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Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas
Pacts or Propitious Time?
Facts are of more value in
the Cairboro school ta-x issue
than “right psychological mo
ment.’* See lead editorial, page
five.
CHAPEL HILL. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1954
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EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUE
bPLE
brief
[HENDERSON,
Friday’s Bernard
J celebration in Chi
ld in a picture on
fiday’s issue of Life
several-thousand-
l>r the occasion is
llhe single cle.scrip-
Ishaw — “a human
Iniic rays.”
Dollar Days Set August 17,18 Earliest Books Co-Oo Group Takes Whirlwind Tour
Of Sights In Chapel Hill And Orange
The second annual summer
Dollar Days promotion in Cha^
el Hill-Carrboro will be staged
through Merchants Association
sponsorship August 17 and 18.
The dates were set this week
by the Trade Promotions Com*
mitte of the Association which
planned the first observance of
this sales event last summer,
and which staged the winter Dol
lar Days in February.
Moyle Johnson has been named
chairman of this cbservance by
Carlton Byrd, Committee Chair
man. Mr. Byrd urged local resi
dents to make plans to watch
for the many reductions in prices
and special purchase items
which will be offered for this
promotion.
|DF0RD, DONALD
by King, the three
vith the death last
vater Lake of Alva
tried on chargeo
; the criminal term
[•t that begins Mon-
Their cases have
Itinued three terms
Ir, defense attorney
|is client was ready
didn’t know why
Iset on the docket,
[the apparent con-
|nol be learned to-
Idunlap of hos-
Isociation and her
It that they’ve cook-
l;ernoon of funning
l^r 59(> employees
ve indicated they’ll
lay for the A.ssocia-
Imic at Camp New
liagelschmidt will
|s and the ladies of
will furnish the
ITY HAS BOUGHT
iter tank that it’ll
Cenan Stadium and
sital next spring,
t by the Chicago
n Co., world’s big-
k dealers, W£ un
million-gallon ves-
Btly fonr the
tank on Wilson
ms for the founda-
being drawn and
j > oject Is to begin in
Bill Sloan Is Appointed
To School Board Post
your
William L. Sloan has been named
to the Chapel Hill School Board,
succeeding Carl Smith, Chairman
01 the body for the past year, win.
re^-igned on July 1.
Although membership of the six-
man board is elective, Mr. Sloan
was named by the remaining five
members of the group, as provided
by law, to fill out Mr. Smith’s
term until the next local election
which will be next spring. At that
time he will be up for election for
the remaining two year’s in Mr.
Smith's term, which would have
expired on July 1, 1959. The six-
year terms of Mr^. O. David Gar
vin and Board Chairman Grey Cul-
breth will also expire next July 1
and their seat.s will also be sub
ject to public election next spring.
Plans To Run
Mr. Sloan said this morning that
his present intentions were to A'eek
re-election for the remainder of
Mr. Smith’s term in the public bal-
lotfng next spring.
The new Board member, a phar
macist and local civic leader for
a number of years, kttended the
Chapel Hill Elementary School and
was graduated from Hillsboro High
School. He lived in Hillslmro while
his father, Chapel Hill Police Chief
W. T. Sloan, was County Sheriff.
On graduation from the Univer
sity of North Carolina he moved to
WILLIAM L. SLOAN
W’’ootten-Moulton Pholo
Gfaham where he worked Ho' a
pharmacist until' retuning to Chap
el Hill to open Sloan Driig Co. in
the mid-40's. He has been on the
District Board of Health, President
of the Chapel Hill Jaycccs, Treasur
er of the Rotary Club, is a Direc
tor ' of the University National
Bank, and is a member of the Uni
versity Methodist Church. The
Sloan.s have three young children
wno wdll be in the lu?2l public
.-.•chools this year.
LOVE THE CIR-
some comfort by
the fact that the
tider a canvas big-
touring eastern
month. We see by
lewspaper that the
Circus, the
Trio Appeals $100 Fines
In Highway Racing Case
iDiwl
hers
ederj wring the country
il'lipilj II Ahoskie on Aug-
obW
lit]
1 "
i«| •,
(NOW THE PLACE
considered for it,
s' than slightly re-
I via a story from
s morning that an
t plan base will
t the Horace Will-
ere. Reasons given:
mt runw'ays are of
of new runways
iresent funds avail-
ems local devotees
rill have to be con-
tirds warbling over
llistoad of jets w’hin-
11 rooftop.
