Vol. 30 No. 7
Board Hopes
To Start on
New School
In the Spring
The Chapel Hill school
board has decided to go aheas
with the erection of an ele
mentary school on the 10-acre
site acquired a couple of years
ago, off the Raleigh highway
opposite the Glen Lennox
suburban colony.
The new school will not
take the place of the present
elementary school and will
not affect the attendance
there. Urgently needed be
cause of the growth in the
school population, it will be an
additional facility.
It is expected to have 8
rooms and to accommodate
about 175 pupils. The latest
school census indicates that
there will be that many pupils
from Glen Lennox, other sub
urbs nearby, and the rural
communities on a bus route.
The money for the building
will come from the proceeds
of the school bonds author
ized two years ago by a popu
lar vote in the county. The
allotment for this elementary
school is |160,000. Since
$30,000 will be needed for
equipment and for the im
provement of the site, the
amount available for the build
ing will be $130,000.
Marion A. Ham of Durham
has been retained as archi
tect. He is already at work
on the plans and the board
hopes that they will be ready
for submission to contractors
for bids before May 1. If an
acceptable hid if received con
struction < *houkl i
June 1. m •
The building will be fire
proof, with walls of block ce
ment and brick, and will be
one story high.
The site is about a mile and
a half from the Chapel Hill
corporate limits. It is along
side the bypass highway now
under construction between
the Raleigh and Pittsboro
highways and is near the
motor court that is also now
under construction.
Tea at Mrs. Gray’s
For Art Guild Fund
The School Art Guild will
hold a series of bi-weekly
gatherings to help raise mon
ey for the furtherance of art
in the Chapel Hill public
schools. The first will be a
silver tea, to be held from 4
to 6.30 p.m. next Friday, Feb
ruary 22, at the home of Mrs.
Gordon Gray. Everybody in
terested in the work of the
Art Guild is invited.
The flower arrangements
for the tea will be done by the
Chapel Hill Garden Club and
will include a centerpiece con
tributed by James Davis.
At the next event in the se
ries, to be held Friday, March
7, mid-morning coffee will be
served at the new home of
Mrs. Thomas Butler out be
yond the University lake.
Others who have offered to
open their new homes for af
ternoon teas on alternate Fri
days are Mrs. Walter Spear
man, Mrs. Neil Kaylor, Mrs.
John Allcott, Mrs. Lambert
Davis, and Mrs. Harold Mc-
Curdy. Some of Chapel Hill’s
old houses and gardens will be
shown later in the spring.
Newcomers to Meet Tuesday
The U.N.C. Newcomers Club
will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday,
February 19, in Person hall.
John Allcott, head of the Uni
versity’s art department, will
talk about the department’s
collection of rental pictures.
Tea will be served by officers
•of the club.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
5 Cents • Copy
French Painter, Touring oit Cycle,
Makes Water-Color Pictures Here
Michel Braidy, a talented
young Frenchman, left Chapel
Hill yesterday after a week’s
stay during which he painted
about a dozen pictures in wat
er colors. He was a guest of
Mr. and Mrs. Urban T.
Holmes, and one evening they
had some of their friends in
to meet him and lflbk at his
pictures. Mrs. Beverly Thur
man, the former Miss Betsy
Farrar, had introduced him
to them by letter.
He travels by motorcycle.
The baggage problem is solved
by two stout wooden boxes
attached to the sides of the
vehicle.
Mr. Braidy’s first painting
was done in France, where he
was a member of the Under
ground in war-time. He travel
ed on foot through Denmark,
Sweden, Norway, and Lapland,
painting as he went. The en
voys from those countries
saw his pictures on exhibit in
Paris, and the Danish minis
ter, admiring them, proposed
that he go on a painting ex
pedition to Greenland.
He spent a year in Canada
and then was in New York
State for a month or so before
coming here. Now he has gone
to Charleston, and he will go
thence to New Orleans.
Plans for Community Projects Are Made
By Directors of Merchants Association
Committee reports and
plans for 1952 were discussed
Monday evening at the Pines
Restaurant at the Merchants
StfffllMtes;
Mtss ElizhbetHTßranson, the
new president. The group al
so heard a request from Mrs.
