. Before th? taxi driver had time to make a move three radio patrol cars rolled up with six policemen. Those blue uni forms were, the best looking * things I have ever seen! It was -only a few seconds until the cops had all five of the men. They were all convicted and sentenced to prison. “Os course they weren’t real gangsters, but they were pretty tough customers. There is an epidemic of such hold-ups in New York City at present and the cops just happened to be on the look-out.” —Jimmy Rogers. McCorkle Goes to Texas Resigns Here to Take Portion in Southern Methodist University Thomas Smith McCorkle, a member of the music faculty in the University for the last ten years, has resigned to go to Southern Methodist University in Texas at a substantial in increase in salary. He will be professor of musical literature. A native of Texas, Mr. Mc- Corkle came to Chapel Hill in 1926 from Kansas City Univer sity. Besides teaching violin and music appreciation, he served as director of the Uni versity band for eight years and director of the University Sym phony Orchestra for seven years. Recently he has complet ed the manuscript for a college textbook on music appreciation which is to be published soon. With Mrs. McCorkle, who is an accomplished pianist, he has given frequent recitals in cities of the East and South. At the invitation of the Dallas Symph ony Orchestra they gave a series of seven recitals in Texas Inst winter. Here in Chapel Hill Mr. and Mrs. McCorkle have made many warm friends who regret to see them go. The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVEB Editor Town Tax Rate is $1.60 At a special meeting of the board of aldermen Tuesday af ternoon the town tax rate for 1986— including the school rate —was fixed at 31.60. The rate for the town government goes down 7 cents while the rate for the school goes up 1 cent, mak ing the net decline 6 cents. A comparison of the 1934 and 1935 rates is shown as follows: 1934 1935 Town Govt .84 .80 Town Debt Service .48 .45 School Operation .205 .205 School Debt Service 135 .145 1.66 *.60 The Orange county rate is 80 cents this year against 78 cents last year. Thus the total rate for the county and the town combined is $2.40 this year against $2.44 last year, a decline of 4 cents. The action of the aldermen in fixing the rate was based upon the town budget prepared by Matt L. Thompson, auditor, and the board’s budget committee, and upon a formal request trans- Cornwell la Coming Man from Ohio to Head University’* Dept, of Physical Education Oliver Kelly Cornwell, director of athletics in Wittenberg Col lege, Ohio, for the last eight years, will come to the Univer sity next month to be professor of physical education. He is to train students who wish to prepare to teach and to administer physical education programs. The work will include formal courses and practical in struction in coaching various sports and in directing general athletics. Under this program, students in the junior year will take courses in anatomy, physiology, and hygiene. In the senior year they will take courses in the principles of physical education, in the teaching of health, aiid in the physiology and psychology of adolescence. Mr. Cornwell was graduated at Wittenberg in 1921 and took his master’s degree at Ohio State in 1929. At Columbia, where he has taught and done graduate work for the last four summers, he has nearly completed his work for the doctorate. He taught in the schools of Springfield, Ohio, for two years and was director of the Spring field recreation system for six years. He went to Wittenberg in 1927 as director of health and physical education. He is 39 years old, is married, and has two children. Courses in the Bible To Be Taught by J. P. Harland, W. E. Caldwell, and A. C. Howell Three new courses in the Bible will be introduced by the University this year as the first definite move toward carrying out the vote of the faculty and trustees a few years ago author izing a department of the history and literature of religions. These courses will be electives, classes meeting three times a week, rad will be open to juniors and se niors. J. P. Harland will give “Ar chaeology and the Bible 1 ” in the fall-quarter, W. E. Caldwell “The History of the Hebrews in the Old Testament period” in the winter quarter, and A. C. Howell “The Bible as Litera ture” in the spring quarter. CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1935 mitted from the school board for the levy of a 35-cent school tax; The town government has nothing to do with deciding on the school rate; it merely serves as the collecting agency for the school. The town budget is divided into two sections: operating ex penses and debt service. The to tal requirements for operating expenses are $32,310. When revenue other than ad valorem taxes is deducted, $23,400 is left to be raised by the ad valorem levy. The total debt service re quirements are $34,913; the amount' to be raised after the deduction of revenue other than the ad' valorem levy, is $13,162. Add $23,400 and $13,162 and you have $36,562, which is equivalent to $1.25 on the SIOO of assessed valuation. Employees of the town, like those of the University, are get ting a raise in