YoL 29, No. 27
BUS v „
Hearn Installed
As Head of the
Carrboro Lions
E. T. Hearn was installed as
president of the Carrboro Lions
at the club’s annual ladies’ night
celebration on Thursday of last
week.
The other new officers are:
Ist vice-president, Carl Elling
ton; 2nd vice-president, Hugh
Nanney; 3rd vice-president J. S.
Gibson; tail twister, Ashwell
Harward; lion tamer, Eric Riggs
bee; treasurer, A. B. Whitfield;
secretary, Roy Riggsbee; direc
tors for one year, Dwight Ray
and Lloyd M. Senter; directors
for two years, Sheldon Lloyd
and Mack Watts.
The installation ceremonies
were conducted by the first presi
dent of the club, the Rev. V. E.
Queen.
The main speaker of the eve
ning was Archie Daniels, Mayor
of Draper, N. C.
The Lion-of-the-Year award
was presented to J. S. Gibson.
An award for excellent com
mittee work was presented to
R. B. Studebaker, a past presi
dent.
Guests of the club at the cele
bration were Grey Culbreth,
president of the Chapel Hill Ki
wanis Club, and Mrs. Culbreth;
James Godfrey, president of the
Chapel Hill Rotary Club, and
Mrs. Godfrey; William Alex
ander, president of the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro Junior Chamber of
Commerce, and Mrs. Alexander;
The Rev. V. E. Queen of Fay
etteville, and Mrs. Queen;
Mayor and Mrs. Archie Daniels
of Draper; Mr. and M*a.'Roland
Giduz of Chapel Hill; Lion and
Mrs. Manly Wade Wellman, who
recently came from Pine Bluff
to live in Chapel Hill; and Lion
and Mrs. Watters of Shelby,
N. C. Mr. Wellman is the author
of a biography of Wade Hamp
ton and other books.
The Lions Park has been a
great success as a community
center. It is mainly for athletics,
of course, hut it is used also for
social and religious gatherings,
for example, church services are
to be held there on eight Sunday
evenings this summer. The base
ball schedule provides four or
five games a week, most of them
at night. In the fall the Carrboro
school has all its football games
there.
Vic Huggins Gone to
Meeting in Detroit
Vic Huggins, who was recently
elected president of the Hardware
Association of the Carolines, has
gone to Detroit to attend the annual
congress of the National Retail Hard
ware Association. At the. invitation
of the national hoard of directors he
will appear on the program as a
member of the panel that will dis
cuss sales promotion in retail hard
ware stores.
Mr. Huggins will also put on his
saw-playing act at the Detroit con
gress. He plays “Brighten the Hard
ware in Your Store” and leads the
group singing for his special hard
ware pep song.
Mr. and Mrs. Huggins left Chapel
Hill by automobile yesterday. After
the congress (which will begin Mon
day and end Thursday) they will
come home byway of Niagara Falls
and Canada.
Mrs. Evans at Camp Lapihio
Mrs. Phyllis Ferguson Evans is
again the waterfront director at Camp
Lapihio, the Johnaon-Wilaon-Wake
area Girl Scout camp in Crabtrea
Creek state park. A number of Chapel
Hill girls are at th« camp, which
opened June 29 and will continue till
August 11.
Hie Chapel Hill Weekly
LMh Grave.
Editor
Sea Turtle, Scooping Hole and Then
Laying Eggs. Is Spectacle at Beach
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By Mrt. Benjamin. Swalin
When we were walking along Wrightsville Beach Saturday night with
our hostess, Mrs. A. C. Burnham, my husband saw a large black object
move. In the darkness we first thought it was a man crawling.
It was a tremendous turtle climbing a low dune. She chose parking space
within the dim light from the Yacht Club and began borrowing with the
front part of her body. Soon sprays of sand shpt forward from her rear
propellers and we realized that Nature was imposing shore leave upon her.
By flashlight we saw efficiency at work. With wonderful precision,
Bertha, as we named her, scooped with her left rear paddle then her right,
patiently depositing sand on either side. The excavation seemed endless,
especially since Bertha’s right paddle was short and misshapen—shark
trouble, no doubt. This labor period was so tedious that the flashlight
began to dim, so Mrs. Burnham and my husband went back to the cottage
for more powerful lights. In their absence I crouched behind Bertha, but
the waning light did little to dispel the gloom or the mysteries of the mid
wife’s role assigned to me. *
When the ambassadors returned they directed their lights on Bertha’s
bumper and my husband shouted, “For heaven’s sake, look what you’ve
missed!” Bertha had begun dropping ping-pong balls in the lubrication
pit. New ones dripped every 10 or 20 counts, and sometimes twins or
triplets shot down the assembly line. She knew how to subtract and add.
The hole was the exact size to accommodate her output.
