VoL 33 No. 1
Income From
Tobacco Crop
Seriously Off
The gross return from
Orange county's chief money
crop, tobacco, was $400,000
less in 1954 than in 1953, it
was reported to the County
Commissioners last Monday
M County Farm Agent Don
mthesoo. Total returns for
the 1954 crop are expected
to he about $2,000,000, as
compared to about $2,400,-
N 0 for the 1953 crop, which
amounted to $1,000,000 less
than the 1952 crop. Last
summer’s prolonged drought
was Warned for the 1954
drop.
In addition to Mr. Mathe
son's report, farm reports
were made to the commiss
ioners by his assistant, Ed
Barnes, and Home Demon
stration Agent Ruth Thomp
son and her assistant, Kath
ryn Pritchett. AU four were'
praised by the commission
ers for their work during l
pUast year.
iuuwi women organized
two lie* home demonstra
tion ciubs in the county dur
ing the year. Miss Thompson
said. She added that about
500 rural women are now
iakirg part in the program
in the county.
feMr. Matheson and Mr.
nrnes said 1954 was a bad
year for the county’s poul
try-men and cattle farmers.
They blamed this chiefly on
the price-costs squeeze and
described plans for a 1955
program to foster greater
efficiency and help farmers
bold on to the gains already
Mr. Matheson said that
one of the year's more en
couraging notes was the ex
pansion of irrigation pro
jects to combat drought on
the county’s tobacco farms.
He said that tobacco on irri
gated farms averaged about
$909 per acre more than be
fore irrigation.
Bennetts Have Big
Time in New York
*>k. *ai Mr*. J. S. Bennett
Sew to Near York kit week for s
*w4kj vacation and had a fine
tan* Thnyfiiaa. Coins to (hoars,
and richtoeeinc
~UV didn't have any plans or
dleuim,* Mr. Bennett told a
friend tare when they returned.
"Me just went out on the town
and hard n pad tune."
They saw fans radio shows, a
ultnsta shew, and two stage
shows. “The Seven-Year Itch"
and “The Solid Gold Cadillac."
4 one of the radio studio shows
Mrs. teamen's name was drawn
far pact ni|-atria ia a contest
show the next day, but she
ynldst take part because that
the day they were to leave]
On their return trip Mr. and
Mn. tenant tad a rsasrvad seat
ia a dag reach that left New York
at M am. and arrived ia Raleigh
at T:tt pm Be said .they ea
jeyed ridnt a treia ia the day-
Ume and aeesag the eountryaide.
•and tame en that train.’* Mr.
tenant! aaid. “The entertain
un far nil passengers at four
attach in the afternoon."
'%\Stady unit martingi of the
Isogus es Wemaa Voters will be
MM anal matt aa follows Unit
I at M am Ttooday at the homo
ed Mr*. IA Btakwed on Dog
amad drive; Unit 2 at • pm
tatty an the Team Hall; Unit
8 at • pm Vadtaaday at the
Tana MnR; Unit 4 at pae.
Ihmwdny at the heme of Mrs.
L ftygy Battel mm Oahweed drive;
\ Cast 6 at I pm Ttaraday with
Man Batter Tgler and Miss Lncy
ttaskhac a Bmanr
tor nf the Fabric Shop en West
*ie toner there ia nothing to the
Upg
Kiwanis Club Installs Officers and Directors
gHk B•> 'vr \ . ■ gi, iV . w-
The ten Chapel Hill citi-|
zens pictured above will]
?er\e as officers and direc
tors of the Kiwanis Club for
1955. They were formally
installed this week at the
regular Tuesday evening
meeting by*Spurgeon Boyce
of Durham, past District
j Governor. Seated, left to
Liberal and Conservative Views about
Spending for Various Public Services
By John W. I'm* Usd, Jr.
Orange County's Representative in the Legislature
As the time for the con
vening of the Legislature
draws near we hear more
and more speculation about
! whether this member or that
member is a liberal or a con
servative. Having been ac-j
cused froai ttom|Mkto #fj
being an
'during Hie pass ' atwral)
years, given some thought]
to what is meant by the two
terms. Over the years I have]
watched those who were call
ed liberals and those who
were called conservatives in
their reaction to proposed
legislation.
