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The Chapel Hill Weekly
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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LM E. Rosemary Telephone 9-1271 or *4*l
Published Every Tuenday and Friday
By The Chapel Hill Publishing Company, inc
Louis Graves - Contributing Editor
Joe Jones - Afanagtnp Editor
Billy Arthur Associate Editor
ORVILLE Campbeu General Manager
O. T. Watkins Advertising Director
Charlton Campbell Mechanical Supt
Erne red u> second-cl*** matter February 2fc 1922 at
the pc*toJ!ice at Chape, HiL North Carolina under
he act of March 3 1879
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
In Orange County, Year s4.i>o
(6 months 12.23; 3 month*, $1.50»
Outside of Orange County by the 'i ear
State of N. C., V'a., and S. C. 4.3 U
Other Stats* arid Lust, of Columbia 6.00
Canada, Mexico, South America 7.00
Europe 7 ho
Our $6,000,000 Basinet*
There is a six-million-tiollar business
in Orange County that we take for
granted. Vet it is just as imjx>rtant in
many respects as the University of
North Carolina or anything else we like
to brag about when discussing Chapel
Hill and the surrounding community.
We’re talking about the farmers of
Orange County, and we would like to
commend them on the wonderful prog
ress they are making. A group of these
farmers were guests of the Chapel Hill
Kiwams Club last week. The occasion
was a Farm-City Week program under
the direction of Kiwanians Vance Ho
gan and Frank Umstead. County Farm
Agent Don Matheson was the principal
speaker, and he revealed that Orange
County farmers grossed $1,100,000 in
dairy products, $1,000,000 in poultry
and eggs, and $3,148,128 in tobacco last
year. Add to this the farm produce
raised, and you’ll find an income of well
over six million dollars.
The income is very important, and
it does much to help the economy of
Chapel Hill and Carrboro. The income,
however, would do nobody any good if
the farmers were not operating their
farms in a capable and efficient man
ner. According to Mr. Matheson, they
art. "We have a group of farmers who
are always striving for better ways to
operate their farms,” Mr. Matheson
said. "They realize the of
soil conservation, of using the latest
methods. They will succeed if the farm
economy of the country succeeds.”
" Mr. Matheson deserves much credit
for the manner in which he is working
for the farmers of this county. He is
ably assisted by Ed Karnes, assistant
farm agent; Don Dewey, forestry rep
resentative for Orange and Alamance
Counties, and Quentin Patterson, soil
conservation supervisor.
Make Your Family Happy
Just a little effort on your part could
make it possible for someone less fortu
nate than you to have a very happy
Christmas. All that you need to do is
adopt a family for (he Junior Service
League’s Empty Stocking Campaign
which is now under way. It is even pos
sible to do this without spending a dime
in actual money. Just call Mrs. John
Crittenden at 8-0275 and tell her you
would like to adopt u family. Let her
know the size of yours and in all prob
ability she will find a needy family to
match. Then you can gather up some
discarded clothes and toys and other
odds and ends and make someone
mighty happy. It’s as simple as that,
and if you do participate you will make
two families happy—the one who re
ceives and your own.
Heil of a Predicament
Some idea of the predicament mod
ern man has got himself into is given
m the following item from the Granite
State News of Wolfeboro, New Hamp
shire:
Talking a while ago with a high
ranking Air Force offcer, we were a
bit shocked to hear his remark regard
ing protests from a city after a jet had
smashed and burned a building: “It is
about time the civilian population began
to realize the danger of death and in
jury due to training risks of the men in
uniform.”
But the more we considered the re
mark, the more the righteousness of it
drove home.
Night fighters and interceptors
must train over the area they may be
called upon to protect. Pilots and crews
must train out of the airports they will
actually use. National Guard pilots and
crews should train on airports nearest
their homes.
And the fighter planes are no long-
er the glamorized wood and canvas
crates of World War I, carrying thirty
caliber guns and perhaps forty gallons
of gasoline.