salary this year, this being a restoration, or par tial restoration, of what they lost by reductions. On the aver age the raise is about 10 per cent. Hitch in Bus Plan? Raleigh Road Said to Be Not Strong Enough for Heavy Vehiclea Just as the state utilities com mission is about to award the franchise for the operation of busses between Greensboro and Raleigh through Chapel Hill. Capus Waynick, chairman of the state highway commission, comes forward with the objec tion that the road along part of the route is not strong enough for heavy vehicles of the type used by the bus companies. He said yesterday that the stretch between Chapel Hill and Nelson was of sub-normal con struction and that the highway commission was likely to have to designate it as a light-traffic road. The road limit for a light-traf fic road, under the 1935 highway regulations, is 5,000 pounds. Busses now operated by both the Greyhound Lines and the Carolina Coach Company, the applicants for the franchise, have a weight above the limit, and Mr. Waynick expressed doubt thgt any bus of adequate size loaded, be leg ally used Madry Vanishes Jinny Left Hume to Go to Baptiat Church and la Naw Missing The Madrys no longer have an action to their family. About two weeks ago a state pa per recorded that a pretty little fox terrier, black of head and white of body, had been adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Bob Madry and that they had become very fond of him. Last Sunday Jimmy was turned out to play in front of the Graham Court apart ments, where his owners live, and about 11 o’clock he was missing. Evidently he follow ed some worshippers to the Bap tist church, for he was seen to scamper down the aisles twice during the services. Later he was seen on Franklin street playing with some children. That’s the last heard of Jimmy. The Madrys are anxious to get Jimmy back home, and in the classified advertisements they have described him rad offered a reward. ' 1 ■ ■ ' ■ ■■■ Notify the Weekly at once of any change in your addreeg. Chapel Hill Chaff Last Friday came in cool, but by noon the sun was beating down fiercely on the village and everybody was deploring what seemed to be the beginning of another torrid spell. I met Grover Beard, dean of the Uni versity pharmacy school, in front of the drugstore. He wore a happy smile. “I’m certainly glad to be back where it’s warm,” he said. “A week ago today I was in the middle of a blinding snowstorm at Hanft in the Canadian Rockies. When we passed through Calgary the mercury was at 10 degrees below the freezing point.” Mr. Beard was on his way home from the pharmaceutical convention in Seattle, Washing ton. Before he crossed into Canada he drove up Mount Ran ier as far as an automobile could carry him and then climbed up the mountainside along a foot trail. * • • My piece in last week’s issue, applauding the decision of the University not to force mathe matics upon students who detest it, has brought a letter from Dr. Hubert A. Royster of Raleigh. “I am with you,” he writes. “I have always hated mathematics in any form, even the multipli cation table. But at college I took it all, because I had to —all through trigonometry and conic sections, no further—and I got through, as you did, by memo rizing. All the problems in the books I mastered, but an origi nal problem I always omitted from my examination papers, (Continued on Uut page) Pre-Season Football Forty-Seven Player* Expected to A»- seßible Here Next Tuesday First harbingers of fall and of the village’s annual readjust ment to autumn life, 47 husky football players will gather here next Tuesday to begin a two weeks' session of pre-season practice in preparation for a nine-game campaign starting here September 28 against Wake Forest. Between breakfast at 7:30 and bedtime at 10 o'clock, the men will follow a rigorous pro gram designed by Coach Carl Snavely to put them in tip-top physical condition and get them accustomed once more to hand ling the ball and thinking Ip football terms. Practice sessions at 8:30 and 4 and lectures at 11 and 2:30 will be devoted to in struction; and setting-up exer cises, a nap at noon, the early retiring hour, and wholesome food will keep the players in ex cellent shape. Headquarters will be at the Kenan stadium, where the dress ing rooms are, and the practice sessions will be alternated be tween Emerson field and the new practice field east of the Tin Can. The grass on the new* gridiron is still tender, so it will be spared as much as possible at the beginning of the season. The players will be housed in a dormitory opened specially for them rad will probably take their meals in downtown cases and restaurants.