Vol. 29, No. 43
Jaycees Will
Sponsor Party
For Children
On Halloween
A Halloween party for all chil
dren up to 14 years old will be
given by the Jaycees from 7 to
8:30 next Wednesday evening,
October 31, in front of Fowler’s
Store on West Franklin street.
The activities will include games,
stunts, refreshments, and a cos
tume contest, with prizes for the
funniest costume, the most orig
inal costume, the loudest noise
maker, and other classifications.
Everything will be free.
The high school band will be
on hand to provide music for the
occasion. A parade, to be led
by the band, will be formed af
ter the contest. Its line of march
will be down Franklin street into
the main business section.
In announcing the party, a
Jaycee official said, “The affair
will give all the children a chance
to see each other in their Hal
loween costumes. It will also
end early enough for them to get
home in time to do their school
work before bedtime.”
The two Jaycees who are co
chairmen of the party are Bus
ter Ogbum of the Ogburn Fur
niture Company and Red Alte
mueller of the Andrews-Hennin
ger Store. Committee chairmen
are John Black, refreshments;
Bob Hogan prizes; Hanlon Mur
phy, games and contests; Watts
Poe, policing and arrangements;
Bill Basnight, lighting; Joseph
Philips, public address system,
and Dr. Thomas Darden, judging.
Mr. ogburn srfW yesterday the
Jaycees hoped to make the party
an annual affair for people of
all ages. “We'll do it if the party
we give next week is a success,”
he said.
Waynick Will Speak
Here Wednesday Night
Capua Waynick, U. S. Ambas
sador to Colombia, will speak at
8:30 this coming Wednesday eve
ning in Gerrard hill under the
auspices of the University’s In
stitute on Latin American Stu
dies.
His topic will be “A North
Carolinian Looks at Latin Amer
ica.”
He has already had a look at
part of it from his ambassa
dor’s post in Honduras, and he
will soon have a look at it from
another and more important
post. He and Mrs. Waynick will
leave next week for Bogota, the
capital of Colombia. Probably
the most vivid impression that
most U. S. citizens have of Bogo
ta is that which they retain from
reading about the riot that oc
curred there during an interna
tional conference a year or so
ago. The Waynicks’ friends are
hoping they won’t get mixed up
in anything like that.
In the spring and summer
there was a good deal of talk
about the possibility of Mr. Way
nick’s becoming a candidate for
Governor of North Carolina. The
talk ended this fall when he com
manded, in effect, “Include me
out.”
Faculty Club to Hear Baity
H. G. Baity will be the speaker
at the meeting of the Faculty Club
at 1 o’clock Tuesday at the Carolina
Inn. His topic: “Observations along
the Iron Curtain.” In the course of
Mr. Baity’s recent three-months stay
in Europe he viaited the Communiat,
but Anti-Stalin, Yugoslavia and in
the city of Belgrade was escorted
around by Communist officials. He
looked from Finland into Soviet Rus
sia but did not venture to cross the
border. A good reason why he didn’t
waa that he was faced by scowling
armed guards.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
Louis Graves
Editor
Proposal lor a Pipe-Line
Raleigh’s water supply is dan
gerously low. Durham has plen
ty of water. Durham’s city
manager said the other day that
Durham had enough water to
spare 2,000,000 gallons a day if
Raleigh would come and get it.
This made it a problem of trans
portation ; an insurmountable
problem, for trucking that quan
tity of water every day, or any
considerable proportion of that
quantity, is impossible.
The Raleigh News and Ob
server, expressing gratitude for
Durham’s offer, said that the
two cities, in their constant
spreading-out, were getting clos
er and closer together, and sug
gested that some day one city
might be able to get water from
the other through pipes. The
paper cited the joint ownership
and management of the Raleigh-
Durham airport as a demonstra
tion of the benefits that can
come from inter-city coopera
tion.
Greensboro is not troubled by
a water shortage, but the short
age in Burlington, about the
same distance from Greensboro
that Durham is from Raleigh,
has become so serious that the
municipal officials say they may
consult the Harvard University
professor who has had success
in producing rain by using chem
Chest Campaign Starts Day after Tomorrow;
Money to Be Divided among Seven Agencies
Chapel Hill’s annual Community
Cheat campaign will begin day after
tomorrow (Sunday), will go on dur
ing all of next week, and will end the
following Sunday. L. J. Phipps is
the campaign chairman.
The goal is $14,500. This is only
S3OO more than last year’s contribu
tions. The goal last year was $13,500,
the contributions were $14,200.
The $14,500 to be raised this year
will be distributed among seven
agencies, as follows:
Boy Scouts, $1,700 . . . Girl Scouts,
$750 . . . Recreation Center (white),
$4,025 . . . Recreation Center (Negro),
$4,025 . . . Day Nursery, $2,G00 . . .
