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TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday Vol. 33, No. 47 Bennett Says All Colleges Have Housing Complications Almost, all the' colleges and universities m the na tion are experiencing a hous ing shortage akin to that at University here, accord ing to John S. Bennett, U.N.C. director of opera tions. Mr. Bennett recently returned from a meeting of the National Association of College and University Housing Officials at lowa State College at Ames, lowa. Coming- back to Chapel Hill he stopped off in Chica go and inspected new hous ing facilities at Northwest ern University. One of its new dormitories houses 1,420 men. More than 150 college of ficials were present at the conference, and from them Mr. Bennett gained the im pressiofi that “we are no worse off than the rest of them. They all face increas ed enrollments, are confused about what to do, but realize they must build housing fa cilities if students are to be accommodated.” He added that the trend seems to be *kvard erecting self-liqui ting dormitories, as al ready planned at the Univer sity here. He found, however, that the newer dormitories, al ready erected or being plan ned, are far in advance of the “concept and philosophy prevalent around here.” They are bigger and better dorm itories, with social rooms and social equipment, some even with laundries, and al most all with a dining room in each dormitory. The feel ing seems to be that such ac commodations are better for the individuals, that it gives them greater and more so cial contacts, enables them to get along with people, to develop their personalities better. And that there’s no better place for that than ground a dining table. On the other hand, Mr. Bennett foundthat dormitory fees were higher than those here. The prevailing gener al charge elsewhere runs (Continued on page 8) School Board Eyes Important Topics The Chapel Hill School Board was to have met last night (Mon day) to decide whether or not it would be practical to go ahead with plans for the proposed new -gymtorium at the Lincoln high Pschool. Bids for the job, opened last Wednesday, called for build ing costs about $30,000 higher than the funds available. Board Chairman Carl Smith •aid yesterday afternoon at presstime that an integration policy for the Chapel Hill schools was also slated for discussion. Members of the board inspect ed the new addition to the Glen wood Bchool last Thursday and pronounced it ready for use next month. It will afford six new classrooms with a capacity of 180 additional students. Il University Is Honored The University wms honored by the Sports Writers Associs tion at Chicago last week when it was presented with two plaques, one for the facilities of its Kenan Stadium press box and another for services offered by the publicity department of the University. Jake Wade, the sports news director of the ath letic department, was in Chicago and received them. He returned here Saturday. The University was one of only a few univer sities in the country to receive two citations. Paper to Be One Day Early Because of the merchants’ “Dollar Days” program, coming up Friday and Satarday, the next issue of the Weekly will be issued one day early. It will go to press Wednesday, August 17, and be dated Thursday, August It, This ■Maas all news and classified ad vertisements should .he is by net later than 19 sum. Wednesday. Chapel Hill Boy Who Wrote “The Fxsanguination Blues” Pays a Visit to Former President Truman V X. Douglas Harrell, son of Mrs. Myrtie Harrell of Chapel Hill and a fourth year medical student at the University, is traveling this summer for the Pfizer Drug Company. When he was in j Kansas City, Mo., recently he and two of his associates visited Harry S. Truman in the former President’s offce. The above picture, taken during the visit, shows Mr.; George Holton Tells How It Felt to Dive into UNC Pool When It Was Dry George R. Holton, a Winston- Salem lawyer, has the distinction of being the first person who div ed into a University of North Carolina swimming pool when there was no water in it. His dive took place in 1912 in the pool that was in Bynum hall when that building was the University gymnasium. Mr. Holton was in terviewed for the Weekly last week at his home in Winston-Sa lem. The interview follows: Question. When did you make this dive? Answer. When I was a student at the University in 1912. Q. How did you happen to have this experience? A. One evening I came into the shower room of the gymnas ium, the old Bynum building, about six o’clock after class team football practice, with other stu dents; among them 1 remember my roommate Douglas Rights, Phil Woolcott, Lee Wiggins, and a few others. It was the custom to take a shower and then jump into the pool before dressing. The janitor of the gymnasium had given warning that students had better take their shower be fore six o’clock for he intended to drain the pool by that hour. I was not aware of his intentions, or I failed to