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Town's Sewage
Disposal Plant
Being Extended
WJ*.A. Grant to Cover Part of
$45,000 Coot; Town and Uni*
. veraity Are to Contribute
TRICKLING FILTER WILL
BE THE MAIN STRUCTURE
The municipal sewage disposal
plant, down in the Bolin creek
valley east of town, is being ex
tended and unproved.
Part of the cost of the enter
prise, about $45,000, is covered
by a grant from the W.P.A. The
town and the University are
contributing thir rest. A large
proportion of the town’s con
tribution is in the form of haul
ing and materials.
From 40 to 50 men are on the
job, and they will stay on it
through the summer and into
the fall. The project will prob
ably be completed some time be
tween the. middle of September
/find the middle of November.
The principal structure in the
extension is the trickling filter
which is a circular basin 125 feet
in diameter, with walls of rock
and a floor of concrete. It will
contain crushed stone to a depth
of 7 feet. The liquid which comes
from the primary clarifier goes,
at present, to the creek; it will
go, when the improvement is
finished, through a rotary dis
tributor into the filter; then to
a se<indary clarifier, where the
smaliSiroportion of solids still
remaining will settle; and then
to the creek. &
The result will be a far more
thorough removal of impurities
than is now possible and a great
addition to the volume of out
flow that can be taken awky by
the creek.
The amount of crushed stone
to be used will be 2,300 tons, and,
of stone for construction, 525
tons.
School Music Contests
In contests held day before
yesterday at the high school the
following students were chosen
to represent Chapel Hill next
Friday in Durham at the district
high school music contest :
Billy Durham, bass; Lois Mc-
Cauley, soprano; Donald Stan
ford, baritone; Miriam Lawrence,
alto; Jimmy Dobbins, unchanged
voice; Kirmeth Freeman, piano;
Valiska Hayden, violin; and
Eloise Poe, Miriam Lawrence,
and Whitfield Lloyd, trio.
The Girls’ Glee Club, the Band,
and the following instrumental
soloists will also compete in Dur
ham: Richard Bradshaw, bari
tone horn'; Allen Garrett, clari
net; Gustave Harrer, trombone;
and Georgia Logan, flute.
Those who win an “A" rating
at Durham will compete next
month in the state contests at
Greensboro.
Starr at the Bull’s Head
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Nathan C. Starr will talk on
“T. H. White and the Arthurian
Legend” at 4 o’clock Wednesday
afternoon at a tea at the Bull’s
Head Bookshop. Everybody is
invited. Mr. Starr, who i» here
doing independent research, for
merly taught English at Har
vard, Colgate, Williams, and St.
John’s at Annapolis.
An Honorary Pharmacist
At a recent meeting of the
executive committee of the
North Carolina Pharmaceutical
Association Miss Alice Noble
was made an honorary member
of the association. Rarely in
deed, so far ks people here know,
never before—-has this honor
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The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
This Is the First Day of Spring;
Long-Continued Cold Has Made the
Planting Season Later than Usual
By Louis Graves
The vernal equinox came at
7:21 last night, Thursday, March
20th, and so today is the first
day of spring. That is what the
science of meteorology says. You
will know, from the feel of it,
whether the spring now here is
merely official or what you con
sider the real thing.
A newspaper man is at a dis
advantage in writing about the
weather; at any time of the
year, but specially at this sea
son when the changes are apt to
be so sudden. Between the time
when he is writing and the time
when what he writes appears in
print, chill winds may give place
to balm, a cold drizzle to warm
sunshine, or vice This is
so with the daily papers, and it
is more so with the weeklies be
cause of their less rapid printing.
Three hours before I set down
these words the temperature
was only two degrees above
freezing, and at this minute (I
Radio Gives Hubert News of Appointment,
And He Passes It on to President Graham
When Hubert Robinson, the
negro man who works at the
President’s House, was listening
to the radio late day before yes
terday afternoon, he heard the
broadcaster say: “President
Roosevelt has appointed Frank
P. Graham, President of the
University of North Carolina, a
member of the mediation board
designed to prevent strikes from
interfering with the country’s
defense program.”
