The Chapel Hill News from Chapel Hill, North Carolina • 1

The Chapel Hill Weekly YoL 7 No 20 LOUIS GRAVES Editor CHAPEL HILL FRIDAY JULY 12 1929 (1J0 a Year ia Advance 5c a Copy Dover Jt Chapel Hill Chaff Raleigh Short-Cut Open Tomorrow New Road to Graham Is Now in Use ENGINEER COMING HERE TO DISCUSS STREET SURFACES Just before this paper went to press Mr Ray fifth district engineer of the State Highway commission said that the newly surfaced road to Nelson (the short cut to Raleigh) would be open for traffic tomorrow (Saturday) "It may possibly be ready for use Friday" said Mr Ray "but I would not like to advise anybody to try to pass over it then It all depends upon whether or not the carload of tar which we are looking for is delivered exactly according to schedule People sometimes run over a freshly treated road before the layer of crushed stone is placed over the oil but it gets the tires into pretty bad shape and spatters the car We would rather not have any traffic until the surfacing operation is The new road from here to Graham has now been opened for traffic so that tomorrow when the link to the east is ready the whole of route No 54 Graham through Carrboro and Chapel Hill to will be in use This forms a relief route for the central highway No 10 By following it the east-west motorist will save a little distance and will encounter a smaller volume of traffic He will pass through open country except while he is in Chapel HU1 and Carrboro and will miss the towns of Haw River Mebane Hillsboro and Durham Hickerson who came over the new road from Graham day before yesterday on his way home from Ronda was impressed by the fine alignment and grading Mr Hickerson is the author of a standard textbook called "Highway Curves and "This is i splendid piece of road work1 he said upon his arrival in Chapel Hill "The grades are easy and you find none of the sharp dangerous curves that are found on roads constructed in the earlier stage of our high way building program The surface is good From here to the Orange-Ala-mance line on the way to Gra ham the surface is now gravel but next spring the road will receive the same oil treatment that has just been applied to the stretch from here to Nelson Then No 54 will have a continuous hard surface from end to end The part of it that lies in Alamance county is concrete Playmaktra ta Present Milne Comedy This Eveninf and Tomorrow The Carolina Playmakers will present A A Milne's comedy "The Dover at 8:30 this (Friday) evening in the Play-makers Theatre and again tomorrow evening There may possibly be a third performance if so that will be announced later Howard Mumford Jones who distinguished himself as an actor two years ago by his portrayal of the drunkard in "Ten Nights in a Bar will have the role of Latimer Willis Posey will appear as Leonard Miss Constance Ellis as Anne Mrs Mary Margaret Russell as Eustasia Harry Rus sell as Nicholas Cyrus Edson as Dominie and Messrs Mazyck and Farrell and Misses Burton and Deans as the four members of "the The play takes its name from the celebrated thoroughfare so frequently used by eloping couples going from London to Paris Its first presentation in this country was in New York in December 1921 and it turned out to be so popular that ran there for nearly a year Its humor is of the whimsical quality that has Relighted millions of readers of the books of A A Milne Season tickets for Summer School entertainments must be presented at the YMCA in exchange for reserved seat coupons Police Experts to Come They Will Attend School Hero In Chapel Hill Neat Month The extension division in cooperation with the North Carolina Association of Police Chiefs will hold a police school here from August 14 to 24 Attorney General Brum-mittt will open the proceedings with a talk on public safety Many police notables will attend Among them will be Charles Borland director of public safety of Virginia Chief of Police Jordan of Richmond and II Parker Ellis chief of detectives of Mt Holly There will be five hours of brisk work every day while the school is in session Experts will give instruction in the various phases of police work McClamroch appeared in a LaSalle car one day last week in a Cadillac sedan the day after in a Cadillac brougham the third day and in a Ford the fourth day The Village awaited expectantly for the next stage in his progress from one brand of car to another but the Ford appears to be the final selection Mr and Mrs McClamroch are going to Europe before long and they are going to use their Ford there "How long do you expect to I asked Dick Hunter the parachute jumper when he told me how he "nearly got into when he came down above the trees last Sunday "Oh I expect to die of old age or possibly by slipping on a banana he said A strange profession This young man seems to be no more excited or fearful about jumping from a plane 2000 feet than I am about descending my front steps Miss Prize She Wine Scholarship for Study In New York and I'uria Miss Anna Braune has won a scholarship giving her a year of study in the New York School of Fine and Applied Art and then a year at an art school in Paris The value of the award is $500 a year for two years Miss Braune's triumph came as the result of an examination of her work by a jury in Nashville Tennessee One non-professional artist from North Carolina was to lie chosen After examining her drawings and paintings the jury decided that she led all the competitors from this state Mrs Bradford