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VoL 26, No. 4t Breeding J .‘. t Will Improve The County’s Dairy Herds Association Organized; Stan ford Is President; Gentry Employed as Technician The organization of farmers in Orange county for the pur pose of improving dairy herds by artificial breeding has gone ahead rapidly since the discus sion of the subject, at the corn growers’ barbecue dinner at New Hope, was reported in this newspaper about a month ago. The Orange County Artificial Breeding Association has been incorporated with Charles'Stan ford as president, P. B. Lloyd as . vice-president, and Charles Mc- Adams, vocational teacher in the Hillsboro high school, as secre tary. Dairymen whose herds contain a total of 500 cows are now en rolled. A laboratory has been set up in Chapel Hill, at the Farm ers Dairy Cooperative on West Franklin street, and C. A. Gen try has been employed as techni cian and manager. Breeding op erations began this week. ’’Thus far the artificial breed ing activities are limited to the southern part of Orange county and a small part of Chatham," said Don Matheson, county farm agent, yesterday. ‘This is the dairying area for which Chapel Hill is the principal market “Probably the association will operate in the northern part of the county later on. Some of the faqpesgt|art hem jmttsri for membership, and no doubt there will be more.*' Artificial breeding, or, as it is sometimes called, artificial in semination, has been practiced in some sections of the country for many years. Long since past the experimental stage, it has revolutionized dairying. At email cost it places bulls of the highest grade, no matter how far dis tant, at the service of herd own ers. The bulls that are now be ing used to improve the quality of herds here in Orange county are in Indiana and in the Ashe ville district of North Carolina. Franklin Street Notes By Betty Brunk Santa Claus will be at the Varsity, beginning Monday, from 6 to 9 o’clock every week-day evening until the Uni versity closes for the holidays. He will stand outside, near the entrance, and read his letters from Chapel Hill youngsters over an amplifying sys tem. The Varsity will be open every night for late shoppers. Tuesday night will be reserved for male customers. West Franklin street has the Christ mas music this year. About 30 carols, transcribed on a wire recorder, are being played daily, in hour and 15 minute programs, through loud speak ers atop the Ogburn Furniture Co. building. *. * • A simple display, consisting of post ers and a small, neatly decorated tree, has been placed in a window of the University Case as a reminder to “buy 1948 Christmas Beals.” • • * The interior of Danziger’s restau rant has been decorated in such au thentic Christinas fashion that when you look at it you almost aspect a hurry of snow to drop from the ceil ing. Among the novelties in the shop’s new and old world gift display are 12-inch aluminum candles which op erate on lighter fluid. • * * Misa Mary Estelle Doyle, of Ra leigh, home economist for General Electric distributors, will give a meal preparing -demonstration with the use of modern electrical equipment at 7:80 Thursday evening at Johnson- Strowd-Ward furniture company. The (Continued on page five) . The Chapel Hill Weekly Loots Gravas Editor - Thanksgiving Eve Flight to Richmond By Betsy Brunk Eastern Air Lines notified me about 5 o’clock Wednesday afternoon of last week that the 9:27 flight to Richmond, Va., on which I had booked passage, had been cancelled because of the rain and heavy fog. I was advised to call the airport later to see if flying conditions improved. The second long distance call encouraged me. The chances for a flight to Richmond were placed at 40 to 50. At this in formation I dashed home from the Weekly office, caught a bus to Durham, and reached the Washington-Duke hotel about 8 o’clock. The lobby was crowded with people waiting on calls from the airport and from railway stations confirming reserva tions for trips anywhere from New York to Florida. I was un able to get a train reservation (which would have shortened my trip by about an hour or two), so joined the limousine crowd going to the airport. The E.A.L. men at the airport were exhausted by questions. “Will my plane come in?” .