Vol. 31 No. 22
Controversy
Over Church
Returned for
New Hearing
The Chapel Hill Presbyterian
controversy has been sent back
to Orange Presbytery for a new
hearing by order of the judicial
commission of the Presbyterian
Synod of North Carolina.
The majority opinion of the
judicial commission of the Synod,
which announced its decision
Tuesday in Raleigh, upheld the
contention of 146 members of the
local church who signed a com
plaint to the Synod against the
discharge of their pastor, the
Rev. Charles M. Jones. The com
plainants said that the method of
dismissal showed “manifesta
tions of prejudice” and “injus
tices of judgement and action."
Following is the Synod Com
mission’s four-part decision, send
ing the matter back to the Pres
bytery and ordering a new hear
ing in the case:
“(1) That the new hearing be
held immediately and in accord
ance with paragraph 1811 of the
Book of Church Order.
“(2) That the dissolution of the
pastoral relationship of the Rev
erend Charles M. Jones and the
Chapel Hill Presbyterian church
be continued until the issue of i
the hearing is settled.
I “(3) That the present direct
oversight of the Chapel Hill
Presbyterian church by the Pres
bytery of Orange continue until
this hearing is concluded, or as
long as the Presbytery may deem
necessary short of that time. j
“(4) That the Reverend Charles
M. Jones and the Chapel Hill
Presbyterian church be given the
opportunity by the Presbytery of
Orange of due process and trial J
as soon as possible, if so desired
by either party, in accordance
with paragraph 1811 es the Book
of Church Order.”
Four members of the 16-man
Synod Commission vigorously,
protested section two of the
above motion, whereby the pas
tor's discharge was continued
pending final settlement of the
issue. They said that Hr. Jones
should be allowed to return to his
pulpit during the coming .yo'-eed-1
lags and they asked that their
dissent in this respect be record
ed in the Synod’s minutes. These
men were the Rev. Hsrry Mos- (
sett of Gastonia, the Rev. Tom
Hamilton of Kinston, William G.
McGavock of Davidson, and Philip
(Continued on page 8)
To Break Ground
For New Church
The Church of the Holy FamilyJ
the new Episcopal congregation!
organized here last year, will hold
a ground-breaking ceremony atj
5 p.m. Sunday, June 7, at its
building site on U.S. Route 15
near Glen Lennox, it was an
nounced yesterday by the Rev.
Maurice A. Kidder, priest-in
charge.
The ceremony will he conducted
by the Right Reverend Edwin A.
Penick, Bishop of the Diocese of |
North Carolina, who will be as
sisted by the Right Reverend
Richard H. Baker, Bishop Coad
jutor of North Carolina. Clergy
and laymen of both the Church
of the Holy Family and the
Chapel of the Cross will partici
pate.
Members and friends of the
new church are urged to attend
and bring picnic suppers to eat
together after the brief cere
ceremony. Chairs will be provid-|
ed, and it is suggested that card
tables be brought
1 Am Going on a Cruiao
On its “midshipmen’s cruises”
(pert of its training program), the
Navy takes along some civilians,
and this summer I am going on
one of these cruises. Leaving
Chapel Hill June 7. Sailing from
Norfolk on the battleship Wis
consin June 8. Stops to be made
et Rio de Janeiro, Port-of-Spain
(Trinidad) and Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba. Arriving Norfolk August B.
While I’m gone Joe Jones will bs
in command of the Weekly. As
sistant editor, Roland Giduc.
Printing superintendent, Lawrence
Campbell, with his brother Chari
ton as assistant. Receptionist,
bookkeeper, circulation manager,
Elizabeth Easter. Janitor, John
W. Johnson.
|
Hillel Women Name Officers
Mrs. Efrism Rosenzweig has
been elected president of the
Hillel Women’s Club for the com
ing year. She succeeds Mrs. B. G.
Greenberg. Other new officers are
Mrs. Jack Lipman, vice-presi
dent, succeeding Mrs. S. Berman;
Mrs. Alfred Breuer. treasurer,
succeeding Mrs. Jack Lipman,
and Mrs. Rashi Fein, succeeding
Mrs. William Hoffman.
