Vol. 26, No. 9
Commissioners to
Give Word Soon |
About Candidacy
An Announcement May Be Made
by Them after the Meeting
of the Hoard on Monday
The primary election is only
three months away, and the can
didates who have not already
made their announcements are
getting ready to. The “tiling”
that i.s the declaration ol candi
dacy as required by law—must
be made by March 2d in the case
of State officers and by April IP
in the case of county officers.-
It i not yet known whet her
or not t tie present members of
the board of county cotnnii ‘ion
ers ( oilier (’obi), .Jr., Hubert
G. Law , and Ben F. Wilson
will laud for re :elect.ion, bill the
general expeida.tion is that they
will. The I sail'd will have its
regular monthly meeting thi
coming Monday. That will give
the members a cliau.ee to talk
tlungs over, and they may decide
to make.an announcement alter
I to - meeting.
At this stage of the political
proceedings there is always
speculation about possible op
position to incuiiils'iits who
seek, re sleet ion. What talk there
has been alsiiit opposition to
Orange county inciindH iits has
been, thus far, nothing more
than vague rumor.
< arl Durham recently tele
phoned this newspaper from
Washington, and we published
the fact m the I**u*f#,J*uu.
ary 211, IhutNhe ywddHl » «ftpdL
date for rc:efMf?mlftT)onfrrea*.
Thomas Turner, Greensboro
lawyer, has announced that he
will oppose Mr. Durham. John
W. IJinstead has announced Ins
candidacy for re:e|cctioii to Hie
legi -latine.
TearhcTH Art* Asking
I'or Special Session
From Miss Riibyleigh Davis,
|iii odcnl of the N. ('. I l ',ducat ion
A social ion, and Mrs Jeanne If.
McKinnon, president bt the
da room teachers:
“At a recent meeting Hie
da sroom teacher unit and tin*
fvodb Carolina education As-o
i iat ion mill o| t In- ('lmpel 11 ill
tv bool voted in favor of asking
(ioveriioi l'berry lo call a ;qs?
l -till I soil 111 I lie legislature lot
I be purpose of studying I lie pus
sibililn ■*. of increasing school
appropi lat ions.
"Because of Ihe sharp rise in
I in- cost of living, Ihe lack of
necessary equipment in many of
the public schools, and I he shod
age of adequately prepared
teachei personnel, the teacher
groups of ( Impel Hill feel I hat
an increase In school appropria
Hons is imperative.”
Ilorncr Is legion Ad jut aril
The regular monthly meeting
of lln* ()ha|sd Hill post of the
American Legion will meet al H
o’clock next Friday night al Ihe
Is'gion Hut. At u recent meet
log of the post D, M Horner,
Jr., was named to replace Nor
man Jackson as adjutant, Mr.
Jackson resigned lsw*ause of the
pressure of other duties.
( lull to Hear J. C. Lyon*
J. C. Lyons of the department
of romance languages will read
“Barclay, Du Ryer, and Cal
deron : a Study In Comparative
Drama" at a meeting of the
Philological Club at 7:30 Tues
day evening In the Graham Me
morial.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
I.ouis Graves
Editor
Strowda See Ileal Ranch Life in Weal
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Strowd
have been seeing real (not
“dnde”) ranch life in Arizona.
They have become acquainted
with many cowboys, and when
last heard from they were just
about to see a big rodeo.
"Bruce has picked up enough
tales to entertain the Eubanks
drugstore idlers for a long time
to come,” says Mrs, Strowd in
a letter to a friend.
They planned to get hack to
Chapel Hill alxuit now but have
decided to stay away two weeks
longer.
"Here in Tucson,” writes Mrs.
Strowd "the people say they have
iiad the coldest weather in
twenty-live years. The fact is,
ever since we lelt hoini* we've
carried ‘unprecedented’ weather
lo every area we've touched. <)n
the way here we were snow
bound twice, fust at Minden,
Louisiana, where the hotel fair
ly burst at the seams with
stranded wayfarers, and then
( ( 'oil t ii
An Appeal lor the
Children's Library
A canvass for money for I lie
Mary llayley I’rat I children's Ii
brary will be made next week,
beginning Monday. The ohjee
live, bused on a carefully pre
pared budget, is a fund of $627.
('out ribtil ions should be sent to
Miss Cora Itomar, the librarian,
at the elementary school, or to
, Mrs George S. I.ane, 7.'tf> Dim
] ghoul road, chairman of mem
bership committee.
