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CHAPEL HILL NEWS LEADER
noponed Bid Controversy
[At Request Of Orange County
iettled
ird Moved
irrectly, Says
H. Graham
Commissioners
Carrboro, White Cross School District Divided
Into Two Units By State Board Of Education
f rhubarb over what to do
j, g ! - g - they would be open to suit if
j _ this were broken.
The attorney’s ruling completely
vindicated the action of Architect
Archie Royal Davis and Chairman
S Howerton’s irregularly j ^ to open
i_i_ . the Howerton bid when it did not
copfain a contractor’s license as re
quired by the specifications.
Davis told the commissioners he
would have been subject to a fine
of $500 and Howerton another $500
under state statutes if he had
opened Howerton’s bid and it had
exceeded $20,000. All previous
estimates and all bids opened prior
to Howerton’s were above the $20,
mitted on July 29, Graham told, commissioners were told
incumbent
=nri tietween Orange County upon Howerton, knowing that his
ese successful bidders.” He bid was under $20,000 and know
ing that a contractor’s license was
required above that, to have been
present at the letting and advised
the commissioners, who could then
Carrboro and White Cross will
i be separated into two school dis
tricts, the State Board of Educa
tion ruled last week.
The state board acted at the re-
1,7 quest of the Orange County Board
cept the forfeit check of Paschal Education.
Brothers and allow that firm to
withdraw from the heating con-
bids were published.
In another action at Tuesday’s
meeting, the board agreed to ac-
tract awarded it in the July 29
letting. Paschal failed to take into
;ed low bid to complete the
ent section of the new
ige County courthouse dropped
.^resounding thud on the ad-
of the county attorney at a
TraeeliSg uf commissioners on
*fe«sday night.
t “Sandy” Graham, who
ducfj^^es. millions in bids every year
e etfup^tairman of the State Highway
Lnd Public Works Commission, had! 000 mark. Said Davis: “Legally we
the »ready answer for the dilemma in [ couldn’t open it, legally he couldn’t
losiui^hich^ the commissioners found even bid.”
oji’iihemsilves after the local carpeii-
Iter sent in a sealed bid some
have opened the bid in safety, account heating of the storage rcom
Howerton first bid slightly over'
$17,000 and then raised it about
$2,000 to $18,915 between the time
it was returned to him and his re-
submision on August 2, after other
in the nothern end of the base
ment and subsequently raised his
price $1,000. The architect was in
structed to call for new bids on
August 19 for the heating contract
Howerton had neither a con
tractor’s license from the licensing
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ukiwl
ay, tel
^d not comply with specific
which the State of North Carolina
t. Hi:.!,. . ii, „ -f j,- requires of all bidders on jobs as
^sR^tions m the specifications $io,ooo. This later difi-
l^bidders. jciency was soon rectified by the
The formal resolution of the i State Department of Revenue foi-
Pi accepting the low bids sub- lowing publication of the bid, the
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A^hapel^^nilStory
Dealers Combine Against
^Doc^ And The Juke Box
(Editor’s Note: Well-remembered to many Chapel Hil-
lians through the past 25 years is one of the communitiy’s
most genial and casual philosophers, “Doc” Blodgett, a stu
dent at the University during various periods from the early,
go s through 1952. During this period he also worked on the
Greensboro Daily News and the Durham Morning Herald
while living in Chapel Hill. The story reprinted below gives
an insight into an incident that seems typically “Doc.”)
with one exception.
He had a passionate hate for
juke boxes and his greatest am
bition in life was to “make hash
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By J. P. BRADY
IN THE FRANKLIN PRESS
A recent column by this news
paper’s editor—Mr. Jones — on
his unsuccessful encounter with
those banshees of dining estab
lishments, juke boxes, reminded
me of a man whom, Mr. Jones
would probably immortalize for
his relentless war on the‘bright
ly colored music boxes.