In the main those called
liberals have been those
most apt to recognize neces-j
sary services that the State
I should render its citizens
and who were willing to
raise the money to pay for
] these services although it
might mean more taxes for
|themselves as well as others.!
Those called conservatives;
have been those who seemed
to minimize necessary serv
ices and who wished to raise
lonly those taxes that were
absolutely necessary even
j though such action meant
{sacrificing many services
that make life worth living
in our State.
The real attitude of these
groups was ahoton when a
bond issue for secondary
roads and school buildings
was passed on by the voters.
The liberals supported the
bond issue because they saw
Volunteer Workers Get Down to Real
Business as March of Dimes Is Begun
The March es Dimes drive in
.Orange county get off to a good
start this week with 6,000 let
ters, containing special checks
sad reply envelopes, being mailed
to families throughout the Chapel
Hill towns hip, and posters and
cote containers being placed in
■tores nil over the county.
E. C. Smith, campaign chair
man, announced that Miss Sarah
Umstead would direct the collect
ing of contributions te the the
atre*, and that Mr*. Kempton
Jons* would head the annual
Mother's March, which will ho
hold later in the month. The col
lecting of contributions in the
theatres will begin Sunday and
will last for one week.
Plane are now being made for
a special window display at
TtaU’s Bstarr Jernlgaa.
to deoign and —to a display tor
The Chapel Hill Weekly
5 Cents a Copy
| right, are Carlyle Shepard,
(director; Frank Umstead,
vice-president; Dick Jamer
-1 son, president; Raymond
Knight, secretary, and
: Douglas Fambrough, treas
urer. Standing are Rogers
Wade, immediate past presi
dent, and Charlie Hubbard,
' Arnold King, Harvey Ben
in it a better way of life for
those who lived in the rural
sections. The conservatives
said that neither the pro
posed roads nor the school
{buildings wore necessary and
j cautioned the voters about
{bonds, and the program was
was almost completed with
in a three-year period. To
day there are very few of
our citizens, even of the
ultra-conservative class, who
will not admit that this bond
: issue, instead of damaging
the State’s economy, has
greatly improved it.
| During the last session of
the Legislature, when it was
proposed to allot the 14 mil
lions in the surplus to the
various institutions and
agencies that needed addi
tional facilities and to com
plete the building program
for the mentally ill there
was the same old cry from
the conservatives. Regard
less of the necessity they
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Cemmenity Club Meeting
The Community Club will meet
■t 3 o’clock this (Friday) after
noon at the Episcopal parish
house. Mrs. Bernard Boyd,
chairman of the literature depart
ment, will have charge of the
program. Mrs. Henry Myers will
review the book, "Southern Folk
lore." Members of the club's
American home department will
be hostesses.
' Mary Frances Kellam was in
charge of the mailing of letters,
and Duka Williams, in Chapel
Hill, and the Lions club, in Hills
boro, distributed the posters and
the coin boxes.
The letters pointed out the
need for everyone to "contribute
as much aa you can to the March
of Dimes so that we can take
care of our polio victims and
•peed the prevention of this
dread disease." The letters said
that there were 980 new cases of
polio in North Carolina in 1964,
nnd that four of these were ia
Orange county.
Feast of Lights Service
The Feast of Lights will ho
colobrated with a special sorvieo
at the Chapel of the Cress this
Sunday night, January 9, at 8
•'clack. It is a symbolic service
depicting the coming ci Christ
te bs the light mi the world, and
tot carrying mi the tight to all
people everiwtace. Everyone to
invited te attend and > Http Hi
i* the peseta*
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1955
nett, and Richmond Sloan,
all directors.
Rogers Wade delivered a
short talk on his year of
service, and then turned the
gavel over to president elect
Jamerson. To close out the
program Clyde Carter, pro
gram chairman for the year,
called on several members to
offer suggestions and advice
.hat would make the club
more worthwhile to its mem
bers and jpmmunity in
1955.
An outdoor grill was
presented to Rogers Wade
by the dub.
