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f If yea criticize the wealthy i these days, yen may be accused | I of being anti-labor. v Vol. 39, No. 68 V \. $ M 1;; i MRS. WALTERS Mrs. Walters Is Appointed Mrs. Adelaide Walters of Chap el Hill was appointed by Gover nor Terry Sanford Saturday as a member of the Study Commission on Impact of State Sovereignty on Local Governments. Mrs. Walters is a member of Chapel Hiil Board of Aider men, no w serving her second term In her bid for re-election last spring, she led the ticket for the Town Board. She is also a former state presi dent of the N.C. League of Wo- Voters, former co-chairman R»f the Chapel Hill Community Chest, currently a member of the Chest's Planning Committee, and a member of the Chapel Hill Bird Club. Mrs. Walters is the wife of Harold Walters, a retired sales man They have lived in Chapel Hill since 1939 She is an admin istrative assistant in the Univer sity’s Department of Statistics. Ckapel Hill CHAFF * A —— By Joe Jones ■■■■■—■ It’s time somebody thanked the University for its special efforts to preserve and improve the na tural beauty of its campus. The endeavor has been under way beveral years. You don’t even Ahave to leave Franklin Street to it. Just stand in front of the Post Office and look at the near end of Battle dorm. This spot, where the University •presents its face directly to the public gaze, used to be so bleak and barren it had no character at ali. The wise use of shrubs and vines has given it warmth and charm. Similar changes, gradual but certain, have been taking place all over the campus. The area around the Old Well is an ex ample. Not long ago an ugly, un interesting sweep of bare gravel, it is now a rich bower of azaleas, camellias, ilex, and other orna mental shrubs, and, in season, tulips and daffodils. An important part of the beau tification process has been the laying of brick walks. Curving a- among the great oaks, they add much to the personality of the campus lawns. The most attractive such walk the one the University recent ly completed along its entire Franklin Street frontage from the Methodist Church to Battle Lane. Wide and dreamy under the arch ing elms and beside the old rock wall, it beckons an invitation hard to resist. In tune with this spirit of lov ing care for the natural beauty of the campus was the Solomones que decision made recently when the fate of the Davie Poplar hung in the balance. Instead of having the tree filled because it was dangerous, as some advocated, or letting it remain as a threat to all who passed under it. Chan cellor Aycock gave an order for most of its top-heavy burden to be cut away. This removed the danger and spared the historic tree, which is apparently as vig orous as ever A similar incident occurred when ground was cleared for the big parking area between the Bell Tower and Memorial Hospital. A magnificent pine that stood in the hollow near the stadium seemed doomed because grading for the area's entrance would bury sev eral feet of its trunk. This meant the bark would rot and the tree would die. The University went to con siderable trouble in its efforts to save this towering old pine. A sort of dry-land brick caisson a bout five feet in diameter and al most ten feet deep was built around the bake of its trunk to shield it from the soil. Despite the fact that rainwater collect (Continued on Page a) 5 Cents a Copy Transfer Is Asked By Four Board To Meet On Wednesday Four of the 42 Negro first grad ers assigned to white or predomi nantly white schools next year had requested reassignment to Northside by Saturday, accord ing to School Superintendent Josejph Johnston. Os the 14 white first graders assigned to all-Negro Northside under the new ' School Board policy of geographic assignment, nine have requested reassignment to a white or predominantly white school. The original assignments of first graders were mailed out by the School Board July 13 and 14. Parents then had 10 days in which to request reassignment. The deadline for requesting reassign ment of children assigned the first day is today. The final deadline is tomorrow. The School Board will meet Wednesday night to consider the reassignment requests. In addi tion, a group of Glenwood pa rents who oppose the gerrymand ered Glenwood district is expect ed to present petitions support ing its stand Dr. Johnston said one of the four Negroes was assigned to Glenwood and three were assign ed to Carrboro. Other reassignment requests were received from parents of 20 white children who sought trans fer because other members of their family will attend another school. In addition, parents of one Junior High student and one Estes Hills first grader requested transfer of their children to “any school iux attended by a child «i another race.”