Bertha rested a moment, then she shifted into reverse and brushed sand
over the eggs. With feminine thoroughness she swept and patted. After
ironing with her posterior weight she rocked forward. Bertha lifted her
bead and we understood that her shore duty was over.
The lights confused her and she started toward the Yacht Club. The
crowd grew, and newcomers called her “Horace.” They took turns standing
on her for a free ride. Scarcely was her back turned when neighbors were
rifling the nest, transferring the eggs to paper cartons. In addition to 144
ping-pong balls in one carton, half a small coca-cola carton was filled, and
from thus souvenirs were handed out.
In the meantime the crowd was offering drinks to Bertha, feeling of her
barnacles, and plotting against her next 100* years of freedom. Such re
marks as “turn her over with a plank and let’s see how many gallons of
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Coffman Has Gone and
Will Live in Boston
George R. Coffman, Kenan pro
fessor emeritus of English literature,
a member of the faculty in the Uni
versity here for 21 years, has gono
to live in Boston. Ho and Mrs. Coff
man left Chapel Hill by automobile
yesterday morning. He had an
apartment in the Wagstaff home all
the time he was in Chapel Hill.
Mr. Coffman, who retired from
is one of the
country’s leading scholars in his field.
An A.B. from Drake University, an
M.A. from Harvard, and a Ph.D.
from Chicago, he is a Fellow in the
American Academy of Arts and
Sciences and a Fellow in the Mediae
val Academy of America (of which
he was president for three years),
and he has been on various com
mittees of the American Council of
Learned Socities. He has been a visit
ing lecturer at Harvard and at sum
mer sessions of Chicago, Colorado,
and Stanford. He has served as a
member of the executive council of
the Modern Lunguage Association of
America and as a past president of
the South Atlantic Modern Lang
uage Association. He recently re
signed as editor of “Studies in Phil
ology."
He is the author of “A New Theory
Concerning the Origin of the Miracle
Play” and other hooks and has writ
ten many articles for scholarly per
iodicals.
Revival at McDuffie Baptist Church
Revival services will be held at the
McDuffie Memorial Baptist church
(on the Airport road) at 8 o’clock
every evening from Sunday through
Friday of next week by the Rev.
Charles Smith, pastor of the Yates
Baptist church of Durham. The serv
ices will mark the 29th anniversary
of the church, the pastor of which is
the Rev. C. R. Taylor.
Kiwanis (Tub Meeting
Henry West, Gray Culbreth, and
William Stewart gave short talks be
fore the Kiwanis club at its regular
weekly meeting Tuesday evening at
the Carolina Inn. Mr. West spoke on
motor boat racing, Mr. Culbreth
spoke on the enlarged telephone sys
tem, and Mr. Stewart spoke on the
activities of the Chapel Hill record
er’s court.
Graham Haa Interview with Nehru
Yesterday’s newspapers carried a
dispatch from New Delhi saying that
Frank P. Graham, United Nations
mediator in the India-Pakistan dis
pute, had had an interview with
Prime Minister Nehru of India. Now
Mr. Graham will make a visit to
Kashmir, the country which the dis
pute is about.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1951
Street and Cordon to
Be Judges of Beauty
James Street, book-writer and story
writer, and Norman Cordon, opera
singer, concert singer, and propagan
dist for more and better music, will
be among the judges in the beauty
contest, in Burlington, to determine
who will represent North Carolina
in the national contest in Atlantic
City.
Sometimes a judge does what is
called “leaning over backward” to
escape tha charge of being influenced
by personal acquaintance or personal
connection of any kind. Chapel Hill
has a candidate for the North Caro
lina beauty queenship, in the person
of Miss Dot Hogan, and I pray that
Messrs. Street and Cordon will not
do any leaning-over-backward act
when it comes to passing on her
charms. If they're going to do any
leaning it might as well be forward.
Not that I want them to stuff the
buiiot box, or - anything like that,
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Arnold Perry Going to
Conference at Geneva
Arnold Perry, of the University’s
school of education, has been ap
pointed a member of the United States
delegation to the 1951 International
Conference on Educaiton, in Geneva,
Switzerland. The conference will be
gin next Thursday the 12th and end
on the 21st. Mr. Perry and five other
members of the delegation will fly
from New York tomorrow (Satur
day) for Paris.
They will remain" in Paris four
cay as guests of the UNESCO and
will then go to Geneva. At the con
ference, at which 47 nations will ire
represented, special attention will be
given to problems of illiteracy.
Mr. Perry has been a professor
of education here since 1948, having
come from the University of Alabama.
Last year he represented the United
States at the Inter-American Semi
nar on Education at Montevideo,
Uruguay. He is chairman of the 13-
state Cooperative Study of Elemen
tary Schools that is being conducted
by the Southern Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools.
