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TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday Vol. 33 No. 21 Truman Says He Will Give Weil Series Os Lectures Harry S. Truman, former president of the United States, has accepted an invi tation to deliver the Weil •kctures at the University ot March 15, 16, and 17 of 1956. Mr. Truman had original ly agreed to deliver the Weil Lectures here this spring, but was unable to do so. However, in regard to the 1956 lectures, he has written University President Gordon Gray that he would make the engagement a firm commit ment. “No matter what hap pens,’’ he said, “I won’t let anything interfere—unless I break my neck or do some thing else equally unavoid able.” Alexander Heard of the University’s department. of political science, chairman of the University’s Committee on Established Lectures, said yesterday that Mr. Tru man and the committee had agreed that detailed plans for the former president’s visit to Chapel Hill would not be made till after the of the year. It was the Wommittee on Established Lectures that asked Presi dent Gray to invite Mr. Tru man to deliver the series of Lectures. The Weil Lectures, on subjects pertaining to Amer ican citizenship, were en dowed 40 years ago by the families of Henry and Sol Weil, prominent citizens of Goldsboro. The first lectures were given in 1914 by Wil liam Howard Taft, Unmet president of the United j States. Last year the lec- , tures were given by Galo t Plaza, who was president of 3 Ecuador from 1948 to 1952. < I PTA Meeting Will j< Be Held Tomorrow! i i The Chapel Hill P.T.A. will , at 8 p.m. tomorrow (Wed-|, nesday) in the elementary school , auditorium. The meeting will be the last one of the school year, j Richard L. Beard will speak on ( educational trends and local' needs. The program will also in-1, elude the election of officers and ( a brief report on the recent , school census. I Following the business meet- ( ing, elementary school class-: j rooms will be open for room visi- i tation. High school parents will \ be invited to meet with their chil- | dren’s teachers in the elementary | school library. Mr. Millman and , Mrs. Suggs will meet parents in | 4 the music room, and Mr. Haw- ! ( v kins, Mrs. Plemmons, and Misa , Seawell will meet parents in the , cafeteria. | j I Exchange Drawinga oa View The exchange drawinga spon- i sored under the Art for World < Friendship program of tha Wo men’s International League for , Peace and Freedom will continue j on display in the University Li- < brary through Friday, May V). j They include drawings from two j schools in Haifa, Israel; several \ schools in Hiroshima, Japan, and white and Negro schools in Hill and Orange county. Golf Tournament Today The Anal rounds pf the annual * schoolboy golf tournament spon- ‘ sored by the North Carolina : High School Athletic Association ! will be played hare today (Tuaa- I day) on tha Finley course. The tournament began yesterday, 1 with competitors from 21 Ugh ' schools throughout tha atate. r Clothing Drive This Bunday J The iuml chthiii drive ) sponsored by, the Jaycees, the ! a Community Club, and the | Council of Churches will be \ held Sunday afUraooa. May i XI. Bandlao should ha placed „ on the curb by not later than I 1 p.m. that day. Theee who live on dead-end atreeta are c aaked to place their bnndlea on through atreeta. Theee who will he away may leave * bnndlea at Fowler's read 1 Store. ( Coach Grice Says Superintendent Davis Has Always Heen Helpful to Athletic Program lifiliilipllis -V - -V-IMBWi; v Ik'.; Wf x * » f N \ \\ w ■ l I J 3 |J| Xt \Jr dll \ Vi dilpi - jfiSMBBh 41. «% Db™ :; MMip .MRyalaK 7,. ■ .-Ms .i \ mmmm : • f jijijfl \ Wk . Charlie Davis, loft saperiatondent of the Chapel Hill echoola, pees* for the Weekly photographer with BUI Grice, the high school’s coach, who wRI leave Chapel Hill next month to Join the athletic staff of Oberlia College. “Mr. Davis,“ says Coach Grice, “has boon a -"7"' < 'Seven years ago a youngster, just out of the University, took over the head coaching job at the Chapel HiH high school. That year hi* teams won District Championships In football, basket ball, and baseball. He will leave Chapel Hill at the end of the current school year, moving a notch up the coaching ladder. The I new job takes him to Oberlin I College, one of the better smell I echoola in the