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Page Two The Chapel Hill Weekly Chapel Hill, North Carolina l?fi E. Rosemary Telephone 9-1271 or Publuheni E*er? Tuesday and Friday Rj The Chape; Hill Publishing (ompari). Inc. Louis Graves Contributing Editor Joe Jokes Managing Editor Billy Arthur Associate Editor Chuck HaDSSX ; "• ,toT OrvU-le Campbell General .Manaper O T Watkins Ad cert amo Director Charlton Campbell Mechanical Supt i; wr/.'il-cUs rr.*ller Feoruary & IW3, at the ptoofLet a*. Chap? Hill Nortr. Carolina under t-* »c. of ——^ SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ir. Orange County, Year t4.f>o i- months t22L; 3 months, 11.50) Ou’;de of Orange County by the A ear; State of N C., Va., and P (. Otcer State • ar.d jjist of Columbia 5.00 f ar.ada. Mexico; South America 7.00 Ear..:-- 1 - 50 The Demand for Engineer- Ora of the mo't remarkable recent developmeßt- ir; the world of business and industry is th< voracious demand i or engineer-. Th♦ familiar litte cia ified" advertisement l- still u-ed to proclaim the need 4 for a laundress or a cook or a campanion or secretary oi a teacher, but in the quest for engineer tne offer of empiovmen’ na'-e swele-d into big displays, have overflowed the pages commonly devoted to heip-w ant ed ads and have invaded the news and the editorial precincts. In last Sunday New York 1 ime besides eleven pages of. offers to en gineers in the part of the paper con taining stock exchange tables, busi ness opportunities, arid banking and brokerage news, there was a 2-columri wid< appeal from North American Avi ation in the editorial section- The top line salutation, in giant type, was to Guided Missile Engineers and Scient ists,, and down ir; tht body of the ad was the block: "Immediate offerings for draftsmen, aerodynamicists, air frame designer.-, reliability engineers, instrumentation engineers, stress and structure engineers:, mechanical and electrical designers, and hydraulic, pneumatic, and servo engineers. A copspicuous characteristic of the appeals for engineers is tbpStowilderiiig that i«, bewildering to the vast rna are wanted. Glen *h< term, engineer , jority of people number and variety of specialty for which men and women embraces physicists and chemists, and many of these are women.) are a few ‘ examples: inertial navigation, gyroscopics, digital computers, envir onmental research, servomechanisms, telemetry, analog computer design, de velopment chemists for propellant form ulation, rocket metal parts design, in fra-red detection techniques, microwave tubes, electron tubes, and backward wave oscillators. The 'l'imes published last Sunday a long article by Wayne Phillips, lx ginning on the front page, headline, "Engineer Is King as U. K. Industry Vies for Talent." He writes: "A wild scramble unlike anything the country has ever se.cn before," he writes, "is on to attract and hold techni cal personnel. There are 5,000 organi zations bidding for the services of engineer-scientists. They have 50,000 job openings, twice as many as the number of new graduates expected June.” Mr. Phillips tells of how a new profession has been born, “the techni cal recruiter,” and of how he tours the country, invading campuses in search of promising young men. The "pirating” of skilled men, effected by the raiding of the staffs of competit ors, is charged against some recruiters. "The reason for the present situation is deep-rooted,” writes Mr. Phillips. “The United States has entered upon a new age—the age of technology. The military forages on the frontiers of science, and civilians live in a mechani cal wonderland. "To design and build hydrogen bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles and earth satellites takes armies of en gineers. And so, too, does the produc tion of radar kitchens, television Bets, computers and mechanical monsters to vend cigarettes, “In 1900 United States industry em ployed one engineer fdr every 250 em ployees; in 1950, it was one for sixty. Then came the Korean war, and the .demand for technical personnel started on an upward swing that has not yet been checked. ‘‘The effort to attract the embryo en gineer begins when he is in high school —through literature telling of the ad- helping good students to enroll in good colleges. “It continues throughout college in the form of scholarships, fellowships, research grants, summer employment and trips t< plant _ One company went so far as to hire selected college seniors and let them continue in school full time until the;, had graduated “Faculty member- receive ‘retairr ship-' to serve as corporation consult ants. Summer work i- provided for the College professor or thf high scho- . teacher ” Os i-mir.