Vol. 31 No. 21
Government
Says_Yes to
Proposal For
Another Bank
The U. S. Controller of the
Currenty—w ho impe rsonates
the U.S. Government in de
ciding on applications for per
mits to establish national
banks —has given preliminary
approval to the establishment
of one in Chapel Hill.
The favorable word came
Tuesday in the form of a let
ter to William S. Stewart,
chairman- of the organizing
committee of the group of
citizens who presented the
application in February.
Final approval awaits the
success of the petitioners in
selling the required amount of
capital stock, $200,000. There
ought not to be any doubt
about that since Watts Hill
of Durham ajn'eed, when the
petition was, made, to under-'
write the project. The idea is
that the stock will be sub
scribed by Chapel Hill and
Carrboro people and that Mr.
Hill will not have to put up
the money, but the Govern
ment would not consider the
application unless the sub
scription of the full amount
was guaranteed. “Our objec
tive is widespread community
ownership of the bank,” said
Mr. Stewart yesterday.
When the subscription books
will open has not yet been
decided.
The shares will have a par
value of $25 and the subscrip
tion price w ? !Lbe SSO.
The named® M baflKit#
be the Urrfv«»ity
Bank of Chapel Hill. The site
for it has not yet been select
ed.
The signers of the jietition
for the permit, besides Mr.
Stewart, were Carl Smith,
R. W. Madry, Henry P. Bran
dis, W. L. Sloan, Henry S.
Hogan, John T. Manning,
Vance Hogan, Dr. Robert A.
Ross, Herbert Wentworth,
John M. Foushee, Roy S.
Lloyd, Kenneth Putnam, R. B.
Todd, and Junius C. Fox, jr.
Barbecue and Bait
Casting at Hogan’s
A barbecue supper and a bait
casting contest, open to the public,
will be held Monday afternoon and
evening at Hogan’s Lake by the
Orange County Wildlife Club, it
is announced by Walter Rabb,
president of the club.
The bait-casting contest will be
g:n at 5:30 p.m. and will be follow
ed by the barbecue at 7 o’clock.
Tickets are on sale at Huggins
Hardware Store, the Knight-Camp
bell Hardware Store, and the Poe
Motor Company. Fishing tackle
for use in the contest will be pro
vided by Huggins and Knight-
Campbell.
A short business meeting for
n embers of the club will be held
just prior to the supper.
At Memorial Hospital
The following local persons were
registered as patients at Mem
orial hospital yesterday: Curtis Al
ston, Grover Bush, Grover Dukes,
W. C. Dyson, R. L. Freeman, Isaac
Jones, Wyndell Merritt, Miss Ruth
Price, Mrs. J. L. Simmons, Mrs.
Paul Sparrow, F. C. Wellman,
Thomas Alford, Mrs. Herbert Cash,
Miss Norma Clark, Oscar Williams,
Mrs. Judson Clark, Miss Margaret
Ellen Cole, Nathan Patterson, and
Mrs. Wallace T. ftomble.
Elmores to Have Home Here
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Elmore of New
York were here for several days
last week. They visited several
times their 14-acre tract, out in
the Laurel Hill woods, where they
are going to build a home some day.
Mrs. Olsen in Real Estate
Mrs. Sarah D. Olsen announces
that she is now doing real estate
work and is also a special agent
for the Equitable Life Assurance
Society.
Classified ads appear on pages
two aad fonr.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
5 Cents a Copy
This Is the Plane in Which Mrs. Bayard Wootten
Went Up to Take Pictures of New Bern in May t9lO
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“I want to get you to tell
me more about that airplane,”
I said to Mrs. Bayard Wootten,
and she said she would. This
was when our talk in the bus
station was ended by the ar- j
rival of the bus that was to
take her to Elon College to
visit her son. I wrote for the
next issue a piece about the
flight she made in May 1910
to take photographs of New
Bern.
$71,000 Street and Sewer Improvements
Proposed by Town Manager Thomas Rose
Street and sewer improvements
in the town totaling 271,080 have
been proposed for the coming sis-
Thomas
noara of aldermen at its next meet
ing on June 22, at which time the
budget for the coming year will
be up for final adoption.
For the estimated revenue of
$20,816 which the Town expects
to receive from the State’s Powell
Bill funds in the coming year, Mr.
