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1 Voi. 33 No. 29 Tax Rate Not To Be Raised By Tentative Town Budget A tentative# budget of $250,000 was to be presented j to the Chapel Hill Board of; Aldermen by its finance committee at its June meet % last night.. In the bud get, the present 95-cents taxi rate is expected to be kept, according to Alderman Paul Wager, chairman of the fi nance committee. The bud get was expected to be ten tatively adopted last night, but “must remain on the table for twenty days,” Mr. Wager said. The budget presented last night called for an increase of SII,OOO over the budget for the current year, but the tax rate was allowed to re main the same under the as sumption that there will be enough of an increase in property valuation to sup ply the majority of this ad ditional revenue. There is around $700,000 in new property in Chapel Hill. The additional revenue will be used, in part, to pay ( for the normal increases ini the salaries of members ofi the Police Department and Fire Department. There 1 iJralso a provision in the' budget for a new policeman or a clerk to help the Police] Department take care of the large amount of traffic tickets. Another of the new pro visions in the budget calls] for $3,000 to give the Town 1 Hall a complete painting, both inside and out. Provisions are also in cluded in the budget for th* reorganization of (he Art de partment. Thin provision will be under consideration for several weeks, however, to see if the reorganization would lower the local fire Igsurance rates. The re organization plan, proposed by J. S. Boone, would abolish the present system of volun teer firemen which supple the full-time depart ment of five men. > Mr. Boone’s plan calls for a full-time department of six men, plus a grojip of 12 “call men,” who would be paid a sls retainer fee per (Continued on page 12) Many Firms Paying Their Taxes Early A statement yesterday by Mrs. Herman Ward at the Town Hall indicates that the number of con cerns prepaying their town taxes, benefiting from a 2 per discount given to all early payments, is to this date a little more than double the number who had prepaid by June 11 last year. 1 By June 11, 1954, six concerns had paid their tax early, and as of June 11 this year, 16 con cerns had prepaid. All companies or concerns wishing to take advantage of the discount offered on early pay ments are urged to make their tax settlements by the' end of June, after which the discount will no longer be offered. Notice to Singers The University Summer Ses sion Chorus was to begin its ra heareals at 7 o’clock last night (Monday) at Hill Hall. Rehears al* will continue to be held there at 7 p.m. every Monday and Thursday. Everybody interested in singing with the group, wheth er or not connected with the Uni versity, is invited to join it by attending rehearsals. No tryouts are necessary. The program in preparation includes compositions by Guidomal, Hindemith, and Vaughn-WUHama. Waller ia Peaaaylvaaia James Waller is attending*a : two-weeks series of lectures on political economy at the .Buck Hill Palls Inn in Pennsylvania as a guest of the Foundation for Eeonomic Education. Ha will re turn to Chapel Hill about July 7 after visiting his sister, Mia. Norman P. Davis, ia Chappy qua. M. T. Chapel Hill Scouts Enjoy a Trip to Camp Durant ;-;lKII- ■ IIII: 11. I These four boya, members of Chapel Hill’s Boy Scout Troop 39, spent last week at Camp Durant near Raleigh along with a number of their fellow Scouts, including William Brink Giants and Indians Win First Games of Season in Chapel Hill's Little League An estimated 400 people at tended the opening games of the ] Chapel Hill-Carrboro Little . League Friday afternoon and saw j the Indians defeat the Dodgers, 10-3, in the Carrboro Lions Club park, and the Giants defeat the j Yankees, 3-2, on the Chapel Hill high school diamond. Only about 100 people were on hand at the Gianta and Yankees game to see Mayor O. K. Corn well throw out the first ball of the season to George Barclay of the Rotary Club. Truman Hilton led the batting attack for the Giants with two hits in three offi cial trips. Both Roger Bowden and Stan Bajester had one hit in four trips. For the Yankees, I Wayne Hudson, Kenny Oettinger, | and Peter Woods each had one for three. Ralph Cheek is coach Tor the Gianta and Collier Cobb, 111, is coach of the Yaakeaa. In the game in Carrboro, at Names of Sixteen Merchants Who Will Give Trips to Fathers Are Announced Monk Jennings, in charge of Father’s Day promotion for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association, announced yesterday the sixteen merchants who each will sponsor one of the sixteen free fishing trips to be awarded to the winners of the Father’s Day Contest. The merchants are: Town and Campus, Belk’s. WCHL, the Chapel Hill