. Under the geographic assign ment plan, 24 Negro first graders were assigned to Glenwood, eight to Estes Hills 'plus three second graders who attended the first grade there last yean, 10 tu Carrboro, and 14 white children to Northside. School Board Wasn’t There New School Board member Dr. Fred Ellis said Friday the citi zens group opposing the Glen wood School District lines drawn by the board did not meet in formally with “several members of the board” last week, as Thursday's Weekly reported. Alter the meeting, a member of the group reported that it had met with 'several ’ of the School Board members. But Dr. Ellis said “that definitely is in correct The board members have gone on record as opposing this sort of thing. “The available board mem bers who were contacted indivi dually felt the meeting (of the group and the board members) should not take place and op posed it as a policy. “i went as an individual, not as a board member. I went because 1 am a resident of the communi ty and have a child in Glenwood School, and not as a representa tive of the School Board.” Ed Bilpuch Gets Position At Duke Dr. Edward G. Bilpuch has been appointed assistant director cf the Nuclear Structure Labora tory at Duke University which within recent years has done over 12,000,000 worth of research under Atomic Energy Commission con tract. Visiting assistant professor of physics at Duke during the past school year and the first Univer sity of North Carolina student to be awarded a John Motley More head Scholarship. Dr. Bilpuch succeeds Dr. Harold Lewis of the Duke Physics Department. Dr. Lewis currently is in Beirut, Leb anon, leaching and doing research at the American University of Beirut. During the last two years, Dr. Bilpuch has been coordinator of a general physics course for sci ence, pre-medical and pre-dental students. A native of Connellsville, Pa., Dr. Bilpuch earned his 8.5.. M S. and Ph.D. degrees at UNC. He joined the Duke faculty in 1066. Hie Chapel Hill Weekly - . ■ . . . RE AT THE HEAT—Boy Scouts beat thereat and made money at the same time Saturday. The boys in Troop 39 kept cool by washing cars behind the Univer Raleigh Road Four-Laning Delayed 30 Pet. By Rains Foul weather has held up four laning of Raleigh Road at least 30 per cent. "It’s hurt us real bad,” said, J H. Critcher, Superintendent tot Nello Teer Construction Co. of Durham, contractor for the job. There is no deadline for com pletion of the four lanes from the Institute of Government east ward to the Durham County line. But Mr. Critcher estimated that the major part of the work would Ik- finished by mid-September. “That will be the paving and curb and guttering. We ll have a little Filter Beds Being Recommended Here Filter beds are now being recommended frequently instead of septic tanks in Chapel Hiil areas with the most acute sew age problems. Many areas around Chapel Hill, particularly to the north, have been plagued with unwork able septic tanks because of the nature of the soil. Tlic filter beds will work in those areas, although they may not be completely satis factory, according to District Health Director Dr. O. David Garvin. Dr. Garvin said the Health Department has changed its poli ty on filter beds since their use was recommended recently by a Slate consulting engineer. Pre viously the department had dis couraged their use, he said. The new policy. Dr. Garvin said, is individual consideration of each case, “if we feel a stand ard septic tank will work, we recommend it. Bui if we don’t be lieve it will lie sufficient, we sug gest a filter bed as the only alternative." Filter beds actually have been used in Chapel Hill for some time, although the Health De partment has discouraged them. "Jn the past we always wanted the filter bed drain to go into a stream But now we have to in stall some with drains into ditch es. It is an effort to try to get something to work. Still they ‘The Trouble With This Business 15. .. ’ By J. A. C. DUNN Everett Smith has a lumber jack build and a head of carrot red hair and a young wife and a fourteen month-old son (also car rot-headed > and a brand new bus iness: Imported Cars Ltd., which he operates out of the old Carr lioro Fire Department garage on Lloyd Street. Day after day Por sches and Triumphs and Jaguars and Hillmans and Sunbeams and Sprites and MG’s and Morris Min ors and now and then a Mercedes roar and whine in and out of his shop, needing work. Everett Smith sometimes works 18 hours a day keeping up with the busi ness. “The trouble with this busi ness.” he said “is that people don’t understand foreign cars. They’re so usd to American cars that they don’t know bow to treat Serving the Chapel BUI Area Since 1923 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY. JULY 24,1961 cleaning up to do after that.” The contract specifies 125 work ing days for the job. So far more than 50 have been used, Mr. Critcher said. “We would have been 30 per cent ahead without this bad weather.” Workmen will begin blacktop ping the new lane from Glen Len nox eastward next week if the weather remains fair, Mr. Critch er said. Then when traffic is rout ed on the new lane, the old road will be reworked. The same process will be fol lowed in completing the road aren't completely satisfactory, but wc would not put one in if we felt a person could use the stand ard procedure and get it to operate." The titter beds solve one prob lem of standard septic tanks around here. They prevent raw sewage from rising to the sur face because of what Dr. Garvin termed the “tight, pipe-clay type of soil.” Bui filter beds create their own problem of drainage. Dr Garvin said. “There is not as much danger as from a faulty septic tank line. The effect of the filter beds is to try to treat the sew age and waste in as acceptable manner as possible to render it not as harmful as it would be under ordinary circumstances. Hut it is not possible to destroy the bacteria 100 per cent.” Dr. Garvin said builders are not forced to put in a filter bed instead of a septic tank. The only enforcement is refusal to approve the bed or tank, and this has never had to be done here. The Health Department must approve the facility before it can be used, but it has discre tion to approve either of the two. “Wc still prefer and recom mend septic tanks if wc think they will work. Wc would like to have no filter beds, but we know you can’t put in septic tanks in certain areas where the soil will not absorb the waste.” foreign cars. “It's amazing how much abuse American cars will pul up with. You can run (hem and run them and they won't stop. People are used to going 30.000 miles In a Ford without a lubrication. But you can’t do teat in a foreign car. and people don’t realize that. “Take English cars. People don’t read the owner's manuals. 