Vol. 26, No. 20
Shaw Collection
Will Be Put on
View Tomorrow
There Are about Ten thousand
Items, Including Letters,
Manuscripts, Cartoons
0. V. Cook, assistant Univer
sity librarian, will drive the Li
brary’s truck down to Archibald
Henderson’s home on East
Franklin street tomorrow (Sat
urday) morning to get the
George Bernard Shaw collec
tion which Mr. Henderson has
given to the University.
They will pack the collection
in the truck, take it to the Li
»
brary, and proceed to lay it
out in glass cases ; all of w hich
will be done so expeditiously
that before the day is done a
good part of the approximately
ten thousand items—letters,
manuscripts, photographs, car
toons, playbills, and all the rest
—will be on display for the pub
lic. Messrs. Henderson and
Cook will put the finishing
touches on the arranging job
on Sunday or Monday.
Eleven years ago, in 1937,
Mr. Henderson gave a mass of
Shaw material to Yale Univer
sity. At the time, it excelled all
Shaw collections, including those
of Shaw himself and the Brit
ish Museum. But the one now
possessed by the University here
is greater than Yale’s. The one
in New Haven is made up most
ly of writings by and about Shaw
and does not contain, as the one
in Chapel Hill does, original let
ters and manuscripts, cartoons,
playbills, and miscellany of an
intimate character.
The
specially va^p
The collectwnrlKat Win be put
on display tomorrow and re
main on display for a month is
too large to be held by the cases
in the long east-west corridor.
It will fill not only those but also
the cases in the main lobby.
Collection of Paper
On Sunday Afternoon
There will be a paper collec
tion day after tomorrow (Sun
day) afternoon, beginning at 2
o’clock, for the benefit of the
Recreation Center.
The revenue received from the
sale of waste paper is a very im
portant factor in the mainte
nance of recreation facilities—it
is, in fact, a necessity, with
funds as limited as they are and
with expenses higher .than ever
before—and householders are
urged to have ready (or the pick
up trucks all the paper they can
possibly give.
Again Roy Barham will direct
the collection, again the truck
service will be contributed by
merchants, and again high
school boys and girls will com
pose the pick-up crews.
Newspapers, magazines, and
other paper should be tied in
bundles and put out on the curb
or (if that is not possible)
where they call be easily seen
and collected.
Students’ New Magaxine, “Factotum”
Norman Foerster haa written the
lead article for “Factotum," the new
magazine financed and edited by stu
dents, that is due for publication neat
Thursday, May 20. Copies will be on
sale, for 35 cents, at the Bull’a Head,
YMCA, Ledbetter-Pickard*s, and sev
eral other places in the town. Poetry
by Charles Eaton of the English de
partment and contributions from for
mer students Jif the University (Don
Justice, Dick Stem, Edgar Bowers)
will also be included in the contents
of the first issue, along with articles
by present UNC students.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
Louis Graves -
Editor
Town Is Asking Contractors to Bid
On Sewer System Construction Job
The Town of Chapel Hill is advertising today for bids on the
sewage treatment plant and sewer lines authorized by a vote of
the citizens in the recent bond issue election. The bids are to
cover, also, some work on the present plant, mainly the enlarge
ment of thq sludge drying bed.
The amount of money available for all sewer system improve
ments, both new construction and repairs, is $425,000. Os this,
the $225,000 is to be contributed by the University (having al
ready been appropriated by the legislature), and $200,000 by
the town.
While the operation of the present plant will be made consid
erably more efficient by the improvements there, no real relief
of the overcrowded system dan be expected until the new plant
and pipes are completed. How long that will take is therefore
a very important question to the community.
Thomas D. Rose, the town engineer, has always been cagey—
or, if you prefer a more stately word, conservative— in estimat
ing the length of time any Construction job will take. His expe
rience with scarcities in labor and material has taught him the
riskiness of predicting prompt Completion.
“This job might be finished in a year if everything went smooth
ly,” Mr. Rose said yesterday. “But, to be on the safe side, I’d
rather make my estimate a v^ 5 / an d a half. As an illustration
of how a project can be delayed: at Concord a contract for a
dam and pumping plant was let two years ago, in April 1946.
(The dam was finished months ago, but the pumping plant is not
finished yet; this is beCau.se the contractor could not get valves
and other needed equipment.
“That’s the sort of thing you run into, and there’s no way
you can tell about it beforehand. For example, on this sewer
system job we will probably need so|ne cast iron pipe. I was told
a day or so ago that makers of cast iron pipe would not promise
deliveries in less than g year.”