^ Bank Moray In Armored Cor Am a mult of the payroll hold up two weeks ago, in which $10,526 was stolen on the way to Chapel Hfil, money from Dur ham is’now brought to the Bank of Chapel Hiß in an armored car, with guards. r O. S. Gov't. Establishes Soil Erosion Experiment * Station at Chapel Hill Actors May Come Here Professionals May Join Koch Troupe In Repertory Program A company of professional actors may come here to join the Carolina Piaymakers in a reper tory program. This is one of the federal re lief projects. The Government has made an allotment from re lief funds for unemployed actors all over the country. For the expenditure of the money the country has been divided into regions, and it is proposed to make Chapel Hill the headquar ters for the South Atlantic states. Frederick H. Koch and Paul Green, when they were in New York recently, conferred with Government officials and with representatives of actors’ organ izations, with a view to “getting something started” in Chapel Hill. Thus far only tentative plans have been made. Definite information about the project is expected to be given out soon. End of Summer Session Now Many Members of Fuculty Will Go Off on Vacations With the end of the examina tion period tomorrow (Satur day), the second term of the University’s summer session will come to a close. Many of the faculty members will go off on vacations. The summer Session regis tration at all three branches of the University was 2,356. There was a second term at Chapel Hill only. The attendance, al though slightly higher than last year, for all branches combined, did not measure up to expecta tions. Some lay the blame for the deficiency upon the latest consolidation rulings. Others say that Duke University at tracted many prospective Caro lina summer students. Possibly f the infantile paralysis epidemic and false rumors about its ex tent and location frightened away a number of would-be stu dents from out of the state. . The three weeks before the be ginning of the regular session will be used by the buildings de partment to overhaul dormi tories and office and class-room buildings. Food Prices Pork Product* Still on the Rina; No * Other Important Changes In the three grocery stores whose prices on commodities were quoted in last Friday’s is sue of this paper, no change is reported in the prices of beef, potatoes, coffee, sugar, butter, and other staples except the pork products. One of the stores has boosted the cost of boneless sugar-cured ham from ttf to 48 cents a pound, and thc/cost of bacon from 38 to 40 cents. A second store had gone down two cents a pound on aft pork meats, and the third announces no change in prices whatever. One grocerymra expressed confidence that perk, which, •long with beef, has soared hi price during the last year, would not go ray higher for the time being, at least. Other retailers were uncertain how prices would fluctuate within Hie next few wmolra sl*so a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy It Win Be Headquarters for Collection of Plants from AU Southeastern States OPERATIONS BEGIN TODAY The United States Govern ment has decided to make Chap el Hill the headquarters for the Southeastern States in experi mentation for the control of soil erosion. The University’s 800- acre tract known as the Mason farm, two miles east of the vil lage near the Raleigh road, has been turned over to the Depart ment of Agriculture to be used as a Soil Erosion Experiment Station. The experiments will consist chiefly of the growing of trees and shrubs for three purposes: highway bank protection, game conservation, and gully control, A tractor-plow is already on the ground, and today a force of six men from the relief rolls, one of whom knows how to op erate a tractor, will begin pre paring a 50-acre plot for the set ting out of plants to be brought from the Government’s station at Statesville. The first con signment of the plants will be brought in by truck Tuesday, and within a few days thereafter 11,000 will have been transport ed here. The tenant of the house on the Mason farm, who will remain there until his crop is harvest ed, is already using his teams and equipment for preliminary clearing, mostly the cutting of weeds. E. L. Evinger, horticulturist, a graduate of Washington Uni versity in St. Louis, is in com mand of the station. He has been here several weeks, organ izing the project. The plant propagator will be L. S. Hough ton, former chief of the foreign plant introduction division of (Continued on loot page) The Carolina Handbook Compendium of University Informa tion Edited by Don McKee ♦ . . L I, Edited by a Chapel Hill boy, Don McKee, the Carolina Hand book, an illustrated volume for incoming freshmen, appeared this week. This 80-page book of infor mation about the University is published annually by the Y. M. C. A.; and copies of it are mailed shortly before the opening of' the fall term to all accepted first year applicants. The writing, editing, and business manager ship of it is entirely in the hands of upperclassmen. This year’s volume of the Handbook, with a maroon and white cover design, contains, besides the printed matter deal ing with all important phases of college life at Chapel Hfil, nu merous etchings, sketches, and photographs of the campus and of student leaders and faculty members. On the center pages la a recent airplane photograph of the campus and the town. McKee will be a junior in the University this ys»r. He is con nected with the Daily Tar Heel, the Carolina Magazine, the Uni versity Chib, and a number of organizations. The business managers of the Handbook, J, C. Evans rad W. B. Wolfs, are University stu dents employed at the Orange Printshop.
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