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Vd. 29, No. 44 Community Club Enters Campaign To Give Help to Korean People The Chapel Hill Community Club, an affiliate of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, is participating in the federation’s campaign to raise the money for 150,000 CARE packages to be sent to Korea. The campaign period is from Nov. 12 to 24, but contributions will be received from now on and forwarded promptly to CARE headquarters. The cost of a CARE package— food, blankets, or clothing—is $lO, but smaller sums will be gladly received and combined. Money for this relief may be given to Miss Bertha Pickard at the Bank of Chapel Hill, or Mrs. Frank Hanft, president of the Community Club, or Mrs. Dana Sampson, 508 Pittsboro road, treasurer of the club, or Mrs. D. D. Carroll, Country Club road, chairman of the CARE-for- Korea Committee. Representatives of CARE (Cooperative for American Re mittances to Europe) have sur veyed the situation in Korea and have issued these figures: Estimated population, 21,000,- 000. . . . Homeless refugees, 5,- 000,000. . . . Additional war victims, 1,000,000. . . . Actual sufferers, everybody in Kona. The CARE report says : “Bleak as are conditions now, the need for food, clothing and other supplies will grow even more critical during ttye coming year, because of the cumulative effect, oi niaiiiutriubfr, wtw loss of personal possessions, the* depletion of supply stockpiles, and inflation. “The crop yields have been seriously affected by past re cruitment of farm labor into the armed forces, by the loss of draft animals and by shortages of seed rice, fertilizer, and trans portation facilities.” Shall Stores Open One Night a Week? The question of whether or not Chapel Hill stores shall keep open one night a week is still being dis cussed anil is on the agenda for this month’s meeting of the Merchants Association. It is of interest not only to the merchants but also to many people with full-length daytime jobs who find it difficult to do shopping under the stores’ present schedule. A petition for the proposed one night. a week opening, signed by 82 women employees of the Hospital Saving Association, has been sent to the Merchants Association, and other working women have expressed them selves in favor of the plan. The night opening of some of the stores in Durham, inaugurated sev eral months ago, has proved success ful, and now it is being practiced in Raleigh on the one-night-a-week basis. Many stores in New York and other large cities keep open on certain nights in order to accommodate the great number of people for whom the daytime shopping hours are in convenient. Community Club Meeting Today A general meeting of the Com munity Club will be held at 3 o’clock this (Friday) evening at the Episco pal parish house. The program will be directed by the club’s arts and crafts department, of which Mrs. Karl Fussier is chairman. Mrs. G. M. Smithwick of the Brush and Palette Shop, Burlington, will discuss “Old Arts of China Painting” and give some simple demonstrations of this art and the materials used. Philological Club to # Meet Tuesday The Philological Club will meet at 7:30 Tuesday evening in the faculty lounge of the Morehead building. Ly man Cotten will read a paper on "The Making of the ‘City of Dreadful Night’." The Chapel Hill Weekly Louis Graves Editor Nation’s No. 1 Team Here Tomorrow; One-Sided Game Is Forecast but “Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast” The football team that is ranked No. 1 in the United States — that of the University of Tennessee—will play Carolina tomorrow in the Kenan stadium. The kickoff will be at 2 o’clock. Os course, with Tennessee what it is and with Carolina's record of 4 defeats out of 6 games so far this season, the forecast is for a one-sided game. You can hear the word “slaughter” when people talk about the treatment that’s in store for Carolina. But as Pope wrote two centuries ago—and how many million times have the words been quoted?—“hope springs etenial in the human breast.” When all the omens point to a defeat, it is pleasant to reflect that “anything can happen in football.” Think of the day in the Kenan stadium three years ago when Texas, which was pre dicted an almost sure winner, was scored on three times in about the first six minutes of the game and was beaten 34 to 7. And' think what a surprise, of an opposite kind, Carolina got at Wake Forest last Saturday. Vernon Crook, director of ticket sales, reports that the tickets already sold for the game come to a total of 40,000. Tho.se not yet sold, between 4 and 5 thousand, will be put on sale at the gate at 12 noon tomorrow. Nine tenths of the crowd, at a low estimate, will be Carolina adherents. Why do they want to come and see their team wal loped? Well, there are several answers to that question. One is that a lot of the spectators are hoping against hope that the expected walloping will not take place. Another is that coming to a football game (if the weather’s good) is a big lark no matter what the result is. Another