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Page Two Tie Chapel Hill Weekly Chip?' HilL N an h Carolina v IJf E. Koifßiri Telephone *•!?"'. or *i*i Pa»i»*e< Every 7«ie*d*y and Friday By TV CMpe! Hi 1 F‘obi»«hinr Comport, inr Lons G§-v.xs _ C I duo jot Jc*rts Jfcnagms lirur Aktht* A«onc:e Eduo* Or. T-j-r CampßTU G-mr*ul M anape- C T Watkiks —:_r;ng D. , e'T<r Chars to* Caj£Psi_l .Mecv-snsrc: Sup: Hr lere*: Rt **t*o»C -c * • - ♦* 25 IJC. **. tat 2: Cha;* H - .*• rir * tr« i»r. 1 IfV subsckiftpin rates It Orange Countv Year J 4 «.K *£ month* 1-2: rr. rta* |. b Osi&:Qt of Ortrjrt C : _r. *> py the Year State of N C-, \ a., anc £. C. tS Cnter State* ate Lu*. of Golan-.:..* l-Ofc Camuu. EtXi:. So-vt Amer.ee 7.uC Europe * K f About l njversity Con-nobdalion The writer of true letter « * graduate of ti»» t nneniij it the cl*** of I*ol. He »t»diec u» it the University here anc at Colombia and Ear beer practicing i*» , r^g New Y or* ever since he too* hi*- M A degree at f oiumbia it )S(" t Louis: I read with much inter*->t your edi torial ir. the December IK-ue of the Weekly or. the subject of the Gorsou oatec University You referred to the fact that there is a single Board of Trustees- which functions for a., three of the institu tions now comprised in the Uni vernity. This seexn> to me entirely inappro priate. Each of the institutions has a distinctive sphere each functior.ir.g in a separate and distinct fieid. bar. a member of tne Board of Trustees charged with the super-..-ion of a! three institutions effec'.v* y keep touch with the adminictration of a., of them and with the.r respective prob lems and needs? It is difficult to be iieve that anyone could do m unless he devoted much more t.rr.» to the job than could reasonably be expected. Tr.ere is necessarily a diffusion of interest and effort which must re-u:t n a lack of efficiency. Certainly an institution such as that at Chapel Hill with some 7,000 students is entitled to a Board of Trustee- con cerned fenJy Vith it* work aria welfare. Tne same is true of the other two. I agree with you that the matter should be considered not only from the standpoint of a separate B ard of Try. tees for each of th< :* ’ itutions but on the broader question of whether con solidation should b« < ■ .ed at all 1 trunk that it should not. The University at *'cap*! Hill has a traction dating back more than 150 years Jt has a high star.ding in the educat .onal world in r whicl it functions. It has ar. i.vl . idua! atmos pr.ere and quality which in some re ape*' is almost unique J* e; oys the deep affection and loyait , of iv- alumni. G.bapel Hill is not c<>n'-<-rr,ed with agriculture or engineering. Mtate Oil leg < n Raleigh handles th <-. matters anc does so splendidly. It now has; a Jarg* and enthusiastic studer’ Duly. It has grown and develop*-*! *' a remark able extent. I understand tr.at many persons qualified to judge consider its textile course to be the fin* t. in this country. I have also heard it said that in agriculture it is econd only to th* State Agricultural College in lowa which is considered to be the be t any where. It is an institution of dignity with an able faculty and is entirely cap able of standing on its own feet. Its designation as a part of the Urii\<r-ity may give the impression that it i- tag ging along behind the University at Chapel Hill, in effect a department of the latter. It should be a separat* < r tity. Similarly with the Women's Coileg* at Greensboro, which has entirely di: tinct functions from the other iristitu tions. I have seen statements to the effect that it is the largest women’s co! lege in f&e United States. Surely such an institution is entitled to an individ uality of its own. Earth of the institutions has its own traditions and as Major McLendon said in his statement quoted in your article, “There is an immeasurable value in the affection of the Trustees for their re spective institutions and to the tradi tions that have grown around them.” Has not the establishment of the Board of Higher Education with broad powers obviated the need for consoli dation, if there ever was such a need? I understand that the Board can pre vent duplication of courses and can exercise supervision over and coordi nate budgets, making recommendations tc the Legislature with respect to the appropriation f r each of the institu • rt.