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Page Two I rhe Chapel Hill Weekly [ Chapel Hill, North Carolina 26 E. Rownart Telephone 9-12T1 or Published Every Tuesday and Friday P ly The Chapel Hill Publishing Company, In<. r jozm Graves Contributing Editor > lot Jonzs Managing Editor July Arthur Awocicrc Editor B Dr.nxt Campbell Genera’. Manage" 1 O. T Watkins Advertising Director f Chariton Campbell Mechanical Sup: i * ,-.-•••■■ ______________ SUBSCRIPTION RATES jq Orange County, Year JICO „ Outside of Orar.ge County ty tr.. Itar CState of N. C„ Va„ and S. < « s ' Jtner State: ar.i; D»s: of -W; .anada. Mexico, heutt. Amer.ca 7.0 b Europe 1 -ft'-’ At the Hospital I went t the M< mortal H pital I for at, x-ray examination, part of a rou tine check-up. one morning last week. My family doctor had mad* ar. appoint ment for me and had gr.-n directions as to wna* sort of examination it was to be —running barium through me and all that sort of busine.-s. Promptly after I reported to the young woman at the x-ray department de.-k a pretty dark-haired nurs* came up t* me i-d me out into a corridor, pointed to a door marked “men's dressing room.” and said: “Go in there, take off ai! your clothes except your shoes, and then come out here and si: or. thi- bench.” "What!” I exclaimed. "Without any ciothes: on!” The corridor being crowded with people, men and women, passing back and forth, I had been somewhat em barrassed by the nurse’s command. “Oh, no, you put on a hospital gown,” she said. I went into the dressing room, un dressed, took the topmost garment from a pile on a shelf, and put it on It was about two sizes too big for me and its only fastening was a pair of cords in front. I tied these into a bowknot and emerged into the corridor clutching the two sides of the gown and pulling them together so as to make myself feel enclosed. Nobody paid any atten tion to me and I sat down on the bench the nurse had pointed to. This was not my first x-ray exam ination, but my most recent one had been made several years before and I had forgotten it. Now the details of the procedure returned to my memory one bv one and i realized that, if J had come out of the dressing room and sat down on the bench without any clothing at all on, nobody would have paid any more attention to m- than they did now. in a hospital the absence ' of clothing is the last thing in the world , to arouse anybody’s interest. | * jin a few minutes a nurse came and me a nod and escorted me into the „ x-ray room. Ail rooms for operations 1 and examinations, even for something I as simple and painless as an x-ray I examination have for the patient a | sort of sinister atmosphere, a quality f. that is appropriate to a place where they are either going to knife you or view tiie inside of you through a queer-looking machine. The whol* affair suggests black magic. The room I was now in reminded me a little of one I saw last year in the Chamber Xof Horrors at Madame Tussaud’s in Ijondon, but it was made less gloomy and menacing than that one by a bril liant light in the ceiling as well as by ; the pretty nurse who popped'in now | and then, besides her, while i waited for the doctor who was to do the photographing and the viewing, I had as an intermittent companion the ord erly, a genial colored man. In this interval, as I lay there on mv back on a table, I thought about what a wonderful thing it was to have the North Carolina Memorial Hos pital in Chapel Hill. The building is a demonstration of the world’s most ad vanced ideas in Jjospital construction, the equipment is unsurpassed any where, there are well-trained nursing and service forces, and, what is most important, the hospital has a profes sional staff representing medical and surgical talent of the highest order. Nothing about .the place commends it more highly to the people who go there, whether as patients or visitors, than the politeness and friendliness of the personnel. At the desks, up and down the corridors and in the elevators, and at the bedsides they make us all feel as if we were doing them an honor V • i'i nawmrww r---iir tt - to pay them a call. As perfection is not for any human being, so it is not for any institution, and I would not suppose that the Mem orial Hospital is without flaws. I have known some persons whom 1 have heard sjieak of not being pleased with this or that feature of the service. For example. I myself would have been bet ter satisfied with the x-ray room if thor«- had been a cushion between me and the table they placed me on. I think.. The surface of thi- table must t.a- - bed:, iror <-r maybe steel. 