George E. Shepard that the
association again sponsor a
supper for the benefit of the
Y-Teens, as it did last sum
mer. The officers, directors,
and other members present
voted to sponsor the supper,
and Miss Branson appointed
Joe Robbins to serve again as
chairman of the committee on
arrangements for the affair.
Mrs. Diane Joyner, director
of the Y-Teens, was intro
duced by Mrs. Shepard and
enumerated the community
services rendered by the or
ganization.
By unanimous vote, the as
sociation accepted a proposal
from Jim Davis, public rela
tions chairman, that it issue a
questionnaire to give custo
mers an opportunity to tell the
merchants how to make Chap
el Hill a better shopping cen
ter.
BiH Sloan, promotion com
mittee chairman, said his
Discuss Art Education in the Schools
Art education in the schools
was discussed at a round-table
meeting held Thursday evening of
last week at the elementary school
by the Chapel Hill Art League,
with John Q. Le Grand aa moder
ator.
George Kachergis of the Univer
sity's art department said that a
school art program should be de
signed to release and develop the
creative abilities and energies of
children. Administrative problems
of an art education program were
outlined by Arnold Perry of the
University’s school of education,
who also said that a knowledge of
art was valuable in business and
at home and that the public should
wake up to the need for adequate
art education in the schools.
Mrs. Rogers Wade showed art
work done by children in the 6th
grade, and Mrs. Bernadine Sulli
van talked about art in the high
school. She said that high school
students were often embarrassed
by their lack of knowledge or art
and recommended that art be made
an elective subject (with credit).
This was also brought out by Miss
Elsie Smith, art supervisor in the
Durham schools, who presented a
display of children’* art showing
Here he made pictures of
the Episcopal and Presbyter
ian churches, the Walter
Creech cottage, cabins on
Windy Hill, a scene the
John M. Foushee farm, and
other buildings and land
scapes
Vivid colors contribute to
the quality of his pictures.
The Flower of the Week
The daffodil is the flower
of the week in Chapel Hill.
If a daffodil census were
taken the count of the beau
tiful golden blossoms would
run up into—well, nobody
knows how many thousands.
You see them everywhere
you go. When I mention
homes .that have flowers on
view, of course I alwaj\s
leave out a greater number
of homes equally deserving
of mention. The names I
give depend on the places
I happen to have seen in
going along the streets. The
most spectacular display of
daffodils I have seen is at
the Tottens’ and the Car
rolls’ on Laurel Hill road.
Visitors at the MacNider
home seen an immense
spread of daffodils under
the pines beyond the house.
committee favored the contin
uation of the Mother's Day
and Father’s Day contests in
augurated last year and the
improvement of the Christ
mas parade sponsored annual
ly by the association.
Reports and proposals were
also made by Jack Lipman,
University relations chair
man ; Y. Z. Cannon, town beau
tification ; Herbert Went
worth, membership, and Carl
Smith, finance.
F’lans to hire an additional
office room across the hall
from the association’s present
office in the Tankersley build
ing were described by Miss
Branson and Mrs. Mildred
Cartee, the secretary. Mr.
Smith was appointed chair
man of a committee to inves
tigate the cost of furnishing
the room.
Sol Lipman's Mysterious Dog
When Sol Ijpman arrived at his
store yesterday morning he was
amazed to see a big dog looking
out at him through the plate-glass
door. When he unlocked the door
the dog departed. “I had never
seen him before,” Mr. Lipman said
later. “I guess he slipped in late
yesterday afternoon and went to
sleep under the table and 1 locked
him in without knowing it when I
closed for the day.”
how this phase of the child’s growth
can be enriched. Another speaker
was August Bai, art educator of
Ghent, Belgium, who is in this
country on a Fulbright fellow
ship. He said that he found the
American spirit of reedom, which
he had long admired, well express
ed in the art. of America.
The program also included a film
on papier mache sculpture and a
lively question-and-answer period.
Rotary Club Hears Iranian
Asa-dollah Beijan, a professor
in the University of Tehran, Iran,
who is here in the University under
a Fulbright fellowship, talked to
the Rotary Club night before last
about the situation in the Middle
East. He gave reasons why the
people of the Middle East had un
friendly feelings toward the West
ern nations.
