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TUESDAY ISSUE Vol. 33 No. 27 Fire Strikes Hardware Store Before Dawn on Saturday; Seventeen Firemen Fight for Two Hours against $50,000 Blaze ■mu . .. •■ ■ --. ! • kv tl IH |’ Jp J| - 8P ■. ' . . ■■■ ■' ''/‘; i llT ggy .jW f %. • 1 OUTVOTED MERCHANDISE . .. Pnd Dale, jr, local dnlcr for the Durhaa Morning Herald, was j just beginning Ws asaal atorn ins delivery ran at a little past 4 o'clock Saturday worn ins, when he noticed unoke aad fismet at the rear of the lluha Hard ware store. He rsportod the Are t to Sergoant Coy Darham at the | police department who immedl -1 ately notified the fire station. Firemen V. H. Ray aad Eric Crabtree took only one truck to >' the store, thinking there was probably a trash container on fire. When they arrived they found that the building was on fire, and radioed hack to J. S. Boone at the station, who turned ftethodist School To Open Tomorrow 1 | The llethodist church's doily 1 /vacation Bible school will begin Jftoday (Tuesday) at the church; Hand will be in session from * 30 I am. to 10:30 am. each weekday i from then through Friday, June [ 17. It is open to children from 1 four to twelve years old. inrlus- I iva. Parents wishing to enroll I their children in the school are I requested to see that they are at f the church at 8:30 tomorrow morning. d Mrs. W. E. Merritt will direct Wk» school. She will he assisted; by Mrs. Harold Weaver. The pro- j * gram will include kindergarten, | primary, and janinr departments I Aa opening devotional period I aack morning will ha lad by the Rev. Cheriee Hubbard. Cafearfar «f EnaU Taoaiay. Jaaa T a t:3O am. Daily Vocation Bible e » am Car Caravaa forma in front of Chapoi HOI high ■thisl. to go to Hillsboro to plead the caoo for rostsradsn || as the full 30-ceats Chapoi Hill fore the ceaaty naalidinn. • 1 June 'Dairy* Meath Breakfast, Piae Room. Caro lina laa. TWsdsy. Jaao • a (Jl am ■iglrtsUsa begins rLi Bsnrisa lutrgtT 1111111 a lya. Pghtkaaamri Felh Fto- Mrm. Mary B* tea of 413 Marth streak aad her ter. Mrs. Kraest Hicka of Chariatto wars la Lyacfcharg, Mg«- * - ljym B. Rahooa. ir, Mere- BteOatf wSubTte far Mm ■; - ****?■■*< ■ in tbo alarm and brought one of i the other trucks to the scone. ■J By 4:30, tbo firemen had n : booster line and a 2fe inch hoae i in the smoke-Ailed building. For . l or W bRBdMPkU fiVwn fought ‘over IBmtoMtoa oil the dma.* oh ■cording to BRI Waleten, na a»>| 'ployeo of the store. At timeal water was running out of the: ■ beck door Uke a creek. Once pert i of the ceiling fell on fireman: i Boone, but he yelled that he wasj i all right as another fireman start-' 'Jed to pull him out. i Damage to the hardware store was extensive, and was estimated I by owner Vic Huggins to be “at Paul H. Robertson Elected Department | Commander of the NC American Legion Paul H. Robertson was elected .State Department Commander of I the American Legion at its 37th r annual convention last weekend i in Raleigh. He was elected on the i fourth ballot of a hotly-fought contest with John A. Holmes of I Edeatoa and H i. Swain of Wil , liamston. He led on each ballot. Mr. Robertson and other de ' pertinent and division officers will be installed in ceremonies to be held soon in Chapel Hill. L. J. I Phipps is in charge as arrange ments for the installation cere | monies. Mr. Robertson says that his I only platform was “to push for i ward every phase of the Ameri can Legion to the boat of my ability.** It is hoped that the Le gion will be able to get started hLteM U lUMgh during Mr. Robertaea’s one jaar term of office. The prwpeeed building, approved at the con vention, will house the offieoo of the Legion, its Awflhiy, aad the Forty and Eight, aad will cast between *IOO,OOO and *ltf r 000, not including Urn let. Mr. Robertson, a veteran of World War I, is the local repre sentative of the Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance company and a justice of the penes. Ha was kora in Johnston county aad baa lived in Chapoi HiU for the post S 3 years, and has been an active Legionnaire for 33 yean. Ho was appointed adjutant at the first local post mooting ho attended aad served five years. Ho is ons of the few members of the post who has servod two years as pout commander. He has also servod as past Americanism chairman and ns district Americanism chairman. j Other local, state, and national positions Mr. has hold include two years aa mute national ta- *wutdsfand anrrloF^ - The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents a Copy > T ' I ' |miawi ts * > '■ * * .