Sammerlia te Go With Princess
8m BatotoerNa, Associated
Press correspondent for Cabo,
the Caribbean Islands, and
Contra! America, telephoned
te hla parents, Mr. aad Mrs.
Irl Summerlin, on Now Year's
Day. hto Nth
[ told them he w**
fMM A SB
York to ictenpisf IttMß
Margaret when she goes on her
tear of the British possessions
in the West Indies.
Calendar of Events
Friday, January 7
a 3 p.m. Community Club, Epis
copal parish house.
Saturday, January 8
a 6:30 p.m. Freshman basketball,
UNC vs. Wake Forest, Wool
len gymnasium.
a 3 p.m. Twelfth Night Kevtuls,
Playmakers theatre,
a 8:16 p.m. Varsity basketball,
UNC vs. Wake Forest, Wool
len gymnasium.
Sunday, January 9
a 8 p.m. Community Drama
Croup. Library assembly
room.
a 8 p.m. Feast of Lights service,
Chapei of the Cross.
Monday, January 10
o 7:30 p.m. Tournament bridge,
Graham Memorial.
Tuesday, January 11
o 2:30 p.m. Newcomers Club, Li
brary assembly room.
• 3 p.m. Community Club’a in
ternational relations group,
home of Mrs. J. P. Harland.
• 7:30 p.m. Philological Club,
choral room, Hill hall.
• 8 p.m. Rise Stevens concert,
Memorial hall.
• 8 p.m. American Association of
University Women, 106 Hanes
hall.
# 8 p.m. Catholic Women’s Guild,
Catholic rectory.
Wednesday, January 12
a 8:16 p.m. Ed Wivaa club, home
of Mrs. George E. Shepard,
Thursday, Janaary II
• 8 p.m. B’nai B’rith, Hillel
house.
Newcomers Club Meeting
W. J. Meyer will talk on “Pic
tures In Home Decorations” at a
meeting of the Faculty New
comen Club at 2:80 p.m. Tues
day, January 11, in the Univers
ity Library's assembly room. At
an informal tea following the
talk the hostesses will be Mrs.
Joseph Gorrity (chairman), Mrs.
Robert Gray, Mrs. Charles
Bream, Mrs. Ernest Wood, Mrs.
Owen J. Young, and Mrs. George
Smith.» *
NeWaua te Give Talk
William Newman of the Uni
versity's music department win'
address the Philological Huh at
7JO p-aa. Tuesday, January U,!
to the etoral mm mi HU toll.!
tare and matte- ttaea |
Basketball Game
Will Be Televised
Here Tomorrow
WUNC-TV, the Univers
ity’s jaleviaion
station, will be tflßmt sta
tion in this the
country to a live
telecast of a basketball
game, daring its first eve
ihg of operation tomorrow
(Saturday).
The big TV cameras will
be set up In Woollen gym
nasium to transmit the vars
ity and freshman games be
tween the University and
Wake Forest. The freshman
game will begin at 6:30, and
the varsity game is expected
to start at about 8:15.
The play-by-play announ
cing for both games will be
handled by Frank Waldman,
television sports director for
the Consolidated University.
Mr. Waldman is an experi
enced sports writer and
broadcaster. Prior to com-
: ng to Chapel Hill he was the
west coast sports editor of
the Christian Science Moni
for.
The basketball broadcast
will be the first in a series
of game telecasts over the
University station on Chan
nel 4. University policy is
that sports is an integral
part of the student program,
and therefore is definitely in
keeping with the idea of an
educational television sta
tion. WUNC-TV will present
broadcasts of a number of
different sports in the fu
ture, both from State Col
lege in Raleigh and from
the University here.
Saturday night’s varsity
basketball game is expected
to be an exeiting contest,
Isincethe players will include
■Hjmo top scorers of the
■Me Coast Conference.
Btekte Hemric of Wake For
rest and Lennie Rosenbluth
of the University. Both
players were elected to the
all-tournament team of the
recent Dixie Classic.
