VoL 23, No. 27
Mayor Organizes
Committee for a
Study of Housing
Writing to and Other
Citizens, Madry Emphasizes
Need for Living Quarters
Mayor Robert W. Madry is or
ganizing a Citizens Housing
Committee to study the problem
of the shortage of living quar
ters in Chapel Hill.
He has asked Oliver K. Corn
well to be the chairman. The oth
er citizens whom Mr. Madry has
asked to serve on the committee
are Collier Cobb, Jr., Vic Hug
gins, Grady Pritchard, D. J.
Smith, Wilbur Kutz, Harry Com
er,, Roy Parker, E. L. Mackie,
Brack Creel, and P. L. Burch.
These citizens will work in
close cooperation with University
officials concerned with housing.
Harry Comer’s being a member
of the citizens’ body will be spe
cially helpful because he is chair
man of the University housing
committee and has been giving
attention to the housing situa
tion for some time.
In a letter to the citizens whom
he is asking to compose the com
mittee Mr. Madry says:
“Chapel Hill has been facing
an acute housing shortage for
some time, and indications are
that the situation will grow
worse until more houses qr apart
ments, or both, are provided.
“You will recall the overcrowd
ed conditions In Chapel HiD fol
lowing the first World War, and
I see no reason for not believing
that history will repeat itself.
“Many retaining veterans de
siring td%if¥fiHn the University
are married and are being forced
to go elsewhere because of lack
of living quarters here.”
For many months now there
have been from 75 to 100 families
on a waiting list for houses and
apartments. Some of these are
Navy people who have been
forced to do the best they can
with cramped quarters. Some of
the others are war veteran stu
dents and their wives.
Invitation Given to
Speakers of French
French speaking visitors are
welcome at the French House,
216 East Rosemary lane (next
to the T. J. Wilson house, one
block over from the Episcopal
church) between 7:30 and 8:30
on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday evenings.
This is a social hour when the
teachers (Hugo Giduz, the direc
tor; Mrs. Charlotte Huse, and
Madame Lalanne from the Ash
ley Hall in Charleston) and
their students are hosts. Any
body who wants to speak French
is welcome.
The French cadets in the Navy
Pre-Flight are frequent visitors.
Mrs. Huse, Madame Lalanne,
and the students (most of whom
are teachers) live at French
House, and they have their meals
together. Only French is spoken.
Classes are conducted through
the morning, and there are var
ious forms of recreation jn the
afternoon and evening.
Hill Shine Going to Europe
Hill Shine has a leave of ab
sence from Maryville College in
Tennessee and is going to Eq
rope to take part in the Army's
educational program. It is tlpe
same sort of mission as E. T.
Browne’s, but they may not be
in the same coUnJyy. Mr. find
Mrs. Shine and their children
have been here this Week visit
ing Mr. Shine’s mother And
sister.
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LOU 13 CRATES
Editor
Unhurt as Gunner on Bombing Planes*
Clyde Burch Comes Back Home to Get
Arm Crushed in au Automobile Wreck
After going unhurt through
four missions over Germany as a
gunner in a big bombing plane.
Sergeant Clyde Burch, 22-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. P. L.
Burch, came back home to be
run into a ditch on the Durham
road, pinned under a car, and
have his arm so badly crushed
that it had to be put in a cast.
The doctors say that the arm is
temporarily paralyzed. They
give the hope that the paralysis
may be gone soon.
Though he had written them
that he was all right when the
War in Europe ended, after that
Sergeant Burch’s parents were
without a letter for so long that
they began to wonder what had
become of him. Then, about two
weeks ago, a taxi stopped in
front of their home on Mallett
street and Clyde stepped out. As
soon as the greetings were over
he informed them unexcitedly
that he had got a 30-day fur
lough and had caught a plane ride
across the Atlantic Ocean to
Canada.