-e tne extraordinary demand for engineers ha- ied to a big rise in annual salaries. A concern called Engineering Societies Personnel Ser vice which cooperates wjxh profession al societies', reports that its average placement in 1952 wa- at •'55.690 a year. in 19.54 at $6,806. arid in 1955, at $7.- 500.-L.G. \ Prediction: That \1 Resell Will Quit Smoking and Won t Marl Again A! Reseh, in the article reprinted pftgt la ‘ 1 .<■ -'U-> from ' Chatham New,-, told of now. after. ’< months of j : <il srnok.ng. n< had s.upjx-d Pack into tl.e habit. "J: ’ tofor> f'hri-’- h« ... . 1 begat t< neal puff sor two .. . 1 had no intention of rooking more than a wee bit. But 1 fooled myself. 1 began to smoki more than'just occasionally. And here ! am -again"’ In a detailed rejiort on his ex perience of quitting and resuming the habit he sav- : "< igarettes have a!- ready dulled my, appetite for food 1 don’t believe I’ve really enjoyed a meal since 1 quit smoking. The morning hangover is with me again. When 1 get up irt the morning my mouth feels as though I have been chewing ab sorbent cotton mixed with [*eanut but ter 1 dqn’t like cigarettes a bit more than 1 did tofor< I quit. They contribute nothing to my sense of well* being My nerve;- They are more badly jangled than ever they have been and I am possessed of a growing horror that 1 won't be able to quit after, once more. ] make up my mind that 1 hav. made the bitterest sort of mis take .n starting up again ’’ i am much more confident oi Mr. R< cl tr< ngth of purpose tl i i- Other men have quit smoking, taken it up again, and quit again and for good, and if other men have done it la can. Anybody who sees as clearly as he does the advantages of not smok ing, and has the genuine desire that he has to recover these advantages, will have the necessary determination to win the fight. Os course he will have to do ome suffering over again, but he is equal to that. I smoked and quit, and smoked and quit again. The la-’ time 1 quit was in 1927 and 1 ha en't smoked since. Nineteen years is long enough to make me believe 1 am now free from the slavery to cigarettes. I have only one ’piece of advice to give to Mr. Reseh: Quit now -don’t put it off. L.G. The Highway Patrol (From the < hatham News) People such as the members.of the Highway Patrol have a thankless job. It continues to be a marvel to us that the state can attract men of such high caliber to such exacting jobs. Jt is almost inconceivable for the laymen who seldom comes into con tact with patrol members that five of them, last year in Chatham County, drove 228,617 miles in performing their heavy responsibilities; to maintain safe ty, as best they can, on the county’s highways. Chatham County is mighty fortu nate in the group of patrolmen that arc stationed within its borders. Under the intelligent leadership of the jx-r --sonable Sergeant Victor Aldridge they maintain a jx-rformance record that must surely rank high in comparsion with other counties in North Carolina. These young men conduct them selves extremely well in the face of what amounts sometimes to an atti tude of open hostility not*only by jx-o ple whotn they arrest but from the general public. That they do so with calm demeanor is a tribute to their training and leadership. All too many people fail to realize that these men have a job to do and that they cannot close their eyes to - violations that endanger the lives of innocent people. It will be a fine day for Highway safety when the public, at long last, realizes that the Highway Patrol must be given full public co operation in order for it to function THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY f Like I'hapei Hi it ■ ~~~ Note to the State Highway Maintenance Crew: Christopher and Old Mill Roads are good as a whole, but I'd rather use them as roads: * * * * , Today i.~ ■ ur fir.st under the -pell of Bre'r Ground hog. At’ this writing. I don't know whether or not to call him a liar. But, it'.- mighty nice once each year to have a weather prognosticator on whom we can pin rit . t hope- for correct predictions. Concerning our weather destinies, more depend ence is placed upon the groundhog than any other animal. It's nice, too, tPfttt we optimists may resort • a browni-h red four-legged cr-ature t<. advise us ;f we may dust off our two-tone shoes r forget them »oot foi ther fort} We don't place our dependence on the groundhog merely because we might have experienced a back lo-nature movement. Rather, it's because the two legged weatherman has been kidding long enough. I'm not implying that he errs in hi- prediction.