* Tne-- tw matters, duplicator of c- ~rse« and coordination of budgets, were a.- I understand, the primary rea >-.m« for consolidation. They car. now han lb effi leitlj th< Board of Higro-r Eaucatior.. i nave net • r h*-ard a cor.v*nc-.np ar gument f r the continuati r. of c--ns b :at. t. natever may hav* I**-* r. - • r . • y i y "I (i ,, ‘ • r *r i f t » ( .i. iv*au 'I. il. 1* >• <-*• n t: r.s a*, that time, those c'-nditiov n j.- r.g- r exist, j*- me months ,ag- 1 read :r. t.v- Week.y a statement by Dr L.*uis B -nd W.ison m which he gave r.;- r--asor.s for a c ntinuance of consoli da'.or.. I have the greatest respect for Dr Wilson a- a s hoiar. administrator and tennis player. I cam* * km w hin ir tne latter capacity as 1 was often •» f. y y;r /r f f , r " f ( 'T^'Y/cxT'/, drive- are,** .' years ag It seemed rr,* wher. I read hi- c tatement tha* *<-»- : r--'gr*--s which he recounted a ha* ;r.g beer, mad*- sine* corisolidati'-r wa- * a very smal. ex** r* if any. the *■* * f * r.s'lidati'T., M•- feeling wa b ' - wa a ng the :.t‘ • . • r v <rr ; rr ij r.'k H-r- hoping *hat de-' -r.s' idatior. v. ",rr.e about More p*’wer to you a*. ‘ ' •r-v. ho favor it >:ncer‘-:v v'v J rs A.rt Y\ ■ : i Outdoor Service at the Airport Tfii »nli-r> of th* follow ing thru- biter* nr* th» liean *>f the Iluk* l r.iverhity Mediral School, the chairman of the Governor ► Jn augurai Oommittee- c „ prominent lawyer of W endeii and a former r haj* l Hillianj; and a ft-rniiure merchant of ( a r> The Wee-klj will welcome letter* from other on the auhjee t J»-ar I/juis : Mary and heart;, congratulations on .- >r splendid editorial or. the parking r. at the Raleigh-Durham air pc,r t I probably use the Durham air port a- much a- anyone, and J grumble at *» <- Airjiort Authority every time I ’rudgi- up and dowr the hill to the free park.r.g space. It i- against my Scotch ancestry, a*- we i;s rr.. principles, to put my car in th* paid parking space. I am taking ’h«- ,’/*-rty 'T sending a copy of your <-c 'or ; t* Mr. Saunders and asking him to s»* if h< cannot improve the .situ ation. W. ('. Davison Dear Mr Graves; This is.ju-t to say that I agree with toy thoroughly, f even took th*- matter ,’j with f ar! Go*-r*h, a member *T the A;r;/<rt. Authority, but he said, due to the fact that they had leased the Lit to a Uhicago firm, nothing could Ik- done about it. Philip It Whitley D*-ar Mr. Graves: 1 have read your editorial, recently reprinted in the Raleigh News & Ob server, concerning the parking situation at the Raleigh-Durham airport and I want to drop you a line to say that 1 agree with you 100 G . Just the other day 1 was out to the airport to pick up my mother. 1 was, there only about Z 0 minutes and J had to pay the 25-cent charge that is made if you are there over 15 minutes. I agree with you that it is not the money that is involved but the principle of the matter. If the airport were located in a congested area where parking was at a premium it would be different, but ,n* e this airport is out in the middle of nowhere I cannot see the point of having to pay 25 to 50 cents for parking a f*-w' minutes in order to put someone on a plane or pick up a returning pas senger. As I w;r- leaving the parking area and pai'l th* attendant the 25 cents I remarked that I did not like the system and J did not see how anyone could meet a plan*-, get the baggage, and get out of the parking area in 15 minutes. He informed me that it was done quite often. At this point he also stated that, if for no .other reason, tfeiH parking area paid th<* salaries of four men and kept them from going hungry. At this point I figured the best thing for me to do was to move on and drop the subject. Since! they