&■ H * ~7p;7r . ?>2fl fF* ■ "*. j;t ■ ,v * **■ ■ ,* 'V '* #BI **-,-tv *- ■s»& - *V : *- - '■ liF' - : -t - ■,?!•■. - • * |g|gggjff r ; : ’*?s£' * - Jjal ■M§O * 11 I ’ 'ffifllPgi * * ‘{flUH Li'U | ■ • it *■* •' I I f ■■ ; t * '• jjg 4 fl * jV; • j. ' ifllPC At ■ r-sHi*sr. MBfcMMrag^ Jv £ &jß««RgMfßgwfMßjafrl Tg*^ Jp - : * ffc[>jf 'LI ... AND A BURNT BACK DOOR least" $60,000. The fire had start ed at the rear of the store, and although the firemen had man aged to confine the flames to the rear, much damage waa done to the front of tho store by smoko, teg) of, (ho damage ia shown to Mto atoms photograph* by Wil jlaen MfewMitek .On the left is a (view Wf‘RkO tm/t of the store, I where the fire was worse, and on the right is the back door which j had started to burn at the bottom ( when the fire department arrived. In places in the rear of the store the merchandise was com pletely destroyed. The firemen arrived in time to keep a large quantity of paint from exploding. I and Eight in Durham and Orange ( counties, including Garde du la i Porte, Ammonier, Chef de Train, I and Chef de Gare. • Mr. Robertson has attended nil 1 North Carolina Department ron f ventions since he joined the Le - gion in 1923, and has attended 20 national conventions, at six of . which he served as assistant ser , grant at arms. At present he is , serving as post service officer, | vice commander, and member of ,|the post's executive committee. He ia a member of the Baptist Church, a Mason, and financial secretary of the Junior Order of, 1 United American Mechanics. r Hospital Food Service Institute Planned I About 60 representatives from i ’ boa pita Is throughout North Caro- i i Una an as pee tod to attend the ’ third annual Hospital Food Senr- , > lea Institute for dietitians and , • feed service managers to be held , ; here from Thursday through Sat- ] uyday of this week. Miss Dotty Tate, head therm- i peutic dietitian for Memorial hoe- I pital here, said yesterday that all 1 ' plana for the annual event had . ' Ims completed. Registration will J 1 begin at t:JO a.m. Thursday and ] 1 the first business session will be- i | gin at 9:10 a.m. I The Institute is sponsored by 1 \ the North Carolina Hospital As , sodation, the North Carolina Die- Party -fm Navy Honiara The staff officers of the Uni . varsity’s Naval R.O.T.C. unit and | their wives entertained the Naval I R.O.T.C. seniors and their friends Jand relatives yesterday (Monday) i i'afternoon after the commission ing ceremonies. The party launch ing the newly commissioned ofi cere into active service in the Navy and Marine Corps, was held at f pm. at the home of Colonel . R. C. Burns, USMC, professor of naval sdeace at the University, at 410 East FranhUn street. The | held at 4 pjn. fas the Forest CHAPEL HILL, N. CL, TUESDAY, JUNE 7,1965 although several small cans did I blow their tops off. In tho front, - moat of the damage was done by » smoke aad heat. Almost every > thing waa blackened, and one es »the new plate glass windows at r the front es tha star* was craeb > ed. Some of the damage will fee i covered by insurance. Mr. Walston, who waa at the i store soon after 4JO, said he i couldn’t "give the fire department i enough credit. They did a won • derful job." He added that it i would have been much worse had ■ the paint exploded, and that prob > ably would have happened if the i firemen had arrived a few min , utos later. The origin of the fire has not yet been determined. It could haw started from spontaneous combustion, faulty wiring, or I from a firebug. The cause is still under investigation by local au , thoritiea. , The insulation over the ceiling probably kept the fire confined within the building. However, the I ceiling waa burned black in places. Mr. Huggins was out of town ) when the fire occurred. He and ' Mrs Huggins were at Staunton, . Virginia, attending the gradua i tion of their son Vic from the , Staunton Military Academy, f The store will be dosed for several weeks. Yesterday morn . ing Huggins Hardware's sec re- I tary, Mrs. Barbara Beatty, had ' set up a table ia front of the store and was handling accounts. tetk Association, and the North Carolina State Board of Health. The planning committee for the annual institute is composed of representatives from the follow lag organisations: Moses Cone hospital, Greensboro; State Board of Health, Raleigh; Veterans Ad ministration hospital. Durham; Haatiet hospital, Hamlet; Chat ham County hospital, Siler CUy; Ala wane County hospital. Bur liagten; High