Vol 33 No. 10
Heated Words
Are Heard At
Zone Hearing
A near capacity crowd at
tended the public hearing on
the proposed new zoning
ordinance for Chapel Hill
a* surrounding areas Mon
day night in the Town Hall
and debated the proposal for
a lengthy hour and a half.
The Chapel Hill Board of
Aldermen took no action fol
lowing the required public
hearing, but several of the
Board members expressed
the opinion that the Board
will probably act Monday
night at its regular meeting.
Sentiment was divided at
the hearing, with those who
oppose the measure seeming
to have more to say. Once
or twice the discussion got
out of hand and Mayor
Oliver Cornwell had to call
for order.
The hearing began with
Frank Umstead, chairman of
the Greater Chapel Hill Plan
ning Board, outlining the
proposed plan of the Board.
After a short discussion,
Mayor Cornwell read two
letters that had been re
ceived in opposition to the
K posed ordinance. One of
letters was from the
officials of the Town of Carr
boro, and said in part:
“The governing board of
the Town of Carrboro feels
that zoning or otherwise re
stricting the territory on the
outskirts of Carrboro and
lying west of the Smith
Level road (south of Carr
boro) and west of the South
ern Railroad (north of Carr
boro) should not be under
taken by the Chapel Hill
Planning Board.** "
The debate got underway
with (me man asking, “What
has Chapel Hill got to do
with poor country people?"
and another adding that he
didn't want "the town to ram
anything down our throats."
There was also a threat that
if the ordinance was passed
iff would be taken to'the Su-
I*eme Court.
Lloyd Gardner questioned
Mr. Umsttead on what he was
going to do since he had pur
chased some land for com
(Continued on page 12)
Red Cross Goal Is
Topped in One Area
Chapel Hill residential areas
contributed |2,718 in the cur
rent Red Cross drive, exceeding
their quota by $218.75. Mrs. Vic
tor Greuiach is chairman of that
part of the campaign.
| Returns from other depart
ments are not yet complete, ac
cording to Mrs. R. H. Wettach,
general campaign chairman. Per
sons who have not been called
on are asked to leave their con
tributions with Campaign Treas
urer Tony Gobbel of the Bank
of Chapel Hill or with Mrs.
Mabel Brittain at the Red Cross
office on East Franklin street
over Julian’s College Shop.
Attend Chicago Meetings
Dr. James T. Proctor, child
psychiatrist, and Albert Linch,
chief psychiatrist social worker,
|>f the UNC Medical School's
psychiatry department, were re
cently in Chicago for meetings of
the American Association of Psy
chiatric Children’s Clinics and
the American Orthopsychiatric
Association. Dr. Proctor was re
corder for the panel in which he
discussed a paper on “Group
Psychotherapy as a Learning Ex
perience for Fourth Year Medical
Students.’
Mrs. Best Is Great-Grandmother
Mr*. T. E. Best’s first great
grandchild, Charles Michael Beet,
eon of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mer
cer Beat of near Mebane, waa
born,March 1 in the Alamance
General hospital in Burlington.
Hs lap grandson of Mr. and Mrs.
Clauds Best. Mrs. T. E. Bast
now has 1$ direct descendants,
including five children and tan
grandchildren.
Attends Medical Meeting
Dr. Franklin Williams of the
Uahrendty’s Madisal Sshssl «•*
snatiy ynirfrr‘ • mssHng as ths
Crawford Has Directed Work of
Hospital Saving for 15 Years
i
* E. B. Crawford, pictured
here in a drawing by William
G. Mangum, has been execu
tive vice-president of the
Hospital Saving Association
ever since he came to Chapel
Hill fifteen years ago. Be
fore that he had been admin
istrator of the Wesley Long
hospital in Greensboro five
years.
Mr. and Mrs. Crawford
Legislature Seeking to Improve Laws
Concerning the Public School System
ty John W. Umstead, Jr. ,
"range C'^Jta.
