Vol. 30 No. 29
Rain, Thunder,
And Lightning
Join to Make
A Big Storm
A cloudburst descended on
Chapel Hill at about 1 o’clock
Tuesday afternoon. N6t in
years had the village seen so
much rain come down in such
a short time.
The rainfall meter of the
U. S. Soil Conservation serv
ice, out on the Mason Farm,
showed a fall of one and a
quarter inches in about half
an hour. Max D. Saunders,
custodian of the U. S. Weath
er Bureau station at Carrboro,
reports that the meter there
showed a fall of 1.52 inches.
The cloudburst’s most spec
tacular demonstration was in
the dip of Franklin street at
the foot of Mallett street.
Water piled up more than a
foot deep there. It passed
through the doors of Fowler’s
Food Store, and did a dam
age, on the bottom row of
shelves, amounting to several
hundred dollars. The store had
to close for about three hours.
Among home-owners the
person who took the worst
beating from the storm was
Mrs. Eugene Andrews, who
lives on the corner of Frank
lin and Mallett streets. The
monster drain that brings
water from the campus and a
large area along South Colum
bia street and Cameron ave
nue opens on her lot. The
volume of water coming
through it could not be taken
care of by the town’s storm
drains under Franklin street,
so the flood overflowed Mrs.
Andrews’ garden and destroy
ed her beets, cabbage, and
other vegetable*. *
The rainstorm was accom
panied by thunder and light
ning. A bolt of lightning
struck the giant oak beside
the L. J. Phipps home on Pitts
boro street and ripped off a
strip of bark frojn the top
of the tree to within a few
feet of the ground. Miss
Snooky Phipps, coming in
from the street, was within a
few feet of the tree when it
was struck. Fragments of bark
were strewn around her but
she was hot hurt.
McClamrochs Have
Gone to Convention
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Mc-
Clamroch set out yesterday
by automobile for the Demo
cratic Convention. They will
stay at the Conrad Hilton ho
tel. Mr. McClamroch is a
member of the North Caro
lina delegation as an alter
nate.
They were to stop-over at
Boone last night to see Her
mit Hunter’s play, “Horn in
the West.” They will be in
Cincinnati, Ohio, tonight with
Mr. and Mrs. Robert ft. Wet
tach, jr., and their new baby.
They will arrive in Chicago
tomorrow night. They don’t
know how long they will be
there because they don’t know
how long the convention will
take to select a candidate.
From Chicago they will go
first to Denver and then to
Seattle, Washington, to visit
the Irving Clarks. They will
be at the Valley Ranch, Val
ley, Wyoming, in late August
and early September. That is
where Mr. McClamroch is to
attend the meeting of the di
rectors of the National Wild
life Federation.
Annual Fishing Rodeo
The Orange County Wildlife
Club’s annual fishing rodeo
for boys and girls will be held
from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. Satur
day, August 23, at Brodie
Clark’s lake. Ted Haselwood
and Kenneth Putnam are co
chairmen of the event
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When a Five-Star General Came to the Village
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This is one of the photographs taken on General Eisenhower’s latest (but, it is hoped,
not last) visit here. From left to right: Captain Hazlett, Mrs. Eisenhower, Mrs. Hazlett, the General.
When General Dwight D.
Eisenhower was Chief of Staff
of the Army, an inspection
trip that he made to Fort
Bragg gave him the opportun
ity for a long-hoped-for meet
ing with his friend, Captain
E. E. Hazlett. They had not
seen each other for several
Tuesday, August S, Is Day Set for Opening
Os 16 of the 34 Rooms in University Lodge
W. D. Carmichael, sr., and
I went out, Tuesday afternoon,
to University Lodge, the new I
living quarters two miles from '
I town on the Raleigh road, to
see how near the building was
to completion. The sun was
shining bright but the midday
, cloudburst had left pools of
| water all around. A raised i
level had been thoughtfully
provided as a passage for cars
’ and so, by winding adroitly
among the pools, we could
, drive up close to the edge of
the porch.
Charles Nottingham, the
manager, when he showed us
around, told us that the 16
rooms in the half of the
building nearest Chapel Hill
(at the right as you come from
the highway) would be ready
. for guests Tuesday, August 5.