is that, even if your own darlings do have the role of the sacrificial goat, you like to see in action the team that ranks first in the nation. Wouldn’t you like to go to Emerson field to see Joe DiMaggio bat even if you knew the Caro lina pitcher was going to be the victim? And wouldn’t you like to go out to the University golf links to see Ben Hogan or Sam Snead perform even if you knew he was going to beat the Carolina champion by a frightful margin? Presbyterian Leader And Wife Move Here The Rev. and Mrs. K. J. McMullen have come here to make their home and are living at 407 Pittsboro street. From 1944 to 1946 Mr. McMullan was president of Centre College in Keiv- Befp re that he was a I'rea ■fietian missionary in China for more than 40 years, during part of which he was president of Hangchow Uni versity. During World War II Mr. and Mrs. McMullen were arrested by the Jap anese and confined in a prison camp for some time before they were ex changed for Japanese prisoners and returned aboard the Gripsholm on its last trip. Before his recent retire ment, Mr. McMullen had been execu tive secretary of the United Board for Christian Colleges in China, which sponsored the 13 protestant universi ties in China and rehabilitated and developed them after the war. The Ailrusan.s’ Dinner Meeting The Altrusa Club held its regular dinner meeting at the Carolina Inn on Thursday of last week. Miss Grace Cordon, chairman of its information committee, was in charge of the pro gram. Three members, Dr. Mabel Goudge, Mrs. Lucy Sutton, and Mrs. Bruce Strowd, reported on the pro ceedings at the recent Second District Conference in High Point. Mrs. Strowd praised. Mrs. Guion Johnson for her speech there and told of the memorial services for Altrusans (among them Mrs. Charlotte Creigh ton of Chapel Hill) who had died in the last year. It was reported that the district governor, Mrs. Augusta Clawson, had resigned because of ill ness and had been succeeded by Mrs. Ernestine Milner of Greensboro. legion Auxiliary Officers Installed The American Legion Auxiliary’s officers for the coming year were recently installed at a meeting at the home of Mrs. R. B. Fitch. Re-elected officers are Mrs. Keba Lineberger, president, and Miss Mabel Mallett, chaplain. New officers are Mrs. Car men George, vice-president; Mrs. Joins Brittain, secretary; Miss Jean Patter son, treasurer; Miss Nancy Humph reys, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Arteiia Leigh, historian, and Mrs. S. A. Nathan, sergeant-at-aims. Students Elect Jo Padgette Miss Jo Padgette, vice-president of the high school student council, was elected secretary of the North Caro lina Student Council Congress at its meeting this week in Greensboro. Other Chapel Hillians at the meeting were Don Christopher, president of the high school student body; Cole man Gentry, treasurer of the high school student council, and Wesley Noble, the group’s faculty advisor. CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1951 Coman Lumber Co. Is To Have Branch Here The Coman Lumber Company of Durham is establishing a branch in Chapel Hiß. The building is under construction and is expected to be finished about the middle of December. It is m Graham street next to the Colonial Stores. It is to be of Colonial design with walls of white shingles and probably green trim. The entire front of 40 feet will be taken up by the office and a large room for the display of the Coman products. At each side of the building will be a 30-foot-wide concrete-paved space, half for the passage of vehicles and half for parking. Various Bits about the Village and Its People Mrs. Zuber on Visit Here ' Mrs. Lytle G Zuber (the former Miss Lucy I>ay) came frorh Columbus, Ohio, last Friday and will be here till next Tuesday. She has sleeping quarters in the apartment of Miss Sara Gene Steele, in the Weeks home on West Rosemary lane, hut most of the time she is with her mother, Mrs. George W. Lay, in the Glen. Her visit here was timed to coincide with her husband's attendance at the 25th anniversary reunion of his law school class at Harvard. A.A.I’.W. to Meet Nov. 9 The Chapel Hill branch of the American Association of University Women will meet at 8:30 next Fri day evening, November 9, at the home of Mrs. T. W. Mcßane in Pittsboro. A1 Resell, Siler City newspaper pub lisher, will speak. . . . Mrs. Kerro Knox of Chapel Hill will speak at the meeting of the Durham A.A.U.W. at Harvey’s Cafeteria at 6 p.m. Wednes day. Chapel Hill members are in vited. Statistics in Bookshop Window Paul Smith, proprietor of the In timate Bookshop, has some unusual statistics in this week’s display in one of the store’s show windows. They include the statements that “90 per cent of the people make little mumb ling sounds when they read the funny papers” and that “93 per cent of the people thing Chaucer is what you put your coffee in before you blow on it.” Lutheran Women to Meet Monday The women of the Lutheran church will meet at 8 p.m. Monday with Mrs. A. T. Miller on the Durham road. Mrs. Hammerness will have charge of the