Vol. 24, No. 20
New Laundry to
Begin Operation
Monday Morning
E. F. Humphries, as Manager, to
Have the Help of His Wife,
Daughters, Sons-in-Law
The Twin Village Laundry
and Cleaners, of which E. F.
Humphries is manager, will
open for business Monday morn
ing in its new brick building on
Greensboro street in Carrboro.
Maybe a better way to describe
its location is: When you go west
along the main street of Carr
boro turn to the left at the An
drews-Riggsbee store (opposite
the Baptist church), and the
laundry is on your right.
The building is 88 feet long,
46 feet wide, one story high. The
equipment is of the most mod
ern type. The building and the
equipment represent an invest
ment of around $40,000. *
Mr. Humphries has been with
the University laundry 20 years.
He has done just about every
job there is to do about a laun
dry, his most important posi
tions having been foreman and
maintenance man.
“Our new business will be a
family affair,” he said yester
day. “As manager I will be
helped by my wife, my three
daughters, and my three sons
in-law.”
The sons-in-law are all war
veterans: Marvin E. Beaty of
Florida, who served in the Navy
in the Pacific; Richard W. Gim
mon of Albany, N. Y., who was
a bombardier in the Army Air
Forces and was shot down over
Italy and found his way back to
the American lines, after three
weeks of wandering, with the
help of the Greek underground;
and Alvin C. Brown of Belling
ham, Washington, who served
with the Army in North Africa.
Mr. Beaty is to be the route
man who will go around with
the truck.
Arrival of 4 Babies
Excites Post Office
There was great excitement
at the post office Monday morn
ing when the news was flashed
around that three members of
the force had become fathers
and another member a grand
father during the week-end.
All four babies were born in
Durham within a 26-hour period.
Lydia Ann Cheek, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Cheek,
started the procession when she
arrived at 9:18 Friday evening.
She was followed by Stephen
William Bynum, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Rupert Bynum, at 8:30
Saturday morning, and William
Frank Pendergraft, Jr., at 5:50
Saturday evening. All three
were born in Watts hospital.
Christopher Hogan Cox, son
of Mr. and Mrs. James Cox and
grandson of Postmaster and
Mrs. Bill Hogan, added his con
tribution to the memorable day
by arriving in Duke hospital at
10:30 Saturday evening.
Missed Plane, Saw Tennis
Mrs. Herman Weil of Golds
boro was to take a plane from
Durham to Knoxville, Tenn., late
Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Weil ac
companied her to the airport.
The flight had to be called off
because of bad weather, and so
she and Mr. Weil came over to
Chapel Hill to visit their daugh
ter, Miss Betty Weil, co-ed in
the University, and to see the
Budge-Riggs tennis match.
The Weekly fgr one year, ft.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
Loais Grave,
Editor
Josephus Daniels, 84 Tomorrow, Is
Proof of Foolishness of Rigid Rule
Retiring Man from Active Duty at TO
Josephus Daniels will be 84 years old tomorrow. He was born
May 18, 1862, in Washington, N. C.
The fact that Mr. Daniels at 84 is alert and vigorous, and does
more than a full day’s work every day—this is of special interest
just now to our University community because of its bearing
upon the retirement of members of the faculty. .The state law
fixes their retirement age at 65 with the proviso'that, by action of
the trustees, they may stay on duty another five years. A pro
fessor’s retirement at 70 is obligatory unless the state retirement
board decrees that he stay on duty longer.
It may be said: “Mr. Daniels is an exceptional man. Mighty
few men can keep on the way he does.” But so are many pro
fessors exceptional men. There is not an institution in the coun
try that does not have in its. faculty men whose retirement at 70
sacrifices the interest of the students. It may be well to have a
rule about the age of retirement, but it is certainly a mistake to
make the rule rigid. There ought to be provision for a simple and
easy way for the trustees to make exceptions so that students may
get the utmost possible advantage from association with splendid
teachers.
Legislators and other persons who are determining the state’s
policy with respect to retirement would do well to consider what
Josephus Daniels has done since he reached the age of 70.
He was just two months short of 71 when he became Am
bassador to Mexico, and he served in that position from March
1933 to January 1941. Within that period he was a member of the
commission sent to France by the President to mark and dedicate
the battlefields where Americans fought and cemeteries where
were buried those who lost their lives in World War I. This re
quired one month (in 1937), and the commission traveled all over
France. While on that trip Mr. Daniels also went to .Belgium,
Switzerland, England, Wales, and Ireland.
In 1941 he returned to Raleigh and took up the editorship of
the News and Observer. Since then he has averaged writing two
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Hickerson’s Life among the Roses
One of the most beautiful
spectacles in the village in the
last few days has been T. F.
Hickerson’s double bank of roses
■ —American Pillars and Silver
Moons—rising above the rock
wall on the side of his yard to
ward the campus. And the
passersby who have not been
walking too fast to take a peep
through the gate have seen on
his west lawn a big bush of Paul
Scarletts.
One day last week Mrs.
