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FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday Voi. 33 No. 28 School Heads Ask for More Budget Funds For Next Year By Chuck Hauser Chapel Hill school district officials journeyed to Hills boro on Tuesday to ask the county commissioners to ap an operations budget for the coming fiscal year ' $37,599 above <this year’s ! level. , The commissioners were also presented with a re quest for $113,890 for capi tal outlay needs during the coming year—as part of a $766,000 capital expenditure program in the Chapel Hill school district over the next five years. The operations budget called for spending $392,545 during 1955-56, as opposed to a current budget of $354,- 946 during 1954-55. The new budget is based on a Chapel Hill supplementary school tax rate of 20 cents, rather than the 12 cents which the I commissioners approved last year. The state would contri bute the larger portion of the money—s2B2,4l7. Dur ing the current year the st a t e’s contribution has Iren $268,020. The increase lßblts from a boost in the number of teachers—as a re sult of increased enrollment —and salary increment raises for teachers. If the supplementary tax rate is set at 20 cents, local school funds would be increased $23,202 from $86,926 to $110,128. Most of the additional lo cal funds would go to the fol lowing items: (1) A new teacher to relieve the Glen wood school principal of teaching duties, (2) A li brarian at the Glenwood school, (3) A teacher for remedial work, and (4) An increase in supplemental pay, to raise the average an nual supplement per teacher (Continued on page 12) Hpculty Will Hear I T Guy Phillips Talk 1 Guy B. Phillips, director of the If University Summer Session, will | speak on “Summer Session I Trends” at a luncheon meeting of the University Feculty Club at 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 14, in the ballroom of the Carolina Inn. All visiting faculty members are invited and urged to attend the meeting, Mr. Phillips, former dean of the University’s School of Education, is president of the American As sociation of Deans and Directors of Summer Sessions. Recreational Swimming and Children’s Classes All Set to Begin This Weekend Recreational swimming, open to tbs public, will begin tomor row (Saturday) at the Univer sity’s outdoor Keasing pool, nnd free swimming classes for chil dren will begin Monday, Juno 13, in tbs Bowman Gray pool in Woollen gymnasium. All swimmers end swimming pupils who are not University students must have a swimming ticket which can be bought at the Ifariverrity cashier's office in the 94th building. Such a ticket re quires a doctor’s signature as to the applicant's physical fitness and freedom from disease. The price of tickets good for the first term of the Summer Session is $4 for children and |6 for adults. The swimming schedule will be as follows: Recreational swimming for adults and for children accom panied into the water by parents: 12 noon to 5:60 p.m. from Mon day through Saturday and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Recreational swimming for chil dren unaccompanied by parents: 12 noon to 1 p.m. from Monday through Saturday and 8 p.m. to 4 p.m. from through Sun day. Instructional period for chil dren who have reached their fifth birthday and are 42 inches tall: 10:44 a.m. to 11:44 a.m. from Monday through Friday. Advanced instruction far chil dren: 8 pan. to 4 p.m. from Men day through Friday. lastructtaa for adatts: t pan Police Motorcycle Catches Fire on Airport Road, But Rider Suffers Only Minor Burns of the Feet - . .mssasaa————MHSsMSMDSMass«saifa^^*>.v.Ji ■r w >' -' ,Wm nAm , ign Marshall Duncan, who | works at Odis Pendergraft’s University Service Station on the corner of Franklin and Columbia streets, is one of the few people in Chapel Hill who know how to repair a motorcycle. That’s where his trouble started, Mr. Duncan told the Weekly, because if he didn’t know how to repair motor Dorothy Moore Is School Valedictorian; Winners of Other Honors Are Annoana Miss Dorothy Moor*, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Moore, was announced as valedictorian of the graduating class at tha Chapel Hill high school’* com mencement exercises last Friday evening in Hill Jbeil She received the Jeyeee plaque given annually to the valedictorian