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VoL 26, No. 4« Durham Firm Is Planning A Store Here In Reconstructed Pick Theatre Building; Western Union Will Have to Find Other Quarters Robbins, the Durham depart ment store, is going to open a store in Chapel Hill. It has bought the Pick theatre building for the purpose. The building will be recon structed on the inside, and it is expected that the work will be done in for the store to open around the first of the year. The property has a frontage of 60 feet on Franklin street and a depth of 130 feet. It is next to the burned-out University Serv-. ice Plants building which is to be reconstructed soon. There are three street-front tenants of the Pick theatre build ing: The University Florist, the Western Union Telegraph Com pany, and the Sandwich Shop. The flower shop and the sand wich shop are to stay where they are—for a while, anyway. They have the flanking positions. But the Western Union occupies the lobby of the theatre, in the middle, and, this is where Rob bins plans to have its entrance. “Are they going to throw you out on the street?” the editor of this newspaper asked * member of the Western Union staff yes terday. “It looks that way,” she said. “I don't know where we will go.” Maybe the W.U. will have to return to a mobile unit That’s how it housed itself after the lire cUpVft 1* tbovService Plants biiifcffag. The Pick, which used to be named the Pickwick, was owned for many years by S. J. Brock well. After his death Mrs. Brock well sold it to the movie theatre concern which owns the Carolina and has a lease on the Village, and it was that concern that sold it to Robbins. The sale was made through John M. Foushee. Chapel Hill May Be Conference Champion The Chapel Rill high school foot ball team, having won seven consecu tive games, has only to defeat Oxford Orphanage tonight (Friday) in Ox ford to capture the north central con ference championship. That would qualify it to play the winner of to day’s Laurinburg-Whiteville game for the eastern championship of the Class “A” league. The east and west champion* will play for the State title on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Chapel Hill is favored over Oxford in tonight’s game. Coach Bill Grice had expected the Roxboro game lasi Friday to be tough, but Chapel Hill encountered little difficulty in rolling up a 42-6 score. Collier Hill, the sensational tail back, scored the first touchdown on a 30-yard run in the first quarter. Rox boro fumbled in its own end zone for a two-point safety, but retaliated soon after on a 25-yard pass play in the second quarter for its only touch down. Ivalee Hill scored two touch downs in the second half on runs of 20 and 36 yards, while Joe Hoenig, Rus sell Perry and Fenno McGinty ac counted for one apiece. Talk on Antique Silver The Davie Poplar chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolu tion will meet at 3:30 Wednesday afternoon with Miss Estelle Rankin, 307 E. Rosemary street. Mrs. C. E. Teague will be co: hostess. George B. Cutten will talk on antique silver. Snow in Colorado, Sumsser Heat Here Mrs. Dagobert Pfeiffer, formerly Miss Nancy Smith of Chapel Hill, writeq from her home in Denver, Colorado: “Six inches of snow fell here today." On that same day the temperature in Chapel Hill was over 80. ' The Chapel Hill Weekly Leek Graves _ gdifrr Roof Gets a Greenhouse Lloyd R. Roof, nursery man ager of the Soil Conservation Office at the Mason Farm, has bought a greenhouse and set it up in the yard of his home on West Rosemary lane, the former S. W. Andrews place. „ It is already stocked with plants. Many people in Clmpel Hill are visiting and admiring it Mr. Roof will operate the greenhouse after 6 o’clock, in the evenings, and on Saturdays when he is not engaged in his regular duties, ? “Where did you get it?” I ask ed him as I stood in the glass walled and glass-roofed struc ture last Sunday. “I saw it advertised in a news paper by a Mr. Taylor who lives near Nelson, and I just went out there and bought it,” he said. “I have long been interested in greenhouse gardening.. One is able to operate the year round and grow many species of plants that can’t be grown in the open. “My greenhouse is of the Eng lish portable type. It is 13 by 36 feet. In addition, there is a com bination work shop and sales room of 16x20 feet, and above this is a one-room apartment and bath. For a grower some day, but at present I have the apartment rented to a G. I. stu dent and his wife. “The greenhouse is heated with a Duo-Therm oil circulating Mather of Harvard to Deliver McNair Lectures Kirtley Fletcher Mather, professor of geoteaor at Harvard, will give the McNair Lecturer here Tuaaday, Wed nesday, and Thursday, November 30 Mather is #n scien tific .... The general topic of his lectures here will be "Religion in This Time of Crisis.” The topic of the first lec ture will be "The Challenge of Science;” of the second. “The Chal lenge of Marxism;” and