Where Commencement Crowd Will Gather at This Week-End
SQIL.* * A* at
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The campus lawn around
the big white oak tree shown
here will be the gathering
place for hundreds of visi
tors coming to the Univer
sity Commencement which
begins tomorrow and ends
with the graduation exer
cises in the Kenan stadium
Monday evening.
The oak stands on the
central square of the campus
between the Old West build
ing and the Davie Poplar
Wedding Ring Lost Thirty Years Ago
Is Found in the Warrens' Front Yard
An amazing series of coinci
dences were linked together last
jvwekend to bring about uie re
turn of Mrs. Dudley CarrolPs
wedding ring which had been lost
for 80 years.
I Mrs. Carroll said she didn't
know exactly when she last had
the ring, but thought she took
it off in 1924 when it started be
coming a bit tight on her Anger.
“1 was pretty vague about what
had become of it,” she said, “but
after I noticed it was missing I
thought it had probably been
I stolen along with several other
pieces of jewelry that were taken
from our room in a -J’aris hotel
in 1924.” *
That wasn't the case at all,
though, because lust Friday a
boy working in the yard of the
Joseph C. Warrens' home at 116
Hattie Lane found the ring
wedged between two rocks to the
front yard. Inside the band was
.engraved “Dudley to Eleanor,
6/27/1918."
The Warrens didn’t have any
idea whose ring it was, so they
had the boy take it to a local
jeweler’s to see if he had any
clue as to who the owner might
he. Failing to get any further
information from the jeweler, the
boy asked the first person he saw
’when he came out of the store if
he had any idea about it.
This person happened to be a
1 member of the ATO fraternity.
Six Years* Perfect School Attendance
| Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carlisle's
four children completed a year
lof perfect attendance at school
, this week.
Eleven-year-old Jack Carlisle,
> who Anithed the sixth grade, has
1 not missed a day or been tardy
1 for tha six years he has been to
school. He 1* the only pupil in
the school with such a record,
1 according to the principal, Miss
i Mildred M. Mooaeyhan.
The Carlisles’ other three chil
dren, all with no absences or
i tardies for this past year, are
Frank, 3rd, who is in the ninth
grade; Elizabeth, to the eighth
i grade, and Geddie, who has just
flnished the fifth grade.
Mrs. Carlisle said she couldn’t
i take any of the credit herself for
their spotless records. She said
they just seemed to take a spe
cial pride themselvea in not miss
ling school and being on time. She
i usually drives Frank and Elisa
i beth to school each morning,
while Jack and Geddie ride their
bicycles.
i In all, 45 elementary school
children have perfect attendance
recorda for the elementary school
, this year. Last year there were
, 29. Thlrty-flve pupils were never
'tardy or absent even part of a
|day. They wert as follows:
The Chapel Hill Weekly
5 Cents a Copy
1 and close to Person hall. In
t this picture the Old West is
: seen on the right and the
■ Well and the South building
■ in the distance.
1 When H. R. Totten, the
1 botanist, was asked how old
" the tree was he said he
didn’t know. Nobody can tell
the age of a tree until it is
! cut down and the rings are
i counted. “This white oak
may be two hundred years
old,” said Mr. Totten, “or
Knowing Mrs. Carroll’s son Don
ald as a fraternity brother, and
knowing his sister to be named
Eleanor, and remembering th*
name Dudley as th* first name of
the retired dean of the School of
Business Administration, he
culled Donald, who confirmed
that the ring was his mother’s.
The Carrolls lived on Park
place, only a long block from
Battle lane, in the early 1920’5,
but they have no idea how the
ring could have got from there
to what is now the Warren home.
At Memorial Hoapital
The following local persons
were registered as patients at
.Memorial hospital yesterday: Earl
Hush, Mrs. Gran P. Childress,
Kemp Cole, Robert Freeman,
John Goins, Isaac Jones, Mrs.
George Logan, Mrs. William
Riggsl>ee, Mrs. Lessie Vallie Rol
lins, Mrs. Koyul G. Shannonhouse,
Allen Lee Hteytler, Thomas Al
ford, Harry Dark, Glen Thomas
Thompson, and Otis longest.
Paul Smiths at Provincetown
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Smith, pro
prietors of the Intimate Book
shop, have left to spend the sum
mer in Provincetown, Mass.,
where they operate a bookshop
during June, July, and August.