-STATE TRAVEL-
David Lee, sustain-
nage to the inter-
to Saturday night,
ted and parked in
ng lot. A passerby
in the car several
called the Fire De-
of oxygen had
upholstery from
>lil the door w'as
lared up momentar-
ing doused. The
ii suit, hung in the
tittle from the heat
cd at the touch of
.^AMBER OF COM-
are seeking to
B?e County Commiss-
||lh them to ask the
Commission to
r''ly:opend four-lane
Hfl Hill boulevard the
^orial Highway for
Vnii^m B. Umstead
Fines of $100 and court costs
have been appealed by three
youths charged here with speed
ing and racing' on the public
highways. .,
' Judge William S. Stewart assess
ed the fines in Chapel Hill Re
corder’s Court this w'eek after
finding the trio guilty on testi
mony by local officers who “.staked
out” on their post-midnight race
on the Greensboro , highway ■ on
June 24. The court found as a fact
that the lead car of three that were
involved in the testimony was
travelling “in excess of 80 miles
and hour." Police Chief J. A.
Williams of‘CarPboro said that in
his judgment this auto was going
at least 100 miles an hour.
Convicted were Jami.son G. But
ler. 27, of Route One, charged
with , speeding and racing; Cl.vde
Whitt Jr., 19, Route Two, charged
vdth speeding and racing,
William Lewis 22, Route One.
charged with aid and ahetting. e
People We Know
defendants pleaded not guilty to
the charges, but offered no testi
mony. Each was placed under $300
bond pending the appeal to su
perior court.
Charges of aiding and abetting
are still to be 'heard against Bruce
Howard Ward, reportedly a pass
enger in Butler’s car. Chief Will
iams .said that a third car involved
in the case escaped.
Chapel Hill Patrolmen Charlie
Edmonds and. Charlie Byrd said
they fell in behind the ears af-
t4r they passed a point a mile west
of Carrboro, headed into town,
and clocked the rear car at 80
miles an hour while the lead auto
was pulling away from it.
Chief Williams, stationed near
the town limits; fell in behind the
first car and stopped it at the
town limits. Patrolman Edmonds
said that one of the defendants ad
mitted they ' were “trying their
cars out” hut later denied this.
Being Sought
Approximately two-tmrds of
the hooks that belonged to the
University Library from 1795
ujilil 1830 are still on the li
brary shelves.
This observation was made
by ‘Mrs. M. J. Bahnsen, cata
loguer of the Nortti Carolina
collection, now in the process of
searching for books at UNC
which the institution owned dur
ing its early history. Mrs. Bahn
sen estimates that some 3,600
of these are still at UNC*
In 1802, the UNC library list
ed approximately 385 volumes.
Also available were about 5,000
volumes in the libraries of the
Dialetic and Philanthropic So
cieties. In 1886, these two UNC
literary societies turned over
some 16,000 volumes lo'the UNC
library, which was then in what
is today the Playmakers’ theatre.
The present library building wa.s
constructed in 1929.
Lions Announce
Final Plans
For Banquet
Final plans for the Lions Dis
trict Governor’s Banquet, at which
Lloyd Senter of Carrboro will be
formally installed to head the-new
ly-formed District 31-G, were an
nounced here today.
The affair will be held next
Thursday evening at 7 o’clock in
Lenoir Hall on the University cainp-
up with Lions International Presi
dent John L. “Jack” Slickley of
Charlotte a, - the principal speaker.
About 300 Lions and their wives,
including officers from the 30
clubs in the newly-orgaiii/.ed U-
county district, are expected to be
present for the occasion.
