Vol. 22, No. 29
Art Exhibit and
Open-Air Music
Sunday Evening
Latin-American Prints to Be
Shown Were Selected by
John Taylor Arms
An exhibit of Latin-American
prints in the Person Hall Art Gal
lery and an open-air concert of
recorded music make up the
double - feature entertainment
that is announced by the Univer
sity art department for day after
tomorrow (Sunday) evening.
The 75 prints, brought to the
United States by the Internation
al Business Machines Corpora
tion, were selected by the cele
brated print-maker, John Taylor
Arms. The corporation is lending
them, for exhibit, to art galleries
and museums throughout the
country.
At the ojiening of the exhibit,
at half past eight o’clock, Senora
Koseria Novoa de Lazo, associate
professor of art in the University
of Havana, visiting lecturer this
summer at the South Atlantic
Inter-American Workshop at
Duke University, will give a brief
talk about t he prints.
Later, chairs will be set out on
the terrace in front of Person
Hall for persons who want to lis
ten to the music. This will be the
“music - under - the - stars” pro
gram for the week. The Sum
mer School activities office is
sponsoring the program.
The records to Is- played now
for the first time are a new Latin-
American collection. They were
lent to the art department for the
occasion by the joint owners, the
department of music and the In
ter American Institute.
The records are of folk songs
and dances of various countries,
“not t lie jazz,” says the art de
partment, “but the authentic
music of t lie people.”
Regular gallery hours at Per
son Hall will be resumed Mon
day the hall is open from 10 to
5 every weekday.
A Soldier in a Hospital
Louis de Armas was a student
m the University here a little
more tban two years ago. l Uf en
tered the Army, went overseas, I
and was wounded in the lighting
in Italy Now for many months
he has been in the Bat ley General
Hospital in Rome, Georgia.
In a letter to a friend here,
written last Sunday, he speaks
of the expected visit to the hos
pital of William Meade Prince,
who is just now ending a four
weeks lour of Army hospitals to
make port raits of soldiers.
"The time I have spent in hos
pitals,” continues Mr. de Armas,
“has ls-en made a great deal
easier and happier by my friends
who have faithfully kept in touch
with me and periodically sent
words of cheer. It is amazing
how some letters arrive at times
when my spirits are lowest and
how (juickly they pick up after
wards. It is easy to let yourself
down when you are groping for
patience.
“Now the time is near when I
will Is* able to leave the hospital,
and my mind is full of plans for
that vacation. I hope to visit
Chapel Hill for a few days if pos
sible. I look forward to seeing
all of you.”
Henrietta ls»gan a Corporal
Henrietta Logan of the Wom
en’s Army Corps was recently
made a corporal. She is now at
tending the Adjutant General’s
recruiting school in Washington.
The Chapel Hill Weekly will
keep every abeent member of
your family in touch with home.
A weekly letter—st a year.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
Avalanche of Mud Persuades Blackie
To Quit Cave and Bring Pups Indoors
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Sher
rill and their daughter Patsy live
down the hill to the rear of the
Warren home on Hillsboro street.
Their house stands amid trees
and shrubbery so thick as to be
almost a jungle. Behind the
house the ground slopes sharply
down to a branch. On this slope
Blackie, the family’s beloved
Spitz, recently hollowed out a
cave for her expected family.
The pups were duly born. The
Sherrill’s knew of the event but
couldn’t see the newcomers be
cause the mother kept them ’way
back in the cave and was inhos
pitable to all approaches. No
body knew how large the litter
was.
A big rain came down last Fri
day, when the pups were just a
week old. This looked bad for
them, but Blackie would not per
mit any succor. The Sherrills
went to bed hoping that the pups
wouldn’t drown. Since the cave
sloped downward toward the
mouth, giving good drainage, the
chances for survival seemed
favorable. And Blackie and her
young would probably have slept
( immunity’s Cooperation with Merchants Is
Topic of Discussion at Price Panel Meeting
How the community-can co
operate with the merchants in
Making price control elfect ive was
I In* main topic of discussion at a
meeting called by tin* Price Panel,
a division of the War Price and
Rationing Board, Monday eve
niug in the Town Hall
The problem is not merely one
of keeping track ot prices and
enforcing the ceiling price rules. J
!l often becomes a problem ot
helping merchants by giving!
them information about <)PA
regulation and practice. Forex ;
ample, a retailer sometimes
learns from a Price Panel mem
her or represented ive whet her or
not I tie prices In* is charged by
wholesalers are in accord with tin
late -t t )PA schedules.
