Friday, May 18, 1956
Putnam’s Signs Contract to Publish
Novel by Doris Betts of Chapel Hill
Final contracts have just been'
signed by Mrs. Doris Betts of
Chapel Hill and G. P. Putnam’s
for the publication of a first,
novel, "Tall Houses in Winter,”
in the fall of 1956.
Mrs. Betts, a former employee (
of the Chapel Hill Weekly, is]
the wife of a senior law student
at the University and the mother
of two children. She is presently
employed as office manager at
the Simplified Farm Record Book
Company in Glen Lennox.
Late in 1953, her first book—
To Assign Pupils on Individual Basis
Next fall Orange County school
children will be assigned to
schools on an individual basis.
The Board of Education has
adopted the following resolution:
“Whereas, the Board previous
ly adopted ‘Rules and Regula
tions’ governing assignments and
change of assignments for the
children in this administrative!
unit to best promote an orderly
and efficient procedure for mak
ing applications for assignment]
or change of assignment;
"And whereas the Board has
the duty and final responsibility
for assigning the children in this;
administrative unit to a school:,
"Now, therefore, be it resolved
by the Orange County Board of
Education in order to best pro
mote the orderly and efficient]
administration of the public
schools in this unit, the effective!
instruction of pupils subject toj
assignment by this Board, and
the health, safety and general'
welfare of such pupils, and each
of them, hereby assigns the chil
dren of this administrative unit
Open Against State
The University opens its 1956
football schedule at Chapel Hill
against North Carolina State on
September 22. The Tar Heels <
also play home games with Geor-i
gia, Maryland, Wake Forest, and
Duke.
at 3irit Sight. . .
MODERN JHL. PRINTS W (HARMIW!
ias Mobile as you are. There’s
Drama in plaids and prisms, < •
charming at J. B. ROBBINS of ' 'I
Chapel HUL ■ Os Oapd Hfll!
. , / *‘j» it' 7 "
’a collection of short stories en
titled “The Gentle Insurrection”
—won the first annual Putnam-
University of North Carolina
booklength award, and the col-!
lection was published in May,
] 1954. It was later published in
Great Britain by Victor Gollancz,
Ltd.
Mrs. Betts is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. FT Waugh of
Statesville. Her husband, Lowry]
Betts, who will be graduated in]
June, is a native of Columbia,!
S. C.
as follows:
“(1) Each child presently at- j
tending schools in this unit is as- j
signed for the school year 1956*
1957 to the school designated on j
their “Certificate of Promotion ]
and Assignment” which shall be j
a part of or attached to each re
port card.
j “(2) All other children will be
assigned to U school upon request
for admission when received by
the Board.” j
*‘ ‘ j
Journalism Alumni
Will Hold Reunion
A reunion of former journal
ism students of O. J. Coffin and
Phillips Russell will be held at
the home of the Walter Spear
mans on Whitehead Circle Sat-!
urday, June 2, at 5 p. m. A bar-]
! becue dinner wiil be served,
i Messrs. Coffin and Russell are
retiring from active teaching this
'year, and "we are hoping to cele-l
! brate the event with a reunion!
of former students who remem
ber them with the gratitude and!
affection they deserve," says an 1
invitation. ! 1
The committee in charge of i
the affair is composed of three 1
Raleigh residents, all former stu-n
dents, Phil Ellis of WPTF, Noel !
j Yancey of the Associated Press, i
and Ed Rankin who is now Gov- I
ernor Hodges’ secretary. ] I
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Three of the dancers who will perform in the production of “Wish Upon a Star, the Story
of Pinocchio ’ to be given by Mrs. V. L. Bounds' dancing classes at tt p. m. Saturday, May 19. in
the Chapel Hill High School auditorium are (above, left to right) Joan Vine as Jiminy Cricket
Peggy Sparrow as Pinocchio, and Kay Proctor as the Blue Fairy. Admission is free. The recitai
is based on the Malt Disney version of Collodi’s “Pinocchio."
Final Spring Part)
Mrs. English Bagby’s High
School Dance Club will have its
final spring party on May 25
from 8 p. m. to 11 at the Coun
try Club. Hosts and hostesses
will be Mr. and Mrs. George T.