Orange Juice by the Roadside
R. W. Madry, on his return from
the convention of the American Col
lege Public Relations Association in
Miami, Florida, says that what im
pressed him most on his trip was the
great number of roadside places sell
ing orange juice by the glass. “You
are often in sight of an orange grove
when you drink the juice,” he says.
“It's pure juice, fresh from the fruit.
No sweetening or doctoring-up of any
kind. People drink orange juice there
the way they do coca-cola here.” Mr.
Madry himaelf drank a considerable
quantity of it in the course of his
trip.
Chapel Hill Chaff
Thomas Ruffin and I met day
before yesterday in front of
Shields’s store. Jack Andrews
came along and I introduced him
to Mr. Ruffin.
‘Tom,” I said, “Jack’s an
undertaker, and when he sees
people who are getting along in
years, like you and me, he has
an eager gleam in his eye. Just
look at it.”
Jack looked from one of us to
the other with a friendly smile.
“Well, everybody's a prospect,”
he said cheerfully.
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A company of four were gath
ered on the steps of the Lasley
home, at the corner of Rosemary
lane and Boundary street, Sun
day afternoon: John Lasley, the
mathematics prrfessor; his son.
Jack, law student and Hereford
cattle raiser; and Jack’s chil
dren, 2-years-old Mary Ann and
5-months-old John Wayne, 4th.
I stopped my car, got out, and
walked across the lawn to make
the acquaintance of the chil
dren. When I left, Grandfather
John arose to accompany me to
the street. I had now, what I
hadn’t had when he was seated,
a good view of his figure. The
last time I had seen him he had
had a paunch resembling a
watermelon. Now it has gone.
He was actually slender, as he
used to be when we played ten
nis together years ago. I ex
claimed at the improvement, and
congratulated him.
“I’m down to 155 pounds,” he
said, “It’s because I’ve been eat
ing less.”
I told him I was in the process
of reducing my waist line in
just that same way.
Eating less—that is the only
solution to the problem of too
much fat. Often I meet fat peo
ple who seem to think they can
get thin by some sort of miracu
lous short cut; without paying
the price—which price is being
made uncomfortable by not eat
ing as much as you would like
to eat.
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District Governor Is
Rotary Club’s Guest
Olin Broadway of Henderson, the
new governor of Rotary’s 278th dis
triet, which includes Chapel Hill, was
welcomed as the guest speaker at the
local club’s meeting night before last.
Wilbur 8. Kutz, recently installed
president of the club, presided at
this meeting for the first time.
Mr. Broadway’s topic was the state
of Rotary in the former totalitarian
countries. He said that the clubs that
hud been (Outlawed in Italy and Jupan
were rapidly being revived and there
was a good prospect of a similar re
vivul in Germany. Rotary Clubs have
been outlawed in Czechoslovakia since
that country became a Russian satel
lite.
Mr. Broadway said that Rotary
now has clubs in 83 nations and geo
graphical regions. The total member
ship is about 850,000.
Notice about Organized Reserve
The following notice is from the
Chapel Hill unit of the Organized Re
serve Corps: Students, nurses, fac
ulty, ex-service men and women (in
cluding reservists), if you are unde
cided, restless, or need advice about
reserve or military status, get in
touch with your Organized Reserve
Corps sergeant in the upper office
of the University YMCA from 10 a.m.
to noon and from 1 to 5 p.m. any
Monday.
Church Group to Hoar Dobbina
James T. Dobbina, University
chemistry professor, will be the
speaker at tha regular matting of the
Men’a Fellowship of the United Con
gregational-Christian church at 8
p.m. Monday at the James Finney
home on Davie circle.
Joe Jones
Aeeistant Editor
Commission Flans to Develop,
Jointly with Durham, a Plan
For the Protection of the New
Highway from Signboard Curse
To Sing or Not to Sing?
To sing or not to sing? This
question is now engaging the
attention of the Chapel Hill Ro
tary Club.
In many towns the Rotarians
open and close their meetings
with a song. But when the ques
tion of singing at meetings was
put to the Chapel Hill Rotarians
a few years ago a big majority
voted No. R. W. Madry, the of
ficial source of information
about the club, says that as a
result of what happened at the
meeting this week he thinks the
club may reverse its vote. The
meeting fell on July Fourth.
Milton Bliss, a professional
singer of renown, sang the Star-
Spangled Banner as a solo and
then led the club in singing
“America.” The members were
so well pleased with the sound
of their voices that even those
who had previously said No to
singing declared that maybe it
might be a good thing after all.
“It seems,” says Mr. Madry,
"that singing depends for its
success on a club’s having in its
membership a person who is not
only a singer but a song-leader.
You’ve got to have somebody
who will arouse enthusiasm for
singing.”
