Voi. 33 No. 13
May 3rd Set
By Aldermen
As Date for
The Election
The Chapel Hill Board of
Aldermen passed ordinances
setting May 3 as the date for
the municipal election and a
1190,000 bond election at
their regular meeting Mon
day night. The municipal
election ordinance was ne
cessary to set the election
machinery going, and five
separate ordinances were
necessary to start action on
the bond election.
The purpose of the muni
cipal election is to choose a
mayor, three aldermen, and
the judge of the Recorder’s
Court. The terms of Mayor
Oliver K. Cornwell, Aider
men P. L. Burch, Obie Davis,
and Rogers Wade, and Judge
of the Recorder’s Court W.
S. Stewart expire this
spring.
The registration books
will be open from April 15
through April 22 in the fire
department at the Town
Hall.
The ordinances calling for
the bond election listed $15,-
000 for sanitary sewers;
$40,000 for storm sewers;
for street widening;
%50,000 for street improve
ment ; and $47,000 for equip
ment (mainly trucks). An
additional bond ordinance
was adopted by the Board
for $7,000 to finance the cost
of acquiring fire hose, gas
masks, aad other equipment
and apparatus required for
the use of the fire depart
ment.
He aldermen hang ap
pointed r. b. vmm
act as registrar,'K
Irene Scruggs and
Crawford to act as judges
for the election.
The Aldermen received a
petition from Carrboro seek
ing the Chapel Hill Board's
support in an amendment to
the zoning ordinance which
would give Carrboro juris
diction over areas to the
jinorth and west of that town.
The board decided to inform
Carrboro that it feels It
would be “an untimely
thing” to seek any amend
ment to the act at present.
Appeal Issued by
P.T.A. Thrift Shop
Spring clothing and accessories
are desperately needed by the
Thrift Shop operated on West
Franklin street by the Chapel
Hill P.T.A. organizations. An ap
peal from P.T.A. officials says,
“The Thrift Shop is crowded
with Easter shoppers, but there
is little merchandise on hand. We
need hats, purses, gloves, suits,
dresses, and anything else for
spring for any and all members
of the family. Everybody is urged
to give whatever they no longer
need."
Contributions may be taken to
the shop or deposited in contain- 1
ers for this purpose at Fowler’s'
Food Store in Chapel Hill and.
the Dairy land Store in Glen Len
nox. Or if contributors will tele
phone Mrs. White at 4256 she will'
see that contributions are picked
■p at the homes of the givers.
McClsairoehs Are on a Cruise
Mr. and Mrs. Roland MeClam
roch left New Orleans yesterday
(Thursday) on the steamship
Stella Polaris for a cruise that
will take them to Cuba, the Vir
gin Islands, the Madeira Islands,
Casablanca, Gibraltar, Tunis,
Malta and other Mediterranean
islands, Egypt, Turkey, Greece,
Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Their
boat will arrive at Harwich, Eng
land, June 7. They will go thence
to Copenhagen, Denmark; will be
there till June 11; will visit other'
cities; and will sail for New York
June 21 on.the steamship New
Blackwell Giving Talks
Gordon W. Blackwell, director
of the University's Institute for
Research in Sorisl I times, spoke
last night in Nashville, Tens., at
p regional meeting of the A atari- :
aaa Camping Associated and will 1
spank this (Friday) evading th i
Binatnghsm, Abu, nt a mee rsla- I
SELg?SBa JSS*iJSm±
A Glance Back Across 32 Years
Os Newspapering in Chapel Hill
The Chapel Hill Weekly j
A year ago this week Louis
Graves, shown here in a drawing
by William Mangum, sold the
Chapel Hill Weekly to its present
owners. In a statement about the
tale he said, “After a transition
period of perhaps three or four
weeks I expect to assume some
such status as that of a contrib
utor to the paper’s columns.”