The other 18 will be ready
. before the University opens in
r September. Os course the
. grounds will be cleared of
I debris and will be suitably
. dolled up before August 5.
i The building is in the shape
. of a sort of U. Since the inner
. side of the U is toward the
highway, the impression you
get as you approach is that
two arms are spread out to
i give you a loving embrace.
From what Mr. Nottingham
Smith Says Movie Business Is Improving
E. C. Smith, manager of he
Carolina theatre, reports that
business has been better than
usual at his theatre this year,
despite the hue and cry rais
ed about television’s keeping
people at home and away
from the movies. He said the
same thing is true in many
parts of the South and that he
attributes it to the fact that
Hollywood is making better
shows than formerly.
"I know the ones we are
getting here have been an
improvement,” he said, “and
the public has responded to
this change for the better. The
industry went through a per
iod of soul-searching, and now
it is making fewer and better
movies.”
As examples of some of
these better shows, Mr. Smith
named the following movies
that are coming hers soon:
“Encore,” the new Somerset
Eisenhower’had gone on his
years, not since before General
momentous mission beyond
the Atlantic.
It was on the first day of
April 1947 that General and
Mrs. Eisenhower came to
Chapel Hill. The idea was that
they would slip off from Fort
told us, I gather that the
promise in this gesture will
be made good by the interior.
The building is air-condition
ed. Every room has a bath 1
(with both tub and shower)
and an ample dothes-closet,
and will contain a double and
a single bed. The beds and
chairs will be of walnut. Two
rooms or more can be turned
into a suite by the opening of
doors, and here is an im
portant provision: there are
two doors, not just one, be
tween adjoining rooms, and a
space of about two feet be
tween the doors, so that if
you have only one room you
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Second Term Enrollment
Just before the paper
went to press yesterday the
enrollment for the second
term of the University Sum
mer Session stood at 1,909.
Director Phillips said that he
thought it might go, before
the end of the registration
period this afternoon, to
2,000. This is as large an en
rollment as was expected in
the light of the drop of more
than 1,000, from last year,
in the first term enrollment.
The second term enrollment
last year was about 2,800.
Maugham movie; “Jumping
Jacks,” with Dean Martin and
Jerry Lewis; “High Noon,”
starring Gary Cooper and
Grace Kelly; “Islands of De
sire,” with Linda Darnell;
“We’re Not Married,” Ginger
Rogers; “Where’s Charlie,” a
remake of “Charlie’s Aunt;”
“The Washington Story,” Van ]
Johnson, and “The Story of
Will Rogers,” in which Will
Rogers, jr., plays the part of i
his father. (
Mr. Smith said that in New
York the Macy Department
Store has been running full
page ads of specially good
movies in the big newspapers.
“They’re doing It to encour
age people to desert their tele
visions and go to the show,” ,
he said.. ’They figure they’ll ]
have more shoppers in their
store if more people come
downtown to the show,”
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1952
Bragg, without any announce
ment about where they were
going, and would have a few
quiet hours with the Hazletts.
The projected incognito visit
wound up as many another in
cognito visit has—in a flood
of limelight.
Somehow the word got out,
maybe by a grapevine tele
phone message from Fort
Bragg. The State Highway
Patrol had insisted on hav
ing an escort for the General
all the time he was in North
Carolina, and of course the
attention of passersby was at
tracted when the State troop
ers and the automobile bear
ing the visitors stopped in
front of the home. To
let the cat completely out of
the bag, young Merwyn Van
Hecke came along and saw the
Five Stars on the license
plate; and so did another boy;
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Workers Needed by Hospital Auxiliary
Several items of interest to
members of the Women’s Hos
pital Auxiliary are announced
by Mrs. W. W. Pierson, presi
dent of the auxiliary.
The sewing and linen-mark
ing room, formerly at the
Chapel Hill Country Club, is
now in room 405 on the fourth
floor of the hospital and will
be open from 9 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. daily from Monday
through Friday of every week.
Mrs. Pierson says that help
is urgently needed for this
project and that she urges the
women of Chapel Hill and
Carrboro to offer their serv
ices, if only for an hour or
two at a time.
Material for the cherry-red
smocks the auxiliary members
will wear when on duty in the
hospital is now available at
the Carolina Drapery Shop.
Members may buy it and make
their own smocks or have
them made at the shop for a
reasonable charge.