of the third, “Perspective for the Future.” The McNair Lectures, which are now being renewed after a suspension of five years, were founded through a fund bequeathed to the University by Rev. John Calvin McNaif of the class of 1849 in the University. It was stipulated in his will that the income from the fund b« used to employ somo eminent scientist or other scholar to deliver here a course of lectures whose purpose should be to show “the mu tual bearing of sciencs and theology upon each other, and to prove the existence and attributes, as far as may be, of God from Nature.” Among the past McNair lecturers were Arthur H. Compton, R. A. Mil- Hassard’s Turkey Dinner A turkey dinner with all the trim min’s (dressing, gravy, cranberry sauce, potatoes, salad, slaw, pickles, hot rolls, green peas, rice, cake and ice cream, and coffee) was given Wed nesday night by the Haazard Motor company for their employees, their families, and friends. The food was prepared and served by the ladies of the New Hope Presbyterian church in the church hut to about 126 guests. Bones were even provided for those guests who wanted to take them home to their dogs. Bill Hammett, of the government’s Wild Life Resources department, showed movies on surf fishing and North Carolina animal life. Jack Hazxard, president of the com pany, reviewed the eight yean since he has been in business here, during which time the number of his em ployees has increased from 7 to 36. Roberson Visits Rotsrisns Hers Sherwood Roberson of Roberson ville, governor of this district of Ro tary International, paid an official visit to the Rotary Club here this week. Before the regular meeting Wednes day evening he conducted a dub as sembly at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Johns. The topic of his talk at the meeting at the Inn waa “Voca tional Serviee.” rWAPKI. HIM. N- C_ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1948 heater which is thermostatically controlled. “I plan to grow a variety of annual and perennial plants for spring sales. During the winter I will grow a variety of pot plants and cut flowers. In my salesroom I plan to handle a line of spray materials and insecti cides and materials for garden ers. I also expect to handle fruit trees, roses, azaleas, < shrubs and trees as representative of a North Carolina nursery. Since I have my M.S. degree in horticul ture from Ohio State University, this part-time venture will offer me an interesting hobby along the line of my college training.” Paper Drive on Sunday A waste-paper drive will be con ducted Sunday afternoon, beginning at 1:30. Everyone is requested to place diaearded papers, magazines, and boxes in bundles near the street. The merchants will supply the trucks for the collection and high school boys and girls will do the work. Newcomers Club Tea The faculty Newcomers club will meet for a tea at 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the Institute of Govern ment. Mrs. Albert Coates will be the hostess. The Eubanks' Golden Wedding Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Eubanks cele brated the 60th anniversary of their marriage on Tuesday of last week, November £. likan, Francis H. Smith, Edwin G. Conklin, Henry Van Dyke, Roacoe Pound, and John Dewey. Holder of the Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago and hon orary degrees from sevsra! universi ties, Mr. Mather was with the U. Geology Burvey for many years and has conducted explorations ia Bolivia and other countries. He ia a member of the Geological Society of America, the Association for the Advance ment of Science, the American Acad emy of Arts and Sciences, and other learned societies. His scientific works include “Sons of the Earth,’’ “Old Mother Earth,” “Science in Search of God,” “A Dy namic for Democracy,” and “Enough and to Spare.” $18,418,000 Is Asked for Improvements and $7,746,000 for Operation, in Next Biennium President Graham of the University presented to the Advisory Budget Commission last week a request for $18,418,000 for public improvements and $7,746,000 for operation in the next biennium (July 1, 1949, to June 80, 1951). (All the figures her* are for the University here in Chapel Hill, not for the Consolidated University.) For the first year in the biennium (1949-60) the request for operation ia $3,767,000 and for the second year $3,979,000. The difference ($212,000) is due to the fact that revenue will fall off with the decline in the number of G.I. students whose tuition ia paid by the Government. The appropriation for operation this year (1948-49) was $1,203,911. Controller Carmichael, in his statement to the Commission, spoke of the considerable amount of money required to complete structures authorized by the 1947 legislature. The skyrocketing of building cost! left the ap propriations far below what was needed for the authorized construction. Major items in the request for improvements here are buildings for law, commerce, chemistry, public