Vol. 30 No. 26
Board Adopts
Final Budget;
Tax Rate Is
Not Changed
The aldermen adopted at
their meeting this week the
final budget for the next
year (1952-53). The expendi
tures for general fund pur
poses are set at $195,000, for
debt service $35,000, a total I
of $230,000. Os the amount for j
debt service, $24,000 is for i
payments on principal and j
SII,OOO is for interest.
The tax rate will be *the
same as it was last year:
$1.43 per SIOO of assessed
valuations. Os this, sl.lO is ■
for the general fund, 33 cents
is for debt service. The tax
rate is based on assessed valu
ations of 8' 2 million dollars.
Handling of Court Funds
The aldermen directed the
town manager, mayor, and
judge of the recorder’s court
to confer with the county
board of welfare and the
county commissioners about
th- aldermen’s reluctance to
having the clerk of the court
handle receipts and disburse
ment' of payments levied by
the judge of the recorder's
co ir in family non-support
case'.
Kquipment Bonds
The aldermen authorized
the issuance of $12,000 in
equipment bonds for machin
ery replacements and addi
tions, including one fire t ruck.
. . . They approved the ap
pointment of 'Charles L. Fd
monds to the police depart- i
ment staff. . . . They received !
the auditor’s re|>ort for May
saying that the town’s books
were in good order and that
all disbursements were "based
on proper vouchers. . . . They
were notified by L. J. Phipps,
chairman of the town planning
board, that there were two
vacancies on the board, one
caused by the expiration of
Phipps’s term and the other
by William M. Cochrane’s
moving out of town. ... Grant
ed a beer permit to M. M. Tim
mons (operating as the Port
Hole). Received the fire de
partment’s report for the
l**riod May 21-June 23, show
ing eleven alarms answered
.and estimated property dam
age of $350.00.
H. I). Strowd Is in
Watts with Phlebitis
Assistant Postmaster H. I).
Strowd is in Watts hospital
with phlebitis (inflamation of
the veins).
He was seized with a swell
ing of the ankle on Tuesday
of last week. It grew worse,
and on Saturday he was taken
to the hospital.
Fortunately -the swelling is
confined to his lower leg. It
is not nearly so serious as it
would be if it were higher.
The cure will come through
the reduction of the blood
clots, and for that Mr. Strowd
must stay in the hospital for
perhaps two weeks. The latest
news from him is that he is
resting comfortably.
Releo.se Baas Fingerlings
Came Protector Robert Lo
gan, assisted by J. T. Howard,
a member of the Orange Coun
ty Wildlife Club, released
about a thousand bass finger
lings in the Eno river above
Hillsboro last week. The young
bass had been sent here from
a state hatchery near Morgan
ton.
Sid Varney at Raleigh
Sid Varney, former Univer
sity football and baseball star,
is playing this summer on the
Raleigh team in the Carolina
League.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
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Iris Merritt Rehearses for Pageant
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Mi<> Iris Merritt. - who will represent Chanel Hill at the annual
Miss North Carolina beauty and personality pageant next month
in Winston-Salem, i< shown here wearing a die" given to her by
the Robbins .'-tore did whiel. -he will wear in Winston-Salem. The
l'-yeai-oid daughtei of Mi. and Mrs. Kin n Merritt of the I’ittsboro
load, Mi-s Merritt was graduated this month from the ( impel Hill
high school'and ha' been busy practicing the dance number she will
give at the pageant. She will he accompanied to Winston-Salem by
several friends and members of her family and an escort from the
Chapel Hill Junior Chamber of Commerce, whiel) sponsored the
Mi-~ Chapel Hill pageant in February. A trip to Atlantic City, N. J.,
to compete in the Miss America contest will be awarded to the winner
of the Mi.ss North Carolina pageant, which is sponsored by the state
Jaycee organization. (This photograph of Mis., Merritt was made
by Francis Lavergne Johnson, Chapel Hill photographer.)
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John Umstead Plans to Introduce Bill to
Separate Prisons from Highway Department
John W. Umstead. j r.,
Orange" county representative
in the legislature, plans to in
troduce at the session this
coming winter a bill to sep
arate the State prisons from
the State highway depart
ment.
Mr. Umstead was expected
to sponsor this measure at the
1951 session. It was supposed
to l»e a part of Governor
Scott’s program for improve
ment in the administration of
State Departments. When the
Governor decided not to sup
fwirt it Mr. Umsead, who felt
sure it could not Ik* enacted
without the Governor’s sup
port, dropped the matter.