note the lateness of my entry into the shower room. When I had finished the shower, 1 went to the shallow end of the pool and dived in. Q. How is it that you did not know that the pool was empty? A. There waa a cloud of steam in the room and there were no lights about the pool. Q. What were your sensations when you dived? A. That is hard to say. I landed with a thud, mainly on the bridge of my nose, and skidded some feet on the slippery bottom of the pool. I was dazed and didn’t know Norman Jarrard and Mrs. George Hogan Win Mixed Doubles Tennis Championship Mrs. George Hogan and Nor man Jarrard of Chapel Hill won the mixed doubles championship in the East Carolina Tennis Tournament at Rocky Mount day before yesterday. Two men’s doubles teams from Chapel Hill advanced to the semi-finals. They are Norman Jarrard and John Tapley, who won twice Sunday, and H. S. Mc- Ginty and Henry T. Clark, who also won Sunday and may play their semi-finals match here Wednesday afternoon. John Tapley, last year’s men’s singles champion, lost in the semi-finals round, and Mrs. Ho gan lost her women's singles match to the No. 1 seeded player. Tapley and Miss Ann Tomp kins won their first mixed dou bles match, but forfeited the second. In the first veterans’ doubles, McGinty and Dudley Cowden were defeated in the first round. Flay fa the teuranmdnt, sched uled to ahurt lent Wide sod ay, The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents a Copy Harrell (center) standing just back of Mr. Truman. The other young men are students from other medical i schools who have been (traveling with tyr. Harrell, i ( One other such student in |the group was not present ; for the picture, i Traveling by air, the four , young men are calling on t medical doctors in several [Midwestern states. Before what to think. With little effort I managed to get to my feet and groped my way to the edge of the pool where frightened stu dents had come running after hearing me strike bottom with out a splash. It would have been a different story if I had dived ttt from the deep end. Q. Did you feel any ill effects? A. Only befuddled by the blow and the shock that came from realization of what I had done. My worst feeling came when I heard one of the students on the bank make the horrifying re mark “Look at his brains splat tered on the bottom of the pool!” Q. What damage was done you? A. Very little. 1 had a broken nose, a wrenched back, and some bruises and scratches about the face and elbows. After a night at the infirmary I was out again with a strip of tape over the wounded nose. Q. Have you ever suffered from it since? A. No. Q. What was the student re action? A. Sympathetic indeed. There was much relief that I had es caped serious injury, or death. There was even a little humor that cropped out. The campus newspaper had a heading, and I suspect who the writer was: “Holton caught in a Low Dive, or Striking Experiences in a Pool Room.” Q. Do you know of any others who have taken such a dive? A. One was Hughie Jennings, famous baseball manager of the Detroit Tigers. I am told that his face bore lifelong scars as a result. Q. Would you be willing to repeat the performance? A. No. was interrupted by Hurricane Connie; so part of the matches were completed Sunday and part were not. That is the reason the men’s doubles semi-finals may be played here Wednesday with the winners playing for the finals dt some place and date to be an nounced later. At Memorial Hospital Among local persons listed as patients at Memorial hospital yesterday were William Gilbert Aldridge, John Blackwood, Mrs. James Case, Brenda Joyce Cole, Mrs. Curtis Cotton, Mrs. Hal Craige, l)avid S. Evans, Alfred R. Fathman, Mrs. Tempie Flack, Edgar B. Hare, Kenneth Lee Harris, Catherine Hanley, Alex ander Hoffman, Henry C. Hurl burt, Mrs. Leßoy Merritt, Miss Mary J. Neville, Bydney Thomas Noel Jr., Julius Andrews Page, Mrs. James R. Poole, Mrs. Rich ard K. Wagner, Hubert Allen Whitt, aad Dr. Robert Uppa. CHAPEL HILL, N.' C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1955 coming home later this month, Mr. Harrell will have ! visited Springfield, Mo.; Tulsa; Oklahoma City; Wichita, Kansa s City, Omaha, Des Moines, Roches ter, Duluth. Minneapolis, and other Midwestern cities, and also New York City. Just before leaving Chapel Hill this summer, Mr. Har rell and several other stu dents in the University’s School of Medicine made a recording of his song, “The Exsanguination B1 u es, ” which he wrote last spring for the Medical Student- Faculty Day program given in Memorial hall on May 7. The recording, which has proved especially popular among doctors, nurses, and medical students, is on sale at Sloan’s Drugstore. In, answer to many requests, it has been played over Chapel Hill's radio station WCHL. Mr. Harrell , and his mother live on the Durham road across from the radio 1 broadcasting station. He is a nephew of Mrs. W. T. Mat tox of Cameron avenue and ' the late Mr. Mattox. Accountants Licensed i Raymond Rains, of Chapel Hill, administrative