For the paet year Mr. Graves
Legion Here Offers Paul Robertson as
Candidate for Department Commander
Paul H. Robertson, veteran of
World War f, Is being offered by
■ Post as «
rolina De
lia waa
y-fa» IBM,
t«Lr*ars,
i* legion
appointed
adjutant at the first local post
meeting he attended and served
five yeara. He is one of the few
members of the poet who has
served two years as post com
mander. He has also served aa
post Americanism chairman and
as district Americanism chair
man.
Other local, state, and nation
al legion positions Mr. Robertson
has held include two years as dis
trict commander; service on se
veral national committees, in
cluding law and order; service on
many departmental committees,
including Boys’ State and troph
ies and awards, and service in
various capacities in the 40 and 8
in Durham and Orange counties,
including Garde du la Porte, Am
monier, Chef de Train, and Chef
de Gare.
Mr. Robertson has attended all
N. C. Department conventions
since he joined the Legion in 1923
and has attended 20 national con
ventions, at six of which he served
Dsn Hamilton Hera
Dan Hamilton, who has been in
Paris three yeara aa geological
expert for the Caltex oil com
pany and is now on a business
errand to the U. 8., was expected
to fly in last night from New
{York fora day’s visit to his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Ham
ilton. If he didn’t get hsto last
night he will coma this (Friday)
morning. Ha will return to New
York tonight and will leave there
by plane for Paris tomorrow.
Senator Humphrey to Speak Here Tonight
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey
(D-Minn.) will apeak on "United
States Foreign Policy” at 8
o’clock this (Friday) evening in
Hill hall under the auspices of
the Csroiina Forum, an oAeial
agency of the University’* stu
dent government which brings to
the campus “speaker* who reflect
the varying shades of economic
and political thought.” The pub
lic is invited.
Elected to the Senate In 1948
and again in 1964, Humphrey ia
i serving on the Committees on
Foreign Relations, Agriculture
and Forestry, Small Business, and
Government Operations. Ho ia
also a member of the President’*
Commission on Intergovernmen
tal Relations and a member of
the Democratic Steering Com
mittee to the Beaato.
An active supporter es the
Marshall Flan and Me Point fear
Program, the Senator i* also an
advocate of the Reciprocal Trade
Paiky. Mutual Sosartor. sad
Morth Atlantic Treaty. Ia A*,
•ksti* affaire, ha tot toe a
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kx, Jt/r '
5 Cents a Copy
i has bean the moat active contrib
: uting editor to be found any
i where. He has written moat of
: the editorials, the Chapel Hill
i Chaff and many of the news
i stories. The Weekly, we feel,
■ continues to be a distinctive
■ nowspaper, thanks mostly to Mr.
■ Graves’ continuing interest.
The Weekly made its first ap
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as assistant sergeant at Arm*- At
present he ia serving as port
service office, vice commander,
and .member of thepost’i execu
tive committee*
t—* - Thu i jbl ■
es his religtotoJ^
Please Begin to Prepare
Clothing for Collection
Everybody ia asked to begin
laying aside clothing for the
annual clothes drive for the
needy to be held May 22 by the
Chapel Hill Council of Church
es and the Community Club,
with the assistance of the Jay
ceea, who will make the actual
collections. “Clothing should
be cleaned, wrapped securely,
and packed in boxes,” Mrs.
Walter Hartung, drive chair
man, said in announcing the
collection date. Clothes col
lected here and in similar
drives throughout the nation
will be sent to destitute people
all over the world.
Pre-School Registration
Registration for beginners and
other new students who will enter
the Chapel Hill elementary school
(on West Franklin street) will be
held Tuesday morning, April 26,
at the school. Names and ad
dresses of children in these cate
gories should be given to the
principal, Mias Mildred Mooney
han, before that date so that
health blanks may be issued by
the school. Parents are asked to
bring birth certificates and fllled
out health blanks on the day of
registration. A child must be six
years old on or before October 16,
1965, to enter school this coming
September,
leader in behalf of the Hoover
Commission government reor
ganization plans, particularly
that for the reorganisation of
the Bureau of Internal Revenue
in 1962.