It is not known what posi
tion on prison reform will be
taken by Mr. Umstead’s broth
er, William B. Umstead, who
will be Governor when the
next legislature meets. The
majority of the members of
Many Stores Will
Have 2-Day Holiday
The following Chaj>el Hill
and Carrboro Business es
tablishments will be closed
next week on both Friday and
Saturday, July 4 and July 5:
Bank of Chapel Hill, Caro
lina Flower Shop, Carolina
Sport Shop, Caston Motor
Company, Chapel Hill Motors,
Coman Lumber Company,
Electric Construction Com
pany, Fitch Lumber Company,
John Foushee Real Estate and
Insurance Company, J. B.
Goldston Lumber Company,
Hazzard Motor Company,
Home and Auto Supply Store,
Ledbetter - Pickard, Knight-
Campbell Hardware ; Store,
Jack Lipman’s, Sol Lipman’s,
Little Shop, Orange Plumb
ing and Heating Company,
Public Service of Chapel Hill,
Town and Campus, University
Florist, University Printery,
Varley’s Men’s Shop, Went
worth and Sloan, and the Yam
Shop.
Most of the other stores will
be closed Friday, July 4, but
will be open Saturday, July 6.
Most stares will be open all
day Wednesday of next week
instead of observing the us
ual mid-week half holiday.
the legislature are known to
be adherents of Governor-to
be Umstead, and there is no
doubt that if he really gets
liehind this measure he can
have it put through.
How successful Legislator
Umstead will be in persuading
Governor Umstead to support
it—this is something that is
also not known. But this is
sure: in whatever efforts he
makes at persuasion Legis
lator Umstead will be vigor
ously aided by persons who
combine the merit of being
well informed about prison
problems with the merit of
considering these • problems
from the i>oint of view of the
public'interest and not from
the point of view of political
alignments and political ad
vantage.
2nd Primary Tomorrow
The run-off primary in
the contest between R. Hunt
Parker and William H. Bob
bitt for justice of the State
Supreme Court will be held
tomorrow (Saturday). The
polls will be open from 6:30
a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
R. N. Wilson Honored
R. N. Wilson, former Duke
University professor and
brother of L. R. Wilson of
Chajad Hill, received, at a
recent service in the Duke
Memorial Methodist church in
Durham, a scroll of apprecia
tion for his services as Scout
master in Durham. Mr. Wil
son recently resigned from
the post of Scoutmaster of
Troop No. 13 after 39 years of
leadership. He has received
many awards in recognition of
his service to youth.
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Library’s Holiday Hours
The schedule at the Univer
sity Library for the July 4
week-end will be as follows:
Friday, July 4, open 9 a.m. to
5 p.m.; Saturday, July 5, open
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, July
6, open 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Regu
lar hours will be resumed
Monday, July 7.
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE SO, 1952
Next Week’s Issue
Because the Fourth of
July falls on Friday this
year and there will be no
mail deliveries on the holi
day, the next issue of the
Weekly will be published
one day earlier than usual.
Ordinarily the paper bears
a Friday date line. Next
week’s issue will be dated
Thursday, July 3.
The printing of the paper
is done the day before the
publication day. That means
that, by the usual schedule,
the printing is done on
Thursday and the copies of
the paper for subscribers
are taken to the post office
Thursday night. If we were
to follow our usual sched
ule the copies for subscrib
ers on carrier routes would
lie over in the post office
on Friday and would not be
delivered till Saturday.
With the change in sched
ule the carriers will de
liver lhe papers on Thurs
day, both in town and on
the rural routes. If the
schedule were not changed
the subscribers on rural
routes would not get their
papers till Monday.
All persons who have
news or advertisements for
the paper, please take no
tice that the deadline will
he one day earlier next
week than usual. No display
advertisements can be ac
cepted after 3 p.m. Tues
day and no classified ad
vertisements after 10 a.m.
Wednesday.
Millers in Kyser Home
Mr. and Mra* Kay Kyser
and their Kim
and Carroll, Kawgone to'Cali
fornia for the summer. In
their absence their home on
East Franklin street is oc
cupied by Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert A. Miller and their daugh
ter Amy. The daughter is one
year old today, June 27. Mr.
Miller is a member of the
University Library staff. The
Millers have an apartment in
Glen Lennox to which they
will return in the fall.
An hlililoriul nboiil Trt*t*N
The basic cause of the destruction of many good sound
trees on the streets of Chapel Hill is that the decision about
whether or not trees should be destroyed or protected has
been left to too small a number of persons. In case after
case trees have been destroyed without the great majority
of the people’s knowing anything about it until irrepar
able damage was done.