Charles Poston will be to charge
lof their bookshop here while they
I are away.
Eva L*e Blaine, Paul Brigman,
John Brinkhous, William Brink
hous, Elizabeth Carlisle, Geddie
|Carlisle, Jack Carlisle, Candy
Carroll, Neil Clark, Faye Clark*,
Bobby Costollo, Ben Crutchfield,
Buaan Doak, Bill Dykstra, John
Dykstra, Bath Harris, Donni*
Hathaway, David Hanry, Hen
rietta Hilliard, Tammy Laflar,
Nad Martin, Preston Mayse, Bob
by Moore, Debbie Pratt, Ben Pot
ter, Anne Ridout, Frances Strowd,
Robert Strowd, Jimmy Tanner,
Betsy Taylor, Jane Walker, Chips
Weaver, Billy White, and Wayne
Wilson.
No abeences but tardy or
missed part of a day: Larry
Bowles, Trudy Crowder, Paul
Houston, Martha Hunter, Linda
I/Ogsdon, Cecil Marr, Mark Perry,
Bobby Poston, Bobby Spearman,
and Cheryl Strowd.
Congregational Service* Changed
The hour of the Sunday serv
ices at the United Congrega
tional Christian church will be
changed for the summer months
beginning this Sunday. Sunday
school will begin at 9:15 a.m.
and the regular worship service
will be held at 10 (O’clock. Visit
ors are always welcome to at
tend.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1953
j there may be some living
person who remembers hear
ing his father or grandfather
say he saw it planted. Some
trees grow a lot faster than
you think. How fast a tree
grows depends on the soil
around its roots and how
much sunshine and water it
gets.”
The oldest alumnus expect
ed to be in the Commence
ment gatherings around the
tree is l)r. M. C. Millander
of Asheville, who is 94. Bish
op Howard Rondthaler of
Winston-Salem is coming for
his class’s 60-year reunion.
William R. Kenan, jr., who
wbh graduated 49 years ago,
will be here. The class of
1903, which joins the Old
Students’ Club this year, wul
have more members here
than any class has ever had
for a 50-year reunion.
The first of the class re
unions will be held at 7
o’clock tomorrow (Saturday)
evening —the 1928 picnic
Calendar of Events
Friday, June 5
#8 p.m. Commencement exercises
for Lincoln high school; North
side school auditorium.
.Saturday, June 6
• I |>.m. Dutch luncheon for UNC
| seniors and
I*9 p.m. Open air gathering and
musical program, Keasing pool.
Sunday, June 7
•II a.m. University baccalaureate
sermon, Memorial hall.
• 4:30 p.m. Hand concert, Davie
Poplar.
• 6 p.m. Ground breaking cere
moniea for Episcopal church of
the Holy Family; building aito on
bypass highway north of Glen
Lennox.
i #8:30 p.m. “llora NovisKima"
concert by choral club and Uni
versity symphony, Hill hall.
Monday, June H
ell a.m. University reception for
Commencement guests, Davie
Poplar.
*1 p.m. Annual alumni luncheon,
hall.
I *2:30 p.m. New plays by Caro
lina Playmakers, Playmakers the
atre.
| *8:30 p.m. Awarding of Air and
Naval ROTC commissions, Hill
hall.
*4 p.m. New plays by Carolina
'Playmakers, Playmakers theatre.
| *8:30 p.m. Band concert preced
ing Commencement, Kenan sta
'dium.
• 7 p.m. University Commence
ment exercises, Kenan stadium.
Tuesday, June 9
•7:30 p.m. Hillel Women’s Club
party; Hillel House.
Wednesday, June It
•6:30 p.m. Carrboro Women’*
Civic Club, annual family picnic;
at club hut on school grounds.
Thursday, June II
•7 p.m. Carolina Folk Festival,
Kenan stadium.
Clarence liaitkcock la Home
Clarence Haithcock, jr., son of
Mrs. Clarence Haithcock of 302
Pritchard avenue, has come home
from Edwards Military Acad
emy, Salemburg, N. C., where he
was in school during the past
year.