When the present day jet crashes,
it is a matter of five tons or better of
screaming metal, pods of rockets and
hundreds of gallons of fuel oil hitting
with earthquake effect.
In this year of our Lord nineteen
hundred and fifty-six we, as a nation,
are playing for keeps. If war breaks it
will sweep over the top of the world
with the speed of sound and there will
be no time for drills and no time for
second guessing.
Everyone will be in that war, if it
should come, from the old man in his
terminal illness to the new born babe.
The Best Investment
Walt Baucom and over 200 workers
have been spending the past two months
on the Community Chest Drive. While
not all reports are in, it seems the quota
is not going to be made. If it isn’t, you
are the one who will suffer. Every par
ticipating organization deserves the
amount of money requested in the bud
get. If you haven’t contributed, do so
today.
Most of the money in the chest goes
to our young people—through the Boy
and Girl Scouts and the white and
colored recreation centers. The best in
vestment in the world is in their future.
Let’s Help Our Own Community
There is no better time than right
now to remind one and all to do their
Christmas shopping in Chapel Hill and
Carrboro. Our stores are loaded with
up-to-date merchandise, and Chapel Hill
prices are in line with those you will
find anywhere else in North Carolina.
The merchants here are interested in
the future of Chapel Hill, and much of
the money that you spend here will re
main here.
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While on the subject of spending
your Christmas money here it is well to
point out that the town’s Christmas
decorations for 1956 are the finest ever
displayed in this community. They ex
press the spirit of Christmas without
the gaudy appearance that so many
Christmas decorations give. They are
in keeping with the spirit of Chapel Hill,
and they will fit in with the religious
Christmas parade scheduled for later
this month.
We Pay for What We Get
(Chatham News)
Principal R. M. Durham made a
number of pertinent comments about
schools when he addressed the Siler
City Rotary Club.
Chief among them was the admoni
tion that "You have to pay for what you
get, and school patrons are going to find
as time goes by that they will have to
assume more of the financial burdens
of the school systems.”
Those of us who have been on the
Chatham County scene for some time
cannot fail to realize that school prog
ress, albeit considerable, has not kept
pace with existing need largely through
failure of the people to assert their will
ingness to foot the bill.
They have been, to a large extent,
satisfied with the slow pace prompted
by the county’s pay-as-you-go policy
and dependence upon state funds to
provide needed facilities.
Existing policies have been largely
determined by county school officials
who have interpreted needs to the coun
ty commissioners often without seeking
to discover how the people themselves
felt about school facilities.
Chatham County will, we suppose,
in the long run bring its school plants
abreast of its needs. It will, however,
continue to be a slow process and. in the
meantime, thousands of the county’s
children will have moved on, deprived
of what they really deserve, a school
system as modern as today’s demands.
What some people have failed to
realize is that prospects for the indus
trialization of an area depend largely
on heightened educational standards;
on the development of vocational train
ing for those youngsters who do not
plan on college careers. It is in this
field that greatest need exists along
with that of plants adequate for the
implementation of physical education
programs that extend beyond the play
ing of football, basketball and baseball.
It is in the people that the future
of education rests. Until they assert
themselves, forcefully and enthusiasti
cally, our schools will not be planned
for the long haul but rather for the
emergency needs of which there has
been a steady stream through the
years.
THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY
Chapel Hill Chaff
'Continued from pane I)
thing new, and one of the visitors wanted to buy a ny
lon shirt to take back to India. We went in a store to
get one but were unable to find the right sleeve length.
The merchant kindly insisted on going down the street
to another store and getting it for us. The Indians
were greatly impressed by the extra service given them
by the merchant.”
Mrs. Roosevelt said she though his action was a
contribution to international good will. jvJVith these
words she insured her good standing with ‘Mrs. White
field, who is always proud to hear a member of her
Association commended.
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Miss Mary Gilson says she's a phonophobe. She
wishes she had earlids as well as eyelids.
