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Page 2-C Flotvering Plants Perfect As Gifts ' By M. E. GARDNER The miracle of blooming plants at Christmastime is wrought by your commercial flower grower and your florist, who carefully bring a great variety of plants into bloom for you—cyclamen, azalea, poSnsettfa, chrysanthe mum, begonia 'and-many others. As gifts, flowerfhg plants are perfect. As business gifts they are colorful and long-lasting. As gifts for family and friends, they express your holiday mes sage with feeling and meaning. As hospital gifts, they always give the patient a lift he or she will not soon forget. Whatever you do, don’t forget the shut-ins. As decorations, flowering plants add a little something spe cial to Christmas festivities. Use a single plant most ony where in the house. If you have a stair way, place a plant on each of three lower steps as a friendly welcome to entering guests. Group several on a tray for a focal point. Add one or two to a OLD BOOK NEWS IN THE OLD BOOK FEATURE CASE NOW TILL THANKSGIVING— A POET'S LIBRARY- a nice small collection of* poets, mostly in the 1860-1920 period. We think you may find these forgotten voices pleasant to hear again. FROM DEEMBER IST ON HANDSOME BOOKS AND SETS FOR CHRISTMAS GIVING. Beautiful leather bindings on great books, plus rare and hard to-find sets in fine condition. FOR YOUR OWN PLEASURE— We’ve never had such an abun dance of good books in every corner of the Old Book Depart ment, and every day sees new treasure come down to replace what you’ve bought. It’s excit ing! It’s incredible! We hope you aren’t missing the fun. THE INTIMATE BOOKSHOP 11» East Franklin 84. Open Till 16 P.M. WINNER of The Billy Arthur LUCKY HIDE-AMY November Drawing Is Dr. Lamar Harrison 1 Dr. Harrison’s Hide-Away has been credited with $5.00. i You too an shop with us now and take the wear and tear out of Christmas by selecting early from a fresh assortment of hobbies, crafts and selected education toys—all at wonderful values. Next Drawing Dec. 10 at that time the person whose card is drawn will get his entire Hide-Away purchase free of charges, and any payments made will be refunded. Hiat’s our Lucky Hide-Away plan. Be Wise Shop Nou> BILLY AITHIR V§ Eastgate Shopping Center 309 North «7 VT Tel. I GreeMboro JT* A JL 942.315.1 I collection of green plants for a splash of color. A handsome holly arrange ment around e candelabrum with red candles will be an eye catcher on the mantle. This same idea will look pretty on a chest top or buffet setting. Try a wreath of green and cones around a wall clock. Or use the wreath alone over the mantle, on e wall, door, or hang in a window. Bouquets of bright carnations will add a festive touch to table tops. Mass some Christmas greens in large containers to add touches of greenery throughout the house. Decorate banisters with swags of evergreens. Attach cones or balls or ribbons for a real fleshy touch. Frame the front door with garlands of greens across the top and down the sides. Place on cone clusters on the comers. For a dramatic and timely centerpiece, arrange several cut poinsettie blooms with greens in a shallow bowl. Or. if you would rather, ring the of bright Christmas candles* with oily and greens. Put three or more down the center of the table. A holly wreath might be placed on the back of each chair with place cards attached to the tops of the wreaths. Union Service Thursday Morning A union Thanksgiving service for most of the Protestant churches in Chapel Hill and Carrboro will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. at the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, sponsored by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Min isterial Association. The Rev. DeWitt Myers, in charge of arrangements, an nounced that the public is in vited to attend the service, which will be conducted by the Rev. Vance Barron. The Rev. Henry Turlington will preach the sermon. The offering wifl go to the Inter-church Council for social service. Help the needy through the Community Chest. Tribute To William Rand Kenan Jr. The following “Tribute of Af fection and Gratitude” was paid to William Rand Kenan Jr. on Wednesday evening. Nov. N, at the annual dinner meeting of the University of North Carolina Alumni Association of New York. The tribute was written by Fete Ivey, director of the University News Bureau. His mother was Mary Har grave of Chapel Hill. His father was William Rand Kenan of Kenansville. His great great grandfather, paternally, was Gen eral James Kenan who in the American Revolution and was one of the first trustees of the University of North Carolina. His great great grandfather, ma ternally, was Christopher Barbee of Orange County who gave 221 acres of land on which was built the central part of the campus of the first state university in the nation, the University of North Carolina. So, when William Rand Kenan, Jr., came to Chapel Hill as a freshman in 1890, the Carolina heritage of generations of men and women in his family let him know that he was coming home. By his own statement William Rand Kenan, Jr., was an "aver age student” in the University, because he preferred myriad ac tivities to gear with his versatile nature. He did well in his studies, and his accomplishments in the laboratory in Chapel Hill “ are a part