Vol. 29, No. 31
Report Tells of
Year’s Work of
Red Cross Here
A report just off the press
tells of the work done by the
Chapel Hill chapter of the Amer
ican Red Cross in the year just
ended (1950-51).
An introductory general re
view by Robert H. Wettach,
chairman, is followed by the de
partment chairmen’s reports:
Blood Program (Robert F.
Schenkkan), First Aid (E. A.
Brecht), Home Service (E. E.
Hazlett, Jr.), Junior Red Cross
(Mrs. Marvin Allen), Public In
formation (Roland Giduz), Vol
unteer Services (R. E. Jamer
son), Fund Drive (Miss Eliza
beth Branson), and Treasurer’s
Report (Harold Weaver).
As on the Red Cross through
out the country the war in Korea
brought increased demands on
the organization here.
“Our chapter has continued its
regular peace-time activities and
has carried on with success the
additional services called for,”
says Mr. Wettach. “There was
a marked increase in the work
of Home Service for Orange
County young men and young
women in military camps and
hospitals. The program for the
first-aid instructors was stepped
up, and progress was made in the
training of nurses’ aides and for
home nursing. . . . The commu
nity responded to the Blood Pro
gram of the Red Cross in a really
splendid way. The quota for
Chapel Hill far exceeded the re
quirements of the national pro
gram ''n p'.puhUon. . . .
Under the leadership of Miss
Elizabeth Branson, the chapter’s
annual fund drive went over the
top. Miss Branson’s ability to or
ganize the drive in a short time
and her intensity of purpose,
when combined with the efforts
of drive captains and workers,
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Russell Arnold Has
Art Work on Exhibit
An art exhibition of the works
of Russell W. Arnold of Roper
has been placed on view at the
Person hall gallery as the sec
ond in a series of exhibitions by
candidates for the University
art department’s new M.A.C.A.
degree. It includes paintings, col
or prints, sculpture, and a large
composition in wood.
The exhibition, which will con
tinue through August 11, is be
ing given as a part of Mr. Ar
nold’s work on his thesis on “Per
sonal Expression through Plastic
Means.”
Mr. Arnold wara —graduated
from Atlantic Christian College
in 1943 and, after service in the
Navy, studied in New York at
the Art Students League, where
he won purchase awards for
paintings in student exhibition.
He has also exhibited at the Jew
ish Youth Center and the Little
Carnegie theatre and at the
North Carolina Art Show. He
had a one-man show of graphic
work, constructions, and paint
ings at the Willow Tree gallery
in Paterson, N. J.
FM Station to Open Here
An FM radio broadcasting
station is to be built soon for the
University's radio department, it
was announced this week by
Earl Wynn, head of the depart
ment. He said its 250-watt trans
mitter would relay local pro
grams to other stations in the
state. It is expected to begin op
eration in October.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
Louis Graves
Editor
A Chapel Hill Automobile of 1909
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This photograph, from an al
bum in the home of Mrs. Drew
Patterson and her daughter,
Mrs. Mary Patterson Fisher,
shows the automobile (a Ramb
ler, long since extinct) owned
by Charles H. Herty, head of
the University chemistry de
partment, 41 years ago, in the
year 1909. The house in the pic
ture, then the Herty home, is
now the home of the J. E. Ken
nettes. The figure on the steps
is Mrs. Herty. (Both Mr. and
Mrs. Herty died many years ago.)
This was Chapel Hill’s third
automobile. The first, a one
cylinder Oldsmobile, entered by
steps at the middle of the back,
Tour of New Hospital Shows Visitor What a
Vast and Complicated Establishment It Is
For the last two or three years
I have been hearing and read
ing a lot about the University’s
new hospital, but it is only now,
after I have made a tour through
it, that I begin to get a real un
derstanding of what a great es
tablishment it is and of what it
will mean to medical education
and to the whole cause of good
health in North Carolina.
