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Page Two TheOiapel Hill Weekly rkii) ~1 HflL Sect* Cantina m e. r : T-*-rt —* r„fci Int Ermrr TW>< aad Friday By TW Om—l Kit Pstefastang Cempmmy. lt_ 7 rrtrrjc C»i;n CttrO”tt’VXr*C EdiJOP Joa Jot» —■ WcnafTtac Editor Rr.lT AKJB'UI. Aaswaate Editor Csroce fi/rsw Acsi*-ic:< Editor OMaui C*mp—a Or*m Mrwet o T WnTCXt Adr*~umt Zn~rrur Cbak-TO*. C-a»cttu yrrucu-ira. Slip: an —m«nr -ring mutter F*»ruaT? M. l'/d- «• K-L *artt Csnetaa uoOer t>» ks ts Marct V tm SUBSCOmO? RATES- It Crrinsgf Cosnrrj. Year <( month* El_2T'. < months. ft S* Cmtaioe otf v’nafi Tourt’ hj "•!» 2 eat State of N C- Vi. - 5 Other States ant Inst of Goiamba "* C*naoa Kenrt Soctt. Aaa’ia Enron* President S*id It: We dor’: believe for * minute that me Republican, Party *i t>o unk:ng it. inepirstior.. birr. quality personnel and katdersfcjp that »t art dependent or Olif r-.t-.r . . . HuJEAIiJ eJTh tliC they are mortal Y>- r.e*-er pir. your *~.ip to Oightiy to one mart tf-tt :f a sr:; Kink* yoo cannot np :t off anc nail at to Another. It's Tune to Give Ewenhower a Break So much hi.. l President Eisenhower meat: to the Republican Party that at ought to leave h.m alone, let bin: re cover to enjoy the remainder of hr days, and not ever, look to ham aa a preei certa.: can dilate next year. The party arid the country owe Mr. Eisen hower that much Or tnat little. Since be wu stricken with a heart attack, preai reports seem to oe daaly cluttered w.tfa specu-atioc by Republi r»r party leaders on whether or not Mr Eifeerhower wil: he aole to run. Somehow we are left ».tt the fantastic mental picture of a prostrate f.gure or. the grout.c while crow# hover above h;rr Ciwarg, and cawmg; ww owl* sit pert nee or. a tree ..mo making no ao.ridt but watching; and h.gh above are vulture* just wa;Unf. No one our pictuiß ■iiwnßto in praying that he'll recover to tfiat be can be a mac again, enjoy life and not be hardened w.th the presidency. We *ee prayers, hut the prayers we see are that he will recover ho that he can be used in 1956 : y the Republican Party. Admitted:)' Mr. Eisenhower us per sonahie, commands unbounded respect and admiration, possesses keen intellect and understanding But is he the only Repub;-car. party member with thoM: qua;iliet? Already he has led the Re publicans to one victory. Cannot the party now run of. the principles for which ;* stands, or its record, and give My Eisenhower the freedom he de serves ■' Mr Eisenhower served and command ed .: World War I and 11. Next, he a.cly perform <d as president of Colum bia Cn. '.ers.t). and bore the GOP stand ard the .art. presider;tia) camj/aign. And, so far a-, we know, he has given tf.e exe* ut.ve branch of the Federal government <-ff.cient direction. He ha*, made mistakes, he has. been ill advised; but he is. human. ** Jn the past three years, Mr. Eisen hower has. looked eagerly to the 'lay when he could retire to his Gettysburg, Pa., farm And live privately, peace ful’;.', restful!)- just live. For what he has already done for this nation and the Republican party, he deserves just that. J>:t not his days be further short ened by demands that he lun again. Give him a break. I>-t him enjoy the remainder of his days. “Ennoblement of the People” The Ghape! Hill branch of the North Carolina Symphony Society will begin its annual membership drive next Mon day. The Chapel Hill Weekly urges everyone’s support of the drive. The benefits which the Symphony brings to North Carolina were aptly expressed In a recent editorial in the Greensboro Daily News. The editorial follows: For ten moving years the North Caro lina Symphony Orchestra has been bringing music and inspiration up and down the countryside of North Caro lina. Dr. Benjamin Swalin, its illustrious conductor, has turned on the music in school auditoriums, churches, gymna siums, recreation centers and in the Hall of the House of Representatives— in fact, anywhere an audience could be assembled. As conductor of the first state symphony orchestra in the nation, be has - brought world-wide acclaim to North Carolina The Tar Heel state is unique in its support of a unique in stitutior.. Once agatr. the North Caro.:na sym phony is asking the people of the state to rise up and help it finance :ts 1 955-56 season. Nobody car. measure with accuracy the symphony's impact or. the cultural life of North Carolina. Jr. ter. years alone it has traveled 68.000 trues ; most ly by * bus ’. played for 500.000 adults and reached 1303.000 children it. 664 children's concerts. Its praises have been wide! > sung :r. national p-u: lica tions of a_ '-arrtt.es and its c. ncerts have beer, broadcast over all major radio networks. Yet it still depends on the suppe r* <f average Tar Heels every where for :ts continued vigor and in fluence. In this vintage year of IS*Ss—the l(*th anr ’• ersary of the first musical tour of N rt.h Carol.na—support should be greater than ever. For this worth while pr.eci. ir. the words of Dr. Swa lin. is maintained through “public spirit and munificence” and is dedicated to the “enn-00-ement of the people." A Letter From Denver. Colorado To the Chape! Hii: Weekly: I enjoy your paper and am enclosing for cor.t.r.