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Vol. 30 No. 2 Fly Ash That Was Nuisance Not Now Going Up Smokestack New equipment installed at the University power plant is now diverting from the smokestack the “fly ash” that used to shower down on peo ple’s homes and cover odious ly porch floors, clothes hang ing on the line, shrubbery, flowers, and, if the windows were left open, room floors, beds, chairs, and tables. Instead of going up the stack the fly ash is now car ried b.y strong blasts of air into a large hopper of vitreous brick, called a silo because it is shaped like one, and hauled in trucks to the town dump. “Our winter jasmine was blooming at Christmas,” said Mrs. Koy Armstrong yester day, “and it was certainly wonderful to bring the blos soms in and put them in a vase on the dining room table without having to wash the soot off. Last year we had to wash all the flowers before we brought them into the house.” This and other favorable testimony from the neighbor hood should not be taken to mean that householders are completely satisfied with what has been done to eliminate the fly ash nuisance. They say that some of the hateful stuff is still descending on their pos sessions. But they say the situation is “lots better than it was.” This is confirmed by the fact that every day three truckloads of fly ash, meat of which .act! to up Ufi smokestack, are now blßMfc in to the silo and hauled off. A truck holds four cubic yards. The diversion of the fly ash to the silo is accomplished by means of precipitators (famil iarly called cones) placed be tween the boilers and the stack. Air currents create a centrifugal force that causes the ash to leave the cones at the side while the coal gas fumes go up the stack. The power plant people say that when some “kinks are ironed out,” in the new machinery, there will be a still further de cline in the quantity of fly ash let loose into the air. Pogany’s Paintings Are on View Today Twenty-five original paint ings of scenes from Shakes peare by Willy Pogany, tin* famous artist and illustrator, will be on view today (Fri day), tomorrow, and Sunday at the Morehead building. The exhibit, which is being sponsored by the University’s English department, will be open to the public from 2 to 5 p.m. each day. In announcing the exhibit, Clifford P. Lyons, head of the English department, said: “Because of their unusual educational value, we are for tunate in getting these origin al paintings, even for such a limited time.” Arrangements for the show are being directed by Kermit Hunter of the English depart ment. Pogany, who lives in New York, is a native of Hungary. John Scott Speaks Here John Scott, a correspondent for Time Magazine, spoke here last night in Gerrard hall un der the auspices of the Uni versity Press Club and the Carolina Forum. His topic was “The Press and the Cold War.” His lecture was one of a series he is giving at colleges and universities throughout the nation. The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents s Copy liruce Sfrowd and His Wliite-laced Hereford Bull jj| pßgj k. ' am... 9 * *2Hfe* •#» v.* * This photograph of Bruce Strowd and his White-faced Hereford bull was taken by Baity Will Start Next Friday a Series of Free Travel Talks with Pictures in Color The public is now going to reap the benefit of Herman G. Talking about #hat*s in the pictures was not part of the hobby at first, but it has I**- come an important part to the spectators. As the pictures are thrown on the screen Mr. Baity accompanies them vvilh highly entertaining descrip tion, narrative, and miscellan eous comment. He will give at 7:30 next Friday evening, January 18, in Gerrard hall the first in a series of six showings of his pictures. It’s free and every body is invited. A special in vitation is extended to school children. The six weeks’ schedule is as follows: January 18. Some Brazilian Contrasts: Amazonia and Rio de Janeiro. January 25. The Suo Fran cisco River Valley and the Sertao: The T.V.A. of Brazil. February 1. Uruguay, Boli via and Peru: Lands of Gau chos, Incas and Andes. Villagers Will Be Soloists in Oratorio Four Chapel I Lilians are among the eight singers who will have solo roles in Han del’s "Judas Maccahaeus,” the seldom-heard oratorio to 1* given at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 15, in Hill hall by the Chapel Hill Choral Club. Miss Anne Lynch of 304 Cameron avenue, a soloist at the Methodist church, will share the soprano arias and duets with Miss Martha Hey gel of Asheville and Miss Ro berta McKinney of Jackson ville, Fla. For several years Miss Lynch has been a grad uate assistant in the Univer sity’s music department, where she recently completed work for her M.A. degree. The alto solos will be per formed by Miss Mae Marsh banks, a resident of Glen Len nox, a soloist at the Pres byterian church, and a math ematics teacher in the Chapel Hill high school. She was so loist with the Choral Club in last year's performance of Stuart Sechriest one day this week out at the Strowd farm in Chatham county. The cow February 8. Central Ameri ca and Mexico: Mayas and Matadors. February 15. Europe in the Wintertime. February 22. Europe in the Summertime: Peeks Alone the Iron Curtain. Every showing will last ap proximately one hour. Mr. Baity’s assignments from the U. S. Department of State, various governments, and the United Nations, to study sanitary conditions and plan sanitary improvements, have given him an exceptional opportunity to make interest ing photographs. Bank Stockholders Will Meet at 8 Tonight The stockholders of the Bank of Chapel Hill will have their annual meeting at 8 o’clock this (Friday) evening at the hank. One of the matters upon which they will hear a report is the progress on the