Feint Memorial hos pital, High Point; Eastern North Carolina sanatorium, Wilson, end the Montgomery Memorial hospi tal. Troy. Leave for Now Hasten Mr. and Mrs. Quino E. Martin as and their three children have left for Lae Cruces, New Mexico, where Mr. Martinos will teach Spanish this summer at the Now Mexico Agriculture end Arte College. Ho recently received his PhD. degree in Bemsncs iung nagoa nt the University here. Going to Caßfetnin Mr. and Mrs. Joel Carter end their children, Cathy and Ceiy Anne, are leaving today to spend the summer la California at Btaafsvd University, whs n Mr. WMbjhma they “•£*** Plannee Chairman ( fhlnka Town Ta* ’ Rate Will GelTp Paul Wager, chairman of tse Board of Aldermen's fi nance committee, says he doubts “very much” if Char- - pel Hill can avoid raising its present 95 cents tax rate if a proposed new organization of thq fire department is im plemented. Mr. W’ager said he hoped r that rate would not have to e go up, but he said Mayorjc 'Oliver Cornwell believed a 1 ■raise necessary in order to ] provide needed services to i the town. \ If the town tax rate is in-1 creased, Mr. Wager said, he t believed the hike would not t amount to more than two or i three cents. Along with some 1 other town officials, he be lieves the county comm is- j sioners will put a greater 1 burden on Chapel Hill tax- 1 payers by restoring the local i 'school supplementary tax to 1 ijthe full 20 cents approved in ] I an election several years ago. 1 The school tax rate was cut j to 12 cents by the comm is- i sioners last year. , The reorganization of the , fire department, by J. S. Boone, would,, abolish the present system |1 of volunteer firemen which supplements the full-time de- i partment of five men. , Mr. Boone advocates a full- ( time department of six men, i plus a group of 12 “call men” | to be paid a retainer fee. The < call men would serve in the j same general way as present i ! volunteers, but they would be i required to report to all fires ] r and also attend scheduled j - training sessions called by r the chief. i 1 The proposed pay rate for fthe call men is |ls pert month. ) Mr. Wager said another > new budget item under con • sideratkm is the hiring of an | (Continued on pnfe 4) I June Dairy Month Breakfast Scheduled For Tomorrow Morning at Carolina Inn Miss Peggy Jane Garner, North I Carolina's “Miss Dairy Princess,". . will be one of the guests at Chap-J r el Hill's annual June Dairy Month breakfaat tomorrow (Wednesday) morning nt 8 .o’- clock in the Pine Room of the Carolina Inn. Dr. William P.j ‘ Richardson, professor of proven-1 1 tive medicine in the University's ' School of Public Health, will be 1 the principal speaker nt the breakfast. Miss Garner was selected I,“Mias Dairy Princess” nt the .state Dairy Month breakfast bald last week in Raleigh. She i won the title from a field of four other college girls. She is e resi dent of Raleigh, a junior at Peace ( college in Raleigh. The menu for the breakfast, . I which is under the direction of , , George Cline, manager of the Dairy land store in Glen Lennox, 1 will bo mode up of dairy pro- ’ ducts. It includes buttermilk with tomato Juice, ice cream with cereal, scrambled agga with' 1 cheese and bacon, butterod toast with jam aad eottage cheese aad . milk and coffee with cream. Attending the breakfast will , be civic leaders, merchants, aad , , town aad University officials. I Another highlight of the June Dairy Meath will be the Dairy , Farm Festival Day to he held Friday. It will include a parade, a milking foot eel, decoration of windows with n Dairy Month theme, a .display of registered cattle, aad the selection of a 1 Dairy Queen. 1 Highlights of the day will in clude a milking contest between Robert Todd of Carrboro and Mayor Oliver Cornwell of Chapel Hill, aad the crowning of the Dairy Queen, who will be selected , from candidates from nil over Tom Boot Appelated Tom Boat, director of the Uni i vanity's alumni giving program, i has boon appointed n recorder for the American Collage Public Re lations Association convention to ha held from Juno 2* through July 3 in Chjcago, 111. Ho will I assist Ja recording the prsoaed r lags of the conference for ppbii- I cation parpsam, About 100 pub l Ik ralatieae staff members from throughout the aatiea will attend *** School Snpporters Plan Caravan To Hillsboro Today; 1,000 Have Signed Petition for Restored Tax Chapel Mill Chaff L.G. Jack London, who may be more impressively designat ed as Captain John J. Lon- ] don, U.S. Navy, retired, and I