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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<? County Commissioners’ reg ular monthly meeting in Hills obro: Mrs. Kaylor, Mrs. Ralph Cheek, the Rev. Paul Kdwards, and the Rev. Henry B. Stokes. Mr. Ray read letters written in favor of the inclusion by Mrs. Dorothy Blyth and Mrs. Thomas Pendergrass of Carrboro. Threp letters opposing the inclusion of Carrboro in the district were Bridge (Tub Kntertained Mrs. Bradly Well entertained her bridge club at the home of Mrs. I). R. Craft at 50 Circle Drive last Wednesday evening. The guests were Mrs. 1,. M. Cheek, Mrs. John Sowter, Mrs. Ray IJtaker, Mrs. Mark Hanna, Mrs. H. C. Pearce, Mrs. Troy Sluder, and Mrs. Leon Andrews. Mrs. Sluder won high score and Mrs. Sowter received the conso lation gift. Special gifts -were brought for Mr*. Ray Litaker who ia moving soon to Green ville, 8. C. 1 5 Cents a Copy from the Carrboro Board of Com-, missioners, Carrboro School Com-i mittee, and the Carrboro Lions Club. The County Commissioners are to set a date for the proposed referendum, sufficient signatures, having already been secured to assure the vote. Coffee Drinkers to Help Folio Drive Chapel Hill cases will con tribute tomorrow’s (Wednes day’s) coffee receipts trf the March of- Dimes, it was an nounced yesterday by Jesse West, chairman of the local restaurant participation in the annual fund campaign. W vht said "so far as he knew every restaurant in < hap el Hill would be cooperating, meaning that all revenues tak en in for coffee sales would be directed to fighting infantile paralysis. Meanwhile, County Cam paign Chairman K. Carrington Smith said the drive is pro ceeding according to plans and that contributions are begin ning to come in. The response to the letters mailed out ten days ago is now showing up. Children Resuming Art Classes Today | The children's arts and crafts class sponsored by the Chapel Hill-Durham Branch of the Wom en’s International League for Peace and Freedom will resume its meetings, interrupted by the holidays, at 4 o’clock this after- Inoon (Tuesday) at the Oddfel lows Lodge on Merritt Mill Road, i The class is open to all children ifrom eight to ten years old, with jout regard to race, and is taught jby IVjrs. Sarah Seigman, an art educator. There is a fee of 25 .cents a week for each child at tending the class. Coates to Speak To Faculty Club “The Institute of Government i»n the New Building” will be the subject of Institute Director Al bert Coates’ speech at the Uni versity Faculty Club meeting today (Tuesday) at 1 p.m. at the Carolina Inn Season Tickets Available for the Last Three Performances in Concert Series TO BE HERE SOON —This is n scene from “The Merry Widow," one of two ballets to be given here by the Chicago Opera Ballet at 8 p.m. Tuesday, January 22, in Memorial Hall under the auspices of the Chanel Bill Concert Series. Season tickets for the remain ing three events in the Chapel Hill Concert Series are available at the activities office at the (iraham Memorial as follows: Re served seat section, s*>.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.<gi-<>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 <i Lee 15 Purgo 2 Subs. Chapel Hill Houston 3, Cheek 2, N. Clark, Mlackwell 7, Tilghman. Oxford Orphanage Megan 2, Provost, Burton 2, Noel, Mumford 2. Belgian Girl Named Queen of the Ball Miss Martine Musure, high school exchange student from Helgium, reigned as Queen of the New Year's Hall held by the iChapel Hill Y'-Teens at the Uni versity'a Monogram Club. She I was elected by vote of the mem bers of the Senior and Junior Y- Teens, sponsors of the annual j event. The theme of the ball was “The Twelve Months,” and a Queen dor each month was elected from I I he ranks of the Y-Teens. The tw’elve queens were Judy Fergu j son, Betsy Fitch, Barbara Butler, 1 I'ina Demeritt, Ann Branch, Bet j y Hayes, Lynda Ward, Margaret West, Shuron Sullivan, Clarissa Joyce, Sally Sloan, Jane Hedg peth, Vicki Greulach, and Susan Greulach. Gifts from the members of the Y-Teen organizations were pre sented to Elizabeth Green, presi dent of the Senior Y-Teens, and ' Tina Demeritt, president of the Juntor Y-Teehs. The New Year's Ball was held i inder the supervision of Mrs. i Dale Loftin, director of the Chap* i The church, built on land given by William D. Carmichael, is the ; first Catholic church in Chapel Hill and is made of Salisbury ’granite and Indiana