director of the Nashville Museum of Art informs Miss Braune of the award in a letter in which she says: "The jury was very much pleased with your work and think you have a great future before you You are to report at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art in September" Miss Braune had her first art instruction from Mrs Mary Graves Rees here in Chapel Hill and later studied at the Cincinnati School of Art Miss Eliza Mallett Stricken Miss Eliza Mallett was stricken with paralysis Sunday morning and is critically ill Waldrop of the State Highway Commission to Be at Town Hall This Afternoon GRAVEL SERIOUS PROBLEM John Waldrop chief engi neer of the State Highway Com mission is coming to Chapel Hill this (Friday) afternoon to discuss with Town Manager Foushee and other citizens vari ous methods of surfacing streets and roads He will be at the Town Hall at 3:30 and every body who is interested in the subject and would like to hear what Mr Waldrop has to say is invited to be there The upkeep of the gravel surfaced streets is a grave problem for Chapel Hill and the mayor the town manager and the aldermen are anxious to work out some economical solution It has been suggested that an oil-and-crushed stone surface like that between here and Hillsboro and between here and Nelson on the new state route No 54 would be less costly to Chapel Hill in the long run than is the gravel which now forms the surface on most of the streets The first cost of the gravel is of course less but the washing is so bad after every rain and the wear and tear from automobile traffic is so severe that the town has to keep repair gangs constantly at work It may be that the present cost of maintaining Rosemary lane West Cameron avenue Pittsboro street Boundary street and the other unpaved thoroughfares is greater than would be the interest charges plus maintenance if the town invested in the oil treatment Any more concrete paving in the village is thought to be out of the question for some time to come anyway Concrete is too costly for the town in its present financial situation to consider The aldermen recently adopted a resolution to the effect that henceforth the entire cost of street improvements would have to be met from assessments upon the abutting that no part of the cost would be laid upon the general tax levy Subtcrib today for Tko Ckaptl Hill Wookly 9150 a yoar The Summer School Schedule JULY ARE NOW RISING IN THE VILLAGE 2 Fraternity Houses on Pittsboro Highway and Another on Columbia Street SEVERAL DWELLINGS ALSO Several new buildings are under construction in the village now Out on the Pittsboro highway a little way beyond the Carolina Inn the Phi Delta Theta and the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity houses have risen rapidly They are of brick and will cost about 940000 each If the contractor maintains his expected schedule they will be ready for occupancy in the fall The same contractor is putting up the Beta Theta Pi house on the former George Pickard lot (which used to be the Norwood lot) on Columbia street The Betas bought this lot from the Pickard family for 125000 three or four years ago They intended to launch their building venture immediately but were delayed The old residence was moved to the back of the lot was split into small units and has been in constant use Munch has a new' home now nearly completed out in the Forest Hills suburb adjacent to the Pittsboro highway It is a brick veneer structure of two stories The framing of the English Bagby house on the Pittsboro highway at the southeast corner of the Westwood property was finished several days ago and the construction proceeds steadily The Morgan Vining home on North Street and the Grumman home on the edge of the Country golf links are nearly completed The Vining place is named Tangle Garden Edwards of Durham with whom Fields is associated is erecting two houses on Rosemary lane: one at the east end of the row of houses owned by June Harris to the rear of the Methodist parsonage and the other near the Wilson corner The former is a dwelling The latter is to be occupied by a fraternity Read carefully the advertiee mentt in the Chapel Hill Weekly durate Coats was the court uniform The spectators scattered Juries and witnesses and litigants suffered Not long after Judge Whitaker came up for nomination for another term The fanners mobilised and inarched to the polls and voted against him and he was retired to private life Judge William Allen who defeated him permitted coatless eitlsens to enter the court room in comfort The above true incident should teach Louis Graves of Chapel Hill that be is ia danger of meeting the fate of his kinsman by marriage Judge Whitaker It is reported that Mr Graves "is going to ask the Mayor and Town Council of Chapel Iini to pass an ordinance requiring men ta wear coats on' ths streets of Chapsl Hill in Don't do it Loots unless you'eovet for yourself and the city officials the fate of the Superior Court Judge whoee devotion to full dress cost him his Coat of ermine The last two paragraphs are a bit misleading in that they convey the impression that I am in favor of coats in the summertime The opposite le true Mjr suggestion grew out of a reprint from the Living Age about re-'(CeaHawd page four) Friday July 12 Conference on Elementary Education Continued See program Carolina Playmakers present Dover Playmakers Theatre 8:30 Single Admission $100 Holders of Season Tickets will exchange ticket