I have lived a long time in Chapel Hill, from my birth
to my 18th year and from my 38th to my present 69th year.
49 years in all, and so I have had a good opportunity to learn
Chapel Hill people’s opinions on a variety of subjects. And I
am sure that a big majority of Chapel Hill people are very
much distressed, to put it mildly, at the destruction of trees
that has taken place in recent years.
Before they go ahead and order a tree cut down, or allow
it to be cut down, the town authorities ought to make
sure that the question of whether or not it shall be cut
down gets a great deal more consideration than this question
has been getting lately.
Take, for example, the cutting down of the trees in front
of the school buildings last week. The aldermen agreed to
this because they were asked to by the school board; and
the school board agreed to it because it was recommended by
the board’s building committee. Os the three members of
the committee, one did not take part in the decision. So, in
effect, the decision to cut the trees down was made by two
persons.
It is certainly not right that it should be left to two
persons to make the- decision on a question that is so im
portant to all the people of Chapel Hill as is the question
of the preservation or destruction of trees.
Calendar of Events
Friday, June 27
7 p.m., Davie Poplar, Water
melon Festival.
Saturday, June 28
6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., run
off primary.
Tuesday, July I
9 a.m., Opening of library
in elementary school, for per
iod to Aug. 20.
A gift to a frtoad: a aatecrtg
ttoa to tW WNkly. See rate* at
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Chapel Hill Chaff
One day last week President
Gordon Gray went out on the
Farrington road (or Mount
Carmel church road, as it is
sometimes called) and walked
over a piece of land he bought
a few' months ago. He didn’t
spend over ten minutes on his
walk but that was long enough
for him. to acquire a large
colony of chiggers (red bugs).
At a conference that he
attended the next day his fel
low* conferees observed that
now and then he would roll
up his trousers and dab on
his legs something out of a
bottle. I heard about this and
called him on the telephone to
ask him what the remedy was.
I do not happen to have been
bitten by chiggers recently
but I am always interested in
what serves to kill them or
put them to flight. Sometimes
sufferers ask me for advice
on this subject and I like to be
able to acquaint them with
the latest discovery.
Mr. Gray told me he had
used a lotion that had come
from Eubanks' drugstore and
that he hud also used -with
good effect some of his wife’s
nail polish, which, he said,
sealed up a bite, cut the air
off from the chigger m its
lair under the skin, and so
killed it. Nail polish contains
collodion, which is well known
as a sealer-up.
"Somebody told me years
ago,” 1 said to Mr. Gray, "that
if you sprinkled some sulphur
in your shoes and the cuffs of
vour trousers before you took
a walk in the woods, it would
keep the chiggers off. 1 tried it
once and it worked fine.”
"That's just what a man in
the State forestry department
said when 1 told him about
these bites,” said Mr. Gray,
“and I’m going to protect my
self with sulphur before I go
out in the woods again.”
Rupert Jernigan at Eu
banks’ drugstore, who mixes
up the anti-chigger stuff, tells
me he calls it simply Chigger
Lotion. "1 wanted to call it
Chigger Digger,” he said, "but
a man in Winston-Salem
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Meade Edits Brochure
William T. Merfde, the Uni
versity’s gymnastics coach, is
the editor of a newsletter pub
lished by the National Asso
ciation of American Gymnas
tics Coaches, of which he is
secretary-treasurer. The pub
lication is a 30-page brochure
containing gymnastics data
on every college conference
and chapters on television and
gymnastics, officiating, the
men's Olympic team, and meet
organization.
Proposal for Sewer Hook-Up
Leads Aldermen to Consider
Practicability of Annexing
Greenwood, Glen Lennox, and
Oak wood-Rogerson Drive Area
Hearing on Zoning
Will Be
Put off Till Fall
At their meeting Monday
evening the aldermen received
a resolution from the Com
munity Council and a peti
tion from residents outside of
Chapel Hill asking approval
of the proposed zoning ordin
ance for the country around j
Chapel Hill.
L. J. Phipps, chairman of
the commission that prepared
the ordinance, explained to
the aldermen that in its pres
ent form it contained changes
made in response to various
objections to the original
measure. A considerable num
ber- of country people who
opposed the ordinance in its
first form approve the revised
version.
Under the law a public hear
ing must be held before the
ordinance can l>e enacted. The
aldermen decided not to hold
the hearing till fall. The date,
when set, will be published in
this newspaper.
