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Vd. 28, No. 12 Boys and Girls Entering School Next September Now at Clinics Pre-school clinics are now be ing held throughout Orange county for all children who are to enter school next September (which means all children who will be 6 years old on or before October 1). “The State law in regard to im munizations,” says Dr. 0. David Garvin, the district health of ficer, “is specific and gives the school authorities no choice but to exclude children who fail to comply.” Smallpox, diphtheria, and whooping cough are the diseases against which immunization is required. There must be small pox vaccination before a child enters school, either by the fami ly physician or the health depart ment. Immunization against diphtheria is required in the first year of life, and a “booster dose” of toxoid should be given before a child enters school. A recently enacted law requires that every child be immunized against whooping cough in the first year of life and before school attend ance. It is recommended that chil dren planning to enter school in the fall attend the pre-school clinic to be held in the school that they will attend. Immuniza tions that are needed will be ad ministered at the clinic. Certifi cates showing the immunizations already received must be present ed at the clinic or *t entrance in to school. The school officials, the P. T. A. representatives, and the health department urge all parents to have defects in children correct ed before the entrance into (Continued on laet page) Band Ranks High in Contest at Raleigh Chapel Hill’s high school band was rated excellent in the area school band contest day before yesterday in Raleigh. It played under the direction of James Moore, a University student, since Hubert Henderson, its reg ular conductor, was a judge in the contest. Although the band won a high rating, it won’t be eligible for the state contest at Greensboro be cause it plays Grade 1 music while Grade 3 is used in the Greensboro competition. Mr. Henderson expects to have the band playing this advanced mu sic by next year. In the solo contests Tish Har rer won the highest possible rat ing, superior. This means she will compete at Greensboro, where she will be Chapel Hill's only rep leaentative. Other Chapel Hillians wha, won rankings in the Raleigh solo contests were the brass quartet members John Adams, Emily Patton, Roland Shearin, and Richard Vaughan,, excellent; Billy Thompson, drum, good; Joey Rosen, clarinet, good, and the saxophone quartet, Lloyd Pendergraft, Kay Smith, Rem son Voorhis, and Charles Wolfe, good. Where the Weekly la on Sale The Chapel HiU Weakly ie on Bale, at to a copy, at the following plaeee: poet ofiiee lobby, SutUm’e, Danxigo/e, Jefa, Sloan’e, Carolina Inn, Scuttle butt, and Village Fharmaey in Chapel HiU, and Santa/e and Andrewo-Rigge bade in Carrbero. Annual ouboerip tiema by mail: imeiie Orange county, H; outride, ?l.' The Chapel Hill Weekly Louis Graves Editor A Ribbon Sent by General Eisenhower To Friend Here Is Very Well Packaged Two boys grew up together, and were close friends, in Abilene, Kansas. One went to Anrtapolis and became a Navy officer, the other went to West Point and became an Army officer. One is now a prominent citizen of Chapel Hill. He is Captain E. E. Haz~ lett, U. S. Navy, retired. The other has also achieved a consider able degree of prominence, but unfortunately is not a citizen of Chapel Hill. He is the President of Columbia University, General Dwight D. Eisenhower. In the training for war and the waging of war, since they were boyhood chums, these two have often been separated by thousands of miles, and sometimes years would pass without their seeing one another. But their friendship has stayed warm. They are “Swede” and “Ike” to each other today, just as they were in Abi lene. They have visited one another when they could arrange it— one of their meetings took place when General Eisenhower, not long after his return from Europe, came to Captain Hazlett’s home here in Chapel Hill—and they have exchanged letters frequently through the years. In a letter that he wrote last month Captain Hazlett used the red-ink side of his typewriter ribbon, explaining that he did this because the black-ink side was worn out. He added: “You’ll have to take the red ink and like it." In reply General Eisenhower wrote: “I cannot challenge your assertion that I had to take the red ink, but I do repudiate your additional postulate that I had to ’like’ it. To prove my point I am taking advantage approaching anniversary (or its ap proximation, in view of the leap-year uniqueness of your birth date) to send you a typewriter ribbon. If on arrival it appears to be packaged in away that you do not like, I hope you will find it possible to exchange it for one you really want.” Captain Hazlett was mystified by the word, “packaged.” He remained mystified from February 25, the day the letter reached him, to February 28, the day before his leap-year birthday. On the 28th a box about a foot and a half square and a foot high and weighing about thirty pounds was delivered at the Hazlett home. Upon being opened, it yielded the solution of the mystery. Gen eral Eisenhower’s gift of a ribbon was “packaged” in the latest model Royal Portable typewriter. First-Nighters Are Bowled Over by Subdued Elegance of the New Robbins Fashion Store Astonishment was the reac tion of everybody who attended the Robbins store opening Wed nesday evening in the former Pick theatre building. Astonish ment at the store’s subdued ele gance and beauty. “I’m com pletely bowled over!” “The pret tiest store I ever saw anywhere!” “It’s a dream!” were remarks