North Carolina Newspapers

Vol. 83 No. 6 People Asked To Volunteer As Helpers in Heart Canvass An appeal for additional volunteer workers for the Heart Fund house-to-house canvass to be made on the afternoon of Heart Sunday, Fahruary 20, has been issued bWOrville Campbell, Orange county chairman of the 1955 Heart Fund campaign. “We have already had a wonderful response,” Mr. Campbell said yesterday, “but we are going to need many more workers in order to cover the community ade quately. We already have about 100 volunteers and will need that many more.” The canvass will be held from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Heart Sunday, with each worker visiting 15 or 20 homes in his or her neigh borhood. No follow-up calls will be made. Anybody will ing to help is asked to call Mr. Campbell at 8-1111 or 3336 or write him to P. O. Box 1170. The annual campaign here is sponsored by the Durham- Orange county chapter of the national Heart Associa tion, which seeks to lessen the heart disease toll though research and the efracation of the public. The Heart Sunday collection is the highlight of the organi zation’s annual campaign, which is held throughout the month of February. Seventy-five per cent of the money raised here will be used in North Carolina, while 25 per cent will be sent to national headquarters of the Heart Association. Mr. Campbell said that during the last few years Duke University and the Univers ity here had received re search grants from the na tional Heart Association worth many times the amount raised in the Dur ham and Chapel Hill cam paigns. Weekly Writer Is Loaned to the AP Chuck Hauser, staff writer for the Weekly, has been granted a two-month leave of absence to j >;n the Associated Press staff in KaU-igh for the purpose of cov ering the current session of the General A«*embly. Ijjuis Kraar, associate editor of the Daily Tar Heel, has joined the Weekly staff as a replace ment for Mr. Hauser during the two months. Mr. Hauser plans to continue writing his Weekly column, “On the Town," while he is in Raleigh. ol«strated Talk stout Hittitc* ™Hiss Machteld J. Mellink, na tive of Holland, graduate of uni versities at Amsterdam and Utrecht, and now assistant pro fessor of classical archaeology at Bryn Mawr College, will give an illustrated lecture on “The Land of the Hittites," at 8 o’clock Tuesday evening in room 206 Carroll hall, under the auspices of the North Carolina Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. Everybody is invited. Miss Mellink was Add assistant in the excavations at Tarsus, Asia Minor, eight years ago. Be * going to Bryn Mawr she at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton. Sunday morning somebody rang Mrs. Hope Chamberlain's doorbell. It was her Mead es many yearn, Mrs. Walter Usher of Paciflc Grove, California, whom she knew whan aba used to visit her daagbtar there. Mrs. Usher spent the day. Bhe is an author. Among her many hooka an tome about tbs California coast and tha Carmel Mission Jaasor Charm Babaarnal Tha Community Junior Chorus (Satfafay) in duf^Ueohyteripn church, ft is landni that all will ka Mm Met rehearsal Mm the chair gives its Brotherhood IMraHyUUt the Presbyterian Earth Auger and Air Gun Are Used ia Tree Feeding x jnl\| tl if - MIW iUK ' f to# . . HP lg,_ . ' ! A pneumatic earth auger to drill the holes and n high-pres sure air gun to break up the soil at the bottom of the holes are being used in n tree feeding oper ation on the University campus. Norman Armstrong, proprietor of the Armstrong Tree Service, which has the contract for the job, is shown at right wedding the sir gun, while Howard Houle mans the auger. Ivy-clad Davie Poplar h seen in the background. In commenting on the opera tion, Mr. Armstrong said: “There arc many methods of feeding ; trees. Possibly the bes: is a con tinuous muich of peat, or leaf mold, stable manure, and com - .. i --I i i i. in i | Many Good Citizens Think T rathe Lam Apply to Everybody Except Theauehes By Jeha W. l osleri. Jr. Ornoge Conaty*s Repreaantntive in the Logieloture At the end of 1954 the tnStj deaths during the year showed a substantial decline from 1952.1 Citizens interested in highway! safety felt we were making pro-; gress in taking care of this prob-, lem and hailed 1955 with the, hope that :tS further progress might be made. Naturally they! tzpected the 1955 legislature to help in making that hope come ‘true by still furthey strengthen ing the laws governing the opera tion of motor vehicles on our highways. After live weeks of the session 'has passed there is little evidence '.hat there will be a tightening [of the highway safety measure-. [On the other hand it is becum ,ng more apparent e;t.