The contractors are to give, in their bids, a date for the com
pletion of the work. But this is no more than an estimate,' or a
declaration of purpose. No penalty is fixed for failure to get the
job done by a certain time. “If we put a penalty provision in
the contract,” says Mr. Rose, “we probably would not get any
bidders.”
Friends of the Library Have Dinner Meeting;
Sandburg Speaks and Sings and Plays Guitar
The Friends of the Library had a
successful annual meeting, combined
with an equally successful dinner,
last Friday evening at the Carolina
I Inn. Eighty-nine persons were pres-
VMratfphtrg, the guest speaker,
iffiW fIIWTCd a couple of years ago
that Michigan was too far north for
him and became naturalized as a
North Carolina mountaineer, charm
ed the company with his humor and
enlightened it with his wisdom; that
is, if you can imagine that such peo
ple as the Friends of the Library can
absorb any more enlightenment than
they already have. He read selections
from his books and sAng folk songs
to his own guitar accompaniment.
Besides Mr. Sandburg, the guests
were Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Daniels,
of Raleigh; James W. Patton, the
new assistant director of the Southern
Historical Collection, and Mrs. Pat
ton; Robert W. Christ, assistant li
brarian of Duke University; New
man I. White and Harry Stevens of
the Duke faculty; and Rev. George
B. Ehlhardt.
A grateful tribute was paid to
John Sprunt Hill for the latest of
his many benefactions to the Li
brary: the establishment of a trust
fund—“ The Hill Endowment of North
Caroliniana Fund”—through a gift
to the University of business property
in Chapel Hill, the net income of which
is to be used for the acquisition of
Hi-Y Officers to Reinstalled
The new officers of the Chapel Hill
Hi-Y Council will be installed at u
dinner at 6:30 next Wednesday even
ing in the basement of the Baptist
church. Fred Weaver, University dean
of men, will he the chief speaker. All
parents of Hi-Y members are invited.
Tickets to the d ; rner can be bought
at the door. The fee is 60 cents a
plate.
“Proconisn” Wins First Pises Rating
The Chapel Hill high school pub
lication, “The Proccnian” received s
first-place rating at the Southern
Interscholastic Press Association con
vention in Lexington. Miss Jessie B.
Lewis, English teacher, Janet Green,
and Kimsey King attended the eon
ventiop.
Greer and MacGregor to Speak
I. G. Greer of the Busineas Founda
tion and C. H. MacGregor of the
commerce school will be among the
speakers at the 45th annual conven
tion of the North Caroline Merchants
Association Monday and Tuesday in
Asheville.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C-, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1948
materials for the North Carolina
Collection.
These men were elected to life
membership for having given (each)
material valued at SI,OOO or more:
Burke jHaywood Bridges, Frank Dan.
iela, Josephus Daniels, Jr., Jonathan
Daniels, Worth Daniels, John J. Par
ker, and William Fahnestock, Jr.
Archibald Henderson announced
his gift to the Library of a collection
of books and other materials relating
to George Bernard Shaw.
Mrs. Joe Sparrow Breaks Bone, Has Her Leg
Enclosed in Cast, and Opens Swimming Pool
One part of the news that Mrs.
Joe Sparrow gave me when I called
her on the telephone yesterday was
cheerful: that she was going to open
her swimming pool last night, with
new paint on the dressing-room house
and diving stands, newly repaired
steps and picnic pavilions, and (as in
the past) filtered water from the
University lake.
The rest of the news was not so
cheerful, though I must say Mrs. Spar
row told it in a gay and spirited tone
of voice. She and Mr. Sparrow went
John Motley Morehead Is to Marry Mra. Sanderson
John Motley Morehead is to mar
ry Mrs. leila Mary Battersby San
derson. (Or, the marriage may have
taken place by the time this is pub
lished. The New York papers of Tues
day said that Mr. Morehead and Mrs.
Sanderson obtained a marriage license
Monday but did not say when they
would be married.)
Mr. Morehead, a graduate of the
University in the class of 1891, was
the donor (with the late Rufus L.
Patterson) of the Morehead-Patter
son Bell Tower. A later gift from
him to the University is the More
head Planetarium building now under
construction on the campus. He was
in Chapel Hill on a visit two weeks
ago.