of the history of the University and a part of the in dustrial history of the nation. But he did not limit himself to books. He played halfback on the football team. As a pitcher and outfielder on the haseball team, alumni long rememer the spring day in Richmond when he was called to the mound at a crucial moment to pitch Carolina to a glorious victory over the University of Virginia. He was a good tennis player, and took part in the socihl life of the cam pus—the dances, the Order of Gimghoul, Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity—and was a leader in every activity but one. That was the Glee Club. He couldn’t sing very well and h? knew it. How ever, his record for extra-curri cular activity was so encompass ing he decided not to leave any stone unturned. He went to the director of the Glee Club and offered to put on a demonstration of tumbling, at intermission. At first the conductor resisted, but Will Kenan was persuasive. The Kenan Tumbling Act be tween songs proved a tremen dous success, and the William Rand Kenan record for extra curricular participation was one hundred per cent, including membership in the Glee Club. Weighing 142 pounds and hard as nails, he was an athlete and a scientist. He was also a man of resourcefulness, of keen in telligence. of personality and a capacity for friendship and con fidence. Added to this was his energy and his ability and will ingness to work hard and long. While yet a junior in the Uni versity, in 1892, he was an as sistant in the Chemistry Depart ment to Professor Francis Pres ton Venable who was later Presi dent of the University. Diligence In the laboratory led Venable and Kenan to an historic discovery. Let Mr. Kenan tell it in his own words, in retrospect, years later: "During the spring and sum mer of 1892, while a student in the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, I had been work ing off and on, with frequent in terruptions for classes and other engagements, studying the com position and properties of some aluminum carbide and some hard crystalline mass, which disinte grated and crumbled on exposure to the air and gave rise to a violent evolution of gas when brought in contact with water. This gas was inflammable, burn ing with very smoky flame. Dr. F. P. Venable, Professor in Chemistry, had obtained this matter while on a visit to the little village of Spray, Rocking ham County, N. C., near the THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY junction of the Smith and Dan Rivers, where Major J, Turner Morehead had a cotton mill and hydroelectric plant With a sur plus amount of water. Major Morehead had employed T. L. Willson to experiment with an electric furnace for a cheap pro* cess of making aluminum. Mr. Willson was not making much progress and Dr. Venable was called in as a consultant. "When cleaning out the furn ace this crystalline mass had been discarded. When rained on it gave off a small amount of gas with a considerable noxious odor. Dr. Venable instructed me to find out of what it was com posed. It was easy to see we were dealing with a carbide of calcium. A more important ques tion was the nature of the gas. I passed some of this gas through an ammoniacal copper solution and immediately a copious pre cipitate was produced which was recognized without difficulty as copper aoetylide. On trying a mixture of one part acetylene with four or five parts of air, using an ordinary bat-wing burn er, the wonderful brilliance and beauty of this really remarkable light were revealed for the first time in this country in the late fall of 1892. "Major Morehead and Mr. Wilson were informed of our discovery that acetylene gas evolved from the waste product of their furnace.” After his graduation from the University in 1894, Mr. Kenan worked as a chemist for a fertili zer company in Wilmington, his home town, and for the North Carolina Geological Survey, and then became a professor of mathematics and science at St. Alban’s School in Radford, Vir ginia. While in Radford he also learned the technique of dynamo tending at the Radford Electric Light and Power Company. In the summer of 1895. the Uni versity at Chapel Hill embarked on a unique project of the times electric lighting. Alumnus William Rand Kenan, Jr., was called back to install a steam power plant and electric lighting in University buildings. This was not just a supervisory job. Besides being in charge of the installations, Mr. Kenan was both worker, demonstrator, fore man and director. He strung the wires and help set up the poles. The power house was com posed of fire tube boilers of 125 pounds pressure, hand fired. The electric equipment consisted of two General Electric multipolar direct-current machines with a voltage of 110-120 volts each. An other 220 volt circuit was used for lighting the campus and the streets. In a letter to Louis Graves of the Chapel HUI Weekly, Mr. Ken an reminisced: “All the wiring in the building was exposed, held in place by porcelain knobs fas tened by means erf screws. I remember distinctly standing on a stepladder and driving a screw driver in the ceiling of the dormi tories until my back was broken literally.” His work in Chapel Hill with carbide and acetylene gas was the reason in 1895 for the Carbide Manufacturing Company of Phila delphia to offer him a job, so at 23 years