Vol. 26, No. 30
Kiwanis Club
Does Honor io
The Lawsons
Plaque Is Presented to Them;
Their Daughter Gives Report
On Golfing Trip to England
The Chapel Hill Kiwanis Club
made its dinner meeting this
week a tribute to Dr. and Mrs.
Robert B. Lawson. Sharing the
honors with them was their
daughter, Mrs. Estelle Lawson
Page, whd gave the company a
lively report upon her recent
golfing expedition to England.
Beside her at the guest table was
her husband, Julius Page. His
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Page, were also there.
J. Maryon Saunders, to docu
ment his review of Dr. Law
son’s career, had brought along
a University catalogue and two
issues of the annual of the era
of fifty years ago. He read pas
sages about University athletics
of that era and recalled the
prowess and the fame of the
young Virginian, Bob Lawson,
who came here in 1898; was
pitcher on the baseball team for
three years and afterward
coach; played on the Boston
team in the National League;
studied medicjne and took his
M. D. degree at the University
of Maryland; and returned here
to become gymnasium instructor
and member of the faculty of the
University medical school.
W. S. Hogan, president of the
club, and T. A. Rosemond, past
president, expressed the Kiwan
ians’ high regard for their
guests of honor. Mr. RoseoiQpd
pres«a* ed to them «
ing: *ln Grateful RecqgPHSl
to Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Law
son for Outstanding Community
Service, 1906-1948. Chapel Hill
Kiwanis Club, July 20, 1948.”
Both Mr. Hogan and Mr.
Rosemond praised Mrs. Lawson
for her services.
Mr. Saunders acclaimed Mrs.
Page as “the member,.of the
family Who has made
Chapel Hill famous all over the
world.”
Polio-Smitten Boy Is
Home from Hospital
Ramsey Green, nine years old,
one of the twin children pf Mr.
and Mrs. Fletcher Green, who
was taken to the hospital with
polio on Thursday of last week,
has been brought home. Yes
terday the family were rejoic-
ing dVer his recovery.
“The doctors tell us they think
there will be no bad effects,”
said Mr. Green.
The official records kept by
Dr. 0. David Garvin, health of
ficer, show seven cases of polio
in Orange county, including the
Green boy. Six were in the
Chapel Hill area, one in Hills
boro.
In Chapel Hill’s neighbor city,
Durham, a falling off in the
number of new cases*of the dis
ease was reported in yesterday's
Durham Herald.
Webers Are in Sharpe House
While Mr. and Mrs. R. R.
Sharpe are away for the next six
weeks, in upstate New York and
New Hampshire, their house on
Pittsboro street will be occupied
by Mr. and Mrs. Carl Weber of
Waterville, Maine. Mr. Weber is
teaching English in the Univer
sity summer school. The Sharp
es’ address is 80 Van Ness ave
nue, Greenwich, N. Y. Their son
David is a counselor at Camp
Timanbus at Raymond, Maine.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
Louis Graves
• Editor
Fowler’s Has a Grand Opening
The new Fowler’s Food Store on West Franklin street opened
yesterday.
It was a grand opening. People began trooping in early in the
morning and kept on trooping in all during the day. They ad
mired the new fixtures and the great displays of food. They ex
changed cheerful greetings with the personnel—Vance Hogan
and John Sparrow and Lemuel Carson and the rest—whom they
had known in the former store.
Some of the visitors were interviewed for broadcasts from
radio station WDUK. Mrs. Neal Creighton was in charge of this
part of the proceedings. She picked “victims” from among the
customers, and her assistant, Bob Andrews, did the interviewing.
Prizes were given to the men and women (mostly women) who
answered questions. Similar broadcasts will be given at 12:45
P.M. today (Friday) and at the same hour tomorrow. If you
want to hear them, tune in at 1310 on the dial.
The opening-day visitors marveled at the size of the establish
ment. It is the biggest thing in the way of a store that has ever
been seen in Chapel Hill. The building, 80 by 200 feet, is well
matched, even pver-matched, in area by the parking space along
side. This space is 160 feet wide, and customers may drive in
from either street, Franklin or Rosemary.
