V 01.33 No. 2
UNC Officials
Help Explain
The Problems
Os the Budget!
By Clack Hbmw
Governor Luther Hodges,
m chairman of the Advisory
fidget Commission, re
leased the commission’s rec
ommendations for the 1955-
57 biennium to the Genoa!
Assembly last week, and I
read the newspaper accounts
of the proposed budget
pretty carefully. The more I
read, the more confused I
got.
So I went up to the
University’s South building
early this week and sought
out Bill Friday, the assistant
to President Gordon Gray, to
get some help in making
sense out of the budget fig
ures for the University.
A fat orange book lay on
top of Mr. Friday’s desk. It
was the recommended budg
et, as prepared by the Gov
ernor and his commission.
“Big book,” I commented.
‘To be exact,” he replied,
“it’s 939 pages.”
The information below is
taken from that 939-page
book, as it is interpreted by
tff members of the Uni
sity finance department,
and. in certain respects, as it
is further interpreted by
myself.
“It’s very simple to tell
you what we received in the
recommended budget,” said
one official in the Universi
ty’s budget office. “We got
no new personnel and we got
no permanent improvements.
We got some moaey for
merit salary increases, and]
we got some for addition
and betterments, but la
neither case did we get as
much as we asked for.”
How about the money far
the routine operation ami
maintenance of the Univer
sity at Chapel Hill? In round
figures, the Budget Commis
sion recommended that the
University spend $907,000
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Caine Mutiny Will
Open This Evening
“The Caine Mutiny Court-
Martial.” Hannan Wouk's drama
tisation of hia brat nailing novel.
“The Caine Mutiny,” wul be
presented at 8:30 tiua (Friday)
evening and tomorrow evening
in Memorial ball under Urn au
. pier a of the Carolina Playmak
era. Ticket* are on ante at the
Playmakar*' buaincaa offlev at Sl4
Abernathy ball.
Tha tour production of “The
Mutiay Court-Martial”
Ware Paul Dooglaa aa Captain
Queeg. Wendell Coray aa Lieu
tenant Greenwald. and Steve
Brodia as Lieutenant Maryk. It
ie directed by Charles Laughton.
A east of 18 top acton maker
up the National Festival Com
pany which will be even hen in
the earns production which gained
eo much critical and audience ap
phuiea on Broadway. The ahow
hsa boon described aa “a stirring
sad dramatic montage of theatre.
paeplo, and event*, daftly pro
jected into n single netting; a
military courtroom where one Lt-
Uwyk faces a Navy tribunal de
trained to ascertain his guilt
ar innocence on e charge of
mating.”
A Program A bent Formosa
University students from the
ialaad of Formosa will give n
program at a mooting of the
Cosmopolitan Club from 4 to •
pja. Sunday. January If. in the
Uaiveraity Library's assembly
Mow Waiming Lo. a etudent in
dty and rational plannhut. will
direct the program, which will
include movies and dterneeione
about Formosa and its military
flMmtTwUn* smvMT^TW*p<Zik
ML invited.
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W. D. Carmichael in Good Health and Spirits at 8£
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William D. Carmichael,
whom you see here (at the
left), was 82 years old on
: Monday of this week. Janu
ary 10. The photograph was
taken in his apartment at
the Carolina Inn.
He was in good health and
spirits on his birthday. He
Orange County Representative Comments
On Governor's Message to Legislature
By John W. Urn. trad. Jr.
Grass* County’s Representative in the Legislature
The highlight of the first
week of the 1955 session of
the General Assembly waa
the Gprtopr'i message and
m of the Advisory
ißnflpMt flPMßlpairn
tie message from the
KJovernor was the shortest
jin many years and yet it
covered more ground than
any message I can recall. He
gave us a complete picture
of the problems that con
front us with a clear-cut re
commendation of just how
it was possible to solve them.
1 cannot say that any mem
ber of the House or the Sen
ate agreed one hundred per
cent with his recommenda
tions, yet all were of the
opinion that it was a mas
terful presentation of the
facts that we must face dur
ing the next three or four
months.