I had the good fortune to be
escorted on my tour by Dr. Hen
ry T. Clark, Jr., administrator
of the University’s division of
health affairs, and Dr. Robert R.
Cadmus, director of the hospital.
They were willing to take it
slow—which I liked, since the
elevators were not yet installed
and the building is seven stories
high—and the fact that Dr. Cad
mus explained the layout so
clearly, and answered my ques
tions so patiently, saved me from
being bewildered by the array of
laboratories, examination rooms,
x-ray rooms, consultation rooms,
visitors’ waiting rooms, case-
Clothing Store Being Moved
Milton’s Clothing Cupboard is
being moved from West Frank
lin street to its new quarters
downtown in the building for
merly occupied by the Hospital
Saving Association, which has
just moved to its new building
on West Franklin street. Milton
Julian, proprietor of the clothing
shop, said yesterday he expected
to open in his new store Tues
day of next week.
Billie Suitt Returns
Miss Billie Suitt has come
home from Ridgecrest Baptist
Assembly for several weeks. She
will he here with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Suitt, till she
returns in September to her
studies at the Woman’s College
in Greensboro.
A.A.U.W. Meeting August 9
The Chapel Hill branch of the
American Association of Uni
versity Women will meet at 8
p.m. next Thursday, August 9,
at the home of Mrs. Wayne A.
Bowers, 714 East Franklin street.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1951
was owned by E. Vernon Howell,
the pharmacy dean. He bought
it about 1903. Mrs. Kluttz, Mrs.
Macßae, and other women tele
phoned him and asked him please
not to have his car on the street
when they went out to drive be
cause it scared their horses. This
went on for two years and then
Mr. Howell decided that with all
the complaining he wasn’t get
ting much fun out of his auto
mobile. His w’ay of getting rid
of it was to drive it to Rocky
Mount and not bring it back.
The town’s second automobile
was Dr. E. A. Abernethy’s. v
When I saw this picture in the
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teria, kitchen, and various other
facilities.
The structure of the building
is practically complete. Most of
the work that remans to be done
consists of the surfacing of
walls, floors, and ceilings, the
hanging of doors, and the instal
lation of lights. These jobs, and
the miscellaneous finishing nec
essary in any new building, will
be going on several months. As
the schedule now stands, the hos
pital will be opened for patients
April 1.
According to the latest esti
mate, the cost of the hospital
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Hospital Saving Association in Its New Home
The move of the Hospital Sav
ing Association to its new quar
ters on West Franklin street has
been completed. The transfer of
heavy IBM and press equipment
represented a minor engineering
feat, which required the use of
a rigging crane. Other things
moved were 184 filing cabinets
and 145 desks and work tables,
together with chairs and mis
cellaneous supplies.
Hospital Saving employees left
work at 5:15 p.m. Friday and
reported to their new home at
8:15 Monday morning, unaware
of the tremendous labor that
had been put in over the week
end.
The trucks and 17 men worked
from '6 of clock till after mid
night Friday and 3 trucks and a
crew of 15 worked from 4:30
Saturday afternoon till two
o’clock Sunday morning. A group
of HSA people shared the watch
at both buildings both days.
These included Walt Baucom,
who supervised the entire mov
ing operation; Kenneth Beeston,
Johnny Black, David Carter, Al
bert Graham, Leonard Hampton,
W. H. Jones, R. G. Knight, Wal
ter Lewis, W. E. Merritt, J. S.
Nagelschmidt, Mrs. Katherine
Thompson, and Rogers Wade.
The moving was done by the
Durham Transfer and Storage
Company, the Horton Transfer
Company of Durham, and Bryant
Hogan of Chapel Hill. H. E. West,
Chapel Hill Chaff
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The fastest-traveling letters I
e\vr got were posted iast Fri
day, July 27, in Amsterdam, Hol
land, one by J. C. Lyons and one
by Miss Nancy Cobb, and arrived
in Chapel Hill Sunday the 29th.
