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Chapel Hill News Leader The Tims Has Come,' The Walrus Said, 'To Talk of Many Things. Schools Must Be s! t-*^ing With The News inChap^t Hiil,Cofrbo'0,Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas VOL. Ill, NO. 60 THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1956 A Disgrace To The Community \Vhatever the reason for their conditit)!! the fact exists tliat the street markers owned by the Town of Chapel Hill are a community disgrace as they now stand. The Jaycees have been many times hailed for the worthy job they did six years ago in building, erecting, and painting these muchr needed markers. Hundreds of hours of labor', and a considerable sum of Jaycee money went into this construction. When complctc.T the markers stood as one of the finest and most useful additions r.o the community, in many years. By previous agreement the Town of Chapel Hill was to assume the maintenance of these markers, after their erection by the Jaycees. However, two years ago, when the markers began shoiving signs of wear and many, were in need of repari, the Jaycees again refurbished them and put up new ones where needed. On completion of this work the markers were again turned over to the Town at a meeting of the Board of Alder- Again these very utilitjjriau street posts ■arc in need of attention. There is hardly a single one that does not need repair or re placement, and some are now inaccurate by reason of street changes.- In a community which plays host to so maiiy.visitors throughout the year, and whi.rh , tri& to cjpitali/.e-on its attractions for tour ists, the .present stale of the town’s,, street markers i shameful. Certainly, with the recent annexations of new areas to the municipality (many of which will also need street markers now) the Town’s labor force is overworked and there may be a problem in finding time for the job. But surely the Town's labor force will be no less overworked next fall when the school term begins. ■■ Every time a local citizen passes an inter section these eye.sore,s—once an attractive and useful addition to the community—fairly cry out to have the job done. .4 start on this long overdue job should be made now. Need To Finish Up The Opening of the second lane of the Diir- ham-Chapel Hill boulevard has ended a six- year construction job Of easing the perennial traffic bottleneck between the two towns. Before the i5-year campaign to build the new, shorter route was successfully climaxed in ip5o with the letting of contracts, traffic bet'veen the two towns snaked back and forth along the tortuous 52 curves, in the I'l-in-iles of old Hitrhway 15-501. The new four-lane boulevard—barring the ever - in creasing dasiger of speed addicts—will be a boon to business, safety and convenience in both Durham and Chapel Hill. And if zon. ing restrictions can be successfully held to as planned it should be an attractive thorough fare, too. Next step in this progressive highway plan is completion of the bypass around Durham by constructing an east-side link from High- way 70 dowm to the Durham - Chapel Hill Boulevard. At the same .time gs this is being- built, local governmental heads in Orange County and Chapel Hill might well do all they can to hasten another much-needed by pass at this end of the highway. This of course is the proposed four-mile link from the south end of the pre.5ent Chap el Hill bypa,ss at Morgan’s Creek northward to Highway 54 (the Greensboro highway) a mile west of Caerboro. Six years in the plan ning stage now, this new route will complete the bypa.ss around Cliapel Hill and Carr- boro. The County Commissioners, early this year, discussed going before the District Higb- way Supervisor in Graham to seek action on this project. Their efforts will be ivcll spent— .-.'ud the time seems appropriate—to now full- till this previously-stated Intention. Pleasantly Back To Prison Hiring a paroled convict td W'ork for the State Prison Department, Director William Bailey commented, “If w'e’re. going to ,ask private business to give these ’boys a break, we've got to set an example-’’ He’s obvious ly right, but his taking the often neglected step betwetn a wise thought and a good deed deserves a “Well done!" The man, an accountant, W'as sent to prison .for embezzlement. He will work on figures for the department, and should be capable of a good job. It's a fact that the finauci'l crook must labor industriously and intelli gently to get away with his misdoing for any length of time- Keeping- records right is hard enough, and even harder is keeping them looking- rio-ht when actually they’re wrong. Now comes a test for this man, with a chance to work up to a place as an auditor in the department which once kept him in a cell. Offering him tlie job wa,s meant as an example of what employers should do. He- has a chance for atonement more than mo.st if he will set an example of what an em ployee can do to make a ta.