A few minutes later Mr. Gra
ham came home from his office,
and Hubert told him what the
radio man had said. And that
was the first word that he got
about the appointment.
“I suppose that in a time of
emergency like this,” Mr. Gra
ham said yesterday, “it is as
sumed that anybody who is
asked to do anything has to do it
and that it is not necessary to
get his consent.”
Mr. Graham has been a vig
orous and outspoken advocate
of the aid-to-Britain policy and
is a member of the executive
committee of the Committee ‘to
Defend America by Aiding the
Allies.
He went to New York Monday
to attend a meeting of the organ
ization’s National Policy Board,
made up of men and women
representing all sections of the
country, and supported the reso
lution adopted by an over
whelming majority in calling
for “the convoy of ships by
American naval vessels if need
be.”
On behalf of the Committee to
Defend America, the Policy
Board issued a statement say
ing:
. ... —~~~
Movies Today and Tomorrow
“Meet the Chump,” a comedy
starring Hugh Herbert and
Lewis Howard, will be sfiown to
day (Friday) at the Carolina
theatre. “Shadows 6n the
Stairs,” a mystery play, with
Paul Cavanagh, will be there
tomorrow.
Club to Hear of France Today
\ t
Myron P. Gilmore of the Har
vard University history depart
ment, who is here on a leave of
absence, will talk on “Letters
from Defeated France” this
(Friday) afternoon at a meeting
of the Community Club at the
parish house. The meeting will
begin at 3:80 wjtfr a business
session. Tea wRMre served.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1941
have just gone out to the porch
to see the thermometer) it is 20
degrees warmer. What it will be
three hours from now, God only
knows.
if the forecast in the morning
paper is right, the mercury is
going higher, and I pray that
when you read this you will be
having reason to rejoice over the
arrival of real, warm, beautiful
springtime.
While there has been little vio
lence in the weather this winter.
Chapel Hill people havs been im
pressed by the steady coldness.
For all the sunshine, and there
has been a lot of it, this has been
no phony winter.
January a year ago was the
coldest January for 54 years;
the temperature here went down
to 3 degrees, and there was deep
snow for many days. The mean
temperature was 31.8 degrees,
which was 9.4 degrees below the
average in Chapel Hill for the
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“Our slogan will be ‘Deliver
the goods to Britain now.’ ”
The Board declared for per
mitting the recruiting of Ameri
cansTwho wish to volunteer to
serve “those nations whose de
fense is necessary for American
security;” for a firm policy in the
Pacific,,, including increase of
American naval strength in the
Far East, increased aid to China,
and embargoes on war materials
to Japan; and for combatting
Nazi and totalitarian propa
ganda in this country.
The Eatons Are Coming to Visit the Village
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Prichard
Eaton are coming to the Inn
Monday for a visit in the village.
Mr. Eaton is head of the drama
department at Yale.
For two years after his grad
uation from Harvard in 1900 he
was a rejxnrter for the Boston
Journal, and then for five years
he was with the New York
Trihum. His service there made
him known as a scholarly, keen,
and entertaining writer about
the theatre, and in 1907 he be
came dramatic critic for the Sun.
Since then, he has reviewed
plays for newspapers and maga-
The N. C. Symphony Orchestra I Mays in Elisabeth City Tonight
The North Carolina Symphony
Orchestra, directed by Benja
min Swalin, will give a concert
this (Friday) evening in Eliza
beth City. It will perform March
25 in Greensboro under the aus
pices of Bundles for Britain, in
Cullowhee April 11, and in Ra
leigh, May 11. Among the 50
Workers Are Needed for the Comm Baity Workshop for War Relief
More workers will be needed
at the Commtfnity Workshop for
War Relief, when the new mate
rials, expected every day, arrive.
Red Cross headquarters has as
signed to Chapel HiU a quota
consisting of men’s, women’s,
and children’s sweaters, shawls,
taurfs, socks, hospital pajamas,
layettes, cotton dresses, woolen
dresses, and boys’ shirts.