secretary of the State Board of Certified Public Accountant Examiners, announ ced yesterday that 24 of 33 suc cessful candidates taking the May examinations had been li censed to practice accountancy in North Carolina. The next exami nation will be given November 2-4 at the University here and at Catawba College at Salisbury. Going to Turkey Miss Betty Bolton, daughter of Mrs. R. L. Bolton of Chapel Hill, left yesterday for Ismir, Turkey, to teach and be librarian in a Navy Department school. She has been spending the summer here with her mother. Last year she taught in the Navy Dependents School in Naples, Italy. At Presbyterian Church The Rev. Robert J. McMullen will preach Sunday, August 21, at the Presbyterian church. Oth er guest preachers there during th Rev. Vance Barron's absence will be Charles J. Ping of Duke on August 28 and Bernard Boyd of the University here on Sep tember 4. The colored shoe shyie man purchasing a bottle of wine to ride out the hurricane. •• * , Dick Young and Monk Jennings attuned to broadcasts, and Bill Cherry long-distancing to learn if their vacations were being bl<swn away. • * • • The moanin’ of low sirens of out-of-town ambulances on their way to Memorial Hospital with precious cargo, when they arrive at a traffic block on N. C. 64. • * * * Grover Bush inspecting his tall corn that was practically flatten ed by Hurricane Connie. * * * • Out-of-state car entering Rose mary street from Henderson street without heeding stop sign is almost hit by, car that has right-of-way en Rosemary. Driv er of offeadiag ear slams on brakes, aad child eu bosk seat is Chapel Hill Woman Wins 2nd Prize In Wriling Contest Mrs. Ak S. Davenport of Chapel Hill yesterday was announced as winner of sec ond place in the 1955 Writer’s Digest annual short short story writing contest. Mrs. Davenport submitted her story under the name of Mary Cotten Davenport. It is entitled “A Study in Black and White.” Not until a reporter for the Weekly telephoned did Mrs. Davenport know she had placed second. “I got a telephone call about two weeks ago,” she said, “that I was among the first ten, but I didn’t know that I had done so well. Thank you for telling me.” Mrs. Davenport said her story was about an old Negro woman she had known down in Eastern North Carolina. “I had never tried to write short short stories, because they are hard,” she said. “But I’ve been taking some courses in creative writing under Phillips Russell and decided I’d try this one. I’m happy to hear this.” Advised that the listings were on page 36 of the cur rent issue of the Writer’s Digest, Mrs. Davenport, who is affectionately known as the “coed grandmother” on the University campus, said, “1 am going right down to bqy a copy. I want to see my name in print.” She has sold a number of articles to various publica tions in the past, she ex plained, but this is the first click with a story. The value of the second pr)ze was not mentioned in thfe announcement. First place, won by a Californian, was worth $500.- Returns from Fort Be lining Mrs. Annie Haithcock has re turned from Fort Benning, Ga., where she had been on a six weeks visit to her son-in-law and daughter, Lieutenant and Mrs. Angus W. Wootten and their children. Lt. Wootten is Com manding Officer of Company A of the 29th Infantry there. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Rush Say Damage Is Slight in Topsail Island Colonies Mr. and Mrs. Everett L. Rush were at Topsail Beach Saturday and Sunday making minor repairs on their beach cottage, which suf fered slight damage in last week’s hurricane. “Damage on Topsail Island was almost nothing when compared with what Hurricane Hazel did there last year,” Mrs. Rush said yesterday after returning here. “Last year our cottage was al most wrecked. This year we lost a few shingles that were blown off and two sets of porch steps that were washed away. We found one set, but never could find the other.” Mrs. Rush said the high tides and pounding seas destroyed practically all the island’s man made dunes that had been built since Hazel as a protection against just such storma. “A newspaper reporter who visited Surf City on Topsail la land reported that a cottage there had been lifted off its pil ings and washed out to sea and lost. Thia was not so. There nev er had been any cottage on that Chapel Hillnotes thrown against back of front seat. Cries loudly but not ser iously hurt. • # • • The story on this page about the University student who dived into a dry swimming pool has small chancs of recurring here now. By order of Oliver Cornwell, head of the University’s physical education department, the Uni versity’s Bowman Gray pool is kept lighted all the time the building is open. • *s* * Horse Lloyd waiting for the Coffee Shop to open at 4:80 Sun day morning. Tern Rosemond there a few minutes later to see how the new lighting system is working. * • • • • W. 0. y ,if oft occupying tWOi chairs while enjoying the cool of the evening in his front yard. Fee| la one and fundament