limestone, tj The fust Mass was celebrated here in F.»22 by Father William J O’Brien of Durham. I.ater Chapel Hill became mission served by priests from Nazareth, near Raleigh. In 1934 the Uni versity acquired its first-.chap j lain for Catholic students, and in 1942 a building fund for a Catholic church was begun. v- r S . -.5 «; 4 4 alrmlar of | | EVENTS I • i-* 1 Tuesday, January ,3 • e 10:30 a.m., —C ommu ni t y Club’s Needlecraft Workshop meets with Mrs. S. N. Roy on Brookside Drive. • 1 p.m. Albert Coates speaks at Faculty Club meeting at Carolina Inn • 1 p.m., Faculty Club lunch- I eon at Carolina inn, with talk by Albert Coates. • 7 p.m . High school basket ball games (both boys’ teams and girls’ teams), Chapel Hill vs. Northern, in Chapel Hill High School Tin Can. • 3.30 p.m. Newcomers Club meets at Faculty Lounge of More head Planetarium. • 8 pin., Community Club’s International Relations De partment meets with Mrs. S K. Leavitt it 713 F. Frank lin. Wednesday, January 9 • 2:30 p.m., Community Club’s Block Printing Workshop meets with Mrs. R. ( Bose at 103 Jones St. • 8 p.m., Astronomy Club meets at Morehcud Planetarium. ‘ihursday, January 10 • 3 p.rn., Cominunty Club’s Lit erature Department meets with Mrs. Frank W llanft on Bowling Creek Road • 8 p.m., Ruth Tooze to speak ! on children’s books at open i meeting of P T A at Chapel , Hill Elementary School. * * • I At the Morehead Planetarium: “Celestial Preview 1957,” 8:30! p.m. seven days a week plus 11 ! a.m. and 3 p.m on Saturdays' and 3 p.rn. ami 4 p.m. on Sun days. * * • At the Carolina Theatre: Tues day, “Hollywood or Bust,” with Dean Martin, Jerry laiwis, Pat Crowley, Maxie Koseiihloom, and Anita Fkberg; Wednesday and Thursday, Walt Disney's "Fan tasia" At the Varsity Theatre: Tues day, “The Lawless Breed,” with Rock Hudson and Julie Adams; Wednesday, “Footsteps in the Fog,” with Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons; Thursday, “The King and Four Queens,” with Clark Gable and Eleanor Parker. Jordie C. Gill, 70, 1 Buried in Durham Funeral services for Jordie C. Gill, 70 of Durham were held Sunday afternoon. Surviving are one brother, S. T. Gill of Lynchburg, Va.; two sis ters, Mr*. Laura Goaa of Durham and Mrs. Emma Tripp of Carr CHAPEL HILL CHAFF ■ By Joe Jones George Latshaw of Akron, Ohio, who was a University student and member of the Carolina Playmakers about 15 years ago, was here re cently for a few days at the Carolina Inn. Now a profes sional puppeteer, he stopped over in Chapel Hill while on a southern tour with his show. During his stay here he drove to Moore County, to give a performance at Pinehurst’s Carolina Inn, where he had a large and responsive audience. . ! The young man makes his own puppets,; writes the shows himself, and is his own publicity age sit and bus iness manager. * Mr. Latshaw's mother was in Chapel Hill with him, and after dinner on Christmas Eve they sat in the corner drawing room of the Inn talking with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Prichard Eaton and other friends. When Mr Eaton asked Mr. Latshaw if he could give a sample of the kind of shows he puts on, he went to his car and brought back two or three puppets the type operated not with strings but with the hand inside the puppet. He pushed an armchair up in front of his little audience, concealed himself behind it, and gave* a delightful show, the pup pets appearing over the top of the chair-back proscen ium, with full sound effects and lots of action. Two women playing scrabble at a table in a corner of the; room stopped to watch, and ! the audience was soon joined (Continued on Rage 2) Bry»nt» Held in Europe by Delays in Plane Service Mr. and Mrs. Victor S. Bryant, who were to board a plane in Lisbon Sunday morning and ar rive in New York that night, are still mi Europe. A cablegram to the family in Durham Sunday afternoon told why: Delays in plane service. Cokers Off to Puerto Rico Mr and Mrs. Robert E. Coker are leaving this morning for Puerto Rico and will lie there till May Expert on Children s Books to Speak ■ i***dpbßhl ' ■ •slat, Paolo by Util Prouty BOOKS AND AUTHOR Everybody interested in chil dren's books is invited to hear Mrs. Ruth Tooxe speak on that subject at 8 p.m. Thursday at un open meeting of the Chapel Hill Elementary School P. T. A. in the auditorium of the school. Probably the nation’s leading authority on children's literature, Mrs. Tooze is speaking here at the special invitation