The 1963 UgislateptaMKiS
the appointment ofa tantekn
to study usd re-codify the lawn
concerning our public school sys
tem. The commission's members
were also given the authority to
recommend such changes in these
laws that they might think advis
able. They made their report and
at the same time sponsored a bill
covering their recommendations.
This bill has stirred up much con
troversy as to several of their rec
ommendations.
One recommendation that they
made has much opposition and has
no chanee of passage. I refer to
the section of their bill that pro
vides for six members of all
school boards and for their elec
tion on the staggered term plan.
Many of the smaller counties have
only three members at present
and they claim that three mem
bers is sufficient for a small coun
ty. Some of the counties have five
members and a few have seven.
Some bf the counties elect forj
staggered terms while others,
elect the entire board each twoj
years. Practically each county has |
a special act applying to that
county and passed due to certain
situations perculiar to that coun
ty.
At first glance it might seem
best to have a state-wide plan that
wpuld be applicable to all the
counties. This might be best were
it not for the fact that we have
so many different kinds of coun
ties in the state. We have some
counties that do not have a town
larger than 1,000 population. On
the other hand we have counties
with towns and cities with fifty,
seventy-five and one hundred
thousand population. We have
counties, several of them, with
less than 10,000 population while
we have several counties with well
over 100,000 population. We have
counties without s single indus
trial plan, while there ere others
that sra strictly industrial. We
Chapel Hill in “North Carolina Guide”
There will be an individual
chapter on Chapel Hill in “The
North Carolina Guide,” to be pub-
Uahed bp thb University Press on
April 23. A short history of the
' founding and development of
Chapel Hill will be included and
, points of interest will be describ
ed in detail. Judge L. J. Phipps
i of Chapel Hill supplied the edi
i tors of the guide with some of
. the material on the village and
. Orange county.
Much space will be given to the
- northern Piedmont area with its
1 gently rolling farmlands, num
erous educational institutions,
modem industrial cities contain
ing the world's largest eooeentra
> Men of textile, tOb aero and furni
> tare factories, and older eitios
The Chapel Hill Weekly
5 Cents a Copy
are originally from Tuskee
gee, Alabama. Here in
Chapel Hill they have a home
on East Franklin street.
All three of the Crawford
children attended the Uni
versity.
The twins, Madge and
Milo, are both married.
Madge is with her husband,
John S. Street, jr., at 7th
Army headquarters in Stutt-
■gtaß Jfcjta Legislature
Stairw*, with thus fact#
i m mm, shat there is s good
i and sufficing raason for having
’ different school board provisions,
i The chancas are that the sug~
i gestion made by the commission
i will be ignored and the school
board situation will remain as it
I is now.
I Another suggestion and recoin- ,
. mendation concerns the relative
■ powers of the county commission
ers and the school boards in the
matter of levying taxes where
’ the school unit has voted supple
i mental funds for school purposes,
i The sentiment is really divided on
this issue.
I To give you readers the clear
est picture of this matter will
. be to take the case of the supple
s mental tax that was voted by the
; Chapel Hill School District. The
amount voted was 20 cents on
each SIOO valuation. This was
: levied and collected by the coun
. ty commissioners for years and
•juntil the revaluation of property
i two years ago. Then the county
II commissioners under the present
i;iaw refused to levy the full 20
. cents and cut it’to 12 cents. They
i claimed that the Chapel Hill
■ School District only needed what
the 12 cent levy would "provide
> under the new valuation figures.
The bill recommended by the
: commission would allow the school
i board to ask for a levy up to the
i maximum voted by the people
■ and the county Commissioners
) would be compelled to levy that
i amount of tax. There are good
i arguments on both sides and they,
i are used whenever the matter
, comes up for consideration by
I committee or by a group of legis
i lators interested in public educs
t tion. I have an idea that when
i the question is finally settled
I that it will be a compromise that
i will place some percentage limit
• on the amount that can be re
i quested by tha boards of educa
• (Cdhtinued on page 7)
book, in addition to Chapel Hill,
are Durham, Groensboro, High
Point, Raleigh, and Winaton-
Salem.
