VoL 33 No. 7 Lots of .Talk Follows PTA Request for ABC Election By Lows Knuur The possibility that no law would prevent ABC; stores in Chapel Hill if the jfcnty voted wet came to light this week as the town! discussed last Friday's re | quest by the Chapel Hill I PTA that the county com [ missioners call an election [ on establishing ABC stores’ I in the county. The PTA voted to ask for! the ABC election in an effort to gain additional school funds. President James Godfrey this week explained the request this way: “To many of the members of the PTA, the real question seem ed to be not whether there would be liquor in Orange county or not. The real! question is whether the county or the locality is to get any revenue.” The chance that Chapel Hill could legally have ABC stores, should the county vote wet, was revealed in a check of state laws dating back to 1827. In that year, a law outlawing the sale of liquor in the town is record «B- Similar laws forbiding “spirituous or malt liquors, wines, or cordials” in Chapel Hill appear in the statute books until 1843. In 1943 the Consolidated Statutes of North Carolina were recompiled into what is called the General Stat utes of North Carolina. The Michie Company of Char lottesville, Va., which did the recompilation, left out the law about alcoholic beve rages 1* Chapel Hill, The cmpany made tfcentotetloii thit the law was “obsolete." After the recompilation. Urn general Assembly de cbe.d that the General Statutes were the laws of the state and all others were However, oae douse of the 1943 set pf the General Saeably might still rale out ABC stores here. It reads: “TK» General Stat utes . shah not have the effect of repealing statutes,' (Continued on put 2) Trexler Announces New Office Worker Mr*. Eunice Lawttnrt ku join ed the dtrical etaff of Um Chapel Hill-Cturrboro chants Aasocta tion office ns the temporary re placement of Mrs. Bonnie Horner, who recently resigned to work for vthe University National Bank. Airs. Lawrence is acquainted with the work of the Merchants As sociation office, since she wea on its staff several montha last year. John Trexler. executive secre tary of the association, said yes terday that applications for the Job of permanent office assistant are still being accepted. Hpeeks In hahsrilli Mrs. Edith Brocket of Chapel Hill, state president of the North Carolina Nonas Association, spoke day before yesterday in Asheville at n aisstiag of the fstk District Health and Medi cal Council. She want to Ashe ville Tuesday sight and returned yesterday (Thursday). Mrs. Brocksr is local supervising curse of the District Health De partment, which has hsadquar ten hen. Evergreen Btady Creep . The evergreen study group of the Chapel HUI Garden Club will meat at 3 pa Thursday, Feb ruary 14. at tha beam of Mrs. Carl Pegg on Laurel Hill nod. The topic wfll he "Camellias lu Gtefnl HHh Varieties MuMs J fuunriuwt ii "fbdmdk Alderman Gall Public Hearing On Proposed Zoning Ordinance The Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen voted Tuesday night to hold a public hear ing on the proposed zoning ordinance on March 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Town Hall. A final report, made by the Greater Planning Board, was presented to the aider men by Frank Umstead, ’chairman of the planning board. The zoning ordinance, which was discussed at a public hearing Monday inight, provides for the zon ing of Chapel Hill and the surrounding areas. The changes in the ordinance were not discussed at the Board meeting Tuesday night. The public hearing is ’required before the ordi nance can be adopted. • The aldermen deferred the filling of a vacancy on the 'Board of Adjustment until the public hearing on the zoning ordinance had been held. Under the proposed 'ordinance five new members ■from outside the city limits will have to be appointed. However, the aldermen nominated possible choices for the vacancy. Those nom iated included James Snipes, Herman Ward, and Arnold K. King. Town Manager Thomas Prospect for Good Supply of Teachers Wouldnt Warm the Heart of Optimist By John W. Umstead. Jr. Orange County’a Representative ia the Legislator* When th* State Board of Edu-i cation we* presenting Its case! to the appropriation* committee a question of grave