He started over to Durham in
his father’s car about 4 o’clock
Memorial to Chapel Hill Men Who Have Died
In War to Be Created by “Americans United”
The Chapel Hill chapter of
Americans United is sponsoring
tty establishing of a lectureship
as a memorial to men frpm
Chapel gill and its neighborhood
who It4ve died in the World
War. Ttys was announced by
Mauriqe Whittinghill, president
of the organization, at the meet
ing in Memorial hall, night be
fore last, that was addressed by
ex-Governor Broughton.
The men whom Mr. Whitting
hill named as having lost their
lives in the war (saying that the
list might be incomplete and he
wanted to know of any more
names that should he in the list),
were:
Arnold Breckenridge, Bynum
Crabtree, Reid Cheek, Alexander
F. Farrar, Ralph Felton, Law
rence Flinn, Carl Hogan, Wil
liam B. Poythress, Fenly Spear,
John W. Umstead, 3rd, and Hen
ry M. Wagstaff.
The proposal was made by the
parents of one of these men.
“This would be a living me
morial,” said Mr. Whittinghill,
“in that the income from a per
manent fund would be used to
bring to the community at least
once a year a lecturer on some
phase of world organization and
lasting peace. Two pledges have
already been made to this fund.”
A motion pending in the board
of aldermen, introduced by Ed
win S. Lanier, for a War Me-
Cerde Francaia Meetings
The Cercle Francais of the
University will have its first
1945 summer gathering at 2
o’clock tomorrow (Saturday)
afternoon at French House, 216
East Rosemary lane, and there
will be other meetings on subse
quent Saturdays. A. celebration
is being planned for July 14, the
French holiday that corres
ponds to our Fourth of July.
Legion A axillary Meeting
The American Legion Auxil
iary will meet at 10 o’clock Tues
day morning in the Legion Hut
on Rosemary lane.
Ben Lane in the Pacific
Ben Lane, Jr., haa gone to the
Pacific, for service with the
Army Engineer Corps. His wife
has come to Chapel HID to' be
withfpffiiiVM while he is gone.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, JULY 6. 1945
Monday afternoon. When he was
rolling along the mile-long
straightaway just this side of
the half-way bridge, an ice truck
suddenly came out of a side road
in front of him. He had to make
the choice of crashing into the
truck or taking to the ditch. He
took to the ditch. The car turned
over, and he was pinned under
it.
Between Chapel Hill and the
scene of the accident he had
picked up two hitch-hikers, a
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‘ War Movies at Legion
Meeting Tonight
The Chapel Hill post of the
American Legion will have a
meeting at 8 o’clock this (Fri
day) evening in the Hut.
Commander E. R. Patterson
announces that after the busi
ness session two official war
movies will be shown, “The
Battle of Midway” and “Our
Enemy, the Jap.”
The post welcomes to its meet
ings, and into its membership,
all veterans coming home from
the war.
morial, expresses “the desire and
hope” that it be in the form of a
community center for the people
of Chapel Hill.
Mr. Lanier’s motion proposes
that the Mayor appoint a War
Memorial Committee from the
board of aldermen “to investi
gate all questions and angles rel
ative to the building of a com
munity center, including the for
mation of an advisory committee
of representative citizens, the
choice of a suitable location, type
and size of building desired, and
an estimate of the total cost.”
Buy Bonds Today in Order to Make Up Quota!
The 7th War Loan campaign has been extended, for E bonds,
to this extent: all E bonds bought today (Friday) or tomorrow
will count on the quota that the county is now making an effort
to raise.
Os the $468,000 of E bonds, about $60,000, or 13 per cent, are
still unsold. Five organizations (the Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs,
the Merchants Association, and the American Legion Post of
Chapel Hill, and the Lions Club of Carrboro) are working hard
to fill out the quota, by their own purchases and by sales to citi
zens.
Everybody who can possibly buy another E bond is urged to do
so today or tomorrow. The five organizations are in a spirited com
petition, and every buyer can mark on a tally sheet, at bank or
post office, to which of the five he wants his purchase to be
credited.