-atior. of my subscription. I am sorry to learn that Chapel Hill is increasing its population so fast. When I was there many years ago or. a visit to my dear friend (and schoolmate at St. Mary’s). Sally Manning Venable, it was a tweet little village. I agree with Thomas Jefferson when he said, “Big cities are detr.mental to the health, morals, and liberties of the people.” I know from ‘-xper.er.ee that this is true, for I have seer. Denver grow from a nice small city till now it is so big it is classed as one of the eight most corrupt cities in the nation. I congratulate my native state, North Carolina, on having such a fine c>y.er nor as Mr. Hodges J wish you would publish recent speech or. segrega tion. With best wishes, Mrs. W. 0. Temple, Sr. Sunshine on the Scuppemong* flurlott* .N>w*> Although it’s sliding sidewise into true autumn the sun is hot again with the straight-up heat of the summer. Along the streets housewives have open ed windows closed against a space of damp and coolness. Curtains flutter, f.oor fans and air conditioners run in termittently in pace with the ebb and flow of the summer's, strength. Mostly it ebbs, though, for morning begins ari(j afternoon ends in coolness and long shade. And autumn sleep that comes easer and goes harder already has put an end to the restlessness, of summer nights. But in th‘* field- the sun is still su preme, bearing on baoxs. bent to cotton J* pu’s red hands around necks pro- P-cV'd in the upright tirrn- of planting and of plowing, and the -km stings as the -trap of the heavy -ack slides off the shoulder and along the neck as the picker y* s to the basket or the spread empty.” It starts the sweat across the back and under the Is-it. And the rows that were comparatively short to plow and chop stretch far away to the picker. The sun is hateful but it is bet ter than the rain that beats the fleece into the dirt, arid makes it harder to pick and cheaper sold, that fattens the leaves where the stinging worm hides with a bite tobacco juice can ease but can’t cure, and the farmer is not angry at the sun. Nor is the task without reward. There are few cotton patches that do not hide somewhere along a row a fist-bust or or two to sweeten the mouth and freshen the throat. And aching backs, pricked fingers and skinned knee* are trifles to a man who goes to the well for water and strays back to a scuppemong arbor where the dark tan grapes have shriveled into ultimate sweetness. There he can stand as in another Eden, spit ing seed and hull to the yellow jackets and savoring a nectar that doesn't go to the market place. The scuppemong and the runty mel on are gold and silver to the %nen and women who go down the rows of cotton and, somehow, when the steelyards are hooked to pole and basket and the weights are set down in the book, their sweetness is remembered more than the harshness of the sun. THE CHAPKL HILL WEEKLY Tough Looking, Solidly Built.. Police Sergeant Coy Durham Has Had a Varied Background As an Athlete, Air Corps Soldier, and Construction Worker By J. A. C. Dm s«rre*at Coy Durham of tW(, Chapel HiU police, whom we * -rkerteg the other night or. the prsT-tyard f-kift (11 p. m. to t n-. l i* t toagh-looking, solidly-hath mar. with a aort of fton* wall bearing. At the fame time he is a very *oft fpoker. man. slightly resmr ■- scent of those ads that site? to . appear with the gimmkk hre “tough, but ok, so gentle!” “I was bore and raised sever, miles out or, route 54.” said the sergeant. •'Went to big! school here. Played four years of foc-tbali and baseball I was co-captatn of r<>*.h teams iry serior year." Hew about championships* Hac the sergeant'* teams won ary* The sergeant pushed his car tc the bark, of hi* head and said no he hadn’t wot ar.y, but they sure did haT* gooo ba clubs all the same. “After high school I wen*, into the Army Air Corps for three and a half years. I never pot overseas. We went to g.