Vol. ,30 No. 27
Jaycees Have
Good Time at
Dallas, Texas
Six Chapel Hillians returned
from a 2,500 mile cross-country
trip this week after attending the
U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce
32nd annual convention in Dallas,
Texas.
Those who made the trip were
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Phillips, Mr.
and Mrs. W. J. Ogburn, Paul Wil
liams, and Roland Giduz. The first
two couples traveled in the Co
burns’ car; Williams and Giduz
went on a specially chartered air
conditioned bus. In all there were
150 Jaycees from North Carolina
at the convention, which was at
tended by 6,000 young men and
their families from every state in
the union, Alaska, and Hawaii.
Dallas was comparatively cool
during the week-long convention,
but the trip, two and a half days
each way, was made in scorching
weather. Mr. Ogburn reports that
the temperature was 106 degrees
in the shade when he passed
through Monroe, La.
In Dallas most of the meetings
were held in the air-conditioned
hotels of the city.
Williams and Giduz said they be
lieved the bus was a far more
comfortable mode of travel than
an auto, since the interior of the
40-passenger vehicle was always
pleasantly cool. Also, they said,
they could get up and stretch their
legs a bit whenever they wanted
to.
Though Chapel Hill didn’t win
any special awards at the con
vention, North Carolina received
honors in several fields. Harry
Stewart of Raleigh, the immediate
past president of the N. C. Junior
Chamber of Commerce, received
more votes than any other candi
date in being elected one of the
ten national vice-presidents of the
organization. He was also named
as one of the five most distinguish
ed state presidents in the country.
The Rocky Mount Jaycees were
named the top club in the country,
and the Salisbury group won a
similar award as one of the top
five in the nation.
In its first year of existence in
1948-49 the Chapel Hill Jaycees
won an award for being the best
first-year club in the nation.
Altrusa Has Picnic
At Strowds* Farm
The Altrusa Club’s annual pic
nic was held recently at the country
home of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce
Strowd. Some amusing entertain
ment was provided by Mrs. Alice
Tuttle Steadman, who told for
tunes according to the horoscopes
of those present. When Mrs. Evelyn
Smith, chairman of the club’s fi
nance committee, saw what was
going on she levied a $1 charge for
each fortune told. The money thus
raised will be used to help pay for
the club's college scholarship giv
en annually to a girl graduate of
the Chapel Hill high school.
Mrs. Steadman, who is curator
of the Charlotte Art Museum, also
exhibited some of her paintings at
the picnic. Formerly a member of
the staff of the University’s art
department, she was here visiting
Mrs. John Foushee. + .
The NC Cafeteria provided box
ed lunches for the picnic at $1.25
per box. Each box contained a half
of fried chicken, a ham sand
wich, and several other items
Everybody remarked on how de
licious and plentiful the food was
and also how inexpensive it was.
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Bastille Day Celebration
The activities of the Univer
sity Summer Session’s French
House will be climaxed with its
annual celebration of Bastille Day
on the 14th of July with a banquet
at Lenoir hall. The speaker will
be Jacques Schricke, secretary at
the French Embassy in Washing
ton, D. C.
French will be the language of
the evening. Annual prizes award
ed to French House students will
be presented after the banquet,
which will begin at 7 o’clock. Per
sons interested in attending the
event may make reservations by
telephoning the French House at
9-3071,
Tickets for “Blithe Spirit”
Tickets for “Blithe Spirit,” to be
given in the Playmakers theatre at
8:30 p.m. July 10, 11, and 12 by
the Carolina Haymakers, are en
sale at the organization’s busi
ness office in Swain hall at $1.25
each. All seats are reserved. Tickets
may be picked op now or they may
be reserved by telephone or letter
and picked up later. Telephone
reservations should be made on
week-days between 9 a.m. and 6
PJB.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
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Speech Clinic In Ilesull of Teamwork
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Herbert Koepp-Baker, director
of the children’s speech clinic being
held at the elementary school, is
shown here with two of his pupils
listening to a play-back of a re
cording of the speech class’s sing
ing. The children are Michael Cooke
and Jane Mangum. Michael is us
ing ear phones because he is deaf.
The clinic, lasting from June 10
to July 15, is being held in con
nection with a teacher training
course sponsored by “the Univer
sity’s school of education and the
North Carolina Society for Crippled
Children. Mr. Koepp-Baker, one
of the nation’s leading authorities
in the field of children’s speech
problems, is speech pathologist at
the University of Illinois’s medical
school.