Rose recommended new surfac
ing and resurfacing projects es
timated to cost 220,960.
Here are his recommendations
and estimated costs for street
work: (New surfacing) Hill and
Jones streets, $1,050; Roosevelt
avenue between Hillcrest and Hill
view roads, $1,350; Hillview road,
$1,800; Plant road from IJtirhum
road to Hillview road, $350; Dog
wood drive, $7,300; and Woodland
avenue, $1,200.
(Resurfacing) Lindsay street,
$850; McDade street, $560; and
Cameron avenue, $6,500. Mr. Rose
said that the State plans this
ummer to resurface at its own
expense the following streets which
are “feeder” lines between State
maintained roads: Sunset drive,
Nunn street, Mitchell lane, Church
street, and Hillsboro street. Hard
surfacing is planned for Merritt
Mill road between Cameron ave
nue and West Franklin street.
Sewer and street improvements
that would be made at Town ex
pense, totalling ari estimated cost
of $52,203, have also been recom
mended by the Town Manager.
They are as follows:
Widening East Rosemary street
from Columbia to Hencerson street,
$18,000; curb and gutter for first
New Telephone Directory Coming Out Soon
The new Chapel Hill telephone
directory is due to be in the hands
of subscribers by the middle of next
month.
Grey Culbreth, head of the Uni
versity’s utilities division, said the
book is scheduled for delivery
from the Colonial Press, where it
is being printed, some time next
week. It will be carried around to
customers’ homes by the meter
reading and maintenance crews of
the utilities division.
The design on the cover of the
book will be the same as that on
the December issue. However, the
new book will be slightly larger.
Mr. Culbreth asks everyone to
copy down any data from their old
books that they want to keep be
fore the delivery of the new books
begins. The delivery crews are sup
posed to collect the old books when
-hey give out the new ones. By
copying down special numbers and
anything else you have in your
old books beforehand, Mr. Cul
breth emphasised, you can save
the delivery crew a lot of time in
the completion of its job.
There will be no new number
After her return home last j
week Roland Giduz went over
to her studio and got from her
the photograph that you see
here.
I Observe that the plane has j
no cabin. Wings, engine, and [
metal frame—that is all, ex
cept two small seats clamped |
to the frame. After Roland!
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had shown me the photo
graph, which was taken just
before the ascent in the pres
block of North Roberson street,
$1,800; curb und guttter for Dog
wood drive, $16,00#; curb and gut
ter for Woodbind avenue, $3,300;
sewer line for Plant road, $2,460;
setoer line ft*'.Hooper lane, 22,488;
sewer line for /Woodland avenue,
$4,510; and sewer line off Hill
view road, $4,650.
The source of funds for these
latter projects has not been de
termined, but they are not pro
vided for in the tentatively-approv
ed budget for the next fiscal year.
One way the money could be raised
would be through a bond issue.
Curb and gutter work is actually
done at no cost to the town, since
the property owners are assessed
for this work. But since they can
pay back their proportionate cost,
plus interest, over a 10-year per
iod, the Town ordinarily has to
appropriate the money in the be
ginning. However, if enough per
sons want to pay their assessment
in cash in one sum before the work
is done, and thereby save paying
interest, they can do so during a
certain period specified by law. If
this could be done on the curb and
gutter work proposed for the com
ing fiscal year it will solve the
problem of where the Town will
find the money with which to do
the job.
School Art Guild Meeting
The School Art Guild’s last meet
ing of the year will be held at 8:15
p.m. Monday in Gardner hail,
where a $200,000 exhibit of orig
inal American paintings is on dis
play. Mrs. Harry Martin will give
a gallery talk. The program will
also included the election of of
ficers, discussions of future pol
icies, and the serving of refresh
ments.
changes in this book, except for
new customers. Mr. Culbreth said
he didn’t anticipate any more num
ber changes immediately for the
purpose of expanding the local
telephone system. During the past
year or so the first digits of many
numbers have been changed from
“F” to “9” in the expansion of
the exchange.
After the new equipment for the
telephone system arrives this sum
mer some congested multi-party
lines will be divided, since more
lines will then be available, but
these will be about the only
changes. At present there are about
5,000 stations (telephone instru
ments) on the local exchange, in
cluding about 800 extension phones
on some single numbers.