- nery school ar.d then to radio school. then 1 went to Sioux City. lowa and trained bomber groups W'e trained 25 bomber groups .r. 23 months. There are about 1200 mer. to th bomber group. 1 was a *er gea*t ir. charge of an inapt*- tion crew c-f all the heai) equipment.” W'e pointed out that gunner;, and radio d.dn’t seem to ha - .*- an fc»ful lot to do with inspect ir.g heavy equipment “Wet, you remember back in ’42, whet we were losing so many planet * They had to # Like Chapel Bill iinjijiSi Joe Robbins joined Hap Perry and me at coffee the other morning, and some mention was made of worrying. It prompted Joe to tell what happened to him long years back when he first entered business. One morning a salesman a-ked, “What are you worry ing about? There’s no need to worry. You’ll get old before your time. Now look at me. How oid do you think I am? Fifty? No, I’m 68 years old. I know you didn't think so. I don’t worry. That’s the reason I don’t look oid and am healthy. I* just don’t worry. And you shouldn’t either.” Joe explained that he told the salesman that one had to worry sometimes, that it was impossible not to do so. “You’re wrong,” said the salesman. “Look at me. Here I am in Durham, hardly a dollar in my pocket and my car in the garage arid rne checked in at the Washington Duke hotel. I don’t know yet how I’m going to pay for it, because rny check is at Raleigh. I pick that up to morrow. But I’ll work it out somehow. For instance, if J told you I needed $25 to check out of the hotel and get my car arid go to Raleigh, I believe you’d lend it to rne. Wouldn’t you? That’s right, I knew you would. So why should I worry? See?” “Certainly,” Joe told Hap and me, “1 said I’d help him. Iri fact, I offered him SSO but he >aid he wouldn’t need that much. He just needed $25. About an hour later, he carne back in the store and said 1 was right. The car cost more to be fixed than he thought. So I let hirn have the other $25. So h‘- could get to Raleigh. No, that fellow didn’t worry a bit. Arid do you know one thing: That's the last time 1 ever saw him. Never saw him or the SSO again. No wonder he didn’t ever worry. But that incidi-nt saved rn<- a many a dollar. Everytime any one tells me he doesn’t worry but that he needs money, I leave him alone.” <*•••• Did you enjoy the 8 p. m. Sunday announcer over the eggucatiorial television station at the University of North Carolina? Dal’s de one I mean. And that's what he said. And, if they taped it and will play it back, they’ll hear just that. And, further, I’ll accept, any challenge that I can read a piece of copy better than he can, sight unseen theretofore. So there. t)IT with him tiiJ he Rams to pronounce a d as ad, not a g, arid more especially, to put the sacred O in North Carolina. The New I'reindefit of Appalachian (Frets the Hickory Daily Record; Tb* nesney caused by th* resignation of Dr. B. B Dough erty, co-founder and long time president of Application Mat* Teacher* College, is to Is- filled by Dr. William H. Plemmona, of Chapel Iltll, who will assume his new duties on September 1. Dr. J. D. Rankin, longtime dean at. the college, is serving as interim president. From all report*, Dr. I'lem mona should prove arapablc executive and leader. He will lx- succeeding one of the most colorful and aggressive college presidents iri North Carolina, if not in the entire (southeast, for Dr. Dougherty ha* for years Mien recognised as uni que in hi* ability to mqke his educational institution out standing in its field. It is fit ting that he has been elected President Kmeritu* of the col lege. It is gratifying that Dr. Plentmons was the unanimous choice of the Board of Trus tees. He la not unknown to th« j* e3 , —by Lavargne COY DWRHAM keep training men to fill up the gaps. They had so" many rat j men they couldn't use them all so they just put us to training men. I couldn't fly because 1 had had a lot of broker, bones." W e wondered if Sioux City, lowa was worth spending 32 month* in. “Oh, yes,” said the sergeant. "It's a nice place. About bO,- population plus the 34b0 rr.er. we had on the base. I . p.ayed baseball there for three year*." And after the Air Corps? "I came out in 1545 and went to work for V. p. Loftus con struction company out of Char lotte I was on a bridge force. Boone rollege, where he ha* taught in the Burnrn»-r school. Me in especially well known throughout tin- State due to hie work as executive secre tary of th«t State Mur at ion Commission. I>r. i'ltmimni, now on the faulty of