VoL 29, No. 49 Collection of Plants in Far Regions to Be Topic of Talk Mrs. Mary G. Henry of Glad wyne, Pa., who has won fame by her adventures in plant collect ing all over North America, will give a lecture, illustrated with colored pictures, at 8 o’clock to morrow (Saturday) evening in Davie hall (the botany building) on the University campus. Her topic will be “Exploring beyond the Frontier in Northern British Columbia.” Everybody is invited. Mrs. Henry is here as the guest of the University’s botany department and the Chapel Hill Garden Club. She wil recount some of her experiences during four seasons of collecting and exploring in a little known region of the North west. After she gave a series of lectures on the same subject in 1948 before the Royal Scottish Geographical Society the Society awarded to her the Mungo Park Medal. She has lectured frequently before horticultural societies in Europe, including the Royal Agricultural Society of Great Britain. She has been for years a research associate of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. A peak in a range of moun tains near the Alcan Highway, the highway that was built dur ing the war for the transporta tion of troops and munitions and suplies to Alaska, is named Mt. Mary Henry in her honor. Mrs. Henry has brought into cultivation at her home at Glad wyne, near Philadelphia, rare native American plants, some of them spectacularly beautiful, which have been neglected gen erally by American horticultur ists. She has there more than 1,000 species of living native plants. These include an unparal led collection of plants of the Southeastern states. In the course of her explora tions she has marie 60 trips to the Southeastern states and 20 to the Northeastern states, and she has spent 11 seasons in the Rocky Mountains. Joneses* Car Wrecked By a Lady I^ook-Away Dr. and Mrs. Kemp Jones and their two children, Gordon and Connie, were on their way west to Salisbury by automobile last Sunday to have a delayed Thanksgiving dinner with the doctor’s parents. As they were nearing Graham an eastbound woman driver who was looking away from the road ahead veer ed to the left, ran into their car, and knocked it off the road. It turned over two or three times and was practically demolished. Miraculously the Joneses came out of the wreck with only one injury, a strain to Mrs. Jones’s back. They had to give up the trip to Salisbury, but the dinner they were going to get there was made up for by the one they went to that evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jo Philips. Stores Open Till 9 P.M. Most of the stores here will be open till 9 o’clock this (Friday) evening and tomorrow evening for the convenience of people who don't have time to do their Christmas shopping during the day. They will also stay open till 9 p.m. from December 18 through December 24. A gift to • friond, m tubteripOion to tko Weekly; intido Orange county . ft • yMr, outoido ft. The Chapel Hill Weekly Louis Gram Editor Report Shows Remarkable Advance in Production on Farms in Orange County County Agent Don Matheson’s annual report to the county commissioners, presented at their meeting this week, shows the continued remarkable advance in production on the farms of Orange county. Here are some of the facts he sets down about farming ac tivities this year: The revenue to dairymen from the sale of milk was $700,000. . . . Poultry' sales grossed over $500,000, and Orange poultry men are keeping 122,000 laying hens. . . . Sales by farming women at the Chapel Hill curb market amounted to $32,500. . . . Farmers received $1,000,000 from the sale of livestock at the Farmers’ Mutual Livestock Market in Hillsboro. The total for livestock, poultry, grain, etc., marketed for farmers by the Mutual’s three units in the county was $1,214,000, and the sales of feed and farm supplies to farmers at these units amounted to $1,016,000. . . . Fish ponds were built and stocked with fish by 44 farmers. . . . 1,217 cows were bred artificially to some of the' best proven bulls in the nation. . . . 12 new Grade A dairies were started, and three established Grade A dairymen built new and more modem milking barns. . . . 600 acres of soybeans were harvested. Illustrative of the change that has taken place in farming in this region is the fact that the county’s income from soybeans is now greater than its income from cotton. The farmers of Orange have launched a movement to raise the annual income per farm by SI,OOO, to improve living con ditions on farms, and to carry out useful community projects. A circular about the movement, the printing of which was a con tribution from the Lions Club and the Merchants Association of Hillsboro, is soon to be distributed to all farmers in the county. There are four pig club chains in operation in the county, and 200 families own purebred Spotted Poland China hogs. The Orange County Spotted Poland China Association held two shows and sales this year, put on exhibits at the State Fair and the Durham Fat Stock Show, and helped its members in registering 244 animals. Christmas Lights Turned Off; They Created Danger by Obscuring Traffic Signal Lights Town Manager Rose has order ed the Christmas lights at street intersections turned off because they obscured the traffic lights, therebj confusing l>oth pedes trians and drivers and creating a serious danger. The order was issued Wednes day and took effect that night. Miss Jane Berryhill, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. R. Berryhill, a sophomore in the University, had been struck