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YoL 23, No. 26 Broughton Will Speak Here on Fourth of July Sponsored by Americans United, Ex-Governor Will Talk about the San Francisco Charter Ex-Governor J. Melville Broughton will speak at 8 o’clock next Wednesday evening, July 4, in Memorial hall on the sub ject of the San Francisco Char ter. His appearance here will be under the sponsorship of the Chapel Hill chapter of Ameri cans United for World Organ ization. This body, in the words of its own manifesto, is a national, militant, non-partisan, and repre sentative group formed to mo bilize public opinion for a w’orld organization with automatic power to keep the peace, and to let Congress know the will of the people that it be estab lished. Since Hitler became a threat to the peace of the world, Mr. Broughton has been an ardent advocate, first of direct practical aid by America to the enemies of Hitler and now of American participation in an international league. The meeting at which Mr. Broughton will speak is one of a series of meetings being ar ranged by tfie Chapel Hill chap ter. The chapter has over a hun dred members. Whoever wants to join may do so by sending $1 (annual dues) to Dr. James B. Bullitt, treasurer. Americana United is a consoli dation of several national organ izations which were formed to promote the cause of world co operation for the maintenance of peace. Citizens’ gatherings in sup port of the San Francisco Char ter are considered a valuable way of bringing public opinion to bear upon Congress, and chap ters of Americans United all over the country are urging all persons who favor international cooperation to join in these com munity demonstrations of sup port. Kiwanians’ Farewell To A. W. Honeycutt At its regular supper meeting this week the Kiwanis Club bade farewell and paid tribute to Allison W. Honeycutt, club mem ber and a past Kiwanis district governor, who will leave Chapel Hill soon to take the post of training specialist in the civilian personnel branch of the U. S. Army Signal Corps. He will be stationed in Washington. Mr. Honeycutt has just com pleted his eighth year as super intendent of the Chapel Hill schools. Appreciation of his services to the community, and particularly to the Kiwanis Club, was expressed at the meet ing by J. Maryon Saunders. A handsome silver bowl was pre sented to Mrs. Honeycutt, a guest at the supper, by Thomas A. Bosemond on behalf of the club. A graduate of Wake Forest College, Mr. Honeycutt was for merly school superintendent in Hendersonville and Lexington. He has studied in graduate schools at Chicago and Colum bia, and he won his master's de gree at the University here, Mrs. Honeycutt will remain in Chapel Hill for a while. There are two sons, Staff Sergeant Wilson Honeycutt, who is in the Pacific, and Murray Honeycutt, who lives in Cleveland, Ohio. * 8m your vasts Nf*r fsr the asst collection t The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor Aldermen Vote Unanimously to Allot S6OO to Planning Board Alter They Get Report on Work Done Last Year In making up the town’s tentative budget for the year 1945-46, at a special meeting Tuesday evening, the aldermen voted unani mously to include an appropriation of S6OO for the Tow’n Plan ning Board. They made this decision after they had received and read a letter from Collier Cobb, Jr., chairman of the board, presenting a review of its work. Besides the chairman, the mem bers of the board are H. G. Baity, L. J. Phipps, William Meade Prince, and J. P. Harland. In his letter Mr. Cobb recalled the valuable services of the Plan ning Board’s first chairman, the late Colonel Joseph Hyde Pratt. After Colonel Pratt’s death, the board functioned under H. G. Baity for several months. During this period the efforts of the board were devoted largely to helping plan the Carolina Thea tre on Franklin street and the Smith-Prevost building on Colum bia street. Many meetings were held with representatives of the Carolina Theatre and with Carl Smith, owner of Smith-Prevost. “While some compromises were made,” says Mr. Cobb, “these buildings were erected in keeping with a general plan for the busi ness structures of Chapel Hill, and the owners were greatly pleased with the results obtained.” After the departure of Mr. Baity for South America, the l>oard was inactive (largely because nm. new buildings could be erected on account of the war), and the next meeting w-as held in June 1944, following a trip made by Mr. Cob!) to New Canaan, Conn., to observe a planned business block which had been developed there. At this meeting it was decided to ask the Aldermen for an appropriation to begin the work of developing plans for every business structure in the fire district on Franklin street. The Aldermen approved an appropriation of S6OO. Here are passages from Mr. Cobb’s letter: “Before developing plans for the existing business buildings it was necessary to secure measurements and elevations of each building, and Mr. Thomas Hose was prevailed upon to undertake this work. It required not only the taking of elevations and measurements, but the drawing to scale of the front of every building. Os the S6OO appropriated, $250 was paid to Mr. Hose for work which, at prevailing rates, would cost considerably more than this amount. The remainder of th« appropriation, $350, was (Continued on page two) Civic Bodies to Help Cover Lag in E Bonds There’s a bad lag in E bond sales in the 7th War Loan cam paign (about SIOO,OOO being needed to make up the county’s quota of $458,000), and an ex tra-strong effort is being made to overcome the lag in the one remaining week of the campaign period. Four civic bodies of Chapel Hill and