Mary Bayley Pratt Children’s Library,
SI,OOO . . . Humane Society, S2OO.
And S2OO is allotted for the cam
paign (postage, stationery, etc.).
Whoever prefers to contribute in
advance of the campaign should make
out a check to Chapel Hill Community
Chest and mail it to 1.. J. Phipps.
Teams of volunteer workers, IGO
UN Observer to Speak Today
As a final part of Chanel Hill’s
celebration of United Nations Week,
Mrs. Cladys Walser, a UN observer
for the Women’s International League,
will give three talks today (Friday)
under the auspices of the Friends’
Service Committee. She will address
a luncheon meeting at the Methodist
church and will speak twice at the
Presbyterian church, where she will
talk at 6:15 on “Revolution in Asia”
and at 8 o’clock on “The UN in War
and Peace.” Mrs. Walser’s talks will
bring to-a close a week-long UN
celebration that has been participated
in by the civic clubs, the Boy and
Girl Scouts, and many other town
and campus organizations. Alexander
Heard was UN Week chairman.
Major Logan Pratt Returns
Major Logan Pratt of 41-B Glen
Lennox has returned from a tour of
Army duty at Fort Bragg and Fort
McPherson, Ga., and has resumed his
work toward a Ph.l). degree in Eng
lish at the University. During most
of hi* absence he was at Fort Bragg
writing the history of the maneuvers
held there this summer. Mrs. Pratt
and their small son Ed spent Sep
tember at Windy Hill Beach, 8. C.
Food Bale Next Friday
The Women’s Auxiliary of the
Episcopal church will hold a food sale
at the parish house from 10 a.m. to
2 p.m. next Friday, November 2, the
day before the Carolina-Tenneaaee
football game. Items for sale will
include pies, cakes, hams, and bruns
wiek stew.
Classified ads appear on pages $
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26,1951
icals to cause cloudbursts. Oth
er measures under consideration
by the officials are (1) trying
to get portable purification
equipment from Fort Bragg and
(2) laying emergency pipe-lines
to bring water in from ponds
and wells in the surrounding
country.
The situation with respect to
water in the Raleigh-to-Greens
boro region suggests that it
might be a good idea to have a
pipe-line running the whole dis
tance between the two cities;
or, rather, to fill in the gaps be
tween the several municipal wa
ter supply systems along the
route. Os course it would cost
several million dollars, but even
so it might cost less than the
expansion of several city sys
tems. The projectors of such
an enterprise would start out
with the great advantage of a
ready-made course for the pipe,
the Southern Railway right of
way, which is owned by the
State of North Carolina.
The pipe-line recently built to
carry natural gas from Texas to
New England, with branches to
scores of cities along the way,
shows that it would be compara
tively simple to overcome what
ever engineering difficultiea
stand in the way of a Raleigh
to-Greensboro line.
in all, will conduct the solicitation in
the residential areas under the di
rection of Mrs. E. C. Markham. John
M. Foushee is chairman for buaineaf
concerns and Mrs. Hubert RohbMqVi
jr., for the Negro section. ~
Quoting last year’s campaign
chairman, Rex Winslow, Mr. Phipps
says: “To regard the Chest as a
money-raising device is a perversion
of an ideal. The Chest is democracy
in action. The real objective is to
get more people to think, plan, work
and give for the common good.”
Mrs. Shepard Burned by 5-Year-Old Fluid
Mrs. George E. Shepard, who
went to Duke hospital Sunday
before last for treatment of
burns on her neck, has recovered
and is back at home.
It was not turpentine, as first
rejiorted, that caused the burns,
but a deodorant which Mrs.
Shepard mistook for a cleaning
fluid.
Five years ago her children
had some puppies that were
quartered in the basement. When
the puppies were brought up to
quarters on the ground level
they left in the basement a dis
agreeable odor. To dissipate it
Mrs. Shepard got a deodorant at
a hardware store. This was such
a strong fluid that the user was
directed to mix a tablespoonful
of it in two gallons of water be
fore scattering it about.
After getting rid of the puppy
smell in the basement Mrs. Shep-
Pratt Buy* Stearin Home
Robert Armstrong Pratt, who came
to the University thin year as pro
fessor of English in succession to
George R. Coffman, has bought the
Paul E. Shearin home on Senlac road.
He will not taka possession, how
ever, till next June. By that time
the Shearins will either have bought
another house or built one.
Grumman Flies to California
Russell M. Grumman of the Uni
versity’s extension division flew to
Los Angeles, California, last Sunday
to attend a national conference on
adult education. He frill return by
air today.
Yates Building in Dogwood Acres
Thomas Yates, the plumbing cop
tractor, is building a home in Dog
wood Acres, tha new suburban de
velopment about three miles southwest
of Chapel Hill.