fat the Ckapel Mill Chaff J. J. Vic Cook called up to ask if we had noticed the radio and television weather re porters using advisory as a noun in their reports on Hurricane Connie. “I can’t find anything in my dictionary giving author ity for any such use of the word,” he said. “There’s a perfectly good noun for what they mean. It’s bulletin. It’s not only correct but it’s eas ier to say.” Mr. Cook said he’d been hearing announcers all the way from Miami to New York using advisory as a noun. Even Wesley Wallace, he added. “It’s got me stumped,” he said. “I can’t figure out what’s the matter with those fellows. Are they trying to be pretentious? It makes me feel like turning the TV or radio off, or just walking away from it. A good, old mean language like ours is confusing enough without its being fouled up intentionally.” When asked what he meaiit by good, old mean language, Mr. Cook gave this sentence as an example: “I’ll pare a pair of pears.” * * * Seen on Rosemary street: An old, scarred, countrified redbone hound trying to crawl under a parked car to escape one of Hurricane Connie’s sudden rain squalls. He couldn’t make it and went and sat under a tree, looking patient and philo sophical. * * * Jack Andrews says last week’s hurricane wasn’t any worse than the one that struck Wrightsville Beach when he was there some years ago before the place could be reached by high way. “The train quit running,” he said, “and there was no other way to get back across to the Wilmington side. They said nobody could get out till the hurricane was over. But I wasn’t going to (Continued on page 2) site. Only the pilings had been driven. The reporter saw them, with .no house, and thought the cottage had washed away. “Another mistaken idea is that the beach colonies on Topsail Is land are closed. “Reports from the Highway De partment said so this morning (Monday). Hut they are wide open. I never saw more cars there than I did Sunday. People were coming in and renting cot tages right and left.” Mr. and Mrs. Rush reported that extremely heavy seas were coming ashore at Topsail from Tuesday through Saturday and that the surf was still above nor mal when they left there Sunday afternoon. “And now it seems we have Diane to worry about,” they added. New Houses Being Built on Elkin Hill By Carolina Constructors and Realty The Carolina Constructors and Realty Company now has five houses under construction in the Elkin Hill area off the Airport road to the left beyond the Mor gan creek bridge, and it plans to begin work on 21 more houses there within thirty days. The recently organised firm is developing the 42-acre wooded tract which it bought from the Elkin Realty Company, formerly owned by John W. Umstead Jr. and his son, Frank Umstead. The new residences will be in the 916,000 class. The firm has also made plans to build less ex pensive houses on the former Webb property off Greensboro street in Carrboro. Houses and lots in the devel opment off the Airport road ex ceed minimum requirements of the FHA and are approved by the FHA and Veterans Adminis tration. The smallest house will have 1,200 square feet at space, the largest 1,600. The houses will have either a bath and a half or two baths, tow* power, toio phone, water aad sewer faciU * *** " rum streets, ana anenm sues $4 a Year in County; otfeer rataa ma pas* 2 Merchants’ Directors Meet to Select Executive Secretary; Unofficial Poll Indicates Mrs. Jane Whitefield Their Choice Stores Will Offer Big Bargains Here This Week Preparations for “Dollar Days,” biggest cooperative shopping event ever held in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area, gained momentum yes terday as practically every store in the two towns listed special bargains for the two day sale, to be held Friday and Saturday of this week. “I don’t believe we have ever had anything? this big in the Chapel Hill and Carr boro merchandising field,” Carlton Byrd, chairman of the event, told the Weekly yesterday. “While the plan was begun by the Merchants Association, non-members are giving their whole-heart ed support, at the invitation of the association.” In addition to the special low prices to be offered by department stores and men’s and women’s apparel stores, bargains will be offered by filling stations, jewelry stores, theatres, beauty shops, automobile agencies, service establishments, and (Continued on page 8) Last Chances for Telescope Viewing Public use of the 15-inch tele scope atop the More head Plane tarium will be discontinued after next MoqgiV Bight, because most the close or tmmmm have been in charge of public observation of the night skies oil Monday and Thursday nights this summer. More than 100 persons have taken advantage of the privilege to use the telescope this summer. That is a sizeable figure when one considers that the viewing was only two nights weekly and that the groups were limited in number because of the time ele ment involved in viewing. Reservations may be made by calling the Planetarium for this coming Thursday