The interior is arranged for both self-service and house-to
house delivery.
Robert L. Fowler of Chapel Hill and Marvin M. Fowler of Dur
ham are the owners. Robert is the manager-in-chief, both here
at the store of the same name in Durham.
Vance Hogan is grocery manager and John Sparrow is meat
manager. Lem Carson is the senior member of the force in serv
ice, having started with the Model Market (the forerunner of
the present store) 22 years ago. Others on the force are Leßoy
Merritt, Earl Blackburn, Thomas Hunter, John Kapley, Leon
King, Sam Taylor, Arthur Clark, Mrs. Leßoy Merritt, Mrs. Cecil
Proctor, Miss Ellen Hogan, and Miss Betty Canada.
The Model Market was established 39 years ago. It was con
ducted by Sam Pickard and later by John T. Fowler, father of
Robert and Marvin. * .
Movies Used for Teaching of Football Officials
A project for instructing foot
ball officials by moving pictures
has been completed here.
It was arranged by the Uni
versity athletic authorities in
cooperation with the Southern
Football Officials’ As
» White and a
Blue, made up of players on the
Carolina squad, constituted the
personnel that demonstrated the
Right and Wrong of foot
ball—that is, first, observance
of the rules, and, second, infrac
tions of the rules.
About a dozen of the leading
officials of the Southern Confer
ence were here for the demon
strations, as both participants
and sideline observers. When
participating they would take
their accustomed places on the
field. A play would be called, and
both players and officials would
go through with it just as in a
regular game.
For example, it might be a
forward pass. As the pass was
Graham Promoted in Missouri
Chancellor Arthur H. Comp
ton of Washington University
in St. Louis announces that Ed
ward K. Graham, who went
there last year from Cornell,
has been appointed acting dean
of faculties in succession to the
late Joyce C. Stearns.
A native of Chapel Hill, son
of the late President Edward K.
Graham of the University of
North Carolina, he attended
Woodberry Forest school in Vir
ginia; took his A.B. and M.A.
degrees here; and took his Ph.D.
degree at Cornell.
After being in the teaching
faculty at Cornell for several
years, in the history department,
he was assistant to President
Day and the secretary of the
University. His wife is the for
mer Miss Elizabeth McFadyen
of Concord, N. C. They have
three children. -
Dance Recital August I
Bill Hooks and Frances John
son will have the principal parts
in a dance recital August 1 in the
Playmakers Theater.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1948
about to be caught a player on
the defensive team would inter
fere with the receiver. All the
while the man with the movie
camera would be taking a pic
ture of the play. *
Demonstrations q| 'MmWS/k
ceivable situations went on K>r
more than a week and were care
fully photographed. Several
copies of the film have been
made for distribution and will be
used for the instruction of hun
dreds of football officials
throughout the country.
The Glorious Blossoms of the Crepe Myrtle
The village and the campus are adorned with the glorious blos
soms of the crepe myrtle.
The trees that bear them are in rows along the streets, in
churchyards and on the grounds of public buildings, alongside
stone walls and fences, and in yards and gardens. Some of them
are in orderly ranks like soldiers; others, as though they had re
sponded to a vagabond urge in their youth, are scattered here and
there. Some are boldly to the front; others are peeping timidly
around the corners of houses.
There are several colors of the crepe myrtle. The oldest in
Chapel Hill is the purple, or maybe it should be called lavender.
This is the variety you see in the Episcopal churchyard. Some
people are fond of it, but to me it is a little sad-looking. There is
the white, which seems the airiest and most fragile of all. The
pink is delicate and charming. But the rich watermelon-red—
ah! that is the crepe myrtle that is the most completely beautiful!
If there be those who do not agree with me about this I will pub
lish their dissent and let them convince whom they can; but they
cannot convince me, because I have gazed at millions of crepe'
myrtle blossoms, and have thought long and deeply about them,
and my accolade is for the red.
But, after all, comparisons are not the best note to strike in a
discussion of this superb flower. Crepe myrtle blossoms, of what
ever hue, are perfect. Gaze upon them and be happy.