Presbyterian Circle Meeting
Circle 4 of the Presbyterian
church will meet at 8 p.m. Tues
day, June 2, in the church par
lor. P. H. Epps will talk on the
Book of Acts. Everybody is in
vited, especially members of the
church's other three circles.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1953
jence of a big crowd in a field
[on the outskirts of New Bern,
[Mrs. Wootten and 1 had a
question - and - answer talk
about it over the telephone.
“Were you fastened in any
way, so you wouldn’t fall out?”
I asked her. . . . “Oh, yes, I
was tied to the plane by a
Istrap around my body,” she
said. “As long as the plane
wouldn’t fall neither would I.”
She had something more to
do than hold on—she had to
manipulate a camera. To take
photographs she had to get
out of her seat and stand on
a pair of steel struts. She still
has the 5x7 Press Graf lex
camera that she used that day
43 years ago and it is still in
use.
Mr »- y ears
uld lastMMlllli.lt hap
pens an
niversary is also the anniver
sary of the first flight of an
airplane under its own power.
The Wright brothers’ plane
made that flight December
17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk.
$218,725 Budget Is Adopted by Aldermen
A municipal budget of $218,725
for the coming fiscal year has been
adopted by the board of aldermen.
This is about 4 per cent more
than the $211,273 budget for the
current year. The new budget will
“lie on the table,” available for
public inspection, as provided for
by law, until proposed for final
adoption at the board’s next meet
ing on June 22.
M ost of the increased appropria
tions for the coming year are pro
posed to go into higher salaries
for town employees, primarily the
policemen and firemen. Generally
these employees received a 10
per cent pay boost as a cost-of
living salary increase.
The revenue from property taxes,
the town’s major source of reve
nue, hqp increased about five per
cent annually in recent years, and
on this basis Town Manager Thom
as D. Rose estimates $104,500 will
be realized during the coming year.
No change is proposed for the
property tax rate of $1.43 for
every SIOO valuation listed on the
tax books.
A departmental summary of the
budget is carried in a legal ad-
Calendar of Events
Friday, May 29
• 4 p.m. Piano recital by Mrs. Lydia
Bernstein’s pupils, high school
auditorium.
Saturday, May 8#
•10 a.m. School Art Guild presents
“Hippity Hop Varieties'’ puppet
how, Varsity theatre.
•8:30p.m. Playmakers Annual
Capers. Playmakers theatre.
Monday. Jane 1
#5:30 p.m. Bait casting contest and
barbecue, sponsored by Wildlife
Club, open to public, Hegan’s lake.
#8:15 p.m. School Art Guild, Gard
ner hall.
Wednesday, June 8
•8 p.m. Commencement exercises,
Carrboro school.
Thursday, Jane 4
•7:30 p.m. Meeting of persons in
terested in joining ground observ
ers corps for eivil defense, Poe
Motor Co,
#8 p.m. Commencement exercises,
Chapel Hill High SebeaL
This issue e«dali|.ld pages
Ip twe sections. '
Chapel Hill Chafj
In my occupation I have to
make an exceptionally large
number of telephone calls.
Looking numbers up in the di
rectory is a nuisance, so I have
made it my business to mem
orize a good many. At first
these were numbers that I had
to call frequently; then I went
on to others that I called only
now and then.
But don’t get the idea that
I am a walking telephone di
rectory. I am far from that.
My wife and other persons
who sometimes see me dial
numbers without looking them
up in the book seem to have
the impression that I know
a large proportion of all there
are. But I doubt if my total
is more than around seventy
five or eighty. To remember
[that many doesn’t seem such
[a remarkable feat when you
consider how easy it is to re
member the letters in the
alphabet or the states in the
Union or the Presidents from
General Washington to Gen
eral Eisenhower.
I can never remember a
number by single digits. It is
[always by pairs: for example,
69-51 for my neighbor, Rob
ert B. *House (not 6-9-5-1),
or 76-51 for Mrs. Drew Patter
son, or 39-71 for Kay Kyser,
or 38-41 for T. F. Hickerson.
