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Vol. 33 No. 4 Zoning Law to Be Discussed At a Hearing February 14 A public hearing has been called by the Greater Chapel Hill Planning Board to dis cuss a proposed zoning ordi imnce which would cover Ah the town and a wide suburban area extending for two to four miles from the down limits in all directions. iThe hearing is scheduled for m :30 p.m. on February 14 ip •the Town Hall. [ The proposed zoning ordi nance has been prepared by the board under the author ity of an enabling act passed 'by the General Assembly in, 1953. The ordinance would be the first exercise of the powers granted by the act. The Board of Aldermen decided Monday night to hold a public hearing on the matter on February 28, but the Planning Board met Tuesday evening and voted to call the earlier hearing in order to meet legal re quirements. The aldermen will probably reschedule their hearing for a later date pending the outcome of the Planning Board’s hearing. mlhe new ordinance in crades a great many restric tions which are already in effect inside Chapel Hill, under provisions of the local zoning ordinance. The most important new things cov ered by the proposed ordi nance are (1) the creation of three new zoning areas: a fourth type of residential area, a suburban commercial district, and an agricultural district; (2) provisions for off-street, parking and load ing spaces, and (3) restric tion of advertising signs along major paved roads. The proposed ordinance (Continued on page 7) Victor Greulach in Scientific American Victor A. Greulach of the Uni- botany department is tHe author of a five-page article on plant growth, movements, and' locomotion in the February issue; of “Scientific American," one of: the nation’s leading scientific ( publications. The article is illus trated with sketches and photo graphs. Mr. Greulach describes a plantl as a veritable beehive of activity, far from being a creature which “toils not nor spins.” Though most plants stay in one place, he says, “their parts twist, bend, open, or close. The spore of one plant, a fungus similar to bac teria, can move 99 times its own in a second.” Calendar of Events Friday, January 28 • 6:30 p.m. Family night pro gram, Presbyterian church. j • 7 p.m. Girls’ and boys’ basket ball, Chapel Hill vs. Roxboro, High School Tin Can. I Sunday, January 30 • 2:30 p.m. Holland Chapel Gos pel Singers, Negro Commun ity Center. • 4 p.m. Rehearsal of Commun ity Junior Chorus, Lutheran church. Monday, January 31 p.m. Chapel Hill Garden Dlub, Institute of Pharmacy building. • 6-8 p.m. Barbecue dinner spon sored by Band Parents Club, Baptist church. Tuesday, February 1 a 7:30 p.m. Philological Club, Faculty Lounge of Morehead building. e 8 p.m. Catholic Women’s Guild, rectory. Wednesday, February 2 #7 a.m.-l p.m. YWCA bake sale, Fowler’s Food Store, e 9 a.m.-6 p.m. YWCA bake sale, Electric Construction Com pany. e 7:30 p.m. American Legion and members of Post 6 Corpora tion, Legion Hut. Thursday, February 3 • 4 * 7:30 p.m. Try-outs for “Show Boat,” Memorial hall. Faculty Club Luncheon The next Faculty Club lunch eon will be hold Tuesday, Febru ■ry 8, , After Making Pictures of Many Other People, Artist Obeys an Order to Make One of Himself 11* It was Orville Campbell who suggested that the Weekly have a self-portrait of its staff artist, William G. Mangura, saying: “We’ve been running a lot of Bill’s pictures of other people; I believe other people would be interested in seeing what he looks like.” All of us thought it was 19SS Secrecy Rule Is Declared Much Worse Than the One Passed in 1953 By John W. Umstead, Jr. Oraage County’s Representative in the Legislature Since the passage of rale 63 Vk : , several days ago much of ths < tima of interested citixen# and < much space in the i newspapers of W slate have ; been devoted to the discusaipn of ■ secret meetings of legislative 1 committees. The net result has i been regret on the part of some legislators that it was thought wise by those who led the move- 1 ment to adopt the rule and much confusion in the minds of many ' citizens as to just what was done by the passage of this rule. i It will be necessary for us to go back to the 1963 session of the i legislature if we are to pet the proper background for a discus i sion of the rule recently adopted i !by the house. At a meeting of i sub-committee on appropri- ] l ations in 1963 there arose an i argument over whether or not : [the press would consider as “off i I the record” a statement about the i matter under consideration. Sev- i eral times during the more than two hours of argument it seemed that the differences of opinion would