Weekly, Robbins, Stevens-Shepherd, An drews-Henninger, Harriss-Con ners, Poe Motor Co., Wentworth and Sloan, Pritchard-Littje, the Bank of Chapel Hill, Button’s, the Carolina Sport Shop, the Varsity Theatre, and the Carolina Barber Shop. Fathers must have application blanks filled out for them by their wives or children. Blanks are available at all stores which are Faculty Club Luncheon Guy B. Phillips, director of the University Summer Session, will speak on “Summer Session Trends’’ at the University Facul ty Club’s luncheon meeting at 1 p.m. today (Tuesday) in-the ball room of the Carolina Inn. All vi siting faculty members are in vited and urged to attend. Mr. Phillips, former dean of the Uni versity’s School of Education, ia president of the American Asso ciation of Deans and Directors of Summer Sessions. Chamber of Commerce Institute Planned Dwight B. Havens of Washing- of Commerce and advertising ton, D. C., manager of the aer- executives from throughout the vice department of the Chamber Southeast, including a number of Commerce of the United of North Carolinians. States, will be one of 80 speakers | Herbert G. Bailey, jr., executive at the 12th annual Southeastern vice-president of the Greensboro Institute for Chamber of Com-j Chamber of Commerce will lec merce Executives and Staff to ture on commercial activities, be held here at the University The executive vice-president of Juno 19-25. the Kinston Chamber of Com- The Institute will be sponsored merce , FV«d Linton, will apeak by the University, the State Ex- an .iyi. activities, ecu ti vei A isociatioa inthe South- John w p UKUtiv( dlrtc . •tot, Southern Association of of the Uniud Pund of Chamber of Com*«rcs Exocn- , i h ua^Cter i M L. McCulUrs, tiroa. and th. Chamber of Com- w * the KirutoD c . * c . f "“£! ■*?**•, will speak on th. consolidation There w.ll be claws, for bo- f fun 7 drives. ■tinners and advanced students Ind amninar. for graduate * Graham Do,ier. manager of dents. Diplomas will be awarded ***• Rockjr Chamber of by the Southeastern Institute for Commerce, will lecture on hnd- C. of C. executives upon satis factory completion of the coons* Curtis Long of Long-Hay— of instruction. Advertising Agency of Winston The faculty nf the Institata B*'ai will apeak oa layent and will consist of loading Chamber design of Tt~-Mm The Chapel Hill Weekly ; 5 * Cents a Copy tended by almost 300 fans, Char lie Phillips was the leading bats man for the Indians, with two hits in three official trips to the plate. Larry Crabtree and David Snead each had two for four, and John Allcott had one for two for the Indians. For the Dodgers, Don Prillaman, Bill Roberts, Paul Snyder, and Buddy Thompson each had one hit in three official trips. Pepsi Perry is coach of the Indians and Dick Jameraon is coach of the Dodgers. 1 Yesterday in the second round of the Little League schedule the Yankees took on the Indians in Carrboro, aad the Giants battled the Dodgers ia Chapel Hill. This Friday the Yankees | will play the Dodgers in Chnpel Hill and the Indians will toko on the Gianta in Carrboro. Game jtimo for both games Friday is I five o’clock. members of the Merchants Asso ciation, and as many blanks may be filled out for one father as desired. At the close of the con test, the entry blanks will be pooled and 16 names drawn. Each of the merchants listed above will sponsor a winner on the group trip to the coast, which will prob ably be to Harker’s Island or Snead’s Ferry. Wildman on Visit Here J. R. Wildman, who has retired as a faculty member of the Fojk Union Military Academy in Vir ginia, recently spent a few days here. A former Chapel Hillian, he is an alumnus of the high school and was graduated from the University in 1911. He was impressed by the great changes in Chapel Hill since he was last here some years ago. He was specially interested in the Baptist church building, which he saw for the first time. His father was pastor of, the church in 1905 when it was in the old building at the corner of West Franklin and Church streets. Mrs. Brocker Given Talk Mrs. Edith Brocker of Chapel Hill spoke thia week at Duke University at a workshop for nurses from throughout the state She is president of the North Carolina Nurses Association. CHAPEL HILL» N. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 14.1965 r- boas, who took this picture ami sank It hack to the Weekly. The hoys are. left to right. Dennis King, Jamie Ness. Taut* Bnma sad Kearney Andrews. Calendar nf Events Tuesday. Jane 14 • 1 pm. Faculty Club Luncheon, ballroom of the Carolina Inn. o 4 and 7:30 pm. Tryouts for “The Remarkable Mr. Penny packer,** Playmaker Theatre, o & p.m. Nathan H. Yelton, first of Tuesday evening Colloqu iums, Forest Theatre. Thursday. June 1C o 8 p.m. Ed Wives Club,, with with Mrs. H. Arnold Perry ia Forest Hitts. Going to Germany E. Carrington Smith, jr.. son of K. C. Smith, manager of the Carolina theatre, recently re ceived a master’s dsgtee in for eign commerce at the University of Pennsylvania and will leave soon for a year ia Gersaany. Re was graduated from UJi.C. hate in 1962. after which he was ia the Army two years. lath McLaaa to Get Degree Hips Rath A. McLaaa of tIS degree of doctor of philenply tomorrow in Philadelphia at the 199th commencement nf the Uni varsity of Pennsylvania. She has' been engaged ia advanced study in the university's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Jones Going to Conference F. Burton Jones, University 'mathematics professor, will at tend a summer institute in set theoretic topology at the Uni versity of Wisconsin. The insti tute is being sponsored fey the American Mathematical Society and is supported by the National Science Foundation. At Memorial Hospital Among local persons listed »- patients at Memorial hospital !yesterday were William Davis, Samuel Holman. Christine Mason. Howard Meyer, jr , Mrs. Thomas Perry, G. R Srkaihbrn, Mrs. H. H. Stash, William Tianen and Mrs. Dun Perry. Bihie Class Pirair The Stacy Bible class of the Methodist church will hold its annual picnic at ( pm. tomorrow (Wednesday 1 at the picnic grounds and pond at the K canon Strowd home on the Mann's Chapel road Vaaa Going Tn New Mexico Daniel Vann. 111. president of the Baptist Student Union of the Chapel Hill Baptist church, will serve this summer on the staff of the Glorieta Baptist Assembly at Glorieta, New Mexico. He will work ia the bookstore there. Beat Bettses at Butt's Heed Rudaif Planch's beak, “Why Johnny Can't Read,'* has recently bees the non-hrtiaa hast sailer at the Bull’s Head Bookshop Ike Action heat seller there is Robert 1 Roark’s “Something of Value.- j At Church of Holy Family Services this Sunday at the Church of the Holy Family will ho as follows: Holy Communion at • sjb.; family asrrite and church tehee I at »:3A eje.; morn ing prayer with sermon at 11 ta The Lockhart Turkey Farm has just received two breeders full at earlier this spring are worn half grown end an eat eo the rouge. M«»- M. Arnold Furry wM he SFA-jSHs Parks Smjm latent Is Xat far OC Ta Rcaala Stalk* By Chuck Hauser James Harris Parks, jr.. who will become acting pres-: ident of the Consolidated University About July 15, foresees no changes in Uni versity policy during the time he will head the sprawl ing three-campus institution. “However,” Mr. Purks said yesterday. “I will feel free to make any changes that I think will help the University. I believe it is not the intention of Mr. Gray or the Board of Trustees that the University remain static while Mr. Gray is on lejave.** j The Trustee executive committee announced Friday that it had granted Consoli dated University President Gordon Gray a leave of ab sence to succeed H. Struve Hensel as U. S. Assistant Secretary of Defense. Mr. Gray had offered his resigna tion, but the committee re fused to accept it. The committee voted to make Mr. Purks. Provost of the University, acting presi dent in Mr. Gray's absence. The University Code, as amended by the Trustees on Feb. 22, 1952. provides that the Provost “shall act for the president in the latter's absence.” In naming Mr. Purks as acting president, the executive committee went further. It gave Mr. Purks “full powers of the President, with authority to act as the president” during Mr. Gray's leave, rather: than just to act “for the president” Mr. Purks is a gentleman of medium height and build, and he has the appeanuHd efjf mi l—i ■■jPiitJß floor, relax in his chair for a moment then pace around his desk again. Returning to his discuss ion of University policy for the interim period in which he will act as president, Mr. Purks commented, “These institutions throughout the years have enjoyed the sup port and respect and confid ence of the people of North] Carolina. I hope and believe they will continue to enjoy, those things during this in-’ (Continued oa page It) L.-Mt.T-M Church Drive Exceeds Goal by about S3OO On Monday. June «. Willuua A. Terrill, treasurer of Uk Com munity Church of (Impel Hill.' announced that the chureh fund campaign had exceeded its goal by about S3OO. Bill Wood, chair-' man of the drive, collected ff.lW, the church received an anony mous gift of 13,500. and tl,m in bond* was donated. The church had S3OO yet to be collected before the drive ended ! June 10. Terrill said. This extra* expense was incurred as a result of the church’s decision to pur chase an additional strip of land fronting Purefoy road in order to have an entrance to the 14-acre tract of land at Purefoy and Mason Farm roads on which it has an option. Wood is confident that the additional S3OO will be Haafta Leave far North Mr. and Mrs. Prank W. Hanft left yesterday far Brainetd. Minnesota, where they will spend the next tea weeks in their sum mer cottage. Their son John will remain here n few weeks to work and will then join them them. Till than he will live at the Ameid Nash heme. L. J. Phippa Is Judge L. J. Phipps es Chapel HOI is one es the speakers an the! program of the aannal conference' of the Nerth Caroline Registers es Deeds Association, which open ed here Sunday and will coauaae through today under the angle es the University's Institute es Gev- Plaa In Cha rti st in tommy Green, ean es Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Green, tew to Charleetun. 