Jack MeDa^e, chairman of ar
rangements for the occa.sion, said
that the Rev. J. Paul Edwards, min
ister of the Carrboro Methodist
Church, would be tuaj^master for
the occasion. Special guest for the
evening will be University of North
Carolina Acting President William
C. Friday.
Entertainment will be provided
by Mrs. Howard Hearn, playing the
Hammond organ, and by a vocalists’
trio consisting of Martha Ann
Cheek, Alvene Williams, and Leah
Fitch.
New NROTC Unij Head
Is Coming This Week
Capt. Alexander McLeod Patter
son, new commander of the Naval
ROTC here, is scheduled to re
port for duty this week.
Capt. Patterson succeeds Col.
Robert Carter Burns who has been
named chief of staff of the Second
Marine Division at Camp Lejeune.
Col. Burns was the first Marine
officer to command the Universi
ty Naval ROTC titiil. Capt Patter
son is a naval officer.
Capt Patterson is a native of
Raeford. During World War 11
he served aboard the USS Colorado
and the USS Oakland. He -is a 1927
graduate of the Naval Academy.
Capt. Patterson i.s married to
the former Miss Mary McBryde of
Raeford. They have one daughter.
CO-OP TOURISTS—Trouping through at a rate of nearly one a
second, more than 1,100 farm and other youth co-op members toured
the Hospital Saving Association plant here on Tuesday afternoon
during an all-day journey to points of interest in Orange and Durham
Counties. They're now at the convention of the American Institute
o.' Cooperation in Raleigh. Seen above as they debarked from their
busses, they’re waiting to enter Hospital Saving.
News Leader Photo
Consolidation To Continue,
Chancellor House Declares
The Greater University of North
Carolina will definitely continue
as a consolidated institution, ac
cording to one of its top admin-
i.strative officers.
Chancellor Robert B. House,
speaking before the Chapel Hill
Kiwanis Club, declaimed flatly
“The University will remain a
consolidated University. We feel
that this question hag now been
decisively settled.”
The Chancellor revealed that
this decision has been made by
the University’s Board of Trustees.
Deconsolidation of the three cam-
pu.ses was rumored following the
organization last spring of the
State Board of Higher Education,
which is to have authority over 12
state institutions of higher learn
ing.
Addres.sing the Kiwanians on
“The Future of The University
And Chapel Hill,” Chancellor
House also declared that “The
University will grow enormously
and will remain as one of the
distinguished universities of this
country.”
As the years pass, he said, the
University will be in a city that
will continue to look like a village.
“We can do this only by the help
of the town and the County—and
no less by town then by gown,”
said Mr. House. “And of course we
must also have the assistance of
the state and of the nation.”
The Chancellor paid tribute to
“the fine community spirit of
Chapel Hill which hag been one
of the formative influences in the
greatness of the University.”
More than 1,100 youth delegates
to a national convention in Ral
eigh had a whirlwind look at
sigihts of Chapel Hill on Tuesday
afternoon during a day-long tour
of Orange and Durham Counties.
The visitors, riding in a 25-bus
Caravan, were attending the an
nual meeting of the American In
stitute of Cooperation at State
College in Raleigh. In addition to
visiting Chapel Hill’s major co-’
operative institution, Hospital Sav
ing Association, they also stopped
at the Morehead Planetarium and
drove through the campus.
In their 20-minute stop at Hos
pital Saving Association they
trouped through the building at
nearly a one-per-second clip. En
tering via the basement hall they
climbed up the stairs, went down
the lop floor hall, and out the
rear stairway. While there was.
no time for explanation of the
HSA system, the visitors were
given folders telling about the or
ganization.
Acting President William C.
Friday greeted the women for
the Consolidated University, and
then they were shown the More-
head Planetarium.- Going back to
the bu.ses, the women inspected the
newest addition to the Planetarium
grounds, the Morehead Sun Dial.
Roy W. Armstrong, director of
admissions, Russell M. Grumman,
director of the UN-C Extension
Division, and'. Edgar F. Thomas,
field representative of the UNC
Alumni Association, acted as
guides for the ■ three bus loads
of women delegates. State College
furnished the children’s guides
from a group which had previous-,
ly visited the cooperative associa
tions. . .
Following a tour of the campus,
the women traveled to a coopera
tive dairy where they were served
free ice cream.
