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YoL 29, No. 8 Move to Obtain Fire Protection Outside of Town A campaign to raise money for buying a fire truck and other fire-fighting apparatus for use in suburban and rural areas around Chapel Hill is being launched by S. H. Basnight, whose fine home near the Uni versity lake was burned last year because of the lack of such equipment. The truck, to be quartered here, would be avail able for use outside the town limits where the municipal fire truck is not permitted to go. Everybody interested in the project is invited to go to Hills boro Monday to attend a mass meeting to be held at 7:30 p.m. in the court house for the dis cussion of a similar campaign being conducted in the north end of the county under the leader ship of Don Matheson, the farm agent. A total of $3,000 of the $5,000 goal has already been raised in the Hillsboro campaign. Mr. Matheson has said he will be glad to do all he can to help with the Chapel Hill campaign. Mr. Basnight has written let ters to many people in the Chapel Hill countryside urging them to attend the meeting. He said yesterday he would also try to arrange transportation for those who need it. In describing plans for the project, Mr. Basnight said it was hoped that both the Chapel Hill and Hillsboro trucks would be available, when needed, to fight the same rural tyre. ttute told ill 11nt snmaef HuVrihinfr) i fires which Hfcve oeeUrred near Chapel Hill and which could have been prevented if fire fighting equipment had been available. One of these was the H. W. Odum home, just outside the town limits on the Pittsboro road, which burned a few years ago. English Woman Will Be Concert Soloist The University Symphony Orchestra, directed by Earl Slocum, will give a concert at 8:30 p.m. Sunday in Hill Music hall. Admission is free and everybody iH invited. The program will open with the prelude to act 3 of Kistler’s “Kunihild,” which will be fol lowed by Haydn’s “Cello Con certo,” with Miss Juliette Alvin as soloist.. The final number will l>e “Adventures in a Perambu lator,” a suite written by John Alden Carpenter, the famous American composer - business man, and portraying the events in the daily routine of a baby’s life. Miss Alvin is a pupil of the celebrated Pablo Casals and has appeared as soloist with the lead ing orchestras in Europe. She has also made successful tours of America. In private life she is the wife of W. A. Robson of Ixrndon, England, who is here as a visiting professor in the University’s political science de partment. She has given several recitals during her stay here and has also given demonstrations of her methods of teaching music appreciation to school children. Charles Wolf Wins Title Charles Wolf of Chapel Hill won the 200-yard free-style race in the sth annual Southern In terscholastic Swimming Cham pionships last Saturday in the Bowman Gray pooh The Chapel Hill Weekly Louis Graves Editor Famous Poet Will Give a Reading in The Hill Music Hall Next Thursday sff » , . ,v v -*.V V? , , -x:?, *'> ■■ . , Robert Frost will come in from Florida next Wednesday and will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford P. Lyons for three days. The public is invited to the reading of his poems which he will give at 8 o’clock Thursday evening in the Hill Music hall. As the people of Chapel Hill know from his many appearances here in the past, Mr. Frost adorns his reading, charmingly, with humorous and philosophical observations, and sometimes he com ments pungently upon public affairs. In the course of his visit here he will talk to some of the English classes in the University. The “Recovery Room”: A Patient Discovers, At Duke, Something New in Hospital Routine By Mrs. Bo Shepard Edgar Knight may write about the social prestige of var ,iou* diseases. But 1 have seen ‘The Room!” Last Friday morning I went to Dr. R. A. Ross for a routine check-up. There wasn’t any rea son for this visit other than that the ride I had had over to Dur ham was at 9 o’clock and my ap pointment with Dr. Calloway was at 10:30. Not wanting to waste any time, I scheduled an other appointment at 9:30. That was my mistake because at noon I was admitted in Duke as an operative patient. So rapidly had everything happened that I hadn't pondered upon the fact that I was a Watts alumna and all my family Watts graduates. Some, 1 might add, have had extensive post-grad uate attention there, From 1 o’clock till 4 I went through the usual procedure of divulging all the family nkele- Paper Drive March IK • Another paper drive for the benefit of the Recreation Center will be held Sunday, March 18. Everybody is asked to save old newspapers and magazines and other waste paper for collection that day. Miss Sarah Unrmtead, director of the Recreation center, said yesterday that a sufcwstan-< tial amount of paper was col-1 lected in last Sunday's drive and that she and the children who < use the Recreation Center were grateful to everybody who helped i to make the drive so successful. I Von Hagen to Speak Tonight ( Victor W. Von Hagen, ex-' plorer, naturalist, ethnographer, ! and author, will apeak on “The 1 Empire of the Incan" at 8 o'clock 1 this (Friday) evening in 403 1 Alumni building. Everybody is ) invited. His appearance here is being sponsored by the Institute > for Research in Social Sciences I and the Institute of Latin Amer* < ican Studies. ] CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1951 tons and contributing gener ously to what I thought a seerqg tive blood bank. Promptly ai»e all the surplus staff disappeared. I wondered if my friend Dr. Eu gene Stead had started a pre government training program. That night, after Bo departed, I went calling. Mrs. Gene Strowd washdown the hall. A friend from Kinston was around the (Continued on page eeven) Morehead Scholarships to Start in 1951-52; For Graduates Only; Initial Value Is $1,500 Five years ago this month John Motley Morehead, speak ing at a meeting of the Univer sity board of trustees, informed them that he was giving to the University a planetarium and an art collection. At the same time it was announced that a founda tion bearing his name had been created to receive from him, and to administer, a scholarship fund. The trustees of the foundation held a meeting here yesterday The Teacher vs. “Frills*'; What Is the Best Use for State Money Available for Schools? liy Belle Hampton Different salary scales for teachers are proposed in sev eral bills presented to the legis lature. Let us consider these with reference to the A-certifi cute teacher only. The Advisory Budget Commis sion recommends from $2254 for beginners to $£764 for teachers with twelve years’ experience; the State School Board and Gov ernor Scott recommend from $2200 to $8100; the United Forces recommend from $2400 to $3600; and Senator Thomas B. Sawyer of Durham recom mends $2400 to $5400. The first of these proposals means a cut in salaries for the teachers. The next also means a cut in view of the rising cost of living. It means, too, thst after Chapel Hill Chaff I heard a rumor that James Street, the novelist and short story writer, was going to leave Chapel Hill, and I asked him what about it. He was astonished that anybody could ever have cooked up any such crazy notion. He said he thought the rumor must have started when some body heard—or, rather, partly heard—that his son James, Jr., was going to make a trip to' Greece. “I h<Jpe never to leave 1 this place,” Mr. Street said. “No body’s going to drive me away if I can help it. I’m buying a lot here to get buried in.” * * * When I was coming home from my office about 11 o’clock the other night and was about to turn from Rosemary lane southward into Hillsboro street, I saw three shadowy figures on the corner by the William M. Dey house. They were gathered around what looked like a pole, and while one held a light the other two were busily engaged in doing something, I couldn’t tell what, with their hands. My first thought was that maybe they were University students on one of those idiotic secret so ciety initiation assignments that are often carried out on our vil lage streets. Out of curiosity I stopped my car, got out, and walked across the street to see what they were up to. If it hadn’t slipped my mind, .what I had heard about the Jun ior Chamber of Commerce mem bers’ putting up street signs as IPhryfee to the community, I Wouldn't have been puzzled. It cami back to me when I saw the young men painting letters on the white standard with a stencil. The three were Preston Hogan, Hank Coon, and Ken neth Cheek. They had a truck with them, which had been lent by the Longmeadow Dairy, and (Continued on laet page) and made some decisions about the scholarships. It is reported that the initial scholarship fund amounts to about $2,000,000. Mr. Morehead contemplates making additions to it later on. In the first year for which they will be awarded, 1951-52, the scholarships will be for grad uate students only. The trustees have decided to post|x>ne the awarding of scholarships to undergraduates because of the (Continued on page two) twelve years’ experience the teacher has reached the top of the ladder; there is no further increase. The United Forces' and Senator Sawyer’s proposals are similar except that the former carries an increment of SIOO per year for 12 years and the latter the same increment for 30 years. The Sawyer bill in its entirety, should, I believe, be given care ful consideration and not per emptorily dismissed with the contention the State cannot af ford it. Let us see what are some of the things that bills before the legislature propose. First, an expensive visual aid program is recommended. Also, s force of 118 attendance officers (Continued on page eix) Joe Jones Assistant Editor W. O. Sparrow to Be Executive Os Building & Loan Association / In the New Independent Set-Up L. R, Wilson Honored Louis R. Wilson has been elected an honorary member of the American Library Associa tion. This is a distinction that has come to only 31 persons since the association was found ed 75 years ago. It is conferred on Mr. Wilson, says an announce ment from ALA headquarters, “in recognition of the distin guished services he has ren dered to the association and the library