Humphrey was also a leading
spokesman for Midwest agricul
ture in legislation aimed at price
stability, conservation of re
sources, rural electrification, de
velopment programs for housing
and slum clearance, civil righto
legislation, immigration and re
fugee legislation, and labor
management relations.
Senator Humphrey is a native
of Wallace, A Dak. He was
graduated from the Denver Col
lege of Pharmacy, the University
of Minnesota, where he received
Ms B.A. degree magna cum toad%
and Louisiana State University,
where he won an M.A. degree.
He he* had experience as a busk
neat mm. government administra
tor, teacher, and aa mayor of
Minneapolis from 1946 to IMA
CHAPEL HILL, N. FRIDAY, APRIL 1, MB l '»
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Springtime Receive*
Gruel Setback from
19-Degree ,W eather
There won’t be any more
spring in Chapel Hill this
year as far as flowers are
concerned. This was the
verdict of J. N. Couch, head 1
of the University’s botany
department, after he had ex-:
amined the damage caused
by the unseasonably cold
weather of last weekend.
“We’re not going to enjoy
the usual beautiful effect i
that we have in Chapel Hill
and this part of North Caro
lina,” Mr. Couch said.
Terming the 19-degree
low of Sunday morning as
"pretty disasterous” to
plants, Mr. Couch enumera
ted damage here to redbuds,
dogwoods, japonicas, and
azaleas. “Some of the dog
woods are injured, but
others will come out. Prac
tically all the redbuds I’ve
seen are already killed, and
all azalea blossoms were de
stroyed,” he said.
A week or so of warm
weather, said Mr. Couch,
may help some, but it looks
pretty bad. Dogwoods were
about half way in full bloom,
which means they were
damaged more easily.
“I remember lots of times
when some dogwoods, red
buds, and japonicas wer«
killed partly, but the moflt
damaging effect this time U
on a number of trees, where
hickory and oaks have bed
their leaves killed,” said Mr.
Couch.
Although Mr. Couch called
his estimate "perhaps a little
pessimistic,” he said it waa
“certain to slow 4g>rinff
down” and that plant lovers
I would* have to useit another j
veer for attractive dfoplpys
'gprins blossoms.
Kx Saunders, local wea
ther observer, reported that
Sunday 'moraiHf’B low of 19
degrees was “the record low
for this day of year.” He
added, however, that it was
not an all-time low for the
month of March. On March
d, 1943, the mercury slipped
down to 13 degrees, and on
March 25 and 26, 1940,
Chapel Hill had tempera
tures of 20 degrees. On Mon
day morning, according to
Mr. Saunders, the low was
20 degrees.
Calendar of Events
Friday, April 1
• 10 a.m. Iris study group, at
Mrs. F. H. EdmisterY
• 3 p.m. Community Club, Insti
tute of Pharmacy.
• 8 p.m. Senator Hubert H.
Humphrey, Hill hall.
Saturday, April 2
• 0 a.m. Last day of registra
tion for voting in the Greater
Chapel Hill fire district elec
tion, Glenwood school,
a 6:30 p.m. Chicken supper,
Carrboro Methodist church.
Sunday, April 3
a 3:30 p.m. Interracial Youth
Fellowship, Presbyterian
church.
e 4 p.m. Ann Lee, piano recital,
Hill hall.
a 8 p.m. Joseph McGugan, bari
tone, recital, Hill hall.
Monday, April 4
a 12:10 Pre-Easter, interdenomi
national worship services,
Epiaeopel church,
e 4 p.m. George Katona, Statis
tics colloquium, 200 Carroll
hall.
e 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Try-outs
for Playmakera “Julius Cae
•ar," Forest theatre.
Tuesday, April 6
e 12:10 Interdenominational ser
vice, Episcopal church,
e 1 p.m. Faculty Club luncheon,
Carolina Ina.
e 8 p.m. Suprame Court Justice
Douglas, Memorial hall,
e 8 p.m. David B%r-Illan, Israeli
pianist, Hill hall
e 8:30 p.m. German department’s
play, “Everyman,” Play
maker* theatre.