the Bummer school at the l.’niversity of Denver, will conclude hie work there today, following whirh he will take a nhort vacation. Dr, J’lemroon* has been with the University of North Caro lina since 11*41, except for a few yearn right after World War Two when he wan on leave of absence to serve an executive secretary of the Btute Muta tion Commission. He directed a Statewide stu dy of the public education system. From this study has come much of the educational progress made in the past few years. Born in Buncombe County in 1904, Dr. Plemmons attended Mara Hill College. In IH2H, he graduated from Wake Fsrat We built this concrete bridge out on the new Greensboro highway. “1 remember one day in Sept ember Chief Sloan drove up in the yard ar.d asked me if l*d be interested in going to work on the police force. I told him I'd never even thought about it. and a couple of days later he said to come down to the office here, so I came down ar.d he said he wanted me to go to work the next day. So I did. The first weekend I was here- was a football weekend. That was when Ahoo Choo Jus tice was in his prime. Boy, what a time that was.” We assumed the sergeant liked Chapel Hill? “Oh, yes, I like it all right. I guess you'll never find anoth er place like it. 1 think one reason I like it so much is be cause of all the sport*. I’ll go and watch any kind of sport— track, basketball, anything from mumblety-peg on up. “I got a son, seven year* old, and he says he wants to be either a policeman or a base ball player. 1 take him to ail the games. He love* baseball. We watch practice every after noon from four to five. That’s what I’d like him to be, a baseball player.” The fire bell rang down the hall, and the sergeant trotted off to answer it. He came back at a run and reached for the radio. "Fire back of Led better-Pick ard’s” he said, and pressed the transmitting button. We shot out the door as he started call ing car one to tell them. Chapel Hill Chaff (Continued from page 1) up his face. ‘‘lt’* burning me,” he aid excitedly, and threw the tinfoil on the floor. “It was really burning, ’’ he said, as he held out his hand for everybody to see. There was a red spot where he had been clutching the foil. The visitor had been ac companied into the printshop by 0. T. Watkins, who now introduced him as his uncle, 1. L. Marable of Mt. P.anier, Maryland. Mr. Marable said he was a professional magician sod that he had just been giv ing a demonstration Os his skill. Everybody wanted him to explain how he made the foil burn Billy’s hand. But he wouldn’t rev-al the secret. Billy is still telling people about it, and all of the rest of us are still wondering about it. * • * In commenting on .Sidney Swaim Robins’ report that there is no humor in the Bible, C A. Paul of the Klkin Trib une says: “Mark Twain, I recall, re ported that he had searched through the Bible and succeed ed in finding only one example of humor. He found it in the directions given Saul for his trip t j) Damascus. He was told to go into the city and to ‘the street railed Strait.’ Twain wro'e in ‘lnnocents Abroad' that Strait. Street in Damascus is perhaps the crookede-.t street in all the world and that only a humorist would have used the word ‘called’ in relating the story. As a comment on Mr Paul's remarks, we wish to say that that may la- the only instance of humor in the English Bible but not in the French Bible. A passage jn the Kriglish Bible says of the war horse, “His neck is clothed with thunder. He srnelleth the battle afar off. He sayeth among the trumpets ha ha." The French Bible renders the horse's ha ha as ursrjue ursque That strikes us as humorous. College. He received a Master’s Degree in (education from Duke University in lll'-fo and a Doctors Degree in Lduration from the University of North Carolina in 1543. From 1536 to 1536, Dr. PJem mons was principal of I,ei cester High .School in Bun combe County. He was prin cipal of late Kd wards High School in Asheville from 1536 until joining the School of Education faculty at the Un versity of North Carolina in 1541. During the war, he serv ed as admissions officer arid registrar at the University. His wife is the former Mins Kli/.ubeth Sparrow of Wil mington. The couple has no children. Work will begin soon on a new $4(1,000 home for the new president. The money was made available by the legis lature. This will be the first president’s home owned by the college. Dr. Dougherty, a bachelor, declined the offer of a college-owned heme be ci.ua* he already owned quart an in