"The North Carolina Guide,”
edited by Blackwell P. Robinson
of High Point College snd spon
sored by the North Caroline De
partment of Conservation end De
, velopment, contains many pic
tures snd much new information
1 about the state. It is divided inte
sections on folkways and folk
i lora, natural setting, history,
\ architecture, and citias and toure.
The editorial advisory board of
’ "The North Carolina Guide,”
' chosen to reprseent various Me
' tiona and interests of ths State,
includes Hugh T. Lsder of the
1 University. ,
P
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 11,1965
Suburban Residents
Are to Vote
On Fire Protection
Suburban citizens to the
south, east, and north of
Chapel Hill will decide in a
special election on April 12
whether they will be assess
ed up to ten cents per SIOO
property valuation for the
purpose of the county’s pro
viding fire protection to
them.
Registration for the pro
posed Greater Chapel Hill
Fire District will begin Sat
urday,, March 19, at Glen
wood school. Books will be
open for registration from 9
a.m. to 6 p.m. on that day
and the following two Sat
urdays, March 26 and April
2.
Challenge day is April 9,
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and on
voting day the polls will be
open at Glenwood school
from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
The Rev. Robert Master
son of Whitehead circle, un
official spokesman for the
group which originally peti
tioned for the vote, has been
appointed registrar for the
election.
gart, Germany. Milo and his
wife, Frances, live in Glen
Lennox; he is on the staff of
the Carolina theatre in Dur
ham. The oldest child, Gene,
associate director of the Me
morial Hospital here, and
his wife Virginia, live in
Glen Lennox. They have
four-year-old twins.
Mrs. Crawford is a mem
ber of the Memorial hospital
Auxiliary.
For many years deep-sea
fishing has been a favorite
pastlfhe or Mr. Crawford’s
(though he hasn’t had much,
time for it.) Now he and his
wife get their entertain
ment, mostly from baby
sitting with their twin
grandchildren, Elizabeth
Kenyon and Madge Lane.
Mr. Crawford is a member
of the board of directors of
the Bank of Chapel Hill and
is a Mason and a Shriner.
Calendar of Events
Friday, March 11
• 8:30 p.m. Mrs. English Bagby’s
adult square dance group,
Chapel Hill Country Club.
Saaday, March 13
e 4 p.m. Abol F. Fotouhi, Li
brary’s assembly room,
e 7:45 p.m. Community Drama
Group, Library’s assembly
room.
Monday, March 14
• 3:30 p.m. Presbyterian Women,
church’s upstairs Sunday
school room.
• 7:30 p.m. Board of Aldermen,
Town Hall.
o 7:30 p.m. Bridge Tournament
in Graham Memorial,
e 7:30 p.m, Organizing meeting
of adult stamp collector’s club,
Lavergne Studio, Hillview
road.
e 8 p.m. Mrs. Peter Marshall,
Hil) hall.
Tuesday, March 15
e 8 p.m. Faculty Wives of the
School of Business Adminis
tration, Carroll hall.
Wednesday, March 16
s 8 p.m. Robert Frost, Hill hall
s 8 p.m. Dr. Y. C. James Yen,
Chinese educator, Carroll hall.
Thursday, March 17
s 2:30 p.m. Community Club's
arts and crafta department,
with Mrs. R. N. Jernigan, 214
North Boundary street.
At Memorial Hospital
Among local persons listed as
patients at Memorial hospital
yesterday wars Mrs. Joe Baldwin,
Norman Barbae, R. H. Bartholo
mew, Mrs. Lucille Bright, Miss
Bettis Canada, Jamas Crabtree,
Miss Orpah Cummings, Mrs.
John Freeland, Vanes Hogan,
Paul Johnson, Jr., Herbert Lide,
Pamela Martin, Donald Ray,
Margaret Steytler, Dr. William
White, and William Williams.