The following information about
the school was supplied by an of
ficial of one of its sponsoring or
ganizations:
“Transportation of children from
The Persons to Protest to About the
Destruction of Trees on the Streets
For the last few days I have
spent a considerable part of my
time listening over the telephone,
or face to face, to people who want
to tell me how distressed they are
about the destruction of trees on
our streets.
I am mighty glad to have them
talk to me on this subject because
I like to see that the people of
Chapel Hill are just as interested
in their trees, and just as eager
to have them protected, as they
have always been.
It is natural for them to enter
protests with the village newspaper
editor, because a village news
paper is a community medium for
news and opinion.
But I believe many of these
citizens may like to know how
they can go to “headquarters” with
their protests; that is, to persons
who have authority with respect
to trees.
First, there are Mayor I.anier
and Aldermen P. L. Burch, Robert
L. Fowler, G. Obie Davis, Kenneth
Putnam, R. B. Fitch, and O. K.
Cornwell. The town manager,
Thomas D. Rose, acts at the direc
tion of the aldermen. The aider
men have control of the streets
and sidewalks.
Then, when it comes to cutting
off the limbs of trees to make
room for telephone and electric
light wires, the man in charge is
Grey Culbreth, the University’s
superintendent of utilities; but he
is subordinate to and answerable
to J. S. Bennett, the University’s
director of operations. Os course
both are subject to the town gov
ernment’s authority with respect
to trees on the streets.
The University owns both the
Summer Stars Are Topic of New Show
The constellations of the summer
skies are identfied in “Summer
Star Stories,” the new show which
opened Tuesday at the Morehead
Planetarium and will continue
there through July 28. Perform
ances are given at 8:30 p.m. seven
days a week, at 3 p.m. Saturdays,
at 3 and 4 p.m. Sundays, and a
special 3 o’clock matinee will be
givdh tomorrow, Friday, July 4.
The show lasts about 50 minutes.
During the demonstration the
names and stories connected with
the various heavenly patterns
known as constellations are told.
Anthony Jenzano, Planetarium di
rector, said that these stories have
been passed on through several
thousand years and added that
they will help considerably in the
Ross and Raney Coming Hero
Dr. Robert A. Rota, obstetrician
and gynecologist in tho Duke Uni
versity Medical School, and Dr.
R. Beverly Raney, orthopedic sur
geon at Watts hospital in Durham,
have resigned from their positions
to head departments of the Univer
sity Medical School hers.
Hillsboro and other parts of Orange
county is being provided by the
Orange county chapter of the
North Carolina Society for Crip- j
pled Children. A mother of one of
the children brings five children
to the clinic and stays each day
to take them home. Her waiting
time is used in observing the clin
ics, auditing a psychology class,
and learning much about her child,
herself, and her family problems.
A teacher brings three children
from Durham and a mother calls
for them.
“The children receive a mid
morning snack of milk and cookies.
The milk is being donated by three
Chapel Hill dairies, a taxicab comp
any delivers it for two of the
dairies, and a teacher provides
the cookies.
“The children have lots of fun.
Imagine their delight when they
saw the University’s swimming pool
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electric light and power system and
the telephone system. I am not
sure whether the line of command
from Mr. Bennett upward runs to
Assistant Controller and Business
Manager Teague or (o Chancellor
House or to Vice-Piresident and
Controller William D. Carmichael,
jr.
Nobody expects the University's
high-up administrative offices to
give day-to-day attention to mat
ters like the stringing of light and
telephone wires, but when these
operations bear upon anything as
important as the protection of
Chapel Hill’s trees and come to be
of deep concern to the Chapel Hill
community, then the University
chieftains may be reasonably ex
pected to take a hand.
Night before last Mr. Voorhis
telephoned me that a telephone
wire-stringing crew were chopping
off limbs in front of his Nash
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Calendar of Events
Tuesday, July 8
8 p.m., Gerrard Hall, lecture on
“Are you a Unitarian without
Knowing It?” by A. J. G. Priest.
Wednesday, July. 9
8 p.m., Caldwell hall, lecture on
“Humanism or Existentialism,” by
Enrique de Ezcurra.
Thursday, July 10
8:30 p.m., Hill Music hall, free
concert, by Summer Session Chor
us directed by William Whitesides.
Betty Zouck Gone to Camp
Miss Betty Zouck, daughter of
Mrs. Henry Zouck, left last Mon
day for a six-weeks stay at Old
Mill Camp at Whitsett, N. C.
rapid identification of many in
dividual stars.
To make the picture more vivid,
figures are superimposed on the
Planetarium sky.
