Vol. 33 No. 9
School Census
Being Planned
For March 14
The school community
will have an opportunity to
appraise its growth and fu
ture needs when the first
Chapel Hill school census
Ace 1948 will be conducted
the week of March 14.
Plans for the school census
were made late last week at
a joint meeting of school
officials, PTA members, and
members of the American
Association of University
Women.
The census, planned to in
clude all persons 18 years old
and under, was suggested by
school board members and
Superintendent C. W. Davis.
The AAUW, upon request of
the school officials, offered
its aid. With talk of addi
tional school needs so pre
valent, some definite figures
on pre-school children were
needed, Mr. Davis explained.
Acting as consultants on
the project are Robert Brit
tel of the U.N.C. School of
Education, Professor D. 0.
Price of the University De
partment of sociology, and
Associate Professor Stuart
F. Chapin, jr., of the U.N.C.
department of city and
planning. Mrs. Osier
Peterson will serve as co
ordinating chairman of the
census.
Maps will be made of all
sections of the area that in
cludes children who attend
or will attend Chapel Hill
schools. Then, each of the
four local PTA groups will
taka the responsibility of
getting a captain for its sec
tion. The captains, ip turn,
will choose to
take tn*» eepgys. After each
section has teen polled, the
maps will be filled in to In
dicate the number of school
and pre-school children in a
section and where they live.
Those in charge of the
census stressed the import
ance of community coopera
tion, explaining that it will
J* vital to the accuracy and
Complete effectiveness of the
school survey.
The March 14 date is the
tentative meeting time for
captains of sections.
This project is being fi
nanced jointly by the PTA
and AAUW. It will show the
community what its building
needs are and where they are,
as well aa the additional teachers
that will be required.
Clothing Is Needed *
By the Thrift Shop
1 Men’a, womens, and children’s
clothing of all kinds and house
hold items of all kinds are ur
gently needed by the Thrift Shop,
which is operated on West Prank,
lin street by the Chapel Hill and
Glenwood Parent-Teacher Asso
ciations for the benefit of their
school projects. All persons in the
community willing to make such
contributions are asked to tele
phone Mrs. White et 4266 end
the bundles will be picked up et
their homes. Or the contributions
may be brought to the shop or
dropped in Thrift Shop recep
tacles at Fowler’s Food Store on
nWest Franklin street and at the
ffDairyland Store in Glen Lennox.
It is also announced that the
Thrift Shop it now selling, et
half price, straw shopping bags
made in Portugal. These bags,
now 60 cents apiece, ere made
available by the Band Parents
Club.
“Our Racial Problem”
High school students from
seven Chapel Hill church** will
meet et 8:89 this (Friday) after
noon in St Paul’s Methodist
church far the fifth in a series
of diccucsione on "Our Racial
Problem.” Local minister* *Q
discuss their denomination*'
position an segregation.
Methedist Wemen'e Meeting
The MstteAsi Women* So
ciety of Christian Service wM)
meet et » fjm Monday, Ma**h
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Mrs. Bill Roberts is seen
here at the window of the
new Glen Lennox branch
post office, which she is
operating in her toy store,
the Lennox Shop, in the Glen
Lennox shopping center.
Aldermen Discuss $200,000 Bond Issue
To Pay for Municipal Improvements
By Charles Dunn
The Chapel Hill Board of Al
dermen discussed plena for a
$200,000 bond issue at their meet
ing Monday night in the Town
Hall and authorised Town Man
ager Tom Roee to continue study
on the issue with the town’s fi
nance committee and to submit
his findings to the Board in the
near future.
Mr. Rose, in presenting the
proposal before the board, said
that the town’s improvements
have come to a critical point in
keeping pao* with the growing
town. He said, “We have done
prettv well in the TtoftROMM
and we iuve gresi.yiHHKgMrei
site and in valuation* Ifc fte-j
faded to point oat the majerim
provemente ia the town in the
post fin goers.
Tho Town Manager’s list of
reedgfi improvements included
now oqxlpment (mainly truck*)
lllfiti; widening two blocks of
Raoomsry street $88,060; new
sanitary sowers, $18,800; storm
sowers, $40,200; ami streets
(mainly curb and gutters)
$60400, The above figure* to
tal $190400, but one of the mem
bers of the board suggested that
another SIO,OOO be added to take
care of unexpected needs.
At present, according to Mr.
Rose, the town’s bonded debt is
aiound $300,000 with an addition
al $60,000 in short term notes,
making a total of $360,000. This
amount is scheduled to be paid
off by 1974 without an increase
:n taxes. According to Mr. Rose,
if the $200,000 bond issue is
passed it could be paid off by
around 1980.
