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VoL 29, No. 26 Culbreth and Mrs. Garvin Selected for School Board Grey Culbreth, superintendent of utilities for the University Service Plants, and Mrs. 0. David Garvin were elected to the school board at a joint meeting of the board of aldermen and the school board Monday eve ning. Thsy succeed Edgar W. Knight and Mrs. R. H. Wettach, whose terms expire this month and who withdrew themselves from consideration for reflec tion. Present at the meeting were all 6 members of the board of aldermen (Messrs. Burch, Fow ler, Davis, Putnam, Fitch, and Cornwell) and 3 members of the school board (Messrs. Emory and Gobbel and Dr. Hedgpeth). Carl Smith of the school board was unavoidably absent. Before the voting Mayor Lanier read two letters suggest ing persons for consideration. One, from a special committee of the PTA, suggested Gordon W. Blackwell, Grey Culbreth, Floyd Hunter, John Manning, Miss Dorothy McCuskey and Mrs. Cecil G. Sheps. The other, from the Chapel Hill Civic Club, asked that the Negroes be represented on the board and suggested Ken neth Jones, the Rev. J. R. Manly, and Dr. C. W. Thompson., Mr. Emory, on behalf of the school board, nominated Grey Culbreth and Mrs. O. David Garvin. E. C. Markham was nominated bys }|r. Fitch an# Claiborne Jones by Mr. Burch. Mr. Davis made the blanket nomination of all the persons suggested in the two letters. Then the 6 aldermen and the 3 school board members voted, each for two persons. Result: 9 aotes for Mrs. Garvin, 8 for Grey Culbreth, 1 for Kenneth Jones. School Windows Are Broken by Rascals In the last three weeks, ras cals, passing by in the night, have been smashing windows in the elementary school building on West Franklin street. Maybe the plural word ought not to be used; maybe the smashing has been done by one person. No body has an inkling as to wheth er it’s the work of a gang of rascals or a lone rascal. “We have already had to spend about 75 dollars for put ing in new panes,” said School Superintendent C. W. Davis yesterday. “Some of the big panes cost 6 or 7 dollars apiece. It is a serious business.” Mast of the missiles hurled at the windows were stones. A few were iron bolts or broken pieces of iron. Cornwell Is Navy Graduate Robert Ryle Cornwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver K. Cornwell of Hillcrest road, was graduated this month from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. During his four years at the academy he attained his highest scholas tic standing as Midshipman En sign and ranked in the upper fourth of his class for the first three years. He also won ath letic awards in basketball, track, and softball. There are two articles about Civil Defense in this issue, on pages 3 aad 11. The Chapel Hill Weekly L*uia Graves Editor How Frank Graham Got General Devers To Go with Him as Military Adviser Former U. S. Senator Frank P. Graham, to whom the United Nations has given the task of mediating the dispute between India and Pakistan over the possession of Kashmir, left New York by airplane Tuesday. He and his staff of assistants are flying byway of Paris, Rome, and Karachi to India’s capital city, New Delhi. The main part of Kashmir is now held by Indian troops. The majority of the people of Kash mir are Moslems. It is generally supposed that a plebiscite on the question of which nation, India (Hindu) or Pakistan (Moslem), was to have Kash mir would favor Pakistan. That is why Jawaharial Nehru, prime minister of India and virtual ruler of the country, is opposed to a plebiscite. Before a plebiscite can be held with any pretense of fair ness, Kashmir must be demili tarized. How demilitarization is to be managed—assuming that negotiations reach the point where it is attempted, is a prob lem for a military expert. The man whom, above all others, Mr. Graham wanted to have along with him as military Subway Travelers Handsomely Rewarded for Being Acquaintances of Billy Carmichael By Mrs. Iri Summerlin My husband and I rarely go to New York together. He dis likes everything about the city except musical shows, watching the skaters at Rockefeller Plaza, HM Mat #i up the Hudson. I find these amusements very tiresome. Only on a few things, however, do we find ourselves disagreeing to the point of words. Subway riding is one of them. Now, I am addicted to subways as I like the feeling of being rushed underground from one place to another in record time. But my husband abhors them. Last week we were in New York together. Since I was go ing out to the Bronx to the Mortefiore Headache Clinic and he was anxious to go with me, the subway was our only choice. One reason he dislikes the sub way is that he still behaves like a gentleman in them. Once, years ago, when he got up to give his seat to a feeble old lady, a strapping young man pushed past her, plunked himself down in the vacant spot and added insult to injury by stepping brutally on my husband’s feet. I thought he would be thorough ly disillusioned, and cured of giving up his seat, but once a man has acquired a habit it’s hard to break him of it. When we boarded the subway Parking on Senlac Road The aldermen enacted at their meeting this week an ordinance that limits parking on Senlac road to the south side (the side nearest the Booker place). Both sides parking has not only clogged traffic, since it leaves only one central lane for moving vehicles; it has also created a danger: the cars parked on both sides would obstruct fire-fight ing equipment in the case of a fire. Home from the Hospital Mrs. W. R. Berryhill has come home from the hospital