of age he was sent by that company to Niagara Falls to supervise construction of the first carbide plant in the world, one of the plants and small com panies that ultimately combined into the multi-billion dollar in dustrial giant, the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation. It was a back-breaking task that Mr. Kenan undertook. He worked ten hours a day, seven days a week for $25 a week. He was plant supervisor, in charge of testing chemicals, and what today would be called director of personnel. Besides that, he was instructed explicitly in additional duties: “We will expect you also to keep the time of the other men. to make out the payrolls and to attend to ail the corres pondence and the shipments of carbide and the receipts of lime and coke,” he was told. During this period his .father once wrote him from Kenans ville. asking him to watch his health and not make a regular habit of working 18 of the day’s 24 hours. But Mr. Kenan found time, as he had done at Chapel Hill, for extra-curricular activi ties. He bicycled from Niagara Falls to Lockport, became a part of a social circle there and be came attracted to a pretty girl named Alice Pomroy. ui Niagara Falls he also learned, in his spare time, more about the elec tric power and its usee. One day in 1899 on a business trip to New York, he met the railroad mag nate, Henry M. Flagler. Flag ler was impressed by Mr. Ken an’s knowledge of electric pow er. They met again in 1900, and Mr. Flagler hired Mr. Kenan to come to Florida and design and construct the first power plant in Miami. CtOM PAINTING * PAPERING IU Item M. Dhri IWII William Rand Kenan, Jr., be came Henry M. Flagler’s right hand man. Mr. Flagler had com plete confidence in bis judgment and in his loyalty, and so proved it in writing, in assignments and positions of trust and in rewards. They were intimates in daring business ventures building the Florida East Coast Railroad, de veloping chains of hotels, in con structing power plants, and in other enterprises. The link between the two men was solidified inl9ol when Mary Lily Kenan, his sister, was mar ried to Mr. Flagler. After Mr. Flagler's death in 1913. she was married to Robert Worth Bing ham, publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal, alumnus of the University of North Carolina and Ambassador to the Court of Saint James. In 1917 Mary Lily Ken an established the famed Kenan Professorships that have meant so much to the achievement of high academic standards, the maintenance at Chapel Hill of a strong faculty, and the emer gence of the University to a posi tion of national stature among great universities of the land. The Kenan Endowment is now valued at several million dollars in the University’s trust funds. William Rand Kenan, Jr., was married to Alice Pomroy of Lock port m 1904. In his series of books entitled Incidents By the Way, Mr. Kenan has a chapter headed “My Wife.” He wrote: “It was a coincident that the first apartment 1 moved into, about two months after arriving in Lockport, was in a house next door to where she lived. I first met my wife Alice at Mr. Flag ler’s home in New York City. She possessed a wonderful personal ity and I was much attracted by it. It was natural I saw a great deal of her in my limited time. Our married life of nearly forty three years was all that anyone could wish for. We never had an argument or difference of opinion, each gave way to the other and the arrangement was ideal. Alice Pomroy was a re markable woman; had good looks, winning ways, made friends easily, was generous to a fault, and the most magnificent repartee I have ever known. Our life could not have been improv ed upon and we were happy.” Besides the railroad, hotel, power plant and allied business pursuits, Mr. Kenan went into paper box manufacturing and later became President of the Western Block Company, the leading manufacturer in the na tion of hoisting and chain blocks and similar essential parts of heavy machinery installations. He also was associated with banking enterprises. Later he developed a dairy farm, raising fine Jersey cattle. Randleigh Farm is one of the na tion’s show places for experts in dairy production. Because of breeding, care and milk produc tion, the cows at Randleigh are champions. Mr. Kenan experi mented with wonder drugs on his herds long before sulfas and other wonder drugs were used on human beings. The ice cream at his Dairy Inti was of such high quality and in such demand that each customer was limited to a quota of one quart per purchase. Mr. Kenan became worried one summer about a 13-year-old Jer sey cow named Dairylike Mad cap 646111. she had broken her leg, and veterinarians recom mended that she be killed. Mr. Kenan brought in medical ex perts, and the cow was placed in a derrick for exercise, fed germ inated grains and minerals, and given ultra-violet ray treatments. The broken bone was healed in one year, and her physical con dition was such that she gave birth to two more calves before her death two years later at the age of 16. William Rand Kenan’s early interest in athletics and his de cision to perpetuate the idea of sports pre-eminence as an ac companiment to sound scholar snip m the classroom and iabora SAAB engineers don't take safety lightly. Don't you! SAABtnm'! « STWM »tram WWliMai WPOITEI CARS, - pHBaHI unteb ** e m *>» «.. canton pimm mmim tory—which his own career has so strikingly typified—was given Its first full opportunity for ex pression when he gave the money to build the Kenan Memorial Stadium, completed in 1927. The memorial was to his mother and father, William Rand Kenan mid Mary Hargrave Kenan. 