country. There he ,will teach physical education and serve as assistant football coach. Since that first year at Chapel I Hill, Bill Grice has coached many different boys in the three varsity I sports at the local high school. ; Some have won championships. Others didn’t do so well. Through the victories and defeats Grice’s popularity never changed. The |citizens of the community and jthe students at the high school thought just as highly of him when his teams were losing ae . they did when they were winning, j Those who knew him personally realised his main objective has been to instill good, clean com- I petitive spirit among his boys. At a civic club meeting tha other night a group of men ware talk ing about Bill. “I hate to see him leave,’’ on* of them said. “There ia one fellow who has done an excellent job of making men out of our boys." Perhaps this writeup will get a bit personal, for tha writer has followed Bill’s career very closely. One of his finest traits is his ability to smile—win or lose. Ha gives the boys credit when they win, and ha usually takes tha Metropolitan Baritone to Sing: Tonight Robert McFerrin, Metropolitan Opera baritone, will aing at 8 o’clock thia (Tuesday) evening in Hill hall under the auapicea of the Tueaday .Evening Concert Rories sponsored by the Graham Memorial and the Univeraity's muaic department. Hie perform ance will be the Anal program of I the aeries. Admiaaion ia free. Mr. McFerrin ia widely known for hia success in the role of Amonaaro in Verdi’a “Aida.” In hia recital this evening he will sing works by Handel, Gesti, Purcell, Brahma, Frans, Wolf, Verdi, Duparc, Faure, and J. J. Niles, and a group of Negro spirituals. Born in Marianna, Ark., one of eight'children of a Baptist minister, McFerrin attended high achool in St. Louis, studied at Fisk Univeraity in Nashville, Tenn., and at the Chicago Col lege of Music, and won a scholar ship to Taagtaweod. There under The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents a Copy b ' ’ blame when they lose. He believes in stressing the fundamentals in every sport. “If a boy has the proper attitude and will learn the fundamentals he , will make the grade," Bill be , lieves. As he prepares to leave Chapel ’ Hill, Coach Grice eay* thet his t greatest wish is for the local high school to get a decent gym. , “This is a basketball community,” he explains, "and it is a real shame that our facilities for this sport are so poor. A good gym could also be used for many other high school activities." Coach Grice is also high in his praise of the Carolina coaching staff. “I wish I could tell you," 1 he said, “just how much they have helped me. Any time I had ' a problem about an offense or defense to use I went to them. Regardless of how busy they might have been—well, they al ways stopped to offer suggestions and advice. “The boys who participated in 1 high school kporta came to know the Carolina coaches and players too. For that reason a Carolina loss was just as tough to take as one at the high school." Coach Grice says that he has 1 got a real thrill out of every team he ever coached, but he takes particular pride in the 1956 basketball team. “We finished in sixth place dur ing the regular season,’’ he said. “In tha District tourney, how ever, we got hot and won tha event, to the surprise of every one, including myself. We walked off with consolation honors In i the direction of Boris Goldovsky > he sang lead a in Gluck’s “Iphe : genia in Tauris” and “Rigoletto." ' He repeated both of these roles . professionally with the New Eng i land Opera Company, i A veteraij of four years’ ser ■ vice with the Army and Air ’ Force, the singer has appeared on Broadway, has been soloist with the Temple Israel Choir in , St. Louis and St. Mark’s Method ist church in New York. In 1968 | he won the Metropolitan Opera 1 Auditions of the Air, and was ac -1 cepted by the Metropolitan’s ’ training school for further study. 