Navy Cadets Make Good Collection of Waste Paper
Fourteen cadets in the Navy Pre-Flight School, did the Chapel
Hill community a splendid service Tuesday by going around the
town and getting waste paper from homes. Energetic, spirited,
and good-humored, some of them told citizens that they were
glad of the opportunity that this job gave them to see parts of
Chapel Hill that they would probably never have seen otherwise.
They took several truckloads to the storage shed back of the old
power house.
Postmaster to Receive Bids on Station at Pre-Flight School
Postmaster Hogan announces that bids will be received in his
office until 3 P M. next Tuesday, July 10, for the conduct of a con
tract station at the Navy Pre-Flight School. Application blanks
and full information as to requirements can be obtained at his
office.
Poultry Brought Orange Farmers $336,000 Last Year
Don S. Matheson, county farm agent, reports that, according
to the preliminary farm census, the revenue to Orange county
farmers from poultry products last year was $336,000, more than
2Vfc times the revenue of 1930. Egf production, says Mr. Mathe
son, is the most profitable poultry venture. Poultry income hi
Orange is now six times that of cotton income.
British Broadcasting Company Official on Visit Hen
Robert Barnes, an official of the British Broadcasting Company
who is now touring in the U. 8., was in Chapel HIU this week. Tie
is making a special study of America’s educational radio programs.
Chapel Ml Chaff
A major in the U. S. Army
served recently as a house-to
house deliverer for this news
paper. Here is how it came
about:
When more than one copy of a
paper are mailed to a town they
are wrapped together in a pack
age ; the name of the town is put
on the outside j the package is
opened in the post office in that
town; and on each copy of the
paper appears a little label with
the name and address of a sub
scriber. It happened recently
that a piece of paper a little too
long was cut from the mailing
machine strip, so that the pack
age for Alexandria, Va., instead
of bearing simply the name of
the town, bore, in addition, the
name and address of Major Wal
ter Creech of the Army’s intel
ligence division. So, the entire
package was delivered to him.
He opened it, read the indivi
dual address labels, and saw the
names of several old-time ac
quaintances. On his way into
Washington from the Army post
where he lives he went up and
down the streets of Alexandria
and delivered the Weekly. One
home he went to was that of the
Dougald MacMillans; another
was that of Mrs. William Harris,
2nd (the former Miss (’loss
Peace).”
“I was really glad to get the
package,” Major Creech said
when he was here a few days
ago. “Those labels gave me ad
dresses that I had been wanting
to know for some time.”
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What former Governor
Broughton said about the San
Francisco Charter night before
last in Memorial hall was of too
important a nature to be put into
a column headed Chaff, and it
has been well celebrated in the
daily papers. What F am moved
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Aldermen, at Special Meeting,
Approve Tentative Budget for
Operating Expenses, $67,300
Two Concerts Sunday
Two concerts will be given
day after tomorrow (Sunday).
The All-State High School Band
(90 pieces) will play at 4:30 in
the Forest Theatre, and the All-
State High School Orchestra (30
pieces) will play at 8 in the Hill
Music hall.
Earl Slocum will be in com
mand as director at both con
certs. He will be assisted in the
afternoon by the directors of
public school music from three
cities: Herbert Hazelman
(Greensboro), W. T. Hearne
(Henderson), and Donald Smith
(New Bern). He will be assisted
at the orchestra concert in the
evening by Mrs. Frances Sim
mons.
The band concert Sunday af
ternoon will be the fourth in an
outdoor series given by the high
school musicians now studying
here. They will give the fifth the
following Sunday, July 15. The
final band concert will take place
Friday evening, July 20, in the
Hill Music hall. That will make
the completion of the boys’ and
girls’ six-weeks training course.
Swimming Classes for
Children in Mornings
Beginning Monday, swimming
classes for children will be held
from 11:15 to 12:15 five morn
ings a week (Monday through
Friday) in the indoor pool at
the Woollen gym. Any child is
big enough to attend who qui
stand up at the shallow end of
pool with his mouth above water,
and the age range goes up
through the high school.
Henry House, in command of
the program, announces that
there will be instructors for all
ages.
