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VoL 26, No. 24 Community Bible School to Have 10-Day Session Will Be Held in the Methodist Church; Will Let Out Every Day in Time for Swimming Chapel Hill annual Interdeno minational Community Bible School will open this coming Monday, June 14, and will run through Friday, June 25. It is sponsored by the Chapel Hill Council of Churches. The school is for children from 4 to 15 years old (inclu sive). Light refreshments will be served to the boys and girls in the nursery and beginner de partments, and, says the an nouncement, “they will also take a short rest period so that they may not get too tired.’’ Place: the Methodist church. Days: Monday through Friday. Hours: 8:45 to 10:45. The clos ing at 10:45 will enable the children enrolled in swimming classes to reach the pool at the scheduled time, 11 o’clock. Parents are requested to reg ister their children in advance. Registration cards may be se cured from any of the church offices, and it will be most help ful if they are returned before Sunday, June 13. v. The school activities centered around the theme for the year, “Jesus and His Follow ers.” There will be stories, crafts, Bible study, singing, games, dramatics, excursions, movies, and a few general as semblies. One of these assem blies will be day W lit*it ‘ hvVflfl The school by Mrs. P. H. Hobson, director of religious education at the Presbyterian church. She will be assisted by a trained staff among whom are Mrs. Ferris Wilson, Mrs. Frank Carlisle, Mrs. W. E. Padgett, Mrs. Donald Hayman, Mrs. G. C. Kyker, Mrs. J. A. Black, Mrs. Tom Parkin son, Mrs. Robert McKee, Mrs. Bruce Ballentine, Mrs. Dean Engstrom, Mrs. J. M. Guthrie, Mrs. Henry Colton, Mrs. Roy Armstrong, Mrs. Carol Brock man, Mrs. Bernard Munger, Mrs. Charles Elliott, and Mrs. Pat Purdam. Onlookers Amazed by Rapid Work on House Mr. and Mrs. Clifford P. Lyons are building a home out in Greenwood, the suburban colony out on the Raleigh road about a mile from town. All the onlook ers are amazed at the speed of construction. The explanation of the speed is, first, that the sev eral elements of the house (walls, doors, windows, and all the rest) came packed in boxes, all accurately marked and ready to be put together, and, second, that the men who put them to gether are experts at the job. They have just gone right ahead, and no monkey business. In consequence, the owners expect to be able to move in within a few weeks. Club to Hear Lunsford Bascom L. Lunsford, “the minstrel of the Appalachians,” will be the speaker at the Fac ulty Club luncheon at 1 o’clock Tuesday at the Carolina Inn. He is going to open the Carolina Folk Festival next Friday, June 18, in the Kenan stadium. o#car Coffin and Roland McClain roch went to the coast Monday morn ing and came home Tuesday night The Ghapel Hill Weekly Louis Graves Editor The University Needs an Auditorium To say that the University needs an auditorium is to repeat something that has been said in this newspaper many times. But the need was never before so obvious as it became this week when people attending Commencement were unable to get seats in Memorial hall for the final exercises. The plan had been to hold the exercises in the Kenan stadium, where.the north stand, facing the speakers’ platform,-has a seat ing capacity of 12,000. The shift to Memorial hall was compelled by a heavy rainstorm. A considerable proportion of the people who could not get seats were parents who had come to see their sons and daughters gradu ate. Some of these sat in Gerrard hall, where a loud-speaker had been rigged, up to bring the proceedings to an overflow gathering, but others walked disconsolately up and down the foyer of Memorial hall or sat on the stairs at each end of the foyer. Since they couldn’t get inside they would have liked to go out in the air, but they couldn’tido that because of the rain. Memorial hall has a seating capacity of about 1800. The number of seats on the main floor is about 1,300, and 1,000 of these were needed for the members of the senior class and other persons receiving diplomas. The 300 remaining seats on the main floor and the 500 in the balcony were nowhere near enough to accom modate the crowd. People stood in the aisles on both floors, crowding the hall to the utmost. The heat up in the balcony was very disagreeable. The enrollment of students in the University is now around 7,000. Even those persons who think it will decline when the benefits under the G.I. Bill of Rights expire do not expect the decline to be great. And some persons think there will be no decline at all. Anyway, there is no doubt whatever that the Uni versity has reached a size that makes an auditorium much larger than Memorial hall an absolute necessity. New Ford Will Go on Display Next Friday; Radically Different from Previous Models Next Friday, June 18, will be a big day for the people —of whom there are millions who enjoy automobile-viewing. For, on that day the new Ford car will be shown to the public. J. B. Johns, manager of the Strowd Motor Company, Ford dealers in Chapel Hill, will have two of the new coxa on display. mjUggMimgL 2-door IrN yet what W‘oH£r one will be. But you can find out by going to the Strowd Motor Company next Friday. Magazines and newspapers all over the country are giving the new Ford a great play. This week’s Life has several pages about it, in pictures and text. Part of the layout is the history of the Ford family and the de velopment of the successive models. “The New Ford,” says Life, “is no mere face-lifted arrange ment of chrome trim. Only the 8-cylinder model’s V-type motor j resembles in some degree the previous V-8. Everything else