-nished record clean. To him and ihc department alike, good wishcsl Peril Taken Lightheartedly Children play games and yell, “Bangl Tou're deadl” There's no real dying, no be- lief in it. Many Americans treat civil de fense rehearsals in the same way. They de serve more thought., E'olks often don’t know what has .gone on until news reports tell them of millions of people, themselves perhaps included, theo retically slaughtered. They’re likely ev'cn then just to skim the headlines, and torn the page to find out what’s new about Elvis (the Pelvis) Presley. Five thousand North Carolinians “died” in last weekend's mock attack, but they hardly minded a bit. Authorities know they can’t call off all daily doings in the country for these drills. That’s one reason they seem somewhat un real; they are definitely unrealistic. Part of. the disregard for warnings they carry comes from that rugged optimism that makes a'most every human bein.g insist, of almost any peril, “It never could happen to me.” Sometimes, too, predictions of -what actual bombing would do are sP dark that they make for Iiopeless apathy. Sense suggests a middle course. It would be'silly as well as wearing to live in a state of perpetual jitters. All the same, it’s merely ,sane to have a clear idea of what one ought to do if the real thing ever came our ivay. Mischief For Idle Too many men broke down under Red Chinese brainwashing. Some withstood the most savage, most subtle efforts, to make them change their minds about what thef held right and true. In an account of their' suecesFul resistance, there’s a hint to help our everyday thinking. Edward Hunter gives the story in a' new- book, “Brainwashing, the Story of Men, Who Defied It.” He calls the Chinese technique the reverse of Western psychiatry. Instead of try ing to make sick minds healthy, it tried to make healthy minds sick. It used ingenious, wicked methods that often succeeded, but sometimes failed. Faith and prtiyer helped in fending off the breakdown. Hunter makes that point, and another: Keeping the mind occupied was of great aid. 'This was difficult for prisoners Ivlio lacked books, papers, companionship. They had to turn to mental activity that sounds trivial, but they refused to let their minds stagnate and turn into vacuums into which the poison could more easily seep. General Dean, highest .ranking American taken prisoner in Korea, kept a careful tally of flies he killed each day in his cell. A miss ionary constantly composed and memorized limericks. An imprisoned woman combed and combed her hair, diligently braided a belt with the strands that came out. If the active mind i.s most likely to .stay well and stable under stress, the principle should hold good at other times. Satan pro verbially finds mischief for idle hands, and can do the same for idle brains. The mind kept purposefully at work has a better chance for health and vigor than one that’s let to drift into a hazy daze. fttsssmifc'-vi.T :v; si Hayme In Greensbmo Daily News Education In Russia (In The Smlthfield Herald) In all the hullabaloo about education in the United States— on the national level in the re cent school construction bill which Congress scuttled,, and at the state level in Governor Hod ges’ controversial Pearsall com mittee recommendations—a small item buried in a Washington columnist's daily writing went comparatively unnoticed by a ma.jority of Americans. “Acording to ex-Senator Will iam Benton of Connecticut, re cently returned from Russia,” the cOiLimnist wrote, “Russian edu cation is a bigger threat than the hydrogen bomb.” Lest there be those inclined to “pccih pooh” Benton’s state ment, let them take note of the fact that he spent several months last year in Russia gathering material for the En cyclopaedia Britannica, of which he is publisher. In an article for the encyclopaedia this year Ben ton dwelled, long on the Soviet educational system and the 'sen sational progress the system has made in a short time. He wras impressed .by many facets of’ their system. For ex ample, illiteracy in Russia has b6en practically eliminated in people under 40 years of age, somehing that can’t be said about the United States. 'For another thing, by 1960 the entire Soviet school program will be compulsory for 10 grades.' Contrast that with the policy in this country where a pupil can quit school when he gets to the age of 16, whether or not he has completed one year, two years or Washington Report By BILL WHITLEY POLICY. A group of the na tion's best farm expert!