“Will my plane leave on schedule?”, “Will my plane be able to land?” I sheepishly asked the same questions, in the hush that hung over the crowded waiting room, knowing I would have been better off asking the Almighty. “Your flight may be coming in now,” I was surprised to hear a station attendant answer me. I sat down to wait for my plane to be called. The quiet crowd waiting with me did not at all resemble a train or bus station crowd. These people did not appear tired, and smiled when one looked in their direction. It was as if the chance of boarding planes in bad weather had quickened their spirits and given them something in common. My flight was called about 10 o’clock. I boarded the plane in a blinding rain. Only two other passengers were aboard. We taxied to the end of the run-way and waited, with motors racing, for about 20 minutes before taking off. The steward on our DC-3 explained that a larger plane, flying by instruments as ours was, was coming in and that we had to keep out of range of the ground machinery in order not to pull it off course. (He also informed me before we left the ground that the Richmond air Jr.li.l_ _ (Continued on page M) ___ ._ 4^5 Huge to Give Humanities Lecture Wednesday; ' His Topic Will Be “Dante’s Divine Comedy” Howard Huse, professor of French and Italian in the Uni versity, ia to deliver the faculty for the Wed hall. This is one of a series of lec tures sponsored by the under graduate division of the Human ities. They are for the entire University community. Mr. Huse has chosen for his subject “Dante’s Divine Come dy” and plans to describe and ap praise this literary monument so as to inform a general audi ence about it. Perhaps the most quoted re mark about Dante is Carlyle’s, “In him ten silent centuries found a voice.” “Carlyle could hardly have been more wrong,” says a Uni versity professor versed in his tory and literature. “The ten centuries before Dante were far from ailent ones. And Dante was quite as much a forerunner of the Renaissance as he was the culmination of the Middle Ages. But Carlyle had a grain of truth in his sentence. One cannot real ly know the Middle Ages, that period which underlies modern times, without knowing some thing about Dante. The lecture on Wednesday will help toward that knowledge.” A graduate of the University of Chicago with a Ph. D. from the same institution, Mr. Huse W. M. Pugh Hurt in Accident William M. Pugh, proprietor of the Orange Printshop, re ceived a severe blow on the head when his car left the road and turned over near South Hill, Va., last Saturday after noon. He was unconscious for several hours after being taken to the hospital in Henderson, N. C. His rapid improvement en abled him to come home day be fore yesterday. Mr. Pugh was returning from a business trip to Richmond when the accident occurred. * His car got out of control after being steered back on the pavement from a shoul der made soft by the rain. CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1948 has been a member of tha fac ulty here since 1920. He has been serving as chairman of tha de partment of comparative liter** ture since its organization a dec ade ago, and he was for several years chairman of the Humani ties division in the liberal arts college. He ia author of several books, among them “The Psy chology of Foreign Language Study” and “Reading and Speak ing Foreign Languages.” The book of his which has per haps attracted greatest atten tion is “The Illiteracy of the Lit erate.” People who regarded themselves as literate could read that book and discover that they were not. James Tippett to Speak at Library Open-House James Tippett, who is not *nly a specialist on children’s reading but also writes books that children love to read, will give a talk at the com munity open-house in the Mary Bay ley Pratt’s Children’s Library, at the elementary school, at 3:30 Tues day afternoon. Mrs. Charles Robson, chairman of the board of trustees of the library association, has arranged for an ex hibit of books suitabl# for Christmas. These will be on sale at the close of the meeting. Mrs. Valentino of the Bull’s Head Bookshop and Mrs. Aber nathy of Ab’a Bookshop will stand by to describe the current books moat liked by children and to help with book selections for children of differ ent age groups. The children’s library will celebrate ite 20th anniversary next year. It has grown from a beginning of 816 volumes, and a first-year circulation of 8,009, to a collection of 3,645 vol- Betty SmHh VisiU Raleigh Betty Smith, anthor of “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” and “Tomorrow Will Be Better,” went down to Ra leigh Wednesday, accompanied by her husband, Joa Jones, and talked about novel-writing to a gathering of 260 persons at a luncheon at the Woman's* Club. In the afternoon she was guest of honor at a tea at the State Book Shop, and later she spoke over the radio from two Raleigh sta tions. At the luncheon she was in troduced by Jonathan Daniels. Mrs. Italia B. Evans presided. Among those present wore Mrs. Charles A. Cannon e# Concord, Mrs {Catherine Arrington, Foster FUz-Stmons, and C. C. Crittenden, Chapel Hill Chaff Five members