His suggestions aa to new
taxes will certainly not meet
with approval by many
whom the new taxes will hit,
but they will have the care
ful consideration of the As
sembly and we are hoping
that from discussions of
them and other possible
sources of revenue we may
succeed in raising the neces
sary revenue to take care of
the services that are essen
tial to the life of a growing
News from Chapel Hill High School
By Nancy Davie
They Anally came senior
rings, that ia. Wednesday, Janu
ary 8, seniors could pish up their
rings in Mr. MoMa’a ogee if they
had. enough money. A deposit of
ff woo poid by the seniors when
they ordered their rings.
Tha ring* eases in throe stain
rises, girl’s, hoy's, nnd astro
large hoy’s. Thera was a chaise
of rad. Mm, or Mack stones. One
or two people got their birth
stone. Red seemed to he tha
papular color, but there were a
grant many ring* with each kind
at atone.
• • • •
Remaining pictures for the
•chool annual. “Hillif*." wen
taken Inst Monday. Tha photo
grapher from the company pub-
Robing the yearbook cease to
take the pictures. Ctobs, class
nMe sc*, faculty members, cheer
graphed all daring tho day.
* * * *
ary SBth. Asms people already
hnra eaam worries, wMte when
they
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Ichatted with friends in the
Inn lobby and the cafeteria;
he read a while and took a
nap; and he had dinner at
the Monogram Club with his
children and grandchildren.
You may wonder why I
should be in the above pic
ture. The reason I am there
and prosperous state.
His suggestion that we re
move the maximum of sls
in the sales tax section of
the revenue bill seems to
w th<mnpi
members
other proposals ’'that tl
raise a large amount of
revenue. This maximum is
not now and never has been
fair. Under the present law
a person purchasing a used
car for SSOO pays the sls
tax. Under the same pro
vision a man who pays
$4,000 for a car pays the
same amount of tax, namely
sls. This is manifestly un
fair, for it is a greater hard
ship for the purchaser of the
SSOO car to pay sls than it
would be for the purchaser
of the $4,000 car to pay $l2O
which he would pay with
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Julie Dewerath Wine Prize
Julie Demerath won flrzt prize
ia the Junior Y-Teene stuffed
aniaui con teat, winner* of which
were announced at the Y-Tecne’
Now Year's Eve dance at the
Monogram club. The prize waa
a. Lady Manhattan shirt givsn
by Town and Campus. Terete
Gillen won second prise, a silver
bracelet from Wentworth and
8!oan, with her name engraved
oa it. Garry Ham won third
prise, a recording of “Mr. Sand
own.”
| two szams on each day. Anyone
■ having a study hall does not
have to com* to school during the
■ period in which that exam ie
> given. Study halls will be open
’ every period for any students
wishing to study at school.
The exams will be ovsr on
January 88th.
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Mem bars of the History IV
class wont to Raleigh Wednesday
to sea the General Assembly in
action. Mrs. Lodi* Ingram left
early ia tha morning with her,
history students to spend the day
there.
* # * *
The damages the hurricane
caused to the Tin Can were
finally repaired. The roof, which
was half blown off, was the main
J*b- „fsC
Energetic members of the boy’s
basketball team re-finished, paint
ed, and varnished tha floors.
Foot new backboards wars pot
np far tha physical education
closets to os*.
Aa etostrit torn A. si A a gift
dßg Hjt >ns haw
CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, J
ia that Robert W. Madry,
University News Bureau
chief, wanted to do an illus
trated story about the birth
day and thought it would b«
a good idea for the hero of
the occasion to be shown
with an old-time friend. Mr.
Carmichael and I have
known one another since he
arrived here as a freshman
62 1-3 years ago. He was
19 then and I was 9.
What Mr. Carmichael ik
looking at is a photograph
of the University’s 1890
football team. Most of the
players were still here when
he came in 1892
pointing them oU§HH*lj
I naming them: Mike Hra|
Bpw Patterson, Charlef*
Kngum, George Graham,
Hr Barnard, Gene Snipes,
and others.
Robert Varley, the cloth
ing merchant, found this
photograph last wsek when
he was making a clean-up in
his store. It had been left
there when the former ten
ant of the building, the
Carolina Co-op, moved out
17 years ago. Mr. Varley
passed it along to me with
the request that, after my
friends and I had seen it, I
would take it to the trophy
room in the gymnasium.
Mr. Carmichael has al
ways been an ardent devotee
of sports. He was manager
of the University baseball
team in 1896 and of the foot
ball team in the fall of that
year. He attends many
games every year—football,
baseball, basketball, and
tennis.