1 had a pret*;. Hr.g wai* and with every minute that passed the table got harder and harder and 1 felt the resemblance crow - ing tv ser U-twecn thi- r ,rr and th* one in the Chamber .f Horror.- at Madam*- Tus-aud'-. An. 1 didn't like looking uj into that r,r...iant light ,i, th*- '''-iling righ* • ■ n head. 1 was glad when, about ha : v.a through n wait a seeoiid nur.-e from •- ■ *•>• being a n. : .* but just - . it 1, would mind if she turn*-: .* ':,*• light. I told her I would not or. not mind it but v > aid be d< ligl ted After .- * had turned it out I saw what I hadn’t noticed before, that the room had an other light, a dim red on* , which-was < xae* \ righ’. It..- what did th*-* fault- amount to" They wer* trivial indeed. Another per.-on might have .'beer; hardly aware - ■ tin table’.* hat rfac< and. thi brilliant light. 1 forgot all about them when the doctor came in and began to fascinate me with hi.-, manipulations of the x-ray machine and his peering at the tubes, or whatever they were, - within me. I wouldn’t be mentioning now what I have called faults except tha* I would rather that the hospital personnel, reading this piece, rfbt get fluffed up from over-praise.—L. G. How Not to Suffer from Traffic Jams A good-sized fraction of the 30,000 people who came to the Carolina-State football game last Saturday missed part of it, some of them as much as the first quarter, because they were caught in a traffic jam. Cars coming from the east over highway 54 crept along, {Hopped, crept along again, stopped again. And were their occupants mad! Grumble is what the newspapers said they did but J know without having been there that grumble is too mild a word for it. Swore, or cursed, or . damned, or all three, would be more ac curate. J am competent to testify about the kind of language heard on such occasions because J have been caught in truffle jams, myself, going to and from games at Duke and other places. And right here in Chapel Hill, to*;, be cause there wit,- a time when i was foolish enough to ride to a parking field near the Kenan stadium instead of walking from home. J # refiect with a good deal of satis faction that as far as 1 am concerned th<- problem of traffic at football games has bee'll solved completely. I solved it about twenty years ago when I began going over to Kaleigh on a Saturday when a game was played here and at tending it by radio. We would go in the morning, my wifi; and I, before the roads wer* jammed, and come home late in the afternoon when the jam was over. A friend of ours who lived in Raleigh used to turn over to us his radio-equipped apartment to make our selves at home in while he was over here in Chapel |li!l looking at the game. You've gu« ssed it: 1 enjoyed this program because I was getting to be not so young as I had been. Now that condition ha become still more so and I don’t want to undergo even the exer tion of taking a ride out of town. J just stay at home. I read most of the time during a game.-livery little while 1 turn on tin radio to hear how it is goiijg. I will turn it -If and go to read ing again and 1 li-tialbur.st <J f cheer ing from th< stadium will draw me back to the radio. And so it goes. I listened, my guess is, to about ten minutes of last Saturday’s game. It might have been more if my side had been winning, but not much more be cause my partisan spirit has been pret ty well drained out. There are other things 1 enjoy so much more than foot ball. My wife had been out gardening while I lay on the 'couch in the living room. After the game we took our folding chairs across Hattie lane and sat in the sunshine on the gr(iss be neath the cedar tree at the corher of Felix Hickerson’s rock wall. Presently people who had been at the game came streaming by in cars and on foot. Now and then friends stopped and chatted THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY with us. We stayed there till near sunset and then recrossed the lane and were at home again. We agreed it was a fine way t* attend a football game.—L. G. About Subscription Rate> \gain In last Friday'.- issue I had a : .eve complaining that the Raleigh New - ar. i Observer did nut put it- si.:- m:*. rates in the masthead on th* ed:‘ -rial page as d- th- New York Times, .he New York Herald Tribune, the Balti more Sun. the Greensboro New.