A certain expression that has become part of the slang of the
day describes them so well that when you apply it to ihem it is
not slang but the simple truth: crepe myrtle blossoms are out of
this world.
Chapel Hill’s Summer Heat Compared with Apulia’s
By the Distinguished Visitor, Constantine Panunzio
Constantine Panunzio, distin
guished sociologist from Cali
fornia, who taught in the first
term of the University summer
school, is staying in Chapel Hill
a few days longer. He says he
wishes he could stay on and on.
He has been looking around for
a lot on which, possibly, to build
a home.
In his delightful autobiog
raphy, “The Soul of an Immi
grant,” published by Macmillan
—a book that is leisurely and
Chapel Hill Chaff
Being in New York for the
Summer is not going to make
Miss Mildred Mooneyhan, prin
cipal of the Chapel Hill elemen
tary school, miss the North
Carolina Principals’ Conference
here next week.
“I’ll fly down to the conference
Wednesday afternoon after my
classes at Columbia University
are over,” she writes. “I’ll get to
the Raleigh-Durham airport at
5:09 and will be in Chapel Hill
to have dinner before attending
the 6:30 meeting.”
That reminds me of another
air-travel incident.
When my nephew, Pembroke
Rees, left for Pawley’s Island
Monday morning I went to the
bus station with him. Happening
to look at his traveling bag, I
remarked upon the padlock that
secured the zipper-fastener. “I
had to have that padlock broken
at Athens last month,” he said.
“We had made a flight from Port
Lyautey in French Morocco,
stopping at Algiers, Malta, and
Crete. We spent the night at
Athens and next morning, just
as we were about to take off for
Turkey, I found I had left my
keys in the hotel after locking
the bag. A Navy yeoman at the
airport said he would get them
and keep them for me. I found
some pliers on the plane and
broke the lock. We flew to An
kara, and then to Istanbul. When
we landed at Athens, on the way
bade to Morocco, the first per
sor I saw was the Navy yeoman.
He was waving something at me
Mj got off the plane. It was my
day, at
iHßNMiipT’lK^ight another
it ■ '■' * si* 1
* * *
After luncheon last Saturday
Lyman Gotten noticed a bunch
of fluff in the living room fire
place. His mother and aunt were
going to have some friends in
(Continued on page four)
stirring in turn, sped-up by ex
citing adventure and then
slowed-down by philosophical re
flections—Mr. Panunzio tells of
the South Italian village where
he was born and brought up. -
When the temperature was
at 99 yesterday afternoon I
asked him how the climate here
compared with that of his na
tive province of Apulia.
“On the average the summer
heat is not so oppressive in
(Continued on page four) 9.
Town’s Revenue and Budget Are
Both Greater than Last Tear
And Tax Rate Stays at $1.63
Dynamite Blast
*
At about 6 o’clock yesterday
morning the quiet of Chapel Hill
was shattered by a tremendous
explosion.
It could be heard aU over
town, and presently people were
telephoning around to find out
what it was.
One woman said to me: ‘T
wondered if maybfe it was an
atom bomb from Moscow.”
■ Making inquiries by telephone,
I found that it was a dynamite
blast that the contractor who is*
preparing to move the school’s
“Tin Can” (athletic building)
had set off in order to get some
rock out of the way.
Lindsay Warren, Jr., who
lives at, the nearby Zeta. Psi
house, told me later in the morn
ing that several window panes
had been broken by the blast.
“It bounced us around in our
beds,” he said, “and gave us a
bad scare.”
A student in the Kappa Sigma
house said: “It didn’t break any
of our windows but it shook us
up and scared us.”
The Terrific Heat
The terrific heat which began
about the middle of June has
continued. People in Chapel Hill
are declaring that the village
never before had such a long
spell of hot weather so early in
the summer, and the official rec
ords bear this out.
Just before the paper went to
press yesterday afternoon, July
22, the temperature was 99.