* met in Washington during the week-end to hammer out an overall agricul tural program for the Democratic Party’s fall election campaign. Claude Wickard of Indiana, for mer Secretary of Agriculture, is head of the committee, which in cludes North Carolina’s Commis-. sioner of Agriculture L. Y. Bal- Icntinc. The two-day session was large ly devoted to devising ways and means of arousing interest among farmers in pressing farm prob lems. COMPLACENT. Members*of the' committee, rej^resenting all sec tions of the nation, agreed that many farmers are complacent about the low farm income situa tion. This situation exists, they feel, because many farmers be lieve the revL-cd farm program’ of the Eisenhower Administra* tion, especially the soil bank pro gram, will bring farm income back up to its normal level. The committee also agrees that once the crops'are in this fall, farmers will realize that their net income is as* low as last year. During the two-day session, the committee held conferences with TOBACCO. A report just re leased by the U. S. Department of Agriculture says that Commun ist China i^? increasing its tobac co production by leaps and bounds. - In spite of an acute shortage of food, the report says, Com munist China is emphasizing to bacco production and is export ing a large percentage of its to- , bacco to other Soviet Bloc na- ^tions. Soon, it says, China, can be ex pected to move into many of the markets of Western Europe, which are now supplied largely by American tobacco. READING. Some of the most interesting reading that is avail able from the Government Print ing Office is a little book of prayers that were given in the U. S. Senate by its late chaplain, Rev. Peter Marshall. 1 From time to time, we plan to include one of the prayers from the book in the Washington Re port. The Prayer that is quoted to- Chips That Fall a dozen years of school. And Benton is quick to observe that the 10 grades in the Soviet system correspond to our 12 • grade schools. Furthermore, Russian children go to school six days to the week for 10 months out of the year. And, s-ays Benton. “Stu dents at all levels work harder than students in America.” In the face ;of a growing trend in this country to make educa tion easy (your job is to make them enjoy school, some teach ers have been told) Benton’s words carry extra weight. There is nothing easy about oduoa- , tion, and a system that allows mediocrity to graduate, that adds to the anti-intellectual attitude so prevalent today, is certainly a system that needs re-thinking, a system that needs all the strength it can muster instead of being watered down. This is a critical time, especial ly for Noi-th Carolinians, f..r during the next few hectic, ac tive; harvest filled weeks they will be asked to take on the added burden of trying to decide the educational future of their children, and to a great degree, the educational future of this na tion. North Carolinians should look long and hard at any pro posal that would open the doors for abandonment of the public •school system of this state. Perhaps as North Carolinians think about the future of their schools they should keep in the back of their minds the lucid observation by ex-Senator Ben ton: “Russian education is a big ger threat than the hydrogen bomb.’ Flowers pretty up the house, but they fade- Cali that the end of blooming aaid developing that’s a joy to watch. A flower that fail ed to change would be as dull as a seven-hour sermon preached in a monotone. Fading simply signals tiie time to refill the vase with gav new blossoms. (Editorial In The Greensboro Daily News) North' Carolina has few more perceptive and persuasive spokes men tor public causes than Ii’ving Carlyle of Winston-Salem. Last week in North Carolina’s “market-place of ideas”—Chapel Hill — he enriched the mid-Sum- mer Great Debate on education; in a speech moderate in tone Mr. Carlyle rejected the Pearsall Plan, warning that private school tui tion and local option to close pub lic schools in “intolerable situa- tioow'” would be a “long back ward step that ought never to be taken by. North Carolina.” As a 'dijnnguished attorney, 'Mr. Carlyle first of all held that public-funds-for-private-schools is highly impractical and probably unconstitutional. Beyond that he saw major harm in weakening the constitutional mandate for uni form public schoolo* and compul sory school attendance. Ihese observations probe at the niain weakness of the Pear sall Plan, but Mr. Carlyle was far too judgmatical to leave hi,; criti cism in the negative stage. He perceived, as otherc have not, that critics of the Pearsall P-lan must come forward with some thing better. Thus he set forth a twelve-point alternative pro gram, which, in the Daily New./ opinion, “contains a good deal more ‘casual idealism” than North Carolina is likely to accept at this juncture, The Carlyle program of gradu al integration called for biracial advisory commissions on every level of school admini.:*tration in the state. And on that point the Winston-Salem attorney is ever lastingly right. The Hodges pro gram has tried and failed to gain' ‘ Negro cooperation in the school crisis. But beyond that, Mr. Carlyle moved on to i'Uggest integration beginning in the first grades, with a few Negroes, chosen on the basis of intellect and charac ter, thrown in on the high school level. This may be nothing more than a “reasonable start” in the eyes of many, but it deal more thani will likely accepj Any such stalt^ launched even ^ of Governor Hof seems to us, woa such determined's make it virtual^ carry through, ofl lative level it wol to enactment of • segregationist pro] ly to harm the 4 the Pearsall prop® As much as