1 After a season of concerts and 1 orchestral appearances he made his Metropolitan debut last Janu ary in Verdi's “Aida.” Mr. McFerrin is the second i Negro to sing with the Metro , politan in its 70-year history, , being heard there three weeks after contralto Marion Anderson sang In Verdi’s “Un Ballo to CHAPEL HILL, N. C., TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1955 great help ♦<* the Ugh school athletic few gram. He sold tickets, promoted transporta tion, chased ’*■! balk, aad did everything eke that wen id help. He was always for as, whs. loss, or draw." Uuucu.aa^&3 at Sanford. "The way wa surprised every one in basketball at the tailend of the season certainly provided me with one of my biggest thrills." Charlie Davis, Superintendent of the Chapel Hill schools, said recently that "we certainly hate to see Coach Grice leave us. He will be hard to replace. We con sider him one of the finest young (Continued on page •) Calendar of Events Tuesday, May 17 e 1 p.m. Faculty Club luncheon, Carolina Inn. e 2 p.m. Seminar discussion on “Metropolitan Area Planning Problems," faculty lounge of the Morehead Planetarium. • 7:30 p.m. Lecture by Dr. Isaac Schour, nursing auditorium of Memorial hospital. e 8 p.m. Community Council, Town Hall. e 8 p.m. Robert McFerrin, voice recital, Hill hall, e 8 p.m. Faculty wives of the University’s School of Busi ness Administration, Carroll hall. e 8 p.m. Hugh R. Pomeroy, "New Horizons in City Plan ning," faculty lounge of the Morehead Planetarium. Wednesday, May 18 e 11:80 a.m. Iris Study group of the Chapel Hill Garden Club, with Mrs. H. R. Trotten. e 8:80 p.m. Davie Poplar chap ter of the D.A.R., Carroll hall, e 7:80 p.m. Three one-act plays, Playmakers theatre. • 8 p.m. Hills! Women’s Club, Hills! house. e 8 p.m. Chapel Hill P.T.A., ele mentary school auditorium. Thursday, May It • 6 p.m. Annual Glenwood P.T.A. picnic, school lawn. e 6:16 p.m. Altrusa club, Caro lina Inn. e 7 p.m. Pi Beta Phi alumnae dinner, with Mrs. Tom Bost, Jr., in Glen Lennox. #7:80 p.m. Three one-act plays, Playmakers theatre. • 8 p.m. Annual Chapel Hill High School Band Festival, school auditorium. Visitor from Cuba Mrs. Albert Wadsworth of Ermita, Orients, Cuba, ajid her son, Albert, Jr., a senior at the Wood berry Forest School were recently on a visit to Mrs. Wads worth’s sister-in-law, Mrs. J. C. Lyons. Other guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lyons were Mrs. Lyons’ brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Howell Wadsworth of New Bern, and the Wadsworths #MW®Mnndn«6gw» j ■lgh School BanU Festival Wlif Be Held Thursday The annual Chapel Hill High School Band Festival will be held at 8 p.m. Thurs day, May 19, in the school’s auditorium. Admission will be 50 cents. Featured music will include Vaughn Wil liams’ “Folk Song Suite;” “Funiculi-Funicula“l Be lieve” (arranged by Robert McDuffie); horn solo by John Adams, and flute duet - by John Hanft and Gerry Ham. The concert will be conducted by Milton Bliss, its regular director, assisted by Roger McDuffie, a Uni versity graduate student who is practice teaching with Mr. Bliss. Awards of band keys and band letters will be made, and the Olsen Music Com pany’s award will be pre sented to the leading band student. Another feature of the program will be the showing of one of the new band uniforms. It will be modeled by Ray Ritchie, a member of the band. The other uniforms will be deliv ered in September at the be ginning of the school year. The program will be fol lowed by a short business meeting of the Band Parents Club in the high school li brary. The club’s president, Mrs. H. R. Ritchie, will pre side. All members are urged to attend. The band has had an un usually successful year. It has grown to 48 members and it was rated “Excellent” in thp State high school piusic contests. It has been active in the community this year, hiving marched in sev- played for the MBPfgym team’s per mmi in Woollen gym nasium, appeared in many civic programs, performed on TV, and presented a num ber of concerts. Concert Series Subset Announced by Chai Tha subscription campaign for tha 1955-56 Chapel Hill Concert Series will start immediately, James H. Davis, chairman for season ticket sales, announced yesterday. Four concert! will again be sponsored by the organi sation. Season tickets are $5.50, $6.60 and $7.60, and all seats will be reserved. The concerts scheduled for the 1955-56 series are: Ruggieri Ric ci, violinist, Thursday, Oct. 27, 1956; The Bach Aria Group, Mon day, Dec. 12, 1965; Moxart Piano Festival, Friday, Feb. 24, 1956; Hilde Gueden, soprano, Friday, April 27, 1966. Jimmy Wallace, secretary of the Chapel Hill Concert Series, emphasised that subscribing to the season tickets enables a per son to see the four concerts for a much lower price than would ordinarily be possible. He also said that since it is a non-profit organisation it can deal directly with the artist’s agent and not New Officers Are Elected by the Catholic Women's Guild jp--' I i - gk'M [ wju * ■ 1 \ ufv w ■ ■ %y, , 1 New officers of the Cathelle Women’s Guild are (left to right) Mrs. William Mangum, re cording secretary, succeeding Mrs. Tom Mur ray ; Mrs. Joe Burket, cor respending secretary, succeeding Mrs. H. R. Brae hear; Mrs. Wbid Powell, vice-president, succeeding Mrs. John Poole; kra, H. R. Bra*hear, treasurer, sucreed tof Mra. Uanld Unghnderfer, and Mrs. John. • a, ’ m i -it VA"!