He was graduated in 1897
after having left college for
a year to teach school.
He became a teacher in
the Durham high school in
the fall of 1896 and rose to
the position of superinten
dent. In 1912 he became
manager of the Liggett and
Myers tobacco factory, and
was promoted to general
manager and then to vice
president. He lived in New
York for fifteen years. He
came to Chapel Hill to live
when he retired in January
1940.—L. G.
Alpha Delta PI Dinaer
The Chapel Hill Alumnae A*i
•oriation of tha Alpha Delta n
sorority will held a dinner meot
laf at 7 p.m. Monday, Janaary
17, at tha Pines Restaurant on
the Raleigh road. All Alpha
Delta Ft alumnae In this area
are invited.
Adrian Smiths in Rochester
Mr. and Mr*. Adrian Smith
have moved from Pnoii, Pa., to
Rochester, N. Y., where Mr.
Smith is now working with
Hickey-Pracman, tha clothing
manufacturers. Mrs. flnrith was
formerly Miss Dorothy Dashitll
of Chapel HAL t.
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NUARY 14, 1955
Cokers Are Happy
In Puerto Rleo
(Thie ia a condensed version
of what Robert E. Coker told me
in a letter that 1 got yesterday,
—L.G.)
Mr. and Mrs. Coker left New
Orleans December 29. They had
smooth sailing on the Gulf for
four days, then were caught in
the fringe of Hurricane Alice.
No real trouble, but their ar
rival at San Juan, Puerto Rico,
was delayed a few hours. They
were met by their son Coit, a
research specialist in the School
of Tropical Medicine.
They were taken by car on a
three-hour drive, through planta
tions of sugar, pineapples, ban
anas, and cocoanuts, to Maya
guez, seat of the University in
which Mr. Coker is lecturing and
giving counsel about fisheries.
“This is the off-season for
flowers, but there are lots of
them . . . From our home on
Faculty Row we see the sea to
the west; in other directions we
view high hills, or low mountains,
and we look across a depression
to college buildings on another
hill, or down on part of the city
of Mayaguez.”
“The folks we have met have
been most pleasant and helpful.”
“The newcomer here is im
pressed by the prevalence of
sound, produced by chimes,
phonographs, horns, truck-gear
ing, children, adults, roosters
(with Spanish accent), dogs, and
really musical tree-toads. Birds
seem pretty quiet at this season.”
“I had forgotten that proper
Christmas here is Three Kings
Day, January 6.' On January 5,
‘Christmas Kve,’ we sat by a
prettily decorated tree in the
home of some friends. Unopened
boxes were at the bottom of
tree. Junior showed us some
presents he had got at English
Christmas. When the U. S. took
over we undertook to change the
Spelling of the name and to move
jChriatmM back by 12 days. The
■Mto* have not accepted the
HfHBhL spoiling but have com
mmkm d*t« *>y ob*«rv
int-iMOfeember 26 and Janu
ary is tough on Santa
Claue but fine for the children.”
I
“Not many tourists in Maya
guez. Storekeepers ere polite
and prices are not widely differ
ent from those in the U. S. Some
higher, some lower. Oranges are
plentiful. They aell for 60 cents
a hundred. I got a big sack for
a quarter—all of good else and
quite sweet.”
Drive Against Polio Is in Full Swing
The number of volunteer work
ers in the county’s March of
Dimes increased as tha annual
drive against polio ended its sec
ond week, and donation! were be
ginning to come In, but “very
slowly,” according to E. C.
Smith, director of the drive. Thue
far most of ths contributions
have been smell change placed in
containers In stores throughout
the county.
Blank chscka sent out in Utters
last wssk to moot of the families
in ths Chapel Hill township are
being returned very slowly. Mr.
Smith requests that people sand
their contributUns in as soon as
possible.
It was announced thU week
that C. W. Davis, superintendent
of the Chapel HIU schools, would
direct the campaign in tha cit
schools, and that 8. Paul Carr,
cuperintendent of the county
schools, would direct tha earn- 1
paign In the rest of tha schools
in the county. Mrs W. O. Chap
man has been named to direct
CalmmUt of Bvwta
Friday, Jaaaary 14
* 8:30 p.m. “The Cain* Mutiny
Court-Martial,” Memorial hall.