Brunswick Stew Supper
A brunswick stew supper will be
served from 5 to 8 p.m. tomorrow
(Saturday) at the Carr boro Meth
odist church under the auspices of
the senior men's Sunday school
class. Tha proeaads will go into
the church's building fund.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1952
PTA Members to Be
Escorted Through
New School Building
An open house and tour of
Chapel Hill’s new high school
building will feature the P.
T. A.’s February meeting, to
begin at 7:45 sharp next
Thursday evening, February
21, in the high school audi
torium.
The program in the audi
torium, to include music by
the school’s Band and Glee
Club, will be followed by the
tour of the building. Refresh
ments will be served in the li
brary.
The teachers will be in their
respective rooms to talk with
the parents. The rooms to be
open will include not only
those in the new part of the
building but also the 7th and
Bth grade rooms and Mrs.
Ellis’s 4th grade room, which
are in the basement of the old
wing of the building.
The Grahams Pass Through
Mr. and Mrs. Frank P.
Graham made a passing
through visit to Chapel Hill
day before yesterday. Com
ing from Hillsboro, where
they had been with Mrs.
Graham’s sister, Mrs. J.
Cheshire Webb, they stop
ped long enough to call on
Mr. Graham’s sister, Mrs.
Shipp Sanders* and to at
tend to one or two pressing
business matters before go
ing to Raleigh to board a
train for Florida. Mr. Gra
ham will leave New York by
airplane, bound for India
and Pakistan, about Febru
ary 28. As a representa
tive of ttyt SMVUy Council
of the LeiJliOwMMlMift he
will contituiliis mediation
of the dispute of India and
Pakistan over Kashmir.
Wallen Expected Home Today
Harold Walters, who has been
in Duke hospital a week or so,
is feeling better and expects to
come home today.
Humanities Lecture by Lane Next Week
The University humanities divis
ion lecture for the winter quarter
will be delivered by George S. lane,
Kenan professor of Germanic and
comparative linguistics, at 8:30
next Thursday evening, February
21, in Gerrard hall.
Mr. Lane's topic will be “Lang
uage Study and Archaeology.” He
will show that the most recent and
striking archaeological materials
brought to light in Asia Minor,
Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley
have contained language materials
of first importance. The position
of the Near East and India on the
front pages of daily papers, and
the need for an understanding of
that part of the world, make the
lecture timely, for understanding
depends upon knowledge of the
history of such ancient peoples
and upon knowledge of the under
lying base of their cultures, lang
uage.
George 8. Lane, a member of the
University faculty for fifteen
years, was made Kenan Professor
in 1960. Before coming here he was
resident associate in comparative
philology at the University of
Kachergis in Atlanta
George Kachergis of the Univer
sity’s art department has gone to
Atlanta, Ga., to act as a judge
for the 26th Anniversary Scholas
tic Art Awards for Junior and Se
nior High Schools, a regional ex
hibition for the state of Georgia
presented in Atlanta by Rich’s Inc.
He and other members of the jury
were chosen for their thorough un
derstanding of the aims of high
school art instruction and were
recommended by an advisory com
mittee made up of Georgia’s art
educators.
Zoning Com mission Meeting
An organization meeting of the
reconstituted Zoning Commission
Enlarged wlil he held at 8 o’clock
Monday evening in the Town Hal||
Anybody who wants to attend will
be wiecome but this will not be a
public hearing. A hearing will be
held later. The three new members
of the commission are Henry 8.
Hogan, Luke L. Conner, and John
8. Williams.
Chapel Hill Chas)
I met Dr. and Mrs. Otho
Ross in the Carolina Inn Tues
day evening. They had
brought Frank Graham from
Charlotte to Hillsboro, by
automobile, had come over
here for dinner, and were
about to leave for home. I told
them I had been reading Judge
John J. Parker’s review in the
New York Times of their
daughter Jane’s book about
Horace Williams. Jane is Mrs.
Philip Hammer and lives in
Atlanta. “Here’s what Jane
did last year,” said Dr. Ross.
“She wrote a book, had a
baby, played a violin in the
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra,
taught philosophy, and kept
house.”