I have recently been read
ing chapters by Sigmund
Freud about the reverse pic
ture of remembering—that is,
forgetting. These chapters are
in a book entitled “The Psy
chopathology of Everyday
Life,” which is of course old
stuff to the psychologists but
which profcably not many oth
er peopk would have read if
it hadn’t, bean brought out
in a cheap paper-back edition,
Anybody who reads this book
will find, as I did, that he has
had experiences in forgetting
just like those that are re
lated by Freud. I have for
(Continued on page 2)
vertisement in this issue of the
Weekly. Policemen’s salaries were
increased an over-all 10 per cent
from $27,527 to $30,207. The fire
men received a similar raise, the
over-all payroll being increased
from $16,206 for this year to $17,-
825 for the coming year.
The sanitation and sewer de
partment budgets were increased
about $4,500 to a total of slight
ly over $51,000. Most of the in
crease will go into wages for the
labor force.
With the purchasing of land for
a new town cemetery recently com
pleted, the budget for this depart
ment was also increased. In this
ca e it was more than doubled—
from SB,OOO to $7,000. Almost all
of this increase is scheduled to go
into the cost of fixing up the new
cemetery on the Durham road.
The proposed debt service bud
get total is $35,100 —the same as
for the current year. Out of this,
$25,000 is to go for payment on
the principal of bonds, $9,941 for
interest on bonds, and $l5B for
handling charges.
County Dog Warden Vaccinates 1000 Dogs
Just over 1,000 dogs had been
vaccinated for rabies early this
week by County Dog Warden R.
Hume Claytor of Hillsboro.
Mr. Claytor's month-long series
of vaccination clinics will end to
morrow. However, he will continue
to vaccinate dogs at any individual
owner’a request. He or any veter
inarian is qualified to give theae
vaccinations, and Drs. L. L. Vine
and W. G- Chriaman have been
conducting private clinics for this
purpose.
District Health Officer Dr. O.
David Garvin aaid he thought that
at least as many dogs will be
treated in the vaccination pro
gram this year aa were treated
last year and pointed out that
vaccination ia required annually
by law.
Next week Mr. Claytor will begin
his regular rounds aa dog warden
checking around the county to see
if dogs have bean listed for taxes,
and vaccinating, and eliminating
wild and stray dogs for which there
are no claimanta.
To data, Dr. Garvin aaid, there
have been no eomptainta on this
Pritchard-Little Going to Move;
May Go Out to Suburban Site;
Rumor Is That a Store May Be
Where Strowd Building Is Now
Commencement
The University’s 159th Com
mencement will begin with the
seniors’ luncheon at 1 p.m.
Saturday, June 6, one week
from tomorrow, and will end
with the graduation exercises
Monday night, June 8, in the
Kenan stadium.
Important events in the 3-
day celebration:
Saturday evening at 9, open
air gathering, with music, at
the Kessing Pool.
Sunday morning at 11, bac
calaureate sermon. ... At 1,
Old Students’ Club luncheon.
. . At 4:30, band concert at
[the Davie Poplar. ... At 8:30,
Chapel Hill Choral Club in the
Hill Music hall. ,
Monday morning at 11, re
ception for guests, at the
Davie Poplar. . . At 1, alumni
luncheon in Lenoir hall. . . .
At 2:30 and 4, Carolina Play
makers. ... At 3:30, award
of Navy and Air Force ROTC
commissions. ... At 7, grad
uation exercises (preceded by
a band concert) in the Kenan
stadium.
Swimming Program
Will Begin June IS
The summer swimming instruc
tion program for children, ipon
sored annually by the University’s
physical education department,
will begin Monday, June 15, with
have reached IK rW sth MftF
day and ha tall enough (at leaat
40 inchee) to etaiKl la the shallow
end of the indoor pool. Boys will
wear suits provided at Woollen
gymnasium. Girls may wear theu
own suits (no wool) or suite pro
vided at the gym aad must also
wear caps.
Recreational swimming periods
for children will begin June 12 and
will be from noon to 12:80 p.m.
from Monday through Friday,
from 11 a-m, to 12:80 p.m. Sat
urday, and Irons 8 to 4 p.m. every
day. Children who can’t swim will
not be permitted in the outdoor
pool unless accompanied into the
pool by thei# parents.