- too often. I’m complaining that, a- a weather man, he •hould be abb to command—as doth the groundhog apparently rain or drouth, coid or warmth a- we m-ed it. What I want is a weatherman who can pro ,uce weathei It's no ■ Washing! t<<n to gue.-.-. If the groundhog say- tie weather will be bad., th* weat h< r* be bad. Ma; be not aiwi but he’s correct a * th<! weather mar (Please don't check me with old anacs; let' m< rami The groundhog flatly predicts the weather. But the weather man so tactfully words his forecasts that it can rain, be cloudy, or be. fair; and the pre dictions can stand unchallenged. His forecasts always contain “probable” or “probable,threatening” or “most ly fair" or something like that But the varmint groundhog emerges from his hole of lethargy and proclaims "fair” or “foul” weather. That takes cour age. He doesn't hide behind the English language. If he's correct, we merely comment, "Well, ole groundhog surely hit the weather on the head.” Then we go on about our business. If he errs, again we mere ly comment, “Well, ole groundhog' missed it.” And again we go on about our business as if nothing had happened. Right or wrong, he’.- ,-oon forgotten. But this weather man, now, I’m for keeping right in behind him. Because he doesn’t feel just right before his early morning forecast, or totalise he has been out late the night before and feels as if the world has fallen in u|xin him well, that's no reason he should tell us a lot of things probable and improb able. sending us out on a picnic to get drenched. * * * » Andy Guiterrez’s name was. omitted from the list of directors in a recent report of the Chapel Hill Athletic Club, and President Carrington Smith has been ribbing Andy about it. Suffice it. to say that Carrington can abuse Andy's movie offerings all he wants to, but he can’t wrong Andy personally. The Weekly will protect him and confess to an inadvertent omission of his name as an Athletic Club director. Chapel Hill Ghaff (Continued from page 1) f'li outdoor gathenng ori the campus, and a f<w of these cao be placed so that they will have their hack- to the wall of the Inn. and wi.l far e the pal li arid the CO .! ' y arr i With the corning of i.ot weather. when the Inn's bed room windows will he open and tii*' .sitter: mig lit disturb ) ers with their conversation, t fie benches i an be taken away arid m ' lined to the earnpu.- Jn this column recent!;, 1 wrot‘- of my having a maiady that I railed coveriti . ami 1 explained tiiat this meant the eoveiing rif papers with. othei papers memoranda, clipping , h'tteis,' manuscripts, solicita tions, bills, circulars, evciy t hirig so that they accumu lated in piles and . ovei flowed from the desk and the table in my workroom to chairs, ami then overflowed to other room- As to this latter overflow I aid thut it was a mighty pood thing for me that the poison 1 lived with was. indulgent about it. The piece"! wrote has brought me the following letter from H. K. C. Bryant (famous in newspaper circles as "Red Buck” Bryant), who was for many years Washington cor respondent for the New York World and is now, at the age of 83, living near his birth place in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina: “I have known several very painstaking desk men in news paper work. A clean sanctum was a rare thing in my early days as a reporter. Hut two of the most, capable editors J ever knew had no litter around them. "Mr. Joseph P, Caldwell, of the Charlotte Observer of fif ty-mid years ago, was meti culous. He knew where every thing he needed was to be had. His desk equipment was al ways neatly arranged. He was a careful reader of exchanges, especially those published in the North Carolina and join ing states. He kept scissors "handy to ‘chop out’ news of local interest or items he wish ed to use for editorial com ment. He said ‘chop’ instead "Seldom a day pa.--.ed trial he did not hand the city editor several personal- or brief- he had ‘chopped’ from weekly oi dally -!at< exchanges. His. pen cils, "a particular kind with large, - oft lead, were al way sharp, ready foi use The’jan itoi wa - trained to hang mei ropolitan papers over the hack of one i hair., and tho-e publish ed in tic t ate over anot hei When Mr. Caldwell arrived at his room everything wa ship-shape or he would know why riot, "Charles M Lincoln, man aging editor of the old New York W'orld when I went to the Washington Bureau in 111 11, was not only neat hut right up to the minute. He advised hi- workers to leave then desks dean when they left for the day A good plan, he said wa just to sweep everything off and start anew the next day. That meant that nothing hut something new counted It wa.