Mac Hyman, Anther, Is Hers
Mac Hyman, author of “No
Tims for Sergeanta,” the Book
> of-the-Month Club’s recent selec
' tion (jointly with France* Gray
, Patten's “Goad Morning, Miss
' Dave") is hare with Ms wife and
| three children. They have taken
the P. G. Farrar home, an Laurel
HiU *md hi the Country Club
Work Is Began on
$270,000 Motel
On Durham Road
Excavation has begun on
a $270,000 motel project to
be built by Lloyd Gardner
and unnamed associates at
the intersection of the By
pass and the Durham boule
vard just north of the Valley
Drive-In theatre. Mr. Gard
ner said the project would
include a 40-unit motel cost
ing about $164,000, a $61,-
000 restaurant, and a $23,-
000 service station.
The residence now on the
site will be demolished and
a paved road will be built
through the property, which
consists of eight acres the
group bought from C. M.
Hunt for $20,000. They also
own 13 acres on the west
side of the highway but have
not yet announced any plans
for it.
The University Construc
tion Company of Chapel Hill
has the contract for the
. grading and excavation and
another for the construction
of the service station. Mr.
! Gardner said the contracts
were rushed to conclusion to
get them signed before the
Chapel Hill Board of Aider
men adopts a proposed rop
ing ordinance that would
place the property in a resi*
dential zone.
The Cobbs Fly to Puria
Miss Mary Cobb and her aunt,
Mias Nell Cobb, who lives in
Washington, left New York by
airplane at 2:30 o’clock last Fri
day afternoon and arrived in
Paris at 11 the next morning. It
ia 6 a.m. in New York when It
it 11 a.m. in Parim »® the flight,
including a short atop at Gm*det»
Na£mfe£jDQflA.W*-
on" tmttTsajrSirf'a 'smooth
flight screes the Atlantic. The
visitor* were net at Pari* by
Mr. tlMra. m
loy Hols ten, the Unhmgeftr’a
director of .Indent aetfrttiaa, ia
m a week'* vacation ia Hew
jurmwy. .
■n<nbiM mmmta ' mm
Duck Ray Sinks Layup to CHitgt TMe
For Wildcats li* District 3 Conference
VT
The Chapel Hill high school <
basketball team won the District I
Three Class AA tournament last 1
Saturday night in Henderson by i
defeating Roxboro, 47-45, in the i
championship game. The Wild- i
cats had reached the finals by '
beating Henderson, 64-53, in the i
opening round and then beating i
top-seeded Oxford, 47-44, in the i
semi-final round. All three vic
tories were considered upsets, I
since the team had experienced i
a mediocre season, finishing in 1
sixth place in the eight-team con- <
ference. '
As champions of their confer- i
ence, the Wildcats are now play
ing for the State Class AA
championship tournament being
held this weekend at Sanford. In
this double elimination affair they
were to open yesterday against
North Davidson, which had a 25-1
season’s record.
In winning the conference
tournament, Chapel Hill placed
two men, Clyde Campbell and
Gordon Neville, on the all-tourna
ment team, and one man, Sammy
Ray on the all-tournament second
team. Gordon Blackwell won the
’ foul shooting trophy, hitting 19
of his 20 shots (the last 17
straight).
Chapel Hill’s high scorer in the
first-round win over Henderson
1 was Bammy Ray with 21 points.
1 He was followed by Gordon Ne
' villa, with 17, Gordon Blackwell,
It, and Richard Hal), 11. High
1 scorers in the Oxford game were
Notice to Giggere
> District Game Protester Belt
> Lagan ennewanw that n special
> fishing license mam he serried
1 hr assssm takiaa ftah hr aianiM.
fliwflk a lUgmoa |A |||||
and goad only !* Mm eamdf. *■
whisk fawned, mgg be .hmglil a*
* the Hoggins Hsadnaii Mfesaf
- hem, at 'the Vettesn Am Mm
■ la HBlsheri, and al. Howerri Hee
> ftffhur Beenes te net feed Cm
> nag ether triad es fgttig., Jjhmtl
1 es the gigging dene amnsd hm\
Chapel Mill Chaff
L.G.
Mrs. Sallie Cleveland, who
is in her 100th year, accom
. panied her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. F. H.