In presenting his request for
the bond issue to the Board, Mr.
Rose said that the town’s
assessed valuation of property
has increased from $3,933,000 in
1944 to $9,321,000 in 1954. He
pointed out that in 1944 the
town’s bonded debt was $232,000
as compared with $386,000 in
Faculty Club Luncheon
Arthur J. Altemeyer, formerly
commissioner for social security
of the Department of Health Edu
cation and Welfare, and now a
visiting lecturer in the Univers
ity’* School of Social Work, will
be the speaker at the Faculty
Club luncheon at 1 p.m. Tuesday,
March 8, at the Carolina Inn. E.
A. Brecht, the club’s new presi
dent, will preside.
All Barbers Here Will Give One Day’s
Income to League for Crippled Children
All Chapel Hill and Carrboro
barber shops are going to give
one day’s income to the Easter
seal drive sponsored by the
Crippled Children’s League. The
ieagw wfH receive all money
taken in tkat day at the follow
ing barber shops; Carotins, Carr
teCity, Midway, Perry, Ter
| University, and Village. In
so doing, the shops here are
joining in, 100 per cent, With
other barber shops in the state
in this one-day program.
Albin Pikutis, state director of
the Crippled Children's League,
Wttft hsafignartect ten, invited
The Chapel Hill Weekly
5 Cents a Copy
Also shown are William T.
Hobbs (center), who has the
contract for the office, and
Paul Cheek, Postmaster of
the Chapel Hill post office,
of which the new office is a
branch. The picture was
1964, and that percentagewise the
town is less in debt now than it
was in 1944.
Mr. Rose, pointing out the
town’s growth in the past five
years, cited as examples the an
nexation of the Strowd hill and
Westwood areas, the increase in
area from 842 acres to 1200 acrea,
the laying of two miles of sani
tary sewer line and of six miles
of curb and gutter, parts of 20
streets surfaeed or resurfaced, a
new fire truck (purchased in co
cperatiesi with the University),
the purchasing of the new 22-acre
I cemetery, and tho adoption of a
system for
fedjjte fast as this,”
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have got to spend money te keep
up,’’ He suggested tkat the bond
election be called for May 3.
“Show Boat” Often Tonight
“Show Boat,” the famous musi
cal by Oscar Hamaterstein and
Jerome Kern, will be given by
the Carolina Playmriwrs at 8:30
p.m. today (Friday h tomorrow,
and Sunday in Manorial hall.
Tickets are on sale at Ledbetter-
Pickard’s and Ahernethy hall.
Admission is $2. Stories and pic
tures about the production are
on pages nine, ten, and fourteen.
Mrs. Michie Honored
Mrs. O. E. Michie was elected
to the office of Elder in the North
Carolina Branch of the Sons and
Daughters of the Pilgrims at its
annual meeting this week at the
Robert E. Lee hotel in Winston-
Salem. She succeeds Mrs. Victor
V. McGuire of Asheville, whose
term of office expired at this
time.
Operetta Slated Tonight
The chidren of the Northside
elementary school will give a
three-act operetta, “Jack and the
Beanstalk,” at 8 o’clock this (Fri
day) evening at the school. Ad
mission will be 60 cents for
adults, 26 cents for high school
students, and 15 cents for ele
mentary school children. Every
body is invited.
Newcomers Club Notice
The Newcomers Club will not
meet on March 8, as previously
announced. The meeting for that
date has been cancelled.
day’s income to the league.
The barbers here will also en
courage their customer! to give
to the drive by putting contribu
tion containers in their shops.
B’aai B’rith Meeting
The Chape) Hill lodge of the
B’nai B’rith will meet at 8 p.m.
Thursday, March 10, at the
Hillei House. A. Victor Masket
of the University’s physics de
partment will talk about scien
tific contributions during the
past century.
Tri Delta Pledges
Miss Ann Gobbel, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. Temple Gobbel,
and Mina Catherine Berryhill,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. R.
lerryhlli, warn recently pledged
to the Hrimritjr'a chapter of
the Delta Mta Mte seeority.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1966
.'taken just after the office
('opened Tuesday morning for
1 1 the first time.
The Glen Lennox post
, office will be open from 9
i a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday
i through Saturday, except
’ that it will close for the day
at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays. It
will be open all day Satur
, day. Mail from the new
joffice, which will handle out
going mail only, will make
• the same dispatches as the
jjChapel Hill post office, ex
-1 cept for one that goes out at
1 6:30 a.m.
Calendar of Events
,| Friday, March 4
• 3 p.m. Community Club, Epia
-1 copal church.
