TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday Volume 34, No. 3 Commissioners Get Pros and Cons of Recreation Debate ■ The Kev. Charles S. Hubbard, speaking at a public hearing be fore the Orange County Board of Commissioners at the Town Hall Thursday night, told the audience of about 150 interested persons that the Chapel Hill- Carrboro area was the only re maining community of any size in North Carolina which was? not includeda recreation district. Mr. Hubbard, who is chairman of the North Carolina Recreation | Commission, acted as spokesman' for a group of interested persons! in the community, including the! Junior Chamber of Commerce and another group which electeS him chairman of a steering com mittee to work for the passage of a $250,000 referendum and attendant taxes to finance a rec reation program in this area. •Mr. Hubbard, after telling of the lemarkable growth of recre ation'district?,'" in the state, said that “recreation is no longer a luxury,” but that such a program ha: now become an integral part of the well-rounded community. He said that, such a tax for recreational purposes would re lieve the Community Chest of its great burden of supporting the present program and that it would he sufficient for a begin ning for the program. Speaking against the referen dum were Mayor R. B. Todd of Carrboro and Grady Pritchard of Chapel Hill. Mr. Todd, “speaking as a citi zen of Carrboro,” said that he did not favor the tax at this time because the people of Carrboro have a supplementary school tax vote coming up and that he was afraid the addition of the recre ation tax might cause the school tax to be defeated. “It is my, belief . . . thaUwe would defeat both. I’m in favor of having our. area excluded from the district so that the supplementary school tax bill will pass," he said. In answer to Mr. Todd, Mrs. C. T. Kaylor of Cedar Grove' Road said that, though she didn't live in Carrboro, she did live in the school district and that she. believes the people of the area wanteil and would vote for both 'taxes. She received a round of applause. Mr. Pritchard said that he doubted that the recreation was the “biggest need” we had at this lime for the money that would be raised by the tax. Bringing pp the matter of inte gration, he asked if the program “will lead to another Clinton, Tenn." “1 would like to know," he said, “if there is any assur-' •ance that the whole thing won’t have to bo integrated before we even get it built.” In answer to the question, Mr. Hubbard said that the program contemplated swimming pools for both races, a recreation center for white people (the present center in the old Methodist Church will soon be torn down)| and or additional work on the ".Negro Community Center on Nottli Roberson Street. Among others who spoke brief ly for the proposed tux were l*r. I Kenipton Jones, chairman of the Jaycee recreation commit tee, Mrs Walter Spearman, chairman of the Community Cen ter Recreation Committee; George I. Coxheud; Gran Childress, for mer Jaycee Recreation Commit tee chairman; City Councilman Ken Prittram; Monk Jgnnings; and Police wioman Mrs. Lottie Vickers. , Mr. Hubbard and the follow ing people of the Carrboro com munity spoke in favor of includ ing Carrboro in the recreation district yesterday (Monday) at k th.so; unre served section, $6.60, and student section, sl. The price of individ ual tickets to a single concert will served Vsection of the orchestra and $2 rip-tKeo unreserved bal cony. Only season tickets are available for reserved seats at the three remaining concerts, all in Memorial Hall. The season .ickets may be obtained by mail by writing Chapel Hill Concert Series, (iraham Memorial, Box •10, Chapel Hill, N. C. Check or money order should accompany all mail orders. The next concert in the series, which opened in October with Eileen Farrell, will be a perform ance by the Chicago Opera Bal let at 8 p.m. Tuesday, January 22. The company of 46, includ ing soloists and the corps de ballet, will present the original [ballets, ‘The Merry Widow" and The Chapel Hill Weekly SB ft! • ft af' : - - J 9R s .- —Staff Photo by Bill Prouty New Catholic Church Completed Depicted here is the interior of the Chapel of St. Thomas More, the new Catholic church recently completed on Gimghoul Road just to the west of Gimg houl Castle. Its pastor, the Rev. John A. Weidmger, said y.estei- Local Cagers, Leading Conference, to Play Strong Northern High Here Tonight Chapel Hill High School main - tallied its place atop (he Eastern . ( lass AA District Three bas . ketball race by Itoudly trouncing . Oxford Orphandjev, 59-30, at Ox . ford last Friday Might for its . I sixth win of the yvar without i a defeat, in a preliminary game . the Wildkittens lost, fcy-44, to • the Orphanage girls ft, r their L fifth defeat of the year. > Chapel Hill, which is one-half • game ahead of Henderson and Northern in the standings, jumped j off