VoL 30 No. g
Pretty Girls
Will Parade
In Show Next
Friday Night
Chapel Hill’s 2nd annual
beauty and personality pag
eant, sponsored by the Jay
cees, will be held at 7:30 p.m.
next Friday, February 29, in
the auditorium of the new
high school. A variety show,
with singing, dancing, and
comedy skits by local enter
tainers, will also be a part of
the program. Admission will
be sl. All net proceeds will be
placed in a fund for the even
tual erection of a town recre
ational center. Last year’s
pageant and show netted SIOO
for the fund.
The winner of the pageant
will be crowned Miss Chapel
Hill by Mayor Ed Lanier and
will represent the town at the
Miss North Carolina pageant
in July at Winston-Salem. She
will also receive a $250 college
scholarship. The 1951 winner, j
Miss Dot Hogan, used the
scholarship to help pay
her final year at the Woman’s
College in Greensboro.
Entries, acceptable till the
middle of next week, should
be made with Gran Childress
or Willis Knight, co-chairmen
of the event. Unmarried girls,
including University co-eds,
between the ages of 18 and
25 are eligible. Each entry is
to have a sponsor.
The variety show will in
clude a minstrel routine by
Charlie Phillips and Hill Alex
ander, songs by Miss Bonnie
Piper, who was Miss Durham
of 1961; a barber shop quar
tet and hillbilly band f-jm
the Pi Kappa Alpha frater
nity, and several other fea
tures. There will also be a
contest for the selection of
Miss Chapel Hill of 1970, to
be chosen from among girl
babies. Parents of prospective
entries are asked to get in
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Clubwomen to Meet
At Mrs. Grumman’s
The Community Club’s
American home department
will meet at 3 p.m. Thursday,
February 28, at ihe home of
Mrs. K. M. Grumman on Hill
view road. Mrs. H. M. Lynch
will present a musical pro
gram by the following three
graduate students in the Uni
versity’s music department:
Miss Ann Lynch, soprano;
(’. M. Kim, tenor, and Wallace
Zimmerman, pianist.
Mrs. Lynch and Mrs. Grum
man invite all interested
guests to the meeting and
suggest that needlework be
brought to be worked on dur
ing the hour of music.
Mrs. D. H. Buchanan and
several assistants will serve
as co-hostesses with Mrs.
Grumman.
R. E. Murray Files as
Candidate for Board
Robert E. Murray, store
keeper at Caldwell, has filed
as candidate for the board
of Orange county commi*-
♦doners. News of the candi
dacies of Roland McG’lam
roch and R. J. M. Hobbs
was published last week.
Neither of the present com
missioners, R. O. Forrest
and Him Efland, has filed.
The other commissioner,
Collier Cobb, jr., has an
nounced that he will not
stand for reflection. John
W. IJmstead, jr., who an
nounced three weeks ago
that he would run for re:*
election to the legislature,
filed this week. The filing
fee for a candidate for the
legislature is $13.50, for a
candidate for county com
mlaalonor IS.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
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The occasion for this pho
tograph was the recent cele
bration of the 85th birthday
of Mrs. Sadie Grinnan at her
home on Bingham Heights,
Asheville. Observe her laugh
ing and clapping her hands.
Her applause is for the play
ing of “Dixie” on the fiddle
by her old friend, Dr. Marion
How Children Will Cross Highway to New
School Is Problem under Study by Board
The crossing of the Raleigh
highway by children, when the
new elementary school op
posit* Glen I ?r.nox opens, is
a problem that the school
hoard has been studying.
Flans for the school building
are now under way and con
struction is expected to begin
in late spring or early summer.
The great majority of the
children attending the school
will lx; living on the other
side of the highway from it,
in the suburban colonies of
Glen Lennox and Oakwood and
Rogerson drives. Cars bound
to and from Chapel Hill go
along this stretch of highway
at terrific sjjeeds. Even grown
persons crossing have to be
mighty careful in order not
to be run down.