Edmister, to Sunday night’s
performance of “Show
Boat.” She sat on the front
row and nobody in the hall
was a more alert looker and
listener.
* * * *
After a few days with
Mrs. Caro Mae Russell, Miss
Frances Phillips went to
Southern Pines Wednesday
and returned to New York
yesterday. She told me she
had left the hotel in Gram
ercy Park where she lived
for several years and had
moved into an apartment
in the Greenwich Vill
age section of the city. The
house is on Bedford street.
She mentioned its being near
Grove street, which I re
member well as being near
where I used to live. A little
while after seeing Miss
[ Phillips I found in my post
office box a letter from my
, friend, Percy B. Lovell, the
, newspaper writer of Moores
, town, New Jersey, and he
told of having been to New
, York and viaited friends on
I Grove street.
“One of Trinity Church’s
chapels is nearby,” he wrote,
“and we wait in for a few
quiet momenta. We put
some money in the poor box
and didn't hear any clink
The box waa oak, beautifully
bound with brass. I got to
inspecting .it an 4 was sur
prised when the lid came up.
Then I saw why there hadn’t
> been a clink of khe coins.
taro-inch iron!fee that west
i down to the boanaeßi the
reason for W > that so
many pdttr boxflk have beta
robbed In New York.”
Mr. Lovell stirred my
. memories by recalling the
! Holley hotel on Wgahinfton
Square and its homey and
(Pontiaasfl ea page I)
Campbell, 16, and Neville 11. In
the championship game Sammy
Ray was high ecorer with 15
points, and Duck Ray brought the
encounter to a thrilling finish by
making a layup shot when there
was less than a minute left. The
score was tied st 45-all when he
stole the ball at mid-court to set
up the winning goal.
The Chapel Hill teapi, coached
by Bill Grice, had been improv
ing late in the season sfter s slow
beginning. After the tournament
Coach Grice said, “I knew our
team was as good as any other
team in the conference, but 1
wasn’t sura they could prove it."
Bernice Ward Is Chairman of Easter
Seal Sale Which Was Begun Yesterday !
i 1
Bernice L. Ward, one of Chapel
Hill’s prominent business and
civic leaders, has baen named
•ampaign chairman of ths 1066
Easter Seal Sale here and
throughout the county, it is an
nounced by Albin Pikutis, execu
tive secretary of the North Caro
lina Society for Crippled Children
and Adults, which sponsors the
annual drive and which has its
state headquarters here. Mr.
Ward is a partner in the Johnson-
Strowd-Ward Furniture Com
pany.
The campaign began yesterday
and will continue through Easter
Sunday, April 10. The mailing
out of the Easter Seals has been
taken over aa a work project by
the Chapel Hill Kiwsnis Club.
Committee members who will di
re* this public aerriaw an Dr.
Camp Jones, D*. Dart Garvin,
SE'SS
wffl handle titaHrirtoflia andi
iiiitdw ft m . 'j
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$3 a Year in County; other rates an peg* 2
Records of Past Elections
Indicate ABC Stores Woidd
Be Favored by Voters Here
e
Poet Coming
Robert Frost, the celebrated
poet, will give a reading at 8
o’clock next Wednesday eve
ning, March 16. in the Hill
music hall, under the auspices
of the University’. English de
partment. His poems will be
interspersed with comments on
literature and the vagaries of
mankind in general. While in
Chapel Hill he will be the guest
of his old-time friends, Mr. and
Mrs. Clifford Lyons. On Thurs
day he will give a reading at
the Woman's Col leg# in Greens
boro.
Children Will Get
Musical Surprise
A musical surprisa for the boys
and girls of Chapel Hill and near
by towns will be put on at 2:30|
pan. Saturday, March 19, whes
the Juilliard Suing Quartet will
play and afeew how Ik ia done at
a spatial cMtaen’s concert ia the
mate lountatttea&ahaaa Me
tea «phu fhra a similar IP
forautese that aaentb for a group
tew it a maattef of tha eastern
dlvtsiaa at tha Music Educators
National Conference.