If Suburban Fire District Is Approved,
Full Protection Won’t Come Right Away
The Board of County Commis
sioners, meeting in Hillsboro on
Monday, were told not to worry
about the county's being liable
for suit if it cannot provide ade
quate fire protection to the pro
posed new fire control district
immediately after an election
establishes the district
The statute governing fire dis
tricts says the county must fur
nish fire protection “to the extent
of taxes collected.” According to
Chairman R. J. M. Hobbs of
Chapel Hill, "That means wo
don’t have to have a complete fire
fighting unit until we get the
taxes to pay for it.”
The fire district station, which
involves a sweeping suburban
area on three sides of Chapel
Hill, U scheduled for April 12.
The commissioners will make a
decision at their February meet
ing on how many polling places
will bo needed for the election.
Boms discussion was raised at
Governor’s Address Televised Through University Equipment
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Mrs. John M. Booker,
who is in Savannah visiting
her son-in-law and daugh
ter, Dr. and Mrs. Lee How
ard, tells, in a letter to a
friend here, about questions
her two young granddaugh
ters have been asking her.
At Christmas, when they
had been hearing the story
of Bethlehem, the older one,
Julie said: “Were you here
when Jesus was born?” A
few days later the younger
one, Nellie, probably having
in her mind tales from
American history that she
| had heard from her kinder
garten teacher, said: “Gran,
were you here in the olden
times, and did you steal;
your land from the
Indians?”
* * * *
The University String
Quartet gave a fine perform
ance Tuesday evening. I
noticed that for two thirds
of the concert it was not a
quartet but a quintet. Why a
company is proclaimed a
quartet and then performs
more often as a quintet than
as a quartet—this is one of
Uhe many things about
'music that I do not under
stand. The next time I see
Glen Haydon I will ask him
to explain it to me.
The program consisted of
hree four-part pieces: first,
one by Mozart; next, one by
Bartok; last, one by Brahms.
The fourth part of the
Brahms piece was down on
the printed program as:
“Vivace ma non troppo
presto." I asked Mrs. Wal
ter Golde, a distinguished
muaician, whom I met in the
aisle when the concert end
ed, what these words meant.
She said they meant “Lively
but not too fast.” I might
Itove worked that out from
my small surviving knowU
edge of Latin but I liked
better to have it told to me
by a beautiful woman.
I enjoyed immensely the
pieces by Mozart and
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the board meeting about the ad
visability of putting a polling
place at the Glenwood school.
There was some feeling that Glen
residents are liable to
vote against setting up the fire
district, since they already have
fire protection.
The commissioners heard re
quest* from Sheriff Odell Clay
tun and Clerk of Court Ed Lynch
that their salaries be raised.
Present salaries stand at $4,400
for Mr. Lynch, and 84,100 for Mr.
Clayton.
Mr. Clayton won support from
the board on another request, to
provide an extra $l7O for the re
maining ttx months of this fiscal
year to help Deputy Sheriff Buck
Knight defray automobile ex
penses incurred in his dutiss. Mr.
Clayton originally asked that Mr. 1
Knight’s automobile allowance be
increased from $760 to $1,060 per
year te put his allowance in Una
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dty (Ttarsd»y),wtar» kto tam
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After More titan Two Tears
Os Planning, the University’s
Television Station Will Begin
Operations Tomorrow Night
Jet Pilot Here For
A Day** Vi.it
This ia M.C.S. Noble, 3rd, who
v/as here last Sunday on a visit
to his aunt, Miss Alice Noble. He
has completed his ground train
ing at the Navy Air Force’s base
at Pensacola, Florida, and is now
about to begin his flight train
ing as a jet pilot.
He and his traveling compan
ion, a fellow pilot, stopped here
on their wsy back to Pensacola by
r.utomobile after a vacation in
the North. Mark called on some
of his old-time friends. In the
course of the day the young men
had a good long sleep because
they were going tc. drive all
right in order to make the early
i morning roll-call.
Red Cross Chooses
Campaign Director
Roland McClamrach, chairman
of the Chapel Hill chapter of the
American Rad Cross, announces
that Mrs. Robert H. Wetteeh will
be chairman of the chapter’s an
nual drive, to be held the first
week In March.
