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DURHAM MORNING HERALD DURHAM SUNDAY MAY 13 1956 i SEC PAGE TO Scattered Throughout State Actor Has Heart AttacMn Japan Louis Calhern Movie And Drama Star Dies Children's Home Top Nurse Is Foster Mother To 1200 Historic College Building Aj Wilson To Be Torn Down Razing Will Give Atlantic Christian More Campus Room nursery since 1944 Mrs Lowe has seen hundreds of infants turned over to hei for care medical treatment and most of all she says love "These aren't just babies you understand" she says "these are 'homeless' babies They need love and affection GREENSBORO May 12 (-Moth- of two grandmother of three and god-mother in heart to some 1200 children scattered throughout North Carolina: She is Mrs Sarah Lowe head nurse of the Children's Home Society of North Carolina here In charge of the Cypress Street Completes Training A2C Norman Whitaker son of Mrs Hazel Whitaker of 202 Eller bee St and the late Grover Whi-taker Sr of Durham has just completed training as a survival instructor with the 3635th Combat Crew Training Squadron Stead Air Force Base Reno Nev He is a 1954 graduate of Bragtown High School NARA Japan May 12 Louis Calhern distinguished star of1 Broadway aid Hollywood died of a heart attack today while on location for his 69th film of the August Moon" He was 61 The veteran actor had appeared to be in good health except for a slight cold Cai-hern was resting in his hqjel room when he suffered the aLtack A studio doctor dropping by for a routine check on the cold found the actor -unconscious Calhern died a few minutes later at 6:30 pm He was to have which also stars Marlon Brando and Glenn Ford Bad weather had delayed his appearance before the cameras An MGM studio spokesman said he -probably would have started working Monday or Tuesday The latest picture recently completed of the 6 foot 2 Brooklyn-born actor was with Grace Kelly Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra On the stage Calhern is best remembered for With and as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Magnificent Yankee" For the latter role he had the distinction of being the only actor in Broadway history to win every award by critics and groups in one season One was the Donaldson award for the best performance of 1946 Calhern came to MGM after World War II for one part and had stayed under contract to the studio ever since Marilyn Monroe got her first movie break playing the blonde girl friend to his shyster lawyer in "The Asphalt Among his Aims were "Executive "Julius Get Your and the screen version of Magnificent Nurse Arrested Here On Whisky Charge Alice Smith 23-year-old Negro nurse at Memorial Hospital Chapel Hill was arrested by Durham ABC Police yesterday morning and charged with illegal possession of one gallon and seven pints of corn whisky According to the raiding party the hootch was in four one-half gallon fruit jars which were hidden in each end of a sofa in the woman's home at 1106 Lynchburg St WILSON May 12 A building that has served as the main classroom center for students during the entire 54-year history of Atlantic Christian- College will begin to be torn down starting Tuesday Kinsey Hall actually five years older than Atlantic Christian itself will be demolished to provide additional campus space A new classroom building to seat a maxiumum of 850 students will replace Kinsey as the main classroom structure on the campus The new building already underway will be completed on Aug 19 Kinsey Hail was constructed in the summer of lBffr to house Kinsey Seminary which was headed by Dr Joseph Kinsey and operated by the Wilson Education Assn Dr Kinsey sold the building to the board of trustees of the newly created AtlantidT Christian College in the fail of 1901 The building was sold to the trustees for a total of $9000 even though its value at the time was estimated near $25-000' Tropical disease long delayed the white settlement of Africa Publishes Book CHAPEL HILL May Europe in World Focus" a book by Prof Pegg of die History Department of the University of North Carolina has been released by Henry Holt and Co The 690-page volume deals with the main current of European life from the first World War to the present Mother To Many While little Melanie waits at the Children's Home nursery in Greensboro for a real mother to adopt her Mother's Day will not be completely amiss Mrs Sarah Lowe head nurse at the home is foster mother to the child just as she has been to some 1200 infants she has cared for since 1944 (AP Wirephoto) and during their short stay with us we try to see that they receive it" The infants usually arrive at the nursery shortly after birth Som come from broken tomes some are orphaned some are born out of wedlock To Mrs Lowe it makes no difference "For one thing I don't know anything about their backgrounds and I'm not sure but that it's the best way To me each is simply a baby who needs a home While the child is in our care here we try to provide a she says "Most of the babies are well regulated by the time they go into homes at about two and a half months of age A number of mothers have told me they are mighty good babies probably because they do receive such good care "When the new parents come to take their child home we have a list of instructions formula and that sort of thing It has to be all written down because they're so excited about the baby that they'd forget any instructions" she explains Mrs Lowe admits to mixed feelings when the children leave her care even though I know I'll miss the baby for awhile I have the satisfaction of knowing someone has given a home to a child who wants a The nursery has quarters for about 20 babies Lately the demand has far outweighed the supply "Melanie will be leaving us and Mrs Lowe points to a healthy chubby butterball of a girl "We try to give them unusual names while they are with us so when someone speaks of Melanie or Carlos or Sherry then we know exactly which baby they are talking Mrs Lowe notes "Sometimes they come back to see me when they are older The twins came back not too long ago one set that is And the mothers and fathers always want to ace the crib in which their child slept while 'with us How does it feel to have been even if for only a few months with each baby a foster-mother to about 1200 infants who have been placed in homes throughout North Carolina? "You describe such a feellig she says and is quick to point out that she is but one cog in the machine which gives each child a home "Sometimes we place a child right around Mother's Day Usually it is just a coincidence but it seems such a wonderful time of the year to have a housewife become a mother Mrs Lowe says And what does foster-mother Lowe do after a day in the nursery? She usually baby-sits with her three small grandchildren Attend Wis Meet i CHAPEL HILL May 12-Three UNC Extension Division officials are participating in the 41st annual meeting of the National University Extension Assn beginning tomorrow at the University of Wisconsin Madison Wis Russell Grumman director of the division: Rankin who is in charge of high school activities: and Dwight Rhyne are the UNC representatives taking part in the event which is also the 50th anniversary of the University of I Wisconsin Extension Division Dial 22-123 For Newspaper Service Graduate School Program Studied By WFC Faculty Re-Establishment' Effort Is Guided By 6-Man Council WAKE FOREST May 12-Wake Forest College faculty members have approved a policy report which may lead to reestablishment of the college's graduate program They also have elected a six-man Graduate Council which will guide the college's efforts to meet a series of requirements the report said are necessary before Wake Forest begins offering the master's degree again The report part of an extensive faculty self-study program begun two years ago at the suggestion of President Harold Tribble puts an annual price tag of $179485 for initial re-establishment of gifcd-uate work and says that strength ening the College's undergraduate schools and library is a necessary first step The overall self-study already has resulted in a revised curriculum aimed at strengthening the college's liberal arts program and its admissions requirements The Wake Forest faculty suspended master's degree work in May 1950 Post-war enrollment had jammed classrooms considerably increasing the number of students under each teacher and lowering the amount of money spent on each student However Wake Forest was still meeting minimum requirements of standardizing agencies when the decision was made The report stipulates that the Graduate Council be autonomous The first council has just been elected Members are Dr Elton Cocke Dr Emmett Hamrick Dr 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