Barclay, Mr. and Mrs. A. K.
King, Dr. and Mrs. K. M. Brink
hous, and Dr. and Mrs. A. P.
Heusner.
THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY
it Roundabout Papers
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Continued from Page 2
Odor of Judas,” which won sec- j
ond prize, and expresses an .
(understandable) desire for j
closeness with someone, a \
sharp memory of dead soldiers,
a somewhat concerned aware
ness of the existence of beetles,
__ .. , |
and an unmistakable admission
| of the necessity of sex. The au
| thor of "Odor of Judas” does
j not appear to be a happy man.
"Child’s Heart,” by Neil
Lutheran Services
Regular services will be held
at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
Sunday. Holy Communion will be
observed at the 11a. in. service.
Byer, is all about 12-year-old
love, begotten, picturesquely
| enough, in a sewer, and lost
on the edge of a limepit. Mr
I Byer has a somewhat verbose,
j though, to me, fairly accurate
conception of adolescent psy
| chological chemistry. I would
1 have appreciated a laugh here
|j and there, though; after all, in
j the eighth grade one has a hard
i time finding enough middle- i
j aged gall and hemlock with
j which to dilute ALL the smiles
out of one’s life. However,
maybe VI r. Byer grew up at
jj an early age.
In “Hemingway and Vanity
ij Fair” C. Hugh Holman splashes
penetratingly around in a pro
i fessorial bathtub filled with
! “Pilgrim’s Progress,” Thacke
! ray, the Bible, and "The Sun
; Also Rises,” with T. S. Eliot
j thrown in as bath salts. I
i gather from Mr. Holman's dig
] nified air that (a) Hemingway
j wrote well, (b) some of his
| themes are related to “Vanity
•Fair," and (c) some of “Vanity
Fair's” themes are related to
the book of Ecclesiastes. Un
fortunately, to be perfectly
honest, I did not finish Mr.
Dream gardens bloom on
#make you a sweet vision
yourself. Pajamas and
srowns that are long, short
and shorter—and almost too
care-free to be real!
Holman's article because I
found myself not making any
appreciable progress; also the
telephone rang.
I do not profess an under
standing of politics. But I gave
Ed Yoder’s "Russell Kirk:
Quixote Revisited” a fair trial
and gathered that Mr. Yoder's
interpretation of Mr. Kirk’s in
terpretation of liberals was
heavily weighted in favor of
conservatism. If there had been
a few less words I would prob- j
ably have gotten something '
more out of Mr. Yoder's ar- !
tide; as it was I reeled away i
from the end of page four !
boggle-eyed and in need of a
glass of water.
I was disappointed in the
poetry. I have said my say on j
modern poetry before, and will ;
not drag anyone, least of all ]
myself, through the lecture 1
again. |
“A good God bye
by God be good
for I can
bye no longer”
says \ in Cassidy, for example,
in "Daedalus: To the Lady j
from Gortyn,” and I admire
Mr. Cassidy for having the ]
stamina to bye as long as he ]
Page Two
~' ii ■ mini———
did. I barely made ft
There was one nice, memor
able line of poetry thought *
concede a good point to Harold
Grutzmacher, when he write*
in “To Patrick” that “The**
are no hexes for the gray
witch who plague* our day*;
face that and love comes back
again.”
I think the “Carolina Quar
terly" and those who feed it
deathless prose might well give
that very philosophy a clo*e
i look. I see no need to mourn
, away life pounding on tombs
| and filling tear-urns by the
carton. I wish the Quarterly
would work the misanthropical
j novoeaine out of its benumbed
lips and give the reading pub
j lie a smile more often. For
j what it is, the magazine is ex
l eellent, and deserves its na
! tion-wide recognition; but fun
• damentaily, judging by the out
look of most of the material
which it publishes, the Quarter
] ly doesn't seem to have an aw
| ful lot to recognize except a
highly developed talent for
eulogizing over the regrettable
land unavoidable) shortage of
; feather beds in the modern
I world.