Training for hospital guide
Mr. Birdseye Asked to Be
Temporary Pastor Here
The Presbyterian congrega
tion has asked the Rev. Irving
E. Birdseye, paster of the
Hillsboro Presbyterian church,
to be pastor here during the
next year when the Rev.
Charles M. Jones will be away
on leave. Mr. Birdseye has not
yet decided whether or not
he will accept the offer.
Kellogg Buys Childers Home
G. H. Kellogg, who was liv
ing until recently in the
former Harold D. Meyer home
on the Pittaboro highway,
has bought and moved into the
former James S. Childers
home on the Pittaboro high
way 11 miles from Chapel Hill.
Chapel Hill Chaff
“It certainly did play the
devil with Mrs. Eugene An
drews’ garden!’’ one of my
treasured volunteer reporters
told me over the telephone
just after Tuesday’s cloud
burst. I rang up Mrs. Andrews
and got more information, and
later I went to call on her.
Mud and debris covered, and
had ruined, all the garden ex
cept some tomatoes that were 1
on a slight rise of ground. It (
was a sad sight indeed, but
there was nothing sad in the 1
appearance of Mrs. Andrews. '
From the bench where she
sat with her foster-child and
a neighbor, Mrs. Lloyd, she
greeted me with a wave of a
hand and a smile. Then she
got up and we strolled around.
The mud from that stroll is
still clinging to my shoes.
I can remember from my
boyhood in the 1890’s the big
open ditch that started on
the Gore .place (where the
Communication Center is),
passed under Columbia street,
with wooden bridges at the
sidewalks, and then ran
through backyards and pas
tures and on under Franklin
and Rosemary streets. A town
changes but there is one thing
about it that never changes:
the rain continues to fall on
it and there have to be drains
to carry the rainwater off.
That old drain has been cover
ed over along its upper
stretches, where it passes near
fraternity houses and under
the school grounds, but it be
comes an open ditch (a neat
stone-walled one) at the upper
edge of Mrs. Andrews’ place
at the comer of Franklin and
Mallett streets. There is about
80 feet of this ditch crossing
the garden and than, just be
fore it gets to Mallett street,
the drain goes underground
again.
The cloudburst produced
such a vast volume of water
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service will begin about the
middle of August in order that
trained personnel may be
ready when the hospital opens
September 1.
Mrs. Pierson urges em
bers of the auxiliary to watch
the papers for further infor
mation prior to the opening of
the hospital.
The Thorps Find Quarters
After a diligent search such
as all newcomers in Chapel
Hill have to go through with
in these days, Dr. and Mrs.
Lewis Thorp have found liv
ing quarters at 208 1-2 Vance
street. It is a good location
for them because Dr. Thorp
is to be an intern in the Uni
versity’s hospital, only a few
minutes’ walk away. Mrs.
Thorp is with the placement
bureau in the South building.
Pay Cut for Summer Faculty Members
A decline of 1,080 in Uni
versity Summer Session en
rollment, causing a propor
tionate decline in revenue
from tuition fees, has com
pelled a cut of 25 per cent in
the salaries of about 225 mem
-1 bers of the faculty.
' The first-term enrollment
1 last year was 3,560. The drop
■ to 2,480 this year is a decrease
of about 30 per cent.
There is no State appro
: priation for the Summer Ses
sion, so that faculty salaries
must be paid out of a self
sustaining budget. In case of
. a big drop in enrollment the
s revenue falls below the self
> sustaining point.
Guy B. Phillips, director of
> the Summer Session, says
i that a large part of the drop
. in enrollment is in the cate
. gories of freshmen and war
Chapel Hill May Have
Eisenhower as Visitor
In Course of Campaign
♦
Carl Durham Urges
Continuation >
Os Tobacco Quotas
Tobacco farmers will vote
tomorrow (Saturday) on the
question of continuing the
present program, the allot
ment of quotas of acres that
can be planted in tobacco. The
purpose of the quota system
is to prevent over-production
and a consequent collapse of
prices.
The Weekly has received the
following telegram from Con
gressman Carl Durham:
“I urge all tobacco farmers
to go to the polls Saturday and
vote for the continuation of
the present tobacco program.”
If the farmers support
quotas by a two-thirds vote
the Federal givernment will
continue to support the price
of the crop.