importance to thnritfMa* M North Carolina was jdjfl fEWWBfSP* i fi§f: of oompotert’tlEn’f** th* Dr. Carroll would not warm the heart of an epUmlai. He frankly admitted Ml th* picture canid be better. Ao e matter of Cart, bad ho boos phased dews, ho would have had to admit that ibtf piciun l#ok#d bt4. . The mason this question was •eked bp aa interested nenber if the committee wee th* faffier teeMan Oontatnod oa n graph (showing the enrollment in the public schools from the school year 1941-42 through the school year 1953-54 end the expected enrollment from the school year 1954-1956 through the year 1960-61. These figures showed a low enrollment of 812,826 io the’ school year 1944-45 U* an actual enrollment of 968,066 for the 1953-54 school year end expect ed enrollment in the school year 1960-61 of 1,136,000. These figures for th* school year of 1960-61 are baaed on the birth rate shown by actual figures of the Health Department. Ail these figure* are of greet importance to every parent of a child of school age or thoes who will have children to ranch school age within the next four or five years. To tboee parents concerned the question is will my child *r children have qualified teachers to teach them when they enrol) in the public schools? To that question no on* can give a de finite answer. There are tee away matter* involvq! that we have not considered when they should have been considered. In 1961 I got from the statia Heart Drive to Be Held TMa Sunday Day after tomorrow will bo Heart Sunday throughout th* nation. Th* campaign bare will be a house-to-house canvass by 200 volunteer workers between 2 and 6 p.m. that day. Thee# volunteers will ask yen to Jala in the crucial battle against die eases that killed nearly 796,000 Americana last year. • Amagf the oaataiao of tha Men. The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents a Copy Rose pointed out to the Board that additional help is needed in the Police De partment to take care of the large amount of parking tickets. He reported that the department is collecting around S7OO or SBOO a month in parking fines. An escala tor clause, whereby fines would increase with each offense, was proposed but the Board took no action. Also the aldermen discuss ed an amendment to the en abling act under which police desk officers would be given the power to issue warrants. This matter was held over until it could be discussed Iwith the town’s attorney. The aldermen approved a motion to allow parking on the south side of Rosemary street instead of the north side, which is now being used. The Board also in structed Mr. Rose to get in touch with the American | Legion to see what can be done to make their parking lot on Rosemary street more usable. Other actions taken by the aldermen during the meeting included: 1. Approved an agreement with the Town of Carrboro calling for joint use of the (Continued on page 8) | ties division of the Health De jpartment the figures showing the births in the state daring the years from 1046 through 1960 Ud called to th* attention of! hath Um appropriations commit- UffWOwd thp usumiStoa on edsca- Upa th* fame 4 M those children would be ontoiipg the schools in 1318 through I*6. 1 did this in reuuartion with my contention that w# should increase teachers’ salaries ao that we could recruit teachers beginning in 1066 to taka care of this increased de mand for qualified teachers that would surely shew up at that time. Tha salary schedule waa not increased oa much as many of us thought eriee, and aa a result we do not have th* supply of quali fied teachers that we need to take care of the situation that pres ents itself during the next four years. Some children in North Carolina are going to suffer be cause we did not us# our imagi nation and taka care of a situa tion that Was so real that you should not have had te resort to me imagination. This question of giving the children of North Carolina the educational advantages they should expect ia a matter of spending enough money to dot, the job. With industry and the professions competing for the sendees of our young girls and boys we meat compete with ade quate salaries to insure for our schools the beat of talent as teachers es our children. It is a fins tiling to rua a factory that puts