8. C, an Saturday where he will atny with Me unde, lamaay »Med , While these he NiMiJudu OsM Tsaranmsmt Plans Made for Hew Home Colon? Near Town Off Durham Highway; First Set of Houses Expected to Be Ready for Occupancy In Fall Chapel Mill Chaff L.G. A word will have different meanings, according to the circumstances under which it is used or according to the notions of the person who is using it- Consider, for ex ample, the word. far. If you have a sprained ankle or arthritis in the knee, and have no way to get where you want to go except by walking, your own front porch is far. You may say New York is far from Chap el HQL, but for me it is not as far as the post office if I so for my mail on foot The R. E. Coker or the Kenfield or the Womack home out in the country may be said to be far from the University campus, but since these men skim over the miles in auto mobiles the campus is not as far for them as it is for a professor in the Gimghoul or the Country Club colony, in side the town limits, who walks to his classroom. Two happenings in Chapel Hill last week—the Com mencement address by Carl Sandburg and the influx of Summer School students— set me to thinking about the different meanings of the .word, far. Mr. Sandburg 'told his audience about how, .when he was a boy in Illi nois, he walked several miles [to pad from school every pfodjUjUf through hltz il Wtk ok) story in Chapd Ml (MB that I re told here a couple of weeks ago. that- Charley Maddry walked from his farm near Orange Church and back again every day, six miles in all. to attend first a prep school and then the Univer sity. There are three dormitor ies across Battle lane from ]my home and so many of the women who live in them have cars that they do not .have enough parking space on Battle lane and nearby 1 (Continued oa page 12) contributed by the end of the drive. The land in question ia hither to undeveloped and within easy walking distance of the Univer sity. its wide variety of terrain will be greatly useful to the church's many different types of . recreational aad devotional pro grams. I Miaa Cole Gets Scholarship Miss Barbara Ann Cole of Chapel Hill ia one of the 43 North Carolina high school graduates who haw keen awarded scholar ship# by East Carolina College at Greenville. Each scholarship ia worth SIOO and ia to be used during the coming achool yeat. Miaa Cole plana to enter the col lege ia September. Boys' State Has Attendance of 400 The anneal Tar Heel Boy's State sponsored by the North : Carolina Department of the American Legion tri conducted by the University's Institute of Government opened its one-week About 480 boys from thong bout North Carolina are attending. | The opening session was held ’Sunday night, with talks by Al bert Contes, director of tho la stltnte of Government; J. B. Gar land, Cast sain, chairman of tho Boy's State Commission; Nash McKee, Raleigh, adjutant of the North Carolina Deportment of tho American Legion; and Rod day Ligea. an assistant director of the Institute of Gerornmoat and dbecter of Boy's State. Monday's speakers indadad Al bert Coatee, whs traced tha origin and orabnteu of |»wmimls and the sii—tare and wartdag «f dty, •aunty, date rad tha Fsdsrnl *~ " ■—- Chapel Hill’s largest suburban home colony Gk"» Unnox was established will be started this summer an a tract of 110 acres within half a mile of the town’s north, ern limits. The Chapel Hill Insurance and Realty Com pany is the developer of the project. The tract, which adjoins Hidden Hills, is about a quar ter of a mile off the highway to Durham. Going from town, you reach it by turning to the left at the Gulf fill ing station just this side of Brady’s, a little way from the highway bridge over Bolin’s creek. The first block of ten houses will be built this summer and are expected to be ready for occupation early in the fall Eventually there will be about a hundred houses. The Realty and Insurance Company bought the tract from the Isaac Pritchard heirs—Grady Pritchard, Mi« Josie Pritchard, and others. The road which passes through it, leading from the highway, was cleared and graded « few years ago by the promoters of s natural gas line. This road, about three quarters of a mile long, and the other roads in the colony are to be hard-surfaced