"I detest noisy, clattery cocktail parties where
women shriek and men growl at each other and make
day hideous,” Miss Gilson says. "I detest dogs that bark
at garbage men and delivery men, and I'd love to have
earlids I could flap shut on such occasions.”
Miss Gilson was| born a few million years too late,
according to an article she read the other day on the
editorial page of the New York Times. "Theoretically,
there was earlids,” the TimdS said, “just as there were
creatures with three feet and two heads, the extra one
of which proved an encumbrhnce. There were after all
dinosaurs—kings of beasts—who became so large and
strong and well-armored that their whole selves consti
tuted an encumbrance. If you were to turn over this
earlid hypothesis to a scientific romancer and ask him
why the earlidders did no get through when earlids
would plainly be such handy affairs nowadays, he would
tell you that these earlidders used their apparent ad
vantage without descretion. They would turn off the
crash of n»arby waterfalls to get to sleep, turn off the
chirping of birds in early morning to get more sleep,
perhaps turn off the chatter of their mates for the sake
of a little relaxation and so fall victim to some noisy
danger which otherwise would have been heard and
avoided. A really enthusiastic devotee of evolution
might go on to say that much the same thing would
happen to any men who today were blessed with earlids.
They would shut out the alarm clock and lose their jobs.
They would shut out city noise and be struck by an auto
whose horn they did not hear, or be mugged on some
lonely street because they were not aware of the thug's
approach. And so on.
"And what would be the reaction of the chap who
put the question, himself a phonophobe? Certainly he
would feel that earlids were worth the chance. Never
again to hide one’s head sideways under the pillow,
never to close the windows on a smothering night
against the whine of passing autos or the gabble of
pedestrians, never to suffer the roar of the subway in
a tight tunnel, never again to grit one’s teeth to the
insistence of a pneumatic drill or an acquaintance snap
ping chewing gum, never to cringe to the clang and
holler of fire engines or the mournful shrieks of am
bulance sirens, never to endure as captive audience the
overheard chit-chat of inane small talk! To save the
ears for the breaking of waves, for children’s voices, for
Yraa Sumac and Wanda Landowska, for the sounds of
coffee perking and a key in the lock! It would be worth
the evolutionary chances.”
A Hazardous Task
By Rena B. Lassiter
In the Smithfield Herald
Weimar Jones, editor of the
Franklin Press, made some
timely observations on house
keeping after he had recently
experienced a week’s bachelor
hood while his family was out
of town. He headed his obser
vations with this: “Frying ba
con can be a very hazardous
task without a pajama top."
It took this editor-husband
to get into print this idiosyn
crasy of frying bacon. But
every housewife whose job is
getting breakfast could tell
him that popping grease is
only one. I never cease to won
dor how a new box of bacon is
going to act. It may pop- -
like that of Mr. Jones—and I
may have to grab a pot lid
as a shield and buckler and
keep my distance as I turn
the bacon with a long-handled
fork.
Then again the slices of ba
con may cur! at the ends until
you lose patience with trying
to flatten them out and just
don’t tare if the ends are half
raw and you put them on the
platter that way. i recently
saw, in one of those intermin
able gadget catalogs that I
have been receiving, a device
for the frying pan that would
hold the slices up in the mid
dle permitting the ends to
smooth out all the way. I knew
‘when I saw that, it is not just
the way J manipulate the bacon
that makes it curl; someone
else has had trouble, too.
Our present box of bacon is
acting stili differently, and the
difference is without doubt in
the packaging. The slices are
so thin and they are so tightly
stuck together that no kitchen
utensil that I possess will prize
them apart in anything like the
semblance of a whole slice. For
two mornings now instead of
scrambled eggs and bacon for
breakfast we have had scram
bled bacon and eggs.
Another thing about bacon.
One box will sometimes just
ooze grease as you fry it. A
half dozen strips will yield a
full cup of grease and the re
sulting little “bitty” strips
hardly furnish a garnish for
the platter of eggs. Then again
a box of bacon will be so lean
that not enough grease comes
out to fry the eggs in.