Saturday, Jaaaary IS *
* 6:80 p.m. Barbecue supper,
Carrbore Methodist Church.
*8:80 p.m. “The Cain* Mutiny
Court-Martial,” Memorial hall.
Snaday. Jaaaary IA
a p.m. Orchid show, Unl
, varsity Florist.
a 3AO p.m. Bird Club, home of
Mrs. Harold Walters.
* 4 p.m. Formosa discussion,
Cosmopolitan Club, Library
assembly room.
Monday. Jaaaary 17
* 7:80 pjn. Bridge tournament, I
Graham Memorial.
* f p.m. Oakview Garden Club,'
Church of the Holy Pomily. |
a 8:80 pn. “The Marring* of
Plgaro,” Hill haU.
Tuesday, Jaaaary 18
* 8:80 pen. “The Marriage of
- Plgaro,” HUI hall.
Wednesday, Jaaaary 1* ■
o f pjn. MUM Women’# Club,
JllUsi Mara . <-
Jrai* » *.
Chapel Mill Chaff
L. G.
William Muirhead, pro
prietor of Glen Lennox, and
his wife returned recently
from a trip to their native
Scotland. They go there
now and then to see their
kin and friends, to wander
around among old familiar]
scenes, and to freshen their I
burr-r. x
When we were talking
over the telephone yester
day Mr. Muirhead told me
about a set of old maps of
Scotland that he brought
back with him. One is of the
whole country, others are of
the shires separately from
the English border north
ward to the remotest islands.
‘These maps were made
in 1640,” Mr. Muirhead told
me when we talked over the
telephone yesterday. “The
lettering is all in Dutch. In
those days most maps were
lettered in Latin. When the
names of towns, rivers, and
so on, were not in Latin
they were in Dutch because
the map-makers were Dutch
men.”
Mr. Muirhead said he
would show me the maps
some day and I am in eager
hopes of seeing them.
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Sometimes I hear opinions
expressed on the question:
which is the most agreeable
way to get the news, by
reading the newspapers or
listening to the radio? Os
course you don’t have to
limit yourself to either way;
you can use both, and many
people do. The household’s
daily schedule—the time for
getting up and going to bed,
eating, and going to work—
may have a good deal to do
with the ehoicc For ex
ample, one man may arise
early and have a good deal
of time before breakfast for
newspaper reading. Another
may be in such u hurry that
he prefers to take the newa
in capsule form over the
radio.
The time when a news
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the Negro drive in Chapel Hill.
A special March of Dimes dis
play was placed in ths Village
Grill by its manager Jim Ellis,
end L. T. Jsmigan of Thsll’s
Bakery has mads a large cake
vhich customers may help dec
orate with dimes. Ths county
goal is 618,000.
Joel Carter Is at Home in Mozart Role
| Joel Carter la shown bars aa
Iho will appear In the role of
1 Figaro In the University musts
department’s production of Mo
sort’s “Tha Marriage of Figaro,"
to ha given at tM Monday and
Tnssdsy evenings, January 17
nnd If, in HIU haU. Ha ia w*U
prapacad to play the part, since
Ms knowledge at Mss art rales
Is varied. He ban aaag tha reio
$3 a Year in County; other rates on pace 1
Aldermen Are Asked to t-imSf
Parking to 10 Minutes in Six
Spaces around the Post Office
Faculty Chairman
Dudley D. Carroll (above),
professor of economics, has
been elected chairmen of the
University’s faculty, succeed
ing William Wells of the Eng
lish department. Mr. Carroll
has been a member of the Uni
versity faculty 37 years and ia
dean emeritus of the School of
Commerce, now the School of
Business Administration. He
served as dean 31 years.
JCs Plan Awards
Night and Banquet
The Jaycees’ annual awards
banquet and bosses’ night will be
held Thursday evening, January
20, at the Carolina Inn. Congress
man Carl Durham will speak, and
Herb W'entworth will be master
of ceremonies.
A chief feature of the program
will be the announcement of
Chapel Hill's Young Man of 1964
as selected by a secret commit
tee composed of five older citi
zens elected laet year by the Jay-
CfMMh a I
Also presented will b# tn\ par
ticipstioncup, to thr Jaycee
deemed to have token, the most
active part in Jayooe work in tho
past year, and key awarda to the
five Jaycees who have been lead
en in the work of the organisa
tion during ths year.