be handled by compromise. I In the end, however, hot tempers i and strong language caused an < Bob Cox Named Young Man of the Year BHHHOnk 4 jBRI. ' \ | -MR l§& ■L v| . x f ||4j . jM I Hj| 1 m : ; : It 1 *I ■ .V v ' I - ■ r I *’' ! ** * *•;' * / , " *~ v r I '< ■" ' ? £ "". ' ■ Bob Cox (right) wea announ [ ced at Chapel Hill’s Outatanding Young Man of 1964 last week at , the Jaycees’ annual Distinguish ’ ed Service Award and Bosses Night banquet at the Carolina , Inn. Congressman Carl Durham ’ of Chapel Hill, who spoke at the , banquet, is shown presenting him ! the plaque that goes with the honor. He is the sixth person to I win the annual award. Last . year’* winner was Orville Camp bell. A native of Memphia, Tenn., r Mr. Cox entered the University . here in 1946 and was a letterman end on the football team. In 1962, after he had been on the - University’s football coaching - staff thrae years, p* and Monk Jennings opened she Town and The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents a Copy a fine idea and I told Bill to go to it. At that time, a little while before Christ mas, his attention Was be ing monopolized by some thing else; namely, the birth of his first child, a daughter. Then there was a trip to Richmond to display this treasure, Ariana, jr., to the (Continued on page 12) adjournment until the next day. On the following afternoon the committee secured JgMjum of •pace in a local tggKHßttfair meeting Since this tneSBSfMA* v/as off state nroneriroMSen thought they might meet disturbance by members press. Such was not the eSN Members of the press came to the meeting place and demanded that they be allowed to enter. Their demands were denied and the committee decided to intro duce legislation that would allow them to proceed with their com mittee duties without interfer ence by members of the press. On the following day a bill was introduced and passed that allowed the committee on ap propriations or a sub-committee to meet with the press barred from such meeting. The next day this bill was passed by the sen ate and became law. The sub committee on appropriations met from day to day with the press r.ot present and finished their work. They did this with no vot» being taken on any item. They simply sought information and discussed the merits of each pro- Campus men’s clothing store here. He has been active in . civic work as • director and vice president of the Merchants Association, as president of the Jaycees, and as a leader in other organizations • and community projects. Last month he was campaign chairman of the annual sale of Christmas seals for the > fight against tuberculosis. He : is married to the former Mist Cathy Carlen of Cookville, Tenn., and they have three aons. Mr. Cox was chosen by a ' hecret five-man committee of i community leaders whose namea i were announced after the award, i They are W. E. Thom peon, ; Police Chief W. T. Sloan, Roy ; Armstrong, Edwin S. Lanier, and I Herb Wentworth. CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, JANUARY 28,1955 Barbeene Dinner WIU Benefit j High School Band A barbecue dinner for the benefit of the High School Band will be sponsored by the Band Parentp Club from ‘ 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, January 31, at the Baptist church. The menu will include barbe cued chicken and barbecued pork supplied by the famous barbecue expert, Shorty Griffin of Goldsboro. Por tions will be generous. Tick ets will be $1.50 for a chick en barbecue dinner and $1.25 for a pork barbecue dinner. An announcement from the Band Parents Club says the dinner is planned as a family affair and that every body is invited to come and bring the children. Tickets are on sale at Sloan’s Drug Store and may also be obtained from the following members of the Band Parents Club: Mrs. H. R. Andrews, Durham road, phone 9-2896; Mrs. J. A. Branch, 8 Cobb terrace, 9-1381; Mrs. G. B. Cleveland, ■ 607 Park place, 3656; Mrs. j Reuben Hill, 307 Briarbridge j valley, 9-8551; Mrs. Alan . Keith-Lucas, 23 Lanark . road, 9-7120; Mrs. Sophie . Martin, 215 Pittsboro street, j 9-2586; Mrs. Wilton Mason, 1216 Hillcreßt road, 8-0801. > Tickets are also being sold , by all members of the band. 5 The Band Parents Club’s announcement of the dinner - says: “We hope to raise sufficient funds through this project and the big show > which five civic clubs have > agreed to put on for us in the spring, so that numerous smaller veptures will not be necessary.’’ J P<»nd appropriation. Thay later ■ mat with the preea preaent awn r proceeded to vote on the varkdM 1 proposals. Ae i member of this sub-com glWHtee I voted for the bill that SjjlAwidod so-called “secrecy” in Jpheir deliberations. I gave notice j ut the time that I was casting this vote so that we might pro j ceed with our considerations of appropriations but that 1 intend ’ rtl to vote for its repeal at the first opportunity. I carried out this intention, when later in the session I with others, tried to get a motion passed by the appropri i ations committee asking for the t repeal of this act. We were in the - minority when the vote was » taken and the law remained on' 1 the statute books. f This question of “secrecy” be-' - came an issue in many contests - during the 1964 primary election. • Many of those who had voted for ' the bill promised their constitu-j r 'nts that, if elected, they would 1 vote for its repeal. Many run-j 1 ning for the legislature for the first time made the same prom-! ■ ise. Some of us who had voted for the bill simply as an emer gency measure also pledged our support for its repeal when the 1966 legislature convened. This is a statement of all the facts in regard to this issue prior to the opening of the present session, i et us now look at what has hap pened since we arrived in Raleigh on January 6. At our first session Mr. Satter field of Person introduced a bill \ repealing the 1963 act. This bill was referred to the committee on (Continued on page 12) \ Garden Club t« Hear Riley I P. H. Riley of Raleigh will I speak to the Chapel Hill Garden I Jlub at 3 p.m. Monday, January I .11, at the Institute of Pharmacy I on Church street and will show I % movie entitled “Pipeline to the I Clouds.” Everybody interested in [ conservation is invited. Mr. Riley • is the water engineer 6f the > water resources division of the i State Department, of Conserve . tion and Development. i ... - American Home Department r The Community Club’* Ameri -1 can home department mat yester -1 day afternoon (Thursday) at the I home of Mrs. Frank Hanft. Mrs. 5 Edith Brocker reported on the • services provided by the District 1 Health Department. Co-hostesset < were Mrs. W. E. Merritt, Mrs. B. B. Sparrow, and Mrs. D. C. i Phillips. f I ■ Makes up Rotary Absence L Vic Huggins attended a Ro> - tary Club meeting Tuesday eve s ning In Yanceyville, thus making I up for an absence from a Chapel HUI Betary Club mauling, ■# Mother* to March Monday Night For Polio Drive About 300 women of Chapel Hill and Carr boro will stage the community’s annual Mothers’ March Monday evening, January 31, for the collection of con tributions for the war on polio. The mothers will start their house-to-house pilgrimage soon after they finish doing the supper dish es, probably about 7 o’clock. The beginning of the march will be signalled by & blast on the alarm siren at the Chapel Hill fire department. Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox, and outlying dis tricts will be canvassed. Persons who will contribute are asked to have their porch lights turned on. Police cars will pick up col lections from the marchers at, various pre-arranged points throughout the com munity. Directors of the Mothers’ March will be Mrs. Kempton Jones in Chapel Hill and Glen Lennox, the Carrboro Civic Club in Carrboro, andj Mrs. W. O. Chapman in the Negro community. Group captains include Mrs. Frank Umstead, Mrs. Robert Schenkkan, Mrs. Henry E. Royall, Mrs. C. N. Cheek, Mrs. Marvin Bass, Mrs. Whid Powell, Mrs. Joe Gallo- WAy, Mrs. Charles Shaffer, Mrs. Maurice Kidder, Mrs. Emery Denny, Mrs. Fred erick Sager, Mrs. S. S. Chip man, Mrs. R. E. Richardson, Mrs. George E. Nicholson, jr., Mrs. VV. A. McKnight, Mrs. David A. Davis, Mrs. Billy Arthur, Mrs. C. E. Jen ner, and Mrs. J. C. Kouns. *£.. C. Smith, director of MHbriio campaign here and ttjHphput the county, t° Rive as much ShKhF can afford to. The OrampF county goal is $12,000. Girl Scouts will help with the drive by selling minia ture blue crutches tomorrow. Town Is Filled with Evening Grosbeaks People have been calling in all week to report seeing evening grosbeaks iq Chapel Hill. One caller was W. D. Campbell of 126 North street, who said a flock was at his window-sill feeding tray. Miss Frances Yocom re ported grosbeaks at her feeding station at the window of her second-floor apartment at Miss Nellie Roberson’s house on East Franklin street. Mrs. Isaac Tay lor reports dozens of the birds at her home on Morgan Creek toad. A University student called to report a flock of about two dozen grosbeaks in a yard on Cameron avenue. Mrs. Oscar Humilton telephones that she had seen 18 grosbeaks feeding on maple buds in her yard on Hoosier lane. Mrs. Matt Thompson said she had seen many of the birds near her home on Dogwood drive. The evening grosbeak,,a strik ingly beautiful yellow and white