con struction of the rear addi tion to the building. There are 159 stockholders. Bach’s “Magnificat.” Urban T. Holmes of the University’s department of romance lang uages, a regular soloist with the club and at the Episcopal church, will sing the bass re citatives in the role of the high priest. Sharing the bass solo portions will he Joel Car (Continued on page 7) W. D. Carmichael la 79 William D. Carmichael was 79 years old yesterday. A na tive of South Carolina, Mr. Carmichael entered the Uni versity in 1892, was out for one year as a school teacher, and was graduated in 1897. He was with the Durham city schools for fifteen years and was superintendent when he resigned in 1912 to join the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company. He lived in New York after he became vice president of the company in the 1920'*. Since hi* retire ment in 1942 he has been liv ing at the Carolina Inn. CHAPEL HILL, N. C M FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1952 at the right was not invited into the picture but she seems, to me, to improve the composition. The spread of water in the background is the pond that was made by the damming of the branch that runs through the farm. When ever Mr. or Mrs. Strowd is energetic enough to gg> down to the pimd wjsfr.a hook and line they can -flßfc •mmA of fish. That< it, in the proper season. Mr. Strowd is presented here not only as an individual well known and well loved in Chapel Mill but also as a representative of the cattle raisers in the country round about. Cat lie-raising has taken a (Continued on page 2) Head of Woman’s College Art Department Addresses Chapel Hill School Art (iuild Gregory Ivey, head of the art department at the Wo man’s College in Greensboro, and Miss Katharina Williams, art education specialist, also a member of the Woman’s Col lego faculty, spoke here Tues day evening at a meeting of the newly organized Chapel If ill School Art Guild. They were introduced by John All colt, head of the University’s art department. Mr. Ivey said that art could have not only an emo tional and aesthetic hut a therapeutic value in the teach ing of children. “Pent-up fears and anxieties,” he said, “as well as joyous feelings, can find outlet through paint and clay.” In her talk Miss Williams said that, in study ing art, children should he en couraged to "explore, experi ment, and express.” Both speakers stressed the import ance of an understanding of children on the part of a school art teacher. “You must reach the child, as well as know how to paint,” Miss Williams said. When asked how the public Mr. Kellogg Is Convalescing Gordon H. Kellogg, who was in Duke hospital for several weeks after having an attack of coronary thrombosis, is convalescing at his home on the Pittaboro highway. Mra. Danziger in Hospital Mrs. Edward Danziger is a patient in Watts hospital in Durham. Chapel Hill Chaff Thomas Ruffin sold recent ly a lot in Washington, oppo site the Naval Observatory, that he bought many years ago. The buyer was the British government, which wanted to add the lot to its adjacent Embassy property. When the deed was prepared for Mr. Ruffin’s signature he found the grantee named as follows: Minister of Works of His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. * * * I heard Lawrence Campbell, the Weekly’s printing boss, come running up the steps from the composing room. When he comes up that way it denotes unusual eagerness about something or other. He said: “Mr. Graves, do you know we’re going to have five issues in February? I won der if that’s ever happened to the Weekly before?” This being a Leap Year, February has 21) days. The first day of the month hap pens to fall on Friday; which means that the 29th falls on Friday ; which means, since Friday is our publication day, five issues in the year’s short est month. 1 consulted the World Alma nac’s “ready reference calen dar,” which tells you on what day of the week any day of the month fell for 200 years back, and will for 50 years to come, and found that the pa per had never before come out live times in February. But there’s something of u triek in it. From March 1, 1923, when the Weekly’s first issue appealed, to June 13, 1924, our publication day was Thursday. February 29 fell on Friday in 1924, and if Fri day had been our publication day then as it is now, we would have had a five-issue February in that year. The “ready reference calendar” shows that there won’t be an other February with five Fri days till 1980. Lawrence is (Continued on puge 12) could be sold on the question of art education in the schools, Mr. Ivey quoted an executive of a large Richmond, V r a., de partment store who said that he wanted all his employees to increase their knowledge of art and that an improvement in their art taste would in crease their chance of ad vancement. * The meeting was presided over by Mrs. Robert W. Link er, president of the School Art (Continued on page 12) $4,600 (’heck Received from Polio Foundation j «• 9>p NOf n« le.mr M | ’ * 4 a?.’, ’ Till. NvriONAI. Koi/niiaiion WIM No. TiftH LIS® a, Im»amtii4c I'ahai.vmim. Ini , v«r«,aa.