>.V Chapel Mill Chaf{ L.G. A gift to Mrs. Drew Patterson and Mrs. Mary Patterson Fisher from their son ana brother, Dr. Howard Patterson, is a subscription to the New York Times. Every day they turn it over to me. They read it and get it to me so promptly that I am able to read it as soon as if I myself were a sub scriber. Usually not a thing has been cut out of it, but now and then they clip some piece they want to keep. When they do this they think they have done me a wrong and owe me an apolo gy, and one or the other of them calls me on the tele phone and tells me what the clipped piece is about, so that I’ll be sure not to miss anything. Is that service! Two or three days ago Mrs. Patterson told me that she had cut out something about laughing gulls because her son Howard was so in terested in birds and she re membered having heard him, on one of his visits here, mention this breed of gulls. He might have failed to see thi§ piece in the Times and she was going to send it to him. I told her I was glad to hear about the laughing gulls but the information she gave me by telephone was quite sufficient for me and I was glad the clipping was going on to Howard. “What are laughing gulls?” I asked. “I never heard of ’em.” “I don’t know,” she said. “I’m glad somebody, birds or whoever it is, can find something to laugh at thsne days. Howard told me h«w these gulls got their nang. Sometimes they Ught on tlgH deck of a ship and the pas-4 sengers throw bits of foodAo them and then they give a merry laugh.” Do the gulls laugh in (Continued on page 2) ription Campaign irman James H. Davis \ have to pay a commission to any one else. In speaking of the perform ances scheduled for the coming I year, Mr. Wallace said the Bach Aria Group is “one of the beet in the world.” The group la com > posed of Julius Baker, flute; Robert Bloom, oboe; Eileen Far rell, soprano; Norman Farrow, bass-baritone; Bernard Green house, cello; Erich Itor Kahn, piano; Jan Pearce, tenor; Carl Smith, alto and Maurice Wilk, violin and is under the direction of William H. Scheldt This will , be the group’s only appearance in the Southeast. In July of this ’ year they will open at the famous 1 Prades Festival under the direc > tion of Pablo Cassia. Miss Elisabeth Branson will assist Mr. Davis in tha subscrip tion campaign. Mr. Wallace said that subscrib ers can coma by Graham Memo rial if they like and choose their seats for tha coming year. Poole, president, aueceeding Mrs. John W. Golden. The picture was taken at the homo of Mrs. W, D. Carmichael, lr., where the gronp held ita Anal meeting of the academia year, Hoe tosses were Mrs. Carmichael, Mra. Golden, Mrs. Dick Yeung, and Mra. William Wpdu IS a Ytar in County; otter retm m mmi Banquet Speaker Urges feral Merchants to Form Chaariber Os Commerce in Chapel ™ — » Carr boro School Is To Hold Festival The Carrboro elementary school’s annual May Festival will be held at 10 a.m. Fri day, May 20, at the schooL Everybody is invited. The program will include an op eretta, “The Farmer in the Dell,” by the first grades; rhythm band, dance, and re lay races, by the second grades; May pole dance, third grades; pau-pau patch, fourth grade; hokey-pokey dance, fifth grade; hoop drill and Virginia reel, sixth grade; historical skit and square dance, seventh grade, and baseball game, eighth grade. Everybody is asked to bring a basket lunch for a picnic to begin at noon on the school grounds. Drinks will be sold by the sixth grade. The baseball game, between the Carrboro school and the Efland school, will begin* at I p.m. Arrangements for the big day are being made under the direction of Mrs. Eva Blaine, festival chairman, and William Ramsey, princi -1 pal of the