( lareiice I leer, who has sue j
reeded Sherman Smith a chair
man 01/llie Price Panel, presided j
at the meeting. Mr Smith, com j
polled to resign from the chair j
man hip by the pres nice o| ot lie) ;
duties, remains a member. The
other members are M S Block j
enridge, L. I Phipps, and Mrs.
( arson Ryan.
Representatives of twenty
three organiz.ations volunteered
as panel assistants and rnrr I
chants’aids. They were sworn in
by J. A. Warren, a notary public,
and took the oatti of office.
The organizations represented
are:
In Chapel Hill: Junior Service
League, Community Club, New
comers Club, American Legion
Auxiliary, Garden Club, Men’s
Garden Club, Dames, American
Association of University Worn
Mrs. Shaw (Jets a Wave
Mrs. Mildred Shaw, who lives
with Itev. and Mrs. It. L. Bol
ton on Ransom street, made, one
day last week, h<*r first visit
downtown in seventeen months.
She has a rheumatic heart and
has to spend most of her time
in bed.
Early in the morning an am
bulance drove up to the Bolton
borne. Mrs. Shaw was taken on
a stretcher from her room to the
car, was driven downtown, and
then was carried on a stretcher
into a beauty shop to get. a per
manent wave. When she ha/1 got
the wave, the ambulance took
her hack home. Observers of her
lovely white curls all agree that
the trip was worth while. —
ARM.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1944
safely through the night if there
hadn’t been a cave-in at the high
end, letting in an avalanche of
liquid mud. The people in the
house knew nothing of this
catastrophe until later.
At midnight Mrs. Sherrill was
awakened by a sound of whimper
ing from the porch. She went out
and found Blackie with a pup in
her mouth, both of them covered
with mud. Mrs. Sherrill took the
pup in the kitchen, put it beside
a heater, and washed it off. Fif
teen minutes later another pup
was brought in and was similar
ly served.
Then Mrs. Sherrill went out
doors to see if maybe there were
more in sight. But the ground
was soft and slippery, the grass
was high, and the darkness was
thick. She made a circuit around
the cave, listened for noises,
heard nothing, returned to the
house, and went back to bed.
The sound of whimpering came
again from the porch at about
half past five. Blackie had a third
pup in her mouth, and when that
was taken from her she went back
(Continued on last )kiye)
en, Business and Professional
Women’s Club, Parent-Teacher
As,social ion, l Iniversity Y.M.< A.,
and University Y.W.( ’.A.
Carrhoro P.T.A. and White
Cross P.T.A.
In the negro community ot
Chapel Hill and Carrhoro: Citi
zcn Service Corps, American Li
gnin Auxiliary and Orange
County Training School P.T.A.
The state < >PA office in Raleigh
has asked War Price and Ration
ing Boards all over the state to
maintain commiinit.v cooperation
with merchants as the only way
of making price control really
elfect ive.
Mr. Bush Bucovcrs Car Stolen Last September
C F Rush, I niversily Libra
nan, made a trip to Asheville la t
Sept ember I o acquire lor the I 111
vet it v library some valuable ma
terial. He went to his hotel after
leaving Ins ear in a public garage
During I tie night tin- car wan
tolcii. the library mater ial t hat
had been stored in it was dumped
on tin- street about four blocks!
from Hu- garage. It was all re
covered.
Mr. Rush notified the Asheville
and the Buncombe county author
itn-s, the’theft bureau of the
Highway Commission, the Caro
lina Motor Club, and the F. 8.1.,
of t he loss of his car.
A few days ago he received
word through the F. 8.1. that his
car had been located in a storage
garage in Knoxville, Tennessee
A hoy picked up by the police on
anot her charge said he had stolen
a car in Asheville and had aban
doned d in Knoxville at about the
time that Mr. Rush’s car had dis
appeared The F ILL investiga
tion revealed that, the car was
found on the streets of Knoxville
in September and that the sheriff
of Knox county had ordered a
garage in Knoxville to send a
wrecking crew to pick it up and
store it. It was put. in storage
and left there until the F. 8.1.
traced it, ten months later.
Officials in Tennessee did nothing
about notifying anyone involved.
When Mr. Rush went to Nash
ville last week he came hack
through Knoxville to see the car
and find out what had happened
to it. He found it in a storage lot
with about fifty junked cars,
where it had I/een exposed to the
weather since September. As he
Chapel Hill Chaff
A new volume of Who's Who
in Ant< rica has come out, and I
find that, by the linage measure,
notables in Chapel Hill are far
more important than notables in
Washington. The biographical
sketches of two men who live on
East Franklin street (Edgar W.