But sometimes the bacon ia
just right. Tm strips cook to
» golden i n-pnesß without pop
ping, without curling, without
acting up in any way. And in
,-pite of the way bacon does act
at time.*, it is the favorite meat
for American breakfasts in
this day and time. The day of
a heavy breakfast of fried bam
and grit*, or beefsteak and rice
or fried chicken and hot bis
cuits with pancakes and syrup
to top it off, has long been
gone. But when I began house
keeping 50 years ago that was
the kind of breakfast we began
the day with However, mote
often than not there was a
cook in the kitchen to prepare
it. In recent years, with no
maid from sun-up to sun-down,
housewives have been simpli
fying breakfasts.
The meat packers have con
tributed to the easy breakfast
by slicing the bacon ready to
fry. There was a time when
we brought long slabs of
“streak of lean and streak of
fat," sharpened our butcher
knives to the thin degree, and
did our own slicing. And we
had to slice oui t.iead for toast,
too.
The manufacturers of this
age surely do go all out to
make cooking easy, but they
have not taken the "pop” out
of hot grease. And 1 agree
with Editor Jones' observation
that pajama tops are advisable
when frying bacon.
Dislikes Mattamuskeet
By Henry Diggs
In (he Smithfield Herald
With The duck hunting sea
son just around the corner
hunters by the hundreds will
be flocking to I.ake Mattamu
skeet for the excellent shoot
ing that refuge offers. I have
not been there during the hunt
ing season and I have never
seen the thousands of birds that
winter there. 1 have only been
there in the Spring.
Several months ago Peter
Hulth and I attended a press
meeting at Lake Mattamuskeet
and we both decided that the
best thing that could be done
with that section is to give it
back to the Indians. Naturally,
that section is home to the
people around there and they
love it, but Pete and I didn’t
find anything that made us
want to leave Smithfield.
One of the dignitaries was
making a speech one night
about the enormous benefits
News of Books
By Robert Bartholomew
8H ER MA N ’S MARCH
THROUGH THE CAROLINA?.
By John G. Barrett. The Uni
versity of North Carolina
Press. Chapel Hill. 325 pp.
66.00.
1 read "Sherman’s March
Through the Carolmias" while
a patient in the hospital. After
1 had finished it 1 offered it
to my room-mate, who kept it
about two hours and returned
it to me.
“Don’t you like the book?"
I asked.
“The book’s fine," he an
swered, “but like most South
erners I've always detested
Sherman When I was half way
through the book I began to
take a liking to the damn ras
cal, so 1 ju*t quit reading."
Sherman c nsidered his march
through the Caroiin&s h:>
greatest military feat. When
he set out northward from
Savannah with 60.000 veteran
soldiers in January, lb6o. he
was convinced that the bold
application of his idea of total
war cou.u bring an end to the
conflict.
Before him lay South Car' -
lina, the birthp ace of secces
sion. Beyond him were North
Carolina ar.d Virginia, where
the forces of Lee and Grant
were deadlocked.
The author's story of the
three months that followed
based on printed memoirs and
documentaries of those who
fought and the civilians who
lived in the path of the famous
march.
The burning of Columbia, the
battle of Bentonvi le, and
Johnston's surrender nine day >
after Appromatox are the high
spots of the story; but the
human interest is concentrated
in the many episodes that grew
out of the planned destruction
by Sherman's orders and the
undisciplined pillage by the
“bummers."
Those who know Chapel Hill
and the University will be de
lighted with the chapter, “The
General and a Lady," which
tells the story of the Atkins-
Swain love affair. For those
who are not familiar with the
story, the daughter of the pres
ident of the University of
North ( arolina married the
commanding officer of the
Cnion troop- who occupied the
village. At the time, most res
idents of Chape! Hill thought
the young girl had thrown her
life away.