after undergoing a slight opera tion. CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1951 adviser was General Jacob L. Devers, the celebrated comman der of the Sixth Army Group in World War 11. He knew General Devers’s remarkable ability. They became acquainted when General Devers was in command at Fort Bragg before the war and used to come to Chapel Hill for football games and on other occasions. One day about two weeks ago, from the offices of the State Department in Wash ington, Mr. Graham telephoned to the General at his home in Virginia and told him what he wanted. Astonishment is a mild word to describe the General’s state of mind as he listened to the proposal. He had recently retired from the Army and was looking forward to a long rest ful period of country life. “If it had been something easy I was asking General Devers to do,” said Mr. Graham to a friend from Chapel Hill a day or two afterward, “I wouldn’t have got to first base with him. But the more I told him about how difficult our mis sion was, and how desperately his help was needed, the more willing he became. That’s the (Continued on but page) at Times Square we found a seat together, but at the next stop my husband got up and offered his place to a lovely lady. She gave him a wild look aa she dropped in his seat; then, look ing sweetly up at him, aaid, “That’s never happened to me before. You must not be from New York.” “Oh, no,” my husband replied, “I’m from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.” Her face lit up. “Do you know Billy Carmichael?” she asked. (Continued on lait page) 25 Children Are Pupils in Reading Clinic A reading clinic to aid chil dren who need improvement in basic reading skills is being conducted this summer by the University’s school of education. Twenty-five children, ranging in school grades from three to seven, have been admitted to the clinic after having been recom mended for such training by their teachers. These children are students with above average abilities, who for various reasons, have not acquired the desirable read ing skills and habits. Each child receives an hour a day of indi vidual help With their reading. Nineteen teachers who give this individual attention to the children are enrolled in a course of corrective reading being of fered by the University this Niven to Enroll Here Charlie Niven, Wilmington’s great high school athletic star, plans to enroll in the second term of the University’s sum mer session. As a tailback on the Wilmington football team, he was a member of the All-State team. In basketball he was also awarded All-State honors and was named as the leading player at the state tournament this year at Durham, and this spring he was one of Wilmington’s top baseball players. Under South ern Conference regulations, he will be eligible to play varsity football here this fall. Chapel Hill Chaff When I saw Miss Ella Boone Dicksdh at her home on North street day before yesterday she was in an exceptionally cheerful mood. It’s no wonder she feels good. She has got her arthritis under control, with cortisone and physio-therapy, and this coming Monday she is going back to her work in the Bank of Chapel Hill. Miss Dickson has had a tough experience with arthritis. She had it in the joints of her arms and legs, and then the pain be gan spreading to her back. She quit work in March and, under the direction of Dr. Fred Pat terson, embarked upon a course of treatment. Besides taking the recently discovered medicine, cortisone—it can be taken in ternally now, in a pill, instead of through injection as it used to be taken—she has been having two physio-therapy treatments a week at Watts hospital. She took the last one in the course yesterday. Physio-therapy tends to beep the patient limbered up. I had a physio-therapist punch, twist, and manipulate me dur ing a period of about a month several years ago, and he did me a lot of good. Physio-therapy is in the nature of massage, but it is more scientific than massage, and is practiced by persons who have more elaborate training than is required for massage; hence it has a more dignified name. When Jack London—officially Captain John J. London, U.S. Navy, retired—was in the vil la*.} recently he told me how Frank Smathers, of Miami, Fla., who was in the University here with Jack and me fifty years ago, had been relieved by corti sone after years of suffering from arthritis. * ♦ 0 Mrs. S. J. Brockwell is widen ing her driveway in from Hen derson street. When a neighbor (Continued on latt page) summer. Each of these teachers has had several years of experi ence in teaching or supervising educational work. In the course, the teachers study the causes of reading difficulty, the techniques of diagnosing the difficulty, and the methods by which it can be corrected. 