Resuscitator Ready
For Use by Anybody
Here is something that
ought to be known to ail the
people in Chapel Hill but prob
ably is unknown to a good
many: the town tjhHW—limit
has a resusc?lat*r< tRtA >i»
ready for use at tjty time by
anybody who needs it.
A resuscitator is a machine
for restoring breath to per
sons who run the risk of death
from drowning, from the in
halation of smoke, or from
any other accident that has
stopped the flow of air to and
from the lungs.
The resuscitator stays in a
truck at the fire engine house
and so is ready to be taken out
on instant notice. Whoever
wants it should call the fire
department, telephone 4666.
The firemen have been
trained in the use of it by an
instructor from the company
that sold it to the town and
also by life-saving experts
from the University’s depart
ment of physical education.
Mercury Rises to 99;
In 90’s Many Days
Chapel Hill’s high point in
temperature for the year so
far was 99 day before yester
day, June 25. That is the of
ficial figure from the U.S.
weather bureau station at the
filter plant at Carrboro.
When I called Max D. Saun
ders, custodian of the station,
at 11:30 yesterday morning,
June 26, the temperature was
95.
The record shows that in
the 15 days, June 12 to June
26 inclusive, the mercury went
up into the 90’s on 12 days,
to 89 on two days, and, on the
coolest of the 15 days, to 87.
In the 11 days ending yes
terday the maximum was 90
on one day, 91 on one day, 93
on three days, 94 on two days,
95 on three days, and 99 on
one day. (That is counting
yesterday’s 95 as a maximum;
the mercury may have risen
after Mr. Saunders gave me
this figure.)
Moving Into New Home
The Thomas Carrolls, the
Henry Clarks, and the Gerald
Barretts will soon move into
their new homes in th\lEuon
Farm road area, sooth of the
village.
12 a Year in Coonty ; U M in leak si'
N. C„ Va., and 8L C.» |4 Racwtora in U. S.
At their meeting this week
the aldermen voted, on mo
tion of R. B. Fitch, to direct
Town Manager Thomas D.
Rose to compile data on the
revenues and expenditures
which would result from the
annexation of Greenwood,
Glen Lennox, Oakwood Drive,
and Rogerson Drive.
The decision to inquire into
the practicability of annexing
these areas grew out of a pe
tition from residents of Oak-
I wood and Rogerson Drives for
! permission to connect their
homes wi r h the town sewer
system. The reason for the pe
tition was that many of the
septic tanks attached to the
homes had begun :o overflow.
The health authorities, after
making a careful survey, de
clared that the overflowing of
the tanks was definitely a
menace to health.
Philip Green, appearing be
fore the aldermen this week
as representative of the Oak-'
wood Drive and RogeHH%
Drivlkresidents, said therwMt
dents would stand the cost <rf
making all the necessary con
nections if the town would let
them use its disposal system.
In the discussion that fol
lowed, Mr. Fitch expressed the
1 opinion that the use of the
town’s facilities by outside
! communities was not, in the
! long run. a satisfactory solu
tion of the municipal service
i problem—that ji rnngft ;|attnr
Solution a ouli fc-*itf>urbs
needing sewaft disposal and
[other services to be taken into
I the town. The other aldermen
agreed with Mr. Fitch in this.
' But they all realize, of course,
that the annexation of any
suburb depends both on finan
cial factors and on the wishes
of a majority of the suburb’s
i residents. The study to be
made by Town Manager Rose
is just a preliminary; it is
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Grays Will Sail for
Europe Next Tuesday
President and Mrs* Gordon
Gray and their two older sons,
Gordon and Burton, will sail
from New York on the Queen
Elizabeth this coming Tues
day, July 1.
They will go first to Paris
for a little over a week and
will do sightseeing in and.
around the city. Their next
base, from which they will
go out on short trips, will be
Lucerne, Switzerland. Thence
they will go to London and
they will move about some in
England.
Mr. Gray will fly back to
the United States on the first
of August so that he will be
in Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and
Greensboro for the visits of
the Advisory Budget Commis
sion to the three institutions
in the Greater University.
Mrs. Gray and the two boys
will stay in London till Aug
ust 7, when they will sail for
home on the Queen Mary.
Boyden, the third of the
four sons, will be at Camp
Yonahnoka near Linville for
the next two months. The
youngest, Bernard, will be
with his grandmother Gray at
Roaring Gap until his mother
gets back home.
Bake Sale Today
The Women’s Fellowship of
the United Congregational
Christian church will hold a
bake sale today (Friday) at
the Carolina Drapery Shop.
The shop is on West Fmnidin
atrset opposite the boa sta
tion.