-h day that those of l- who wish strict Highway regulations will have to | Tight to keep what we already nave. Only two or three hilts [:.ave been introduce,! that would l ,-iomotc highway safety, white i several have been placed before | ne house and senate that would Limit the Highway patrol m their [efforts to promote safety on our highways. The attitude of many of our citizens as to highway safety is hard to understand. You will find men who are considered the best type of citizens who depart from character when it comes to highway safety. From their actions and their attitudes it would seem that they think that all safety measures are for the other fellow— not for them. They forget that a speeding automobile with one of our best citizen* at the wheel ia just ns dangerous as one driven at the same speed by the wagst type of criminal Only last week I heard a very prominent citizen taking the highway patrol to took for set ting what be termed “speed traps." He was against Ed Scheldt and CoL Smith ns wall as all patrolazea who hod any thing to do with radar instru ments for controlling speed. I listened with interest. Thou I Commissioners Discuss KniWmy Act • Tho Orange County Board a t Commissioners, meeting fat Hills boro Monday night, discussed tha proposed Chapel Hill rocreatma district enabling act with Grew ChillisM. chairman of the Jay- C *Tha recreation committro in loading the drive for a recreation center here. Attorney Emory Danny, jr, who drew ap the act that was turned ia to Ormqto County Rep. John W. Umetre d. Jjß* rorlf wm aloe Tuny aare trey wsom lore fat- The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents s Copy mereial fertilizer. As sack a mulch is usually ins practicable cn street and lavra trees, one of the other methods must com monly he used. Os these, the Irish aero-fenil method, de veloped by Charles F. Irish of Cleveland. Ohio, one of Ameren's leading arborists and tree physi ologists, is undoubtedly the best and is being used on the Uni versity campus. “This method employs com pressed air to drill holes, about three feet span and IS inches deep, over the entire root system of the tree, with a paroaatk drill and earth auger. Aa air gun. is then inserted in the holm and - - * [asked kirn this questhm: “Mil any so-calkd trap they set casch la single citizen of the stats who -dees not violate the speed taws?" He looked at roe aa thoagh I had insulted kirn hat his only reply eatk •Mt«M2«2l2rHat we are! going to continue to ktU hundred^ <>n the highway* of the state. I.et u- iisbidu for a moesrwt the attitude toward nerkasrii inspection. We had this law in effect for two years and it wa ■ repealed.' Its repeal was not be cause the Gw was bad but aa cause,! by the may in whack it was carried out. There was never say excuse for many of the petty iemulations, ami the way they < were adnitn.stered was an insult to the intelligence of the cit.zens ■f the state. 1 am. however, -Oil ; t«r Mechanical in-pectioa proper ty handled. Aside from the safety angle, it means real economy for the owner of the auto ami driv ing -at,.faction that can coate only with the as sura ike that your car 15 in good condition. Auto mobiles aill last longer atth 'regular inspections and the drivers and riders in them mil live longer. Another attitude bard to un derstand is that of the out-of state driver and the tourtst. He may come from a state that has speed limits lower than win aad yet as sore as he crosses the state line he thinks, it leemi, that laws guvenuag speed are a thing as the past nad takes eff at 70 or TS miles aa fare. The rest thing he ia in the hand* es the highway pntrel and when he gets whnt ia comire to ham he screams to high heaven about the way he has been treated m North Carolina. It may he Hat that in aame rare instsnrm sense individual may he drelt with rather harshly but the chancre are that in there costs it was the, attitude of the speeder toward: (Centtonud on page 12) It k expected that a M rente per |IM valuation tax weald he project. Tha hmsaateriw es the district have net yet fare eat- A delegs tire es II Ntpre citf aems upprered before the heard, and their tender, the Rev. JR i aretamreadH eetam at the Ltaeeta Ugh school fare. The sitretian was tareeod “ant CHAPEL HILL* N. C, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 11.1955 air aahr l#pmnb pressure breaks sp the sod! to a depth of -.