Knight and Archibald Hender
son) contain, together, 112 lines,
while the combined total for four
prominent persons in Washing
ton (President Roosevelt, Secre
tary of State Hull, Secretary of
War Stimson, and Secretary of
the Navy Forrestal) is 95 lines.
Anybody who leaps to the con
clusion that this is an evidence
of personal vanity in University
professors is making a mistake,
as will be made plain by the ex
planation I am now about to give.
The explanation is that the ac
tivities of educators, the organi
zations they belong to, and the
books and articles they write art*
notoriously polysyllabic and take
up a lot of space.
For example, Stimson is put
down as "sec. of war in cabinet
of President Roosevelt since
1940,” which covers barely more
than a line, while in the Knight
sketch 2V4 lines are required for
"regional director, Southeastern
states, qualifying tests for civil
ians, Army and Navy College
Training Program since 1942.”
And the passage in the Hender
son sketch, “research student on
Kenan research foundation,
Cambridge University and Uni
versity of Berlin 1922-24,” is
nearly twice as long as the pas
sage about Roosevelt's being
elected Governor ot New York
for ! wo terms.
The fact of Forrestal’s tieing
secretary of the Navy can be set
down in half a line, but it takes
much more space than that to re
cord Dr. MacNider’s “research
papers on toxic action of alcohol,
uranium, and chloroform on the
liver, liver regeneration, the re
(Coni invril nit hint /»(!//< 't
walked inward it from I hr garage
hr could see at a glance t hr North
< arolma license, his < Impel 11 ill
number plate and Ihr C arolina
Motor • lull plalr A postcard 01
a rollrrl IrlrphoMr rail la I Srp
I ember from Ihr Khoxvillr 011 i
rials would have told Mr Ifush
that his cal' had lirrii louud
Al'l.rr paying >* large storage
lull and having rrpairs madr, Mr
Itu Mi drovr his car hark to < haprl
Hill last Saturday. A U.M
"I I,ike Ihr Navy Vrry Much”
It ichard Lawrence, 17 year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ceorge II
Lawrence, who volunteered tor
t hr Navy last month after finish
iug his freshman year in the
University, is stationed at San
Diego, ('alifornia. ‘‘'The tempera
tore here is never hot,” tie writes,
‘‘and there is always a cool breeze.
Our large station is kept spir and
span. There is plenty of good
food. The petty officers keep us
very busy most of the time, and
we have little time left for writ
ing or for reading magazines or
newspapers. I like the Navy very
much and am glad that I volun
teered.”
Sift- Charles I’urrish Coming
Technical Sergeant Charles
Parrish of the armored division
of the Army, who is now sta
tioned at Fort. Monmouth, N. J.,
is coming at this week-end for
a visit of several days with his
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. W. M. Pugh. Mrs. F. 11.
Parrish of Smithfield, who was
here last week with the Russell
Parrishes, will come hack today
and will be with the Pughs.,
Proposals from State Planning
Board Get Good Response from
Counties, Grisette Tells Club
A Caw** of Polio
There was reported yesterday '
to Dr. W. P. Richardson, district
health officer, a fatal case of
poliomyelitis. Cameron Poyth
ress, 24 years old, a munitions
plant employee who lives on a
farm near the south edge of this
county, was taken ill early this
week. Dr. J. S. Hooker, who was
summoned, had him taken to
Watts hospital, and he died there.
He had been on a vacation and,
after his return, had worked a
day or so at the plant before be
ing taken ill The health authori
ties are inquiring into the origin
of the infection.
Miss Doris Carroll, of West
Rosemary lane, Chapel Hill, who
was taken to Watts hospital about
two weeks ago, was found not to
have the familiar definite symp
toms of polio, but because of cer
tain less conclusive symptoms the
doctors described this as "an
abortive case." Miss Carroll has
come back home, and the health
authorities do not regard her con
dition as threatening to the com
munity.
Borden Is Back from
Pacific; ( omiiu* Here
Captain Arnold Borden of the
U. S. Marines, who was in the
Pacific, telephoned his wife in
Goldsboro a few days ago that he
had reached Sail Francisco and
would soon be with her and their
sun John. Captain Borden has a
month’s leave, and the tamily
will spend part of it in Chapel
11 ill with the AC Howells.