aut goods that satisfy th* demands of all elasaea of cus tomera, but it is definitely a finer thing to run a school that will give us well trained children who will become fine citisens. la my opinion, wo are thinking too much about development of industry in our state and think lag not enough about th* quality of <Ar dttoouahip of th* future. campaign are appropriated to Duka hospital and Memorial hos pital here Tor research work and tha study of heart diseases. Seventy-five per cent of tha money raised here will be used in North Carolina, while 25 per cent ia sent to the Heart Asso ciation’s national headquarters. "Additional workers are still needed for ths drive," Orville Cento bell, campaign chairman, ■a* yesterday. “Anybody wtll- Ifef I* give tw# hours Sunday thUIWKBn la asked to call 8336 or MMi.” 'IfS-**""" 11 tl Christ mas Bassar Tig Methodist Women’s So- MMjr of Christina Service will anmml Christmas bassar BMflWifhdlilidfjfp . CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18,1955 Revised Mail Schedule The schedule for incoming and outgoing mails at the Chapel Hill post office has been revised. It is as fol lows: Outgoing, Weekdays 5:30 A.M., all directions. 12:30 P.M., north, west, southwest, Durham. 4:30 P.M., north, west, south,- Durham. 7:00 P.M., all directions. Outgoing, Sundays 12:30 P.M., north, west, . southeast, Durham. 7:00 P.M., all directions. (Note: Each of these hours is closing time; that ! is, the time when, if your I letter is to be dispatched immediately, you must have ; it in the post office.) Incoming, Weekdays 5:30 A.M., all directions. 9:40 A.M., all directions. 3:40 P.M., north, west, ! south, Durham. 7:40 P.M., all directions. Incoming, Sunday 9:40 A.M., all directions. 7:40 P.M., all directions. Window Service Monday through Friday, 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. (except , that money order window ' closes at 5 P.M.). Saturday, all windows close at I P.M. ' Sunday, no window serv -1 ice. — Calendar of Events Sunday, February 20 • 2 p.m. Heart Fund house-to house canvass. • 3 p.m. Chapel Hill Bird Club, F. H. Edmister home on Uni versity Lake road. • 3:30 p.m. Study suasion, “Our Problem of Sagregstion,” Presbyterian church. e 6: it p.m. Uaivaraal Day of Prayer, Baptist Church. • 1:46 p.m. Community Drama Gfcteup, Library assembly room. > Monday, February 21 a 4 p.m. Statistic# Colloquium, 206 PMllipe hall, e 6 p.m. Merchants Association, Ranch House. e 7JO p.m. Bridge tournament, Bendesvous room, Graham Me morial. e 8 p.m. Oakview Garden club, Church of Roly Family. Tuesday, February 22 e 11 u.m. Women's Auxiliary of Memorial hospital entertains Sir Walter Cabinet, nurses' auditorium, Memorial hospital, e 12:43 p.m. Junior Service League, Lutheran church, e 1 p.m. Faculty Club, Carolina Inn. e 8 p.m. “Adventures in Folk Music,’’ Hill hall. Wednesday, February 23 e 8 p.m. Wumen’s International league for Peace and Free dom, Town Hail, e 8 p.m. Association for Aging , and Community Relationship, library aasembiy room. Thursday, February 24 • 3 p.m. Evergreen study group ’ of Chapel HUI Garden Club, home of Mrs. Carl Pegg, Laurel Hill road. e 8 p.m. Community Club’s i American home department, I high school home economics i cottage. Friday, February 25 e 8:30 p.m. High school Dance I Club Party, Chapel Hill Coun try Club. i Legion WiU Ball Proparty At Its meeting this weak the 1 Chapel Hill American Legion adopted a resolution to accept offers for the sale of its property on East Rosemary street oppo site the Orange Printshop or to trade it fore suitable location j elsewhere. The property includes , the Legion Hut and a large lot on which the hut is located. In terested • persons * are requested to call D. M. Horner at 8-1214. j Coffee far Heart Drive For the benefit of the Heart i Drive, all coffee sold Monday at i the Caroline Coffee Bhop will be i 20 cents a cup. All proceeds from i coffee told at the shop that day, I tha entire SO cents for every cup, < wiU‘ be turned over to the Heart Fund. Slight Enrollment Drop The University’s enrollment for the spring semester is 6,927, as compared with 6,061 for the tall semester, it is announced by the Chaaeellor’s office. This is a drop of two per cent. Last year the spring semester showed f six par