school. > vGltmuooi Picme U S*t fur TkurUay Tito annual picnic of the Giew woo4 School P.T-A. will Is held at 6 p.m. Thnraday, May If, on 1 tha wheel lawn (or iuMa tha achaM H rate). Member* eg) faj tribute* by mem ben of the wel coming committee. Primary grade* and upper grades will give separate musical programs under the direction of Mr*. Fred McCall. Exhibits of pupils’ art work will be shown. Guests of honor will bo Prin cipal and Mrs. Ray Kiddoo, Superintendent and Mrs. Gharlia Davis, and the Glenwood teach ers. Visitors from England > The Rev. and Mr*. E. F. Wil ; kinson of Devonshire, England, were her recently on a visit to their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gaston of , Victory Village. Mrs. Green apd her little son accompanied them , on a two-weeks visit to Beaufort, I S.C., Mrs. Wilkinson’s old home , town. The Wilkinsons will spend 1 four months in the U.S. They, are I now visiting e daughter in Miami, > Fla., and will return for another 1 visit here before returning to 1 England, Mr. Wilkinson’s native ’ land. I Students’ Wives Meet Wives of University' students studying for master’s degrees in business administration mat last Thursday evening at the hooie of ' Mrs. Jerome Bennett in Victory Village. About 16 were present. •BmfcCßwsjr JKdO *» * ate. *•*. •% ’ The advantages a f»wa munity derives from a chamber of commerce organ ization were described b/ John McCullers, manager of the Kinston Chamber of Commerce, last ’ntorsdaj evening at the fufl membership banquet of the Chapel HiU-Carrboro Mer chants Association at the Country Club. He said that the chamber of commerce movement waa begun in 178 S in New York, that the second such organ ization waa founded after that in Charlarion, S. C., fnd that there are now more than 3,000 in the na tion. “A chamber of commerce is not dictated to by poli tics,” Mr. McCullers said. *Tt is of service to everybody ... We don’t pay our debt to society simply by paying taxes, but we help pay it by showing civic pride and an unselfish desire to do sotne- I thing for somebody else. Such qualities do great good > when channeled through an ■ organization like the cham i ber of commerce.” Mr. McCullers said the . trend new was to rnmliiiw merchants ■■■■rirtiriM and chambers of commerce. *1 recommend that you thfaah seriously about this.” he told the Chapel Hfll and Carr -1 boro merchants and their guests. “A fine rh—her of commerce ia the minor at a 1 fine community and tna an ' compute almost anything. hart a lrntei ‘T suggest thrtjGnpi . yourselves to rtntonminc l whst five things Chapel Hill r needs most, list them in ’ order of importance, and work from that list Such a ' survey will show you what 3 needs to be done, and then . through your association and a chamber of commerce you can meet these needs." Mr. McCullers, whose • speech was brief, said he (Continued an page I) > f Community Council ! Will Meet Tea%M | The Community Council will 1 nmet at 8 p.m. today in (to , Town Hall and elect oAeen far the coming year. Theca will alaa ’ boa program on “Serving Cbapal Hill’s Youth,” which will featura ’ a discussion of tha schools by a ’ member of the dttoaas* commit tee for bettor echoola. a iheniaa ioa of recreation by Graa Chil dreas of the Jayeeea, aad a dhe cusaion of mental health aad wal ' fare by Dr. Chris Server. The pah | lie is invited. f Officer* whooo tone* will «t_ pin are President Roy Baletee. Vice-Presidents Mm. Norman Cordon and Phil Oman, Secretary Sandy MeCkuaneh. aad Tran urar Hubert Robiaeoa. Jr. Torme of four members of the Beard will also expire. They are Gran Childress, Orville Campbell. Nick Demerath, and Floyd Huator. D. A. R Meeting Temerrew The Davie Poplar chapter es the Daughters of the Aamcteae Revolution will meet at *M pm. tomorrow (Wodneeday) ia Car roll hall. Tha Rev. Bernard Bayd will apeak ee “Toward a PeaeafOl World.” Guests of honor will he members of Durham's General Davi* chapter' of tha IX A. 8. Hoe to**** wIU he Mrs. WiUa>4 Graham, Mrs. C. B. Teague, Mrs. C. S. Hubbard. Mr*. Morgans Stoufftr, and Mrs. W. E. Cato wail. Dog Show Causing BosMay Chapel RIB’S fanrth aannnl dog show and ehedlenan triala will be held Sunday il li. May U, eo feaome. BeU «»- dor the auspices «t the Mu change CMk It mfl| hegj, gg 1 P*. Baity blanks may to, aoenrod from Dr. L (. Via*. ly™?/.,**? ¥ * Ir?» T’ w mm wfu compete.