"Many people think that as
tronomers must be possessed of
very vivid imaginations to see
these pictures in the sky,” Jen
zano said. “Actually, the profes
sional astronomer is likely not to
think at all of the rich heritage
of tradition and history that lies
behind the constellations. His con
cern is normally only with the
named area embraced by these
legendary heroes or mythical
creatures.”
Bullocks Move to New Jersey
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Bulloch and
Mrs. Bulloch’s aunt, Mrs. Charles
Stancell, spent several days in En
field last week on a visit to Mrs.
Bulloch’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence Whitaker. They returned
Sunday njorning, and the Bullocha
left Sunday afternoon for Madieon,
N. J., where they win nuke their
home.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1952
Weather Turns Cool;
Top Was 1011/ 2
A mass of cold air coming
from Canada early this week
broke the longest, toughest
hot spell the country has
known-.for many years. The
temperature fell to 65 in
Chapel Hill day before yester
day morning. The weather was
delightful through the day
and in bed that night people
were pulling up the covers.
And yesterday was another
cool day. (It started that way,
anyhow. The air was cool
when this was written.)
Chapel Hill’s top tempera
ture in the hot spell was 101 Va
last Friday, June 27. Thurs
day the 26th, with a top of
100, was the day for which
I reported 95, but that was
because I was turning in my
final piece of copy to the lino
type before noon and I had
to take a morning figure. I
hedged by saying the mer
cury might go higher; and it
did, before the paper had quit
rolling off the press.
Max D. Saunders, custod
ian, of the U. S. Weather Bu
reau station here, reports
maximums of 100 on the 28th,
97 on the 29th, and 91 on the
30th.
The average maximum in
June was 92.8 (it was 88.71
in June 1951) and the average
minimum in June was 66.7 (it
was 62.6 in June 1951.) The
June rainfall was 2.25 in 1952;
it was 3.27 in 1951.
Hot Weather at the Beach
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Walston en
countered the hottest weather of
their lives last Thursday at More
head City, where the temperature
went up to 107 degrees. They were
spending the week at nearby At
lantic Beach Mr. Walston’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Wal
ston of Nashville, N. C. Mr. Wal
ston said yesterday that Morehead
City was the hottest place in the
nation that day.
Coach Studies for Ph.D.
Sam Barnes, the University’s
wrestling coach, is studying for
a Ph.D. degree in English.
Business Buildings and Homes Cooled While
University and Municipal Workers Swelter
Air-conditioning is the trade
name for it, but let’s just call
it air-cooling. People who sell
the cooling apparatus teii you
about how it keeps the air at
a uniform temperature all
the year round, but nobody’s
interested now in the tempera
ture of last winter or next win
ter. The temperature we are
all interested in now is the
summer temperature. We
have had for a long time fur
naces, and for a still longer
time fireplaces and stoves, to
heat the air in winter. Modem
gadgets make the heat more
regular and save us the
trouble of going down to the
basement to put fuel in the
furnace, but the air-condition
ing function that we really
care about is not heating but
cooling.
As I have inquired into air
cooling in Chapel Hill, in these
last few days of extreme heat,
I have been impressed by the
great progress made in the
cooling of business establish
ments and homes and the very
William T. Couch’* Now Post
William T. Couch, former direc
tor of the University of North
Carolina Press, has become editor
in-chief of Collier’s Encyclopedia
and Collier’s Year Book. Mr. Couch
went from here in 1946 to be di
rector of the University of Chi
cago Press and was in that post
for five years. He was president
of the Association of American
University Presses in 1941-42.
Henry House to Return Soon
Mr. and Mrs. Henry House will
return soon from New York, where
Mr. House has been doing graduate
work at Columbia University for
tha past year. He will rejoin tho
physical education and athletic staff
of the University bora.
Chapel Hill Chaff
Early one morning a few
weeks ago I heard a bob-white
sounding its cheerful notes
under my window, and in
writing about the incident I
said it supported me in my
practice, for which I am some
times derided in a good
natured way, of calling Chapel
Hill a village. I said that no
' place -where bob-whites run
j around in people’s yards had
lost its village character.
There is plenty more evi
dence, of a like nature, that
Chapel Hill does not deserve
to be degraded to the status
of a city. For example, Gra
ham Creel, the policeman, was
telling me last week that one
night he heard a whippoorwill
calling near one of our most
crowded street corners. And
today Mrs. Mebane tells me
that yesterday she saw a mule
running loose on East Frank
lin street. It was trotting at
a leisurely pace, up the slope
eastward from the Umstead
to the MacNider home. It had
caused a following car to
slow down, and that car had
caused the next one to slow
down, and so on until there
were about a dozen cars form
ing a procession led by the
mule. A scene like that is a
village, not a city, scene.