the town. in——mini s siii ■■in aim it iir inrrar On the Town Fi—nir—inwr By Chuck Heueer iron—ii THE UNIVERSITY PRESS HAS more than a best seller on its hands in “Hiroshima Diary.” It has a doc ument of human emotions and eourape that should be required reading for everyone. The amazinp thing about the Diary—written by Dr. Michihiko Hachiya of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital and translated by Dr. Warner Wells of tjie University’s Memorial Hospital—is that it contains no trace of bitterness against the country which was responsible for the first wartime use of a nuclear ex plosion. It is a simple tale of honest, down-to-earth heroism which has never been duplicated in the most imaginative fiction. The story meant something extra to me because I have seen Hiroshima. My visit there was many years after the atom bomb fell, but the marks of nuclear warfare were still evident. Probably the most striking monument—and that is the proper word—to the plosion is the ruined shell of a building which stood . approximately 200 yards from ground zero. The building is the Museum of Science and Industry, a beautiful structure completed in 1914. The Japanese have left this ruin standing as a stark symbol of the most dreadful release of power ever devised by mankind.' The once-magnificent dome of the museum is now an iron agony of twisted steel arches supported by sagging, broken walls hanging over a rubble of brick and plaster. In February of 1953, when I was there, a fat middle aged man lived in the very shadow of the museum ruins in a shack constructed of scrap lumber. His name was Kiyoshi Kikawa, and he made his living by selling souvenirs of the bomb blast—melted glass, scorched fragments of personal belongings—and by letting tour ists take pictures of him with his shirt off to show his horrible bum scars. In his diary, Dr. Hachiya paints some very unpretty pictures. He does this not to shock the reader, for he was recording his impressions not as an author but as a scientist who wishes to get as many details as possible down on paper before his memory fades. In one place in the book, he quotes the words of a friend, Mr. Katsutani: ”... The sight of the soldiers, though, was more dreadful than the dead people float ing down the river. I came onto I don’t know how many, burned from the hips up; and where the skin had peeled, their flesh was wet and mushy. . . And they had th faces! Their eyes, noses and mouths had been burned away, and it looked like their ears had melted off. . There are more passages like that in the book, al though it is made up of much more than horror stories. Reading it will give you some insight into the nature and the courage of the Japanese people, and will con vince you to pray that man is never again forced to take lives with an instrument of atomic destruction. • • • * AND WHILE WE’RE ori the subject of books, I might mention one that you may stay away from without missing anything. It’s Richard O’Connor’s novel, “Guns of Chickamauga” (Doubleday, 288 pages, $3.95), a slow-moving story which might interest the teen-age set but falls far short of offering anything to excite the minds or Confederate emotions of anyone with more than a 12th-grade intellect. The book is written in a self-conscience, stilted first person singular. 'The narrator is a cashiered Union Army officer who goes to work for a Chicago newspaper and is sent to Chattanooga to cover the activities of the Army of the Cumberland. From there on, things get a little confused as to whether the reporter is a cor respondent or a corespondent, since he manages to gwP involved in a strange love triangle involving the colonel who had him thrown out of the Army and the colonel’s lady. There is also an obscure conspiracy to smuggle contraband cotton and Yankee dollars back and forth across the battle lines. or Savings Account^ NON Want In »m how noon your dream* are coming true? Check the liic and condition of your aavinga account. How faat la it growing? Are you adding to it regularly? Your ability to aave ayatematically ia the meaaure of your auc ceaa in obtaining what you want moat . . . whether it’a a new car, a home of your own. a college education for your children, financial independence for yournelf or whatever elae your dreamw aro made of! We are currently paying 3% dividend on all Having** ORANGE COUNTY BUHJNM AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 's « West Franklin SI. Tel. 9*8761 Friday, October 7, 1955
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