Classified sde appear aa
Mfw two and seven.
supper at the Country Club,
the medical class of 1928 ban
quet at the Carolina Inn, the
class of 1952 at Lenoir hall,
|and the generation reunion
t upper (classes of
1938, and 1939) at the Mono
(Continued on page 8)
l o OMtnrrlpt
After the article on page
9 about the University’s tele
vision project was already in
print, Controller W. D. Car
michael, jr., and Earl Wynn,
director of the University
Communication Center, re
turned from Washington
where they had made a for
mal application to the Fed
eral Communications Com
mission for a permit to con
struct a television station
(Continued on page 8)
Two Beloved Teachers to Depart
After their last faculty meet
ing of the year the teachers of
the Chapel Hill elementary school
entertained at dinner in honor
es Miss Ida Oettinger and Miss
Chattie Cason, two of their num
ber who now leave Chapel Hill
after many years of dintinguished
service. They will return to their
home towns to teach, Miss Oet
tinger to Kinston, Miss Cason to
Monroe.
Miss Oettinger has been with
the Chapel Hill Schools longer
than any other member of the
fuculty, having come here in the
fall of 1927. Since that time her
service was interrupted only once,
when, during World War 11, she
served for a time with the Red
Cross. Her work has been with
primary grades, and she will be
connected with that department
as second grade teacher in Kin
ston.
Miss Cason came to Chapel
Hill in the fall of 1932 and has
taught in the intermediate grades.
Her new work will be with tha
fifth grade. During the war the
joined the Waves, returning to
Chapel Hill when she was de-
Woaaan'a Fellowship Meeting
“Sons of Want” will be the
theme of the Congregational
Christian Woman's Fellowship
meeting next Monday night. The
need for relief end reconstruc
tion will be presented to a sound
Aim atrip entitled “The Eleventh
Hour.” The needs of people to
this community will be presented
by Idea Annie Strowd, county
superintendent pf public welfare.
The meeting wiir be in the church
hut at 8 o'clock, with Mrs. Oscar
Rap and Mrs. H. F. Watts as
hoetaases.
Hillel Women's Supper Party
The June meeting of the Hillel
Women'* Club will be in the form
of a supper party for members
and their husbands at 7::80 p.m.
Tuesday, June 9, at the Hillel
House. Each member Is to bring
her own box supper.
Mrs. Reichert Moves
Mrs. William Reichert, who
waa living with Mrs. Carl Boett
char, has moved to 27 Kogeraon
drive.
Patterson Number Changed
Dr. Fred Patterson!* home tele
phone npmber has been changed
(aa Shown by the new directory)
to 1111.
Chapel Mill Chaff
In last week’s New York
er (issue of Saturday, May
30) I saw two picture-jokes
that reminded me of two
Chapel Hillians. Literally,
these persons do not belong
to the village, but they have
both spent many years in it,
they visit it often, and they
are so closely related to it
and so devoted to it that
they deserve to be called
Chapel Hillians. And, you
may be sure, are pleased to
be so called.
One of them is Watts Hill,
after whose name, if I were
following the Time - Life
style, I would place the
phrase, “Durham tycoon."
The other is Attorney Gen
eral Harry McMullan, a citi
zen of Washington, N. C., but
by reason of his office a resi
dent of Raleigh.
After I had looked at page
19 I telephoned to Watts
Hill’s office. He wasn’t in but
his secretary took down the
following note from my dic
tation.
“Look on page 19 of the
latest New Yorker and you’ll
see a picture that tells what
your ambition is.”
The picture on page 21, a
iuoy in a waste of water, sur
mounted by a sign reading
“You are now entering
Texas,” proclaims, for the
delight of Harry McMullan
and the attorneys general of
the other states in the Union,
an ambition already achiev
ed. These attorneys general,
far fnsm helping along a
states’ grab, as many people
were led mistakenly to think,
helped to prevent a shame
ful central-government grab.
The picture on page 19,
about which I sent the note
to. Watts Hill, shows a cor
poration board of directors
in meeting. The directors are
(Continued on page §)
I mobilized in the fall of 1945.
Both teachers have lived dur
ing their entire careera in Chapel
Hill at the home of Mr. and Mra.