The next-fastest was posted by
Herman Baity on the 27th in
Geneva, Switzerland, and arrived
here early on the morning of
Monday the 30th. The Lyons and
Cobb letters took two days for
the trip, the Baity letter two and
a half days.
Os course the reason that one
air-mail letter is quicker than
another in getting from the
sender in Europe to the receiver
in America lies not in the speed
of a plane’s flight, for one trans
atlantic plane is as fast as an
other, but in the connections. A
letter may reach the post office
in a European city just before
closing time for overseas air
mail, or it may reach there
just after, so tw r o minutes’ dif
ference at the post office may
mean a full day’s difference in
when the letter starts across the
ocean. Likewise there may or
may not be a close connection
when mail is transferred in New
York to a southbound plane. Evi
dently the Lyons and the Cobb
and the Baity letters had the luck
to make close connections.
* * *
Miss Alice Jones has been tell
ing me that the eating of honey
is good for sinus and asthma.
She says that some doctors of
her acquaintance, when she tells
them this, respond with an in
dulgent smile, denoting pooh
poo’j but that they do not
change her opinion. “Naturally
not,” she says, “when I have seen
actual good results from honey.
Furthermore, a doctor at the
famous Mayo Clinic told a friend
of mine who had asthma that
honey would give her relief. Cer
tainly the opinion of a Mayo doc
tor can’t be laughed off.”
Miss Alice first heard about
the honey treatment from Thom
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general manager of the Durham
Transfer, said that in all his
years of moving, the Hospital
Saving offices were the largest
he had ever moved and the job
was the best organized he had
ever seen.
The smoothness of the opera
tion was achieved by careful
planning beforehand. Depart
ments were asked well in ad
vance to prepare a chart based
on floor space assigned to them
in the new building, showing
where each piece of equipment
was to be placed. From these
charts, a master plan was drawn
up for each floor and several
hundred copies made. The day of
the move, office personnel at
tached a plan to everything from
wastebaskets to the one-ton ad
dressograph machine, indicating
by check mark the exact position
of the article. Movers then had
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Henninger Has Heart Attack
J. S. Henninger was stricken
with a sudden heart attack last
Saturday evening at his home
at the east of the village on the
Durham highway. Luckily his
son, Dr. Baylor Henninger of
Statesville, was with him on a
visit, and so he received imme
diate expert attention. He was
taken to Watts hospital and will
be there for some time. He was
getting along well when the
paper went to press yesterday.
Joe Jones
Assistant Editor
Keeping Stores Open One Night
A Week Proposed to Merchants;
Opinion Is Expressed That Many
People Would Like This Service
The Weekly Moves Into
It’s New Building
The Weekly has moved into
its new building (which is a front
annex to the old building, on
Rosemary lane). Today’s issue is
the first one printed here. The
printing was done in the old
building 27 years. The paper
moved there in September 1924,
after being for a year or so in
the basement under Sutton’s
drugstore.
Lawrence Campbell has joined
the Weekly force as printer in
charge. In the tiding-over period
important parts of the work con
tinue to be done by the Orange
Printshop under the direction of
the proprietor, William M. Pugh.
Joseph Bissell and Robert P. Moore
gave valuable help in the setting up
of the linotype machine, and Mr. Moore
has kept on helping while Mr. Camp
bell is getting into the swing of the
new job.
The moving of the press, linotype,
and other equipment was done by
Percy Horton of Durham. He began
it early last Friday morning and fin
ished it Saturday afternoon. The tre
mendously difficult job of moving the
heavy press in one piece, obviating
the need for dismantling and re:erec
tion, was done in masterly fashion.
Robbins Store Being
Radically Remodeled
The Robbins Store is now
undergoing extensive remodeling
which will result in more work
ing space and enlarged and new
departments. The bridal salon is
being moved from the fashion
floor to the mezzanine, where
private reception and fitting
rooms are being built.