One suggestion has been
that a foot-path be added to
the bridge that is to carry
the bypass over the highway
near the school, and the board
has consulted the State high
way commission about that.
It is feasible from an engin
eering point of view, but it
would not solve the problem
localise, to reach the bridge,
the children would have to
How to Re Happy in New Orleans
By Phillips Russell
My idea of enjoyment in
New Orleans is to atop at the
hotel Monteleone in Koyal
street in the old French quar
ter where you are near every
thing you might want to
reach.
Turn right on leaving the
hotel door and you’ll find with
in a ahort walk Jackson
Square, the heart of old New
Orleans, the chief restaurants
and “niteries,” and most of
the gift shops and old build
ings that remind you of
George W. Cable’s novels of
Creole days. Turn left and
you find Gluck’s, which gives
you good Louisiana cooking
at fair prices, the best oy
ster bars, and Canal street
where the crowds and the best
shops gather.
I reached New Orleans Feb
ruary 11th after a pleasant
overnight trip from Chapel
Hill by car to lUleigh, by
train to Atlanta for breakfast,
C. Millender. The man on the
left, holding the birthday cake,
is her nephew, Barry Bing
ham, publisher of the Louis
ville Courier-Journal, who has
come from Louisville for the
party.
All three of these persons
have Chapel Hill associations.
Mrs. Grinnan and her brother,
cross one of the highways in
the clover-leaf layout, and so
would still run the risk of be
ing struck by a car.
“The crosing of streets and
highways is a serious prob
lem for schools everywhere,”
said J. T. Gobbel, the school
board chairman, yesterday.
“We have given serious
thought to this case. It looks
as if the only answer is to put
up a stop-light, which would
be at or near the entrance to
Glen Lennox. All crossings of
the highway would be done
there and the children would
cross only when the red light
had stopjied traffic. And may
be there would have to he a
police officer there too, as
there is at many crossings at
hours when children are going
to and from school.”
Open House at Manse
Members and friends of the
Presbyterian church are in
vited to an open house at the
manse from 4 to 7 p.m. Sun
day, February 24. They will
have an opportunity to inspect
the completely renovated and
redecorated manse.
thence by Delta plane to New
Orleans, arriving at 10:40
a.m. Total fare by train and
plane, $56; hotel, $5 a day.
The trees were turning an
infant green, azaleas were in
flower, and the temperature
was 7H at noon. No overcoats
in sight.
Being hungry, I walked to
wards Canal, crossed the
street to an oyster bur, and
asked for a half dozen raw.
I gave the opener a tip. On
my next visit he gave me 7
oysters instead of 6. He had
a face like Premier Massa
degh’s of Iran and huge gray
hands like wet fins. At this
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Ash Wednesday Services
Services at the Episcopal
church on Ash Wednesday
(February 27) will be as fol
lows: Holy Communion at 7
a.m. and 10 a.m. and evening
service at 4:80 p.m.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1952
[Robert Worth Bingham, fath
er of Barry, were born at the
Bingham school, now known
as the Mclver place, about
twelve miles from here on
the Graham-Greensboro high
way. Dr. Millender, who will
be 93 years old in April, is
North Carolina’s oldest Uni
versity alumnus. He has visit
ed here many times since he
was a student in the early
1880’s. The latest of his visits
was at Commencement a year
ago.
Mrs. Grinnan’s father, Col
onel Robert Bingham, was in
the third generation of pro
prietors of the f«i ious Bing
ham School. He was graduat
ed from the University in
1857; left his school in 1861
to form a company to take
into the Confederate Army;
fought through four years of
the war; returned to his
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Dancers at the P.T.A. Variety Show
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These tap dancers are two
of the 700 children who per
formed in the P.T.A.’a third
annual variety show last week
in Woollen gymnasium. They
are Judy Gouger (left),
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John L. Gouger, and Jane
Walker, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe M. Walker. The pic
ture was made by Allen Wil
liams, son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Williams.