health, and pharmacy; three dormitories; an Institute of Government building; and utility expansion. The amount asked for a teaching hospital, to supplement a previous appropriation, is $3,202,000. More money if needed for the Library addition for which an appropriation was made in 1947. In The Village 25 Years Ago ... Here ia the First Column of * Chapel Hill Chaff; It Appeared in the Weekly April 26, 1923 Mrs. Stacy went about with a par ticularly happy smile all the next day after the trustees’ executive commit, tc met and voted SIOO,OOO for a wom en’s building. By analogy Collier Cobb ought to have looked down-hearted, but he had the same beaming coun tenance as ever. The geology build ing proposal got stepped on this time, hut it wjll triumph some day—so why despair? Mr. Cobb says that when he came here thirty years ago President Winston told him s geology building was scheduled, and the department is still waiting. • • • One of the most considerate acta I have ever known is that of sCDrvia E. Leavitt in providing a home for the birds before he finishes his own home. The front entrance of his house has been erected, and in the angle of the corake some English sparrows Chapel Hill Chaff Judge Hinshaw and I have been engaging isl a discussion about which of us ought to be elected president of the Chapel Hill Crow-Eaters’ Club. On the basis of the popular vote he would have to yield to me the precedence, but on the basis of the number of states carried by each candidate he deserves the top place’.in the club, since his allotment to Truman was only 3 states while mine was 5. Misery loves company, and one thing that consoles every crow-eater is that his neighbors are having to partake of the same odious dish. The “experts,” as you have learned from the newspapers and the radio, are in the same boat with everybody else. F. O. Bowman, one of the wisest guys in the village in the political field indeed one of the wisest in the State—said, in substance, when I met him in the post office lobby, the same thing that was said by Elmer Roper, the eminent pollster, on the day after the election: “I couldn’t have been more wrong.” * * * The arrival of cold weather makes suitable now the kind of clothes that the male population wore during the last month when the weather was like summer time. After winter has really begun it can hardly be expected that men will want to change to thin suits for an occasional mild day; but in this latitude we always have warm weather in October and November, and it is certain ly foolish for men here to be going around in clothegjui heavy, as are being worn by men in New England. Acquaintances all around me at the L.S.U. football game Oc tober 23, and again at the Wil liam and Mary game November 6, said they wished they had on seersuckers such as I was wear ing. Well, why not? Nobody was forcing them to wear heavy clothes on a hot day. have built themselves a luxurious nest. Meanwhile the carpenters go on with their work. The Leavitts expect to be in before June, but even at tha’t the sparrows will probably have reared a vigorous family before the owners take possession. • • • When the Plsymakers went to Hills boro and presented Miss Jane Toy's play of Civil War times, the scene of which is laid in Hillsboro, Director Frederick H. Koch made an eloquent talk about Miss Toy's affection for the town. She loved it, he said. Paul C. Collins, the banker, nudged the person in the next seat, and whis pered: “I’ll bet the only time she ever comes over here is to get Dr. Spur geon to do dentist work forker, and who loves s ssssion with a dentist?" (Ciutim ad mi pope t) Corn-Growing Contest Winners Will Receive Their Frizes at Barbecue at New Hope Tonight Queer Thunderstorm A queer aspect of the thunderstorm that struck Chapel Hill on Wednes day night of last week was the wav it shook houses. Walls quivered and windows rattled. Many people were frightened. Karl H. Fussier, the University’s astronomer, said that a thunderstorm so severe at this time of the year was a rarity. He attributed the violence of it to “heavy thunderclaps, near and severe’’. . . “And, because Chapel Hill is built upon a rock, a hill of granite,” he said, “it has the capacity to bo shaken.’’ The storm, which raged off and on from 11 P.M. to 4 A.M. “seemed to come back and back and back,” said Mr. Fussier. “This was peculiar, but appears to be typical of Chapel Hill storms.” vChief of Police Sloan called the storm “the worst I have ever known in any season.” Mike Bean, who lives with three other University students in the H. G. Baity cottage, has a collection of guns which he keeps in the corners and on the walls of the living room. the storm,” he said, “sparks were jumping off those guns.” About 200 telephonea wore put out of commission by the storm. “This,” said Grey Culbreth, the University Service Plants superintendent, “means about 100 lines, or 5 per cent of our stations, were damaged.” Cold Weather After a tong succession