1 tell them they should bring in n Morris Minor every 13.000 miles for a valve job and they don't be lieve it. It costs twenty tour dol lars for a valve job. and they don't think it’s ’worth it. And then after a while they begin to wonder why it costs titan so much to run a car. “The old America# cars, old Packards and things like that, worked on the principal at a very (Continued an Pngsii sity Methodist Church from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The money will be used for a Canadian trip in August. (Photo by Town & Country). from Glen Lennox west to the Institute of Government The new lane will be blacktoppcd. then traffic directed along It while the old road is brought up to four lane standards. Mr. Critcher is anticipating trouble with Chapel Hill's rock when workmen start cutting the now lane across from the Insti tute of Government. It will be started as soon as utility poles are out of the way. “We haven't got into rock yet, but we will. It will be rough at the top of the hill,” he said Chain-1 Hill’s soil also is caus ing trouble on the jab. “The lex turc of it is just no good for build uig," Mr. jCritcher said. He said workmen are having to do a lot more earth-moving than expected because of the “un suitable material—mu«k. We have to haul off the waste and dig down to the good material.” The 55-man crew is workuig six days a week, 10 hours a day while the weather is good, Mr. Critcher said. Their equipment includes three motor graders, four bulkiozers, one pan scraper, throe rollers, a motor shovel, two grade-ails, six dump trucks, three pickup trucks and a grease truck. Cost of the $4(10.000 four-lamng is being shared equally by the Mate Highway Commission and the IJ. S. Department of Com merce, Bureau of Public Hoads. The four-lane stretch will meas ure 2.19 miles from the institute of Government. Wind-Blown Tree Hits Apartment Wind blew a lightning damag ed tree onto the roof of an apart ment at 66 Hamilton Road in Glen Lennox Thursday. Lightning split the trunk of the 50 to 60-foot-tall tree last Sunday. Thursday’s rain and wind finished the job about 5.30 p.m. by blow ing the upper 25 Icct of the tree over on the rooi of the apartment occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Bill Quarles. Glen Lennox Resident Manager I. C. Crolt .said there was no damage to the apartment, how ever. "The wind just laid the tree down on the roof. We were real lucky." Everett Smith At Work Substandard Housing Is On Agenda The Mayor’s Human Relations Committee will take a second look at substandard housing at its meeting in Town Hall tomorrow night. Chairman William S. Joyner said the committee will hear from three guests: Robert Stipe of the institute of Government; John Foushee, Chapel Hill realtor; and Hezekiah Dobson, sanitary engi neer for the District Health De partment. The group opened its considera tion of substandard housing at its June meeting. At that time Hil liard Caldwell, former candidate for Aldermen, and Robert N. An derson Jr. of City Planning and Architectural Associations, spoke to the committee. “Today there are living-qufww ten* within the city limits of Chap cl Hiil that are without bath? rooms, hot water, and with one outside faucet serving two or three famines,” Mr. Caldweli said. “I have personally made a tour oi the houses in the Negro com munity, and to my surprise I was made sick to my heart to find out the type of houses that my fellow citizens live in. "People say Negroes arc not concerned with how they live. Well, they are concerned " Mr. Anderson told tiie commit tee of federal aid possibilities for renewal programs in the com munity. Under the programs, the lederal government will pay two thirds of the cost with the local community paying the rest. Mr. Caldwell also criticized the Aldermen and said they are "not concerned with the welfare of its Negro citizens and their economic problems.” The meeting begins at 8 p.m. Weather Report~j High Low Thursday #1 78 Friday 90 70 Saturday 9-3 71 Sunday 93 98 The redwing's young have flown and he no longer cackles beside the reedy pond. But the silence over the cattails has a tongue. It says summer’s golden days will soon be goae. The HigkeaPM Newt paper €irmkobtm In Orange Comatf. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY Tax Ruling May Cost Chapel Hill Schools 83,575 A tentative ruling by the State Attorney General’s office lust week may cost Chapel Hill schools $-3,575 next year. Assistant Attorney General Lucius Pullen and law specialist Peyton Abbot tentatively ruled that public school units are not eligible for refunds under the recently imposed three per cent sales tax schedule. "It is our tentative opinion that city and county school adminstra tive units are political subdivi ions of the State, and the statute expressly denies refunds to politi cal subdivisions of the State.” Chapel Hill School Superinten dent Joseph Johnston estimated the tax will take an SBOO bite out of local current expense revenue next year. In addition, approxi mately $2,775 will be paid in taxes on the capital outlay bud get The tax does not include payment on the $1.2 million school construction prograrS- in the planning stages here. Tax on the construction will he included in the bids. Dr. Johnston said. Actually, he said, the majority of the money will be taken from one pocket and put in another, Most of the $2,775 tax will be on Stale funds for capital outlay —fuel, water, power and supplies. “We will just be getting money from the State and paying it back.” The tax payments still will de prive the school system of soon $3,575 next year, however. Mooey for a three per cent tax was not included in the recently approved budgets.. School administrators in other parts of the State have recently voiced their feelings that schools should be included in the refund provisions of the revenue law adopted by the General Assemb ly- # Xbe revenue bik rr",Hh L iCi. *n annual refund of salfld : ”uin paid "by hospitals not operat ed for profit, churches, orphan ages and other charitable or re ligious institutions, and educa tional institutions not operated for profit.” The law specifically places the tax on “sales to the State of North Carolina, its agencies, in strumentalities and political sub divisions.” A refund provision is made for cities, counties and towns, but for no other agencies, instrumentalities and political subvisions. Many school officials have ar gued that the public schools are not political subdivisions. "Schools are clearly ‘educa tional institutions not operated for profit' and are not political subdivisions of the State.” said Business Manager Lester A. Smith of the Durham County School System. "The Pearsall Plan of 1955 took away any status of a State agency that we might have had.” The tentative ruling was in ac cord with the feeling of Revenue Commissioner W. A. Johnston, who said last week; "My present thinking is that school units are not entitled to a refund. The law makes refunds available to cities, counties and towns and non-profit institutions, but not to State agencies or politi cal subdivision*. School units are not mentioned in the section of the law dealing with refund*.” Board Will Okay Budget The Board of Aldermen will fake final action on the Town’s $582,094 budget at its meeting tomorrow night The board will pass an ordi nance making the 1961-62 budget official, it is II per cent higher than last year's budget of $531,- 914. But the tax rate of sl.to per SIOO property valuation will re main the same. Included in the budget for the first time Is money for a recrea tion director. In addition, provi sion is made for an enlarged planning program with a full time planning administrator. Pay raise* also were given most Town employees, following the recom mendation of the recently com pleted job classification and pay scale. In other business, the board will; —Consider an ordinance to re vise sewer charges so that pay ment will be based on water con sumption. Ass't. Dean Is Resigning lMtoße MyfW. timiftvfd t§ the Dean of Women m&Vvk Miss MacLeod, who holds a graduate teacher’s certificate, will teach in the Estes Hißs School here. She came to the Office of the Dean of Women in the fall of 1943, and was acting Dean of Wo men of the University during 1955-56. A former student at HolUns Col lege. Miss MacLeod is a graduate of Meredith College, from which she holds bachelor's degrees in music and in liberal arts. She re ceived the Master of Education degree at the University of North Carolina in 1968. Prior to 1943, Miss MacLeod taught in the city schools of Lum berton, and was principal of the Marietta School of Robeson Coun ty Dr. Katherine Kennedy Car michael. Dean of Women at the University, announced Miss Mac- Leod's resignation. Scenes CHARLES MAUER of S1 oa n Drugstore staff beaming when his wife GLINDA and their cute lit tle twin daughters, LINDA and BRINDA. come in store all dress ed in bright yellow mother-daugh ter frocks.... ROLAND GIDUZ. getting in wrong car in front of Carolina Barber Shop, wondering why his key wouldn’t fit the igni tion switch . . . DR. and MRS. R. R. CLARK in Eubanks’ debat ing whether to dine out or fix supper at home; finally deciding to go home because DR. CLARK can make better coffee than they can find in any restaurant . . . HOMER ATHAS, apparently full of energy, having breakfast at 7:30 Sunday morning at Harry’s . . . MOE HEIDRICK forsaking Finley golf course for member ship in the Duke University course since Finley greens fee was upped from $1.50 to $2.50 . .. MRS. DON SKAKLE and her three fine-looking sons waiting at parking lot for MR. SKAKLE to come and take them home from shopping trip . . . LISA HUNTER modestly receiving congratula tions on winning the state cham pionship in girls’ tennis singles ... Convertible owners uncertain whether to put the top* on their can up or down under Sunday afternoon’s threatening skim ~ - JOHN ULMER seldom seen fa» town any more now that he’# working night and day on Ms clipping service . . . JOB and MARY RUTH DEUTBGH moving into their new home in Victory Village . - . RENE SPARROW «uin««iny stray dogs. 1
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