sent drop from this fall MiMfftflffe Chapel Mill Chaff L. G. Robert W. Madry’s illness has not been of the jK>rt that calls for a'Strict diet. While in the hospital (whence he went home Wednesday) he was allowed to eat pretty much anything he wanted and he awaited his meals with an eager appetite. One day last week they didn’t bring him his lunch at the regular hour. Oh, well just a little delay, he said to him self. The tray would be coming in any minute. But time kept flowing by and he got hungrier and hung rier. At last he put in an emergency call: why no lunch? The nurse asked the kitchen, and the kitchen said the reason no lunch had been sent to Mr. Madry was that he was going to be operated on. This astonish ed Mr. Madry; he had not been informed that the surg eons were going to work on him. It turned out that the kitchen, or an orderly, or somebody, had got Frank Maddry, Orange county deputy sheriff, who was in the hospital for a hernia operation, confused with Robert W. Madry, director of the University News Bureau. •** * * I’m lucky about what 1 see from my home or when I go out for a stroll. There’s the Arboretum, only about two minutes’ walk from my gate. There’s the great spread of lawn bordered on three sides by buildings of old-time graceful design. Along the streets and in yards and gardens are trees and shrubbery and, as the seasons change, flowers: py rus japonic® (here already In these winter days), ja*- mihe, sweetHbreath-of sprfng, hyacinths, violets, crocuses, snowdrops, daffo dils, dogwood, wistaria, tulips, roses, crepe myrtle, chrysanthemums. I enjoyed all this for a long time with out ever expecting there would be any important (Continued on page 2) Planned Growth for Chapel Hill Area Is Discussion Topic at Public Hearing “This sort of thing la done to try to keep Chapel HiU from be ing bottled up. Suppose a man builds a junk yard on a street. Another man next door who’s just put up a SBO,OOO house finds that hia rights aren’t observed, and the value of hia property drops.’’ That waa one explanation for the seed of soning given by Chairman Frank Umstead of the Greater Chapel Hill Planning Board at a public hearing last Monday night Mr. Umatead'a remarks ware among several mads in the hear ing . attended by over 100 per sons. He said that Chapel Hill “ia growing so fast that things will go helter-skelter without planning.” He added, “If soning, which la planned growth, la good for large placet like Charlotte and Greansboro, then it moat be a good thing for Chdpol Hill.” Th* board, compoaod of five members picked by the Board of Association for Affing to Moot Tha winter mooting of the Association for Aging end Com munity Relationship will be held from 8 to 9:80 p.m. Wednesday, February 23, in the University Library’s assembly room. Re ports will be given by the survey committee and the recently or ganised committees on health, shelter, planning for old ago, employment, leisure time, fellow ship, and advisory services. Dis cussions will follow, and thoo* not already on s committee will b* given an opportunity to join on* or mors. The public is In vited. Notice to PMlateOste If enough interest Is shown, an effort will bo mad# to form an adult stamp collector's club her*, rhoae interested are asked to mail thoir nemo, address, and telephone ndmbcr to F. L. John son, Box 878, Chapel Hill, within the next week. Every adult stomp pnllrcfor in Chapal mu sad th* UMvoasity is invited. New Law Would Make the County Commissioners Restore the Full School Tax Passed by the Voters Chapel Hill Women Going On Tours Abroad« Miss Mary Cobb will leave New York by airplane at 2:30 p.m. Friday, March 4, and will arrive at Paris at 10:10 a.m. Saturday the sth (which is 3:10 p.m. New York and Chapel Hill time), a flight of 12 hours and 40 minutes. Her aunt, Miss Penelope Cobb of Washing ton, will go with her. They will be with Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hamilton in Paris for a while. (Mrs. Hamilton is Miss Cobb’s cousin.) What other places they will visit they haven’t yet decided. They will be gone about a month. Mrs. W. C. Coker will sail from New York March 12 for a Mediterranean cruise oa the Holland-American liner New Amsterdam. The passengers will go on shore excursions by train or