constantly heard among the throngs of first-nighters. The tone of the store is set by the soft, deep, misty-gray rugs that cover the floors. There are mellow lightH, lovely displays of gowns, expanses of mirrors, all the elegant appointments of the finest Fifth Avenue fashion shops. Every inch of the store was New Registration Ordered A new registration for all voters has been ordered by the Orange county elections board. This means that past registrations are “out of the window”—dead. * To vote in the primary in May, you have got to register anew. The registration period will be April 29 to May 13. A law enacted by the 1949 legisla ture authorized county elec tion boards to say whether old registrations would remain valid or a new registration should be held. i. ** Rose Is Pharmacy School Dean Ira W. Rose, senior professor of practical pharmacy in the University’s pharmacy school, has been appointed acting dean of the school to replace M. L. Jacobs, who died Sunday. He agreed to accept the post only on a temporary basis, since he will be eligible for retirement next year. Mr. Rose operated a drug store in his home town of Rocky Mount from the time he was graduated from the Univer sity In 1906 till he returned here as a faculty member in 1981. He is a former president of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association. CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1950 designed by its owner, J. B. Rob bins, who has operated a wom en’s clothing store in Purltant since 1940. “I beIMLMj will draw shoppeip|| the state,” he told a reporter yesterday. The store, which sells wom en’s clothing exclusively, will be managed by Mrs. E. R. Clark. It will have about 30 employees. Merchants Association Plans to Give Prize For Best Slogan on Shopping in Chapel Hill Plans for a trade campaign to be launched in August were dis cussed at a meeting of the Mer chants Association Monday eve ning at the Carolina Inn. At the suggestion of Edward Danziger, it was decided to precede the campaign with a contest for the' selection of a shop-in-Chapel Hill slogan. According to tentative plans, the contest will be conducted by the Junior Chamber of Com merce, and the Merchants As sociation will give a substantial prize to the person submitting the winning slogan. There will also be a second and third prize. Mr. Dartziger, Jack Fowler, Vance Hogan, and W. J. Ogburn were appointed to a committee to help the Jaycees make arrange ments for the contest. Herbert Wentworth agreed to introduce the plan to the Jaycees and to or ganize and head a Jaycea com mittee. Bill Sloan, chairman of the association’s parking lot commit tee, reported on the results of ef forts to make more parking space available in or near the business district. He said that a new parking lot had been clear ed and leveled behind Sol Lip man’s and the Carolina Barber Shop. This was done with the co operation of Mr. Lipman and Y. Z. Cannon, proprietor of the barber shop, and the town gov ernment, which sent its trucks to haul away the tress and brush cleared from the area. The committee also got per Chapel HiU Chajf The issue of February 10 con tained something I wrote about a possum’s eating the food that Mrs. John M. Booker put out for the birds on the feeding board atop a cedar post by living room window. I ended the piece with the statement that after he had eaten up all the food the possum “jumped to the ground and dis appeared.” I have now learned that a possum does not jump but crawls. I would have gone through life in ignorance of this fact if I had not received the fol lowing from W. C. Coker: “Old Mother Possum in Hills boro was reading the Chapel Hill Weekly a few weeks ago when she suddenly cried out to her children, crowded on her back: “ ’Look, my children, here’s a thrill! There’s a jumping possum in Chapel Hill! For several hundreds of thou sands of years All possums have slowly crawl ed downstairs. When we climb a tree we must clamber down, Never jumping from limb to ground. Perhaps a little too high a jump Would give babes in pocket too hard a thump. I bet old Nature will get a thrill From her jumping possum in Chapel Hill.* ” * * * When I met K. W. Knight at the post office one day this week I told him I was glad to hear that the second volume of his his tory book was about to appear, butfor the moment I found him pfflppß&terested in something (HMHltoely, that his one-year old granddaughter, Anne Ludlow of Washington, D. C., daughter of the former Miss Jane Knight, had learned to dance. Now what does it mean when a man says (Continued on page two) mission from Grady Pritchard to make a parking area of a lot he owns on North Columbia street, but it was learned this couldn’t be done because the lot, which would accommodate about 30 cars, is in a residential zone. An appeal to the aldermen to make an exception is pending. H. S. McGinty and Mr. Went worth reported for the bad check committee. It was revealed that a student had recently passed several bad checks here but that he hadn’t tried to conceal his identity and was muking good the checks. Mr. Wentworth said that merchants should invari ably require positive identifica tion before cashing checks. The meeting was presided over by Wilbur Kutz, president of the association, who also reported on the recent state-wide merchants conference in Durham. Colony Hopes for Busses William Muir head, owner • of Glen Lennox, the home col ony one mile out on the Ra leigh highway, said yesterday that he hoped Chapel Hill’s local blisses would be running to and from the colony in about a month. “It’s a hope, not a certainty,” he said. “There’s no doubt about need ing the service.”