Graham to Speak in Washington
President Frank P. Graham and
Senator Clyde R. Hoey will be the
speakers at the meeting of the Na
tional Association of Private Psychi
atric Hospitals * Sunday evening in
Washington. Ur- James K. Hall of
Richmond, Va., who is serving his
second term as president of the as
sociation, is a native of North Caro
lina, was graduated from the Uni
versity in 1901, and received an hono
rary degree from the Urtiversity in
1935.
Chapel Hill Chaff
Dick Dashiell is 33 years old
today, Mfiy 14. He lives in Wash
ington now..
For years the public knew him
through the appearance of his
name in newspaper by-lines
(most of the time over articles
of a peaceable nature, but part
of the time over reports on
death and destruction on Iwo
Jima and other hot spots in the
Pacific). Earlier he was in the
public eye as a football player.
But I remember an important ac
tivity in which he was engaged
long before the world in gener
al ever heard of him; I mean,
when he was a chief building in
spector.
My house was built in the
spring of 1921, a few months
after the Dashiells moved into
one of the University’s new
houses on nearby Park place.
Dick didn’t have to go to school,
being not yet six, and so he had
plenty of time t</ attend to the
job. He was present when the
digging for the foundations be
gan, and pretty soon he was
clambering over the frame and
making the onlookers uneasy
lest he break an arm or a leg or
maybe his neck. There wasn’t
a nail driven or a piece of lum
ber sawed without Dick’s over
seeing the operation. He brought
the home-building enterprise to
a successful conclusion on sched
ule time.
I recalled this one day last
week when I was looking at the
R. D. W. Connor house now
under construction on Rosemary
Lane. The chief buildinfc inspec
tor on the job is 7-year-old
Chris Hiatt and the deputy
inspector is his younger bro
ther, Timmy, 5 years old.
* * *
John W. Umstead has given
the names, Branch, Barclay,
and Justice, to the three streets
(Continued, on page seven)
out to the lake Monday to do a little
fishing. Mia. Sparrow stumbled over
a bunch of fishing poles that she was
carrying, fell, and broke a bone in
her foot. She was taken to the hos
pital.
“I’ve got a cast on,’’ she said, “and
it’ll have to stay on six weeks. 1 didn’t
see why it had to come up all the
way to the knee, but that’s the way
they said it had to be done. It’s a
nuisance, but 1 manage to hobble
around the house and get out in the
ear now and then.”
From the New York Herald Tri
bune:
“Mrs. Sanderson was the widow
of Arthur Houghton. Her second mar
riage, to George Sanderson, terminat
ed in divorce April 1. Mr. More
head’s first wife, Mrs. Genevieve Bir
khofT Morehead, died in 1945.
“When he was named by President
Hoover to go to Sweden aa American
Minister in 1930, Mr. Morehead was
chief engineer of the Union Carbide
Corporation and had had long ser
vice abroad. He is a member of the
Society of Colonial Wars and the So
ciety of the Cincinnati. Hia grand
father was twice Governor of North
Carolina. He is a former mayor of
Rye.”
Opening of Negro Recreation Center
The Negro Recreation Center will
open about June i with A. M. Boozer
(who recently finished his training
at the North Carolina College in Dur
ham) ns the director. Hubert Robinson
is chairman of the operating commit
tee; the other members are Adolphus
Clark, Mrs, Golden Sellars, Mrs.
Amelia Franklin, Miss Marion Cheek,
Arthur Caldwell, and Lewis Caldwell.
For the expense of operating the
center there is available part of the
community fund raised last winter.
New Dormitory, Inspected, Is
Declared a Satisfactory Job;
Its 95 3ooms to Be Occupied
This Summer by 280 Stndeats
Season Tickets for
U. N. C. Employees
Season tickets to University
athletic events for 1948-1949
(including the five home football
games with *¥exas, N. C. State, I
L. S. U., WilHam and Mary, andj
Duke) may be bought by faculty
members and other University
employees now, in advance of
the regular sale.
The price for the head of a
family is sl2, for each depend
ent family member $6. Orders
may be mailed to the L’.N.C.
Athletic Association, Box 109,
Chapel Hill, or brought to the
athletic office in the gymnasium.
For indoor events where space
is limited, admission will be
granted to as many events as
possible. The Athletic Associa
tion reserves the right to specify
certain indoor events for which
the season ticket book is not good
for admission.
The sale of football tickets to
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members of the Educational
Foundation will begin June 1, to
other alumni June 15, to the gen
eral public July 1.
An Outdoor Concert
Day after Tomorrow
The University’s concert band
and varsity band, which have
been rehearsing and performing
separately since last fall, will
combine into one band for a con
cert at 4:30 day after tomorrow
(Sunday) afternoon on thf cam
pus lawn at the Djpj&jPoplar.