1 • 3:30 p.m. Study session, “Our
Racial Problems,” St. Paul's
Methodiat church.
• 8:30 pjn. “Show Boat,” Me
morial hall.
Saturday.' March 3
mortal hall. ' ' «g/
Sunday, March •'
e 8:30 p.m. “Show Boat,” Me
morial hall.
Monday, March 7
a 8 p.m. Methodiat Women’s So
ciety of Christian Service, east
parlor of church,
a 7:30 p.m. Public hearing on
proposed new coning ordi
nance, Town Hall,
a 8 p.m. Floyd Stovall, Spring
Humanities Faculty Lecture,
Carroll hall.
a 8 p.m. Lutheran Women, Lu
theran church’s fellowship
room.
• 8 p.m. Women's Fellowship,
United Congregational Chris
tian church.
Tuesday, March 8
• 1 p.m. Faculty Club luncheon,
Carolina Inn.
a 8 p.m. Arthur Howes, organ
concert, Hill hall.
Wednesday, March 0
• 3 p.m. Carrboro Civic club,
clubhouse.
At Memorial iloapital
Among local persons listed as
patients at Memorial hospital
yesterday were Miss Agnes An
drews, Jerry Ashworth, Mrs. Joe
Baldwin, Mrs. Joe Barber, Nor
man Barber, Mrs. M. J. Bright,
Mra. Herbert Cash, Mary Vir
ginia Edwards, P. C. Farrar, Mrs.
J. Freeland, Rena Annie Headen,
Hezekiah Hines, Vance Temple
Hogan, Mra. R. N. Hoggard, A.
J. Johnson, H. A. Jones, Mrs.
Irene Lee, Herbert Lide, Pamela
Ann Martin, Mrs. Ada Moser,
Mrs. Robert Rankin, Donald Ray,
Margaret Steytler, and Mrs.
Maggie Winkle.
Glenwood PTA Meets
The Glenwood Parent-Teachers
Association was to have met at
8 o’clock last night (Thursday)
in the school’s cafeteria. The
speaker was James Paul, who
was a member of the Governor’s
committee to compose the brief
recently sent to the Supreme
Court and who is assistant di
rector of the University's Insti
tute of Government. His topic
wna “Current Status of the Legal
Aspects of Segregation.”
Lutheran Women's Maeting ,
The March masting of the
Lutheran Woman of the Church
will be held at 8 p.m. Monday,
March 7, in the church’s fallow
ship room. Mrs. Ruaeell Parry ,
will load the devotionals. Ail (
Lutheran women are Invited to ,
•timid. ,
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Annaal Red Cress
Drive Is New
In Fall Swing
Volunteer workers are
making a house-to-house
canvass for the Chapel Hill
Red Cross chapter’s annual
drive, which is now being
held under the general com
mand of Mrs. Robert H.
Wettach, campaign chair
man.
A headquarters office for
the drive is being operated
in the showroom of the
Pritchard-Little Motor Com
pany at the corner of Frank
lin and Columbia streets.
This collection station, where
workers and captains are to
deliver their collection kits,
will be open from 9:30 to 5
p.m. today (Friday), tomor
row, Monday, and Tuesday.
The office is being direc
ted by Mrs. Norman Cordon,
collections chairman, with
the assistance of Mrs. Roy
Armstrong, Mrs. Ed Cam
eron, Mrs. E. H. Hartsell,
Miss Cornelia Love; Mrs.
Grady Pritchard, Mrs. S. C.
Shepard, and Mrs. Paul
Shearin. Part of their job
is to tabulate the results of
the campaign. The campaign
goal is $8,200, seventy per
cent of which will be used
here in Chapel Hill or else
where in Orange county.
Committee chairmen for
the drive include J. Mary on
Saunders, advance gifts;
Mrs. Victor Greulach, resi
dential area; Ralph Howard,
rural solicitations; Mrs.
Winslow Williams and Mrs.
Hubert Hackney, Carrboro
co-chairmen; Mr. and Mrs.
Morris Mason, co-chairmen
of Negro community, and
Mias Helen Jane Wettach,
University's School of Medi
cin* anMOMyOfiaMgiAM
■r. till Mn,%Hiia D. Bom
•re buiMlng a one-etory bouse,
of traditional design, in the east
ern (Strewfi’s Hill) part of town,
between Roosevelt avenue and
the Durham highway. They ex
pect to move in in June.
Public Hearing on Zoning Ordinance to
Be Held Monday Evening at Town Hall
A public hearing on the pro
poeed new xoning ordinance for
ChapdP Hill and the surrounding
area will be held in the Town
Hall Monday night at 7:80.