- - •srS-
Glenn Writes from live Pacific ;
1.1, Robert S - (ilenn, son of
Mr and Mrs Lenoir < 'handlers of
Norfolk. Va , and a 1912 graduate
of the University, writes to I
Marynn Saunders from t lie South
Pacific, in a letter dated lulv I.
to tell about an alumni reunion in
a tent on the island of Guadal
canal. Alumni present were
< ilenn, Ma |ur \\ at t s < ai r <>! I >ur
ham. and 1.1 II P ( Buck ) <)s
borne of Jacksonville, Fla Ihe
three men are in a Marine divi
s i«iii
~\ . ,
111 I lie i nil) e t * 111«•* V\ aIHUT
mg around.’ I.t letter
goes mi to ay, I have visited
some well remembered islands
Guadalcanal, Tulagi, New Geor
gia, and more recently .some
others mention of which is still
censurable.”
LI. Waller Creech Is Here
When Fred Coenen was about
to leave Sunday night for the bus
station, to return to his post, in
Washington after a few days’
leave, the telephone hell rang.
"(!un anybody come up to t he bus
station for me?" asked Id. Wal
ter Creech, Mrs. Council's broth
er, who had come in unexpect
edly The answer was yes, and
the car that took one man to the
bus station brought the other
home. Id. Creech, who is now on
duly in Washington, will be here
till day after tomorrow (Sun
day).
Mrs. Skaggs to Leave Library
Mrs. Marvin L. Skaggs has re
signed her [losition as head of the
periodicals department of the
University Library and about
September 1 she will go to
GreensborO to live. Mr. Skaggs
teaches in the Greensboro Col
lege. Mrs. Skaggs has been with
the Library for 2H years and is
the senior member of the staff
in years of service.
$2 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy
Employment Problem Has (Jot to
Be Solved. Mainly, bv Activi
ties of Private Enterprise
The counties of North Carolina
are responding with enthusiasm
Ito proposals of the State Plan
ning Board and are preparing to
undertake projects which will
contribute to an extensive ami
wholesome development of the
state after the war.
This was one of the statements
made by Felix Grisette, executive
director of the board, in the
course of a talk at the Faculty
Club’s luncheon meeting this
week.
"Twenty of our one hundred
counties may l>e described as be
ing ‘right on their toes’ with re
spect to planning.” he said.
“Others, while they haven't gone
ahead quite so fast, are keenly
interested and arc making prog
ress."
In the short time at his dis
posal Mr. Grisette reviewed
broadly the problem of planning
for the state.
The state board’s function is
not to initiate projects but to
study the needs of the state, pro
| v ide information and stimulate
j action by counties, municipali
ties, and other agencies. Public
works will of course play a part
in post-war development, but, in
the effort to solve the employ
ment problem, dependence must
Ik- placed mainly unoti the activi
ties of private iiuuistry. That is
why the board isViving special
study to the prospect of estab
lishing new industries for which
conditions in North Carolina are
i favorable.
"The big problem facing us
! after the war will he an economic
one,” said Mr. Grisette. He said
the hoard’s idea was that the best
development of the state would
Ik- through community enter
prises, of rather small scope,
rather than by the building of
great indust rial plants.
Huntley with Shields
W I’ Huntley, Jr., has gone
into part uership with ('buries VY.
Shields in the cash and earn
grocery and market business, and
the establishment on Franklin
street which formerly bore Mr
Shields' name alone is to he eon
dueled under the name of Hunt
lev Shields.
The new arrangement will go
into effect this next Monday,
July 24.
Mr. Huntley was a student in
the University from 1927 to 1920,
and In* has been a teller with the
Bank of Chapel Hill for eight
years. As lie leaves the hank he
is also resigning from the |H>st,
which he has held for about a
year, of assistant secretary of
the Orange county Building and
Loan Association.
Mr. Huntley is a member of
the Rotary Club, lie has served
in various civic and patriotic
movements, and bus taken an ac
tive interest in community af
fairs.
Navy Flyer on Visit Here
Lt. J. A. Crawford, who is
about to reach the end of his fifth
yeur as a Navy tlyer, was here
Tuesday night with his futlier,
W. S. Crawford. Now stationed
in Cuba, he hopes to tie trans
ferred to the U. S. soon.
Kenlield a Ciujet in Alahuma
Richard L. Kenfleld is enrolled
as an aviation cadet in the pre
flight school of the Army Air
Forces Training Command at
Maxwell Field, Alabama.