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VoL 16, No. 29 Town May Make Experiment with Brick for Walks Stretch in Front of Presby terian Church Suggested as A Gopd Place for the Test X ENGINEER GUESSES COST In the hope of finding an ans wer to a question that has trou bled the people of Chapel Hill for many years, the town govern ment inay soon lay an experi mental stretch of brick sidewalk. Where, if at all, has not yet been decided. One suggestion is that the test be made in front of the Presbyterian church; in wet weather the walk there is par ticularly hateful to pedestrians. The inhabitants of the village are divided into camps on the subject of sidewalks. There are the folks who hold in affection the old-fashioned dirt walk. They have voiced horror and indignation at proposals for put ting down.cement; they declare this would make Chapel HHI look citified and would thereby de tract from its loveliness. Then there are the folks who say that a decent footing is more impor tant than “character,” “Haver,” “atmosphere,” and such ab stractions. “I have observed,” said one of the good-footing advocates re cently, “that nearly all the peo ple who are so sentimental about the sidewalks are those who ride in automobiles and so don't have to scrape their feet on the grav el and wade through mud and pools of water.” It may be that brick will be the solution. Brick walks are much better-looking than ce ment walks and, when they are well made, give just as good a surface for walkers. And, what’s important, they can be built for less money. The University is now laying several hundred square feet of brick for walks in front of Swain hall. The “header courses” forming the borders are laid with cement joints, but the brick where the walking will be done are laid on well packed sand with sand joints. Careful tamping and rolling make the surface firm and smooth. Engineer A. R. Hollett, who is supervising the work, is keeping a record of the cost so that the University authorities may know whether, if these walks are satisfactory, it will be feas ible to use brick in other places. “The slopes and the curves (Continued o* laet page) School Men at Feast Educators tram AH »*«r the State Make Marry at Hm ba Prominent educators from all over the state were guests Mon day evening at a school men’* banquet in the Carolina Inn. The banquet waa given by the Uni versity’s department Os educa tion for members of the Summer Session education faculty and school men who are taking work here this summer. Archibald Henderson wat toastmaster. Greetings were ex tended by officials of the Univer sity, State College, the Woman’a College, and the State Depart ment of Education. Robert B. House played his harmonica, and the guests joined in community singing. Then there was tap-dancing. Among the guests were J. H. Highsmith, head of the State De partment of Education, and M. • C. S. Noble, Kenan professor of education emeritus in the Uni versity. The Chapel HI Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor The Proposed Municipal Building An Editorial A special election, in which the citizens of Chapel Hill vote on the question of issuing bonds to the amount of $24,000 for a new municipal building, will be held tomorrow (Saturday). The polls will be open at the elemen tary school from 8 A. M. to sun down (7:19 P. M.). There did not have to be a special registration for this elec tion. Anybody who has regis tered for any general election in the past is eligible to vote, and the decision will be made by a majority of the persons who actually do vote. The United States Govern ment offers through the P.W.A. to make an outright grant of $17,550 for the building. The re quirement from the town is $21,450 to make up the total cost of construction and $2,550 more to coyer architects’, engi neers’, and lawyers’ services and other incidentals. We belfove that the people of Hfll should give an af firmative vote on the bond issue Archie Henderson Conquers Allison on Court Archibald Henderson, Jr., known in the tennis world as Archie Henderson, beat Wilmer Allison, former national cham pion, last Friday in the tennis tournament at Spring Lake, N. Y. Thus he achieved a glory too great to be dimmed by his losing to Frankie Parker in the final round. The morning after his tri umph over Allison the New York Times published a full-length photograph of him in the act of making a backhand stroke. “Looking back at the tourna , ments this season,” writes Fred Hawthorne, the New York Herald Tribune’s tennis critic, “three young players stand out above the rest: Henderson, Gil bert A. Hunt, and Frank Guern sey.” James A. Burchard of the New York World-Telegram re ports the veteran expert, Frank Hunter, as saying in an interval of the Henderson-Allison match: “There’s a kid who’ll bear watch ing. He’s marked for the first ten right now, and with proper Chorus for 2nd Term Siafsra Directed by John E. Tone Will Present “Trial by Jury” The chorus for the second term of the Summer Session, which will be directed by John E. drums, will begin rehearsals Tuesday. Regular rehearsals trill be held at 5 P.M. daily in HW Music hall. The featured part of the program that will be pro* seated at the end of the term will be *TVtot4y#Mry” by Gil bert *nd Mfran. “Everyone!