Wednesday, April 8
e lsflo p.m. Interdenominational
service, Episcopal church.
WUUem Dengfae to Speak
Supremo Caret Jaottea William
0. Douglas will gpeak at t pjn.
Tweedty, April I, to Memorial
to*H»tor the aaepteee es the
ftnkrCtoS***
Miss Helen Duguid and
Mrs. Ruby Grogan have
bought the Carolina Phar
macy from Philip Lloyd.
They took over operation of
it Monday of this week. The
store is at 155 East Frank
lin street, between Dan
ziger’s and Ledbetter-Pick
ard’s.
Miss Duguid, a graduate
of the University’B School of
Pharmacy and a native of
Vanceboro, is in charge of
the prescription department
She was a prescriptionist
here at Eubanks’ Drugstore
for eight years ending last
spring and had recently been
in the prescription depart
ment of a drugstore in
Raleigh.
Mrs. Grogan will have
charge of the store’s counter
service, which will be ex
panded and will feature
sandwiches and homemade
cakes and pies baked by Mrs.
Grogan herself, who is an
expert cook. Counter stools
and more fountain equip
ment are being installed.
The interior of the store
is being repainted in blue
and white, the Carolina
colors. The three large
photographic murals as Uni
versity campus scenes will
be left as they are.
Mrs. Grogan was formerly
housemother at the Pi
Kappa Phi fraternity. She
and her ls-year-old aw
Jackie live on a farm she
, end Mias Duguid own in
Chatham county, hut they
; plan to mow to Chapel Hill
soon.
M MaaMtetok
Edward*, E. W. Madry, E. 0.
i Markham, Linda Marie Minor,
Chari** A Partig, Donald Ray,
Arthur Summerlin, 3rd, Mary
Rebecca Tapp, Mr*. Robert Tuck,
Mrs. Charles Taahaw, Mias Roee
le Williams, and C. T. Womble.
Bill Horton Killed as Car Runs Past
Stop Sign at Intersection of Streets
Bill Horton, 60, Chapel Hill
Negro, was killed last Sunday
afternoon in an automobile acci
dent at the comer of McCauley
and Pittsboro streets. Funeral
services were held Tuesday at
Hamlet’s chapel in Chatham coun
ty.
Officers reported that Horton
was riding in the right front seat
of a car being driven north on
Pittsboro street by Hubert Far
row when it was struck broad
sides by a car that had run past
s stop sign while being driven
west on McCauley street by Wil
liam Weston Heddrick of Raleigh.
The Hedrick car rammed the Far
row car right where Horton was
sitting. It was reported that he
died either of a crushed chest or
a broken neck. Farrow and Clyde
Thompson, jr., another passenger
i* his car, suffered minor in
juries. Both cars were ruined.
Heddrick, who was not injured,
is a young medical student at the
A New Office BalMing
By reconstruction of the sec
ond floor of the Breekwell
building at the earner of
Franklin sad Columbia streets
Mrs. 8. J. Brockwell has cre
ated a new office baildlng. It
will be ready for occupancy
next week. For several years
th* second floor was for liv
ing quarters for roomers. Now
there srs twelve rooms for of
fices. They are all rested. There
are two stores an tha groand
floor, Sloaa’e dragstore aad
Shield’s grocery.
Clah Meeting Today
Tha Community Club will meet
at 3 o’clock this (Friday) nfter
noon at the Institute of Phar
macy on Church street. The pro
gram will be directed by Mrs.
Jan Schinhsn, chairman, and Mrs.
A. *B. Winsor, co-chairman. It
will include a performance by
Richard Hall and Jsnelle King,
winners of the music contest re
cently snonsored by the elub.
There will also be singing hr the
Chapel Hilt-Csrrboro Boy's Choir
under the direction of Jan P.
Sakieikasi
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MMseMWseeeeseessisoaF.i'aaaMpmse
Jayceos* State Convention
Tha Jarseet' state oonventlan
wfU be hrid May f aad T at
Ckaptl Mill Ckaff
ua
The plane on which oar
nieee, Allen Ctoywell, left
Philadelphia at 8:36 last Fri
day night was due at the
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill
airport at 11:02. We were
astonished to get a telephone
call from her at about 9:30.