by the Chapel Hill Junior Chamber AJn. mere*. The pret*t£|tßH made by Felix Pletche^B Richard Hall, son of Et. mNP Mrs. Everett Hell, was announced aa salutatoriaa and received a wrist watch from the Chapel Hill Kiwanis Club, which makes a similar gift every year to the aalutatorian. The watch was pre sented by Dick Jameraon, presi dent of the club. Miss Martha Ann Cheek, daughter of Mrs. R. G. Cheek of Carrboro, received from the University a four-year tuition scholarship valuofi at S3OO an nually. This grant is a new award Baaoa Going to San Francisco George F. Bason, jr., now standing examination* in the Harvard law school, will go to San Francisco in the next few days to take a summer job with the Bank of America. He has one more year at Harvard. Coilina to Direct Camp Rip Collins will serve this sum mer as director of Camp Durant, the Boy Scout camp between Dur ham and Ralaigh. to 3 p.m. from Monday through Friday. The advanced classes for chil dren will be taught by Howie Stepp end Joanne Scrogga. In struction for adults will be given by Mary Frances Ksllem nnd Jos Hilton. No registration is required for non-credit instruction. All who wish to participate simply show up at the scheduled times. Col lege studente using either pool must have physics! education privilege cards. Additional in formation may be obtained by phoning Ralph Casey (8431), (he University’s swimming coach, who has charge of the summer swimming program. Jenners to Be in North Mr. and Mrs. Chsrles E. Jenner are leaving this week for Woods Hole, Mass., where Mr. Jenner will do research work at the Marine Biological Laboratory during the Bret pert of the sum mer end teach e course during the second pert of the summer. He is s member of the faculty of the University’s zoology de partment. Hammers Building a Country Mr. and Mrs. Clemens Bom mar are building a boms on the Mann's Ckapsl rand between the Pttteboro highway and the R. Z. vflHf MM* The Chapel Hffl Weekly 6 Cents a Copy cycles he wouldn’t have been riding the police motorcycle out on the Airport road when it caught on fire Mon day afternoon. The above picture was taken by Weekly reporter Chuck Hauser a few minutes later. It shows fireman P. M. Andrews spraying water on the still-smoking ma chine, while C. M. Durham, established this spring by til* University. It was presented to Miss Cheek by Roy Armstrong, the University's director of ad missions. Richard Jackson, son of Mi*. Robert Jackson of Glen Ueiutox, was the winter of the S2OO Ro tary scholarship, which was pre m^tohmJremejLJDarifkjtoat*. y of Mrs. Mary Davis, was the winner of the S2OO scholarship given an nually by the Chapel Hill Altrusa Club. Miss Elizabeth Brarson presented the award to Mias Uav is, who plans to study at the Woman’s College in Greensboro. MacNider Home Sold to Mrs. Bason Miss Sallie Foard MacNider has sold her home on East Frank lin street to Mrs. George F. Bason. But the western part of the lot, now devoted to a garden, is not included in the sale. Miss MacNider is keeping it and will build a home on it. This is the part that adjoint Colonel Gaston Rogers’s property. It fronts on Franklin street. Mrs. Bason will take possession of her new home in the fall. She and Mr. Bason have not yet de cided exactly when they will move in. Alao undecided is what they will do about the place where th*y v now live, about eight miles from Chapel Hill on tha Mann’s Chapel road in Chatham county. That property consists of tha dwelling, outbuildings, and 42 acres. “I am not planning any changes in the MacNider house,” Mrs. Bason said yesterday. “I have a reverence for it because of its associations.” Band Concerts under the Davie Poplar Are Always Fun for the Small Fry . ""Pjw f J MM - ; -V? % mi yT ■' W-2ft• ■r A ■ -JWi -m wZxwA | 11 * * I® 1 : When the University has an entdeer head e—earl, as it did on Beedsy under Davie Papier, it is n Mg day far the kids. The small fry in the candid pictavea above, snapped by Check Manser, are, left to right: (1) John H. Crabtree HI, 8 years eld, ptactfe tag e» far the day he wW lend hie awn braes hand) §w? Is the see es Mr. and Mrs. Jobs H. Crabtree, Jr.j (S) Ilaaith Cleave land. 8. and Franese Greenberg. 