Everybody who owns all or
part of a crop of tobacco in
this year’s growth is eligible
to vote. • - * * ■
New Law Will Bring
Rise in Enrollment
Summer Session Director
Guy B. Phillips's voice con
tained an exceptionally
cheerful note when he re
plied to this qmotion of
mine over the telephone yes
terday morning:
“Dkl yoa read in the pa
per afcont President Tru
man’s Mk the bill for
benefiftnliSweaii veter
ans?”
“I certainly did,” he re
plied, “and it’s good news
for us.”
The new law, like the so
called G.I. Bill of Rights,
enacted for the benefit of
World War II veterans, will
provide tuition fees and liv
ing expenses for Korean
veterans at institutions all
over the country.
“It may have some effect
on enrollment in Septem
ber,” said Mr. Phillips, “but
1 don’t expect it to have
much effect till January.
Then the Korean veterans
wiii be entering the Univer
sity in considerable num
bers. And of course the law
will cause a big increase in
the enrollment next sum
mer.”
Because of the rotation
system, under which sol
diers in Korea are replaced
by other soldiers and come
home after relatively short
periods of service, the num
ber of veterans receiving
benefits under the new law
will run into many hundreds
of thousands.
veterans. The figures show
that there are about 600 few
er veterans than last year and
about 250 fewer freshmen.
The size of the faculty this
year is about the same as it
was last year, because, when
teachers were engaged, there
was no way for the Summer
Session administration to
know that there would be
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Calendar of Events
Monday. July XI
5:30 to 7 p.m., Lenoir hall, sup
per forum of “World Understand
ing” sponsored by YMCA, with
0. B. Robson and Mis, Marianne
Hauser as speakers. PuWk invited.
Taeedsy. Ja|y XX
8:80 p.m., Hill Moats kail, violin
l recital by Oeerge Bewette, Univer
, aity music student, 4ft . y , t , ,
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There is a possibility that
Dwight D. Eisenhower, the
Republican candidate for
President, will come to Chapel
Hill in the course of his cam
paign this fall.
Some persons who have
been speculating about this,
or, you might say, gossiping
about it, think his visit is
more than possible; they call
it probable.
General Eisenhower has
said that he expects to come
to the South in his campaign.
If he comes to the South he
will certainly come to North
Carolina, since this is one of
the Southern States that his
adherents think he has a good
■ chance of carrying if it is
; vigorously campaigned for.
. And if he comes to North
I Carolina he is likely to come
[ to Chapel Hill, for two
reasons: first, because his
. close friend, Captain E. E.
[ (“Swede”) Hazlett, U.S. Navy,
! retired, with whom he grew
up in Abilene, lives here, and,
second, because the
sity’s being here ma* *. ’
Hill a center for
i State and an excellent Ipfiflß
ing-off place fo{ Ms
Student organ iza|MM|B'-
ested in Politics
tomed to invite IpfijpHK
versity represeatjfeilfMlwl
shades of potitictfiybinion,
and there is little flU§ that,
after the Universdpßms in
September, invitatl||flkiU be
aenttoboUth^H>^^can
be exceptionally keen in this
election year.
If General Eisenhower comes
here he will have, as a Presi
dential "'candidate always has,
a considerable number of
traveling companions, includ
ing newspaper correspondents
and photographers.
Supper Forum Will
Be Open to Public
The public is invited to a
supper forum on “World Un
derstanding” to be held from
5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday, July
21, in the second-floor dining
room of Lenoir hall under the
auspices of the University
YMCA. It is one in a series
of such forums on this general
topic being sponsored by the
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The specific topic of the
evening will be “Recent De
velopments in Germany in
Connection with Problems of
Integration between East and
West.” The discussion leaders
will be C. B. Robson of the
University faculty, who re
. cently returned from Ger-
many, where he was cultural
relations officer with the
Army of Occupation in Ber
lin and Bonn, and Mrs. Mar
ianne Hauser, who lived two
years under the Russian oc
cupation in East Germany and
who now lives here and works
at Danziger’s Restaurant.
Persons wishing to attend
the forum may get their sup
per on a tray in the Lenoir
hall cafeteria on the first
floor and proceed to the sec
ond floor to eat and take part
in or listen to the discussions.
Makes Dean’s List
Miss Janet Merritt, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy
Merritt, was one of the four
students in the Univeisity*s
school of nursing who mads
the dean’s list in the spring
quarter. A student must makt
at least a B on every course
to be on the dean’s list.