auto mobile in Egypt, Greece, and Italy. They will get to Rot terdam April 28 when Hol land’s famous tulips will be on gorgeous display. Mrs. Coher will spend two weeks in Holland, Denmark, and Sweden and will come back home about the middle of May. Mrs. James Street, Mrs. Lewis MacMillan, and Mrs. Irt Summerlin, and Mra. Calvert Toy will go on a tqur of Europe conducted by Mm. Leon Wiley, from April Ifi to June 15. This is a tour that Mrs. WUey has con ducted years. (Mrs. Toy, whose home is in New Brunswick, N. J., used to live in Chapel Hill) Good Work by Andy Todd j Eight-year-old Andy Todd re- , eently collected $81.60 for the March of Dimes in two days. He j eaid that moat of it waa In dime* : but that he got several quarter* ’ and even one flfty-cent piece. < Aldermen from within Chapel Hill and Ava chosen by the Board of County Commissioners from the surrounding area, answered questions and recorded opinions for over two hours. Then the group met to make revisions be fore submitting the ordinance to the Board of Aldermen. (Continued on page 3) Faculty Club Luncheon I)r. George C. Ham will apeak on "Modern Psychiatry” at a luncheon meeting of the Faculty Club at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Febru ary 22, at the Carolina Inn. The program will include a short Lualnesa session for the election of three new directors. After th* luncheon the board will elect officers for next year. Pritchard* Buy Prouty Home Mr. and Mra. Grady Pritchard have bought from Mrs. W. F. Prouty her home on th* Pittsboro highway, in the eouthern part of the village, and will probably move In about July 1. Mrs. Prouty has not yet dacidod whether or not aha will continue to live io Chapol HUI. Lanier Says He Is Against ABC Stores When salted hia rasetioa to th* PTA’s motion concerning ABC stores for Orange county, Edwin 8. Lanier, a member of th* Board of County Commissioners, said: "At the PTA meeting I elected to say nothing and did not vote for or agslnst the motion. If and when tha matter ia formally pre sented te the board of commis sioners, I’ll than hav* to ‘cross the bridge’ on on* side or th* other. "I am aware of my own per sonal convictions or prejudices (as you like) in th* faea of this question. Still, bo as objective as possibly con, I cannot in arithmetic figure one penny of ml profit te Um State of North Carolina and its counties and towns from the operation of ABC stem. (Examine the 19*4 **- tten of NXL Statistics m Togo* $8 a Year in County; other rates on pup* S ■ -♦ Friday Appointed William C. Friday (above), who has served aa assistant to University President Gordon Gray sine# 1361. baa boon pro moted to Secretary of the Uni versity. la his new Jab, affec tive Merck 1, be will continue to be n pert of the Consolidated Office of the University nad will serve as staff oAcer to Urn President oa student affaire and derahpffknt programs and will be the service titer to the Board of Trustees. He will also assist the President in main taining ltalsen with members of the Legislature, University councils sad committees, and University officials, students, and alumni, and with special assignment*. Dinner Meeting Is Set for Merchants A full membership meeting of tha Chapel HiU-Carrboro Mer chants Association will be halt Monday night, February 20, It tha Riacb Bonsp From 6 to 7 o’clock member* of the ’iff*** will bo guosp of Um diroolhrs at a social hour. During this tint#, mombora will have an opportunity to moot the president, board of directors, and executive secretary. The dinner, which it scheduled for 7 o’clock, will cost members $2.26, including tips sad tax. There will be no speaker at the dinner because of the request of many members, according to Exe cutive Secretary John Trexler. Entertainment wifi follow. Members of th* association are invited to hear a talk by Joseph T. Meek, president of the Illinois Federation of Retail Association, at 10:15 ajx. Monday at th* Caro lina Inn at a session of the Mer chant’s Officials Conference. At Memorial Hospital Among local parsons listed as patients at Memorial hospital yesterday ware Robert Atchison, Mrs. J. D. Bailey, Mra. George Baldwin, Mrs. James Brockwell? Mrs. Maxine Campbell, R. A. Christenson, C. C. Edwards, Mrs. Rodney McKnifht, Pamela Mar