“I’m in Washington,” she
said. “I’m calling because I
thought you might be un
easy. We ran into a duck
and are having to change to
another plane.”
My hearing is not as sharp
as it used to be and I thought
I must have misunderstood
her. -“What’s that?” I ask
ed. “What did you say?”
She repeated: “We ran
into a duck,” and she spelled
it out: **D-u-c-k.”
That is just what had hap
pened. The twin-engine Sil
ver Falcon, going at 240
miles an hour, was just
about to slow down for the
landing at Washington when
there was a loud crash. It
sounded like breaking glass
but it also sounded like an
explosion. The twenty pass
engers were badly frighten
ed, but they kept in their
seats and nobody cried out.
Hey heard the pilot call for
the hostess, who was at the
rear of the plane, and ahe
walked slowly along the
aisle and into the cockpit. In
a minute she reappeared,
smiling, and told*tfae paae
enters not to be alarmed,
they would be oeening dome
for a safe landing to tmo or
; three minutes.
They were told that the
windshield had been shatter
ed* sn4 presently they saw
the pilot at t)ie door of the]
SKFSsi
• inf of the glass had reduced
the visibility to zero, eh-the
’ co-pilot had to make an in
! strumerit landing. A radio
, message had called an am
bulance to the runway.
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Bowman Gray Medical School in
Winston-Salem, whence he was
returning from Raleigh when the
accident occurred. He told offi
cers he did not see the stop sign
that faced him aa he approached
the intersection. He was released
on (1,000 bond, pending a prelim
inary hearing scheduled for April
5 in the Recorder’s Court here.
Horton’s death was Chapel
Hill’s first traffic fatality in
about three years. The intersec
tion at McCauley and Pittsboro
streets has been the scene of
many accidents, several of which i
have caused injuries. Howard
Pendergraft and W. F. Hester,
were the investigating officers,
of the accident there Sun4sy.
Sutton Story Is Part of Chapel Hill Saga
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(Thi« (■ the Meond of a aorta i
of artista on Chapel Hill mor
chanta and busineaa man and
woman.)
B f Charlaa Dana
la 19S* the late J. L. Sutton
and hia wifa Lucy (above) ar
rhrad fat Chapol Hit! and opanad
the Sutton and Alderman Drug
atoaa. Tha alow waa tha Ufa
ha* dwaw of Hr. Button, who
HtYmr in County; other nice on pt*iS
Oltoeas Committee Planning 1
To Back Chapel Kin School %
Board's Efforts to Restore
20-Cent Supplementary Tax
Carlton Byrd In J
Manager of New j
Department Store j
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Carlton Byrd, above, is already
in Chapel Hill serving in his new
job as manager of Belk-Leggett-
Horton. The new store, on West
Franklin Street, is scheduled to
open Thursday, April 21.
The contractor, ia now putting
the finishing touches on the
building, and early this week a
group of fixture installment
workmen from Balk’s home office
arrived to start putting in the
fixtures.
“Marsha n dies is arriving daily,”
Mr. Byrd said yesterday. “We ex
r! to have everything in order
the Slat.” Mr. Byrd pointed
out Oat the buildhuc here ia one
of the few ever hoUt by Belk’a
with a colonial front. He said
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Ifr*. Pegg Elected
Presided es CM
l Mr*. Curl Pegg was sleeted
Chap* UMGar- j
t (das ufor,
Wells, Corresponding secretary.
The speakers at the meeting
were Mrs. F. J. leOlair es Chapel
Hill, who demonstrated the uses
of Terra-lito and described (to
many advantage** and H. L.
Blomquiat of Durham, who gave
a talk on the formation of soils.
Plana for the club’s “Kitchen
Tour” to be held April 80 and
May 1 were announced. It was
also announced that the state
convention of the Garden Club of
North Carolina would be held
May 3,4, and at the Washing
ton Duke hotel in Durham.