Mrs. London came in last Friday and were here again < at Commencement. On their ' way to the North from their home in Miami, Florida, they * are visiting for a few days < the London relatives in the family’s old home in Pitts boro. They didn’t need to bring a gift to make us glad to see ;them but they didn’t make themselves any less welcome |in our home by bringing a box of mangoes sent to us by Mr. and- Mrs. Frank Sma thers. i Jack and I entered the University together 56 yean ago, in the year 1899. The only man living here now |Who was in the faculty then >is Archibald Henderson. We (both took math under him. After Jack had been here two years he went to An napolis and was in the Class of 1905. He retired late in the 1930’s and thought he was going to spend the rest of hie Hlb golfing, theatre going, britfge-playtng, look ing out over the ocean and, at appropriate momenta, sip ping highballs, mint juleps, and rum cocktails. But World War II changed his plans. One day In. 194? I got a let ter from him, written at sea. I la which he said he had beah put back on active dnty and; .was in command of a fleet of troop transports on the| way to Australia. Now he is 1 (Coatlnovd ww 4) | Orange county, at a street square .dance Friday evening. Robert Todd is chairman of the June Dairy Month celebration. Bill Alexander and Ralph How jard are in charge of arrange ments for the festival. Kenneth ‘Putnam is directing the festival I parade, Moyle Johnson the Dairy Queen Contest, and Charlie Phillips the street dance. Other members of the Dairy Month committee include Joe Robbins, O. T. Watkins, Chick Ehmig, Raymond Andrews, and Carlton H. Byrd. Leisurely Western Trip Mr. and Mrs. Andrew C. Shear er and their son nr# on a three months visit to the West Coast. They left recently to drive west ward byway of Texas, Kansas, and Colorado. They plan a lei surely trip and will visit rela tives in Tegas. They will return in September in time for the op ening of school. OA to Chsrshse Mr. and Mrs. Fester Fita-Slm ons and their four sons have left to spend the summer at Cherokee, where Mr. aad Mrs. Fits-Simone are in the east and an the prodnee tion staff of Kermlt Hunter's out door drama. "Unto Thee# Hills.", 21 Have Perfect Attendance Records Twenty-ens pupils in the Chap el HUI elementary teboel had perfect attendance records dur ing the school year Just ended. For the Ififi full days of school they were neither tardy or ab sent. They are Randy Bose, BUI Creel, Trudy Crowder, and Becky Durham of the primary grades (1 through I) and the following momhers of upper grades (4 through •): Barbae Alexander, Betsy Bartlett, Jack Cagjtste, Gloria Di Costaaso, Rusty Ed mister, Patsy Folton, Beilis Jackson, Wanda Jones, Frank Martin, Becky Merritt, Mentis Milner, Eugene Napier, Becky Ray, Virginia Ray, Charles Smith, Ray Sparrow, and Shir ley Vick. The following pupils had no abosaem of a whole day hut were either tardy at least ones or atiaoodlmpart kMl SSmTmTimomS 64 A Yen in Oomrty ; otimr nkas am pn 2 e New Phone Book > Is Ont Today? Some ] Numbers Changed < Many Chapel Hill tele-] phones will have new nura- j bers beginning this morning ( (Tuesday), and the numbers { of almost all pay stations will also be changed. The new numbers are list- j ed in a bright new plum colored telephone directory , which is being distributed , today. Here is the major change in residential and business lines: All numbers beginning with “7” will have the pre fix “8” added. Thus, num bers such as “7761” become “8-7761.” This switch will affect some 300 stations. However, Chapel Hillians will have six months to get I used to the new numbers. Up to the time the Decem ber telephone directory is issued, a subscriber may call either “7761” or “5.7761” and he will reach his party, hi December, he will haW to (Continaad oa gags 4) $509 CwfriMia 1 To Jaycee frd/'id TV» UnimssityY Paahalleatc - a _ aaaa towcu mmm pnNBtM • pWHP •back to Ike Chapd Hffi Jmftm tiRHU» to Um fui sstobßiM by tbt ebambar for Dm yrepoood Owyol Hill ncMoUoa eon tor. Ih MOV woo rolood st «a tIIMS vemßr baokotbsU pmjM UR by tb» kfl Itho Woollen rymnorioßl proeoods from tbo goBM mwH uMd for tbo adoption of a war orphan under the Poster Parent*’ Plan. | The presentation of the cheek waa made by Mima Joan Leonard, past president of the council, which is made up of sororoitiea in the University. The donatioA was accepted for the Jayeeee by Collier Cobh 111 and Gran Chii dross. Fofc Festival The eighth anneal Carolina Folk Festival will bo hold in Kenan stadium st S