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
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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
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ing given the Pasteur treatment
(by Dr. Chrisman) and are ex
pected to be all right. Hut some
of the dogs arid other animals
bitten by the rabid mongrel
while it ranged over an area of
about two square miles are still
at large and are a danger to
people and animals.
In reporting the case, I)r.
Chrisman said, “This kind of
situation could be prevented if
people would have their dogs
vaccinated against rabies every
year, as required by law.”
In order to give people in that
part of the countryside an op
portunity to have their dogs
vaccinated, Dr. Chrisman will
hold a vaccination clinic at 1
o’clock tomorrow (Saturday) af
ternoon at Blake’s service sta
tion on the Pittsboro road at the
Orange-Chatham county line.
The clinic will last about an
hour.
Hazzard’s Annual Party
The dinner given annually by
the Hazzard Motor Company for
its employees and friends will
be held tomorrow (Saturday)
evening at New Hope camp. The
fastivities, to begin between six
and sevpn o’clock, will include
music and dancing, as well as a
feast prepared by women of the
New Hope community.
Legion Barbecue Tonight
The December meeting of the
Chapel Hill post of the Ameri
can Legion will be a barbecue
supper at 6 o’clock this (Friday)
evening at the Legion Hut. The
supper will be free to all mem
bers who have paid their 1962
dues.
Joe Jones
Assistant Editor
Bogus S2O Bills Thai a Farmer
Declares He Found in His Barn
Brought to the Chapel Hill Bank;
Secret Service Men Come Here
The First Gathering
in the
New Library Addition
The first gathering in thq
University’s new Library addi
tion will be the December meet
ing of the American Association
of University Women in the
Assembly-Exhibition room at 8
o’clock next Thursday evening.
This room is on the ground floor
in the west wing of the new
building—tjie first room on
your right when you enter by
the west door.
The speakers will be Miss Dor
othy McCuskey, Glen Haydon,
and Mrs. Kerro Knox. They will
talk about what they saw and
heard in Europe last summer.
Although the new building
will not be formally opened till
April 18, it is already in partial
use. The structure itself is prac
tically complete. The main job
still to be done is the paneling
and other fixing-up in the North
Carolina section. The stacks,
which were delayed by the steel
shortage, have now arrived and
are being installed.
Parents Planning to
Enlarge Art Program
The chief purpose of the newly
organized School Art Guild (at
first called the Art Parents
Club) is to raise money to sup
plement and enlarge the present
art program in the Chapel, Hill
public schools. Anybody who is
interested in this endeavor is in
vited to join the group by tele
phoning Mrs. Harold Weaver
(5211), who is chairman of the
membership committee.
In addition to fostering a
broader art program in the
schools, the club will form art
workshops for parents and or
ganize art study groups among
its members.
At its second meeting Tuesday
evening of this week the club
drew up a constitution and set
up a finance and endowment
committee, with Mrs. Gordon
Gray as chairman.
At the organization’s first
meeting last week the following
officers were elected: Mrs. K. W.
Linker, president; Mrs. Kay Ky
ser, vice-president; Mrs. Henry
Brandis, secretary, and Mrs. Tom
Scott, treasurer.
League’s Christmas I’arty
The Junior Service League will
hold its annual Christmas party
at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, December
11, at the Episcopal parish
house. Mrs. Sybil I.inve, who
studied at the Pasadena School
of Dramatics and who has done
extensive work in dramatics in
Cincinnati, Ohio, will read Henry
Van Dyke’s “The First Christ
mas Tree.” Mrs. T. M. Stan back
jr. will sing several favorite
Christmas songs, after which
the members will sing Christ
mas carols.
Knight Flies to Cleveland
Edgar W. Knight went to
Cleveland, Ohio, by airplane yes
terday to attend a three-day
meeting of the Cleveland Con
ference, a company of education
al scholars from all parts of the
country.
Mrs. Russell to Be Here
Mrs. Lucy P. Russell of Rock
ingham will arrive Monday for
several days at the Carolina Inn.
CkarirM ads appear m mam
• sad I.
$2 a Year in Advance in Orange County
S 3 a Year Out of County. 5c a Copy
Six of the counterfeit S2O
bills (total, $3,720) found by a
tenant farmer in his bam at
Rougemont, Durham County,
were brought into the Bank of
Chapel Hill on Tuesday. Two
were offered for deposit; four
were brought in, to be shown to
W. E. Thompson, executive vice
president of the bank, by a man
who had found on them the
serial number given in the Dur
ham paper’s article about the
counterfeit money.
The bank here had been noti
fied by the Citizens National
Bank of Durham about the
counterfeit money’s being in cir
culation and the tellers were
cautioned to examine carefully
all S2O bills offered for cashing
or deposit.
As required by law, the bank
kept the two bills offered for
deposit, one of which was
brought in by Mrs. J. L. Sutton
along with other money she had
received from customers.
Two U. S. Secret Service
agents, who were in Durham in
vestigating the case, came over
here and examined the bills.
They pronounced the counter
feiting job an excellent one, a
continuation of the opinion that
Mr. Thompson had already ex
pressed.
“The bills had a slightly
greasy look and the paper was
a little thinner than that used
in genuine bills,” said Mr.
Thompson, “but a person not
on the watch for a counterfeit
would never notice the differ
ence.”
The bills all bore the same
serial number, G97958599C. No
two genuine bills ever have the
same serial number; the number
changes with the printing of
each one.
The man who brought in the
four bills to show to Mr. Thomp
son was Walter Moore, the bar
ber. The tenant of a farm owned
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The Grady Pritchards
Have a Granddaughter
The Grady Pritchards have a
granddaughter. That is not the
conventional way to set down
the news, of course, for there
are other persons more closely
connected with the affair: name
ly, the father and mother of the
newcomer, Mr. and Mrs. William
Grady Pritchard, jr. But what
newspapermen know as “the lo
cal angle” has to be taken into
account. The grandparents live
here in Chapel Hill and are seen
on the streets day in and day
out, whereas the parents live
alx>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.”