of warm days, cold weather struck the village night before last. It hung on yesterday, and the Gov ernment forecast is that it will be here again today. Just before dawn early yes terday morning thn|feftßßU>a>eter in the U. S. Weather Bureau station on the University cam pus showed a temperature of 37, which ig 6 degrees above freez ing. At 11:10 the temperature had gone up to 63. The November record read over the telephone to the editor by Max D. Saunders shows that on 8 of the first 10 days in No vember the mercury rose to 70 or higher. It was at 83 on the 6th and at 80 on the 4th, the 6th, and the 10th. Until yesterday the November minimum was 44. The rainfall in November, to 3 P.M. yesterday, November 11, was 3.83 inches. Os this, the rain on the 4th accounted for 2.6 inches. Commerce Fraternity Has Celebration The University chapter of Delta Sigma Pi, international professional commerce fraternity, ealeh rated tho founding of the fraternity at a ban quet recently at the Carolina Inn. Among thoee present were D. D. Car roll, dean of the University commerce school, and H. D. Wolf, C. M. Mc- Gregor, M. S. Heath and G. A. Bar rett, all of tho commerce school here. “What I Saw in France” Jacques Hsrdrl, of the University departmsnt of romance languages, will talk on “What I aaw in France” at the meeting of the Faculty Club at 1 o’clock Tuesday at the Carolina Inn. Mr. Hardrt, a soldier in the French World War 11, re visited France this last summer. Swslia Returns from Mexico T- Benjamin Swslin will return Sun day by plane from Guadalajara, Mex ico, where be was guest conductor of the Guadalsjars Symphony orchestra for two concerts. Among the celeb rities Mr. Swslin met during his stay in Mexico was Diego Riviera, the ar tist. Harry St row! Killed Harry Stroud, well-known Chapel Hill Negro, diod Monday as* the re sult of failing from a second-story porch after a railing on which he was seated broke. H« was janitor at Ledbetter-Pickard’s and was former ly janitor at the bmk. $2 a Year la Advance. Sc a Cepf Prizes, Given by the Bank of Chapel HU, Will Be Pre sented by F. H. Jeter The prizes to winners in the 1948 Orange county corn-grow ing contest will be awarded at a barbecue at 7 o’clock this (Fri day) evening at Camp New Hope. The camp ia near the old New Hope Presbyterian church about 6 miles north of Chapel Hill. . - , * The prizes, which are given every year by the Bank of Chapel Hill, will be presented by Frank H. Jeter, farming expert with the extension service at State College in Raleigh. The bank will be represented at the gathering by W. E. Thompson, executive vice-president. Fifty farmers engaged in this year’s contest. The first prize, a SIOO U. S. savings bond, will be awarded to the one who pro duced the most corn per acre in the county. The winner in every township gets $5 in cash. This corn-growing contest is one of the many projects, launched in the last few years, to improve agriculture in Or ange. It is conducted under the direction of the county farm agent, Don Matheson. A branch of farming in which Orange county has made a great advance is dairying. Testimony to this is contained in an article, in the Guernsey Breeders Jour nal, which tella that J. E. Latta’s ♦4-year-old Guerneey cow, Qge dankft Duth No. 740865, has been declared champion cow for North Carolina with a year’s production of 10,774 lb*. of milk and 533 lbs. of butterfat. She was milked 730 Jims* in the year. Since this record was made Mr. Latta has had one other cow, a 6-year-old, to produce more than 600 lbs. of butterfat in a year. His herd is composed en tirely of registered Guernseys. Community Chest Has Not Reached Its Goal The goal set for the Commun ity Chest—sl2,ooo for eight or ganizations has not been reached. To yesterday, the contribu tions stood at $9,688. This in cludes $7,141 in cash and $2,647 in pledges. The campaign committee (headed by Roy Armstrong) makes an urgent appeal for (1) contributions from persons who have not yet made any, (2) ad ditional contributions from per sons who perhaps feel that they can give more, and (3) the pay ment of pledges. Checks should be sent to H. C. McAllister, treasurer, Box 471, Chapel Hill. 1 The organisations among which the fund will be divided are the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, White and Colored Recreation Centers, Day Nursery, League for Crippled Children, Chil dren’s Library, and Humane So ciety. Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Bsnqust Glen Haydon, head o t the UniVer versity music department, was fuest speaker at a* banquet held this week by the Alpha Rho chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia of America, honorary music fraternity. The banquet hon ored the eight new members of the organisation, including Colbert Leon ard of Chapel Hill, who were initiated this week. Before Mr. Hayden’s ad dress, Earl Slocum gave e brief Me tory of the fraternity.
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