Carrboro—the Kiwanis, Rotary, and Lions Clubs and the Merchants Association, in re sponse to an urgent appeal from the campaign committee, have agreed to be responsible for the sale of about $40,000 of the needed SIOO,OOO. It is hoped that individuals will be so moved by the buy-one-more-bond spirit that they will make up the re mainder. The campaign is nearing its end, and promptness in buying is highly desirable. Orange county’s over - all quota of $574,000 has already been exceeded by sales. It is the E bond sales that need to be in creased. Mr. lackey to Be Ordained —— * Bishop Robert Emmet Grib bin will ordain Rev. Boston Lackey, Jr., as a priest at 10:30 next Thursday morning, July 5, in the Episcopal church. Mr. Lackey was graduated from the University in 1942 and then at tended the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria. His father, from Lenoir, will take part in the ordination service. Rev. Charles G. Leavell of Mor ganton will preach the sermon. The 4th at the Post Office There will be no window serv ice and no town delivery service at the Chapel Hill post office on the 4th of July. Perry Completes, Basic Training Ben E. Perry has completed his baaic training at Camp Blanding, Fla., and will report to Fort Meade, Md., July 8. He is here this week with his par ents, Mr, and Mrs. P. R. Perry. CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1945 Village Stores. Will Close on July 4th The Merchants Association announces,that the stores to Chapel Hill will be closed for the entire day on July 4th, next Wednesday. The association will hold its annual barbecue and picnic sup per early in August on the school grounds. E. C. Smith has been reflect ed president of the association. H. D. Bennett is vice-president, Fay Beeks is secretary-treasurer. Directors are Y. Z. Cannon, L. V. Huggins, C. E. Teague, M. M. Timmojps, Bruce Whitmire, John W. Umstead, Jr., Roy Barham, H. S. McGinty, and Seaton Lloyd. Waste Paper to Be Collected Tuesday Afternoon There will be a waste paper collection in Chapel Hill this coming Tuesday afternoon, July 3, from 2 to 5 o’clock. Because at this time of year it is difficult to get a large enough company of Boy Scouts to do the job, some of the Navy Pre-Flight School cadets are going around with the trucks to make the col lection. This is valuable help offered to the town by the school.- The cadets cannot go imide of houses. It will be necex nary for householders to put their bundles of paper either out on the street or in some place, near the street, that is easily seen and easily reached. Notice that the collection day is being changed from Saturday to Tuesday. All householders are asked to make a special effort to bear this in mind and have their paper ready. Red Cross Meeting Tonight The annual meeting of the Chapel Hill chapter of the Amer ican Red Cross will be held at 8 o’clock this (Friday) evening, in the Carolina Inn. Everybody is invited and everybody who contributed $1 or more to the Red Cross war fund, is eligible to vote for the officers to be elected for the coming year. Committee reports of the past year’s work will be given. Blackburn Home from Hospital Earl Blackburn, who has been with Fowler's Food Store for several years, underwent an operation six weeks ago and haa just come home from Watts hos pital. He says he wants to thank his friends In Chapel Hill for being so good to him during his Illness and convalescence. Chapel Hill Chaff An article in a New England newspaper about Chapel Hill reaches me after having crossed and recrossed the Atlantic. “A friend of mine in the out fit,” writes Charles Magoffin from Geislingen, Germany, “has heard me talk about being from Chapel Hill, so he brought me the enclosed clipping.” The clipping* from Berkshire County Eagle of Pittsfield, Mass., contains a piece by Walter Prichard Eaton, whom T used to know when we were newspaper men together in New York forty years ago. He has since become celebrated as a writer on the drama and the great out of-doors, and in recent years he has extended his range and cheered up the American public, or part of it anyway, by con tributing a sprightly column to the Eagle. In the article sent to me from Germany he recalls my having left New York and says he sus pects my real reason for doing so was not so much any ambi tions or tastes I had about news pajier work as that 1 wanted to lie in a place where the tennis season lasted about nine months a year. Maybe he’s not so far wrong. But reading his piece leads me to a rather melancholy thought: that, while I quit ten nis several years ago because of advancing age, I do not find it possible to quit work for the same cause, however much I would like to. Mr. Eaton was here a few years ago, and he writes of Chapel Hill’s redbuds and for sythia and wistaria and other springtime charms. As he writes, on March 31, 1945, New Haven (where he is professor of drama in Yale University) is having abnormal weather, a spell of real warmth, with “forsythias in full bloom—the Norway maples red with bloom —daffodils out every where—a flowering quince in my yard so nearly in bloom that it looks pink.” But, he remarks pessimistical ly : “The chances are that winter will backfire on us ... . Think how nice it would be if this were our normal spring, if we could (Continued op Igit page) Program for Children Postponed It is announced by the recrea tion Commission that, for un avoidable reasons, the program for small children at the Recrea tion Center, scheduled to begin July 1, has been postponed. When a date for the beginning is decided on, notice will be given. Rotary Club’s Outing Lomas Barrett Teaching Here Lomas Barrett, former mem ber of the faculty