Any child not already holding
a ticket must get one in the base
ment of the South building. Fee,
$2 for 6 weeks. A physician’s
certificate is required.
The recreation periods in the
outdoor pool are: Monday, Tues
day, Thursday, Friday, 5 to 7
o’clock; Wednesday, 3:40 to 7;
Saturday, 9 to 12 and 2 to 10;
Sunday, 2 to 6.
Freshmen from Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill boys and girls who
entered the University this
week were Hilda Sharkey, Pat
Hole, Sam Summerlin, Bill Cobb,
Collier Cobb 3rd, Harold Cheek,
Harold Cannon, and Jimmie
Worth.
Mrs. McCall in Greenville, S. C.
Mrs. Fred McCall haa gone to
teach-a two-weeks course in
music given by Winthrop Col
lege in Greenville, S. C. Mr. Mc-
Call iq visiting friends and rela
tives in Charlotte.
Hartzetl Enters the Army
Earl Hartzell, Jr., went to
Fort Bragg yesterday for induc
tion into the Army. He is to go
on from there to the Army Air
Forces base at Keesler Field,
Mississippi.
Koch Teaching in This State
Frederick H. Koch, Jr., of
Miami, Fla. is teaching this sum
mer in the Huckleberry Writers
Colony near Hendersonville.
At Golden Wedding Anniversary
Mrs. George W. Griner, Jr.,
haa pane to Okmulpee, Okla
homa, for her parents’ golden
wedding anniversary.
$2 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy
$28,500 Revenue to Be Deduct-/
ed. Leaving $39,000 to Be
Raised by Ad Valorem Tax
The town’s tentative budget
for operating expenses for the
year 1945-46, approved by the
aldermen at a special meeting,
amounts to $67,500. This is an
Increase of about $5,000 from
last year’s budget.
To be deducted from this is
revenue of $28,500. Thus the net
budget—the amount to be raised
by ad valorem tax—is $39,000.
The revenue to be deducted
from the gross budget is made
up of contributions from the
University for various services
(police, fire, health, incinerator,
sewage disposal); “rights and
privileges” (motor ' licenses,
business licenses, dog licenses,
etc); recorder’s court costa; tax
penalties; sewer rentals; and
garbage fees.
Under the state’s municipal
government law, the tentative
budget is open for public inspec
tion at the Town Hall. The al
dermen will adopt the perman
ent budget and fix the tax rate by
August 1.
The amount of the contribu
tion from the University is de
termined by negotiation. Town
officials and University officials
meet in conferences, and examine
the town budget, and come to an
agreement upon how much is to
be chipped in by the University
to help meet the town’s operat
ing expenses. Last year the Uni
versity contributed $15,900.
What the amount will be this
year is not yet This is
a factor that will enter into the
determination of the permanent
budget.
A committee of the University
trustees is studying the question
of whether or not income-bear
ing properties of the University,
now exempt, should be made sub
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“Tiger Cat” Fighter
Flies over Village
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The latest fighter plane—the
Tiger Cat, made by the Grum
man Aircraft Manufacturing
Company for the U. 8. Navy—
was over Chapel Hill Monday
morning. It is supposed to have
come from the Marine air base
at Cherry Point.
Only a few days ago the Navy
Department made public the
existence of the Tiger Cat. It is
a two-place, twin-engine fighter,
with a 50-foot wing spread.
Capable of a speed of 400 miles
an hour, it is expected«to be of
great value in protecting both
ships and bombing places
against Japanese fighting planes
Alfred Hamilton* Are Coming
Major Alfred Hamilton of the
Army Medical Corps has come
back from Europe. He and his
wife and his son are expected to
arrive in Chapel Hill within the
next day or so.
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Greens Have Hollywood Home
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Green hato
bought a home in Hollywood.
Mr. Green is under a long-term
writing contract with M.G.M.
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Mrs. CM with Sorority
Mrs. Gilbert W. Clark has
come from Charlotte to be the
chaperone for the Alpha Gamma
Delta sorority.
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