-. m< Durham H-raic. and other new snap* r>\ My sec >n 1 c mplaint was th:.* * - m< da vs the N-ws. and Observer :. : n t t publisr !*- - .ascription rat*- ;.* all. Mv third (••••::.; .aint was that w her .t dM publi-n them it hid them amid the c:a- a: 'wav \• r t war i ’ *.he back :' * pap* r and printed • r.err. :: the smai.-'-t possible type s< that they' w<-re V'-r .hard *" find. 1 expr— : *’• -pinion that if there was atv. -r::.;.'': 1 n a newspaper g.' t * publ.-r : ’ .-uch a wav * nut it ... it v. ;.-*'■ ( hapel Hill Chaff (Continued front page 1) the* boxes 1 ers tje able t get their papi i not later than 9 »ck except w n thi Seaboard thi Raleigh connection. » * * m On the very day that I read about Life's j;holo graph* of G* \-rnor Hodge* td *•• .:. garments made in North Carolina, w* were called or. at our home by a p-rson who was advertising a j roduet of our State much more winsomely than c r G vern >r did his col lection. {Which is by no mean- extravagant praise— but let that pass.) It was Mr- Isaac Taylor and this was the first time we had seen her since she returned from her summer vacation. “Where did vou get that b*ai.*:fui leather purse'.’” J asked. “In Edgartown on Martha - Vineyard,” she said. “And when 1 asked the shopkeeper where it was made she said, ‘Skyland, North Car- lina’.'' * * * » A syndicated newspaper feature that has become popular in these days is “The S*n. r Forum,” distri buted by the General Features 1 * rporats- n. It is devot ed to questions and answers ab .* problems caused by retirement St irg Leavitt set Is mi " - issui from the Lynn {Mas*.) Item: "Q.: I an. a professional man. a lawyer, who has worked for the last 2* years with a major corporation I will be retired like everybody else, and on April 1, 1557, my number comes up. 1 don't really want to go fishing. I don’t want to sit on a hotel veranda. I don’t think 1 would ha\- much in common with trailerites in Bradenton, Fla., or with retired mail carriers in Arkansas, or even with the coupon clipper in Asheville, N. C. Yet I want out of the snow and the hurry-hurry of the North. An;. - jggestii ns?” “A.: Pick out. of your experience a state that ap peals to you. Go to the | .rji ic library and ask to see a directory of the colleg* -of that >c’* < * . off ilo names of some of tin- small*-r cities >.- • th- big citi*- where these colleges ar- located. Then g ha.* a look “College towns ar- among thi rn--t delightful places in America to li\* . They ar- -i'.ilized and con servative and they don't ha'.- too much money to throw around. They ar- mad* t> < rder for a profe.-.-ional man in retirement. “If you choose one of these town*, you should plan to establish. living quarters clos t th* can and plan to cultivate th*- friend-hip of <• !.<go official and, professors. They w . apprei ati . for what you know. They will talk your languag* Th-y will be the means through wha n vou may .-tart -• n.* lecture courses on the campus -ay. on corp**rati- n law. “Chapel Hill, N. (’., Gainesville, Fla Auburn, Ala . Pasadena, Calif., lowa City, la. —s l-h t< v. n- off-r a fascinating life for you ” While J am on this - .bject: If y< . want to read an exceptionally interesting artiel- on retirement r-ad Bruce Bliven’s "A Few Words from the Shelf’ in th- September Harper’s. Mr.. B vi n was oni f the edit of the New Republic 31 v> ars, from 1923 t<; 1551. In 1554 he became 05 years < i. He write.-: “Every community nowadays abound.- in activities intended partly or entirely foi what th* i r*.-- love- to call Senior Citizens, and a lot of us parte pat. in tiling that we would have scorn* d twenty y-ar- earlier. W serve <in committees. W< collect forth- ( (immunity Chest (which is certainly nothing to s< ■ rn at any age). We also baby-sit with our grandchildren. We get up late, and take naps after lunch. Those *<f us still w*,i enough to drive a car go out and .-hop a good deal oftener than is strictly necessary—a process that has been described as ‘buying a paper of pins, one at a time.’ ” And so on, Mighty good all the way through. If you don’t subscribe to Harper’s and can rustle up 50 cents 1 advise you to buy a copy. * From Our Files v* . smmmmMiMW'xajmars.vrxri. 5 Years Ago Frank (iraham left Geneva, Switzerland, yesterday and is scheduled to arrive in New HOME OF CHOICE CHARCOAL BROILED HICKORY SMOKED STEAKS—FLAMING SHISKEBAB— BUFFET EVERY BUNDAI senption rates. 