questions variouj Pearsall Plan, other program ll serve the mood| North Carolina 1956. The .state, ' work toward md the framework o| program. A prop! stitutional amend wreck the puhHc| indeed, save their -i restrict] Harford (Coi The law says surplus ships ca an operator. Not hecassarily—just THE CHIEF (indianapo The boy who w and made a rei school football pi come at almost a if he is a little HEADED FOR t “Mates who ( hand are lieadedK aisle. Some wil —some will be bees Coverall. MEASURE OF Tid Television is m progress that p( lie about it fast up with the trut LEGAL NOTICES JMPOVERISHE Some motoris they can hardly chassis togethel (Ohio) Sun Ipi ■ (fcCii (i( ll Sifft' ! Dr. Edward Low’s trip from California to join the Memorial Hospital staff be- gan badly. His car collapsed in New Mexico. Dr. and Mrs. Low, their three chil- to shift into a bus. It rolled into Chapel I Ill in the- dark of ea,rly morning almost three days later. Lp hustled a 'police carl More trouble? No. The policemen said they made a point of meeting odd-hour buses. How could they help? Where did the Lows want to go? “Step right into the police car, and get a ride there. A new family has a fine first impression of Chapel Hill, thanks to a thoughtful, able police force. ■Rep. Harold D. Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Com mittee, and Sen. Vy. Kerr Scott, a member of the Senate Agricul ture Committee. Puzzle for photographic subjects: To smile or not to smile. Facing a press cmera, it’s a poor idea to grin too broadly. The picture ma-y be filed and brought out to run on an occasion that does n’t call for mirth. ‘Twasn’t in Chapel Hill, but a paper has run a photograph of » man arrested on all sorts of serious charges, and he loukv ed as though it tvas his hap. piest day. Here’s a dandy gam^ of solitaire! You shuffle two decks of cards together and then — No! There’s no sense giving anyone who doesn't have it already a formula for wasting so much time to so little effect. Never mind about that solitaire. day was given in the Senate hy the Rev. Mr. M'ar.S'haU January 10, 1947. “Lord Jesus, Thou hast prom- i-sed to give us the Holy Spirit if we are willing to open our hearts and let Him in. Make us willing now that things of eternal significance may begin to hap pen here. IVe know deep down in our hearts that without Thy guidance we can do nothing but with Thee we can do all things. Let us not be frightened by the ■problems that confront us, but rather give Thee thanks that Thou hast matched us with this hour. May we resolve, God help ing us, to be part of the answer, amj not part of tlie problem.” NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power conferred upon me in a certain deed of trust executed to me by H. D. Leigh and wife, Ar- telia D, Leigh, dated May 20, 1955, and recorded in the O'ltice oi the Register of Deeds oi Orange County in Book 132 at Page 168, to secure the indebtedness there in described, and default having been made in the .payment of said indebtedness and having been re quested to do so by the holder of the note evidencing said indebted ness, I will offer for sale at pub lic auction to the highest bidder for cash at the Post Office Door in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at 12:00 O’clock Noon on SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1956 the following described land, to- wit: All that certain tract or parcel of land situated, lying and be- , ing on the North side oi State ■Highway No. in Bingham Township, Orange County and more particularly described as BEGINNING at the intersection of the center lines of the said highway and the public road to White Cross; running thence along the center of the said highway South 67° 30’ East 750 feet and Sputh 73° East 288 feet to the Atwater-Strowd line; run ning thence with the said line North 3° East 1155 ieet to the center of the road to White Cross and in a branch; running thence along the said road South 52° West 99 feel; running thence North 45° West 82.5 feet to a stake; running thence South 52° West 99 feet to a stake; run ning thence Spu-th 82.5 feet te the center of the road to White Cross; running thence along the center of the said road South 51° West 1070 feet to the be ginning, containing 13.5 acres, more or less, and being the same land conveyed to H. D. Leigh and wife, by deed of M. .1. Dawson and wife, dated Mardi 27, 1951, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Orange County in Book 136, at Page 332. This sale will be held open for ten days to receive increased bids. This the 14th day of July, 1956. L. J. PHIPPS, Trustee SPEAK UP, Advertisement i Tutor with Sc gently required parrot. NOTE ON Washington,( The man whi looking through now has a grand show his colorec II ai iiliv isFa f (lit: lain n im II Chapel Hill I Published everj rhursday by th- Company, liic. Mailing i Box Chapel H Street Address Carr! TeJephont Phillips Russell Roland Giduz L. M. Pollander J. J. Hendricks E. J. Hamlin NEIGHBI correspI Chapel Hill .
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