Jaycees Receive Awards for Distinguished Service AM ‘ # The five Jaycees shews here were aa aeoaeed last week ae wiaaere of the organ! cation's 1984 Key Men Awards for distin guished service to the dub and the commun ity. The awards w«ro made at the Jaycoou* annual Distinguished Service Award and Basses Night banquet at the Carolina lan. From loft to right, tho recipients are Charlie Stance!], a partner In Carolhu Meters; Graa Childress, Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company representative; Collier Cobb 3rd, an executive of the Service Insurance and Chapel Mill Chaff L.G. William S. Jenkins, pro r fessor of political science in ( the University, resolved one ' day last spring that he would stop smoking. When ! he awaked the next morn ing he did what he had been doing for years upon awak | ing: reached for a cigarette. | Then he remembered his re ' solution of the day before and pulled his hand back. “Doing without that | morning cigarette was one . of the most painful experi ' ences I ever had,” he tells ’ me. And he continued to j suffer, as does everybody who undertakes to throw off a long-established habit. But [ not for long, because he ' found that the chewing of chiclets, as a substitute for ‘ smoking, gafe him great re ’ lief. When he awaked in the ! morning he would reach for a chiclet instead of a cigar ' ette, and he would consume many more during the day. I “My jaws got so sore from ! the chewing,” he says, “that I had to quit chiclets. But *: by that time I had broken [jthe back of the smoking 1 habit. I haven’t smoked a 1 cigarette since and I feel a lot better for it.” • * * * It has often been remark ed that, when cold weather smites a place where it is infrequent, people suffer much more from it than they do in a place where it is normal, in the North peo ple get ready for cold weather as a matter of course. Here, though the record tells that it is possi ble for us to be afflicted with periods of bitter cold, we are disposed to trust that the next one won’t come for a long time, and let’s not bother afeput it. In general, our houses are not built as tight and snug as the houses in the North, and few of us have the furs and ear-muffs and mittens and arctics that are needed (Continued on page 2) and gray bird about the size of a cardinal, had almost never been seen here till two or three years ago, when flocks of them sud denly appeared. Few if any were seen last winter, but now the town is full of them. The species normally winters far north of here, but it seems to be extend ing its range southward. Mrs. Thompson reports that she has a copy of a monthly pub lication named “The Evening Grosbeak Survey News” which is made up solely of material and information about the evening grosbeak. She saya it is edited und published by Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Shaub of Northampton, ' Mass., who have bean making a study of she species since 1947. Mr. and Mrs. Shaub have written Mrs. Thompson to ask her to send them information about the appearance of the birds in this aiea, and she plana to comply with this request. Aldermen Vote to Authorize The Mayor to Sign Contract For Survey of Chapel Hill’s Traffic and Parking Problem Women Voters Set Up Food Display A display of foreign food products used in American homes is receiving much at tention from customers at 1 Fowler’s Food Store. Ar ranged near the front of the store by members of the 1 Chapel Hill League of Wo men Voters, the exhibit shows some of the import ant products that are im | ported into the United States. These foods are ar ranged on a table and are connected by ribbons to the areas of their origin cm a large map of the world. This project was under taken in connection with a series of discussions being conducted by the League of Women Voters regarding the trade issues that will come before Congress during the present session. The display was" made and set up by Mrs. Arthur E. Fink and Mrs. N. J. Demer ath, members of the league. P.T.A. Thrift Shop Needs Spring Items The Thrift Shop announced this week that it urgently needs apring hats and purses, children’s clothes of all kinda, and all types of household srticlss. Persons interested in contri buting any of the above items, or atiy other item which could be sold at the shop, are asked to take them to the Thrift Shop (on West Franklin), leave them in the barrel at Fowler’S Food Store, or call Mrs. Karr White at 9-9892 for pick-np sendee. Thrift Shop profits are used for projects of the Chapel Hill Parent-Teachers Association. Gospel Singers to Perform The Holland Chapel Gospel Singers will give a public con cert ut 