The Herald-Sun from Durham, North Carolina • 9

I Section Eight Pages Monday April 25 1955 Local State Sports Classified And Radio-TV Problems Of Aging Council Formed At Wind Storm Leaves Minor Damages Here Help Duke Establish South's First Council On Aging Study Duke Busse Heads Steering Unit For Agency Duke University has Just established the first University-wide Council on Gerontology in the South to help meet the Increasing problems of our aging population President Hollis Edens announced here last night Comprising authorities from IS departments within the University the Council will conduct seminars guest lectures 'conferences and institutes as well as research aimed at helping older people to lead useful and eco-nomically-independent lives and to maintain better health" persons deserve the attention of our society and we believe it will be to the future benefit of society for us to devote time and effort to finding new ways and techniques of preparing people for old age" Dr Ewald Busse chairman of Duke's Psychiatry Department and chairman of the Council declared average life expectancy in the United States is 67 years for men and 70 years for women with every indication that the average will go even higher" he added view of rapid basic changes of the status health and welfare of our aged citizens institutions particularly equipped to understand and influence such social changes must take energetic steps to meet the situation" Dr Edens said University recognizes this responsibility and is setting up the Council on Gerontology to make its contribution toward broad study and research In these problems" he added The Council will initiate Its program with a public lecture at the University on May 19 by Dr Wilma Donahue of the University of Mirhigan The work will be carried out primarily by a three-man steering committee and by special panels of members Members of the steering committee are Dr Busse Dr Howard Jensen chairman of the Sociology Department and Dr Eliot Rodnick chairman of the Psychology Department Miss Frances Jeffers research associate in psychiatry will serve as executive-secretary of the Council Other Council members Include Dr William Cartwright professor and chairman of education Dr Wiley Forbus professor and chairman of pathology Julia Grout professor of physical education: Robert Kramer professor of law Dr Joseph Markee James Duke professor and chairman of anatomy Dr Charles Kunkle associate professor of medicine Dr Barnes Wood-hall professor of neurosurgery Dr Frank dcVyver professor of economics Dr Russell Dicks associate professor of pastoral care Dr Bayard Carter professor and chairman of obstetrics and gynecology Dr Philip Handler professor and chairman of biochemistry and A Brower business manager and comptroller of the University Duke University President Hollis Edens (standing) has just announced the establishment of a 15-man University-wide Council on Gerontology first of its scope in the South to find ways of helping our aging population to lead "satisfying useful and economically-indcpendcnt lives" Guided by the throe-man steering committee above the Council will conduct seminars lectures institutes and research aimed at meeting the pressing problems of older persons The steering committee left to right comprises Dr Eliot Rodnick professor and chairman of psychology Dr Ewald Busse professor and chairman of psychiatry and chairman of the Council: and Dr Howard Jensen professor and chairman of sociology Principals At Bennett Place Memorial Rites Key figures at the annual Bennett Flace Memorial rites held here yesterday to commemorate the end of the War Between the Stairs are pictured above In the top picture left to right are 0 Kverelt chairman of the Bennett Place Memorial Commission and last living member of the original group Crittenden of Raleigh state historian and principal speaker State Rep Powe and the Rev Dennis Iiuckaday Bottom picture left to right shows: Andrews George Yancey Kerr Mrs McClces Lt Col Henry Kendall Harvey Anderson and Mrs A Rochelle Andrews Kerr Kendall and Anderson received UDC service awards at the exercises presented by Mrs McClees Mrs Rochelle first vice president of the local UDC chapter presided The Bennett Place Memorial Park now has been taken over by the State and UDC officials expressed the hope yesterday that the Bennett cabin in which the final Civil War surrender took place may soon be restored (Staff Photos) Duke's Hallowell Schuster Receive Guggenheim Grants Kermit Hunter To Talk At Allied Arts Session Kermit Houston Hunter Chapel Hill writer for creative writing Dr Joseph Logan Irvin associate professor of biochemistry University of North Carolina School of Medicine for studies of the biosynthesis and the heterogeneity of the dcsoxypen-tose nucleoproteins of varioua normal tissues and of certain tumors Colorado and his wife in memory of their son who died as a young man in 1922 Others from North Carolina who received grants were: Dr George Simpson Jr assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina for analytic and interpretive studies of the modern South and its recent changes 3 Quail Roost Farms Milk Cows Finish Records PETERBOROUGH NH April Three registered Guernsey cows owned by 'George Watts Hill Rougemont NC have completed official Advanced Registry records that were supervised by North Carolina State College I and reported to the American Guernsey Cattle Club for approval and publication On three times daily milking for 365 days Quail Roost Kale a senior two-year-old produced 12825 pounds of milk and 602 pounds of fat This production represents approximately 6047 quarts of high-quality milk Quail Roost Proud Royann produced 12884 pounds of milk and 632 pounds of fat milked three times daily for 305 days as a junior two-year-old and met calving requirements This production