Changes in the ordinance, made
after a public hearing three
weeks ago, will be discussed along
with anything new that arises. It
is not known whether or not the
Board of Aldermen will take final
action on the proposal after the
meeting.
The adoption of the proposed
zoning ordinance, which ia the
work of the Greater Chapel Hill
Planning Board, would partly
solve a legal problem that was
revealed last Monday night at the
aldermen’s meeting. The present
zoning ordinance, passed in 1949,
may not bo legal, and Town At
torney Jack LeGrand has advised
the town to shy away from any
effort to enforce it
The issue arose at the board
meeting Monday night in connec
tion with the action of a fra
ternity on Cameron avenue. The
Board had denied the fraternity
the right to occupy n house there
under provisions of tho 1949 zon
ing law, but it moved in anyway.
According to Town Manager
Tom Rose, the 1949 ordinance
was supposed to repeal a zoning
Community Club Mooting
The Community Club will meet
at 8 o’clock this (Friday) after
noon at the Episcopal parish
house. The club’s welfare deport
ment, of which Mrs. Edith
Brocker is chairman, will have
charge of the program. Dr.
Charles N. Cameron will speak
on “Plana for the Home Acddentl
Prevention Program in North!
CaroHns.” Dr. Cameron is chief
of the accident prevention and
communicable diseases section of
the epidemiology division of the
North Carolina State Board *f
Health.
Basketball Tournament
The' Chapel Hill high school
basketball teem payed Hender
son last night at Henderson in
the first round of the District 111
ciae* AA basketball tournament.
The winner ia to piay tonight in
the semi-finals. The champion
skip game will b* tomorrow
Chapel Mill Ckall
I* G.
As has happened in many
a year in Chapel Hill, the
first day of this month belied
the saying that March
comes in like a lion. Which
is hardly surprising, since
many of the sayings that we
repeat, like the poetry and
drama and novels that we
read and the clothing fash
ions that we follow, are
made in colder climates.
The day started gray but
mild. Soon after breakfast
wind blew and rain fell, but
neither was cold. Then the
sun shone bright, and the
air grew warmer by the
minute, and we were envel
oped in real springtime.
Plum trees burst into
bloom. There were violets,
and hyacinths, and golden
crocuses and daffodils, and
rose-white-and-red pyrus ja
ponica. The winter honey
suckle (or, if you prefer the
other name, sweet-breath-of
spring) spread its delicate
perfume roundabout. Elms
and maples budded, and wil
lows were in tender young
leaf. Observe that I am
using the past tense, for the
first day of March. More
blossoms appear every day,
and unless a frost smites
the village there will be a
still greater display of
flowers when you read this.
And there is more evi
dence of spring than the
sunshine and the balmy air
and the flowers. It is peo
ple’s coming out into the
open, and life that you see
and hear from your open
windows and doors. Turning
from my typewriter for a
moment on this first of
March, and looking eastward
along Hooper lane, I saw
pppr Hamilton pulling up
gtipfife and I admired his
ROl sense in sitting on s
stool instead of tiring the
old back by bending over.
Move the stool a few inches
at a time, keep on pulling
be patient and persistent,
(Continued on page 2)
ordinance passed yi 1928, but be
cause of some error, it was not
copied on the town’s official min
utes. The law was tested in 1964
in the Superior Court in Hills
boro, but the trial ended when no
copy of the ordinance was found
ii» the minutes.
Mr. Rose said that the 1928
ordinance may be in effect if the
1949 law isn’t, but powers under
it are limited. If the proposed!
new ordinance is passed the situ-j
ation for the future would be!
provided for legally, according to!
Mr. Rose.
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•ale will te held tomorrow (Sat
urday). Between the hours of
9 a.m, and k p.m. Girl Sooote and
Brownies will call or home* in
their neighborhoods, while •
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Commissioners Believed Sore
To Deny Liquor Referendum;
P.T.A. May Get Vote t Anyway
To Give Concert
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Arthur Howes, above, founder
and director of the Organ Insti
tute at Andover, Mast., will give
an organ concert at 8 p.m. Tues
day, March 8, in Hill hall as part
of the Tuesday Evening Series
sponsored by the University’s
music departmsnt and (in this
csss) the Graham Memorial. Ad
mission is free.
He will play Bach’s Fantasia
and Fugue in G Minor; Kellner’•
Chorale Prriudes; Buxtehude's
Passacaglia in D Minor, Prelude,
and Fugue in G Minor; Pachebel'g
Prelude, Fugue, and Chaconne;
Brahm’s Chorale Preludes, sad
Widor’s Finale (Second Sym
phony for Organ).