The meeting will be attended
by Jayceee’ employera and other
special guests,
Puccini Opera Tonight
Recordings of Puccini's “Trip
tych,” which Is three short
operas the composer wrote for
the Metropolitan Open Company
in 1918, will be broadcast by
WUNC-FM at 8:30 this (Friday)
evening on Norman Cordon’s
“Let’s Listen to Opera” program.
"Triptych” is made up of ”Bister
Angelica,” “The Cloak,” and
“Gianni Schicchi.” Mr. Cordon
will be the commentator.
Morriafo of Fliraro" on mow on
uk «t tho Hill boll box odteo
at 91 oaeh, or rooorratioaa may
bo mado by toiophontny >2M. Tba
opora, to bo ran# in Jtnfllah, la
tho fint fall lonfftb production
to bo atoyad by tho mtwio da*
partmont. ,
Thooyh ho mt and Mtod tho
rolo of -Potrocio in loat yoar'a
The Board of Aldermen
approved a request Monday
evening from Postmaster
Paul Cheek to limit parking
to 10 minutes in six parking
spaces around the Post
Office—two in front and
four on Henderson street.
Town Manager Thomas
Rose also presented a Poet
Office request for a no
parking zone to be establish
ed in the space alongside the
new drive-in curbside mail
box which was erected last
week. Both parking pro
posals are being drawn up
in the form of ordinances by
Town Attorney John Q. Le-
Grand and are scheduled for
final approval at the board’s
next meeting.
The Police Department
has already begun issuing
warnings to motorists who
leave their cars beside the
new mailbox, but officers
may not give tickets to vio
lates until after the ordin
ance is passed.
In other business handled
during the more than two
hour session Monday eve
ning, the board:
1. Approved a request by
residents of Dogwood drive
that a section of the street
near the Little Red School
house be closed to traffic
from 4 to 5:30 p.m. each
Wednesday to provide a
supervised play area in
which children may ride bi
cycles and skate. Mrs. Gor
don Blackwell and Mrs. Stu
art Chapin appeared before
the aldermen to speak on the
matter.
2. Heard Town Auditor E.
E. Peacock discuss the an
nual audit of town income
and expenditures.
3. Instructed the Finance
Committee to meet with
Carrboro town officials, to
work out arrangements for
sharing costs of maintaining
jail facilities and the police
radio network.
Plans Are Made by
Disaster Committee
Preparations for rvlief work in
the face of any disaster that may
■trike Chapel Hill are being
made by the disaster committee
of the local Red Cross chapter, It
is announced by Mlee Elisabeth
Branson, committee chairman.
Mica Branson said yesterday that
the committee is being reorgan
ised and reactivated. As a part of
this reactivation, she has appoint
ed Tony Gobbei as co-chairman
and has also appointed tha fol
lowing chairman of subcommit
tees:
John Foushee, survey; Jim
Wadsworth, shelter; Harvey Dan
ieU, evacuation; Tad Danziger,
food; Dr. Kemp Jonea, medicine
and nurses; Mrs. Caraon Ryan,
clothing; Mrs. R. 11, Grumman,
information and registration;
Webb Evans, purchasing supply;
Sandy McClamieeh, transporta
tion and communication; Roland
Gidus, publle information.
C. H. Bacon, state director of
disaster activity for the Red
Cross, recently conferred with
tbeee chairman and asked them
to give him written reports on
their plans of action.
At Memorial Hospital
Among local persons listed as
patients at Memorial hospital
yesterday war* Dr. David Abes,
Mrs. Tam Andrews, English
Bagby, Stain Baanight, Mrs. Ruth
Blankenship, Mrs. Wavorly
Branch, Mrs. Clara Brllae, Sample
Brown, Maggie Burton, John
Colons*, Elijah Currln, Kenith
Davis, Charles Edwards, Dr. T.
W. Farmer, Barths Farrington,
Dr. Julia Harris, Keith Ingram,
Troy Lang, William Matthews,
Michael Mintoor, Harold Mullls,
Mrs. AUsas Murry, J. jE. Riggs
bos, 0. R. Schnlbbfo, Olive
Sparrow, Mr*. Luvy Street, Mrs.
Mary Strayhorn, Mrs. Richard
Wombto ad WaUaraTartor
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