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Janu ary 30, at the Negro Community Center lor the benefit of the Northside and Lincoln high school band. Admission will be 35 cents for children and 75 cents for, adults. All proceeds will be used for the purchase of band instruments. Everybody is invited to attend the concert and help this worthy cause. Jayecee Net $447 for Polio The Jaycees netted $447.76 for the March of Dimes last Satur day at their road block collection booth on West Franklin street. This was about SIOO nioie than they collected there last year. About 40 Jaycees took part, serving by shifts, under the di rection of Bob Boyce, chairman of the project. Mias Watson Pledged Miss Marilyn Carol Watson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Watson of Mallette street, has been pledged to the University’s chapter of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. Hr# of HoipUil Haring Association, and Bob Cos, a partner in Town and Campus Storo, who was a Lao rboatn aa the commun ity'* Outstanding Young Man of 1954. Tko organisation's annual Participation Cap Award was won by Wallac# Williama aa the maaibar other than an officer who did tho moat for tfco organisation during tha year. Throo purpriao awards, given for apodal service rondorod in Jayeee projects in 1954, wont to Baah Gifford, Vaasa Bogan, and Hath Wentworth. Mr. Wentworth was —of rarCmudli, attho hdhguii. a $3 A Year in County; other ntaa os peg* X The Board of Aldermen voted Monday night to give Mayor Oliver K. Cornwell authority to sign a contract with William P. Babcock of Raleigh, a consulting traffic engineer, to begin work on a traffic and parking survey of Chapel Hill. The project is expected to cost about $1,500. The authority was given ; the mayor in order that pre . liminary work may begin on . the survey prior to the next [ meeting of the board on . February 14, assuming the | contract arrangements are ! satisfactory to Mr. Cornwell. , The proposed survey calls for a preliminary report in . April so that any capital im provements which are im mediately apparent in the survey may be included in next year’s budget. Mr. Babcock met with aldermen and members of the Town Planning Board Monday afternoon to discuss the proposed survey, which he said would encompass three phases: (1) parking, (2) traffic operations, in cluding signalization, and use of existing streets, and (3) thoroughfare planning. “Thoroughfare planning,” Mr. Babcock explained, “at tempts to make full realiza tion of the fact that there are two kinds of streets: one kind for people to live on, and the other kind to move traffic on. Eventiftdly towns will have to build streets to divert traffic away from, congested areas.” Ordinarily surveys of thifl type would cost more thal the one proposed for Chapel Hill, but some of the basil work here is scheduled to bl done by students in the Uni versity’s department of city and regional planning. Even considering this, however, the cost of the survey will not include “putting out one of those beautiful printed (Continued on page 12) Episcopal Parents Will Hear Address The Rev. Peyton R. Williams, rector of Christ and St. Luke’a church, Norfolk, Y'a., will speak Monday at 8 p.m. in the Episcopal parish house at a meeting of parents and teachers of the 1 church school of the Chapel of ’ the Cross. His subject will be 1 “How the Church and the Home 1 Can Meet the Needs of Children ’ and Young People." Mr. Williams is a graduate of 1 the University of Virginia and the Virginia Theological Semin ary. He was formerly rector of Christ church in Nashville, Tenn. ,n an announcement of his ap pearance here he is described as | an able speaker and well qualified > in the field of Christian education. i At Memorial Hospital Among local persona listed as patients at Memorial hospital yesterday were Mre. Marjorie dafrow, Stein Basnight, Sample Brown, Frank K. Cameron, Rob ert deNapoli, William Easterling lU> Charles C. Edwards, Ernest Lee Farrar, Bertha Jean Farring ton, Osmond T. Farrington, jr„ Miss Catherine Henley, Mrs, W. J. Hill, Mrs. Robert E. Hiller, Robert W. Madry, Michael Min !te*r, Frederick Nimmcke, James jjT. Petty. J. E. Riggsbee, Mrs. V/. C. Terrell, Mrs. Hsnry Wags |staff, and Mrs. Thomas H. Yates, ; Jr. At Church of Holy Family Services this Sunday at the Church of the Holy Family will be as follows: Holy Communion, 8 a.m.; family service and Bible class, 9:80 a.m.; morning prayer and sermon, 11 am.; youth acti vities, 6 p.m.; evening prayer, 7 p.m. Building and Loan Maotiag The annual stockholders meet ing of the Orange County Build int BBij Loan Astofifttion wtii tut • wpg Wm, held at 8 o’eloeh this (Friday)