* * *
Often the public hears of a
highway patrolman in connec
tion with an arrest. It does
not hear much about an ac
tivity which takes more of a
highway patrolman’s time
than does making arrests;
that is, giving help to motor
ists in distress. A highway
patrolman is called a law
enforcement officer. Which he
is. But many persons who
have had breakdowns on the
road remember him more in
the light of a Good Samari
tan.
It was cold and a misting
rain fell as Mrs. George Bason
and three companions left
Richmond, homebound, a t
dusk one day last week. They
had been sight-seeing in Wil
liamsburg all morning, and in
the afternoon they had gone
out the muddy river road
from Williamsburg so that
they might see the beautiful
old homes, Berkeley and Shir
ley. Now they were coming
down the four-lane Richmond-
Petersburg turnpike. Chapel
Hill was 170 miles away.
All went well until an om
inous thumping began. On this
stretch the road was in a deep
ravine. As they approached a
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Chicago and professor of Sanskrit
and comparative philology at the
Catholic University of America.
As recipient of fellowships and re
search grants he studied in Ice
land, Paris, and in postwar Ger
many. He has written a grammar
of the newly discovered Tochar
ian language.
This lecture continues the eighth
series of lectures in the humanities.
Mrs. Foushee to Judge Art
Mrs. John Foushee is one of
three women who will judge the
annual children’s art contests to be
held next month in the Durham
county public schools by the Dur
ham Junior league. The other
two judges will be Mrs. Robert
Lyon and Mrs. J. B. Mason of
Durham.
Various Bits of Village News
Bulck Dealership Continued
The Buick dealership for cars
and trucks, which lapsed automat
ically on the death of C. B. Jeffer
son, is to be continued under a
renewal contract between General
Motors and Mrs. Jefferson as ad
ministratrix of her husband's es
tate. The business will be conduct
ed as before, but with additional
personnel.
Bennett to Speak Sunday
John R. Bennett of the Union
Theological Seminary, New York,
will speak on "Christianity and the
Upheaval in Asia” at 10 a.m. Sun
day at the Congregational-Chris
tian church on Cameron avenue.
The public is invited. Mr. Bennett
will be here for three days under
the auspices of the University’s
Inter-Faith Council.
To Help Taxpayera File Returns
Cliff Jones, R. M. Webb, and B.
Germain of the N. C. Department
of Revenue will be at the Town
Hall here February 29 to help tax
payers in the preparation of their
state income and intangible tax re
turns.
Classified ada appear oa pages
2 aad 7.
Move Made by Merchants tor
Street Repairs and Clean-np
And for Regulation of Signs
Candidates lor the
County Board
Roland McClamroch and R.
J. M. Hobbs have filed as can
didates for the Orange county
board of commissioners, sub
ject to the Democratic pri
mary May 31.
These candidacies result
from the announcement by
Collier Cobb, jr., the only
member of the board from
Chapel Hill, that he will not
stand for reflection. He has
been a member 14 years and
chairman 10 years.
Actually there are three
places on the board to be
filled, because the terms of all
three commissioners expire
this year. It has been gener
ally assumed that R. O. For
rest and Sim Efland will seek
reflection although neither
has yet filed as a candidate.
The deadline date for filing is
April 18.
The election will take place
on the same day as the na
tional and state elections, No
vember 4, and the newly elect
ed members will take office on
the first Monday in December.
A Bird Is Overnight
Guest ol the Kysers
Our telephone rang early
Tuesday evening. Kay Kyser,
talking from his home next
door, said they had a bird that
they had let in because it had
kept on fluttering against the
dining room window. He
didn’t know what kind of a
bird it was. “Maybe you can
tell me,” he said.
My wife and I picked up
Joe Jones, who is a bird ex
pert, at the Weekly office the
next morning and the three of
us went to the Kyser home.
Kay was not in but Mrs. Ky
ser welcomed us and took us
to the bird’s quarters, a light
and airy room in the base
ment.
Joe said immediately; “It’s
a warbler, a myrtle warbler.”
It was fluttering against a
window, lured by the light of
day now as it had been lured
by the light indoors the night
before.