by a car at the Carolina Inn corner the night before and many complaints had come to the town manager by letter and telephone. Both Miss Berryhill and the driver of the car that struck her said they had been confused because of not being able to see the signal lights dearly amid the Christ mas lights. “The Christmas lights won’t he turned on again unless some thing is done that will keep them from creating a danger,” said Mr. Rose yesterday. A fund for the Christmas lights was raised by the Mer- Club Women to Hear Miss Akers The Community Club’s inter national relations department will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 11, in the Pine room of the Carolina Inn, with Miss Willinda Savage as hostess. Miss Susan G. Akers, dean of the University’s school of library science, will speak on “Japan Today.” She will discuss some of the aspects of Japanese life she observed while recently in Japan several months as a special li brary consultant. New Post for 11. E. Coker, Jr. ■ ■ii mdk ■ In order to accept appoint ment as director of the division of local health administration of the State Board of Health, Dr. Robert E. Coker, jr., has re signed as Alamance county health officer. New Church to Open Jan. 6 Chapel Hill’s new Lutheran church will open Sunday, Jan uary 6. The church is at the corner of Roeemary and Pickard lanes. This Ismm ot tko Weekly turn It 1a < Mrttene. CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1951 chants Association and they were put up by the University Service Plants. -Mj.ss, RfirybUl. spent Tuesday, nigttt i» Aaftriltary. She came out in time Jo attend her late classes Wednesday. She has one arm in a sling. This is neces sary because of an injury to a nerve. The doctors expect her to be completely recovered in a few days. Rabid Mongrel Bites Child, Mules, Dogs Hogs, and Chickens in Two-Mile Rampage About 9 o’clock Monday morn ing three Negro men came to the Health Department with the head of a mongrel dog they had just killed and which had bitten a 12-year-old girl, two mules, and a number of hogs, chickens, and dogs in the Farrington Mill road neighborhiKxl a few miles to the southwest of Chapel Hill. One of the men, Clyde Thomp son, was the father of the bitten child and the owner of the mules. He accompanied Dr. George Chrisman, the Health Depart ment veterinarian, to Raleigh, where an examination of the dog’s head showed that the ani mal was rabid at the time of its death. The girl is being given the anti-rabies Pasteur treatment by Dr. John S. Hooker and is al most certain not to contract the disease. The mules are also be- Notice to Christmas Mailers Because of the Christmas mailing rush, the parcel post window at the Chapel Hill post office will be open all day to morrow (Saturday), from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Other windows at the post office will observe the regu lar 1 p.m. Saturday closing hour tomorrow, but all windows, in cluding parcel post, will be open all day Saturday, December 16 and Saturday, December 22. Watts Poes on Oakwood Drive Mr. and Mrs. Watts Poe and their son, Watt* jr., have moved from 412 North street to 6 Oak wood drive, the house they re cently bought from David Cor red. Chapel Hill Chaff Mr. and Mrs. J. G. deßoulhac Hamilton were not at home Sun day when their son, Dr. Alfred Hamilton, came up from Raleigh, and he went back without seeing them. They had some compen sation, though, for missing his visit. Dr. Hamilton had two companions on his drive here. One, his son Hugh, he took back with him. The other he left in his parents’ ice-box. It was a goose that he had shot when he and Graham Trott had gone on a trip to Lake Mattamuskeet. * * * Taking its text from com ments in the St. Louis Post-Dis patch on the revival of the der by hat in England, the Danville (Va.) Register publishes an edi torial about the wearing of a derby hat by Ralph McCauley, the former Chapel Hillian who is the proprietor of the Hotel Lee land in Danville. “McCauley’s derby is reserved for special oc casions,” says the Register. “He wears it at a distinctive angle, avoiding alike the sedate level and the theatrical tilt. On him the black derby looks like some thing men of distinction wear ra ther than an antique culled from grandfather’s long - forgotten wardrobe. If and when the der by regains favor beyond the horsy set, Ralph McCauley will be wearing his, as usual, with an aplomb that few of the new faddists will be able to ap proach.” The only derby-wearer of my acquaintance is the eminent at- Jones Fuller. It has be- R iVMfe much a part of him. and Mr lSmfftar a part of the Durham' scene, that for him to appear in any other kind of headgear would be in the nature of a revo lution. You would be making a mistake if you said that Mr. Fuller’s derby gives him dis ut a hundred miles away and come here only occasionally; so, naturally, Chapel Hill is more in terested in the Grady Pritchards’ becoming grandparents than in their son Bill’s becoming a par ent. Not that the village is indif ferent to the latter development —not that at all; for Bill is well known and well liked here, and while in the University he had a special importance as a star football player. But now to get to a conven. tional statement of the newa: A daughter was born to Mr. and Mjts. William Grady Pritchard, jr., last Friday, November 80, in Wilson, where Mr. Pritchard ia in the casualty insurance busi ness. The mother is the former Miss Beverly Johnson of Mayo dan. When the Weekly went to press yesterday the daughter had not yet been named. ence.”