1 recently ca! ed on a grand
daughter of this strange union,
an elderly lady her.-elf When
she met me at the door, her
.first words were, "Now, y, „r.g
man, don’t start accusing my
grandfather of stealing a., the
silver in Chapel Hid. He only
stole a girl’s heart."
Mr. Barrett, who t cache
history at the Virginia Mili
.tary Institute, has writtei an
excellent book that wili appeal
to the scholar and the ay man
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HOW TO GET RICH IN TV
WITHOUT REALLY TRY IN'.
By Shepherd Mead Simon and
Schuster. New York. 180 pp
$2,05.
Did you know that you .an
be stupid, incompetent and
even moderately repulsive and
still make a fortune in TV
Did you know that you can be
a cowboy star without know
itig how to ride a hors* 7 That
you can earn more than the
president, of the network by
merely knowing how t. . pen
a refrigerator dooi
Whether you own a TV s*t
or just look in on the neigh
bors, don’t miss this book. It
is one of the best works of
nonsense of the year. Well il
lustrated with .art. ons
offered by the area and about
the advantages offered indus
tries. I’ete turned to me and
in a not so low voice said,
"Why in the world would they
want to industrialize this for
saken section?”
The crushing defeat came
later that same night when we
were ravenous and prsctica !y
starving after listening to a
couple of hours spent in ex
tolling the virtues of the area.
We decided to drive to Swan
(quarter and get a hamburger
and a shake before turning in,
so we took off on the seven
miles or so to Swan Quarter
only to find the whole town
closed down at 10 p. ni. I rum
maged through the car and
found three crackers about
seven months old and that held
us till the next morning.
Later on, back here in Smith
field, I mentioned the trip to
Hugh Austin, Sr., and Hugh
said he’d found that the sec
tion impressed him about as
little as it did Fete afcd me
Hugh told an interesting tale
about a trip he and Rufus
Sanders and J. E. Wilson once
made to the lake on a hunt
ing expedition. He 6aid the
place where he stayed was
so filled with bedbugs and
other assorted varmints that
he finally gave up and went to
the ear to spend the night.
# Likr Chapei Hitr
* Continued from page 1 1
Ms. Most of them have little or nothing to do with’the
Birth of Jesus. For instance, the Christinas tree and
the Yule log and the lights. They are loose symbols.
And, accuracy can i*- g:\tn as no* reason for omitting
Santa Claus from a Christmas parade, U-eause actually
Christ was not bon at this season.
Whatever else one may dt-em Santa Claus to be. he
is a symbol to interpret the spirit of love.
Santa is a benevolent and loving spirit which children
understand. Jesus is. too. but children who believe in
Santa Claus are too small and young to understand the
meaning of the Nativity.
It's easier to teach them the love of Jesus
the symbol of Santa Claus. They know what Santa
Claus means, but they do not yet know, or are not yet
quite sure, what the Nativity rr.eur.s.
So. when we have one parade at this season,
children are going to ask. "Where’s Santa Claus?”
What do the churche- want me to :»:1 my six-year
old and my four-year-old?
I resent lumping Santa Claus r .«i commercialism in
the same class. 1 may g' !< the parade, but it’s going to
be mighty difficult for me to take my children and let
them see the lights, and the Christmas trees and the
Nativity scene and hear Christmas carols sung—and
then for me to endeavor an explanation why another
symbol of love, especially the symbol of the love of the
world for little children, is absent from the scene.
The churches possibly have an explanation, but
they’ll never be able to make little children understand
the answer to the only question they’ll want to know:
"Where’s Santa Claus’*” #
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What some doctors kr w about medicine would
fill a cemetery.
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Kissing is like eating >ouj Takes a long time to
get enough of it.
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"Life is a hetrogeneous collect ion of irreconcilable
phenomena.” so a scientist says. Television producers
have long known that.
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Yes. tell the truth—and get yourself in trouble.
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The outcome of most marriages depends upon the
income.
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When we’re winning, we praise the State Depart
ment and Mr. Dulles. But when things look bad we ask
God for help.
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Tuesday. December 4. 1956