0 It is anticipated that this clinic held in reading will be come a regular part of the serv ices of the school of education to the public schools of the state, Dean Guy B. Phillips said yesterday. Tarl Brown of the school of education faculty is the director of the clinic. He has been on the staff for a year and has been working with the public school systems in this area. Playmakers to Give Comedy The Carolina Playmakers will give the Lawrence Langner comedy, “The Pursuit of Happi ness,” the evenings of July 12, 13, and 14 in the Playmakers theatre. It will be the organiza tion’s first major production of the season. Methodist Women’s Meeting The Woman’s Society of Chris tian Service of the Methodist church will meet at 3:30 Mon day afternoon at the church. Mrs. Fletcher Green will give a conference report. Jm Jones Aeeistant Editor Board of Aldermen Decides That Employees of Town Shall Be Pot Under Social Security System; Will Cost About $1,200 a Tear HAL Plans to Have its Deposits Insured The directors of the Orange County Building and Loan As sociation, at their meeting last night, voted to approve the re port of a special committee recommending that the associa tion apply for membership in the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. When the association becomes a member of the corporation— and, because of its solid finan cial position, there is no con ceivable obstacle to its becom ing a member—the deposits placed with it will be insured up to 110,000. Now that the association has changed from the installment share plan to the direct reduc tion plan for the making of loans, it accepts savings deposits just as does a savings bank. In terest at 2y 2 per cent is paid on these deposits. Lindsays and Hazletts To Move September 1 Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Lind say have bought the Norman Foerster house on Gimghoul road and will move into it Sep tember 1. Captain and Mrs. Hazlett have bought the house that the Lindsays are leaving, on Coolidge street in Forest Mills. The Lindsays’ moving date suits the Hazletts fine be cause that's just when the Haz letts’ lease expires. So, the west to-east and the east-to-west mi grations will be proceeding simultaneously. Or, if you prefer to phrase it in another way, the Coolidge streets lares and pe nates and the Boundary street lares and penates, in a surly humor at being disturbed, will be crossing town at the same time. Latin is in a sad decline as a subject of study, and maybe there are some persons who don’t know what these words mean. Well, if you don’t, ask Mr. Ullman or Mr. Harland. These gentlemen appear fre quently at the post office and either of them will be glad to translate for any inquirer. . . . Oh, well, never mind. Maybe you will be satisfied to be told in plain English that the Lind says and the Hazletts are going to move. Town Officials Elected Thomas D. Rose, town man ager; Mrs. Helen Giduz, town clerk; Erie Peacock, town audi tor; W. T. Sloan, police chief; P. R. Perry, fire chief; Mrs. Musella Wagner,, court clerk; and W. P. Jordan, assistant tax collector, were re :elected to their posts by the board of aider men Monday night. Action on the election of a town attorney and a prosecuting attorney was postponed pending the study, by a special committee to be ap pointed by Mayor Lanier, of the duties and responsibilities of these offices (both of which are now held by C. P. Hinshaw). ii ■■■—' ' ■ ■ d Foeraters Gone to California Mr. and Mrs. Norman Foer ster have gone to live in Santa Barbara, California. Classified advertisements ap pear on pages $ and 8 of this issue. |2 a Year in Advance in Orange County |3 a Year Out of County. 5c a Copy The board of aldermen adopt ed at its meeting Monday night a resolution that will put all municipal employees except the police under the Federal Social Security System. The reason the police are not included is that they are al ready members of the State conducted retirement system for law enforcement officers. Social Security works for a municipal government just as for an employer in private busi ness. There is a deduction of IVi per cent from an employee’s pay; the town chips in IV* per cent; and the town sends the 3 per cent to the U. S. Collector of Internal Revenue. For ex ample: if a man’s pay is S2OO a month, the town holds out $3 of it and adds to that its own contribution of $3. Payments to the Government are on a quar terly basis; so, every three months the town sends $lB to the Government, accompanied by a form filled out with the re quired information about the employee (name, address, and Social Security number). The cost to the town of hav ing its employees under the Social Security System will be about $1,200 a year. The mayor and the aldermen, who are elective officials, are not affected by the board’s decision, but (with the police excepted) it applies to all other employees —about 20 altogether, includ ing the town manager, the town clerk, the court clerk, the fire men, and the labor force. The first step in the procedure of placing the town employees under the Social Security sys tem is for the town to ask the State (which serves as agent for the national Governmnet) to prepare the contract which the town is to sign. Kiwanis Club Hears Report by Rosemond A report on the annual con vention of Kiwanis International was given at the Chapel Hill Ki wanis Club dinner meeting Tues day evening at the Carolina Inn by Tom Rosemond, the club’s delegate to the convention, which was held from June 17 to 21 in St. Louis, Mo. Reminding his hearers that the Kiwanis theme for the year was “Free dom Is Not Free,” he said that the main topics of the conven tion programs were “Freedom of Enterprise,” “Lower Tax Bur den#,” and “The maintenance of a sound financial program and armed preparedness so that we need not fear communism whether from within or from abroad.” Guests at the meeting were Dr. Walter Gobble, Suffolk, Va.; Allan Finstad, Washington, D. C.; Robin Wooten and Plato W. Greer, North Wilkesboro, and R. L. Steigman, Cincinnati, Ohio. The program war arranged by Clyde Homaday, program chair man for the week. Ensign Cohen Rejoins Ship Ensign Stanley Cohen of the U.S. Navy has rejoined his ship on the West Coast after a three weeks visit here with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Phil Cohen of 108 Kenan street.
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