' >1
Morey if needed for the pur
chggf’&f hmv books and reprints,
the rebinding of old books, new
plastic records, supplies and
magazines, and the salary of a
librarian to keep the library open
during I he summer
<'lmpel I till is one o| Ihe lew
towns in the State which has an
elementary school library under
I In* direct ion of a l ull I line
1 1 rained librarian, and Hu* sen
i ices of the library have been
more m demand during Hu- la I
V'-ai I ban ever before. Aiming
I In- serv ices Ibe library oilers
! arc a dm y lioiii for Ibe pi unary
glades every week; Iwii hi*lied
nled p< i aids for every loom
every week , a 1 rained librai mil's
guidance lor all I In* rluldi eii;
(In* circulation of plusl ic records
among 1 D*• ehildr'-n, and lb>- use
of a record player and a mini
im r program
Cokers f igure in I’uz/lc
A puzzle I bill has several per
sons in ( Impel Hill guessing re
lates to the s|ie|lilig of I lie name
of Ilia iiiii where I la* W. C. (’ok
i-is are slaying When lie was
leaving Florida lasi week, Mr.
Coker wrote lo the Weekly to
change his address to the Three
7777 Inn, Thmnasvllle, < la.
Where-you sue Hie question
marks he set down a word Dial
some think Is Toms nod some
think is Tones. Mrs. C. Dale
Beers, Mr. Coker's long time as-
Muriate In the botany depart
ment, lo whom the matter was
referred, thinks It’s Toms. "My
guess," she says, “Is that the
liiii is named for three members
of a Toms family." My guess Is
different: that, the paint on the
exterior of the inn Is In three
rolor tones,
Mrlnto»h'* Kym Are Better
C. K. Mclntosh in starting to
read again after serious trouble
with hie eyes. He came back
home recently from the McPher
son Hospital after undergoing an
operation for acute glaucoma.
CHAPEL HILL. N. C- FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1948
quite pleasantly at Fort Worth.
“At Fort Worth we extended
by a day and a night** our week
end visit with the former Chapel
Lillians, Smith and Lilita Mc-j
Corkle. Smith has become dean
i
of the school of fine arts at Texas
Christian University. This in
cludes the departments of mu
sic, art. and speech drama.
We have taken advantage of
some unusual opportunities to
see the great open spaces of the
ranch country and real working
(not ‘dude’) ranch life. Ten
minutes after we had arrived
m Tucson Bruce ran into our
only acquaintance m this region,
lie took us for the week-end bn
Ins ranch on the Mexican border,
a hundred miles from here. The
ranch house, at an elevation of
a mile and forty miles from a
post olliee, is beautifully built,
equipped with all conveniences,
handsomely furnished, and stal
fed with servants, everything,
except t he adols* brick ol the ex
ii /Nigc. four)
James (Just’s Muggic
lias Twelve Puppies
James (.lust's bulldog, Mag
gie, gave birth to lf> puppies last
Friday afternoon on the (lust
farm in Chatham county u few
miles from Chapel Hill. Twelve
of them are living. Mike, the
sire, belongs lo a neighbor. Both
Mike and Maggie are full-blood
cd Bostons.
Mr. (lust’s farm is between
Hint of two members of Chapel
Bill's colony of authors, James
Struct ami James Childers. Re
caiiMo all Hilts* men are named
James, one of the authors
which one spoke llrst, I don I
know has suggested tha| the
(( ‘on fiiinril tin fniyr fom )
Annual Red t’ross (’ampnitfn to H(‘«:in Monday;
Quota Here*, $6,000; J. I\ llazzard Chairman
The minimi Red Cross Roll ( 'all campaign, foi memberships mid
fur the raising "I a fund, will begin this mining Monday, March
L ami millmile through the billowing Monday, March M (an
viihhiTm w ill go aimind to hnines and Ini -uni'e-i*-eslablislouenl .*»
The quoin bn ( Impel Hill and Caiibnio and the nearby rural
area**, in $(i,()(l(l ( H tills, s2,(.'Ml will be kept lu re Ini' local iise;
l In* reiuninuig ! I o w ill go b> Red Cross national headquarter.*
(See page p bn a fepnrl bn the ninny Red Cross activities )
J P lla/zard w ill In* I tie genel'aj ehnirinan b>r tin* campaign
’l’he headquail' i ' will be al Ibe lla/zard Motor Company Mrs
It, M Gruminnn will be in rmiimand there with Mih llazzard as
her assist ant
The chan man bn the evcrnl div i non id the campaign are as
follows;
Business sect lon' Bernice Ward, assialeij bv .1 I 1 llaz/,aid
Residential seetinn: Mi* It B Filch
Rural areas George B ('•line, assisted by ( K McAdams
Negro sel l mn: Mrs Norma .Snipes,
University employees: FiVd Weaver.