•hour 25 ouches wtthxwa disrurb t~f the -surface. Pertiliaetr and trace * .em**ss are then placed a the hoiws. mhach are tier, blown to spread these elements through the sreL “By thin peeress the feetsbaer e> spmwi etvnjy through the soil where pearticaßy nl roots may reach it- Tin breeder of the | soil creates a better condition for rout (tvvth ami pnrniu freer carruiatxrt «f nar amd water. The nuauav r of any gen to the roots and nd yeobakky does as .much good ns the fartihaer, ' yarta.-__.sr ■ y aa heavy seals and where sod hues been, ramparted. •Oxygen as aa atcesany to plant .touts at X n to tlae tags of an gaum cbm and the groat need “The m off the atro-fertii method as permitted only under ‘hose, amt knt per cant of the |tw» charge for the service must . toe pant as n reyatey Mr. Ind. has pnmdkd thnt the royalty mwj he pad ant to hum hut to the research fund of the Kattaulj Shade Tree CoaJtawnce TtaJ .hand in aerate peesauo- mmi M ■ncit states* la true oixhuan Bd tree ■n»«eu<ra, uoaaijy kg Iprevuixog jcheuarahapu an kod wg uaa«ersacae» tee graduate stu dents study Jg S !■* doctcrade-N." l iknfir ml EttnU FMi). Fehrwary II o T .tto pun. Btajiet tiooomtrain kgh school aaitKMnnun. Sotorday. Fehrwary 12 o 4 pm CeouMAjty Jonioi Chorus rehtorsou- Pre?S.> Ki .an church. Moods*. Fehrwary 12 o 3 to pn Study seisssim, “tout Ptvhutw Segteg otiorv." Epaw-opal gwnssit IhMue. o 4 pun Race R*naSj«i* Sunday • hservaa.ee. Fee shy u-ivsii church o 4 JO pm. C»<sßf<puditjioi Club, reudmveois noon. Graham Me sas real O » paw. Iwstrwt Buy Scout court es h*o*M, aew county court house. HuAstore. * o 6 pm. Aren hoard daw con cert. Hti! hath o • paw Btooeht veoce rootai. First Baptist church. Monday, Fehrwary 14 o 2 paw Meetaag nf Piewbytevsaa turn*, flrdytmu church o TAP pm Chopnt HtU t horai Chih. Hid la^ o TJn paw Ptdhc hmtmg. Greater Chapel HaU Ptaamg heard, room Hah. Ihdg. Fdnsry U hneg Harriot nun. Him mol o « pm AJLIT-W. am rtmg. pr»- o TJM pm huTvf Aldarmin. hdL j Ihmhp. hhan| IT • IML fe Mbmgp ‘■■niwS In n Bid tha PBndMg GMbB Yoa katg heard pggpig 3 «ay probably job late 1 said, yoosdf; I lonov I bat* 3 —thnt vpNtp bad Mach 1 colder weather this winker' than we bad last drinker. I decided I woald find oat 1 what the official figara said, so I telephoned to Max D. 1 Saunders, custodiaa of the U. S. Weather Bonn Sta tion here, and cot him go speak ’em off to me. Every Weather Boreas 1 station reports aa average rainimiaa and aa avxerage maximum for every matk Never mind aboet the maxi mum; I didn’t ask for that. The officially announced average imwhasaa for De cember 1953 was 32 degrees, for last December 21.7. This difference. 4-3 degrees, is a really big one. It jtstite the growis that people don’t like cold weather uttered against the cold last December. Now. January. The offi cial average mtitmßjwm far Jancary a year ago was M. far January this roar 29. a difference of only one de gree. That mil surprise add-next her haters who de aoanced this year's January weather. They may say an average doesn't teff the whole story, and maybe it doesn't. I won’t go into that. Tbo complicated. Mr. Saunders gave me the minimum for every day ia the four months. The minimum tempera tare was freezing (32) or lower on 15 daya m Decem ber 1953, on 22 days ia last December. It was 33 or Jpmer ou 21 days ia Jaaoary * 4*J» * day temperatures ia each of the four months were as fol lows: December 1953. H, 13, and 15; December 1954, 11., 15. and 15; January 1954 12 17, and 17; January 1955. 