814. si vine n snaanhsne seieiat their aadhrided attentten? rimy art the children at Mr, ami- Mrs. CHAPEL HILL, N. C., another member of the fire department, stands in the background. The engine of the motor cycle had been “missing,” and the police department called on Mr. Duncan to find out what was the matter. He worked on the carburetor for a while, and then took the cycle out the Airport road for a test run. He was more than a mile from town and still headed north when the lira started. He pulled the machine over to the side of the road and hopped off. He had already received first degree burns of both feet, however. The fire department sent e track out «a soon es it got the .call, bat the motorcycle wee e total iota. ftucrin Rn)o^ 1 At the DairyiMW Several people balkad at drink ing the tomato juice and butter milk (mixed), but whan they were persuaded to try it, they found it quite taaty. A few preferred breakfast cof fee to milk, but no one was seen drinking it without cream. Others hesitated before trying the strawberry preserves and cottage cheese (again mixed), but at the first taste they swore by the concoction. This was the picture at Wednes day morning'* Dairy Breakfast at the Carolina Inn, held as a kick off function fpr June Dairy Month. Nearly 40 civic leadera and town and University official* at tended the affair, and enjoyed an enormous breakfast provided by Orange county dairymen. The menu, in addition to the items listed above, included scrambled eggs (from milk-fed hens), bacon (from milk-fed hogs), cereal with ice cream, bis cuits with butter, and glasses of milk that were refilled aa quickly as they were emptied. The next big Dairy Month at traction will be the Dairy Farm At Guilford Commencemeat Mr. and Mrs. Charles Milner Attended Guilford College’s com mencamant last week. While there they ware the guests of Mr. Milner’s brother, Clyde Milner, who la president of the college. ►AY, JUNE 10. 1955 Skwmer Seigtea to Begin Today at The University Classes for the University Summer Session will begin today (Friday) at 7:30 a.m. and will continue through July 16, with four eighty minute periods every morn ing. Saturday classes will be held tomorrow but not on any of the succeeding Sat urdays except the last one of the first Summer Session, Guy Phillips, director of the Summer Session, said in a recent statement. Mr. Phillips went on to say that according to pre registration indications, this year’s Summer Session en jirollment will exceed last .year’s by about 300. The various special insti tutes normally conducted by the Extension Division dur ing summer school will be I offered again this summer, I and several visiting instruc tors will be teaching in vari ous other departments. These will come from many states, including Texas, Flor ida, Ohio, and Michigan. The second session of sum mer school will start on July 18 and will end on August 24. Mr. Phillips also men tioned the fact that since July 4 falls on a Monday, there will be no July 4 school holiday this summer, and dasses'Vill be conducted aa usual on that day. Yeung Olaca How*, Has a Jab ‘ William A. Olson, jr., has end ed a to«r of Amy duty in Mary land, California, and Japan and pi back at homo. He will bo an aamtant in the Foushee-Olsen real estate agency till fall and will then resume his studies in " Wf- - I Festival, scheduled for next Fri day. It will feature a panda, a ! milking contest between the mayors of Chapel Hill and Carr boro, a display of registered cat tle and tha selection of a local Dairy Queen. Jake Trexler, secretary of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association, started the break fast affair off with a quia con test, following the invocation by the Rev. Sam Habel. “How many glass** of milk per day should an adult drink?” asked Mr. Trailer. H* called on Dick Jameraon, University pro fessor of physical education. “Three,” Mr. Jameraon shrewd ly guessed. Mr. Trexler passed down to him one of two shiny sil ver dollars contributed by the Bank of Chapel Hill and the Uni versity National Bank. “The second question in the quit,” said Mr. Trailer, “is a hard one: What is the second largest caah crop in Orange county?” He pointed to C. W. Davis, superintendent of schools, for the answer. Mr. Davis had it on the tip of hie tongue. “Milk,” he said. And the second silver dollar changed hands. North Carolina’s "Dairy Prin cess,” Miss Peggy Jana Gamer of Raleigh, was introduced aa the guaat of honor. Tha group than hoard a brief talk oa the history (Continued oa page 11) Frederic N. Oaavalaad sad Mr-sad Mrs. B. G. Greenberg; (8) Jsnathnn Barrett, 8, in deep cencantrntlen as ha sits naar the peraneelea eaniaa; he te the sen es Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Barrett; (4) Cbsrtee WdWpe, Jr., 4, and David Canalar. 