Special Gifts: VV D Carmichael, Sr.
( nrrboro: J It Evans.
Publicity: Miss ( nrncliu Love.
('becks may be mailed In I to* Red (Toss, care of tin* llazzard
Motor Company. ('lmpel Hill, N ('. They should he made out to
Chapel Hill Chapter, Red Cross.
Artists' Model Here as Guest of University Art Department
Nelson Bennett, a professional
model for artists, now on a 40-1
week tour of art colleges and
schools, was a guest of the Uni
versity art depart nmut. four
days this week. On every one of
these duys, students and artists
from Chapel 11111 and Durham,
drew his | *nses In Person hall.
A native of Muuda, Indiana,
the son of circus trajs-ze |s*r
former* and models, Mr. Ben
nett began posing as a child, lie
has jsmed forth« greatest
sculptor* and i*»rtrajf painter*
In the world, Including Rodin,
Maillol, M*nshlp, Is.rndo Taft,
John Hloan. Robert llanrl,
George Bellows, Mat isse, PIctMNO,
and Dali.
He consider* that among hia
most famous poalnga wa* that
Chapel Hill Chaff
When my fellow student of
nearly half a century ago, J. L.
Morehead, was in the village re
cently he told me how he and his
wife and his mother-in-law, Mrs.
| Fuller, had left Arizona because
|of the bitter cold weather. Mrs.
Fuller’s suggestion in freezing
I’lioenix -"We might as well be
back at home; we can keep
warm in the house there”—-was
unanimously accepted and no
time was lost in making Pullman
reservations. Thejravelors were
a little saddened by what they
saw on their arrival in Durham:
snow several inches deep and
slid falling. “But tny mother
Moreheqd, "and we’re glad we
. came fn cold weather you can
be a lot mon* comfortable in
your own hotm* than you can Is*
while von are traveling."
♦ ♦ ♦
James C Andrews, the bio
chemist in the University medi
cal school, is seized by the same
mania that seems to grip every
!bod\ who has Ihvii in dilate
i mala that is to say, he yearns
to go back 1 here. And lie is going
to have Ins wish. The Uuiver
sity of (liiatemalu has sent for
him again He has obtained a
leave of absence from Ills regti
* j Inr job, and be and Ills wife are
■ going to start south in about two
i weeks. The A. C. Howells an*
going to make the same trip a
little later Mr. Howell, having
i been a visiting professor of Eng
I lish m the University of Guatc
i mala for a full acadeniU* year,
will have, this time, a six-months
assignment.
I never saw a happier fare
than that of Mr. Andrews when
lie told me about his plans. "I've
(( 'imi/dhii'i/ nil fnifjc I tin i )
for the Alamo group In San An
' lonlo.
Ills father |smeil for Anna
Hyatt Huntington's figure of the
youth In front of Person hall.
MalliemutU'* Fraternity
A new national honorary
mathematics fraternity, I’l Mu
Ep*llou, will Imi installed In the
University at this week-end, A
two-day mathematics symjw/-
slum will lie sponsored by the
recently organized North Caro
lina Beta chapter of the frater
nity.
Robert Pare Humphrey*
Mr. *nd Mr*. Creighton Hum
phrey* have a non. He waa bom
January 16 In Watt* Hospital,
Hl* name la Robert Pare.
Plans for Changes in Stadium
Are Nearly Ready for Bidders;
Construction Is Expected to Be
Finished in Time for Football
Hubert Front Will lie
Here Next Week
i
Robert Frost, the celebrated
poet who is also a philosopher
and a humorist, will give a pub
lic 'lecture-recital at 8 o’clock
next Wednesday evening in the
Hill Music hall.
He will ln» here through the
following week end, and in the
course of his stay he will talk to
some of tin* English classes.
A lecture-recital b\ Mr Frost
is a delightful mixture of head
ings from his poetry and com
ments upon literature and vari
ous other interests of mankind.
He has visited Chapel Hill sev
eral times, and the more Chapel
Hill s»*es of him the better it
likes him.
The first recognition of Mr.
Frost's poetry came from Eng
lish critics when he was living
in England in ltM.'t. After that.
American publishers who had
before shown little interest in
his work became enthusiastic
about it. When he came home
in l'Jlft his "North of Boston"
had been reprinted in America
and was making him famous.