of the Carolina football squad are fathers. Charlie Justice, Hosea Rodgers, and Don Hartig have one baby apiece, Bob Mitten and Fred Bauer have two apiece. The Bauer babies are twins./ When I was coming out of the stadium at Charlottesville last Saturday, after Justice’s marvelous performance, I passed a hawker urging the crowd, at the top of his voice, to buy the wares on his tray. Among the objects he had for sale were some little plastic images, and he was shouting: “Choo Choo’s baby! Get Choo Choo’s baby!” , • * * Dr. Fred Patterson is an ar dent football fan and would dearly love to see all the games Carolina plays. He doesn’t count on seeing those out of town, however, because there are always patients he doesn’t think he ought to leave. That is, nearly always. It looked as if the Saturday of the Wake Forest game this season would be an exception. There were no serious cases of illnesses on his list, and he was all set to go. His friends rejoiced with him about his unexpected day of liberty. “How did you like the game?” one of them asked him the next day. “I didn’t see it,” said Dr. Patterson; “I stayed here to look after Hosea Rodg ers' baby.” But he didn’t miss the game completely. The baby wasn’t so ill that the doctor couldn’t get radio flashes, now and then, about daddy’s bustin’ through the Wake' Forest line. Noel Houston, in saying grace at the family dinner on Thanks giving Day, recounted the many blessings for which they all had to be thankful. When he had mentioned about everything he could think of and was about to stop, his 7-year-old son, Paul Green Houston, piped up: “Don’t forget to put in about how we beat Duke!” • • * The first man in line at the Athletic Association’s ticket (Continued on page S) umes and a year’s circulation of 26,000. The resources of the library in clude maps, globes, and other visual aids which are taken to the various classrooms and a collection of plastic records and a record-player available for circulation. The library is open in the summer aa well as in the regular school year. Since the library participates in the Community Chest it is not mak ing a separate appeal for money thia year. Awards to Legion Team Miniature baseballs, autographed by Babe Ruth shortly before hla death, will be awarded to Coach Ben Perry and the players of the Chapal Hill American Legion Junior 1948 eastern championship baseball team at 8 o’clock thia (Friday) evening ft the Legion meeting in the Hut. The* baseballs were donated by the Ford Motor Company, which retained Ruth aa a consultant for its baseball pro gram. In addition to theaa awards, a silver trophy will be given Wayne White of Bynum, who had the highest batting average during the team’s season last summer. Opera on the Air Again The Metropolitan Opera in New York ia going on the air again. It will be broadcaat every Saturday afternoon, beginning at 2 o’clock, from station WNAO (the News and Observer sta tion) in Raleigh. The dial num bers are 860 and (for FM) 96.1 me. Nine Holes of University’s New Golf Coarse at Mason Farm May Be Open for Play in the Spring The Lawn If I should come into s fortune, of course the institution that would have first call on it would be my own alms mater. But I would detach a slice—well, maybe a million or so— and send it to the University of Vir ginia with a note saying: “This is a token of my gratitude for the delight I have received from the sight of your Lawn.” There was still an hour or so of daylight left when I came out of the stadium | last Saturday, and, as I had done on many another visit to Char lottesville, I strolled through an arch way and along a path and sat down on the steps of the Rotunda. Before me was the long rectangular sweep of turf, with stately trees, and on both sides and at the end were the white-columned brick buildings. It is as beautiful a view as I have ever seen, and widely traveled people have told me that there is no more beau tiful group of buildings anywhere in the world. Here is a perfect blend of dignity and grace. To look upon it lifts the soul. Mumford to Lecture Here Tonight Lewis Mumford, critic and essayist in the fields of architecture and city planning, will speak on “Regionalism versus Metropolitanism” at 8 o’clock this (Friday) evening io the Hill Music hall. Mr. Mumford, who is now a visit ing lecturer in the new school of design nt State College in Raleigh, has taught at Princeton, Harvard, Stanford and other institutions. His book, “The Culture of Cities,” pub lished in 1938, is used widely as cor relative textual material for courses in urben sociology end sociological theory. ammoteem+emHmmdtmmi M SI Justice Is on front 1 Cover of Collier’s The front cover of the issue of Collier’s that comes out to day