Speaking of the words
city, town, and village: as a
descriptive term, anybody is
free to use whichever of the
three he likes best. There is
nothing to keep anybody who
likes to think of Chapel Hill
as a city from calling it that,
and some persons do so. Legal
ly, Chapel Hill is a town. It
is so designated in its char
ter and in statutes relating to
it. Its enecutLe officer is this
town manager, its tax rate is
the town tax rate, its govern
ment is the town’s govern
ment. I use the word town in
these phrases and also in
everyday phrases such as “in
the middle of town," “out-of
town guests,” “from one end
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little progress made in the
cdoling of public buildings.
That makes a sharp divid
ing line between the Univer
sity and the Town of Chapel
Hill, but there is one place
in the Town that belongs in
the University division. That
is the Town Hall. The basis of
the division, then, is the
source of- the money needed
for cooling. The man or wom
an employed in a restaurant
or store or bank has cool air
to work in, but the man or
woman employed by the
State or the municipality must
work in the terrible exhaust
ing heat.
The idea seems to be that
“the taxpayers’ money” must
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Unitarian Leader Will Speak Tuesday
A. J. G. Priest, prominent New
York lawyer who is teaching a
course on public utilities in the
University Summer Session, will
speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Ger
rard hall on “Are You a Unitar
ian without Knowing It?” His talk
is being sponsored by the Unitar
ian Fellowship of Chapel Hill.
Everybody is invited.
Mr. Priest, who makes his home
in Summit, N. J., is a partner in
Reid & Priest, with offices in New
York. He is a specialist in public
utilities. A native of Nebraska, he
practiced law in Idaho for five
years with the Idaho Power Co.
and in New York for 23 year* with
Reid t Murphy. He is a member
of the New York and the American
Bar Associations.
A well-known Unitarian layman,
Mr. Priest i* chairman of the
Middle Atlantic States Council for
Correction in Sherbet Ad
In the Dairyland Farms adver
tisement on page six sherbet should
be priced at 65 cent* a half-gallon
inetead of 65 oonta 11 gallon.
Muirhead Plans a Lake and
An Azalea Garden on Tract
He Bought from Paul Green
Tree Full of Foliage
Is Cut Down
A big elm tree full of'
flourishing foliage, on West
Franklin street, was cut down I
'Monday. (The trunk was still
(standing yesterday, but all the :
rest of the operation was to
i be done as soon as possible.)
The final decision to cut the
tree down was made by Mayor
Edwin S. Lanier and Aider
man Kenneth Putnam and G
Obie Davis on the basis of
their own inspection and the
advice of the man-on-the-job
for Armstrong Tree Service,
Incorporated. -
It was early in the morn
ing, at the start of the limb
lopping, when I got my first
telephone call from a citizen
who was distressed at the
spectacle. The calls continued
during the day. The callers
spoke in despairing tones.
They said they wished there
were some way of stopping
the destruction of trees on
our streets.
This tree stood ne. A the
Johnson-Strowd-Ward furni
ture store in front of a vacant
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Chorus Is to Give
Concert Next Week
The Summer Session Chorus will
give a public concert at 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 10, in Hill hall. Ad
mission is free. The chorus will be
directed by William Whitesides,
with Almonte Howell assisting at
the piano and harpsichord.
The featured number will be
Bach’s Capita 106, “God’s
Time Is the Beet.” The program
will also include three madrigals
by Palestrina, Gibbons, and Mor
ley, and two American works, “Be
Glad Then America,” by William
Billings, America’s earliest com
poser, and “Alleluia,” by the con
temporary composer, Randall
Thompson.
During the Bach cantata the
chorus will be assisted by three
soloists, John Park, tenor; George
Muns, bass, and Maurine Synan,
alto, and a small orchestra of
flutes and strings.
Interns Here for One Day
Twenty-two interns who are to
serve in the University’s new hos
pital came to Chapel Hill Tuesday
to begin work according to their
contract. But the hospital is not
ready for them, so they are being
“farmed out” for two months to
various hospitals in the State. They
will return September 1, the new
date set for the hospital opening.
In the course of their day here
they were taken around the medical
center on orientation tours and
were entertained by the clinical
chiefs of staff at luncheon at the
Berryhill farm.
Jamee Waller Is Here
James Waller, former University
graduate student who has been
teaching economics at Texas A. and
M. College, has returned here and
is doing work toward a Ph.D. de
gree.
that denomination. He is chair
man of the board of directors of
Federal Union and on the execu
tive council of United World Fed
eralists. He is also a member of
the Masons, Phi Beta Kappa, Beta
Theta Pi, the Union League and
Down Town Association of New
York and the Metropolitan Club
of Washington.