profession over a period of half a century.” Mr. Wilson was born in Lenoir, N. C., 74 years ago; at tended Haverford College; and was graduated from the Univer sity here in 1899. He w r as Uni versity Librarian from 1901 to 1932; for the next 10 years was dean of the graduate library school of the University of Chi cago, and became dean emeritus ,on retiring; and since 1942 has J been director of the school of li brary science here. | He became associate professor of library administration in 1907 and professor in 1921, and was made a Kenan professor in (Continued on laet page) Parsonage Sale Plan Will Meet Opposition The proposal advanced by some of the officers of the Pres byterian church, that the pres ent parsonage on East Franklin street be sold and that the for mer Zimmermann house on Pitts boro street (which now belongs to J. P. Haxzard) be bought for use as a parsonage, will be dis cussed at a meeting of the con gregation at 7 o’clock Sunday evening. There will be opposition to the proposal. Among the church members who will speak against it are S.E. lieavitt, a member of the board of stewards, and Phil lips Russell. The present parsonage was built more than a century ago and is closely associated with the history and traditions of Chapel Hill. It used to be the home of James Phillips, for a long time a leading figure in the life of the University and the village. Advocacy of the sale is based on financial considerations. The advocates say that the house is in such a state of disrepair that to restore it to good condition will cost more money than the church is able to put into it. Lt.-Col. Fowler la Leaving Lt.-Col. Jack Fowler of the U. S. Air Force Reserve, who has been a member of the fac ulty of the Air ROTC in the University, has been called to active duty and will leave to morrow for Camp McDill, Tam pa, Fla. His fellow Rotarians bade him goodbye at the club’s dinner meeting night before last. Community Club Meeting A general meeting of the Com munity Club will be held at 8 p.m. next Friday, March 2, at the Episcopal parish house. Syl vester Green, executive director of the Medical Foundation, will talk about “The White Houae Mid-Century Conference on Children and Youth.” * Classified advertisements ojh pear on pageg 2 and 6 of this it sue. %2 a Year in Advance in Orange County 13 a Year Out o i County. 5c a Copy Wesley O. Sparrow, assistant cashier of the Bank of Chapel Hill, will become the full-time executive officer of the Orange County Building and Loan As sociation when the association begins, on or about April 1, its new career separate from and independent of the bank. He was chosen for the post at a special meeting of the board of directors last week. The association has taken a lease on a suite of ground-floor offices in the Carolina Cleaners building on West Franklin street opposite the bus station; has ar ranged for the construction of a concrete vault and ordered a steel vault door; and is prepar ing to buy the necessary office furniture and equipment. For the 31 years of its exist ence the association has been quartered in the bank. This ar rangement cannot be continued any longer. The association has | benefitted from its connection i with the bank, but it will benefit, also, from breaking the connec tion. Experience has shown that in a town as large as Chapel Hill has come to be a building and loan association will gain, in greatly increased business, from having its own quarters and its own full-time executive. Mr. Sparrow, who is 62, at tended the University for two years. WhiU* he was a student be worked part-time in the post of fice. Later he got a regular job there, won promotions, and was assistant postmaster for 12 years. In his boyhood, before enter ing the University, he had worked for the Bank of Chapel Hill, doing all manner of odd jobs. (That was when Joshua W. Gore, professor of physics in the University, was the bank’s (Continued on laet page) Miss Alice Jones's Gift to University Two fine large engravings of monuments of ancient Rome, the gift of Miss Alice Jones to the classics department of the Uni versity, have been placed in the corridor of Murphey hall. Executed by the famous 18th century engraver Piranesi, they represent an ancient bridge over a tributary of the Tiber river and the Arch of Titus in the Romun Forum. Carved on the arch is u relief showing the tri umphal processions following the capture of Jerusalem in 70 A.l). The spoils of the temple, including the seven-branched candlestick, are shown. Red Crown Chairmanships Newly elected chairmen of de partments of the Chapel Hill chapter of the Red Cross are Miss Cornelia Love (volunteer services); Mrs. W. Carson Ryan (production, which means; ly, sewing and knitting); and Mrs. H. D. Crock ford (transpor tation). An example of the func tions tff the transportation chair man is arranging to take a polio victim to the hospital. Another example is arranging to take a troupe to a hospital at Fort Bragg or elsewhere to entertain disabled veterans.... W. C. Coker in Hospital W. C. Coker is ill in Watts hospital.
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