J. A. Warren at 301 Hillsboro
street.
| “Many friends and many grate
ful parents and pupils have heard
I with deep regret of Miss Oettin
ger’s and Miss Cason’s decision
do leave,” Miss Mildred Mooney
’han, principal of the elementary
school, said yesterday. “Their in
fluence has been incalculable.
, They carry with them the thanks
and good wishes of the entire
village.”
Holy Communion Services
Holy Communion services will
be held by the Church of the
Holy Family at 9:30 Sunday
morning in the New West build
ing.
Hason Graduates with Honors
George Hason, jr., was grad
uated cum laude from Davidson
College last Monday. He had the
second highest academic average
in his class.
Old Golf Course May Be Re-Designed
A campaign to flx up the
1 Chapel Hill Country Club’s golf
course has been started by club
members.
If enough interest is shown in |
the idea the nine-hole course will 1
be re-designed and laid out in 1
the valleys around the high hill*
which it now traverses. There ere
•till about 16 acrea of unused
land available on the club grounds
which could be used for this pur
pose.
I According to preliminary eeti-
I mates, it would coat about |22,-
000 to re-design the course, pur
chase the proper equipment for
keeping it up, and pay the salary I
of a combination pro and greens-1
keeper for one year. If the club'
members can raise fIO,OOO in
public subecriptlons they believe
they can get the rest of the
money from other sources.
Pledge cards are now being
distributed for public subscrip
tions, which would obviate the
initiation fee for club member
ship. It is estimated that at least
100 persons will need to give sub
scriptions of from S6O to SIM to
resch the goal. The subecriptfcme
would be in the form of now-ii»-
tereat bearing notea, to be re
tired et the discretioe at tke
' >■
$3 a Year in County; other rate* on pJ
Busy Building Summer AheS4|i
On the University Campnl
Repairs, Renovations, an!
Making More Basement Spal
Party at the Pool
Tomorrow Night
The opening entertainment
of Commencement will be a
party at the Kessing pool, be
side the Woollen gymnasium,
tomorrow (Saturday) night.
It is for the people of the
community and visitors. It
will begin at 9 o’clock and
go on for about a couple of
1 hours.
At the University’s re
quest the management of the
affair has been taken in
hand by the University Wo
men’s Club. Mrs. R. H. Wet
tach is president of the club.
Mrs. Glen Haydon is chair
man of the hostess commit
tee for this occasion.
The company will be made
up mostly of home folks, for
not many Commencement
visitors come in before Sun
day.
A group from the Univer
sity Symphony Orchestra will
play from 9 to 9:30. Then
there will be an intermission
in the concert for an ex
hibition of swimming and
diving, and then there will 1
be more mupic.
Refreshments will be
served.
Volume of B.&L. j
Business Increases
A summary of progress pre
sented to the director* of the.
Orange County Building and Loan
Association by Executive Secre
tary Whaley 0. Sparrow show*'
that in the last iiVi years—that ia,
since January 1, 1951—the asso-j
elation’s assets have increased
from 9480,000 to 91,850,000 and 1
its loans from 9470,000 to 91,100,-;
000.
Savings and other types of
shares stood at 9432,000 January
1, 1951; they are now 91,125,000.
The association has acquired its
own office building on West 1
Franklin street. It has become a*
member of the Federal Home,
Loan Bank, and ita deposits,
which bear 8% Interest payable
’semi-annually, are insured up to
910,000. |
j Douglas M. Fambrough has
been employed as assistant to Mr.
Sparrow. Harvey D. Bennett re
cently became a member of the
board of directors.
HOTC Commissioning Exercise*
Chancellor R. B. House will
speak at the joint commissioning
exercises of the University's Navy
and Air Force ROTC units at 3:30
p.m. Monday in Hill hall. Capt.
John S. Keating and Lt. Col.
Jesse J. Moorhead will preside.
Colonel Moorhead will administer
the oath of office to the success
ful candidates, and Chancellor
House will award the commis
sions. The invocation will be by
the Rev. Herbert Spaugh of Char
lotto and the benediction by the
Rev. John A. Weidlnger of Chapel
| Hill.
i club’s board of directors.