Mr. Howes has givsn concerts
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Stovall Will Give
Humanities Lecture
Floyd SfiovaU, University pro
fessor at English, will 4sliver the
spring Humanities Faculty Lec
ture at Monday, Matqh 7,
,in the auditorium of CarftißMg
An authority ou Walt wRmmJ
he will speak on “Leaugp jC
Grass: Ths Evolution of tho
Book.” Ths puklio is invited.
Mr: Stovall’s topic ia particul
arly timely, sines this year marks
ths centennial of ths publication
of the first edition df “Leaves of
Grass.” Many universities and
organisations plan special obser
vances in connection with this
centennial, and Monday evening's
lecture will give the University
one of the earliest of the series
of commemorations of Whitman’s
famous book.
The Humanities Faculty Lec
tures are presented three time*
a year by the Undergraduate Di
vision of the Humanities as s
means of presenting faculty
members to the University pub
lic and the general public. Will
iam Wells, also of the English
department, was the fall lecturer.
Mr. Stovall, a member of the
U.N.C. faculty since 1948, re
ceived hia A.8., M.A., and Ph.D.
degrees from the University of
Texas.
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Girl Scout* who will Mil cookie*
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Groonwood of Troop 14, Jmt)
Wowl at Troop IT, and An* Pal
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It is virtually certain that
the county commissioners
i will turn down the Chapel
j Hill PTA’s request for a
county-wide referendum on
I the ABC issue.
[ Three of the five commis
| sioners have made it clear
i that they will vote against
[ the PTA’s request when the
board meets Monday in
! Hillsboro. Commissioner Ed
win S. Lanier said this week
that he would vote against
holding an ABC vote in the
county because he was
against having liquor stores
and because he didn’t be
lieve in calling an election
“just because fifty people
ask for one.”
Commissioners Dwight
Ray of Carrboro and Henry
S. Walker of Hillsboro have
indicated that they will side
with Mr. Lanier in the mat
ter.
However, even if the com
missioners turn down the
PTA’s request, and it is al
most certain that they will,
a petition of 16 per cent of
the voters in the last elec
tion for governor would au
tomatically bring about an
ABC vote in the county.
The PTA here has already
taken steps toward getting
a vote, despite the commis
sioners’ stand. John Man
ning, head of the PTA Legis
lative committee, has been
studying the legal aspects of
the question. If the PTA’s
request is turned dow% j|
will appawntly either mRI
circulation of a petition "l
Mil Manning has ato^H
Kfc?* * roup
w» Ml Rr a ipSJh
ABC vote.
“There is no local apt pro
hibiting liquor stores in
Chapel Hill,” Mr. Manning
pointed out. He went on to
nxplain that the PTA asked
him to look into “all legal
aspects” of the ABC ques
tion. Mr. Manning said he
has been requested by in
dividuals to prepare peti
tions for an ABC vote and
that he had already drawn
up the legal form.
Just what the PTA will
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Newcomers Club to
Have Fashion Show
The annual fashion show and
luncheon by the Newcomers Club
will be held at 12:30 Wednesday
afternoon, March 80, at the Caro
lina Inn and will be attended by
club members and their guests
and friends. The Little Shop will
show spring and summer styles.
Notices regarding reservations
will be sent out soon.
The club’s April meeting has
been postponed from April 12
to April 19 and will be a morning
coffee hour at 10:80 in the parlor
of Kenan dormitory.
The club will not meet on
March 8, aa previously announced.
The meeting for that date has
been cancelled.
Mrs. Condo* te Bpeak
Mra. W. J. Condon will speak
to the Women’s Auxiliary of the
Church of the Holy Family at fi
p.m. Monday, March t, at the
home of Mrs. Thomas F. Taylor
at 783 Gimghoul road. Her topic
will “Prayer” Mrs. Condon's
husband is an Episcopal minister
hi Spray. One of her sons is
Episcopal Bishop of Alaska, a
daughter ia a missionary to India,
and two other daughters have||
worked for Episcopal church
in Alaska. Another daughter ia
the wife of a Presbyterian miss
ionary in Brasil.
Clarence Halthcock Here |
Airman Brd Class Clarsnea |
Halthcock of Mitcbali Air Force 4
Base, L. 1., N. Y., ia here visit- |
ing hia mother, Mr*. ClanuarJ!
iHaithcock, while on a 8-day leave
prior to hia going to England..,;]
Mrs. Halthcock also hfifc aa hut
guests last weekend her tw* i
daughters and their famttea, Mr. >
and Mrs. Virgil Nelson of Char- J
lotto aad Mr. and Mrs. 6mm*
fiubir and their shUdron. Unite '.
Kay and George, jr* of teWglhJ