This man was a big, hulking,
250-pound newspaperman nam
ed “Doc” Blodgett, whose heart
was as big as his frame. “Doc”
(don’t know how he got that
name) was one of those legen
dary “old school” newspaper
characters, who bounced from
one job to another with the reg
ularity of an elevator, and who
was always flat broke but smil
ing. His financial condition had
direct bearing on his folksy phi
losophy —i “help everyone you
can; there are plenty of poor
souls in sadder shape than you
are.”
And “Doc” would help anyone
that needed help; his contribu--
tions were monetary or spirit
ual, it mattered little to him.
“Doc”, in his wrinkled tweed
suit (the only one he owned),
and this column used to stump
the state on some of the wild
est adventures possible—always
on a mission to help someone,
at his suggestion. There was the
time we took a load of books
and school supplies to an 80-
yearmld teacher of an isolated
one-room school near Boone; a
trip that encompassed a seven-
mile hike (supplies on a horse
sled) to the school, and a night
in jail for me and “Doc”. The
latter accommodation was at
the invitation, not the insis-
tance of the sheriff, who put us
up for the night when “Doc”
gave our (I should say my) last
$5 to the spunky school teacher,
who was sick in bed when we
found her.
One Exception
Well, that’s the kind of a guy
“Doc” was. He loved everything
In a letter to Carrboro and
White Cross District and Advisory
Committeemen, Supt. G. P. Carr
said, “As you probably know, the
new district division will cause
the County Board of Education to
terminate your appointments as
committeemen because the district
for which you were appointed
committeemen no longer exists.
Thvo new district committees, one
for each of the two new distriers,
will have to be appointed. We will
not use advisory committees for
these districts.”
Supt. Carr also called on the for
mer committeemen to suggest “de
sirable persons” for the two com
mittees.
The reason given for desiring
a division of the school districts
was “the difference In background
and occupation in the two sec
tions.” However, it is understood
that White Cross was suffering left side of the county highway
banks; thence with the tracks of
the Southern Railway (State Uni
versity Railway) in a southerly
direction to Main Street in the
town of Carrboro; thence south
4° 21’ east along the eastern boun
dary of the property of the Carr-
boro Woolen Mills to the town
limits; thence with town limits in
a westernly direction to the inter
section of the town limits and
county highway 558; thence in a
southerly direction following the
back of the property lines on the
Glen Lennox
X-Ray Clinic
Set Saturday
The Orange-Person-Chatham-Lec
District Health Department will
conduct a free chest X-ray clinic
for residents of Glen Lennox Sat
urday from 9a.m. to 6 p.m. on the
parking lot of the Glen Lennox
Shopping Center.
All persons 16 or older and any
body who has been in contact with
a known case of tuberculosis or
have been tested and found to be
I tuberculin positive, regardless of
of one of those multi-colored j age ,is urged to get a chest X-ray
monstrosities.” | during these hours.
Time and again, as we ate in i Dr. 0. David Garvin, District
joints over the state, I would lis-1 Health Officer, announced that
ten to “Doc” spout vehemently | with a little less than a half-year
against the infernal machines | remaining, approximately 12,000
and the “classical idiots” feed-1 chest X-rays have been taken in
ing money into them. As he hulk- the Orange-Person-Chatham-Lee
ed over a cup of coffee, a wild her 196 suspected cases of tuber-
gleam in his eyes, “Doc” would Health District. Out of this num-
solemnly vow to make hash of culosis were found and 34 of these
one some day. j have already been confirmed as
And “his day” came. active cases during followups by
because it was in the district with
Carrboro. White Cross has four
teachers and 102 pupils, while
Carrboro has 12 teachers and 374
pupils. White Cros has been los
ing pupils to the Carrboro School
and a division of the district will
channel students back to White
Cross.
Here are descriptions of the new
districts:
District 4-A, Carrboro; Begin
ning at Glenn Neville’s house at
the northeast comer of the White
Cross School District and running
in an easterly direction to Eu-
Navy To Open
Area School
A new Naval Reserve Officers
School will be opened in this area
next month, the Navy has an
nounced.