tin, Michasl Minteer, Mary Niee, C. H. Pegg, A. H. Foe, Donald Ray, J. E.fUggsbee, L. B. Roger son, Mra. Richard Taylor, S. E. Tear, Jeff Thomas, Dr. L. L. Thurston, and Dr. Louis Welt American Ham* Department The Community Club’s Ameri can homo department will meet at 3 p.m. Thursday, February 24, at tha high school’s economics cottage. Miss Jane Price will have charge of ths program. Girls in ths school’s homo eco nomics «Um*s will b* hostesses. All the women of the community are invited. tion and til proposed Budget for North Carolina for 19(6-67.) “Which pf the 10 counties and 6 cities with ABC atoms are wil ling to hate ABC atoms for the mom convenience of having them, and to let tha entire ‘profits’ go Into th* Itbte’i General Fund for the State to use aa a general fund revenue or to bo disbursed by th* State te all th* counties on a population basis?” Oakview Garden Clab A “corsage workshop” will b* held at a mooting of ths Oakview Garden Clob at I p.m. Monday, February fit, at the Church of Um Holy family. It will b* m ducted by Mrs. J.. J. Wright Hootasase will b# Mrs. M. D. Saunders, Mrs. Omy Culbretk, Mm. J. T. Blake, sad Mrs. D. M. Israer. By Chacfc Hsaoar If a law introduced last week in the General Assem bly is passed, and there seems to be no doubt that it will be, the Orange county commissioners will be re quired to restore the 2D Jcents per SIOO Chapel Hill ] supplementary school tax Iwhidi they slashed to 12 cents last July. And, according to a state official, there is some ques tion about whether last sum mer’s action by the commis sioners was legal even under present statutes. Here is the section, con tained in the proposed re vision and codification of the state’s public school laws, which will put the Chapel Hill tax back at 20 cents: “G.S. 115-7. Levy and col lection of taxes.—ln all ad ministrative units, districts and other school areas which have voted a supplemental school tax, or which may vote such a tax under the provisions of this article, the maximum rate voted shall be levied annually and col lected each year in the same manner and at the same time *s other taxes of the county are levied and collected, un less the board of education of such unit, district or other school area, shall petition for a lower rate, in which event the rate requested i shall be levied and collected.” The key word in the above section is “shall” That means the levying es the 20 cent* tax authorised by the General Assembly’s Joint Education committee, at which L. Stacy Weaeer, afferetary of the Commission on Revision of the Public School Laws, explained the (Continued on P»l* 1) Cox Is Honored by State Jaycee Body Bob Cox, president of th* Chapel Hill Jaycees, was recently elected vice-president of th* North Carolina Junior Chamber of Commerce for th* oight county fifth district. His election took place at a special meeting of the 10-club district at tha and of the organisation’s third quar terly board meeting in Winston- Salem last week-end. Cox, who la a candidate for on* of the four national director posts in the North Carolina Jay ceoa for next year, will serve out the remaining three months of Baird Paachal’a term. Mr. Pas chal, of Silar City, resigned to go into the armed force*. Jackie Jackson Give* Party Jackie Jackson, small too of Mrs. Virginia B. Jackson, gay* a Valentin* party last Saturday at their home at 117 Maxwoll road. Th* gueeti were Kimball , Royster; Beth and Lane Craw ford; Andy, Debbie, and Melanio Andrew*; Tony Norwood; Rnthie Gaul; Rodney Thomaa; Ana and Jodi* Wilkinson; Katie Cassey, and the following parent*: Mrs. Stephen Royster, Mr*. E. & Crawford, Jr„ Mr*. Lena P. An drews, Mrs. Georg* M. Norwood, Mr*. R. Wharton Gaul, Mr*. J. P. Ihomas, Mr*. Erorett Wtlklnaoa, Mra. John Caffoy, Jr., and Ilia. A. Ball. A prise was given to Andy Andrew* for having made the niedat Valentino. Operation «U & logos*** L. B. Rogorson, manager the Carolina lan, underwent 4t* appendectomy Saturday night la th* hospital here. Th# intent nows from Mm i* that ho is getting along welL When ho will leave the hospital is not known yet. Mias Alio* Nobl# weak -V# Goldsboro last Saturday to attend the marriage of John GoM Ren don odd Ml** Dorothy Moo. She

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