have tried to put the free-parking area so far away it is near ly hi Durham county, it does look as if they would have a lighted walkway or some other way to get to the airport without forcing people to walk in the street; and at night if you are not care ful someone will run over you. Again let me tell you how much I approved of your editorial. I wish more THE CHAPEL HELL WEEKLY people would speak out about this “dam nable inconvenience." as you have called it. and maybe they would make some changes. J. D. Cooper T: > f'G-winp letter, fr m Tom Feat heist f Rah igh, was n th< Ra leigh New- and Observer: T the Edit -r I* certa.r.iy did my near* g *od to see the .-land taken by Louis Graves of uhap-1 Hi. in regards to the parking s.tuati--r at the Raleigh-Durham air p rt. I t have seen the gr -s futility of the lack of planning in parking at this faciiit.-. If* r *-ne,,voiced my opin ion in the office of Mr. Saur. .ers to two f his secretaries. I had a man with me wh* w r* a brace—l a*tempted to park long enough * let h.rr. out and to get ap* ’•ter * get his h-*'/- —I could find n* p r’.er so I stoppe and was. getting hi.- bags out and a limousine driver informed me—in r. uncertain t* rrr.—the entire space wa- reserved f -r i.mou-..* e- and I had to move. It truck rr.e wrong when I saw six (6) scant hr/ usine- parked in a row (curb -.o* i and -‘-ver.tr. ioaded wi*h drivers ha- ing a “pabfest"—no planes unload ing no one seeking transportation and .e* there they were taking up space v. r . / r rojjrj \jt‘ U't'd for ten minute* . parking Nr • or.-.eni* nee of Lading and unloading passengers and their bag gag< Believe me, thei : ace ■ r thes* ■■ nes t pari n th* fre< rhape! Hill Chaff fOor vr ued from Phir* 3 I who ar* having dog trouble and will leave her home to help them a’ almo-t any hour of the day or night. There’s nothing theoretical about the assistance she render- J*'- a; way- practical, common-sense help, cheerfully offered and freely giver.. In di :lU o\ er dogs Mrs J* rdar a.* ••• b< Ji* . *-r in reason and arbitration. She hates to see neighbors fall out over a dog Her patience is bound- Je-- except with people who move away and leave their dog to shift tor itself It is hard for her to find a good ■ word for such peopl< alth* jgl she is one of the kindest of women. Os course Mrs. Jordan has: owned many dogs .her <ll The b*-st known of ti > e was a gigantic black Nev.foundland that weighed almost exactly twice as much as sh«- It was a treat ? o -<■<• this hug*- shaggy bea r* f ; dog beir gl* h< Jreet ~ .•-.*-. woman, if h<- want*-*! to t.urji aside to -niff at a lamp post Mrs. Jordan seerm-d power!* s to prevent him. But this; was' an illusion. The tiny woman,was the boss and the big dog knew it. though he probably could have dragged a per ton twice het ze < ar acrosT the street The big dog died of advance*] age year or two • ago ;.nd now Mrs. Jordan Das anotl r on* ist lik* hin As was the case with hi- predecess* r, the new d*/g eats like a hors;*-., Friends of Mrs. Jordan who shop in the sarrie groc*-ry s;tor<- she shops: in hav<• noticMi that h*-r push-cart basket usually contains. d*.g f***j*i and litti*- <<r nothing else. One of them seeing Mrs Jordan at tic store last we*-k apparently shopping for Ohrisirrias, thought h*-r basket would have something els*.- in it this tiro* Ih-rhaps a turkey, a bunch of celery, a pa* kag*- *if cranberri*-s. But it didn’t. All it contained wa- dog food of a fancier grad*- than usual. *-V X-\ \ \-V \ V‘V X V X X V*V\ X*\ \ \ \ N•V • V V \ V* (««»«' into .Iff/ union By Mrs. 1.. E. Huffman X.V-X-X-X-X-X.X-X.X-X.X'X X.X.X-X.X X.V X - .Now is the time: To take «ut. tings •of shrubs arid rosee. For many years I have taken long whips of both roses and shrubs, set them in the ground, parked soil with both feet around them, then watered and finished filling the hole with loose soil so that it would ab sorb rain water, mulched around these plants with oak leaves or straw, and they would take root easily and bloom in the