“Saturday Stranger” Now On
The Carolina Playmakers’ pro
duction of “Saturday Stranger,”
a new full-length play by Joseph
Rosenberg, s University graduate
istudent in the drama department,
{opened Wednesday evening in the
Playmakers theatre and is con
tinuing there at 8:30 every eve
ning through Sunday. The play
is a story of two lonely women
and their interest in a handsome
{Stranger.
Chapa! HUI could la proud of.
At tha death of Mr. Sutton la
June of 1960 Ms widow waa faced
with tha question of whether to
oontlnoa tha stow, or to five it
up. Th taka bar husband's place
was a big Job, since she Had had
vary little experience in nuutof.
log the stow,' although sha hod.
MV nan* nUmalMn
(ConUnaed «a nag* SI
* Miii
’ Hie newly-formed Citi
zens Committee for Better
Schools tibia week decided to
back the toad school boned
in its efforts to have the 20-
cent supplementary tax re
stored.
At its Monday night meet
ing, the independent com
mittee talked about “the i
specific needs and likely afio-j
cation of thiq additional ’
revenue,” according to N. J.
Demerath, one of the com
mittee’s organisers.
The Orange county com
missioners cut the supple
mentary school tax to 12
cents last summer because,
they said, property revalua
tion would result in much
larger tax revenues. And
the purpose of the revalua
tion whs not to raise but to
equalize taxes, according to
the commissioners.
However, a measure now
in committee in the General
Assembly would make it
obligatory for the commiss
ioners to restxme the full 20-
cent supplement. The com
missioners recently went on
record against this legisla
ture bflt but the school
J board has prepared its bud
' f«t for the coming year on
i the basis of a 20-cent tax.
i Board Chairman Carl
Smith, who will appear at
the next meeting of the Citi
zens Committee for Better
Schools on April 11, has
I pointed out that a levy of 15
cents would be necessary
i just to maintain the schools
.lon their present level. He
restoration to 20
ItoMtottweiiki enable the local
IHb system to increase
■HHr Bupplementa.
The new committee, do
; scribed by Mr. Demerath as
1 “an independent group of
| citizens who are dedicated to
the improvement of schools,”
i also discussed the question
• of needed capital outlay for
‘ schools. “We are looking to
| cooperate with a similar
, committee which has been
f organized on a county
i basis,” said Mr. Demerath
’ in relation to the problem
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Ann Lee, Pianist,
Will Play Sunday
Miss Ann Lee, a Sanford high
school senior who is studying
piano with .Wilton Mason of tha
University’s music department,
will give a recital at 4 p.m. Sun
day, April 3, in Hill hall. She
will play Mosart’s Sonata in D
Major, K. 811; four Etudes by
Chopin, and Piano Concerto in
A Minor by Schumann. Mr.
Mason will play the orchestral
transcription at tha second piano.
The public is invited.
Miss Lee began her musical
studies at the age of live at Coker
College. When she was fifteen
she was piano soloist with tha
North Carolina Littlt Symphony
in Mosart’s Concerto in B Flat
Major. She has studied with Mr.
Meson since September of 1962
and has appeared regularly In
student recitals held in HiUJtali.
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Y-Teens to SsU Lily BmMoma
Members of the Y-Teens will
sell Easter lily emblems tomor
row (Saturday) in downtown
Chapel HUI and tha Glen Lennox
shopping oontar for tha bsoaflt
of -the annual funds campaign of
the League for Crippled Children
and Adults. The cals of tha Hike
will ba directed by Mrs. Dan
Young. Bernice Ward, local hwd
nessman, is general chairman cf
the league’s Chapel Hill cam
paign, which is bring sponsored
by the Khrasis Chib. Richmond-
Sloan is chairman of the KJwanto
committee on tomorrow's ■aster
lily sale.
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Presbyteries Orels Hostings
Presbyterian circle meeting*
will be held Monthly, April 4, an'
follows: Circle 1 at Id* Jnji|
wtth,n»a, J. p.Hntkgd
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