'Hie orig inal cost for the stadium was $275,000 and seated 24.000 poepl. Since that time when additions to Kenan Stadium have become advisable to accommodate in creasing thousands of Carolina partisans, Mr. Kenan has added to his original gift—for a field house, for additional temporary seats, for guest box and press box, and most recently for an additional 18,000 upper story, tiered, concrete seats in Kenan Stadium. Permanent seats in Kenan Stadium now total 42,200. For this stadium construction and additions from 1927 to 1962, Mr. Kenan gave his alma mater $443,000. The more recent addi tions to the stadium have cost $1,070,629, bringing Mr. Kenan’s gifts to Kenan Memorial Stadium to over a million and a half. Mr. Kenan has publicly stated that much of the success of his life he owes to good physical con ditioning he experienced on ath letic teams in Chapel Hill and the give and take of the competition on the gridiron and the baseball diamond. He might hove added that he introduced in Chapel Hill the cultural notion that gymnas tics and good music go hand in glove, and that glee club singing and intermission tumbling com plement each other in the best of the University. Mr, Kenan has given much to the University, in addition to his athletic remembrances, and these have reflected his continuing in terest in science, in books, in faculty accomplishment and in attainments of the whole Univer sity. He was recognized by the Uni versity in 1944 with the Honor ary Doctor of Laws Degree, and in 1953 by honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa. From his birth April 30, 1872, in Wilming ton through the 90 years to the present date in 1963, he has been a distinguished son of the Univer sity of North Carolina. He was enthusiastic in his loyalty; for years he was always first to reg ister at annual alumni reunions. A large part of the campus on which he was educated had been given by his great great grand father to help launch the Uni versity. The main street of Chap el Hfll he knew in his student days was the scene of student off campus life, where Jesse Har grave ran the community store and had a' beautiful daughter named Mary, William Rand Ken an’s mother. Chapel Hill days and years was the life to be re membered by all the Kenan Clan of Kenansville. William Rand Kenan, Jr., saw a flash of light in a chemistry laboratory that has changed the world. His own life growth and service has built upon early sus tenance in his home, in his Uni versity, and by reliance upon his own energetic and resourceful genius. BEAUTY-CUTIE Liles Richardson of Chapel Hill was among Coker College students entered in the College’s annual Beauty-Cutie Contest held Friday night at the College. I Dream Vacation “ Casablanca ” Miami Beach Transportation Delicious Meals All Inclusive $4.65 Week Call All Star Lanes Phillips Jr. High To Hold Open Home Members of the Guy B. Phil lips Junior High PTA will have an opportunity to view all of the facilities in the new school for the first time on Tuesday eve ing. An open house has been scheduled for Hie second PTA Xting of the year and teachers be available in the class rooms as well as the library, music and art rooms of the new school budding. A brief' business meeting be ginning at 7:30 p.m. in the school gymnasium will precede the classroom visitation. The 1963- 64 budget will be recommended to the membership by the PTA Executive Committee and "par ents wifl be given instructions regarding the schedule for the open house. Representative samples of stu dent work will be displayed and teachers will discuss briefly the teaching programs currently be ing undertaken by them in their respective classes. Members of the Guy B. Phil lips Student Council will sene as co-hosts for the occasion. They will be available to direct pa rents through the building. Schedules of classrooms-to be visited should be obtained by pa rents from their children prior to the meeting. Previously delayed, because much of the work on the interior of the building was incomplete, the Open House is being sched uled for Tuesday evening, de soite the fact that all of the fa cilities are not yet finished. Work on the building has recently pro- ADVANCED DEGREE Charles Parker Wolf of Chapel Hill, a graduate of the Univer sity here, has been awarded a- Ph.D. in Sociology at Princeton University. If your house looks like this... ■Mgr Make it look liko this... «fth tin magic of BRICKSTONEI Even if you don’t have the cash on hand, you can improve your home’s appearance and value with BRICKSTONE right now, WITH NO DOWN PAYMENT! 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All attentions to your hair are expertly and beautifully handled with personal attention at Aesthetic Hair Styling Salon, 133% East Franklin Street Phone 942-4335. Open Friday evenings, too. Call for appoint ment. THIS WEEK’S HELPFUL HINT: When laundering, sprinkle clothes with warm water. It dampens faster and more evenly than cold water.
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