program, which will be about Puerto Rico. Members are asked to bring their thanks-offering boxes. Classified ada appear on pagaa 2 aad 7. Chapel Hill Chaff Mrs. Lytle Zuber (the former Miss Lucy Lay), here on a visit to her mother, noticed a pome granate tree in the Fitch yard when she was walking along East Franklin street one day this week. She had just come from Columbus, Ohio, and she says the fruit, scattered under the tree, gave Chapel Hill a sort of tropical aspect. She has lived in Ohio for so long that she has become unaccustomed to seeing the pomegranate, which grows no farther north than southern and eastern Virginia. There are several pomegranate trees in and around our village. One is on Mrs. John M. Booker’s place. Others are out along the Durham road. Mrs. Alma Beers, the person whom I often consult when I want to find out something about the vegetable kingdom, tells me the pomegranate orig inated in or near Persia. It flour ished so abundantly around Carthage in ancient times that the Romans called the fruit the Punic apple, and one of the present-day names for it is the Carthaginian apple. Mrs. Zuber’s appetite was not stirred by the sight of the fruit on the Fitch lawn, and I have not heard of anybody in Chapel Hill who eats pomegranates. “Some people like them,” said Mrs. Beers, but she mentioned no names. The fruit is dis tinguished by its large number of seeds, and maybe some Chapel Hillians wil be persuaded to taste jt when I quote for them this statement from the Oxford Eng tifth Dictionary: “Each of the seeds is enveloped in a pleasant ly acid juicy reddish pulp.” * * * Mrs. R. 0. E. Davis has re cently come back to Chapel Hill to live. When she was Birdie Pritchard we used to go to school together to Miss I,t>ula Hendon in the house that is now Mrs. Irene (Continued on last page) Turk to Speak and Give Play Nureddin Sevin, head of the drama department of the State Conserva toire of Ankara, Turkey, will speak on the origins and development of Turkish drama at 8:30 p.m. Sunday at the Haymakers theatre and will also perform an ancient Turkish shadow play. He is one of the few men in the world who have mastered the difficult art of the shadow play. Mr. and Mrs. Sevin are here on an extended visit to the Carolina Play makers. Henderson Addrenses Students’ Wives Archibald Henderson talked about the history of Chapel Hill and the University last night at the Graham Memorial at a meeting of the Law Wives Association and its guests, members of the Dental Wives Asso ciation. Sgt. King Has Furlough After a two-weeks furlough here with his parents, Sgt. A. K. King jr. left Wednesday for Denver, Col., to resume his duties as an instructor in the Air Force Career Guidance School at Lowry Air Force Base. He enlisted in the Air Force last January. P.T.A. Meeting Next Thursday The Parent-Teachers Association will meet at 7:45 p.m. next Thursday, November 8, in the auditorium of the elementary school. The program will include a short business session and a talk by Mrs. Ruth Tooze, an authority on children’s , literature. Mrs. Tooze’s appearance here is being sponsored by the Mary Bayley Pratt Children’s Library Association. For Dogs with Encephalitis The Humane Society announces that Dr. Vine now has the serum to innoculate dogs afflicted with enceph- I alitis. Joe Jones Assistant Editor Rose Learns Tax Valuations of Properties in Section That It Is Proposed to Annex to Town; Will Report to Board Nov. 12 The Airport Road The recently reconstructed section of the road between Chapel Hill and the Raleigh- Durham airport will not be hard surfaced till next spring but it has been put in condition for all-weather travel. It is now open for traffic. This information comes by telephone from W. E. Hawkins, construction engineer for the State Highway Commission. “The hard-surfacing has been postponed because the contractor who was to do the job could not get to it this fall,” says Mr. Hawkins. “In order to put the road in use we have scarified the surface to a depth of three inches, have reshaped it, and applied calcium chloride in a density of 11/*l 1 /* pounds per square yard. Calcium chloride prevents dust and also helps to hold the surface together. The State forces will take good care of the maintenance during the winter and people going to and from the airport can pass over the road regularly.” Hey, You Lazy People, Get Out and Register! The number of persons who regis tered last Saturday for the election November 20 on the question of en larging the school district was 133, divided as folows: at the Town Hall (north precinct), 71; at the school (south precinct), 62. Franklin street is the dividing line between precincts. This number, 133, is about a fif teenth of t)»e number who ought to register. There will be two more registration days, tomorrow (Saturday) and the next Saturday, November 10. Satur day the 17th will be “challenge day.” The purpose of the proposed en largement of the district is tax equal ization. The enlargement will not af fect persons now in the district. It will simply extend