Warm Weather Came
to Village Yesterday
Warm weather suddenly burst
upon the village yesterday,
A little yhile before dawn the
mercury was at fit By 2 o’clock
in tin* afternoon it had gone up
to 7ft.
Green shoots sprang out
I rum the branches of the weep
mg willow in tin* editor's yard,
three feet from where there was
a pile of snow last week, and he
has no doubt that hundreds of
oilier citizens can hear test!
iiiony lo similar manifestations
of spring
Many a turn* I In* weather
undergoes a log change between
I In* lime a newspaperman writes
about ii and Ihe I inn* his report
appears m print So, there’s no
telling what it will be wln-u you
read these lines
Max D Saunders, who la In
command of !lm U. S. Weather
Bureau station here, yesterday
gave tills newspaper the Fcbrtl
nry day by dav record It shows
a minimum of LI degrees on i In*
Hllli and a maximum of 76 on
the IHtlt The depth of the snow
on Monday the 'Jlh is put down
aa 10 inches.
Visitors from Kngliiiid
Miss Josephine Sharkey will
leave Monday for New York to
meet her friend*, the Charles
Millers, win* are coming from
England on their llrst trip to the
United States. They will gel lo
('lmpel Bill toward the end of
tin* week,-*.
Graham at Lake Surress
I'resldent Graham went to
New York by airplane Wednes
day, and then on to United Na
tions headquarters at Lake Suc
cess, for a conference about
Indonesian alTair*. I|e Is expect
ed to return tomorrow or Bun
da*.
Craig on “Children and Hooks”
Hardin Craig of th« Univer
sity English department launch
ed the campaign for tha raialng
of a children** library fund with
a talk at a meeting of tha P.T.A.
laat waek. The subject of hia
talk wa* "Children and Book*,”
$2 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy
Great Care Has Been Taken, in
Design, that Beauty of Stad
ium Shall Not Be Impaired
Plans and specifications for
changes in tin* Kenan stadium
—for the erection of twin struc
tures, one at the middle of each
of the concrete stands—are
nearly ready to be submitted to
contractors for bills. The only
remaining work on them is the
tilling in of a few details in speci
fications. It is expected by the
University athletic authorities
that const met ion will begin early
in the spring and U* finished by
the beginning of the football sea
son.
11. Raymond Weeks is the
architect. Arthur U. Nash of
Washington, who designed the
stadium, is the consulting archi
tect.
The description, "twin.”
menus that the added structures
Will be alike in their external
appearance. The one on the north
side will contain a guest Istx with
a much larger seating capacity
than the present box has; the
one on the south side will pro
vide enlarged and Improved ac
commodations for the press, the
radio broadcasters, and the
photographers. Each structure
will Ik* set Imck of tho concrete
stand and will extend to the sta
dium fence.
In the design tirent care has
been taken to V reserve the origi
nal Is'iiuty of the stadium. Wil
liam R. Kenan, Jr , donor of the
stadium, was consulted before
the project was undertaken.
Sketches were submitted to him
for examination mid were sub
ject to his.approval, mid he has
liven kept Informed about the
|ilans as work on them has pro
gressed, When he was here for
the laying of the cornerstone of
llie Morchend building last fall
(< '(iftflNuoJ us |Hig # four)
Till* Colonial Store,
A New Super Market
The Colonial store, the new
super market succeeding Pen
der’s, opened yesterday In a new
j building, owned by J. P. II nz
i/.ard, <*n West Franklin street.
It Is lust beyond the Buzzard
Motor Company.
j Here for the o|Mmiug were
J. W. Wood of Norfolk, vice
| president of Colonial Stores,
Inc.; A. (', Edens of Norfolk,
manager of the store chain; 11.
W. McCullough of Durham, di
visional manager; C, M. Tuttle
of Durlium, divisional general
su|s’rvlsor; J. It. Commander of
Norfolk, advertising manager;
L. T. Duke of Norfolk, meat
merchandising manager; and
(t'untlnuvil mi pn g* thri>r)
I MU* Women’* ('lull RMtrganlifd
A reorganization meeting of
thu Chapel Hill Buslneaa ami
Professional Women's club wa*
••‘'lll l>**t night at tho Carolina
Inn. Mias Mabel Bacon of Char
lotte, State president of the or
ganization, and other slate of
ficial* met with Chapel Hill
member*. The local club, which -
waa organized In 104.1 and dl»-
banded In 1044, la being reor
ganised becauae of repeated re
queata. Mra. Guy B. John*©*,
former vlee-preeldent, preaided
laat night In the abwnce of far
mer preeldent Porter Cowlee,
who wm In Atlehta on Univer
sity Prose business.