spring. An old fashioned way to root roses was to place glass jars over the cuttings I tried that some years ago, but when / removed the jars the plants invariably died. Iso, 1 began experimenting, and now when 1 take long limbs of roses ami plant them just as I would plant a rooted rose, 1 never lose one. liut, it is not a good prac tice to let these cuttings bloom the first year. Sometimes my curiosity gets the better of me arid I do let <jne “teensy-ween sy” bud open to see which one it is! Jf you go in a neighbor’s garden some day and find a pile of old rose prunings dry ing up in some coaner of the garden, ask for a few of these to plant. Even though the canes are dried to a wrinkle, they come up as well as a fresh cane. A neighbor came to my garden some years ago, found such a pile of rose canes. When she asked for them I said, “But they are dead, let me give you some new cut tings.” She didn’t want new cuttings, she had better luck with dried ones. Two years later I war in her garden and found the finest little bushes I had ever seen lot'' and come to the terminal when needed. This one change would provide ample space for the convenience of pas sengers arriving and departing from the airport who are ; rudent enough to provide their own transportation. We of the Raleigh-Durham area avi pr • : b\ •■ ■ increased t ral t at our wonderful terminal, we want and will support the facility—why not make it easier for us to use it i 1 It might pay the commission to look at the railway facili- '* .ties—l've never had any inconvenience parking at the Seaboard or Southern stations. A Ride in 1790. A Flight in 1956 It was chronicled in the new.-papers one day this month that a Scandinavian plane had set a spe*-d record for a non -top flight in air pa.-senger service by flying from Long Beach, California, to Stockholm in 21 hours. Phillips Rus sell's biography of Thomas Jefferson, published on the same day that this flight was mad*-, contained these lines about a trip of Jefferson’s when he wa- called upon by President Wa.-r.ingt* r. t* be Secretary of State: He left Monticello March 3. 1790, and after a p at Richmond, was a fort nigr.t on the muddy, -now-filled road. Occa-i* r.a. y he r*-ll<-ved the tedium of -tag*- trav<•• by riding a -add!*- horse he had • ght in Alexandria.’’ It is sbout 6,000 nr.,*-- from L ng Beach to Stock holm. abou* 250 mil*-** from New ? Y’ork ’o Richmond. . ■* which came from those dried up old cam .! Blossoms ori them even surpassed those from my onginal hushes How ever, after trying that method 1 have found they do rjuitc as well from fieih cuttings when put. out in December and Jan uary These are from old wood Now is tii<' time also t.o plant that hedge we have dis < u wed for the past two years. Xt week I did some yard work iri a new development where yards tan into each other so that one never knew where her yard begun or end ed. Kach borne owner could go out and gaze right smack into her neighbors’ bar a doors. Oh, how W' need our back yards for places of privacy, where we can be in a little world of our uwn! Children especially dc erve this privacy, for all too often they run in gangs from morning until night ami some mothers never know where their own child is, or with whom they are playing. Any child deserves this pri vacy and protection I.et’s be gin our hedge today! News of Books By Robert Bartholomew A SIOUX CHRONICLE. By Oeorge K. Hyde. The Univer sity of Oklahoma Press. Nor man, Okla 334 pp. $5.00. Though confined to the great Dakota reservation in 1878, the defiant Sioux did not e id their struggle with the white man until well into the 20th century. This bpok recounts the Sioux’s last struggle for sur vival, the heroic, though at times bitter, story «>f a tfans . .. \ | -’ '* : ;-*•' ; . th* diUp a* *-d of Arre-ncan history, , wi-r*- told to farm or.ara o *• j, to '-harig*- their entire * ..' //a , er ',norn.<-, and spiri ’ *- to trar,- form *hem *-/ve fiom warriors to plow rf.t-u ar. : v. r. at the same time i. * /*- f* • - <-d to deal with the *•* it ip* government offie'ia - * f the W<- t wh'r wished to helj ’ •he f*io .