the school tax to an area from which people send their children to the Chapel Hill school without paying the tax. Who Can Identify This Check? ’ The W’eekly received on October 17 an unsigned subscription check on the Bank of Chapel Hill. We failed to notice the lack of a signature and deposited the check, and of course the bank returned it to us. The fact that it was for $3 (the outside-of-the eounty annual rate) indicates that it was a gift subscription. Many per sons living in Chapel Hill give sub scriptions to relatives and friends away from here. However, somebody may have written $3 when $2 was intended. Here is a clue: the check was numbered 288. Who can locate in his or her checkbook a stub num bered 288 for a check made out to the Weekly? To anybody who looks for such a stub: look back through Sep tember as well as October, because sometimes subscribers mislay checks and don’t mail them till long after they are written. Food Hale Will Be Held Today The Women’s Auxiliary at the Episcopal church will hold a food sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today (Friday) at the parish house. Items for sale will include pies, cakes, hams, bruns wick stew, and other home-cooked foods. Student Wine Dairy Bar Prise F. R. Schwartz, a University stu dent, won the prize offered by the Dairy Bar for the best name for the Halloween sundae being served there this week. The name he submitted wae “Halloween Fantasy,” and his prize was four banana aplite. Art Exhibit to Open Sunday A new art exhibit prepared by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and entitled "What ie Modern Paint ing?” will open Sunday at Peraon hall. $2 a Year in Advance in Orange County $3 a Year Out of County. 5c a Copy The board of aldermen’s deter mination to make a study of the problem of annexation, about which the Weekly had an article in the September 28th issue, is already bearing fruit. Thomas D. Rose, the town manager, went over to Hillsboro day before yesterday and, with the help of Mrs. Roland Giduz, the town clerk, who accompanied him, totted up the tax valuations of the properties in a large area in Westwood that it is proposed to annex to Chapel Hill. There are 66 properties in the area and Mr. Rose found the total of their valuations to be $532,000. This important infor mation will be included in the report on the annexation pro posal that Mr. Rose is to submit to the aldermen Monday after next, November 12. The information is important because the aldermen’s decision on whether or not to go ahead with the annexation plan de pends upon the tax revenue to be expected from the proposed extension. At the present tax rate of $1.43 per SIOO, properties valued at $532,000 would yield $7,607. If the annexation plan goes through, the town will have to provide fire and police protec tion, maintain the streets, and collect garbage. Most of the homes in the area are already collected with the town’s sewer system. The owners pay a larger sewer service fee now than they will have to pay if they are taken into the town. It is expected that, on the basis of his estimates of revenue and costs, Mr. Rose will recom mend annexation. The plan can be carried out by action of the aldermen unless 15 per cent of the residents of the area or 15 per cent of the people of the town petition for an election. • Law School Annex Dedication Tomorrow The new addition to the University Law School building (Manning hall) will be dedicated at 10:30 tomorrow (Saturday) morning. Short talks by representatives of the University trustees, administra tion, faculty, and students, will be followed by an address by F. D. G. Kibble, dean of the University of Vir ginia l.aw School and president of the Association of American Law Schools. Among the speakers will be Presi dent Gordon Gray, Lt.-Gov. H. P. Taylor (for the. State and trustees), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court W. A. Devin, Attorney General Harry Mc-Mullan, R. H. Wettach (for the law faculty), and Knox Walker (for the Students). The addition will practically double the facilities of the law school. It will enable the school to quit using the three temporoary wooden structures into which it overflowed after the war. Mrs. Lindsay at Warm Springs Mrs. Robert E. Lindsay, who was in Watts hospital several weeks after being stricken with infantile paraly sis, was taken by airplane Wednesday to Warm Springs, Georgia. She was accompanied by Dr. IJndsay and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Peden. Dr. Lindsay telephoned to his mother here that she had stood the trip well and had already begun taking the treatment Her address is: c/o Warm Springs Foundation. Legion and Auxiliary Meeting Tonight H. G. Baity will address a joint meeting of the American Legion and its Women’s Auxiliary this (Friday) evening at the Legion Hut His topta will be “The Yugoslavian Way of Ufa in Contrast to tha American Way." The meeting wil begin at 7:30, and Mr. Baity’s talk will begin at 8:1S. Refreshment! will be served.
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