Chapel Hill Chaff
When Dr. W. P. Jacocks was
telling me, one day last week,
about his trip to Windsor to at
tend the meeting of the Bertie
County Historical Association, I
asked him how the county got
its name. He said that it was
named for two brothers Bertie
who bought a large area of east
ern North Carolina land from the
Earl of Clarendon, one of the
Lords Proprietors, and that the
name was originally pronounced
Bartie. This is in line with the
British pronunciation of dark
for clerk and darby for derby.
Shortly after my conversation
with Dr. Jacacks I saw a news
paper dispatch from Washington
saying that Congress had de
cided to change the name of the
Buggs Island dam to the John
H. Kerr dam, an honor well de
served in view of Mr. Kerr’s
achievement in putting through
the great Roanoke river flood
control project. Kerr is pronoun
ced Karr, and, since the -ar
sound for -er has pretty nearly
disappeared in America, most
people who are not acquainted
with the Kerr family, and have
only the spelling to go by, will
probably pronounce the -err in
Kerr just as they pronounce the
word err.
The only two words that I
recall, in which Americans give
the -ar sound to -er, are Kerr
and sergeant. The American pro
nunciation of -er seems to be
gaining favor in England. For
clerk the Oxford English Dic
tionary prefers the pronuncia
tion elark but allows the Ameri-
Mftft pronunciation and says that
late it has become frequeet
in «nd around London.” The
English used to give the pronun
ciation clargy to clergy but that
passed out two or three centuries
ago. Darby is the southern Eng
land pronunciation of derby, but
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ard put the bottle of deodorant
on a shelf in the garage. She
never saw it again until the day
about three weeks ago when she
did a job of interior house-paint
ing and spilled some of the paint
on her frock. In looking around
for something that would serve
as a paint remover she came
upon the bottle of deodorant. She
had forgotten all about what the
contents had been used for five
years before.
First she applied the fluid to
the paint on her frock. Then
she dabbed it lightly on a few
s|x>ts of paint that had spattered
on her neck. Two or three days
later she became aware of a
breaking-out on her skin, and
presently came a burning sen
sation that was definitely pain
ful. The pain became so intense
that she had to go to the
hospital.
Garden Club to Meet Monday
The Chapel Hill Garden Club will
meet at 3 o’clock Monday afternoon
at the EpUcopal pariah houa. The
program will include the showing of
two aound moviea: “The Myiteriei of
Plant Life” and "How to Grow Beauti
ful Roaea.” Mrs. Mangum, chairman
of exhibit*, asks the membtn to
bring specimens or arrangemente of
chrysanthemums.
McGinty la Corporal in Air Fores
Fenno McGinty is now a corporal
in the U. 8. Air Force. After hli re
cent furlough he left Chapel Hill for
Camp Stoneman, near Ban Franeleco,
and ha will aoon go to Japan or Korea.
Basnight at Hardware Maetiai
8. H. Basnight want to Charlotte
last Monday to attend a meeting of
the Carolines Builders Hardware Ae
sociation, of which he waa chairman
last year.
Joe Jones $2 a Year in Advance in Orange County
Assistant Editor $3 a Year Out of County. 5c a Copy
Ordinance Drafted by Zoning
Board Provides for Sign-Free
Areas 300 Feet Wide on Sides
Os Highways That Enter Town
Registration for Vote
On School District
Begins Tomorrow
Tomorrow, Saturday, October
27, is the first day of registra
tion for the election, Tuesday,
November 20, on the question of
enlarging the Chapel Hill school
district.
This is a special registration,
and nobody who fails to register
can vote. Having registered for
a previous election does not qual
ify a person to vote in this one.
The vote will be Yes or No on
enlarging the school district to
take in an outlying area from
■which children come to the
Chapel Hill school. No school
tax is now paid by the people in
that area. The enlargement, if
approved, will not affect the
school tax inside the present
district; it will simply extend
the tax to the area proposed to
fc»e taken in.
The dividing line between the
two voting precincts in Chapel
Hill is Franklin street. People
south of Franklin register at the
school; people north of Franklin
register at the Town Hall.
F'rank Graham Here,
Is Going to Paris
Frank P. Graham, who returned
fco the U. S. a month ago from his
mediation mission to India and Pakis
tan, arrived in North Carolina by
airplane day before yeaterday; viait
txl hta ulsters in Charlotte for a few
Noun and is now at the home of
his sister-in-law, Mrs. J., Cheshire
in Hillsboro.
He had e session with the dentist
yesterday morning end wss expected
to come over to Chapel Hill in the
ternoon to see his sister, Mrs. Shipp
Ssenders, and as many friends as he
h*as time to. (“Was expecting” is the
wraay it is put because this newspaper
w«?nt to proas soon after aoon. Mr.
G a~aham was probably in Chapel Hill
not long after that, and some readers
of the Weekly may have seen him
bo fore they see this.)