Howard Will Give Art
Talk Next Wednesday
Robert Howard, * new member of
the faculty in th#TJnrveraity art de
partment, will five the fifth in a
series of gallery talks at 7:30 next
Wednesday evening, July 11, in the
Person Hall Art Gallery.
The series, planned in conjunction
with the exhibit “20th Century Euro
pean Painting,’’ has been so organ
ized that each gallery talk takes up
u different aspect of the exhibition.
The first, three, by John V'. Allcott,
dealt with the paintings of specific
artists. Last week’s talk, by George
Kachergis, covered the broader field
of painting in general. This week, in
order to relate the intangible term
“painting” to the layman, Mr. How
ard will discuss “Art in Society” (the
importance of art to the community
and to the individual).
Mr. Howard will relate his discus
sion to the current exhibition of 3<>
original works by modery masters
lent to Person Hall for the summer
by Duncan Phillips, director of the
Phillips Gallery in Washington. In
cluded in the exhibition are works by
Picasso, Dufy, Kandinsky, Roualt,
Klee, Gris, Bonnard, and Matisse. One
of the highlights of the show is the
unit of eight paintings by Georges
Braque.
The gallery will be open from 7 to
9 Wednesday evening. Its regular
afternoon hours ure from 2 to 5.
Hwalins Going to Kentucky
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Swalin will
leave today (Friday) for Richmond,
Ky., where Mr. Swalin will conduct
the orchestra of the Eastern Ken»
tucky State College for one week.
Mr. Swalin Will return to Chapel Hill.
Mrs. Swalin will go to Des Moines,
lowa, for a week’s visit to her
mother, Mrs. George McMahon.
Carl Durham la Walking Around
Congressman Carl Durham came
home from the hospital Sunday and
has got so much better that he is
walking around the yard. He will have
to be here for a good while before he
can return to his duties in Washing
ton.
Miss Kemble Conducts Workshop
Miss Kemble conducted a Work
shop on Evaluation in Nurdlng Edu
cation at the University of Minnesota
in the last two weeks in June.
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The Chapel Hlil Planning
Board and the Chanel Hill Zoning
Comnuaaion Enlarged met joint
ly Monday evening. For the com
mission it was an organization
meeting.
The word “Enlarged” means
that, in addition to the planning
board members, it has three
members from Orange county
outside the town. This results
from the enactment by the 1951
legislature of a law giving
Chapel Hill the authority to
zone all land within four miles
of the town limits except within
the town of Carrboro and except
where land within four miles is
in another county.
The immediate mission of the
commission is to prepare a map
which, when approved by the
aldermen, will prevent the
stretchjaf the new Chapel Hill-
Durham highway from here to
the county line from being dis
figured by advertising bill
boards. A map for the same pur
pose is about to be prepared by
a Durham zoning board, for the
stretch in Durham county, and
the Chapel Hill and Durham
bodies will proceed in close co
operation.
L. J. Phipps, chairman of the
Town Planning Board, is also
chairman of the Zoning Com
mission Enlarged. The vice
chairman of the Commission is
Admiral D. W. Loomis and the
secretary is W. M. Cochrane
(who was elected to the plan
ning 'tio&trf lasi* week to sOcceed
Roland McClamroch). These
three and Alastair Muirhead
have been appointed a committee
to study the whole problem of
zoning outside of the corporate
limits of Chapel Hill. The com
mittee has already got to work
and hopes to have an outaide
the-town zoning ordinance ready
for submission to the aldermen
within the next two or three
weeks.
The members of the planning
board (besides Mr. Phipps and
Mr. Cochrane) are Miss Eliza
beth Branson, Paul Wager, and
S. 11. Hobbs, Jr.
John Trotter Comes
On Visit to Friends
John Scott Trotter, a former Uni
versity student and now one of the
nation's top orchestra leaders, was
here Monday and Tuesday visiting
friends. Mr. Trotter left here in 1925
as u member of the orchestra directed
by the late Hal Kemp.
Mr. Trotter and his mother now
muke their home in California, where
his hand is engaged to play for the
Bing Crosby radio program. He was
accompanied east by his mother. She
is in Charlotte, their former home.
While hpre, he visited Norman
Cordon and Pete Mullis and the Kay
Kyser home. The Kysers ure now
in California to remain till Septem
er. Mr. Trotter laid ha expected
to see them in a few weeks on his
return tMere. Like thousands of other
former University students, Mr.
Trotter says he plana to maka Chapel
Hill his home after he retirga.
After dinner Monday evening at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cordon,
Mr. Trotter listened to several musi
cal selections written by Hank Beebe
and Orville Campbell. He said he
was greatly impressed by the ability
of the two young Chapel Hilllana and
was particularly enthusiastic about
their latest recording, “Way Up in
North Carolina.” This recording wm
done by the Belltones, a group of
Univeraity students.
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