Earl Slocum is director of the
band, but this concert will be
conducted by his assistant,
Hubert Henderson.
Billy Thompson of the Chapel
Hill elementary school, xylo
phone soloist, will play a med
ley of songs arranged by Mr.
Slocum with a band accompani
ment.
In ease of rain the concert wiii
he held in the Hill Music hall.
Dames Club Picnic Tonight
Members of the Carolina
Dames club will entertain their
husbands and children at a
“potluck” supper at 5:30 this
(Friday) afternoon on the rear
lawn of the Methodist church (or
inside, in the social rooms, in
case of rain). Every member is
asked to bring a picnic lunch or
a covered dish of food.
High School Play Tonight
The senior class of the Chapel Hill
high school will present the play,
“Every Family Has One," at-H o'clock
this (Friday) evening in the ele
mentary school auditorium. Tickets
for adults are 50 cents; for children,
30 cents.
School Athletic Meat Next Week
The newjy organised Monogram
Club in the Chapel Hill high school
will put on a student body field day
next Wednesday on the school ath
letic field. It will begin at 10 A.M.
and continue in the afternoon. A
special invitation la extended to par
ents. All the boy students in the high
school, 127, and all the girls, 180,
will participate. John Boone is presi
dent of the Monogram Club.
Mra. Cornwell’s Hip Broken
Mrs. Oliver Cornwell has been in
Duke hospital for about four weeks
since she broke her left hip in a fall
in her bedroom at night. After she
was taken to Duka hospital the injury
W»« aggravated by the development
of the phlebitia in the leg. Mr. Corn
well said yesterday tljM her condi
tion was Improved. ™
$2 a Year in Advance. 5c a Caps
Furniture in Soon, Building
May Be Used for Quartering
Visitors at Commencement
The Gently completed Dor
mitory "A,” opposite the Wool
len gymnasium on the south end
of what was a little while ago
the women’s athletic field, was
submitted by the contractor to
inspection by the University day
I before yesterday. The Univer
! sity plans to open it next month
for occupancy by men students
in the summer school.
The University was repre
sented in the inspection by Col
| Her Cobb, Jr., chairman of the
! buildings committee of the trus
i tees; J. S. Bennett, supervisor
of utilities; and Giles Horney
land Joe Sparrow, technical ex
| perts in the building depart
! ment. Frank Turner, the engi
i neer, represented the State
Budget Bureau.
The inspectors were accompa
nied by Mr. Sibley, for the gen
eral contractor, and Mr. Royall,
for the heating contractor.
They found some details that
needed correction, but in the
main they declared the building
a satisfactory job.
It has 95 rooms, of which 90
will accommodate three roomers
each and 5 will accommodate
two each. That makes a total
capacity of 280.
The furniture will be brought
from High Point May 20 and in
stalled immediately. The build
ing will proUahk be used for the
quartering 4*f ftt Com
mencement. By that time n
gravel walk, leading to the
building, will have been com
pleted. Because the ground has
to have time to settle, a perma
nent walk will not be made now.
“A” is one of three dormi
period, June 1948 to March
dents, erected to relieve the seri
ous scarcity of living quarters.
The other two, “B” and “C,”
will be opened in the fall. All
three will be occupied by men.
Cordons Are to Live
In Leon Wiley Home
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Norman Cordon, celebrated
Metropolitan opera singer, and
Mrs. Cordon and their eight
year-old daughter will live in
the Leon Wiley home on Camer
on avenue during the 9-months
period, June 1948 to March
1949, that the Wileys are to
spend in Europe. The Wileys
will sail from New York for Le
Havre on the steamship De
Grasse June 21.
The Cordons’ daughter, now
at school in New York, will join
them here this month. Recently
Mr. Cordon has been at the
Carolina Inn while his wife, the
former Miss Noima Van Lan
dingham, has been in Charlotte.
It is announced that Mr. Cor
don will take the leading male
role in the historical drama,
“Shout Freedom,” that is to open
in Charlotte May 20 and run
through June 3. He is cast aa
the narrator. The drama was
written by Le Gette Blythe,
Notice to Democrats
Tke Democratic county conven
tion will be held at 3 o’clock to
morrow (Saturday) afternoon la
Hillsboro. If any Democrat want*
to attand the convention and done
not have a car of kia own, lot
Mm com# to the Town Hall ft
2>15. Car-owners will be thereto
take aboard noo-car-ownare.