Headquarters for the school will
be located at the Naval Reserve
Training Center in Durham, but
classes will also be taught at the
Naval Reserve Training Center in
Raleigh to facilitate attendance.
All Naval Reserve offeers, re
gardless of status, will be eligible
to attend the school. (The Durhain-
Raleigh school will be one of three
I think it was back in 1948. | family physicians. In addition, 15(} | to be established over the seven-
“Doc” was holding down a desk non-tuberculosis lesions including state area of the Sixth Naval Dis
trict. The other two will be located
in Miami and Atlanta.
Part of a nationwide Navy pro
gram, the schools will provide re
serve officers with the opportunity
job with the Greensboro Daily pleural and bronchia involvement;
News, a job he referred to as “a 404 cardio-vascular conditions (en-
perch-like thing to keep body largement of heart and large blood
and soul on speaking terms with vessels); and two cases of cancer
stomach.” j of the lung have also been found.
I bumped into him in down-' The Glen Lennox clinic will be to develop their professional skiLs
town Chapel Hill and seeing conducted by Dr. James L. Goddard while earning credit towards pro
that, although he was working of the U. S. Public Health Ser motion and retirement,
again, he could use a good meal, vice, who has been acting in the Student officers will attend one
I invited him out to our trailer capacity of Assistant District night class each week at either
Health Officer for the past year.' Durham or Raleigh. Classes are to
Dr. Goddard’s tour of duty with begin the third week in Septeni
the District Health Department ber and continue through June
will end the latter part of August, with a total of 40 sessions to be
at which time he will leave for a taught.
year’s graduate study at Harvard | The Durham-Raleigh site has
University, School of Public been chosen because of the large
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for a three-course dinner (wat
er, coffee, and doughnuts) and,
for the first time in our asso
ciation, he refused me.
“The time has come for me
to repay some of those hand
outs you and the lovely wife
have been tamping into me,” he
declared, pulling out a large roll
of bills.
“Gas up the buggy and I’ll buy
the chow.”
The wife, being a working gal,
had to decline this noonday ban
quet, so “Doc” and I piled in
my car and headed for the vicin
ity of Durham in search of a
square meal. We ended up in a
little road house somewhere on
the outskirts of the city.
“Doc” draped his gangly frame
over a bar stool and started sip
ping tap beer, one of his favor
ite pastimes.
A pimply-faced kid, whose wit
ticisms were wrenching spasms
of giggies from a young girl in
a nearby booth, got up and ap
proached the juke box.
“Doc’s
concentration of Naval Reserve of
ficers in the area plus the avail
ability of teaching personnel at the
neighboring colleges and universi
ties.
WCHL Programs
1360 on the Dial
Hours: 6 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Thursday and Friday
6:30 Easy Does It.
8:05 What’s Going On.
9:05 Personals: Home Stretch.
10:05 Mid-Morning Music.
11:15 This is the Hour.
12:15 News Summary.
12:25 What’s Going On.
12:30 Scott Jarrett.
12:45 Patriotic Platter.
1:05 Dig These,
jaw tightened as he 3:05 Personals.
105 E. Franklin St.
watched the kid put a quarter
in the machine and the lights
flashed on.
Then “Doc” really loudly
howled when the kid punched
the same record FIVE times.
As the music started, the girl
over in the booth gushed, “Gee,
our song.”
Breaking Point
Red flooded up around
“Doc’s” collar and I knew that
the breaking point I had been a-
ware of for some time had been
reached.
“Doc” bellowed for the man
ager, who eyed the big man’s
left and meekly asked what the
trouble was.
“Tell me how much those con
founded juke boxes cost? “Doc”
demanded.
“I can let you have that one
for $175”, the manager ventur
ed, sensing, no doubt, a chance
to make a little money from his
obvious rage.
“Sold,” “Doc” roared, jerking
his roll of bills from his pocket.
Whereupon, he unwrapped his
frame from the stool, stalked
across the room, removed a fire
axe from the wall, rolled up his
sleeves, and proceeded to “make
hash” of the juke box under the
horrified eyes of the young
couple and the manager.