and curbed and guttered. The ten houses now projected, fronting on the main road, are being designed by Jack Pruden and Kenneth Scott, the Durham architects. The price range will prob ably be from $17,000 to $20,000. It is expected that the price will cover a kitchen range and an electric refriger ator. The houses are to be financed by mortgages approved by the Federal Housing Administration. The "oiling prices will be in compliance with FHA requirements and will be paid for in easy-term installments. A topographical map of the tract is now h»ing m«jA — —( Mrs. Skretting h Named Acting Dtm Mi*. Richard Skretting es Chnpel ffill will tore* as Act Dean o* Women at the Untvwr to tto ttotoc, of to « ■■hint prefeeaor of edu caMon at the University, baa had ant tin elementary and high schools. She has had leading roles in Chnpel Hill civic and community life, nerving an president of the Faculty Newcomers Club, presi dent of the local broach of the American Association of Univer sity Women, and board member of the League of Women Voters, the Junior Service League, the University Women’s Club, and other organisetipns. She has contributed to books on guidance and holds an A.B. degree from Wisconsin State College and an M.A. degree from Northwestern University. Fergason la Graduated John Carruthers Ferguson of Chapel Hill was graduated last Saturday from the SL Andews’s School in Middletown, Delaware. While at the school he has been president of the Camera Club, vice-president of the Natural Science Club, co-captain of the Jayvee football team, and a staff member of the achool newapaper, the yearbook, and the library. He will enter Duke thia year to major in xoology in a pre-medi cal course. At Tepeail Island Mr. and Mrs. Everett Rush left day before yesterday for Topsail Island to see how work is pro gressing on their bench cottage. They hope to have it completed by July 1. It ia being built on the alto of their cottage that was destroyed last fall by Hurricane HasaL .also of the Institute staff, who >M>* °n tbs legislative branches of government. Fred Wee ver, dean of Student Affairs at UNC, spoke on student government, and Dillard Gard ner, marshal and librarian of tho Supreme Court of North Caro lina, on judicial branches of gov ernment. Monday night’s program con sisted of a ‘talk by Harry M. Scobte, Jr., of the University’s political science department, add a speeek by Edward Scheldt, com missioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Savages Leaving Chapel Hill Dr. and Mrs. Robert Savage and their children. Carmen, Tom my, aad Michael, will leave Chap el HU! mm to awve to Wfantoa- Salem, whore’Dr. Baraga will be aa intent at CMy Memorial bmpi tftL It MMktai kb indict! cmnm il Iki Ufthmsttj'e ■ HfiWtl W uain» this, a Raleigh firm of land planners will make a street and read lajr lout This layout and the house deaifna wffl be be aab> mltled to the FHA. aad as ■ooa as the FHA aurorae than construction will be gin. The company hopes this wffl be within two or three weeks. Most of the tract is a iK forest Mapy dt.jfrjflßl for timber, and others, small for timber will be ground into pulp for paper manufacture. The company expects to put in a 6-inch water main, connecting with the one that now ends at the creek, and is negotiating with the town authorities with a view to making a connection with the town sewer system. Knights of Pythias To Receive Charter Chapel Hill's Lodge number 97 of the Knights of Pythias will receive its charter at a meeting in the American Legion Hut on Rosemary street next Monday night Milton Barefoot state deputy; William Huggins of Clayton, Supreme Keeper of Records and Seals; and Ralph .Gate, Chancellor Commander of West Durham’s Lodge number ,130, are expected to attend the meeting along with other officers and members of other lodges. Members of the ekl local lodge who did not attend the reorgani sations! meeting held earlier this month are invited to attend next week’s meeting. The lodge will meet in the American Legion Hut until it can get into n build ing of its own. Score in French Content Mias Nanny Davis and Mias Ce cilia Husbands, both students in the Chapel Hill high school, re ceived honorable mention in tha annual State High School French Contest. Tha content examination was prepared by Joseph K. Hutchinson, of Urn University’s . Department of Romance Lang uages, who nine graded tha pap ers. A total of 38 high nchooh from throughout North Carolina natoied 55S students tat tha non test. At Camp Son GuU Chapel Hill girls who left Sun day for two weeks at Camp San Gull on tho Nouao river included Rebecca Johnson, Martha Hub hard, Susan Ham, Carol Bsieky, ousAn ancison, rtumi Juni* strong, Bhirtey PaUsraao. Lilas Richardson, and Jubeo and KOoa Malßn. . SZS*2*SZ*2 *** - • am
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