is radically different from previous Fords, representing an enormous: expenditure in effort and money. Prices of the new cars will be 6% to 9'/c above previous models.” The expenditure for tools, dies, jigs, and fixtures has been more than 137,400,000. The following description of the new model is provided by Mr. Johns: “The modern design has been molded along functional lines, resulting in a long, low, sweep ing silhouette. The grille is dis tinctive, the hood massive but shorter, and the body so wide that the rear fenders have been eliminated. There are clean, un broken lines from front to rear. “Comfort has been one of the primary objectives in the new Ford. There is more room in the ’lounge car’ interiors than in many cars with much larger over-all dimensions. Front seat widths have been increased 6 inches and the rear seat nearly 8 inches. The body has been moved 5 inches forward with the seats cradled between the axles fliueh smoother ride. “A new type of suspension system 'hydra-coiT springs replaces the traditional trans CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1948 verse springs and the front axle. This system is centered around airplane-type shock absorbers mounted within low frequency coil springs. In the rear, extitt long longitudinal springs are complemented by airplane type shock absorbers. “The drive shaft tunnel haa been decreased by adoption ofi the Hotchkiss drive poid rear axle. ThcfMpMMfl ing changes also transmission of roadrTolses into the car. “Engine vibration has been reduced by literally floating the power plant on rubber mounts. “A new heating system avail able in the new Fords brings (Continued on page five) Lawson House Is Struck by Lightning Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Law son were sitting quietly in their home on East Franklin street late Monday afternoon. Signs of an approaching storm had caused them to close ail the win dows. Great masses of clouds had turned the day almost into night. The thunder rumbled an grily, and there were flashes of lightning. Then at about 6:15, the light ning struck with a resounding crash. It ripped the bark off the big oak tree on the side of the house toward the Cbnnors’ (the other side from where the Law sons were sitting); leapt across to the house; tore off a corner of the asbestos roof; and shattered the panes in half a dozen win dows. All the lights in the house went out, and the telephone went dead. The plaster in one room was shakeh loose. Dr. and Mrs. Lawson were not hurt. Telephone service in that part of town was disrupted. The company’s trouble-shooters worked hard repdiring cables and had the service restored by Wednesday afternoon. "We’re still alive and are get ting along all’ right,” said Mrs. Lawson when I succeeded in reaching her by telephone Wed nesday. “I was glad we were on the other side of the house. Mr. Giles Horney, who came down inspect"the damage, said it was lucky the windows* were closed, else the lightning might have come through the wire Chapel Hill Chaff I did not attend the meeting of the Horace Williams Philo sophical Society on Sunday afternoon, but some of my friends were there—a mo n g them Phillips Russell, Charles W. Tillett, and Otho Ross. Hav ing failed to see any of them af terward to get a report of what happened, I am jjoing to make a guess at it. At just about the time the meeting was in prog ress, I happened to look into the book, “Science and the Mod ern World” by A. H. White head, and my eyes fell upon a passage in the chapter entitled "Cod.” From what I have read in Horace Williams’s book on lo gic and from what I 'remember of the course I took under him when. I was a student here, my guess is that the discussion at the meeting of the Horace JYib liams Philosophical Society meeting was somewhat in the nature of the passage from the Whitehead book, which reads as follows: “Consider an occasion, a. We have to enumerate how other actual occasions are in a, in the sense that their relationships with a are constitutive of the essence of a. What a is in itself, is that it is a unit of realised ex perience ; accordingly we ask how other occasions are in the experience which is a. Also for the present I am excluding cog nitive experience. The complete answer to this question is, that the relationships among actual occasions are as unfathomable in theirvMMMK type as are JBMt, g4AUfIjJHM|Fd objects Kjpyit ffirsnstraction. But ire fundamental types of such relationships in terms of which the whole complex variety cah find its description.” * * * “This is Tilly Ehringhaus,” said the young woman, introduc ing herself as she arrived at a (Continued on page 8) screens and set the house on fire. We did have a fire in the attic, but such a little one, that we put it out without much trouble. We used candles while the electric lights were out of commission. Altogether, we feel we were for tunate to come out of it as well as we did.” Town Buys a Big Tractor At their meeting night before last the aldermen, after opening sealed competitive bids, decided to buy a T. D. International die sel-pjwered tractor for $10,300. It will be used in garbage dis posal by the landfill method. It is equipped with a bullciam shovel for trench-digging. The aldermen also decided to buy three trucks, for garbage collec tion and general purposes, from the Ford Motor Company for $5,889. H. G. Baity Bound for Brazil H. G. Baity of the University’s school of public health left Wed nesday for Brazil where he will work this summer with a Brazil ian agency operated by the In stitute of Inter-American Af fairs. He will be located in the Amazon valley, with headquar ters at Belem in the State of Para, and at the