coupons for reserved seat tickets no additional charge Saturday July 13 Carolina Playmakers present second performance of "The Dover in Playmakers Theatre 8:30 I Single admission $100 Holders of season tickets will exchange ticket coupons for reserved seat tickets No additional charge Monday July 15 At 8:30 this evening in the Kenan Memorial Stadium: Dance Recital by Miss Margot Krolik accompanied by Nelson Kennedy assisted by Mr and Mrs Harold King and Miss Margaret Fraser Holders of season tickets will be admitted free Single admission for others 50 cents Tuesday July 16 Organ Recital by Mr CG Vardell Episcopal Church 8:00 Wednesday July 17 At 8:30 this evening in the Kenan Memorial Stadium The Wellesley Players will present the Ancient Greek play the Agamemnon of Aeschylus Holders of season tickets admitted without additional charge Single admission $100 Friday July 19 Last of classes for the First Term See Examination Schedule for July 22-23 Demonstration of Dalcroze Eurythmics at 7:15 in Memorial Hall -I rri 12 23 Tax Expert Here Tomorrow Phillips member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals will be here tomorrow (Saturday) to deliver two lectures op the federal income tax before the law school in Manning hall The first will be given at 11:30 A and the second at 3 Many Parties for the Weavers Mr and Mrs Paul John Weaver who are sodn to leave for Cornell have been the guests of honor at several parties recently Among those who have entertained them are the George Howes the William Deyi the Piersons 'and Miss Alice Noble Mrs Wagstaff Recovering Mrs 1L Wagstaff who was injured in an automobile accident Sunday before last came home fronj the hospital day before yesterday She is getting steadily better but will be confined to her home-far several Mr Daniels and Mr Saunders Enter into The Discussion of Summer Dress for Men Stage Is Erected in Kenan Stadium for the Presentation of Greek Play Next Wednesday A is Eurythmics Demonstration A demonstration of Dalcroze Eurythmics will be given at 7:15 next Friday evening July 19 in Memorial hall under the direction of Miss Nelly Reuschel People who saw last demonstration will remember how interesting it was This year Miss Reuschel has gifted students among the adults and she also has two splendid classes of children Some of the children have been working with her for three summers Civic Body Meets Next Friday The Orange County Civic Association will meet at the court house in Hillsboro at 3:30 next Friday July 19 The main object of the meeting Is to consider the county budget for the coming year Branson to Speak Branson will speak' at 7:15 Sunday evening at the Methodist church under the auspices of the Epwbrth League His topic win be: "Can the Rural Church Survive Everybody is invited In the Newt and Obterver of last Sunday appeared the following editorial: Experience is a dear school but youth insists upon learning in no other school Ones upon a time there lived in Raleigh an able Judge of the Superior Court Judge Spier Whitaker He thought a courthouse should be a place of dignity and that judges and litigants and jurors and spectators should show it at least the outward form of respect by catering its portals clad as for a serious function And so upon a sweltering summer day bidding court In the county of Johnston he ordered all persons in the court room to wear their coats Tims out of mind farmers and litigants when the weather was blistering had left their coats at hems and sometimes their collars Lawyers bad been known when the heat was excessive te "strip for action" Protest was made that the order ta wear eoata on a- sweltering day was contrary to a century-old precedent Moreover it was held to be "cruel and unusual punishment" forbidden by tbe Constitution It was urged also that the farmers who did not wear coats had as muds respect for the court as if they wore stocks and broadcloth Hie Judge wa eh- When the Kenan stadium was being built people used to talk of the site as a "natural And next Wednesday evening it will call to mind the amphitheatre of ancient Athens for it will be the scene of a presentation of the Agamemnon of Aeschylus This is one of the entertainments in the Summer School series Season ticket holders are admitted without extra charge A simple stage about 40 feet long and 5 feet deep approached by three steps and having a rear wall to serve as a sounding board has been erected on the greensward toward the east end of the north stand Spectators will look down from the concrete structure just as they look down at a football game The chorus of which Urban Holmes Is the leader will do its chanting on the grass in the foreground the stage itself be ing given over to the characters in the play Harold Kipg a British scholar who has been in the faculty of Wheaton College for the last two years is the director of the production and will have the role of Aegisthus lover of Clytem-nestra Preston Farrar will appear as Agamemnon Elizabeth Farrar as Clytemnestra Marr garet Fraser as Cassandra Howard Mumford Jones as a watchman and Alexander Byng as a herald George Lawrence arranged the music for the choruses The attendants on Clytemnestra are Margot' Krolik (leader) Anna Braune Elizabeth Chamberlain Constance King Eva Wiseman Emily Tomlin Katherine Batts Viola Jacobs Elsa Couch Margaret Holmes Charlotte Hodges Georgia Couch Anne Chamberlain Grace Duncan Madeline Thomp- (Continued lul pays) 'A: A U- a t- -1 W--'r -'t J4'' A- -vi 1 1.