night and next Monday night, August 22. Waste Psper Wanted The Jaycees’ next waste paper drive will be held Sunday after noon, August 28, beginning at 1 o’clock. Everybody is asked to save old newspapers, magazines, and other waste paper and tie them in bundles to be placed on the curb that day for the Jaycees to pick up. The proceeds from the sale of the paper is used by the group to help finance its civic projects. Going to Banff, Canada The Rev. and Mrs. Wade F. Hook of the Holy Trinity Luther an church will attend the 1855 staff conference of the National Lutheran Council’s division of student service from August 22 to August 26 in Banff, Cansda. the cl< plans for selection. Applicants will have 30 years to pay for the residences. The Carolina Constructors and Realty Company has offices in its new building at 406 West Franklin Street. This new com pany is headed by W. Lea Pow ell 111 of Pittsboro. His associ ates are F. M. Carlisle, civil en gineer and the company’s design er, and Ralph E. Hanna, an in surance and realtor of Dunn, who is also mayor of Dunn. The of fice is managed by George F. Hellen of Chapel Hill. Lutheran Guest Preacher The Rev. Harold L. Creaker, professor of Old Testament at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. C., will be the guest preacher at the Holy Trin ity Lutheran church for the next two Sundays, August 21 and 28. Mr. Creager has also taught at Susquehanna University and at the Evangelical Lutheran Sem inary in Canada aad has served pastorate* in New York Cites Patawissa, Pg., and Palmyra, N> ♦r-r—'-C*'",- -T- - . ■•ffaas^syasßi.'^ TUESDAY* ISSUE Next Ihm Friday * Members of the Board of Directors of the Chapel Hill- Carrboro Merchants Associ ation met last night (Mon day) to discuss a successor to Jake Trexler, Executive Secretary, whose resignation becomes effective today. Crowell Little, the Asso ciation’s President, told the Weekly at presstime that there were seven applicants for the job. “We hope to arrive at a decision at the meeting,” he said. “If we don’t take action, we will certainly narrow the field down to two or three candi dates.” An unofficial poll of the Board of Directors by the Weekly seem to indicate that the job would be offered to Mm. Jane Whitefield. Mrs. Whitefield, the former Jane Smoak, held the position from September 1953 until August of 1954. She is now employed as bookkeeper for the Pritchard-Little Motor Company. One member of the board sett that “Mrs. Whitefield did a good job for us when she was Executive Secre tary. She has the experi ence, is well acquainted with the merchants of Chapel Hill, and she understands our problems. If she will ac cept the job I feel that a lot of our present problems will be solved.” Mrs. Whitefield was ques tioned yesterday concerning the job. "If it is offered to “1 am cwtojto he jwat'Hkf ♦» nip am perfertly happy hi my present position at Pritch ard-Little. I do feel, though, that the Merchants Associa tion job is a real challenge, and that it has a very fine future.” “Deadwood Dick” Is Set for This Week ‘‘Deadwood Dick,” described in press notices as an old-time, rootin’ tootin’ melodrama, will be given at 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday of this week in the Play makers theatre by the Jun ior I‘laymakers, composed of high school students studying here this summer in the Univer sity’s department of dramatic art. Reserved seat tickets are on sale (at 75 cents each) at Led better-Pickard’s and at the Car olina Playmakers’ business office in Abernethy hall. Vic Huggins, tall handsome son of Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Hug gins of Chapei Hill, will be seen in the leading role of Nick Har ris, alias Deadwood Dick. An other Chapel Hillian in the cast is Nixon Lauterer, son of Mrs. Myra Lauterer. The play is being directed by Mrs. Louise Lamont. Costuming r is by Bob Snead, the settings by , Harvey Whetstone. Four N«w Grandparents Four Chapel Hillians became grandparents for the first time at 1:30 a.m. Saturday when George Michael McGinty was born at the Memorial hospital in Gastonia. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George C. McGinty of Gastonia and the first grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. McGinty of Chapel Hill and Mr. and Mrs. D. W. King of Chapel HilL The baby’s mother was formerly Miss Norms King. His father, who was graduated from the University this year, is to begin his new dut ies next month as coach and di rector of athletics at the Arling ton junior high school in Gas tonia. Busses Recommended Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lacock think air-conditioned bnsaea are a fine mode of travel. On a recent trip to visit relatives in Brooklyn, N. Y., they rode such busses, both going agd coming, and say that they had an unusually anjctyable trip. Rwt«n| frpm Canada Mr. aad MkL J. Phtppa aad Mr. Md Mrs. H, A. Jolly .hate returaad team a motor tote to I Canada gad tha Naw England •**»» 5
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