12 14 and Id—L. G. C ommittee Chairmen of the Annual Red Cross Drive Announced by Mrs. Wettarh Cufflßutt«« dairaw* of the annual Red t rass drive that b to be held next Mailt have been announced by Mrs. Robert lYettarh, on dairaatt. J. Maryan Saunders b chairman ol (he advance gifts (vatmiUte, which b matting out sulkita tiuns this week. Robert Yariey b chairman of cal kctiou in the business dis trict, to be covered the last week in February prior to the regular campaign, which will be held from March 1 through March 7. Mrs Victor Greuftnrh wil head a committee that be ia charge of rolrctinai m most of the town's resale* tial area- Mrs. Ralph Howard m chainnan of ml aotiettationa. Mrs Wmstsw 'Hackney are cw-chairmmi for Carrbor* Mr. and Mrs torn far a anA at bis has so ,Lowd RUt mad. ia Iho Cwwmy rattan Inal Ortiln. Ra ia K«al wmVt n i Hug at At MdAMmsatobmp* jkn - * **«*» •- " “ - .. •< m> OmpJMliaLgl L.G. Archibald Henderson had the rooms in hb bowse re plastered last Saturday and the dying dust gave him a pretty rough time. The way he reported it was that streptococci hocked doom his throat. It seems to me that after that ordeal a man of * his age (77U| would have i liked to take to his bed Bat 1 such a surrender didn't even occur to him. After turning! jp at my house for a coffee- , drinking at 5 o'clock he hade i as an early goodbye because, he said, he had to get his 1 -firmer early in order to ac- 1 company the Leavitts to the double-header basketball game at the gym. I called on William D. Carmichael (821 Sunday afternoon, and he told me he had attended this same double-header. At the game he met several friends any •one of whom would have been delighted to ride him to his apartment in the Carolina Inn but he said no. he wanted to walk. Mrs. Lucy Phillips Russeffi (Phillips Russell's mother). «ho will be 93 years old in March, is writing a column three times a week for her home-town paper, the Rock ingham Post-Dispatch, of which Isaac London is editor. One nf her recent contribu tions, which 1 read yester day. is a sketch of Liaette 1 Woodworth Reese. I had read and admired poems by this gifted Baltimore wo man. but what Mrs. Russell told, so entertainingly, about her life was new to me. Her fellow townsman. H. L. Mencken, was her friend and 1 called her one of the great- 1 est poets of her time. She taught for 45 yean ia the, Baltimore schools aad oa the , wall of the Western High ; School is a brume plaque! phoed there by her beloved 1 aad loving pupils, la the J •column Mrs. Russell reprint ed the exquisite poem.' "Tears.” 1 (CutmixX mi )«f« T| at drive in the Negro (ununim •*y. ! Miss Hdca Jane Wettarh wifi be cuUectiutt* chairman in the University's School of i Medicine and Srhred of IVn ‘ t islry. Mrs. Norman Cordon , will be directur of the down- ' - fawn collect suns bndquir- ! tors to be net up in the dn- Pkv room of the Pritchard-, Lillie Motor Company. The campaign goal b »1430 k Seventy per cent of > afi creitributioiu wifi be lined 1 here in Chapel Hill or efae where in Orange county. I |[ Seasday Sited toviSelsea l IV fa 4J. Howard m the 1 . toarfar of -the adult Sumfay ■ 2ltw*2rkZ! “: > Presideut Tkaaka GK. Deucae far Gifts si* ■wTiiyy *s Zathi 1 «t"L" W.irnlTtUt ia* fttaT km ttw fcaaaa ami m pMttrJirij (M U turn a n* imT" » » Yer » Cwmty; other nU« « W * Schools’ lateffigeace Tests Are Subject of Coetroversy Board Is Tryixj to Clear Up • a Pastors Plan Race j Relaiioas Smice A ipecial service » v»b*ervxnce ■ of Bare Keßticai Sunday will be i *a»«» St 4 pja. Sroxtay. February , 13. a: the Presbyterian church ' ««ta the vpwawtaip of the (Thapei Hill XauHtui Asaocia wa The Bee. Vance Barron, the dkarrh"* pastor, will speak. Spca! «aac xiß be provided by, the Cwnwtay Junior Chorus di rocsed by Mrs. Oscar Sice. The pnhSc is invited. The observance of Race Rela imvbs Sanday was inaacwrated ia 1*22 bf tV department of racial and caharal ivlations of the Xsuwal CouneJ of Churches. Savy that tame it has become Sraaly estallisbed ia the caleo- Sars vs many churches. Voice Redid Will Re Given Thursday Tv* University voice students. Miss Patricn House of Roanoke Rapids and Robert. Churchill of Itataa. will give a public recital At U pm Thursday. February IT, a Rul tail They will he accom parjod by Eugene Hudson, a sui dtat from Black Mowntain. Miss House will Mag a group *f French saps by Chaasson, Masseur*, and Faure aad a group «f Ameevaji s>«r» by Bacon aad Eagenum. Mr. t hurchill will sing Umboa songs by Ugrrnu and Caldara; an ana from Gounod's “Faust,” and several European twSk songs. Both stagers are pafttls of Joel Carter, head of the vow* department. A tad-ham building contest as hung conducted among the Ctsb Scowts of Chapel Hill by the Chapel Hit! Garden Club. All entiv mast he nesting boxes staoUr far bluebirds and must he submitted by March A First pnue wtS be $3 ia cash. Other f«vmo will be R for second aad $1 far third. LVa mothers not already nnttAed stay get full in-) tanMMs by calling Mrs. John’ Wrsgfa at FMtV The place of jndgssg wvil he announced later., W Mean's (hb Meeting The University Woman's Club Iwvlll bald aa informal social meet erg from 3h9t to Thursday; dhreua, February IT. in Smith ■dsrmstory tnear IVi»>n hall).; ■Tbs sill be served. The chemis-! try department wives will have! charge of arrangement*. All member* are invited to this mid winter party. “•aria C. adamant" Trough! A reroreLng of Mowasorgsky's “fao IndMßtT* will he broad cast «n Xorsaaa Cardan’s weekly “Let's Lorn to Opera" radio program at (:M this (Friday > evenmtg wn the Universitys FM Matim W I’XC R- W. Madry la Mark Better Bubrit 1. Madry, University! News Brnrnas director, who has botsi ia tha hropital here for . afaat ten days, is much better and u rxpicbed to Wave the hoa pdnl ansn. The Duntli us Jamro Varna lamaa Warren, hrethar of Jaarph Wnrren, died as a heart attndt Tnaaday night in High s fatal. Tha fanaral was held ton, and Hr. Dmsren had tofan • bn fa hand. Tha gift] fahfa. redd 1 Sat nJ' T «L fasahtenth Ha ptenn "to trereatfa tetter and ■i OMrer K. Oernwaß la in tha hregdtel Inn bat to net WL CT nT ntaT ’,nhn Is hi a rerehy mafa Eeteand btrati’srH * School Superintendent C. W. Davis said this wedk that he was misquoted in the Durham Hferaid, which stated that Mr. Davis de clared intelligence tests given Chapel Hill school children show that Negro students are mentally unfit to meet standards set for white students here. In an effort to help end a week-long controversy over the alleged statement by Mr. Davis and reporters’ re quests for intelligence test figures, a special committee of the Chapel HOl School Board issued a statement of policy on the use of tests. The policy, according to the statement, has been: (I) “To regard such tests results as helpful diagnostic aids and not as statistical i data for research purposes,” and (2) “To keep the results of such tests confidential in ; the permanent record of in dividual pupils.” The committee’s state ment went on to explain that special tests to meas ure “aptitudes, interests, developed intelligence, and achievement” are part of the schools’ regular pro gram. Some years tests are only given to certain grades, while at other times all pupils take the tests, ac cording to the statement. “The results of the tests are placed in the permanent record of each pupil so as to be available to present and subsequent principals and teachers," it said. The purpose of the tests “is primarily for individual pupil diagnosis by the teachers,” the statement said. Although the schools gen erally have the benefit of consultation from University faculty members on admini stering the tests, “no effort has been made to have (Continued on pngo 12) Boy Scout Week Is Observed by Club ■i In observance of Boy Scout Week, member* of the Chapel Hill Kiwxnii> Club had as their special guests on Tuesday night the sons of Kiwanians who are active in scouting in the com munity. Also present were sev eral Chapel Hill scoutmasters. Art Bennett, a member of the club who is active in scouting, had charge of the program. At the close of the meeting the scouta present stood at attention and repeated together the scout oath and scout lew. Other than the scouta and 1 scoutmasters there were four other guests in attendance. Guy Rawls of Raleigh, Lb Governor of this Kiwaais District, was n guest of the club; Williard Prill amaa was the guest of Dr. Joe Bucket, Dr. Bill Joyner es Kemp Jones, and Tom Ray of Mason ; Murdock I i I Alfredo Caroy to Speak The Cosmopolitan Club will moot at 4:20 pas. Sunday, Feb ruary 14 in the rendsnvsne room of the Graham Memorial Aa i illustrated lecture oa Arguatlaa will ho given by Alfredo Corny i of Argentina, who woe at the University here oa a fellowship i great ia IMF-M doing research .'in lileretare of the United Statro. i He recently inlnhed a hook oa . U. 4 literature aad ia now wock- Igtion writers, huhuting Hem | iagwny. Hr. Casey is a profsoonr • .of low at Eva fafea University jla AtgsaMaa. The public is ia | sited to tho misting. ■faL ’ D-j. —a ttaJi—q w *s W AS MghsAool ff.aU fat the are teritod to tho oomai moattag la a aerim of study omtamw ua, “Oar Protases as Sagugothm 1 * et 2:20 p.m. Sunday, fahrumy 14 at the Ipieceyul parish haam. Shmmßdk -,■ t M2? n: H ~.. At W&WMM.