“My soul has found peace,”
“Doc” reflected as we rolled
down the highway, “I’m broke,
but I’m happy.”
I never questioried hiin . . .
3:15 Rhythm Rendezvous.
3:30 Music For You.
4:30 Evensong.
6:05 What’s Going On.
7:30 Listening Tip.
Saturday
6:30 Easy Does It.
8:05 What’s Going On.
9:05 Saturday’s Sound-
10:30 Proudly We HaiL
11:05 Silent Sid.
12:00 Radio Auction
12:15 State and National News
12:25 What’s Going On.
12:30 Luncheon with Lenny.
1:05 Variety.
1:30 Records at 33%, 45, 78
4:30 Highway Hits
5:05 Evensong
7:30 Listening Tip
Sunday
6:05 Hymns.
7:30 Meditation.
8:05 Your Community Chapel.
8:35 Howard Barlow Conducts.
9:05 Concert Hour.
9:45 Christopher’s Program
10:05 What’s Going On
10:10 Williams Conducts
11:00 Carrboro Methodist Church
12:05 Rainbow Rendezvous.
12:25 What’s Going On.
12:30 Calvalcade of Music.
1:00 State and National News.
1:15 Let’s Go To Town.
1:30 Music by Mantovani.
2:05 Frankie Carle.
2:15 UN Story.
2:30 Sunday Concert.
4:05 Snack Time.
4:30 Evensong.
, 7:00 Listening Tip.
Credit Bureau School
Is Meeting This Week
Credit bureau and merchants as
sociation officials arrived at the
University yesterday for an an
nual week-long Management Insti-
tue in which national and local
leaders will participate.
The Institute is sponsored by
the North Carolina Merchants As
sociation, the State Association of
Credit Bureaus, and the Univer
sity School of Business.
A graduate seminar will be of
fered this year for the first time
for graduates of the Institute and
prospective instructors from the
ACB of A districts east of the
Mississippi, Dr. R. S. Winslow,
director, UNC Bureau of Business
Services and Research and Insti- ’
tute Advisor, said.
The new feature jOn “Instruc
tors’ Sales” will be devoted en-,
tirely to helping the participants
learn the best techniques to sell
their services.
558 to the Chatham County line;
thence in a westerly direction with
the Chatham County line to the
southeast corner of the White
Cross District; thence in a northei
ly direction by the old Claude Ne
ville place. Gates Service Station,
and Bethel Church to the Glenn
Neville home which is the point
of origin.
District 4-B, White Cross: Begin
ning at the Glenn Neville house
and running in a southerly direc
tion by Bethel Church, Gates Ser
vice Station, and the old Claude
Neville place to the Chatham
County line; thence in a westerly
direction along the Chatham Coun
ty line to the Alamance County
line; thence in a northerly direc
tion along the Alamance County
line to the farm of George Lesley;
thence in an easterly direction to
Dodson’s Cross Roads, following j
an unnamed county road from Dod
son’s Cross Roads in an easterly
direction to Glenn Neville’s, which
is the point of origin.
PAGE FIVE
Math Group
Ends Sessions
The Conference in Collegiate
Mathematics, which has been run-
ninff for eight weeks at the Unil
Iversity, closed Friday.
Most of the 77 members, repre
senting 47 colleges and universi
ties located in 24 states and three
foreign countries, have left for
their homes. - •
This Conference, which was
sponsored and financed by the
National Science Foundation, had
as its primary purpose that of
fostering the improvement of the
training of undergraduates in
mathematics.
According to Prof. E. A. Cam
eron, the Conference Director, the
Conference achieved its purpose
to a high degree.
The principal lectures, deliver
ed by the two eminent mathema
ticians, Prof. Emil Artin of Prince
ton University and Prof. Tiber
Rado of Ohio State University, to
gether with shorter series of lec
tures by other mathematicians,
constituted a program of extreme
value which held the interest of
visiting professors of mathematics
throughout the term of the Con
ference, Prof. Cameron said.
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