A new department for college
sport wear will be opened on the
fashion floor. This department
will specialize in sport clothes
for young ladies.
A gift department will be
opened on the main floor of the
store, and the lingerie depart
ment, on the same floor, is to be
enlarged. Mr. Robbins said yes
terday, “When we first opened
our Chapel Hill store, we thought
we had more space than we
needed. However, our business
has grown to such an extent that
we are now cramped for space.”
Disaster Relief Quota
The Chapel Hill Red Cross
chapter’s quota for disaster re
lief funds for victims of the Mis
souri river flood is $525, it is an
nounced by Rupert Vance, chap
ter chairman. Mr. Vance requests
that contributions be mailed to
Chapel Hill Red Cross, P.O. Box
777, Chapel Hill, or they may be
dropped in the Red Cross coin
boxes that have been placed in
the stores. He said the need is
urgent. The national quota is
$5,000,000.
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Creech Family in Country Home
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Creech
and their two children are now
comfortably settled in their big
country house on the Greensboro
road. They have also kept for
their own Ase the small brick
house in the corner of the Kluttz-
Coenen yard.
Mrs. Lee Makes First Flight
Mrs. Irene Lee made her first
flight Monday to Syracuse for a
week’s stay with her brother,
Avon A. Cromartie. Before re
turning home she will visit Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Stewart in
Harrison, N. Y.
$2 a Year in Advance in Orange County
$3 a Year Out of County. 5c a Copy
The keeping of stores open
one night a week was proposed
by Joseph Robbins, proprietor of
the Robbins store, at last week’s
meeting of the Merchants Asso
ciation. He expressed the opin
ion that this service would be
greeted as a great convenience
by many people who, because of
their work, find it difficult to
do shopping in the daytime, and
that it would also attract vis
itors from out of town.
Mr. Robbins’ proposal was not
offered in the form of a motion,
for definite action by the asso
ciation. He introduced the sub
ject after the formal business of
the meeting was over and said
that he did so merely for the pur
pose of getting the merchants
to discuss it.
He cited the case of Sears-
Roebuck in Durham. The store
had first opened one night a
week, Monday, and people had
embraced the opportunity for
night shopping in such numbers
that now the store was open on
Friday night also.
“My tentative suggestion,”
said Mr. Robbins to the editor
of this newspaper after the
meeting, “is that, if the major
ity of the merchants agree to
the one-night-a-week opening,
we open our stores at 11 a.m.
Monday and close them at 9 p.m.
Monday would be a good day
for the later-than-usual opening
because it would give business
men and women who go away
at the week-end more time to
get back.
“Many department stores in
New York and other large cities
have open hours on certain
nights and they find that the
service is greatly appreciated by
the public.
“I believe the success of the
plan depends upon genuine co
operation by the merchants—
participation not necessarily by
every one of them but by a good
majority. If we have night open
ing, it should be the same night
for all the stores, so that a par
ticular night of the week will be
come associated in the public
mind with open stores in Chapel
Hill.”
Price Controls Are
Topic of Discussion
O.P.A. and O.P.S. regulations
were discussed at this week’s
meeting of the Kiwanis Club
Tuesday evening at the Carolina
Inn. The program was arranged
and directed by William M. Pugh.
The topic stirred up spirited
discussions. Some of those who
took part were Harvey Bennett,
A. H. Poe, Tom Rosemond, Roy
Armstrong, Judge William Stew
art, Jack LeGrand, Walter
Heinzman, and Kenneth Put
nam.
A guest at the meeting was
Kiwanian T. M. Johns of Lake
land, Fla.
Late Word from Graham Mission
Just before the paper went to
press yesterday a letter came
from William B. Aycock, assist
ant to Frank P. Graham on the
mediation mission to India and
Pakistan. The letter left New
Delhi, India, this last Sunday,
July 28. It’s too late to publish
now what Mr. Aycock writes.
More about the letter will appear
next week.
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