represents approximately 6047 quarts of high-quality milk On three times daily milking for 305 days Quail Roost Ray Melrose produced 11730 pounds of milk and 699 pounds of fat and met calving requirements She started her record as a senior two-year-old This production represents approximately 5581 quarts of high-quality milk Rain Hail Gusts Strike In Unison Some Glass Broken A storm packing high winds rain and hail struck Durham yesterday leaving scaattered minor damage Wind gusts up to 43 miles per hour were recorded during the blow which started about 3 pm and ran into the night Rainfall measured J8 of an inch most of which fell during an eight-minute period starting at 9:07 pm The mercury dropped from 87 degrees to 60 during the storm Hail stones ranging in size from a small marble to two inches in diameter accompanied the heavy wind-blown downpour However there were no immediate reports of hail damage Two sections of plate glass were blown out at Thomas Book Store yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock The falling glass caused an estimated 8230 damage to a collection of imported china which was in the display window It was the third time starting with Hurricane Hazel last October that winds have shattered glasses at the establishment There were a few reports of toppled trees and television antennas but no reports of heavy property damage or personal injuries The storm cut short the annual ceremonies at the Bennett Place commemorating the end of the War Between the Stales The program began at 3 pm and the preliminaries were completed before the big blow came The storm hit as Dr Christoper Crittenden the featured speaker was beginning his address The audience literally Iran off and Dr Crittenden had no one to address Things will be better today according to the US Weather Bureau at Ralcigh-Durham Airport The forecast is for sunny and cooler weather Hillside School's College-Career Day Sel For Tomorrow The annual College-Career Day of Hillside High School under the sponsorship of the Guidance Committee and the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity will be held at the school tomorrow from 8:30 am until 3:15 pm Its purpose is to aid prospective graduates and pros-jpective seniors In their selection of a college or a vocation This program which has the theme and Tomorrow" will begin with an assembly for juniors and seniors where the feature address will be made by Dr Ray Thompson counselor trainer of North Carolina Other speakers will be Keck of Shaw University in Raleigh and Mrs Ellen Alston executive secretary of the Women's Baptist Convention of North Carolina Special conference periods will be held during the morning and afternoon where the following will counsel in their respective fields: Dillard Teer engineering and construction Dr A Stroble of Duke University science and research Mrs Louise McCrae of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company Dr Lincoln Harrison of North Carolina College and Hill of the Durham Business School commerce Daye Reed printing Stanback and Dr Charles Ray press and photography Theodore Speight Nathaniel Walker and James Pridgen small business operation and ownership Mrs De-Shazor grooming and personality and Hill music and fine arts Other counselors will Include Mrs' Edythe King director of the teenage program of the YWCA Miss Helen Kaiser of Duke Hospital Miss Sallie Norcott of Lincoln Hospital Dr Mills and Nelson Harris The day will end with an evaluation period and an all school assembly where a playlet "The Door of Success" will bo presented The program is under the direction of Mrs McLester chairman of the Guidance Committee and Alston dean of boys at Hillside College Band Appears Here lonight The 55-piece College Band of Greensboro will present a concert at Lyon Park School at 8 tonight The program will include "The Storm King March" by Finlayson by Bach "Rienzi" by Wagner Motion" by Bohn "Collosus of Columbia Alexander Caballero March" by Oliva-doti Believe" from Boat" by Kern by Morrissey and Guard March" by Goldman The concert will be one of a series being given throughout the state by the symphony Carlson Jr is conductor Penn assistant conductor and 1L Johnson instructor Kermit Hunter professor of English at the University of North Carolina and prominent author of outdoor dramas will address the membership of Allied Arts of Durham here Tuesday night Hunter best -known in North Carolina for his "Unto These Hills'' and "Horn in the will appear at 8 pm tomorrow at the Washington Duke Hotel The -occasion will be a reception which will be the first spring function of Allied Arts during the current fiscal year Newly elected officers of the Allied Arts also will be introduced at the reception and all members and friends are invited to attend Allied Arts has just completed its first year of operation and currently is conducting its annual membership campaign Tomorrow night's speaker has authored four outdoor dramas In addition to These Hills" given annually since 1950 at Cherokee and in the West" produced annually since 1952 at Boone Hunter also has written This Two Duke University professors have been awarded John Simon Guggenheim Memorial fellowships for the current year to carry on studies in their respective fields according to announcement yesterday by the Guggenheim Foundation Dr John Hallowell professor of political science and Dr Rudolf Mathias Schuster assistant professor of botany are the Duke recipients Dr Hallowell who recently was appointed as a Fulbright Professor for 1955-56 at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich to lecture on American government under auspices of the Amcrica-Instiute will utilize his Guggenheim award to work on a study of the political and social philosophy of the German Christian Democratic Union Dr Schuster will continue studies