1 am writing thi- n Tues*iay 25th for the issue es Friday the 2Str Since my piece appeared last Frida I have received four issues of the News and Observer, those of Saturday the 22nd to Tuesday the 25th. inclusv. * I have searched through these careful ly and 1 find that in r. t a single r.e : them do the advertisi: g rat - ajtxar. not e\en in the fa •• • red r-rr te sr- * f r them amid the classified -d- The question come- t rrir.-i: c-.-uld the rea.-on fur omitting then* fr rr th-. masthead on the editorial page f- that the owner- and editors think they w-.-Jd make it too long’ Thy New - and Ob.-er. er’s masthead .- "ly 3 inche g This mpares witi 8- ii hes for that of the New Y rk Tin • - • r. a page • f the same size. Me a.- ;r I fir *1 .hat a block of rates < f th* • -ize *• ..* <: the N-w York Tim-- w aid • • five-eight- of an iryeh : masthea: If the owners and 1 edi* r- . ntir.ue : i*e agaii.-’ putting th-m *re I h *hat. at least, they will - * it that th*- rate- are not left .* f the r *g* ’'.• —l.. G. York this morning He is to submit immediately to the I N’ his report on his mission to India-I’akistan. 10 Years Ago in the Weekly said, in reference to the sale of beer on Sunday, “There are only three places in Chapel H.l: wker* • - • - .: * - iay They • - --- • « * F T-jtr.s * Street n t a fth If ' aliov. • . ’ .5 f *rt v* -- * Jf it : e r‘ t. > - rta- r. **' y t -' : * t a-ibued • ' lay it* 7: tr*r aay My -,-f —at - *'.* *; • ' ' ly.*' A.! • '<>.*: ar. : report* a: •: a .•msic-r** .r. the subj-c■ w t';'.it the "'tif* cher hr.’ tr * *: . is acutff arc! zr- Half a rr ’ r*rr* * •i***-r t* : • a-'r ct,* f r z* itions in . .r j: . . comment tFt ptft f i\* y«*ars. M rr tran IW/». i!> teaching *.th emergency -err tificate- -34 War*. Aga Fifty t) the North •* . ••vrc*. tat-, the State next -*-. k f r the Arsy maneuver- .• » jrht • -'.unties ir N* rtr ar.*i S .tr. Carolina. Some of the tro-.: <or.tinirer t- ■* . •a— th.rvagi < hap. : li Os the >T "omparie- es gaged :n making, p*t*-.- resr.-- aL- in the C. S and *'ar.a:a. C.'i are vii eomparie* r company subsidiar:*. - f \ ' *■" *-t * % V■ i S » ‘Jtkffiil . * " *i. . x. ' l f-. *T . dßh- ' A' 1 n T>* Chli Jf. .» * t*e '• •- r «vabir.»Ui.!j». A. Corduroy *ar Coat .•>•; .. Se-i rew* - ■'?C §HW print with eorduioy outsi :e Matches ctaer parts of the co.-tume Patch pockets Collar wvuti **■ into hood for chilly day- B. Corduroy tapered parts u ail y*..r mM-'tf f corduroy costume. Sue- W to i» kvSe* Oxford cloth Ivy Leair.e t is a varwiy of colors with keg sleeves, sues ... *(pjanne, 3nc. Use* to 3 .M Days Glen I.eanox Shogputg Crater Pbooc 6-0521 w "r • - ."'V WiWMI sm _438» l#ft th* Town R» tkari H»t-<r | r'. ERY TIME I WANDER ir.t a discussion about • • " ■ *• -• tr.* group is * t - • :*r r ..ter .-.no ask ins if I’m At - - st . . ■ *• t *■*•■• "i -: how IH) : .. tr ** ..r.'t 'Mosc* Lr.yr wV' . • ■ - *h<ll cr M-- com*is M-. - r**M w. 'Th* answer: Fr ~ R s-_j. r .rv t. r*. neither is comet; from an Ar -* xr '■ **:. * trer - tr :«*r rot * the nam f their capi- M —a '•' •- * • western spelli g fr m i . * v•; may take ® * * * * ERSm NEEDS 1 'll ENT \ - V .rt : Tr - ir. i .:*g and dallying *t * "g .-.r * *r .t . - --g ..v with s m-one ~ tr . - : - ham g*l Univi r-ity - * " ' - £ | * ’ 4 ■ ' - e taj * sit d . *- * '*■ *■ *t r *. • x.r r in ' - •'- - ' • s ability as a v ; >r f : - f the great - ~ ! !f.r c t * ry. , ' I • • - • . that h« has st as he sees fit, he d s hot - • stitati g rai gt pr grai - - ..r - t t -ee !■ e mpleti-n. F:- : - • - r.tte" * -tr,. r.t * hid the f rt. s* to - g * .. - mandate to act in a - *■- t * - s down just at a --- - -'O' -*: ...• '- d -astr* ..- RiKiming • ' ' • v •' :•* .■ : f rSful rr-hi: . • eader s has tstrui gby a tit ular ■ ' - ' ■ « aran - I it dead • in *'■ -r* ' F ••g-- - mded a hopeful note last might thin the near future” ▼ I hear the rep rt : their p mmittei d ch .- search :• g f r * permanent psvsider.t. 7-- ci.-rrm.ttee ha« evened alt f ground in its t fit* --**•- n a l ■ - farther " me thai s .i 1 • Bj i » » » » V T » ANT GO HOME AGAIN ” Tr* mas Wolfe -a * ■.* I r.-. -c _ r liary t that the*-rt m: It's hard * r in the first } iaee F - -- '*a * - HR. - r• m* Arid at th** end of ” * * - ’ ’ 'he staff f the Charlotte „ g '■ • r• * - < d many year n't intend t •• ~ • * .... er this I rop - v * .nst«-ad ! tr. .ght ! w :*d d* vote this final - . - ,xj re --_vg r y -inoere thanks to all the people «*'setsr.is«*d .« jar'- 111 Friday. September 2S. 1956
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