Representatives from all over
the country were in the visiting
party. They left Chapel Hill after
an hour and forty-five minutes,
carydng. pamphlets, brochures and
souvenirs with them..
MARTINE MASURE
Aldermen Go On Tour Of Town;
Curb And Gutter Job Okay Seen
E.W. Neville—A Real Log Cabin Boy
By nancy winborne
The work day, begins at
each morning for ^ore a?
Neville, who.se little Cash Store a
the corner of West Cameron Street
and Merritt Mill Road ^
weathered as its octogenarian pro
prietor.
“I’m a log cabin boyv born and
raised in a fog cabin on McCau^^y
Mountain—you can see the
tain right through therc-^d went
to „vhool in a log cabin to MolRc
Amick Cheek “d her brother,
John Amick. Got the rc •
education betwen the P o
les." Mr. Neville arose from^^an
improvised seat of oran„
and cardboard to wait on
tomers.
Two-Boilding Town
‘•First time I remenito .conung
to Chapel Hill? Well, ^ ^
five, I reckon. .. . few
but two brick buildings,
houses and some Negro shanties.
One ,of those buildings is still
; C 1
E. W. NEVILLE
News Leader Phoio
standing—that Mouza Cafe. It was
the McDade homeplace then. The
streets was real clay beds when it
ranied, too.’.’
“Lots of things change, but
folks go on acting the same.
Take this thing of moving the
colleges. Wake Forest and Louis-
burg, you know. When they start
ed looking for a site for the
versify, they sent a committee
around the state to find the best
place.
“One of my old grandsires was
on that committee. He was a Nevili
from Halifax where they had the
government one lime. My aunt pui
the “e” on the name about 80 years
ago to make it look better —sam?
a.- some other names ’raund he re
been changed to look or sound bet
ter.
“This committee was going
round and everybody wanted the
(See NEVILLE, Fage Eight}
The Chapel Hill Board of Alder
men. in a committee of-the-while
tour of the Town, this week in
spected a number of current and
proposed projects.
Town Manager Thomas D. Rose
said that the Board also discussed
negotiating a contract for installa
tion of curbs and gutters on eight
streets in the Town with the Will
iam Muirhead Construction Co.,
low bidder on the job whose seal
ed proposals were recently open
ed.
At that time the aldermen felt
the bids were too high and voted
to wait a while before awarding
the contract inasmuch as the
Muirhead firm’s low, bid of $57,000
exceeded the 850,000 in bond
funds available for the work. It
now appears possible that this
contract can be let at the Board’s
August 13 meeti^ng.
Here are the ,projects the Board
inspected on its Tuesday afternoon
tour: -parking situation on West
Franklin Street; need for street
light on Cameron Court; possibili
ty of assuming maintenance of
Penick Lane; suggestion for paral
lel curb parking on East Franklin
running east from Henderson St.;
request for relief from improper
drainage on property of H, S. Wil
lis, Tenney Circle; needed repairs
to third block of Roosevelt Ave.;
possibility of taking over mainten
ance of Old Durham Road section
of Elizabeth St.; condition of ac
cess road to Estes Hill (Hidden
Hills Drive); and a suggestion for
establishing turn lanes at the
intersection of Raleigh Street and
Raleigh Road.
Ensign Traces
Development
Of New Hope
The growth of the New Hope
Camp, Church and community,du*"'
ing his eight year.s as minister
there was traced by ‘the Rev. John
E. Ensign in a talk last night be
fore the Chapel Hill Rotarians.
In going over the development
of the community — eight miles
north of Chapel Hill—the Rev. Mr,
Ensign suggested that the most
important accomplishment has
been “what has happened to the
people.”
At the end of this month the
minister will leave for a new post
in Richmond, Va.
The Ifew Hope Camp for Orange
Presbytery, organized soon after
the Rev. Mr. Ensign’s arrival in
the community, has served over
4,000 persons each summer, he
said, and was used every weekend,
except one- last year. This $150.-
000 camp, of which the Rev. Mr.
. Ensign hafi been director, wifi
have 1,200 children during its
regular camping season this sum
mer, he said.