The proceeds of the show
amounted to about S9OO,
which will be used by the
P.T.A. for Its school projects.
In annoucing the results, Mrs.
Pete Mullis, general chairman,
said:
Chapel Hill Chaf}
This was my week for in
timate weather reports. . . .
Phillips Russell dropped in the
day after he got back from
New Orleans. He said the
temperature there when he
started home was 82 and
everybody was going about in
summer clothes. ... A caller
at our house the next after
i noon was Dr. Isaac Taylor,
who has come to be a resident
physician in the new hospital.
His wife and four children,
whom he left in Massachu
setts, are to join him in two
or three weeks. He telephon
ed his wife from our living
room, and when he finished
the conversation he said: “She
says they had a two-foot fall
of snow there today.” (That
was the storm we’ve been
reading about in the papers.)
• • • At noon the next day
Julian Roberts, a printing
machinery dealer, called me
from Atlanta to ask if I didn't
want to get a bargain in a
newspaper folder. Before lie
began talking business he
said: “Mr. Graves, you just
ought to see Atlanta today.
The sun is shining, the air is
warm, everything is just
right.” I’m not a good pros
pect for the folder but if Mr.
Roberts wants to keep on try
ing I’ll be glad to hear from
him. I like the talk of a man
who exudes so much happiness
about the weather. ... In the
three days when I got these
reports we were having be
twixt - and - between weather
here, chilly but not freezing.
I won’t be a bit surprised,
though, if by the time this
paper comes out, winter will
have changed info balmy
springtime. That has happen
ed in many a February in
Chapel Hill. Remember those
daffodils that burst into
bloom last week. I’ve got my
thin clothes ready for the turn
back to warmth. . . . Well,
let’s see.
“The show was a success be
cause so many i>eople worked
so hard to make it one. We are
deeply grateful to everybody
who helped and to the Uni
versity for providing the gym
nasium and lights and janitor
service and cooperating in
many other ways."
Post Office Closed Today
All post office windows will
be closed all day today (Fri
day), George Washington’s
Birthday, and there will be no
delivery of mail either in town
or on the rural routes. Mail
will be put up in the boxes,
as usual, and the regular
schedules of incoming and out
going mail will be maintained.
Paving of Roads Leading to
New Hospital Will Probably
Be Completed by June First
Work on lsuilding lor
Dentistry School
'Goes Ahead Rapidly
Work on the building for
the University’s School of
Dentistry is going along rap
idly.
“We are delighted with the
progress,” said Dean John C.
Brauer yesterday. ‘‘The spirit
and morale of the construction
force and everybody else con
nected with the project could
not be better. I am confident
that, with normal weather,
and if we don’t have any
strikes , the building will be
ready for use by September
first.”
The building connects with
the south end of the medical
school building alongside the
I‘ittsboro highway. It is the
first part of the Medical Cen
ter seen by a person coming
into Chapel Hill from the
south.
The School of Dentistry is
in its second year now. A stu
dent’s first two years are de
voted to basic subjects (an
atomy, physiology, chemistry,
etc.). Clinical work starts
with the third year and that
is why the new building has
got to be ready by next fall.
The Rotarians Are
Told About Organs
‘‘How’s that again?” I ask
ed Robert W. Madry, who was
giving me over the telephone
a report on the Hotary Club
meeting night before last.
Ferd T. Rasa man, visiting or
gan expert, had been talking
to the Rotarians, and one of
the things he had told them
was just how music was pro
duced from an organ, and Mr.
Madry was passing the in
formation on to me. It was
somewhat confusing and
that’s why 1 asked, “How’s
that again?”
“It’s this way,” he said.
“Suppose you’re at the con
sole.” (“That’s a hell of a
supposition,” 1 said to my
self.) “You touch a key. That
turns an electric switch. And
that sets up an air impulse in
a pipe. Touching u lot of keys,
and turning a lot of switches,
and setting up u lot of air im
pulses in a lot of pipes—well,
thut's what produces music
from an organ.”