mouth of the Amazon. Mr. Baity forgoing as consultant engineer to B*sist in the development of a long-range plan for healtk and sanitation projects in the Amazon valley— a region about two-thirds the size of the United States. The University Summer Session Opens with Enrollment That Is Expected to Be around 4.500; Classroom Work Starts Today Dewey Comes Through, No Time for Stop Governor Dewey of New ; York, candidate for the Repub lican nomination for President, j who came to North Carolina this week in quest of support from the delegates to this month’s convention in Philadelphia, passed through Chapel Hill shortly before noon yesterday. Perhaps it would be more ac j curate to say he streaked J through. He couldn’t stop be cause of a close schedule that I called for him in Lexington after a breakfast meeting in Ra leigh and a halt at Duke Univer sity. He was accompanied by the State Highway Patrol motor cycle escort which protocol pre scribes for a visiting Governor. Sirens blew and horns tooted as the Republican motorcade sped along Franklin street. Rupert Jernigan gave the snappiest description of how the Governor went through Chapel Hill. “Like a bat out o’ hell,” said Mr. Jernigan. Secretary Marshall’s Visit Was a Surprise Secretary of State George C. Marshall, coming to Chapel Hill Monday afternoon to deliver the Commencement address that evdftfeig, was met at the local airport by D. T. Neville, F. P. Graham, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles W, Tillett. Each of the receptionists had! his (or her) special function. Mr. Neville, the airport custodian, waved the giant DC-3 transport plane to the right landing spot. Mr. Graham greeted the distin guished guest and inttoduced the others to him. Mr. Tillett was present as car-provider and chauffeur. Mrs. Tillett was the ornament. No announcement of Secretary Marshall’s visit had appeared in the newspapers or gone out over the radio, and only half a dozen or so persons in Chapel Hill knew he was coming until he arrived. The reason it was a surprise visit was that Secre tary Marshall had not been sure until Monday afternoon that could get away from Washing ton. He had told President! Graham that he would come il he could. The idea here was that it was better for people to be surprised at his coming than for them to be disappointed at his being unable to come after a conditional acceptance. The Day Lilies Blaze The hillside by Wilson hall (the zoology building) is ablaze with day lilies. And elsewhere on the campus and in the village there are spreads of these bright orange flowers. A day lily has that name because it is born, flourishes, and dies, all in a single day. This is not so sad for the spectators, though, because another one comes to take its place early the next morning. W.M.U. to Hear Brazilian The Baptist Geqeral Women’s o’clock Monday night at the church. Rev. H. Schaly of Recife, Brazil, will speak to the group. $2 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy Opening of New Building Oppo site Gym Increases Avail able Dormitory Space Yesterday was the day of registration for the first term of the University Summer Ses sion. Classroom work will begin today (Friday). The term will end July 20. Tomorrow will be one of two Saturdays on which classes will i be held. The other will be July 17. Work is scheduled for onl& as many Saturdays as are need ed to make up the full quota of 30 workings days in the term. Guy B. Phillips, the dean of the University’s school of edu cation, is director of the Sum mer Session. The editor of this newspaper observes that, as in previous years, Mr. Phillips does not go quite as far out on a limb in forecasting enrollment as does Roy Armstrong, the University’s director of admis sions. Both are optimists, but Mr. Armstrong is more the nat ural-born booster than Mr. Phil lips. Mr. Phillips says he thinks the enrollment will surely equal last year’s, about 4,400, and may go higher. Mr. Armstrong says it will probabiy be “somewhere between 4,500 and 5,000.” The editor is willing to make one forecast, himself; that is, that both Mr. Phillips and 2|r. Armstrong will be satisfied. There are going to bp plenty of student* here this sumper. creased by the opening of one of the three new dormitories, the one directly opposite the gymnasium, which has rooms for nearly 300 students. There was still some dormitory space available for applicants yester day. Realtors Coming to Institute Next Week The first Realtors’ Institute of the North Carolina Associar tion of Real Estate Boards will be held here next week. Clyde Hornaday of Chapel Hill, as chairman of the association’s education committee, has been active in helping the University extension division make ar rangements for the gathering. The realtors attending will arrive Sunday and be assigned to rooms in a dormitory. Class work will begin Monday morn ing and end Saturday. The visit ors will have the privileges of the swimming pool and other University facilities. In an announcement sent to association members Mr. Horna day’s committee says that the week’s course will embrace five basic subjects; property man agement, salesmanship, real es tate law, financing, and apprais ing. In addition, two members of the University faculty will teach tjhe “background sub jects,” applied psychology and public speaking. Nancy Cheek Is Valedictorian At the high school commence ment exercises last Friday Nancy Ann Cheek was an nounced as valedictorian of the graduating class. Creighton Get# Kiwanis Award Neal Creighton Is the winner of the annual Kiwanis award to the high school student with the best all-around record.
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