here, is teach ing Spanish in the Summer School. The Rotary Club had its summer outing and ladies' night Wednesday evening at the White Crooe school. The new officers wars installed. A SIOO War Bond was presented to Hush Loflsr, the retiring president, ns s token of the club's as teem- Prospect in Business District; Henderson Street Plot May Be Used for Stores, Apartments Use Tax Stamps Must Be Bought Now Every person who owns and operates an automobile must have a use stamp for 1945- 46 affixed to his windshield by day after tomorrow, Sunday, July 1, else he will be disobeying the federal revenue law, and will be subject to a stiff fine. The pbst office, which has the stamps on sale, accepts for them cash only, no checks. The cost is $5 flat, regardless of the size and style of the car. Every use tax stamp is serial ly numbered, is gummed on the face, and has spaces for the entry of the make, model, serial number, and state license num ber of the car. U. S. Collector Charles H. Rob ertson, urging car-owners not to delay in buying and affixing the stamps, reminds them of the “severe penalties imposed by law” for non-compliance. Architects to Meet Here July 6 and 7 The North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Ar chitects will hold its semi-annual meeting here Friday and Satur day, July 6 and 7. Practically all the architects in the state be long to the chapter. H. Raymond Weeks of Durham it president. Os special interest at the meet ing will be the talk j|y J. D. Paul son on “The Restoration of Gov ernor Tryon’s Palace.” Mr. Paul son has done a great deal of re search on the project and has made several drawings which will be exhibited in connection with his speech. There will be talks by Roy A. Palmer (“Lighting of Tomor row”) and T. R. Higgins, steel construction expert (“From Swords to Ploughshares”). A program of social activities has been arranged. Carroll Is with the “Bees” Dan Olsen, switching for a few minutes from the paper’s executive and message-carrying departments to the sports de partment, contributes the fol lowing report: Preston Carroll, who finished his second year in the high school last month, has become left-fielder on the Bur lington “Bees” in the Carolina Baseball League. Thus far he has the excellent batting aver age of .367. Several of his school rrlates have gone to see him in action when Burlington has played in Durham. In a recent game they saw him make 4 out of Burlington’s total of 5 base hits. Community Gift to Cummins On behalf of the churches of the Chapel Hill community, Rev. R. L. Bolton presented a SIOO War Bond to Chaplain George S. Cummins of the Navy Pre- Flight School at the chapel serv ices Sunday morning in Memo rial hall. Gold Coming to Visit Mother Joe M. Gold, Jr., who was missing for a long time after he was shot down over Ger many, got back y> the U. 8. re cently and is soon coming here with his wife to visit his mother, Mrs. Sedalia Gold. 'ill .!■■■ MbMribtrs era ragnsstsd to motify w at dui|M h iitrm. $2 n Year li Advance. 5c a Cepf Projected Structures Include Two to Re Put Up by Robert Fowler, One by Poe-Man gum Great building activity is in prospect for Chapel Hill's busi ness district. The latest real estate transac tion preparatory to construction is the purchase by S. H. Bas night of a plot on Henderson street opposite the post office. Mr. Basnight’s plans are not defi nite yet, but what he has in mind now is a building with stores (including his own) on the ground floor and apartments above. Whether there will be '• . f % two stories or three stories be sides the basement—this is not yet decided. Besides Mr. Basnight’s, these six buildings are to be put up: Bus station at corner of Franklin and Kenan streets. Priorities have been granted by the War Production Board. The company hopes to get construc tion under way soon and to have the structure in use in the fall Dairy plant on West Franklin street (described in this paper last week). The contract has been let by the Farmers Dairy Cooperative to the Coble Con struction Company of Greens boro. Poe-Mangum building to be put up on the site of the present bus station, opposite the Town, Hell. Time when construction will begin is not yet known. BvtkHng by * fur niture company. Two buildings, a super market and a filling station to be put up by Robert Fowler on West Franklin street where Berryhill home now stands. Time when construction will begin is not yet known. Building to be put up on West Franklin street (east side of street, between bus station and dairy plant) by Negro Odd Fel lows. Time when construction will begin is not yet known. School Seniors Serve As U.N.C. Marshals There were not enough Uni versity juniors here to make up the needed force of Commence ment marshals, and so 14 mem bers of the graduating class of the Chapel Hill high school vol unteered, and were joyfully ac cepted, as substitutes. With perfect aplomb and con fidence these girls and boys served as ushers at the bacca laureate sermon, the final exer cises, and other gatherings: Helen Jane Wettach (chair man), Jeanne Whitfield, Helen Phillips, Frances Ellinger, Hope Finley, Venitah Sanders, Bar bara Cashion, Jean Farrell. Hilda Sharkey, Bill Olsen, Bob Cornwell, Colbert Leonard, John ny Gobbel, and Harold Cannon. Ruark Comes on yisit A. E. Ruark, professor of physics in the University, now on leave in the Government service, has been in the villige this week.«He will return to Washington today. Band Concert Sunday The A{l-State High School Band will give a concert at 4:80 Sunday afternoon in the Forest Theatre. In case of rain the con cert will be jn Graham Memorial. 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