Belgian Girl
Coming Here
On Exchange
Martine Masure, an 18-year-old
high school student from Namur,
Belgium, and Chapel Hill’s third
American Field Service foreign
exchange student, will arrive here
for the coming school year in
about three weeks.
Her year as a student at Chap
el Hill High School tvill be spon
sored here by local civic and
church groups in cooperation with
the American Field Service Com
mittee. Rogers Wade, Committee
Chairman and representative of
the Kiwanis Chib, said that Miss
Masure will stay with the Bernice
Ward family on Greenwood Road.
One of their two daughters. Linda,
will also be a senior at Chapel
Hill High this coming year.
This past year Eddie Osawa,
student from Tokyo, Japan, has
attended Chapel Hill High School
under this same program. Initial
recipient ot a scholarship to
Chapel Hill w'as Barry Hughes,
student from England, who was
here during the 1954-55 school
year.
Under this program, Mr. Wade
explained. 654 students from 25
countries attended school and lived
' with families in this country dur
ing the past school year. This
summer, 696 American students
are spending the summer in 19
foreign countries under the ex
change summer scholarship plan.
Marilyn Markell, rising senior
at Chapel Hill High, i.s the first
winner of an overseas grant from
here, and is currently attending a
youth meeting in Germany. She
is expected to return to his coun
try early next month.
HSA Purchases
BriqhFs Store
Hospital Saving .'Association has
purcha sed the M. J. Bright Food
Store w'hich ad.join.s its office
building on West Franklin Street.
Mr. Bright closed the store this
week, and Ho.spital Saving will take
possession of it on September 1.
An official of the insurance firm
said that the new qiiarterA w'ould
be used for needed additional of
fice space.
Mr. Bright opened his store 16
years ago across the street where
Andrew's Restaurant is now locat
ed, and moved into the present
building eight year.-' aco. Re said
that his plans were indefinite for.
the time being, but that he plan
ned “to rest a while.”
Partly cloudy and quite warm
with scattered shewers in North
East portion today and tonight.
Tomorrow, not quite so warm.
High today, 92; low tonight, near
70.
High Low Rainfall
Monday 91 59 1.54
Tuesday 80 56 .00
Wednesday 80 66 .00
Pony League Ball Team Is Planned
HOSPITALIZED
Today’s rtgistor of patVants
at Memorial Hosoital Include*
Y. Z. Cannon, Mrs. Mary Gem-
mell, Walter D. Harrell, Betty
Mae Hopkins, Mrs. J. H. Hinson.
Miss Ann Lacock, Green Lloyd,
>Mrs. C. T. McDonald. John Neville,
W. D. Neville, Mrs. Tom Strowd,
Mrs. Henry Wagstaff, Eddie 'Wom-
ble and Kathy Wilson.
Plans for a Pony League base
ball team here in Chapel Hill have
been initiated by UNC Coach Wal
ter Rabb and the Kiwanis Club
Youth Service Committee, and the
first practice ‘ ssion has been set
for this afternimn at 4:30 on Emer
son Field.
Final arrangements were made
yesterday at an organizational
meeting for players and coaches.
Approximately 15 boys In the 13-14
year old age group attended. Bill
McGinn, outstanding southpaw pit
cher under Coach Rabb at Carolina
a few years ago, was named as
coach of the local jviuad.
Present plans call for the team
to work out at 4:30 each week:
dsv on Emerson Field throughout
the remainder of the second sum
mer school session. It is expected
that games will be arranged with
Pony League squads from Siler
Citv and Durham, although the
Durham game ij still in the tenta
tive stage.
According to fyoch Rsihh.
movement is strictly, exploratory.
“We’re organizing this team wij,h
an eye toward the future. The pur
pose of the program will be to
give the boys who are in between
ages for Little League and high
school ball a chance to play base
ball,” he said. “If enough interest
is shown, We hope to be able to
organize a regulation Pony or Babe
Ruth League here next year.” he
went on to .L'ay.
Today’s practice .session is the
only one to be held this week. The
next practice will be Monday at
4:30 at Emerson. All intere.sted
boys in the correct age group are
urged by Coach Rabb to come on
but to the ball park.