of the board of the school’s Mary Bay ley Pratt Children’s Library in celebration of Book Week. An author herself, she is shown above autographing a copy of her most recent book, “America,” ( last week at the Mary Bayley Pratt Library. Published by Prentice-Hall, "America” is a beautifully illus trated prose poem about the i things one sees as he travels about in this great land of ours. Written in a simple flowing style and pHnted in large type,' it has great appeal both for! t 4 a Year In County: other rates oh pace 2 Expansion of Inn Made Possible by Purchase of Land The University has bought the property of the Delta Psi fra- , ternity, better known as St. An- i thony Hall, comprising the fra- ( ternity home at the Cameron Avenue-Pittsboro Street corner, . adjoining the .Carolina Inn prop erty, and the St. Anthony Hail Annex, the former M. C. S. Noble home on Pittsboro Street. Kiwanis President ■; * tipi ■ 19GB ■PS® ' M ART BENNETT Art Bennett will be installed as president of the Chapel Hill Kiwanis Club for 1957 at the weekly meeting of the club to night (Tuesday) at the Carolina Inn, beginning at 6:45 o’clock, j Other new officers are Clyde Hornaday, vice-president; Ray Knight, secretary; Doug Fam i brough, treasurer, and Roy Arm . strong, Joe Hakan, W. E. Thomp son, Rill J. M. Saun ders, and Orville Campbell, re- ! ' tiring president, member* of the board of directors. ,1 , _ At Memorial HoepAal l ocal people listed as patients, at Memorial Hospital yesterday were Pink Bason, William M. | Black, Mrs. Charles A. Bowden, jMiss Nancy Carolyn Caudle, Do ran J. Dark, Mrs. Birdie Davis, Thomas Earl Davis, Mrs. David Dixon, Mrs. Clyde Farrell, Lon nie C, Hackney, Katherine John son, Denise Goodrich Lawler, Mrs. Gordon Lewis, Erwin Thurston Lloyd, Mrs Herbert I.lyod, Wade 11 Meacbam, Mrs. William E. Moore, John S. Oldham, Ollie Pettifoni, Mrs. Sarah Roberson, Tommie K. Robertson, Miss Alice Stevens, Mrs. Robert J. Sturdi vant, Mrs. William H. Thorne, Dr. Louis G. Welt, Rex S. Win slow, and Harry D. Wolfe. • lerested in their country. Mrs. ' Tooze is eminently equipped to • produce such a book, since she is not only a good writer and an i expert on children’s reading hab its, but she annually travels to • every* stute in the union with her cur loaded with a thousand , children’s books for display in . schools and libraries. She doesn’t sell the books; her aim is to get people interested in them. This project, which was her original idea, is known as "The Children's Book Caravan." It is supported by the publishers of the book. j Wherever she goes, Mrs. Tooze wins the hearts of children by her story telling, an art in which she standa supreme. She has been a frequent visitor to Chapel Hill in years past and will be heard Thursday by many of her old { fri*nd* and admirers. All others •re Invited to attend the meeting! j and become acquainted with thlsj TUESDAY ISSUE Next brae Friday - ■ ■ ■ With this purchase the Uni versity becomes the owner of ail the land westward frjgp the Car olina Inn to PittaboroJStreet and so has adequate space for the expansion of the Inn, not an im mediate project but regarded as a certain future development. The University and the frater nity have been conferring about j this transaction for several years. The fraternity planned to build a new home on the corner where its present one is. If this had 1 been done, it would have made impossible the acquisition off the * property by' the University for jso many ,jrj*rs that for people now living it might just as well be called forever. The frater nity has now bought from H. A. Whitfield, as a site for its nevC home, the Whitfield home place and an adjoining lot on Pittsboro Street a little way south of Cam eron Avenue. Weil Lectures Will He Given by Catlin Political philosopher George Catlin will deliver the 1957 Weil , Lectures on American Citizenship I at the University on April 4, 5 land 6. Currently a professor of politi cal science at McGill University 1 in Montreal, Canada, Mr. Catliin l has lectured widely as “one of i the world’s leading authorities ofl • international affairs." i Alexander Heard, chairman of the UNC Committee on Estab , ilshed Lectures, announced plans r for the Weil Lecture#, which hove . been delivered in reent years by . such diatinguishd world citizens .a* Robert A. Taft, Zechariah .’Chafe# Jr. end Galo Plaza. The 1956 lectures, given by > 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-