Thomas D. Rose asked him by
telephone if he would give her
some of his roses for the decora
tion of the Presbyterian church.
He was delighted to, but she
called him a little while later and
said she found his roses would
not be wanted because Mrs.
Kluttz had already made all the
arrangements for the decoration.
He was called on the telephone
again, and this time Mrs. Rose
was inviting him to midday din
ner on Sunday. “Nobody but
ourselves,” she said. He accept
ed eagerly, and turned up
promptly at the appointed hour
of one o’clock. Since grand-
Cobb Terrace Houses Sold
These houses on Cobb Ter
race have been sold in the last
few days: No. 1, on the rear
row, nearest to town, to Clyde
C. Carter; No. 11, at the far
end of the rear row, to Robert
L. Stallings, Jr.; and No. 11, on
the rear row, to A. G. Engstrom
(the present occupant). Mr.
Carter is a newcomer to the
school of commerce. Mr. Stall
ings recently returned to the
school of commerce after serv
ice in the Navy. Mr. Engstrom
is in the French division of the
department of romance lan
guages. The sale of No. 5 to
Robert Shenkkan has already
been reported in this paper.
Miss Akers in Accident
Miss Susan Akers was in an
automobile accident in Virginia
a few days ago. Though her car
turned over, she was not seri
ously injured. She has conut
home, but the car had to be left
in Martinsville for repairs.
CHAPEL HILL, N. FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1946
children were swarming around,
and other persons were there
too, the question crossed his
mind: “What did she mean by
‘nobody but ourselves’?” From
a glance into the dining room he
saw that the table was not set,
but he did not object to waiting.
After he had sat a while, Mrs*
Rose said she would be glad if
he would have dinner with them;
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Poor Attendance Causes Loss of Teacher Here
An article about the deplorable attendance record of the Chapel
Hill elementary school is featured on the first page of the May
issue of the “Elementary Star,” the school’s publication. Titled
“Plain Figures and Sad Facts,” it says in part:
“One grade of the school has 48 pupils crowded into one room.
There are two rooms in which two grades are taught by one
teacher, which means that a pupil gets half the regularly-allot
ted teaching time. We now have 12,teachers. Next year we will
have 11. Why? Because our attendance record has been so
low that the state will allot us only 11 teachers.
“Many absences are unavoidable. But there have been enough
avoidable absences to account for the loss of a teacher. There
have been 4,353 absences in the last 7 months.; Os these, 3,079
were due to epidemic diseases and 1,274 were for other reasons.
“What can you do to help? During the summer do your shop
ping, see your dentist, have your medical check-ups, do your visit
ing, and get back before school starts. After school opens arrange
to do these things on Saturday or after school; not on school days.
A day’s absence may seem justifiable and of little consequence.
But multiply it by 1,274. It results in your getting one forty
eighth of a teacher’s attention or in your grade’s sharing half the
day’s teaching with another grade.” ,
Progress of Anti-Cancer Drive
More than SSOO has been col
lected in the anti-cancer cam
paign, it is announced by John
Foushee, treasurer. The Girl
Scouts collected $125 on the
streets last Saturday, and checks
have been coming in from some
of the people to whom appeals
were made by mail. No returns
from Hillsboro have come in yet.
The quota for the county is
$1,300.
Librarian Evans Speaks Here
Luther H. Evans, Librarian of
Congress, was a guest speaker
at the dinner of the Friends of
the University of North Caro
lina Library at the Inn last
week. Another guest was John
Sprunt Hill, permanent honorary
chairman of the society.
Still Going Strong
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This photograph of Josephus
Daniels was taken recently at his
home, Wakestone, in Raleigh.
It is a commonplace that one
man’s meat is another man’s
poison. Maybe Mr. Daniels’
manner of living might not be
good for some men, but all who
know about his good health, his
energy, and his achievements,
will agree that it has been good
for him.
He has never used tobacco,
and he has always been a total
abstainer not only from alcohol
but from soft drinks as well.
There are some non-admirers of
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Spanish Movies Shown Here
The Pick theatre has been
running a series of Spanish-dia
logue movies for the benefit of
the many Spanish speaking stu
dents in the University and
others who know tha language
or are interested in it. The thea
tre has been showing one such
movie a week, on Thursday.
Next Thursday’s is “La Trepa
dora.” These movies are regular
full-length dramas.
Dale Beers to Lecture Tuesday
C. Dale Beers, professor of
zoology in the University, will
give a lecture on "Studies on
Excystment in Giliated Proto
zoa” at 8:30 Tuesday evening in
room 106, Wilson hall, under the
auspices of the Society of Sigma
Xi.
J<M J Ottttß
Assistant Editor
State to Hard-Surface Stretch
Os Road through Veterans' Home
Colony in Woods Back of Campus
, Chapel Hill Chaff
Everywhere you turn you
hear of the desperate home
hunting by war veterans enrolled
in the University. Veterans’
families are snatching any living
quarters they can find. Some ex
hibit great resourcefulness. Sam
Summerlin had an article in the
Greensboro News about three
veterans’ families—nine persons
in all—who are living in a farm
house which they managed to
rent, a mile, or so from the vil
lage. They have a garden and
are raising pigs and chickens.