I assured Mr. Madry I was
willing to take his word for it.
He said I ought not to have
any trouble understanding
about the operation of an or
gan since I had written and
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Thrift Shop Is to Be Opened Next Week
A thrift shop sponsored by
the Chapel Hill School Art
Guild will be opened Saturday,
March 1, on the second floor
of the Dawson building, across
the street from the bus sta
tion, and will be open every
Saturday froVn then on. Its
hours will be from 9 a.m. to
6 p.m.
The proceeds from the shop
will be used by the guild to
help further the teaching of
art in the Chapel Hill public
schools. An announcement
says that the guild members
“hope at the same time to
meet an apparent local need
for the exchange of household
furnishings and good used
clothing, especially children’s
clothing.” Other items to be
sold include china, baby equip
ment, lamps, jewelry, and oth
er household and personal
items.
Everybody interested In the
work of the guild la asked to
$2 a Year in County; 13:50 in Boat of
N. C., Va., and S. C.; $4 Elsewhere in C. 8.
Work on the curb-and
guttering of the roads leading
to the University’s new hos
pital is expected to get under
way about March 1. Once be
gun, it will go forward with
out any interruptions except
such as are forced by the
weather. On a fair day about
400 lineal feet can be built.
That means the job will be
finished in a few weeks.
It is hoped that the paving
of the roads will be completed
by the first of June, a month
ahead of the day set for the
opening of the hospital.
The road surfaces are to be
of the substance known as
asphalt mix. This is the same
surface as that on the Mount
Carmel church road (to the
south, up the hill to the left
after you cross the Morgan
creek bridge) and on the Uni
versity lake road. The laying
of it can be done very rapidly.
Somebody has compared the
operation to the squeezing of
a ribbon of toothpaste out of
a tube.
Before the asphalt mix is
laid a base has got to be put
down. For this the trustees’
building committee would like
to use cement stabilization,
but they may have to use
crushed stone for economy’s
sake. The cost of the improve
ment of the hospital grounds
has got to come within a fixed
allotment of money from the
appropriation for the whole
hospital and medical school
layout.
The parking spaces close to
the hospital tv to he paved.
Other parking spaces will be
gravel-surfaced, for a While
anyway.
The retaining walls along
the sides of the roads and
parking spaces will be of na
tive stone like that in the walls
on the University campus.
Garden Club Women
Will Hear Husbands
Husbands of members of the
Chapel Hill Garden Club will
be speakers and guests at the
club’s February meeting at 8
p.m. Tuesday, February 26,
in the Davie hall, the Univer
sity’s botany building. The
public at large is also invited,
and admission is free.
The topic, “Our Green
Thumb Experts,” will be dis
cussed by the following ex
perts: John Couch, Clifford
Lyons, Hugh Lefler, and John
Manning, with Noel Houston
as moderator.
Members are asked to bring
written questions and any hor
ticultural specimens they want
to ask questions about.
contribute articles to be sold
at the shop. Such contribu
tions will be collected if the
donor will call Mra. John Le
Grand at 2-1111, or Mrs. R.W.
Linker at 2-2896, or Mrs.
Harold Weaver at 6211.
Home-Made Food Sale Today
The Catholic Women’s Guild
will sponsor a home-made food
sale today (Friday) at Fowl
er’s store, beginning at 9 a.m.
Items on sale will include pies,
cakes, breads, cookies, candy,
spaghetti, and other home
made food. Arrangements are
being made by Mrs. Anthony
Jenzano and Mrs. Maurice
Newton, co-chairmen, assist
ed by Mrs. C. P. Erickson, Mi's.
John McLaughlin, Mrs. D. G.
Monroe, Mrs. Lawrence F.
Cooney, Mrs. John S. Keating,
Mrs. Hugh Forteacue, Mrs
John Scially, and Mrs, W. L.
Engels.