bears a color photograph of Charlie Justice. He is wear ing a white jersey with his famous 22 numeral and has a firm grip on a football. This is the issue in which Col lier’s presents its All-America football team, and the Carolina star appears as a halfback. Col lier’s also picked him as the All-American back for ’49, over such stiff competitors as Doak Walker of Southern Methodist and Jack Jensen of California. All 11 men selected for the first team honors appear on the in side of the magaaine in a color picture. Justice also appeared this week on the first-team lists of the Associated and United Presses and on countless others. A Collier’s galas man came here from Charlotte early this week to provide newsstands with extra copies of the All-American issue and to distribute posters. He said he expected that Jus tice’s picture on the magazine’s cover would increase sales to 10 times the usual volume. Vermont Royster to Speak Vermont Royster, formerly of Raleigh and now associate edi tor of the Wall Street Journal, will speak tonight (Friday) at Duke at the dinner session of the Bth annual North Carolina Accounting and Taxation sym posium being held this week here and at Duke, under the sponsorship of the North Caro lina Association of Certified Public Accountants and the two universities. The first session convened here yesterday morning. To day’s meetings an being held at Duke. Tomorrow morning the group will return* to Chapel Hill. $2 a Tear fas Advance. 5c a Ccpjr Erickson’s Dream Made a Rest ity by Generosity of W. C. Coker and A. E. Finley The University’s athletic au thorities hope that nine holes of the new golf course now under construction on the Mason Farm and adjacent land will be open for play in the spring. The work on the other nine holes will prob ably not be finished for another year. This is a University Athletic Association project for the bene fit, primarily, of University students. Assistant Athletic Directer Chuck Erickson has been the driving force in it. - The University’s program of training and competition in sports is now to be rounded out by the filling of its one serious need: the need of a golf course. Page 40 of the handsome book let distributed among the spec tators at the Caroiina-Duke foot ball game was devoted to an ar ticle entitled “The University's New Finiey-Coker Golf Course.” “For years Chuck Erickson had dreamed about a beautiful 18-hole golf course in Chapel Hill,” said the article. “He told the story of his dream to spy body who would listen. It finally reached the ears of two North Carolinians who long ago ac quired the habit of wkif dreams come true: Dr. William C. Coker, the famous botanist, and Mr. A. E. Fialgy, preekknt ol the North Csreiftae Equip ment Company. donat ed 60 acres of land contiguous to the University-owned Mason Farm and Mr. Finley is contri buting the men, machines, and money necessary to transform fields and forests into one of the most picturesque and pleasantly playable golf courses in all the Southland. “Engineered by J. B. McGov ern of the late Donald Rosa as sociates, the course will be beau tifully landscaped. The 18 holes wind in and out of a vast ar boretum of all trees indigenous to North Carolina, and the fair ways will be bordered by multi colored flowering shrubs.” Christmas Seal Sale letter* and health bonda for tha annual tuberculosis Christmas aval aale are being mailed out thia weak by a Chapel HiU-Carrboro committee headed by Wilbur Kuts. Mr. Kuts’a store, the Varsity, la being' used as headquarters for tha drive ham this year. All contributions may be loft at the Varsity, or auiied to “Christ mas Seals Fight TJL, Box 1087, Chap el Hill.” The girl ccouta will place boxes for contributions in stores about tha two towns next jreek. Mr, Kuta says to the persona who Receive the seals hy mail: "If yon do not wish to accept them, please re turn them to us with your name ae the committee can take your name off Hie Hat. We are trying to do the moat good in the moat practical way and requesting contributions by mail seemed the best way.” Winner of Television Play Contest Misa Kitty McDonald of Chatta nooga, a graduate student in the Uni versity’s dramatic art department, has been awarded fl5O for a 1-act play entered in tha recent Chevrolet Television theatre contest The pHy, “Close Quarters,” produced here by the Playmakera last Spring, will ha presented over the air Monday. Mias McDonald wiH fly to New Yorh for the show. The young playwright •erved aa a Red Cross worker in New Zealand during the war; and before that was for a time society editor of 5 the Chattanooga Nawa and Free Press. She is making bar horns bora with Mias Louis# Mas tin.
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