Baldy Williams and Joe Phil
-1 ips, members of the subscription
| campaign committee, said they
.wanted to get the public’s rese
ction to these plans, ‘if tha peo
-1 pie in Chapel Hill went this
course Died up, It can be done,’”
1 said Mr. Williams. “If they don’t
1 want it we won’t undertake it”
It ie not planned to have the
Chapel Hill Country Club set up
on a competitive basis with the
University's Finley course. But
one Idea of this projact is that if
, student enrollment et the Univer
sity keeps on increasing, after a
.while there might not be room for
I townspeople on the 18-hole Fin
-1 ley course. The Country Club’s
I course has not been used much
| since the Finley course was
' opened throe years ago.
NeGeirea to Leave Next Week
i Frank J. McGuire, the Univer
-eiftp’e head football coach', and
; Mn. McGuire end their three chil
'dran, Fatey Jesnne, Carol Artie,
i ail Freak, Jr., will leave neat
i weak to spend the summer at
■ Greenwood Lake, N. Y., where
■ they mra a home. They plan to
i return here in leptombar.
1 * >"• rW--
The University is goinf®
be busy with building acßj
ities this summer. They mb
not be of the sort to atfc®
much attention from pe®-
walking through the cams
for they will be mostly ill®
ior work, but they wili®
highly important to Uni®j
sity operation. ||
There will be repairs ®j
renovations in many cUB
room buildings and dormi®|
ies, and the creation of in®
basement space. Most of B
work will be paid for oufß
appropriations made by ®|
year’s Legislature: some®
it will be in the categorj®
routine maintenance.
Plans are being made ®
.excavating for a basemj*
for Peabody hall, and flj
building of floors and ]B
titions, to meet the Sc®
of Education’s need for n®|
classroom space. And thß
will be a general fixing®
of the basement of Cflj
dormitory, including ve®
lation and lighting. H
Bingham hail, recently®
>y the Schooi of Businesses
ministration, is to be rrfig
ready for the English®
partment, which will tS
over also a nearby wooJo
building.
Four dormitories that 9
j badly in need of being d®
| over—Old East, Old wB
Steele, and Battle-Va®
Pettigrew - will have 9
bathrooms and new Ugh®
fixtures and will have t®
{Walls and floors put fl
good condition. -!
j Tile top floor of the Dp
istry School building wIK
finished, for classrooms ®j
j laboratories for gr«|fl|
students. Davie hall, C®f
well hall, Howell hall. ®
three dormitories will t®
new fire escapee. This 9
probably be the first ft
provement to get started®
Some more brick wB
may be laid, the imprqK
ment of the grounds of ft
hospital will continue. J|
Airport Road Peopfl
Oppose Beer Ne«ft
Some of the resident!
Airport road are up in arms H||
the prospect of having a driß|
beer and short-order standmß
up in their neighborhood.
| A citizen who used to n®j|
email store near Orange
.has rented land on the Ai®|
road across from the
to Mt. Bolus and ia
tract leveled for bdahiesajfl
poses. He plana to set upXf
stand in one of the old b®|
that used to be owned by
Chapel Hill Transit Compauft
His reported plan to appljft
a beer license for the pla9l
objected to by persons livi9|
th* area. They have dram®!
a petition, which they ar*Bfl
culatlng, against the graathK
the lieense. The approval
local ABC Inspector, the
Commissioners, and the
ABC Board muat be obtaine®|
fore anyone can get a Mc*a®|
sail beer. |B
Ah-men and Ay-men I
When the word Amen I|§
spoken by many people in aSg
in the Coronation ceremoni®!
Westminster Abbey it waa an
nounced Ah-men, but when t9f
spoken by only one peraanßp
Archbishop of Canterbury 9'
anointing rite—it was pra®jj
ced Ay-men. I asked sev«fK&
jmy friends if they had B®B
this. Three who said than®
jwere the Rev. R. J. Mc|f®H
! Lyman Cotton, and <3>S||®||
Phillips. “I noticed it
listened to the radio in thtSBI
tog," said Mr.
again on television to tIW
noon. Os course I have hf«® '
men often but I was ftp®
to hear the word prOMM®
way by an Englishman” %
brought up to say Ay-mi®
that used to he the cm 3
nuncietion in this r*gi»lV J
Itove it is not often M®
when in theea days,