-. news, nothing hut news, In demanded. He was an able ami industrious handier of men and news. He sand Mr. Caldwell were alike in their general ap pearance. They were always well groomed. Their shirts were linen. 1 never saw Mr, Caldwell in a colore. i shirt. “A weekly paper editor in a small North Carolina city often made a contemporary sad by recalling bis words. That was John K. Webster of Web* ster’s Weekly in Reidsville. He had a large office, and in corners of it he had exchanges piled celling high. In a contro versy he resorted to them to squelch antagonists. “Lynchburg, Virginia, had a powerful man in Carter Class, who owned and edited the Lynchburg News before he went to Congress. It was said of him that he had more dang erous clippings in his files than any other editor in the South. He, Mr. Caldwell, and Mr. Web ster were bad medicine -for careless editors who got into arguments with them. "All three had clean desks’, but other places for vital" ma , terial for disputes;, and dis putes were common in their days. * . .„ “In all of my long career, I never served a slipshod edi tor. But, ir going about the state before I went to Wash ington, I often saw desks in newspaper offices piled high with rubbish. In time I dis covered that, to be effective as an editorial writer, one had to• tie able to lay his hands or. important information not only of that day but back through the months or year-. "Dangerous disputant- were those who never threw away a worthwhile statement of ;. competitor. I have known edi tors to paralyze a forgetful opponent with one of his own a-serti.in-', long forgotten. Jn a heated letter a Bryar.ite roa-teu Mi faidweii for de serting Bryar. Ten yeai- iat*-i that mail b< ime a i: ; übiican. Mr, I'aidWe.i dag up r. ;k --ter' and printed part of • with tne comment: 'The ex tremist jumps the fence f;: *. Memory of Bam haw By < . A. Paul In the Klkin Tribbne Sudden memory: Bambaw, great-g iai.dmo the r, from whoc 1 .r.l.eii* it;any of nr traits. J caiit ; hei Baml»av '■ * ■ I a ■ 1 ’ r ‘n wl;r. g ;r;f a 1 .ecau-e J could not speak : .am.q. i-mI.I ' < ntinued to ca.; •e? mat ur.u her death Pai: ■ S I -upp' -e. because w: othej ji.err.be! s of the family spore- • f her to me they called L* r ;at too. I can see he; now -eaten ir, her favoi ite rocker by hei favorite sitting ioon wn.iiow. She was small and hei black eyes almost created the illusion of map pii.g aioud. The French blood m hei was. stiong. She merely shrugged her shouldeis in. T an-wei to many questions. AI h< ./! • * resisted or sleep, • g or. two feather bed- she always kept be/ feet stuck out from under the covers, Surnmei and W ir.t< i Bambaw wa- from Virginia Once, when Grandma bought ‘wo *. r three bushels of peaches she < ailed on all the ho . . hi,id to he]j, peel them preparatory to canning then. . Bambaw said; “J was brought \ rginia, when peel peaches But he got a paring knife and pitched in ar:d did her share Bambaw could shoot a rifle and wa.- quite a marksman. So was her daughter, my gnat a-ur.t I.ou, who took up lb' pi. and maintained a range ir, he? hack yard ill Hartford, Ky . until h ci death, which didn’t ‘ei'Ui u r 11 ; 1 -he was well in her eightii - Bambaw wore prim frock.- acj., black s.:k apron- She would reach under l ei apron int.u ~ jmcket of her dres.-: and bring forth a coin pui.-c. Mar y a coin (ltd I-—gel f i < in i t hat pur ,-c. Bambaw never did get used to the newfangled telephone n.y grandfathei had rn-talied She -aid folks talked too much already without having instru ment.- to help Them, .-tie never -a .d -o. hut I : us peel she he ilevcri shrug of the shoulder.- or upturned palm .or perhaps a lifted eyebrow might well replace at least halt ot all spoken words. W hen I . was five Bambaw gave me a china ring some six inches high. I have it now. Some year.- ago when I visited Grandma she asked if I would like to take it with me. She explained with considerable trepidation that she had broken it into e.cial pieces. But she glued it hack together so cleverly no one would ever notice that it once was broken. I was looking at the dog the other day arid 1 could see Bambaw. She was reaching for her purse, to get ,a coin for me. Ami 1 some times think of her as 1 go to bed, for I too sleep with rjjy feet out from under the covers and always have. And I often shrug nry shoulders. Ami some times I cough. But there’s no horehound . candy. Only some messy stuff prescribed by a physician. It has codeine and cherry syrup and maybe a dash of penicillin in it. But it’s not. nearly as good, nor so effective, as a stick of Bam haw’s horehound candy. Two men from up the creek hoarded one of the new double deck Greyhound busses.’ As they sat near the door, the more adventurous of the two spied the stairway. “I believe I’ll climb up and see what’s on top.” In a'moment he came hurry ing back, plopped down dry his partner and said breath lessly: “Stay where you are! There’s no driver up there.”-V-The Dal las News. s“Mr«. Lois Roberts was tak en' to a doctor twice within the past two weeks but is getting along all right.”— North Wilkesboro Journal Pat On the Toirn By Chuck Hauser “FOR A FELLOW WHO’S been around Chapel Hill as long as you have,” said Spike Saunders, “we have an appropriate job.” I was puzzled. “A job?” I said. “I already have a job.” -v “This is something extra," he explained. “Eleanor will tell you all about it.” The above conversation took place outside the - Roy Armstrongs’ home where we were headed for a get-together following Eleanor’s wedding rehearsal, hrtean-or being the former Miss Saunders and the pre sent Mrs. William Tazewell Morris. Inside, I got the word. “It's all very simple,” said Eleanor. “Ever since I went to a friend’s wedding where they tolled the church bell after the ‘ceremony, I’ve wanted to have bells rung at my wedding.” „“All right,” I said. “That’s very interesting. But where do I fit in?" Eleanor's mother chimed into the conversation at this point. “You've heard of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, haven’t vou ? The Woman Who Rang the Bell?” I admitted I had. , “Well,” said Mrs. Saunders with a dramatic flot’Nt, i'h, “YOU arc going to be the MAN Who Rang the Bell?” . Now tin- Presbyterian Church, where the wed ding was>to be held, has a horseshoe balcony. At the closed end of the horseshoe, Vhich is directly over the front entrance to the church, is the bell rope. When vou stand beside the toll rope, your view of the lower floor is limited almost entirely to the chancel. - This i' where our problem came in, because I was supposed to start ringing the toll at the moment the newly weds reached the vestibule on their way to the front door, and I would be unable to see them once they began their walk up the aisle. “We’ll have to arrange a signal,” said Eleanor. “We’ll have one of the bridesmaids give you a signal.” Jane Edwards was quickly selected as the signal ing bridesmaid, but no one could suggest a proper signal. A hand wave would be out of place, as would any number of other questionable actions which oc curred to us. A wink? Too hard to see at that dis tance, and anyway, who can tell a wink from an in voluntary blink? We finally decided, that Jane should put her hand on the back of her head, as if she were smoothing her hair down. That would be a fairly unobtrusive movement, and everybody-would probably be watching (he bride and groom anyway. . . . You would think that ringing a bell would be a 1 airly simple matter, but I have rung bells be fore and I know that bells can be temperamental. I lelt very badly about the fact that 1 was not informed of my bell-ringing assignment prior to the rehearsal, so I, too, could have practiced up a bit. But I had to do the job cold turkey, . . . The first floor of the church was filling up rapidly when I got there about 10 minutes before the ceremony on Saturday afternoon. I made a quiet end-around [day and slipped up the stairs to the balcony. No one was there. I took a seat in the front row. on the aisle, and relaxed. Then the overflow crowd began being directed up the stairs. My privacy was gone. A gentleman with a large family walked down to the front row where J was sitting. “Excuse me,” he said, and I, stead of just standing up in place to let them by, stepped out into the aisle so they could move in with out trouble. They moved in, all right, and after they were all in place I didn't have a seat left. There were several vacant seats in the front pew on the left hand side of the aisle, however, so I switched over there. In a few minutes, up came two young girls (Continued on Page 7) "" ■ - 1 ".H'iirirri i W/gi e -MKSmm Hle> Jr jr Do you “bring home the bacon” in the form of a regular pay envelope or check? Make sure that you keep a healthy slice of it for the future benefit of your family and yourself. Best “home” for the part of your “bacon” that you aim to hold onto is in your savings account, where compounded 3Vi 7i interest can add steadily to its size. Decide how much I you can reasonably expect to save each week. faithfully deposit that amount in your account, first thing every pay day! * ORANGE COUNTY BIHLOIM UO LMN tSSOGUTHM »" • I West Franklin St. Tel. 9*8761 Friday. February 3, 1956
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