Instruction for adults will be
under the supervision of Miss Doris
Hutchinson and will be from 4 to
5 p.m. from Monday through Fri
day. Adult recreational periods will
be from noon to 6 p.m. from Mon
day through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5
p.m. .Saturday, and 2 to 5 p.m.
Sunday.
Swimming tickets for children
($3) and adults ($4) may be ob
tained at the Cashier’s office in
South building. No guest or week
end tickets are available. All us
ers of the pool must have regu
lar tickets bought at South build
ing. Regulations about the use of
the pool are posted in the locker
rooms.
There will be a town swimming
team coached by Miss Susan Fink.
Those wishing to join the team
should phone Miss Fink at 2871.
recently-instituted dog control pro
gram set up by the county com
missioners. He commended Mr.
Claytor on hia work and said the
new dog warden has been receiving
more calls than he can handle.
Mr. Claytor has been traveling
in one of the District Health De
partment staff ears, carrying dogs
in the back of the car when he
needed to do so.
The Health Department will un
doubtedly be glad when the pick
up truck ordered for the dog war
den’s work arrives in a few weeks,
since one dog recently chewed out
the electric wiring for the dome
light and • large section of up
holstery in tha back seat of Mr.
Claytor’a temporary vehicle.
Baaon t» OfM— to at Pa fuim
°w* **«•. will b# grad
uatei Monday from Davidson Cd
legfc He hg# NOT offered a tow
scholarship at Harvard Univer
sity, and N plans to enter Har
vard Law Muni in Bsatsaibir
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23 a Year in County; 23.50 in Rest of
N.C., Va., and S.C.; 24 Elsewhere in U.S.
Pritchard and Little, In
corporated, which recently
succeeded the Strowd Motor
Company a-s the Ford dealer
in Chapel Hill, is going to
move from the building at the
corner of Franklin and Colum
bia streets which Bruce
Strowd put up about thirty
years ago and still owns.
Where its new place will be
is not yet known, but Grady
Pritchard, president of the
company, said yesterday that
he and his partner, Crowell
Little, were considering the
advisability of choosing a
suburban site.
It is rumored that one* of
the big department store
chains will establish a branch
where Strowd’s building now.
is. The name of Belk is heard
—naturally, because that con
cern was known to be looking
around a couple of years ago,
for a location in Chapel Hill.
Belk is supposed to be the
owner of a West Franklin
street lot that was bought in
at that time by a company
with another name (a “dum
my” company), but that lot
is not so desirable for a store
as the Strowd corner.
Pritchard-Little is under
contract with the Ford Motor
Company to provide improved
facilities —which means, pri
marily, new quarters—with
in two years, but Mr. Pritch
ard says he hopes to move
within a year. His lease of
the lease on one month’s no
tice. <
The town government has
been wanting for a long time
to get the gasoline tanks off
the sidewalk at Strowd’s. The
Pritchard - Little move will
make that riddance poasible.
Volunteer Workers
Needed at Hospital
New volunteer worker* for Mem
orial hospital are going to be need
ed during the next three months
while many of the regular ones
are away on vacation, according
to Mrs. Viola Jacobs, director of
voluntary service at the hospital.
“The Hospitality Shop will be
under-staffed, with workers espec
ially needed on Saturday after
noons,” Mrs. Jacobs said yesterday.
In addition to serving in the shop,
helpers man the library cart which
brings books to the patients’ bed
sides. Other workers will be need
ed in the out-patient department.
Members of the Hospital Aux
iliary who have free time avail
able for work this summer are
asked to call Mrs. Jacobs at 9031,
extension 393.
Mrs. Collier Cobb, jr., president
of the auxiliary, urges Chapel Hill
women to join the organisation
now and give their services to fur
ther the comfort of the patients
in the hospital during the short
handed summer months.
An Urgent Appeal
The first meeting of a training
course for men and women to
i serve as observers in Chapel Hill’s
ground observer post in the na
tion-wide Civil Defense setup will
' be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
June 4, in the Poe Motor Com
i pany’s show room. The instructors
i will be Army officers from the
ground observer squadron in Dur
. ham. Watts Poe, supervisor of
. the Chapel Hill poet, baa issued
en urgent appeal for volunteers to
man the poet and to be on band
[ next Thursday evening to begin
[ taking instruction.
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