to'a fast start and led, 26-10, iat the hulf, and coasted home as Dennis Lee pumped in 15 points, closely followed by Max Weaver, who had 12. William Albertson’s 1 i points led the scoring for the . Orphanage, which has won only . one of five conference games for the year. The Orphanage’s win over the Chapel Hill girls was its first ‘conference victofy since joining "Revenge,” adapted from "II Tro vatore.” The performance will be with complete scenery, cos tumes, and orchestra. The other two performances will be by the Obernkirchen Chil-j dren'a Choir on February 21 and Witold Malcuzynski, pianist, on March 28. A news bulletin issued by offi cers of the Chapel Hill Concert , .Series says: “The story of the! Obernkirchen Children's Choir is a fairy tale of modern times. The beautiful singing and fresh in-| nocence and charm of these thir ty girls and six boys are evoca tive of Grimm’s Fairy Tales and the Fantasies of Hans Christian Andersen.” | In describing the final concert, the bulletin says: "The great piano traditions of Chopin, Liszt, and Paderewski are continued unbroken in the gifted playing of the internationally acclaimed virtuoso, Witold Malcuzynski, and artists with few living peers to day. He was the moat celebrated proteg# of Paderewski.” - CHAPEL HILL, N. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1957 day the building would be '4>ut to use as soon as the -gfounds have been landscaped and ade quate parking space provided. It is expected that the dedication of the 300-seat structure will be held next month the loop two years ago. Martha Gardner leis the Oxford scoring with 1H points, while Susan Par go anil Mabel Par ton followed with Id points each. Leah Fitch, standout Chape! Hill toward, chipped in with lfi points, fol lowed by Ginger Kenney and Ann Proctor with five and four points, respectively. I Tonight (Tuesday) the iVtld-l cats will learn whether they rate top billing in the conference when; the unbeaten Knight's" of Durham Northern invade the Tin Can in a game that could have an im portant effect on the final out come of the conference race. Northern, which Friday night dc ieated previously unbeaten Fu ipiay, tit!-12, is a fine team, ablyi coached by Sidney Kay, and will be out to replace Chapel Hill at the top of the list. It should be a lively tussle. > , The lineups: (■ I lil.s t. \ >IK < . II (29) Ox. Orph. (11) !I' Fitch Id Gardner 18 F Proctor I Fargo 11 F Kenney 5 I‘arton Id G Whitehead Cap[is (. I.i (c< Taylor t. Morrow Holland Subs Chapel Hill Floyd 2, King 2, Oxford Orphanage llngbe: Graham, Williams, Bar gei. Score at half Oxford Orphan age 111, ( Impel Hill Hi. HOYS' (. \MK < II (550 Ox Orph. (30) F K Clark 5 Mullock l F Weaver 12 Evans (1 Neville 8 Albertson II t. Teague 7 Cope 1 Gen. Cerloe Romulo, Philippine delegate to the United Nations, were combined with the week long C*. oMn > Symposium orrPub lic Affairs. *i Originated at the University r during the 1914-15 school year, •.the lectures were later endowed ’ by the families of Sol and Hen ’,ry Weil of Goldsboro. William ’ Howard Taft delivered the first 1 lectures. Investment Group Reports a Good Year The Chapel Hill Investment Corporation held its 12th annual stockholders’ meeting last Thurs day evening at the home of Mr. and Mis. A. D. Clark, it was presided over by Hubert S. Rob , inson, president of the group. Other officers are Charlie Mad dox, business manager; Johnnie j< ouch, treasurer, and Mrs. Eliza ibeth Atwater, secretary. The meeting opened with the Lord'-, Prayer, after which Mr. Maddox gave his annual report on work done during the year. Mr. Robinson welcomed the stockholders’ wives, who had been invited to the meeting. . He then reported that the organization had experienced a profitable year and then presented to the stock holders the dividends that had recently been declared. The busi l ness meeting was followed by a -dinne-f-and social hour: — The C.H.LC. was organized in 1944 with 21 members. Since then five members have died and four have dropped out of the group, leaving twelve charter members who have come all the way. I Power Failure Is Quickly Remedied I The northeastern part of town experienced a short power failure Friday afternoon as a result of fulling tree limbs but Univer sity Utilities crewmen quickly converged on the scene to remedy the trouble. According to Grey Culbreth, utilities superintendent, tree sur geons were trimming some trees when some of the felled limbs knocked power lines together, thereby causing a short circuit. The lines’ circuit breaker then automatically opened to prevent further power failure. Crewmen arriving on the scene removed the tree limba and test ed the lines for damage before kicking the circuit breaker closed. Catholic Women’s Meeting The Catholic Women’s Guild will meet at 8 o’clock this even ing (Tuesday) in the Rectory on Gimghoul Road. Hostesses will be Mrs. H. D. Seaton, Mr*. Thom-