Tomorrow (Saturday) night he and
M rs. Graham will board an airplane
for Paris where Mr. Graham is to
uttend the United Nations Assembly
meeting and resume hiu conferences
with representatives of India and
Paakistan. The Grahams will la? in
l**»ris about six weeks. Mrs. Graham
did not accompany her husband to
North Carolina because she had to
st_**y in Washington and take the in
jtr*rtions required of persons going to
foreign countries.
Ground Broken for Hospital
CJround-breaking ceremonies for the
ICSO-bed Gravely tuberculosis hospital
eat is to be part of the University
Mesdicel Center were held yesterday
morning. Governor Scott and Assist
ant Budget Director Coltrane were
th« principal speakers. Carl C. Coun
cil. chairman of the hospital building
coiromittee, presided over the cere
monies. The hospital waa designed by
Cmrter Williams in s style conforming
to that of the rest of the Medical
Cmnter. It will cost $1,100,000. It U
ruaaned Gravely because of the lead
ing P»rt taken by Lee Gravely, mem
ber of the legislature, in developing
hospital facilities for tuberculosis
ps^ieifti.
Hickeraon sad Baity at
Kagiaeer’s Meeting
T. F, Hickerson and H. G. Baity are
■tfcsnding tha convention of the Amer
icana’* Society of Civil Engineers in New
York. They will come back home to
morrow. Mr. Hickerson is traveling
by plane, Mr. Baity by train.
Attend Church Conference at Sanford
The Rev. R. L Jackson and Mr.
anal Mrs. 8. H. Basnight went to San
ford last Tuesday to attend the East
ern North Carolina Conference of the
Congregational Christian chureh. Mr.
and Mrs. Basnight were official dele
fats* from the Chapel Hill church.
If the ordinance drafted by
the Chapel Hill Zoning Commis
sion Enlarged is approved by the
board of aldermen, residential
areas 300 feet wide, from which
signboards will be excluded, will
be laid out on the sides of the
highways entering town.
L. J. Phipps, chairman of the
commission, said yesterday he
hoped to submit the ordinance
to the aldermen at their Novem
ber 19th meeting. They may
hold a public hearing on the
measure in time to vote on it at
the first or second meeting in De
cember.
The proposed protective resi
dential areas will extend 4 miles
from Chapel Hill along all high
ways (or to a county line where
the county line is nearer than 4
miles). They will be broken at
some places zoned for filling sta
tions, stores, and other business.
Existing commercial centers
(such as the one a mile out on
the Durham highway and the
one a mile out on the Pittsboro
highway) will of course remain.
The commission wants to limit
commercial development along
the highways, as far as possible,
to such existing centers as these
rather than to create new cen
ters.
The Chapel Hill Zoning Com
mission Enlarged was estab
lished, pursuant to a law enact
ed by this year’s legislature,
mainty for the purpose of jgo
.tecting, the sew - Chapel <HUH
Durham highway from disfigur
ing signboards.
Besides the highway residen
tial zones and the commercial
zones, the commission proposes
the creation of rural residential
zones and an industrial zone con
sisting of a 500-foot strip on
each side of the railroad running
north from Carrboro.
Parade and Game to
Be Held Here Today
The hig-h school football team will
play Hillsboro at 8 o’clock this (Fri
day) evening at the Carrboro athletic
park in a Homecoming Day game
that will be proceded by parades in
both towns. Admission to the game
will be sl.
The Hillsboro parade will be at
3 o’clock and the one in Chapel Hill
at 4 o’clock. Both parades will be led
by the bands of the two schools and
will include automobiles carrying the
schools’ Homecoming Day queens. The
Chapel Hill queens, who were chosen
by the football team, are Joan Neville,
freshman; Nancy Woodard, sopho
more; Catherine Berry hill, junior,
and Iris Merritt, senior.
After the game the players will
go to the Club Sirloin for a supper
given for them by friends of the
team. The supper will be followed by
a dance at the Recreation Center. All
students of both schools are invited
to the dance.
New Hones la Greenwood
Homes are now being built in
Greenwood by Frank West, H. E.
Thompson, Lambert Davis, H. Arnold
Perry, George O. Doak, and J, C. D.
Blane. The construction is at various
stages. The West and Thompson
homes are nearly finished, the Dosk
and Blane homes are well along, tha
Davis and Perry homes have just been
started. Including these 0 there are
now 26 hornet in the Greenwood col
ony. The new pavement on the col
ony’s thoroughfare was laid at the
residents’ expense.
Episcopal Congregational Meeting
A congregational meeting and box
supper will be held at tha Episcopal
church at 6:80 p.m. Monday. A guest
speaker will show pictures and apeak
on the work of the diocesan and gen
eral church. Children will be cared
for during the program.