Mrs. Kyser said: “We were
at dinner, and when we heard
a noise at the window one of
the children looked up and
said, ‘There’s a mouse.’ Then
we saw it was a bird. Dick
Ettinger, who was dining
with us, went outside, and
when he came close to the
bird and stretched out his
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Flowers for Children’s library
The Oakview Garden Club has
undertaken to help beautify the
Mary Bailey Pratt Children’s li
brary at the elementary school by
decorating it with flower arrange
ments every week. Last week the
club decorated the library with red
tulips, and many of the children
expressed delight when they saw
the flowers. This week’s arrange
ment of dried flowers and grasses
has brought forth interested com
ments and questions from the child
ren. A report from the school says,
“Adding beauty to the children’s
library is certainly a worthwhile
project for the club to sponsor.’’
Symphony Society in Collier’s
The February 2.'i issue of Col
lier’s, now on sale, carries an il
lustrated article about the North
Carolina Symphony Society, head
quarters of which are here. It tells
how the organization was built up
by its director, Benjamin Swalin,
with the tireless help of his wife,
and how it takes fine music to
people all over the state. The ar
ticle’s nine photographs (in color)
include a picture of Mrs. Swalin
helping her husband into his full
dress attire as he prepares to con
duct an evening concert
$2 a Year in County; $3:50 in Beat of
N. C., Va., and S. C.; $4 Elsewhere in U. S.
The Merchants’ Association
is undertaking a double-bar
reled project: (1) the repair
and clean-up of streets and
(2) the regulation of signs.
A committee has been mak
ing inspections in preparation
for these improvements, and
Y. Z. Cannon, the chairman,
made a preliminary report at
the meeting of the associa
tion’s directors Monday eve
ning. On the committee with
him are J. S. Bennett, William
Harrison, and Willis Knight.
“I see we are down on the
agenda as the beautification
committee,” said Mr. Cannon,
“but I think that, at this early
stage of our proceedings, we
had better be called the jani
tor committee. The immedi
ate need is for repair of bad
places in the streets, more
particularly the sidewalks, and
for more and better trash
cans.”
Photographs, taken by Mr.
Harrison, were passed around
among the directors. These
showed broken sections of
sidewalk pavement and brok
en curbstones. They also
showed gulleys made by the
wash of water across unpaved
sidewalks. Mr. Cannon said
his committee proposed to
ask the town government to
make the needed repairs and
to provide an adequate num
ber of trash cans in good con
dition.
The committee is to make a
detailed study of the problem
of signs and awnings that ex
tend over the sidewalk. Many
of theses hang down too km.
“I’m a little man,” said Mr.
Cannon, “but I found one sign
and several awnings that I
had to stoop to pass under.”
The sidewalks are owned by
the town and there is a ques
tion of whether or not a store
owner has a legal right to
have a sign out in front of the
building line.
New Store to Open
In Town Tomorrow
A radio, an electric iron,
and several other prizes will
be given away to lucky ticket
holders tomorrow (Saturday)
at the grand opening of the
new Western Auto Associate
Store on West Franklin street
at the location formerly occu
pied by Ann’s Flower Shop.
Anybody who visits the store
between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. to
morrow will have a chance to
win a prize. Free balloons
will also be given to children.
The proprietor of the store
is Zeno L. Williams, former
manager of a general mer
chandise store in Greenville.
Mrs. Williams and their child
will move here from Green
ville week after next.
Dr. Peacock on Visit
Dr. Erie E. Peacock, jr., of
the staff of the Valley Forge
Army Hospital at Phoenix
ville, Pa., was here at the
week-end on a visit to his
parents. While here, he gave
a talk on hand surgery at a
meeting of the University’s
Whitehead Medical Society.
Baity to Show Movie Tonight
The next in H. G. Baity’s series
of free movies and lectures will
be given at 7:30 p.m. today (Fri
day) in Gerrard hall. The program
will be about Mexico and Central
America. The movie will include
bull fight scenes taken by Mr.
Baity.
Garden Club to Hear Totten
H. R. Totten will talk about
trees at a meeting of tha Oak view
Garden Club at S p.m. Monday at
the home of Mr*. Irvin S. Wolf
on Arrowhead rood In Oroonwood.