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 5 Cents a Copy Iris Merritt Rehearses for Pageant .wit? 'flP'' Wt l £ V '" •. m « SHHf • 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.) W 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. * " ' ” w- 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. CUaifM ads appear m lull 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 tog if gaga A 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 (Continued on page 6) - 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 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 (Continued on page 0) 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.