8, csrofaHy watching ifeadmaetsr Herbert W. Fred land lha Univerelty band; thdy are the aaas as Mr. and Mm dwriae PhUMpe at iarltmm Pham and Mm Mav# add 88m. Jaeeaa Caemhar. The University Is Again Plagued By Shortage of Living Quarters; Spencer Hall Wing and Dormitory Alongside Kenan Are in Prospect Chaptl Ml Chaff I LG. Probably millions of peo ple have wondered, as I have, why the ceremonies at the end of the college year are called Commencement. I have been trying in vain to find the explanation in one of my books. Some savant in the University will no doubt be able to tell me and when I locate the knowing person I will report on what he says. Webster International Dic tionary defines Commence ment, which is derived from Old French, as: “The day when, or the ceremo.iies at which, degrees or diplomas are conferred.” The Oxford English Dictionary’s defini tion is: “The action of tak ing the full degree of Mas ter of Arts; especially at Cambridge, Dublin and American universities, the great ceremony when these (also, in some cases other degrees, especially in U. S. that of Bachelor) 1 are con ferred at the end of the aca demical year.” The time of the word’s earliest recorded use in thia sense is put down in the O. E. D. as 1387. The next in stance was in 1587 when Harrison, a historian, wrote that “in Cambridge they use the French word Commence ment.” A bookpuMhhed in every year in inmnEt ties of Learning, which is called the Act at Oxford and the Commencement at Cam bridge.” The best explanation that occurs to me, of the use of the word Commencement for the celebration at the end of the college year, is that this is when a man’s real troubles commence. a a a a When I was sitting in the Kenan stadium Monday eve ning looking out over the (Continued on peg* 2) Tennis Instruct!** Free tennis instruction for members of the Recreation Cen ter will be given by Mias Sarah Umi lead on tha Univarsity courts, beginning this coming Tuesday. Those wishing to re ceive such instruction should gat in touch with Miss Ums toad ntj tha Recreation Canter before Tuesday. Blackwell ta Give Lertrve* Gordon W. Blackwell, Kenan professor of sociology at the Uni versity hare, will dolivsr a aerie* of lectures on American social institutions this summer at Ox ford University and Cambridge University in England. H a Year in Comity; other ratei on pnge Again the University is seriously short of living quar ters for students. Two new dormitories and a new wing for Spencer hall are in prospect, but only one of these, the Spencer hall wing, is expected to be reedy for use as early as Septem ber of 1956,15 months from now. Meanwhile, 3-in-a-room occupancy, which the University authorities thought they had got rid of a couple of years ago, has been resumed. This crowding is not only bad for cleanliness and comfort; it is bad for study and general morale. It is deplored by the University authorities but all they can do about it is to ask the Legislature for more money for dormitories and, when the build the dormitories as rapidly as possible. The trouble is that dormitories can’t be put up fast enough to meet the demand for them. This year's Legislature refused to make an outright appropriation for dormitories but it enacted a law per mitting the University to issue bonds up to 2 million dol lars for construction, with the rentals pledged as security. The rent a student pays, in any dormitory, with three Prisons in a room, has been raised S3O a year to $131.50. This raise, which goes into effect immediately, was by the University Trustees to help make up for the cuts made by the Advisory Budget Commission in the main tenance fund requested by the University. The Faculty Committee on Buildings and Grounds, of which R- J. M. Hobbs is chairman, met last week and will meet again next week to discuss the construction of the new dormitories for which the Legislature authorised the the issue of bonds. Probably the first decision will be to adda wing to the County to Go Slots On Desegregation As