* •• * *• * ®SS! M rVMHuriM 104 MM<Nl.it rANAI.t*. I«M (mn CnaU <*•*«. **r» CmUM • i.tpn.oo mMM . CjUdot * ** 4<3O QB&LQ O CLI hi. M t.iN. Mn.i ... T in n . OMP.WI This $4,600 check, to pay for continued medical care for one polio patient from this county, has been received by the local polio chapter from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, it is an nounced by Mrs. George E. Shepard, chuirman of the chapter, which is now con ducting its annual March of Dimes campaign. “When March of Dimes funds are raised,” Mrs. Shep ard said yesterday, “half stays here with the local chapter and half goes to the founda tion’s national headquarters for research, professional ed ucation, and emergency aid to chapters whose own funds Jaycees Are to Replace Shade Trees That Have Been Killed; Will Also Repair and Repaint Street Markers They Erected Cobb to Leave Hoard | After 11 Years* Service Collier Cobb. jr.. announced at the meeting of county com missioners in Hillsboro Mon- j day that he would not stand for reflection to the board i this year. He has been a mem ber 14 years and has been chairman 10 years. Mr. Cobb’s decision not to seek reflection this year is due to the pressure of other duties. There have been spec ially heavy demands on his time and energy since he be came chairman of the build ing committee of the Univer sity trustees. In this position he has had the responsibility of directing the development of the Medical Center. Nobody has come forward yet as an aspirant to Mr. Cobb’s place on the board. He is the only member from Chapel Hill and it is taken for granted that his successor will be a Chapel Hillian. The dead line for the filing of a notice of candidacy is in March. TV Sets Are Given To University Dept Two television sets have been given to the University’s Communication Center by the Westinghouse Corporation and are to be used in the de partment’s television courses. One of the sets has a 24-inch picture screen believed to be the biggest in Ohapel Hill. “We are certainly most grateful to the Westinghouse Corporation for these sets,” Earl Wynn, director of the Communications Center, said yesterday. “We needed them badly and didn’t have the money to got them with. We are also grateful to the ()g- Imrn Furniture Company, whieh was instrumental in getting them for us. "The larger set has already been installed in our Studio A, and our television students are making good list* of it in I heir courses. The smaller set, to be installed soon, will be used by tin* students and will also be available for use by the public at large.” Turn Scott’s Record Tenure Torn Scott, the University’s Kith basket hall coach, has held the job longer than any of the other twelve. He is in his 6th season. have been exhausted by the demands of patient care. The check we have just received comes from this pooling of funds, at national headquar ters, from 2,826 county chap ters in the United States." E. Carrington Smith, Or ange county director of the March of Dimes for the past seven years, reports that the county has contributed a total (Continued on jtage 7) Stockholders Meeting The regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the Orange County Building and lioan Association will be held at 8 p.m. Monday, January 28, at the Bank of Chapel Hill. $2 a Year in County; $3:50 in Best of N. C., Va., and S. C.; $4 Elsewhere in U. S. Members of the Chapel Hill Junior Chamber of Commerce, who are always on the look out for something they can do for the betterment of the community, will swing into ac tion again next week. This time they will replace some of the trees they planted two or three years ago and refurbish the street markers they made and installed last year and year before last. The Jaycees set out hun dreds of ornamental shade trees along the streets of the town. Some of these have I died and some have been de ist roved by careless or I thoughtless persons. Members |of the organization are now [planning to replace the casu alties. And while they’re at I it, they will repaint and re ■ pair any of the street mark ers that need it. Anybody who knows of markers that need refurbishing or of trees that need replacing is asked to phone Bill Alexander at 6981. The jobs will be done under the direction of Hank Koon, chairman of the club’s tree planting project, and Roland Giduz, chairman of its street marker project. In announcing plans for the work, Bill Alexander, the Jay cee president, said: "We fig ure this is a good time to get at it now while several of our long-range projects are halted because of weather conditions. These include the community playground on Oak Wood drive and our big eiean-up Jab at Eastwood lake.” The McClamroch cottage at the lake has been offered for the use of the community and the Jaycees if they will clean up its premises and repair the dirt road leading to it. This they plan to do as soon as the weather permits. It will be a tough job, even then, but the Jaycees seem eager to tackle it. Art Course Will Be (iiven for Children Art classes for children will be given again this quarter at the Person hall art gallery. Beginning Saturday, January 19, the classes will meet from 10 o’clock to noon every Sat urday for ten weeks. The fee for the ten-week course is sl2, which will cover all the costs, including materials. The instructors will he Rob ert Howard and Mrs. Rebekah Walston of the staff of the University’s art department. They will be assisted by ad vanced students in the depart ment. If the enrollment is large enough, other members of the staff will work with the group. Camera Club Meeting The Color Camera Club will hold its next meeting at 8 o’clock Tuesday evening, Jan uary 22, at the home of Mra. Paul Smith on Stinaon street. Prospective new members are invited to attend and bring color slides for showing at the meeting. The club met last Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Henry West. Arts and Craft* Group to Moot The Community Club’s arts and crafta group will meet at 8 p.m. next Friday, January 18, at tha home of Mra. Dana E. Sampson at 508 Pittaboro road. Co-hosteaaes will be Mrs. W. E. Thompson and Mrs. Catherine Smith. Miss Mae Blackwelder of Asheboro will talk about “Shell Jewelry and Small Crafts.” Members ara askad to taka nota that tha meeting will ba held Friday evening Instead of Thursday, its usual tints.
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