Women who can do plain sew
ing are asked to come to the
Workshop, in the basement, of
Swain hall, mornings and after
noons from Tuesday through
Friday. 1 «
Many of the layettes go to
young mothers who have lost
their homes, or their husbands,
or, sometimes, both homes and
Chapel Hill Chaff
It is only a thoughtful minor
ity of the people in the world,
men and women concerned for
the future of the race and the fu
ture of civilization, who will
take a proper interest in the
studies of Dr. MacNider and his
fellow scientists who are meet
ing in Baltimore today to dis
cuss the problem of ageing; and
it is only such a minority that
the scientists expect to take an
interest in it. For, among the
great majority of people, it is this
way: the young don’t worry
about old age because it seems
so remote; and the person who is
getting old or is already old,
when he hears about the gather
ing in Baltimore, will say: *T
hope those birds find away to
postpone old age. but they cant
do anything about it bn time to
do me any good."
• • •
The person who sends me,
notices about Methodist church
circle meetings, whoever if is,
usually spells wrong the name
of the man who used to be the
pastor here, writing it Patton
instead of Patten. A moment
ago I was about to remark upon
this as evidence that the Metho
dists of Chapel Hill did not keep
Mr. Patten in their memory as
clearly as they should. But then
1 recalled that when he was right
in among us. walking up and
down the street every day, peo
ple in Chapel Hill, in writing his
name, put the o in place of the
e just as they are doing now. I
ought to know—l had to make
the correction often enough.
Patten is just one of those names
that it is easy to misspell.
For easy misspellability.
though, I believe the champion
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zincs; has given other reviewers
a chance at him by himself
writing plays; and has written
books, essays, and short stones.
His interest in the theatre is
equaled, perhaps exceeded, by
his interest fn the out-of-doors,
A
and much of what he has written
is about fields and streams and
meadows and mountains and
flowers. He has been a vigorous
! objector to the modern mechan
ical society’s encroachments
! upon nature and has been active,
. in particular, in’ bar
| arous attacks upon the beauties
lof the scenery in New England.
members of the orchestra are
these Chapel Hillians: Mrs. F. A.
Judson. Hans Haas, Jess Swan,
Samuel Barbee, Arthur Lind
sey, Truitt Bennett, Conrad
Sehrimpe, William Kknx, Wilton
Mason, and Bruce Young. Mrs.
Swalin aids with the manage
ment.
A Red Cross bulletin received
by Mrs. F. P. Graham, chairman
of the Workshop here, says re
lief supplies sent to war victims
from America have reached a
total value of 20 million dollars.
v Mrs. Page Wins Mid-Sooth
Mrs. EsteOe Lawson Page of
Chapel Hill woo the 8-day Mid-
South Women’s Golf Tourna
ment this week at Pinehurst.
She made the 54 holes in 28ft
strokes, which was 14 under par
and 23 strokes ahead ot her
nearest competitor. Miss Louise
Fordyee of Youngstown, Ohio.
Mrs. Page also won the event last
year Mid in. 1937. She in the na-
Proposed Amendment Does Not
Do the Most Important Tlnn£
The Public Expected It to Do
Notice about Tux
Anybody who wants to make
any complaint about his tax as
sessment will be heard by the
ing Monday, beginning at 10
A-M„ in the court house in Hills
boro,
Tlus notice is for the particu
lar benefit of resident* of Chapel
HOl township.
The commissioners t
hearing Monday, bat, since the
board of assessors had not com
pleted their survey in this town
ship. the consideration of com
plaints about properties here
was postponed.
Weather Postscript
Since the article ebe where on
this page was written, the mer
cury has gone kiting. It had
moved up to 70 at noon yester
day, and later on, when this
paper was about to be pat to
I press, it was at 73. This was in
i the shade of a porch. Out in the
sun, of course, air was much
I warmer. Doors and windows were
open. Furnace-slaves left off
stoking and uttered happy
threats about letting the fires
;go out. Other householders
worked in their gardens.
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Fire Destroys Home
And Everything in It
Mrs. Eugene Dawson, in her
home oat in Forest Hills, heard
a faint cry from her baby between
4 and 5 o’clock Tuesday morning.
When she got up she smelled
smoke. Then she called to her
husband.
He jumped from bed. opened
the living room door, and found
himself facing a mass of flame.