... Newcom trs in Glen Lennox are Dr. John C. Bower, head of the Uaiveraity's new school of dentistry, and Henry Tauber, biochemist h) the school of public health. Joa Jum Assistant Editor Students to Be Counted In Population of Towns Census Enumerators to Begin Rounds April Ist Booklet about Easter The Morehead Planetarium has published a booklet, “The Easter Story,” by Director Roy K. Marshall. It is on sale, at 15 cents a copy, at the box office and also at the bookstall in the Copernican Orrery in the base ment. The show now on at the Planetarium is a dramatic pres entation of the Easter story. In the booklet Mr. Marshall relates the history of Easter and tells of its meaning in re ligion and of its celebration as a festival. “One unfortunate part of the celebration of Easter,” he says, “is its wandering through the calendar,” and he explains this wandering in a chapter en titled “The Date of Easter,” which may be as early as March 22 or as late as April 25. “Ob viously, as a spring festival, much of the force is lost if any early date, which may be a cold or rainy day, is that of Easter.” ... “In the proposed World Cal endar Easter will very likely be stabilized at Sunday, April 8.” Kessings to Return; Jonas to Enter UNC Commodore and Mrs. O. 0. Kessing and the youngest of their three sons, 17-year-old Jonas, are coming back to Chap el HiU to live. They expert to got here in SmArn Jonas to admi fl They are now living in Coronado, California. Commodore Kessing the Navy Pre-Flight School here in 1942. (He was then a captain.) The next year he went on combat duty in the Pacific, and at the end of the war he had received these decorations: Legion of Merit with two gold stars, Bronze Star Medal, Navy Marine Corps Medal, Secretary of Navy Com mendation ribbon with star, and Victory Medal with star. For a year now he has been president of the All-American Football Conference. Jonas’s desire to be a student in the University—a desire he has cherished warmly through the years since he left Chapel Hill—is near the top, if not at the very top of the reasons, why the Kessings have decided to re turn. Not that they wouldn’t like, anyway, to live here, but Jonas’s oft-repeated declaration that Chapel Hill was the only place where he wanted to go to college made it a “must.” The University’s outdoor swimming pool bears the name, Kessing Pool, in recognition of Commodore Kerning’s perform ance as organizer and command er of the Pre-Flight School. Country Club Bridge Party The Country Club will hold a bridge party at 2 P.M. Tuesday »t the clubhouse. Members and their guests are Invited. For reservations, call Mrs. Herbert McKay at 8977 not later than noon Monday. Jubee Mullis in Hospital Jubee Mullis, 5-year-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mr*. Pete MuUis, went to Watts hospital Sunday with bronchial pneumonia. She is getting better and Is expected back home some time next week. KiTwli Adtmrn la Otunpo Cmmßf tS a Ter Oet si €— n*j. i* aCapp Students are to be counted,, in the 1960 Census, as part of the population of university and col lege towns. This is the official order from the U. S. Census Bu reau in Washington. It means that Chapel Hill's population will be greater by something more than 6,000 than it would be if the count were made cn the basis used in previ ous censuses. (The University's enrollment is now about 6,700, but some of those are residents here and some do not live within the town’s corporate limits.) —The enumeration, by a house to-house canvass, will begin Sat urday, April 1, one week from tomorrow. \ Otway Brown, Census crew chief here, says that there will be 8 enumerators for Chapel HiU proper. There wiU be others for the suburban areas. The total number of enumerators in Mr. Brown’s territory, the southern half of Orange county, wiUbe 18. A district, carefully marked off on a map, is assigned to eadi enumerator. The enumerators, who were chosen by a civil service examina tion, will take a 6-day course of instruction, 5 hours a day (8 AJM. to 1 P.M.), Monday through Friday next week, in the Chapel HiU town hall, laya that the inclusion of students in a town’s population "has impor tant implications, nat the least of which is an adjustment in the amounts of state and federal aids which are apportioned on munic ipal population bases.” R. E. Coker Receives Max Gardner Award Robert E. Coker, Kenan pro fessor emeritus of zoology and director of the University’s In stitute for Fisheries Research and Development, has received the second O. Max Gardner Award. The ceremony of presen tation took place at the Woman’s College in Greensboro Wednes day evening. The award was made pursu ant to the provision in Mr. Gard ner’s will that the annual net in come from a fund of 625,000 (be queathed to the trustees of the University) should be paid to “that member of the faculty of the Consolidated University of North Carolina who, during the current scholastic year, has made the greatest contribution to the welfare of the human race.” Mr. Coker was chosen for the I award this year by a trustees’ committee composed of J. Spen cer Love (chairman), John J. Parker, Laura Weil Cone, and Edwin Pate. The report of the committee reviewed Mr. Coker's teaching and research, and cited the record of his writings, not ably the book, “Triis Great Wide Sea,” published in 1047. Since his retirement as head of the zoology department Mr. Coker has devoted his labors to the Fisheries Institute, and the com mitted'* report says that the award is mad* to him “because of hi* great contributions to Hie fisheries and fishing-folk of North (JmUM and the world during the paid; year.”
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