Max D. Saunders, custodian
of the U. S. Weather Bureau
station on the University cam
pus, gives me the following rec
ord ,of maximum temperatures
for the 33 days June 19-July 21:
June 19 92 July 6 96
20 94 7 96
21 90 8 89
22 92 9 86
on nr ■* n nn
CO XU ov
24 97 11 90
25 96 12 92
26 98 13 93
27 99 14 90
28 99 15 86
29 96 16 87
30 94 17 92
July 1 90 18 97
2 88 19 96
3 94 20 94
4 97 21 99
6 98
This shows 27 days on which
the maximum temperature was
90 or above, and on 12 of these
it was in the upper half of the
90’s (that is, above 95). In the
corresponding 33 days last year
the maximum temperature was
90 or above on only 11 days.
Mias Brunk Goes to Richmond
Miss Betsy Brunk was called
to Richmond yesterday by the
illness of her father. She went
by airplane.
Dr. Henninger in AuguaU
Dr. J. B. Henninger, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. 8. Henninger, was discharged
from the army with the rank of cap
tain early this month. He h»s left his
former station at White Cross hospi
tal, Columbus, Ohio, and has taken a
permanent residency at the Oliver
General hospital, Augusta, Ga. His
wife has joined him therer.
Mia* Coffey Returns to Richmond
Miss Christine Coffey, member of
the Virginia State Library staff, who
was yisiting professor ber« in the
library school in the first summer
term, has returned to Richmond.
$2 a Year li Advance. Se a Cap?
Rise in Revenue Is Due Mostlr
to New Buildings and to the
Revaluation of Property
The town's budget for this
year (July 1/48 to June 30/49)
is up $29,500 from the expen
ditures last year; but the reve
nue will be greater, too, so that
there will be no increase in the
tax rate. It will remain at $1.63.
This is the total of the rates for
town operation ($1.10), town
debt service (33 cts), and school
(20 cts).
The budget figures are “tenta
tive,” but there is, not much
chance of their being changed.
As required by the State’s local
government law, the tentative
budget is open to public inspec
tion at the Town Hall.
The increase in revenue is due
mostly to new buildings and to
property revaluation. Assessed
valuation was estimated at $5,-
300,000 for last year but turned
out to be $6,153,000, an increase
of about 16 per cent. The prop
erty tax levy this year is esti
mated at $68,000, as compared
with an estimated levy of $58,-
000 and an actuaHevy of $67,000
last yfear. ~ t •|j
Another element in the reve
nue increase is the beer and wine
tax. The town got $1,884 from
that last year. Under the law
that allots to a municipality a
share of the beer and wine tax
collected within it, Chapel Hid
is expected to get $4,000 from
that source this year.
The operating budget fer this
fitft
debt service budget at $35,000,
a total of $153,000. The expen
ditures last year were $96,500
for operation and $27,000 for
debt service, a total of $123,500.
Tryouts at 4 Monday
For “As You Like It*
Tryouts for the Carolina Play
makers’ outdoor production of
Shakespeare’s comedy. “As You
Like It,” will be held from 4 to
6 o’clock this coming Monday
afternoon at the same place that
the play will be performed for
the public August 19 and 20:
the stage of the Forest Theatre
in Battle Park.
“These tryouts are open to all
comers,” said the director, Sam
Hirsch, yesterday. “We have
parts for 17 men and 4 women.
The more candidates there are,
the better we’ll like it.”
If you think you can act,
come along; if you are doubt
ful that you can act but hope so,
also come along. Mr. Hirsch and
his assistant judges will assess
your talent, if any. If they see
talent in you, they will acclaim
it; if they see none, they will
(my bet is) let you down easy
with smooth phrases like “may
be some other time” or “this
just doesn’t happen to be. the
sort of play that suits you.”
Mr. Hirßch hopes there will
be some candidates who are—
well, not old, but fairly well a
long in years. The melancholy
Jacques is one character whb
should be portrayed by a person
who has lived long enough to be
come something of a philosopher.
Club to Hear About Polio
There will be a regular meet
ing of the Faculty Club Tuesday,
July 27, at 1 o’clock at the Caro
lina Inn. Dr. E. G. McGpvnm
will speak on the polio situation.
Mi*. Harry Russell's mother has
cove from Ritloigh to visit but.