in the ecology and taxonomy of the hepaticae of Eastern North America He is the author of numerous professional journal articles on this and other botanical subjects Guggenheim fellowships are awarded annually to 248 American scholars and rtists through a foundation established in 1925 by the late US Senator from UDC Speaking Contest Is Set For tomorrow East Durham Junior High School students will compete at 8 tomorrow night in a reading and declamation contest sponsored by the Julian Carr chapter of the United Daughters of the Confed- eracy The UDC chapter Is sponsoring similar contests at Powe and Carr Junior High Schools The dates have not been announced Winners of the contests will receive prizes according to Mrs Samuel Harness chairman of the committee in charge KERMIT HUNTER Land" a drama on the life of Abraham Lincoln produced in 1951 and 1952 at New Salem IU and Bell and the Plow" drama of the early Southwest produced for the first time last year in Tucson Aril DR HALLOWELL Year's Research Disclosed No Water In Camel's Hump Duke Man Says DR RUDOLF SCHUSTER and stored it In one of his multiple stohachs Wrong again The camel's unique ability turns out to be the result of half a dozen extraordinary gifts not shared by any other animal Dr Knut Schmldl-Niclson of Duke University directed a study to determine how the ships of the desert survived The work was done at Beni Abbes 500 miles within the Algerian Sahara There the temperature often reaches 140 degrees TUCSON Ariz April 24 (J'-The mystery of how camels work for a week in blazing desert heat without drinking has been solved Ancient lore said the camel's hump was filled with water Wrong The hump is solid fat Modern lore said the camel drank great quantities of water Today's Morning Herald NC Guide Item Written By Dr Hall re Dr Louise Hall associate professor of architecture at Duke University is the author of tho chapter on North Carolina architecture in the new Carolina Guide" just published Dr Hall who is a member of the American Institute of Architects covers the history of North Carolina architecture from the fort" on Roanoke Island to numerous modern buildings and homes throughout the State The Duke scholar pays tribute to the accomplishments of the North Carolina State Department of public instruction's leadership In school architecture longer" she writes tho biennial report to deprecate as was the case half a century ago any white and 195 colored log houses and many old frame houses unfit for Today dozens of light airy economical and efficient school buildings might be cited She was the author of the section on architecture in the 1939 edition of the State Guide Mss me ssfflw hem Muse lar aches or the pain of Headache or Naurafcia you want relief and you want 8 tastThafs Bayer Aspirin! A tablet starts dninttpatlng almost the instant you taka it-so is ready April 25 1955 Dr Schmidt-Nielscn reported his findings today to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization's Committee on Arid Zone Research Tho group completed a two-day meeting here today Camels don't store water Instead they conserve every drop in body tissues as if life depended on it lt does Excretions are virtually dry Most animals gulp lots of water in hot weather to keep body temperatures close to normal They keep cool by evaporating water from their skin in sweating or from their tongues In panting Camels avoid both They never pant Their skin feels dry in even the hottest Sahara weather The camel's thick hair is a pro-tcctice device Arctic animals use fur to keep them warm Camels use it to keep cool Humans have learned the same lesson Desert people wear shorts in summer They protect themselves with relatively heavy clothing Camels don't drink large amounts of water until after being thoroughly dried out Then they may down more than 16 gallons at a sitting to bring water content: back to normal One camel went 17 days in summer niltfiout drinking Monday Sec 1 Page 2 Women's Sec 1 Pages 5 Sec 2 Page 7 Sec 2 Page 8 LOCAL One killed 14 hurt in four weekend wrecks Sec 1 Page 1 Duke University establishes first universitywide council for aging in Sec 2 Page 1 High winds hail and thunderstorms leave scattered damage Sec 2 Page 1 Two Duke faculty members awarded Guggenheim Sec 2 Page 1 Duke University professor discovers secret of camel's ability to go without Sec 2 Page 1 STATE RALEIGH Money bills expected to be ready this Sec 1 Page 1 GREENVILLE Worthington blasts finance Sec 1 Page 8 Thunderstorms and high winds leave damage in Sec 1 Page 8 HAVELOCK Croalan for est fire brought temporarily under Sec 1 Page 1 nAMFfiTTf WASHINGTON Huge profit reported seen in power pact Con piiM 9 WASHINGTON British tax Cnsh sparks fight against aid Sec 1 Page 1 FOREIGN BANDUNG Chou says Communists will retain right to See 1 Page 1 SPORTS Bulls score five runs in seventh to clip Fayetteville Sec 2 Page 2 BROOKLYN Brooklyn gets six runs in 10th to edge Dodgers 2 Page 3 NEW YORK Red Sox blank Yanks on two-hitter 1-0 Harper wins Virginia Beach Open by 4 Sec 2 Page 2 CARROLLTON Ga Betsy Rawls' 218 captures top honors in Sec 2 Page 2 PINEIIURST North and South qualifying starts Sec 2 Page 4 Farm Youth At Last Year's Festival Pictured above are three scenes from the Jaycee Derby staged at Durham Athletic Park last year as a part of the Farm Youth Festival The scenes Including the frog race (top) the sack race (left) and the greased pig race (right) will be repeated here this week The Durham Farm Youth Festival for 1955 will be held Thursday and Friday with the Breeding Cattle and Fat Stock shows coming on Thursday along with the civic clubs team judging Fat Stock sale Jaycee Derby and a square dance The festival which annually attracts thousands qf farm youth is tri-sponsor ed by the Durham Kiwanis Club theDur- hamjgcrcbants Assn and the local Jaycces.