p.m. oa Thursday, Friday and Baterday nights of this wook. la case of rain the performances will ho transferred to Memorial hall. Some 454 performers from mil over North Carolina and ■erne from other states will participate as iadivideals and in toama. Among the folk stars who will appaar are J. Laarel Job naan of Atlanta, champion fiddler of the Booth, and his chief challenger, an eld favorite of Folk Festival fana, George PograoL Admins ion to each perform ance will bo fl for adults and M coats for children. At Inoarnaee Seminar , John W. Umstaad, Jr., and Gran P. Childress, spaeinl representa tive* in Chapel HiU for the Jef ferson Standard Life Insuranoc Company, have boon at Roaring Gap this weak at a business In. aoraiMM seminar attended by 14 Jeffaraoa Standard repreaopta tivea from central and western North Carolina. Eva Campbeh, Bob Chapman, Jot Di Costaaso, William Har rell, Carol Stone, sad Anns Wads of the primary grades and the fellawing la the upper grades: Tommie Jeea Blackwood, Joha Begby, Paul Bodenheimer, Walter Can wafer, Gaddis Carlisle, Terry Chapin, Carole Cole, Betty Jean Hardison, Martha Hunter, Bruce Johnson, Martha Joses, Carol Manning, Billy Mariakakis, Dev- 1 id Nash. Becky Ranaon, Rosalia j Roan, Sublr Roy, Priscilla Bolden, Patsy Sparrow, Sally Btockard, Judith Williams, and Trudy WU- Dame. lutreoos la Alumni Giving The University’s Alumni An nual Giving program, new in It* third yenr, is running abend of comparative date regards of pro views yarns, both hi the number, •f wmtiMutsrs sad ia the total MMMIt . TjJBriSPAY , H4KK« HWW mtrUtttW* Armed with petitions bear ing some 1,000 names, sup porters of the local school system prepared to descend on the Board of County Com missioners today (Tuesday) to plead the case for restora tion of the full 20 cents Chapel Hill district supple mentary school tax. A car caravan going to Hillsboro for the 10 n_m ses sion of the board was sched uled to meet in front of the Chapel Hill high school at 9 o’clock this morning. Every one is invited to load up his car and join the group going to the county seat. The supplementary school tax is now 12 cents per 9100 property valuation. It was cut to that figure by the commissioners last year fol lowing revaluation. They de fended their action on the grounds that revaluation was for the purpose of equalization and not to raise taxes. Tltf ear caravan is being aponaered by the Citizens’ Committee fog Better Bcha«b, and is under the direction of Dr. Kerr White. In diif|e o t «hmhtfrg the petitions supporting the return to the full 20 cento 1 school tax is Charles MAmt. He told the Weekly yester day he thought the names 1 would reach about 1,000 by ' the time all petitions were | turned la and ready to be l taken to Hillsboro. ( The Commissioners’ ra—H «toss has been called to eoffij 1 school district budget, based : on s restoration of the fun 1 supplementary tax. will be 1 presented to the commission | era for the first time. They , will discuss the budget and make their decision on the tax rate at future meetings. Several officials in Chapel Hill have expressed the opin ion that the county commis sioners will agree to raise the tax rate. The group in cludes Carl Smith, chairman of the Chapel Hill school board. Trexler Family In Glen Lennox Home Jake Trailer's wife and daugh ter, Elinor, arrived last weak from Morristown, Tenn., to Join Mr. Trexlor in their apartment ia Glen Lennox. Mr. Trexler, the executive sec retary of tho Chapol Hill-Carr boro Merchants Association and Credit Bureau, has beau bare ainca January. Mrs. Traxler and Btinor bad remained Ur the eato pleto school year la Morristown. 1 whore Mrs. Traxler waa a teacher la the public schools- Visitors from Faarto Blee Mrs. Aas Otero and her so* Manual were bars several days 1 recently from their heese la Puer to Woo. Mrs, OUre la yrnfeaeir of education at tfc Uatveraity of , tlon. She and Manuel went firarn here to New York, wbfre tbdy i Joined Mr. Otdro far a Meath of i travel In Canada and the Ualtod State#. Rodgers ta GreeavtlK S. C. Owwga H. Rodgers of Char -1 lotto, who received Ida maatwY 'jdograo la city plowing front tbo bare to UM, baa bean appaintod director of dty I planning for tbo city of Oraan -1 villa; South Carolina. Far tha I past year ba has served as act lag director of planning far tha •tty of Palm Springs, California. GMu> Vlada Beaton* Hug# GldM MMftlf i Beaton to attend tha 60th jiaaßß I wbara ha Is a mambar of tha fi£ wts -Ok. * '£
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