Robert Kass, who plays the sec
ond violin, waa acting as narra
tor and ahevtef his entranced
yeuag wflpui many of the hows
aad whya of playing a stringed
instrument, then by conversation
and demonstration initiating them
into tha mysteries of enjoying
some of the great music from the
classical repetoire for strings.
Mrs. McCall's immediate reaction
waa that tha children of Chapel
Hill must have a similar oppor
tunity, ao she confronted the
artiste and found that they were
to play at Duke on March 19.
Later they agreed to come over
to Chapel Hill for a modest addi
tional fee and transportation. A
group of Chapel Hill parents and
teachers met at Mrs. McCall’s
home laat Sunday and made final
plans for the evetit.
Ticket* are M cents fer chil
dren and fl fer adults and are
on sate at Ladbetter-Piekard'*,
(Continued on page 6)
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9 By Louis Kraar
Since the county commiss
ioners refused Monday to
call an election to see if
Orange county citizens want
ed ABC stores, most discuss
ion in town has centered
about calling for a vote by
petition.
' If an ABC election were
called—and if voting follow
ed the same general trends
as in the last ABC election
in 1938—Orange county
would probably get ABC
stores. Here’s why:
When the last vote was
taken (1938), 1,926 voted
against and 1,469 voted for
ABC stores in the county.
Chapel Hill approved the
ABC plan. 676-272, but this
majority of 304 was over
come by heavy majorities
against it in rural precincts.
The results of the 1938 ABC
referendum in Orange coun
ty were similar to that of
the election on repeal of the
18th amendment in 1933,
when Chapel Hill voted for
repeal and the rural areas
of the county voted against
it. Thus, it is obvious that
this pattern of Chapel Hill
voting for legalized liquor
and the rural part of the
county voting against it is
an (rid one.
Sitae the last ABC vote,
Orange county has grown in
population from less than
' 88,000 to about 35,000. Dur
ing that same period of time.
Chapel Hill potation has
Hinted almost «HNBpRp9iY H
■few county’s population. New
Chapel Hill’s population
represents almost one
fourth of the oounty’s popu
lation. (These figures in
clude Carrboro, since the U.
S. Census computes the two
together.)
At the present time, senti
ment in Hillsboro seems to
be more in favor of an ABC
store than it was in 1935,
when Hillsboro voted against
ABC by a margin of 124
votes.
Also, despite the opposi
tion of many church leaders
to ABC stores in Chapel Hill,
(Continued on page 12)
School Singers and
Musicians Perform
Members of the Chapel Hill
High School Band and Glee Club
entertained the Kiwanis Club
thia week at ita regular Tueaday
evening meeting at the Carolina
Inn.
John Adams, assistant student
band director, introduced the pro-
gram. Participating were Ray
Ritchie, Monte Bissell, Bobby
Moore, Billy Jefferson, and John
Adams in a brass quintet, and
Ka Smith, Frank Carlisle, Roy
Armstrong, Jr., Wayne Poe, and
Remsen Voorhis in a saxophone
quintet. Clarice Merritt, Martha
Ann Cheek, and Nancy Tilaen
rendered two popular numbers as
a girls' trio, and Barry Hughes,
accompanied by Bobby Winsor on
the piano, aang two solos.
Five members of the Durham
Khranis Club ware special guests.
Literary Work Published
The University Press has an.
nounced the publication of volume
12 of its Studies in Comparatlvp
Literature. It is Saints Beuve’a
“Cahier da nates grecques,”
edited by Ruth MuUtsuaer. The
publication la an Intimate Journal
of Saint# Beurs’s readings la
Greek and Latin literature fur the
period 1865-1806, now being pub- j
Uehed for the first time in its
entirety and in its original order,
It Mila for |BAO.
Polar *N»m at Pack 880 won If
•rul priM Iti Onb fcotit* 1 %
bluebird kowa kt&ting contest j
conducted fay the Chapel Hffl j
Garden Club. Jtik Lnutevar mm
Pack «t waa eases*, and Pant j
E, Saxton, jr„ es was «
f’hifti SUißtfK'tiildbi 'i