An Appeal about a Lost Dog
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Kirby, jr.,
of 223-B East Rosemary lane are
still hoping for news of their dog,
Poochy, who disappeared near the
post office the night of June 11.
In an appeal for help in finding
him, Mrs. Kirby writes: “He is
6 months old, weighs 10 pounda, has
slender body and long legs. He is
brown and white with rather long
hair slightly curly at the ears.
Tail is a brush of whitish long
hair. Muzzle is long, slender, and
black. He looks sort of like a
cross between spits and collie, but
Is small like his mother, a rat
terrier.” The Kirby phone num
ber is 9-5168.
$2 a Year in County; $3:60 in Bast of
N. C., Va., and S. C.; $4 Elsewhere in U. S.
William Muirhead has ex
tended his holdings of land to
the rear of Glen Lennox, his
apartment house development,
j by buying a tract of 45 acres
from Paul Green. This tract
'lies alongside the new bypass
; connecting the Chapel Hill-
Durham highway with the
Chapel Hill-Raleigh highway.
Mr. Muirhead has told
friends that he plans to make
of it some sort of park with
a lake and an azalea garden
and perhaps other attractions.
He hasn’t told all the details
of the project, maybe because
he hasn’t yet decided on all
of them. But it is sure that he
is going to revise nature up
ward—that is, in the direction
of beauty. The tract is some
what on the bleak side now,
being a tangle much of which
is swampy in wet weather.
Mr. Muirhead, starting with
his bulldozers and proceeding
on to lake-building and the
planting of shrubs, flowers,
and grass, is going to make it
as nearly like Paradise as
possible.
Paul Green has decided to
build a road about 2,000 feet
long to connect Greenwood
road, the main thoroughfare
of the Greenwood suburb, with
the bypass, and he hopes to
have it completed before fall.
It will leave Greenwood road
some 200 or 300 yards from
the Green home and go
through the woods to join
the bypass near the 45-acre
tract bought by Mr. Muirhead.
Thus it will convert Green
wood road, which now runs to
a dead-end at tha Green home,
into a road open at both ends.
Work on the 86-apartment
extension to Glen Lennox has
been delayed by tie-ups in
Washington and on the steel
front, and so the hope of hav
ing the apartments ready by
early fall has had to be given
up.
Some Stores Will
Have 2-Day Holiday
The following business establish
ments will be closed all day to
morrow, Friday, July 4, and all
day Saturday, July 5:
Bank of Chapel Hill, Carolina
Flbwer Shop, Carolina Sport Shop,
Caston Motor Company, Chapel
Hill Motors, Coman Lumber Comp
any, Electric Construction Comp
any, Fitch Lumber Company, John
Foushee Real Estate and Insurance
Company, J. B. Goldston Lumber
Company, Hazzard Motor Comp
any, Home and Auto Supply Store,
Ledbetter-Pickard, Knight-Camp
bell Hardware Store, Jack Lip
man’s, Sol Lipman’s, Little Shop,
Orange Plumbing and Heating
Company, Public Service of Chapel
Hill, Town and Campus, Univer
sity Florist, University Printery,
Varley’s Men’s Shop, Wentworth
and Sloan, and the Yarn Shop.
Kimsey King Marries
A. K. (Kimsey) King, jr., of
Chapel Hill and Mjss Marjorie Jeon
Fisher of Morgantown, W. Va.,
were married June 22 at the Wes
leyan Memorial church in Morgan
town. Mr. King’s parents and his
brother, Dennis, and sister, Mary
Ann, went from here for the wed
ing. Mary Ann, who is six years
old, was flower girl. The bride was
formerly the young women’s social
director at the YWCA in Durham.
The couple are living at 737 South
Williams St., Denver, Col., where
the groom is stationed with the
U. S. Air Force.
Ralph Boggs in Korea
Pfc. Ralph Karl Boggs, son of
Mrs. Marian Boggs, is now sta
tioned in Korea not far from the
front lines. His address is Pfc.
Ralph Karl Boggs ER14307790,
"A” Btry. Bth FA Bn., APO 25,
Care of Postmaster, San Fran
cisco, California.
Prsobytsrian Circle Mooting
Circle No. 11l of the Presby
terian Women es the Choreh will
meet at 8 pan. Monday, July t,
with Mrs. Arthur Brawn at Iff l
Jackson Circle, Yietaty Village.