Asheville and Charlotte moved toward compliance with the U. S. Supreme Court's direc tive of “reasonable speed* ta In tegrating public schools, Oraag* toanty School 9Bptrh(BwMl Paul Carr indicated this week that Ma school board would take aa similar action until a coart salt is brought agatoat it. R. J. M. Hobbs, chairman of Itito senator cemmiaataaaca, asked Mto Clßr mk Tuesday in Hilla ■pW effect oKU the Sa- PtiH Court (bddm have oa school phißtaff* Mr. Carr said: “W* will meet the problem when it arrive*.” He explained later that hia phrase “when it arrives” aeeant “when we are auad.” Carl Smith, chairman of the school board for the separate Chapel Hitt- school district, is al ready oa record as saying: “We’re going to face thia thing and do what Urn people want.” He referred to members at both race* in the Chapel Hill com munity. Mr. Hobbs said be thought Negro school students in Orange county would prefur to attend (Continued oa page 12) Old Songs and Dances from the Hills And Backwoods Being Performed Here The old aonge and dances that were performed in the hills end beckweode When Aasaricn was young are being beard sad seen here once again at the annual Caroline Polk festival, which oponad last night (Thursday) in Kanaa stadium and will continue there this (Friday) evening and tomorrow svonlng at • o'clock. The participants Iwrliilt Addiaftp core from many parte as North Caroline and seme fram other states. Such perennial performer! as George Pogrom, the IradeU coun ty benfo-pfaker; the Duptia Dan cers, led by Susie Smith, and Rad Rose's Dixie Mountain Bays are among those present. As in Lunsford es South Turkey Creak ia serving as master of cetemon iea es the festival, which is spon sored by the North Carolina Folk lore Cornell under the direction of the University's Extension Di vision headed by Rnessll Gram- Special gnest performers from the mountains will be the Valley Springs Dance Tanas, which cur rently holds the Plees Loving Cup for mountain competition. Other individuals and teams from the western pert of the state will be Mrs. Freda English, ballad sing er, end Obray Ramsey, banjoist, both from the Laurel River sec tion of Madboe county; the Alle gheny Danes Team' from Sports, led by Homer Edwnsda; Moacho Sneed, Omrahea Indian iddlar; Walter Pnrimm at Sdnth Turkey Creek, hnemnlcn player, Snrl end UWSSSdt^P* ■niBAV ISSUE Nut bane Tmilij West side of Spencer hall, the women’s dormitory on Franklin street. This addi tion, capable of housing 80 students, was provided for in the original design of the building. A dormitory for women may be erected on Battle lane, alongside of the Kenan dormitory and opposite Booker home. This woM enable the Carr and uM tosWWHHWBNIB dents. The amount of money l available is enough for only one more dormitory, and that will probably be in the Medical Center. The idea is to concentrate medical and dental students there and re lease Whitehead dormitory, now occupied by them, for general student use. Overcrowding has been the University’s normal con dition almost all the time for the last 88 years, since the bulge in the enrollment right after the First World War. In that period about (Continued on pogo IS) Other dance teams are Mrs. Jackie Hale Howell's team Dam Kinston; the Foot and Piddle group from Alamance county; the Wildest Dancers from Orange county, lad by Prank Ward of White Crooa; the Scottish Dan con from Benhaven High at Olivia, and the Seven Springe Dr. Anderson Will Attend Conference Dr. Carl B. Anderson, associate professor of biochemistry and nu trition in the Univanity School of Medicine, will attend n confer ence at the Mesenchneetto Insti tute es Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from June 14 to 24. The conference Is an biophysi cal and biochemical cytology and will feature the application «f newly developed biophysical and bfechMßkal UNtelpM to dp study es the structure es biologi cal materials and the rale es Ihh structure ia determining Malac ca! function. The conference hi daAgaad to give science investigators a breeder understanding as this arse “i enable them to partici pate in on intensive peaking d biology. The Samuel Boldens are spend lag the summer to Berea, Ken tacky, where Mr. Selden frH~ mm at mn iaaca aanivscuniy at Sana rnllsne v - Mt
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