>• by rob! n« them ' •h< rre ervation land ’lt. ;* volume 45 in the * v. zation -f the American Indian Sene- The author ha- long been a ’.'Jen* arc] a friend of the Amenr-an -Indian. His interest c <h* ,'inx date- from early c th* century .when he served a r»- iai'h assistant to George 11. id firinneil, the famous hi*- t'/i.an of the f’heyenne-. HI BKA - 'I i 11. CON I KHKKATK < OMMAND i Y (KM J', . I rar.i* Vandiver. I , - ana ’ate t rover ity I'M Ha*on I;- :y>- 11Z pp. s:* ()() h i'<(n the -tart /outherners rnar* h*->i to" battle both as ’a’*- ff ’ a arid as < onfi-der* a’<- f ■ ■r < • Ka< h wan**-d to car*- f- r i> - own .men and no * *t • • ! i.e * onfi-iierat*- gov i /r.mi -.t o -pi-rati- to get men n.-i * tie f i-ld, ed to a< -- pi ait il 1 i ank a I the es for* * f th* late- and to 'ry to work out the problem 7 of ta’e and na’ional authority Per A central agency charged fr m •h> beginning wj'h j/lari n'ing * onfederate mobilization n .gi;t. ha .1 !• - cried t-orne *.f the confusion, hut there was no ueh _agern "y A fin** study ■ f 'i.e weakrn ■ si-s of the'fion The Lillie Shop Reopening after Christmas Friday, December 28 V __ s a l i; i of ' All Fall Dresses and Suits ■ o # Lihv I'hapvl Hill -^=== Mrs. Connie Straughn came up with a rhyme, which arrived too late for publication last week but which i- timely yet. She maintains: “Santa Claus and Uncle Sam * l - f Twice yearly have us in a jam By taking the last cent we’ve got. \ How bitterly do we complain Because those two old white bears come And make our budget shot. .Perhaps we ought to keep that cent \g And give up what they represent— " I'd rather not » * * * Some cigarette lighters now have watches on them -o you can see how long it takes for them to lighU * * ♦ * There'll be a run on razor blades now—by men who received electric shavers for Christmas. * * * * Some folks have expensive tastes and little money, while others have lots of money and little taste. * * * * We get the idea that Hollywood’s the place where fool- rush in where angels fear to wed. * * * * In London the holiday season will pass with half th*- people looking to .Santa Claus and the other half looking to Uncle Sam. * * 9 * It's surprising how much on*- can *-p**ak of himself without telling anything. * * * * Take care of your pennies, and Uncle Sam’ll be along about April 3 5 to take car*- of your dollars. H * * * “Xmas" will mark the spot where th*- money was 1 last seen. * * * * There ar>- times when a man has to lie to his w ife, but the worst tirn*- is when he has to tell the truth. ♦ if * * Nowaday- h j - bands ar<- getting divorces, because* their wives like Elvis Presley. Maybe that’s because it’s *-asi*-r to g*-t a divorce than to learn tn like Elvis. ♦ * * * W*- won’t be ahl*- to t.*-ll whether it was the liberal or conservative elements of the Republican party which elected Mr. Eisenhower until we see which gets the maddest because it can’t run things. federate command system. * * 1 MI * H AGO AHOT.'T MK By h'/ed Allen, I.ittl*-, Brown & * 0 Boston. pp $!).()<). "Much Ado About Me” is an entertaining autobiography fii <-d with extraordinary peo ple and events: Here xs Allen’s early life in the suburbs of Bo 'on, hi- apprenticeship in the Boston Public Library, the happy round of Amateur Nights and the improbable world of I-* ol ay .Square. More than a funny book, it is a full, perceptive and ab solutely honest account of a remarkable man. Fred Allen S %, *t ®JBH **9H ™sp *ll all llni fall H-6081 and .Make Your Reservation Now for our NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY Steak, Sparkling Beverage, Favors K Dancing . . . $5 per person FYiday, December 28, 1956 war one of the bc.-t loved men of his time; to read 11 1 - book to understand the reason w by. N 7H£ OLD T/M£K irl-p y sb±.. 'a. ”A friend in someone who walks in when the rest of the world has walked out.”
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