* cepdiafiy invited to participate in the Chorus,” says Hr. Tims. a. it"™ * imCaßur S. E. T. Load, of the Univer sity of Tennessee, wifi teach in the University's education de partment during the second term of the Summer Session. He will give a full course" in curri culum trends and practices and a half-course in extra-curricular activities. Mr. Lund is a spec ialist in modem trends in school curricula. He has been curri culum adviser for T. V. A. schools. Mm. Leon Russell left Friday J for a visit to her father, J, P. McEvoy, in New York. CHAPEL HILL, N. O, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1938 for the reason that the town is in urgent need of quarters for several of its departments and can procure these quarters in no other way so economically as by accepting the offer of the P.W.A. The town must soon vacate the old Pickwick theatre that it has been using rent-free for the recorder's court, and for a pass able courtroom it will have to pay at least SSO a month. It is paying a rental of SSO a month for its administrative offices. It is absolutely obliged to have a new jail because the present one is inadequate, insanitary, and generally indecent. (A jail is in cluded in the plans for the new building). If it does not seize the oppor tunity now presented, the town will have to pay rentals year after year and will have to make a capital outlay for a new jfU. In the long run that will be more costly than to proceed now to put up a building for which the Government will contribute about 42 per cent of the total cost. development might well be Davis Cup timber.” Allison Danzig of the Nsw York Times praised Henderson highly for his performance against Allison. The match was begun on Thursday, but rain broke It up when the score stood one set all with Henderson leading 3-1 in the third. It was resumed at that point next day. “The quiet, studious North Carolinian,” wrote Danzig of the Thursday encounter, “uses his head on the courts as well as in the classroom.” . . . "Alli son won the second set, and it seemed that he had nothing fur ther to fear. But with the third set the slender, frowning Hen derson showed that he, too, could answer the challenge of (Continued on page two) The Summer Session Bulletin FRIDAY, JULY 22, AND SATURDAY, JULY 23 Final examinations. MONDAY, JULY 25 Registration, second term. 7:oo—Organ vespers, Memorial hall. TUESDAY, JULY 26 , Area W.P.A. Recreational Directors’ conference. Real Estate Institute. 7:oo—Organ vespers, Memorial hall. WEDNESDAY, JULY 27 I Area W.P.A. Recreational Directors’ conference. Real Estate Institute. 7:oß—Organ vespers, Memorial hall. B:oß—Amateur night, Graham Memorial. THURSDAY, JULY 28 Area W.P.A. Recreational Directors’ conference. ft**! Estate Institute. 7*oo—Organ vespers, Memorial hall. 7:BB—Summer pchooi receptkm, D»rie poplar. (Graham Me morial in case of rain.) 8:80—Mild! Roberts, concert violinist, Hill hall. FRIDAY, JULY 29 7K)o—Organ vespers, Memorial hall. * o:oo—Dance, Bynum gymnasium. SATURDAY, JULY 38 J 9:oß—Dance, Bynum gymnasium. Mr. Stewart Satis Tomorrow Rev. Donald Stewart will sail tomorrow for England, He wifi preach during August at the Trinity Presbyterian church in Birkenhead and will study at the University of Edinburgh during the fall quarter. Holland Thompson la Here Holland Thompson of New York is at the Caroiina Inn for Chapel Hill Chaff Reports that come to me from Massachusetts make the sum mertime life of William Steene, my former fellow citizen here, look pretty soft. Mrs. Steene and her sister, Miss Olive Jackson, have become proprietors and managers of the Coach Lamp Inn in the Berkshire mountains near Great Barrington. They have reconditioned the spacious white-pillared Colonial building to make it comfortable for Mr. Steene and, incidentally, for vacationists who come from far and wide. Between occasional sorties for portrait-painting Mr. Steene sits in a rocking chair on the porch, with his feet cocked up on the balustrade, and converses with the guests while Mrs. Steene and her sister, assisted sometimes by the two talented Steene daugh ters, see that everything goes smoothly around the house and grounds. But I suspect that there is one way in which the painter makes himself useful. A ; circular de scribing the place says that food, drink, and service are in the Kentucky tradition; which merit derives from the fact that Mrs. Steene and Miss Jackson are na tives of that state. Mr. Steene was born far away to the north, but in the course of the years he has been so absorptive that he now possesses not a few of the characteristics, habits, and pro ficiencies generally associated with Kentucky. So, I feel sure that he has consented to take over one part of the labor at the Coach Lamp: the mixing at the juleps. The perfect activity for the perfect Mine Host. * * * Near the brick steps that lead down from the Bookers’ white columned porch, flanking the broad path, are two old elms. A shelf is attached to each of them, about head-high from the ground. For years, since long before the death of the late (Continued on page five ) Second-Term Events Among the leading events of the second term of the Univer sity's Summer Session will be the Real Estate School, July 28 to 28; the Ilth annual Parent- Teacher Institute, August 8 to 12; the 17th annual coaching school for athletic directors and coaches, August 16 to 27; and a creative music course to be off ered throughout the term by w IHfIU a U f 11 flsrs. Aaeime mcv.au. The University Campos and the Negro [School Grounds Will Be Improved by Forces of W.F.A. Damage Done by Rain “I figure tint the rains of the last three weeks have cost Chapel Hill between $l5O and $200,” said Town Manager Caldwell yesteaday. He went on to talk about the unsatisfactory quality of grave! sidewalks. They are built up by the hauling in of gravel on trucks. The transportation costs money, and the labor of spread ing and packing the gravel costs more money. For a while, if the weather is fair, the sidewalks serve well enough. But it’s only a question of time. A season of heavy rains is bound to come. The gravel is washed off into the ditches—and the process of hauling and spreading more gravel has to be repeated. Maybe brick, with which the town expects to experiment, will solve the problem. “A walk that costa more to bufid may cost leas in the end,” says the town man ager, “because the maintenance cost is so much lees.’ 1 Jacocks Coming Home Dr. W. P. Jacocks, dimeter for India of the activities of the In ternational Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, will leave Delhi August 21 and about a month later will arrive at the home of his brother, F. G. Ja eocks, in Elizabeth City. “I am looking ferU&rd te ing some of the football games in Chapel Hill,” he writes to a friend here. Persons acquainted with Dr. Jacocks’ habits and hobbies know that his spectator ship at football games will not be confined to Chapel Hill. When the University team is not play ing here he will be wherever it is. In his letter he expresses him self in cheerful terms about the weather in Delhi. ‘‘The rains have broken the back of our hot weather” (this was written June 22) “and the thermometer now rarely goes over 100. So we are comparatively comfortable.” Baity Again in P.W.A. Temporarily Eagased, Ha Will Aid in Making Out Application* Herman G. Baity, professor of sanitary engineering in the Uni versity, has been appointed spe cial engineer to represent the P.W.A. temporarily in North Carolina in the formulation of a program of public works in this state under the provisions of the bUlion-dollar public works ap propriation recently passed by Congress* Mr. Baity, was state director of the P.W.A. from 1988 to 1988. With Chapel Kill as his head quarters, he will be in the field meet of tihe time assisting local governmental officials in the preparation of applications and helping generally with the pro cedures precedent to the con struction of projects which re ceive allotments. Mr. Baity is holding a series of local meetings throughout the state to explain the new P.W.A. program to state, county, and municipal officials. i-Wetk Skip In Stadium Music There will be no music in the Kenan stadium day after tomor row (Sunday) evening. The I ox concerts will oq cob** sl-58a Yearta AdtaUMe, fieaCbpy Work on Grounds near Women’s Dormitory acroas from Arbo retum Will Begin Next Week BROAD WALK TO BE BUILT Forces under the command of Clarence Webb, WT.A. super visor in Orange county, win get to work next week on the part of the University campus, op posite the Arboretum, where stands the new dormitory for women. A few days later they will start on the grading, terracing, and landscaping of the grounds of Chapel Hill's negro institu tion, the Orange County Train ing School. Since the University put up its new dormitory, great masses of grassless dirt have been scat tered over the surrounding grove. Now this dirt is to be graded and seeded. Behind (north of) the dormitory, run ning parallel with the rock wall that borders the President’s House yard, a broad walk wifi be built to provide passage for pe destrians between the Arbor etum and Battle Mae. A mov able post to be set up in the mid dle of the walk at the Arboretum end wifi be removed when it M necessary for coal trucks or oth er vehicles to get to the rear c t the building. The total cost of work au thorized by the W.P.A., on the improvement of the University (grounds, nt Iff fit The project embraces the con struction of walks, drains, re taining walls, and parking areas, and repairs on tennis courts. The improvement of the Or ange County Training School grounds is an enterprise that the Chapel Hill school board has been trying for a long time to get launched, and it will be hail ed with delight by the negro community. Rain water pour (Continued on loot page) Immunization Clinics When and Where People May Be Inoc ufated against Diseases Rural clinks tor immuniza tion against typhoid, smallpox, and diphtheria will be held in this part of the county according to the following schedule: Mondays (July 25, August 1 and 8): Cool Spring School, 9 A. M.; Blackwood station, at Henry Tapp’s home, 10 A. M.; Orange Church, 11 A. M.; Mt. Sinai Church, 1:8Q P. M.; Broad well’s Service Station on the Chapel Hill-Durham Road, 8:88 P. M.; Blake’s Service Station on Chapel Hill-Pittsboro Road, 8 :80 P. M. Wednesdays (July 27, August 8 and 10): Hickory Grove on Highway 84 (Negro), 9 A. II,; White Cross School, 10 A. M.; Orange Grove School, 11 A. M.; Buokhom Store, l P. M.; Lloyd’s Filling Station, on Hillsbono- Chapel Hill Road, S P.M. Smallpox immunisation will be required for school attendance in the county next year. For children of pre-school age, diph theria immunisation will be of fered. “The attendance at clinics in other parts of the district has been unusually good,” said Dr. W. P. Richardson, health officer, yesterday, “and it Is expected the response will be good here. This is the year when ! large proportion of the population is supposed to take the anti-typhoid vaccination on the basis of a throe-year schedule.” *
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