The goal of the drive will to
about |B.OOO. Seventy per eemt of
thia amount will bo used by the
local chapter in this community,
while 30 per cent ia sent to head
quarters of the Red Cross for its
national relief and disaster work.
Committee members to be ap
pointed by Mrs. Wattach will be
cnnounced later.
Community Club Meeting
The Community Club’s inter
national relations group will meet
at S p.m. Tuesday, January 11,
at the home of Mrs. J. P. Harl
and on Laurel Hill road. Mias
Arendine Kimmel will speak on
'The Netherlands.” Hostessss
will be Mrs. W. W. Cort and Mrs.
Harland.
Catholic Women's Meeting
The Catholic Women’s Guild
will hold its January meeting at
8 p.m. Tuesday, January 11, at
the rectory on Pittsboro street
Hostesses will be Mrs. Alma
White and Mrs. Virginia Murray.
All membars are urged to attend.
Ed Wives Club Meeting
! The January meeting of the
Ed Wives Club will be held at
8:15 p.m. Wednasday, January
12, at the home of Mrs. George
lE. Shepard In Westwood.
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tto General Assembly. Sines (to
University station to not yot en
tto afar, llig governor's spoech
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Following more than two
years of planning aad hard
work, the Consolidated Uni- ’
versity’s educational tele
vision station, WUNC-TV a*
channel 4, will begin opera*
tions at 5:30 tomorrow
afternoon (Saturday).
The station will broadcast
its programs from studios
at all three branches of the
University Chapel Hill,
Woman’s College at Greens
boro, and State College at
Raleigh. The use of mobile
transmitting equipment will
also enable the station to
broadcast from almost any
place in this section of the
state.
The WUNC-TV transmit
ter, which sends all the pro
grams out on the airwaves,
is located on Terrell’s Moun
tain, about eight mites
southeast of Chapel Hill in
Chatham county. This lo
cation guarantees excellent
reception not only in this
area but within a hundred
mile radius of the tower.
The station operates on
VHF—Very High Frequen
cy—which means it can be
received by all TV seta, with
out the use of any special
adapters. It transmits with
100,000 watts power, the
maximum permissible under
Federal Communications
Commission regulations.
The addition of WUNC
TV to the television family
of this part of North Caro
lina means that viewers in
Chapel Hill will now have a
choice of three VHF sta
tions —»the University ela
tion. WFMY-TV in Greens
boro, and AVTVD in Dur
ham. Persons with sets
capable,of receiving UHF
stations ■ also can watch
WNAO-TV in Raleigh. With
in the next two years a new
VHF station is expected to
be approved for Rateigh, but
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Used Clothes Are
Asked for by Shop
An appeal for used clothing is
issued by officials of the Thrift
Shop, which is operated on West
Franklin by the P.T.A. organi
xations of the Chapel Hill pub
lic schools.
“As you clean up after Christ
mas,” the appeal says, “remember
that the Thrift Shop needs the
things you no longer want. Some
body can use the old coat you re
placed. The new sweater which
doesn’t match anything you have
will keep someone else warm.”
Contributions may bo dropped
in collection barrels at Fowler’s
Food Store and at Dairy land
Farms in Glen Lennox. Or If
you want them picked up at your
homo eall Mrs. Karr White at
4268.
Notice to Pans Bank Hotter*
Holders of University athletic
passbooks will have to axchaage
■tuba for tickets at tto Woollen
gymnasium box office by not
inter than If o’clock noon to
morrow (Saturday) in order to
■ttend the Carolina-Waks Forest
basketball game to bo playod
bore at f:18 pan. tomorrow in
the gymnasium. This applies te
students, faculty members, aad
University employees aliko. Tto
gams will bo preceded at 4:11 by
a game between the Carolina ahd
Wake Forest freshman teams,
Ctaryl Birewd Wins Contest
Cheryl Btrowd, who was eleven
years old on New Year's Dap,
recently won first prise la a
| talent program in Greensboro.
Her winning performance was i
mads up of a ballot aad an acre- j
batic number. Than wort to
other entrants in tto contest
Cheryl has studied dancing under
Mr. tn*li.h Dagby.
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