* * *
The names of people and
places are listed in the main part
of a dictionary only when they
become common nouns. The
other day I showed George Cof
fin Taylor the only thing Web
ster’s International has to say
about his native city: “Charles
ton (from Charleston, S. C.): a
kind of round dance, in four
four time, characterized by a
sidelong hip movement and by
lifting the heels alternately out
and back while the knees touch.”
J asked Mr. Taylor to demon
strate this for me but he re
fused.
Buys Munitions Plant
The Pacific Mills of Boston,
Mass., has bought the National
Munitions Company property in
Carrboro. This was announced
yesterday by Winslow Williams,
Carrboro town manager. The
property is the former Durham
Hosiery Mills plant 7.
In January, 1945, the Pacific
Mills bought the former Durham
Hosiery Mills plant 4, now
known as the Carrboro Woolen
Mills, and has completely reno
vated the building, making it
one of the most modern window
less, air-conditioned woolen and
worsted manufacturing plants
in the nation, equipped with the
latest machinery for the manu
facturing of high grade fabrics.
The new property, which will
be modernized and beautified in
the manner of the present plant,
contains 36,000 square feet of
manufacturing area, which will
about double the volume of the
company’s Carrboro operation
and will bring here a new in
dustry expected to be of perma
nent benefit to the entire com
munity.
The Pacific Mills is a Massa
chusetts corporation chartered
100 years ago. It has plants in
Lawrence, Mass., and in several
Southern states, and its annual
statement shows an average
sales volume of $80,000,000 a
year.
In announcing the new pur
chase, Mr. Williams said, "Carr
boro is indeed proud to again
welcome this nationally famous
textile concern as a partner in
the civic, business, professional,
and economic life of the com
munity and is grateful to the
corporation for the confidence it
has placed in our town.”
Comes Back from Hospital
Miss Sally Stevens returned
from Duke hospital yesterday.
She was struck by a car last
Thursday afternoon as she was
crossing the street. Her mother
flew from Minnesota and Is at
the Carolina Inn. Miss Stevens
has joined her mother there for
the week-end and will resume
her classes Monday.
$2 a Year in Advance. Sc a Copy
Despite Tree - Saving Efforts,
Many Fine Trees in Colony
Area Are Being Cut Down
The State Highway Depart
ment is going to hard-surface
the stretch of the Mason Farm
road that runs through the new
home colony for veterans in the
woods‘back of the campus. The
surface will be the familiar tar
and - crushed - stone type—the
same as that on the roads lead
ing from here toward Raleigh
and Greensboro.
The hard-surfacing will extend
from the Pittsboro highway
about three-quarters of a mile to
the road-junction at the R. W.
Bost property.
The present width of the
Mason Farm Road, 20 feet, will
be increased to 30 feet not only
for this distance but on beyond
the hard surface, past the Ryan
and Williams homes. There is
an additional 5-foot-wide strip
on each side, required for work
ing space. The highway depart
ment has given assurance that
it will not destroy the trees, on
this strip, that the University
wants preserved.
The faculty committee on
grounds has been conferring
about the protection of trees
with the University officials in
charge of the building opera
tions. These officials and the
clearing-and-grading contractor
(who was called into the confer
ence) have been urged, and have
agreed, to do everything possible
to save trees. But a good many
fine big trees have to come down
to make way for houses, streets,
and the sewer line through the
woods. No labor can be obtained
for a sewer-pipe ditching, and
the job has to be done by a ma
chine that cuts a course 12 feet
wide. Another machine that
needs “elbow room” and there
fore causes tree-cutting is the
derrick that swings around as it
lifts and places sections of pre
fabricated houses.
The highway department is
expected to complete the widen
ing, and whatever grading has
to be done, within the next three
or four weeks. It will then pro
ceed immediately with the sur
facing.
Tomorrow, May 18th,
Is “Challenge Day”
Tomorrow, Saturday the 18th,
is "challenge day.” This means
that anybody may question any
body else’s qualifications as a
voter at any time between 9
and 6 o’clock tomorrow at the
polling place. (Place for Chapel
Hill’s north precinct, fire-engine
room at Town Hall; for south
precinct, elementary school) ...
Registration closed last week
... There is no Republican pri
mary in the county this year be
cause there are no Republican
contests. In the Democratic pri
mary (May 25, one week from
tomorrow) nobody can vote ex
cept persons who declared, in
registering, that they belonged
to the Democratic party.
An Incident Is Closed
An incident that caused con
siderable stir in the village, tha
citing of Max Weaver on • con
tempt-of-court charge, has been
closed by Mr. Weaver's ranking
a full apology for the abusive
epithets he applied to the Chapel
Hfll recorder's court hi a letter
published In the student news
paper, the Tar Heel.