They had to go through a
window to save their lives. The
window was high above the
ground, and Mr. Dawson had to
get out first, secure a footing,
and then reach back and take his
wife and child out.
T. A. Rosemond and other
neighbors, as soon as they knew
the house was afire, came on the
run. but it was too late for any-
Ijody to do anything helpful. The
house and all its contents—fur
niture. dining room and kitchen
equipment, clothing, everything
—were destroyed.
Nobody knows where the fire
’ started. The best guess seems to
jhe that it started in the base
ment.
Negroes to Sing Here
The famous Hampton Quartet
of Hampton Institute, Virginia,
will give a concert of negro
spirituals at 8 o’clock Monday
evening in Memorial haU under
the auspices of the YJLCA. Ad
iiw. lot prograin wui
include “Down by the River
•Side,** “Rise and Shine,” “Every
Time I Fed the Spirit," “Esektri
Saw the Wheel." “Steal Away,"
“Git on Board. LB* Children,"
“De Ole Ark's Amovin’." “Ole
Time Religion." “Want to Go to
Heaven When I Die," "Go Down
Moses." "My Lord. What a Morn
ing!," “Let Us Cheer the Weary
Traveler." “View the Land,"
“Swing Low. Sweet Chariot,”
and “OM Man River."
49§ Bahy Chicks Me te Fire
A lire Tuesday night on
Prifchartf avenue destroyed
| Clark Marsh's chicken house,
400 baby chirks therein, and
\ Robert Burch's garage. The fire
*l-5* a Year in Advance. Sc a Copy
Change That the Electorate b
to Vets an WeeM Net “Take
Schools aat of Politics"
KEEPS SUPERINTENDENT
AS ELECTTVB OFFICER
Daring the session of the leg
bktare. » connection with the
proposed Constitutional amend
ment to the state’s
educational agencies into a single
board, there was a great deal of
talk about “taking the schools
out of politics."
The main step & this direc
tion, the people 'were given to
understand, was to be the re
moval of the state superinten
dent of public instruction from
the category of elective officers.
The public expectation created
jby tire persons leading the move
ment for the amendment was
that there would be a compact
board and that tins board would
select, to be state superinten
dent. a man of proved ability in
the world of education.
The amendment was discussed
in committee and on the floor of
the house of representatives.
And the result of all the discus
sion was that the legislature
voted to submit to the people an
amendment which is not at all
the one that the public was led
to expect.
The amendment does not pro
vide that tire superintendent of
public instruction shall no longer
be chosen by popular election.
That is. it does not do the most
important thing it was expected
to do. The superintendent re
mains elective, and he and two
other state officials become ex
officio members of the board.
The other members of the board
are to be twelve persons appoint
ed by the Governor, one from
each congressional district in
the state.
It is no wonder that everybody
familiar with political practices
is laughing at the notion that
such a set-up as this would “take
; the schools out of politics.”
( rrt?l Is a Candidate
| Thomas Braxton Creel an
nounces his candidacy for a place
on the board of aldermen. Tues
day, May 6. is the day when three
successors to F. O. Bowman,
George Hetlen. and Paul Robert
son are to be elected. Mr. Bow
man and Mr. Hellen are to be up
re refection. Colonel Pratt
said last week he would be a
candidate, and now Mr. Creel is
in the Arid.
Born in Chapel Hill 51 years
ago, Mr. Creel enlisted in the
Army in 1917 and served in the
30th division (the same one
Colonel Pratt was in) seven
months in Camp Sevier, South
Carolina, »»<i ton in
France. He belongs to the Ameri
can Legion, is a 32nd degree
Mason, and is senior steward of
the Chapel Hill lodge of Masons.
He has a grown son. a groom
daughter, an 8-year-old son, and
two rraivdchiklren. Hh two step
sons are Bob Smith of Carolina
football fame and W. T. Smith,
taxi driver. He fives on Weet
Vmm—yy few* nfnwdte the home
of S. W. Andrews.
*Odr section of town has not
had anybody on the board of
aldermen, he said yesterday,
“I think fit ought to be repre-
CMhpi Speaks hi alahfle
Howard W, Odum spoke yes
terday is Mobile, Ala,, before a