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ISSUE
Next Issue Tuesday
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Robertson to 1
Be Installed
At Ceremony
Here Sunday
The public ia invited to
the , American Legion’s in
stallation of state and local
officers at 3 o’clock this Sun
day afternoon, June 26, at
tiro Naval Armory on North
Columbia street. Paul H,
Robertson of Chapel Hill will
be installed as State Com
mander of the Legion’s
North Carolina Department.
The ceremony will include
the installation of all other
department officers and new
officers of the Chapel Hill
Legion Post No. 6, of which
Mr. Robertson is a long-time
member, rfnd officers of the
Women’s Auxiliary of Post
No. 6.
The installation ceremon
ies will be conducted by the
retiring State Commander of
the Legion, the Rev. Mflton
Faust of Spencer. All Chapel
Hill Legionnaires and Auxil
iary members are invited to
attend a meeting of the
legion’s State Executive
Committee to be held at the
Armory immediately follow
ing the installation ceremon
ies.
United States Congress
man Carl Durham of Chapel
Mil will be the chief speaker
at the banquet to be given
at 6 o’clock Sunday evening
at the Carolina Inn by the
Chapel Hill Legion in honor
of Mr. Robertson. Last
minute reservations for the
banquet are still being ac
cepted by Judge L. J. Phipps,
chairman of arrangvnents
for the installation ceremon
ies and the banquet. The cost
is |2 per person.
Mr. Phipps has ceMsdb on
all members of the Chapel
Hill Legion Post to pay thetr
1966 dues now “as a token
of appreciation to Paul Rob
ertson for his many years
of work in the Legion and
this honor which has come
to him and to this post.”
Dr. Dickens Plans
New Dental Office
Dr. Carl W. Dickana will op«n
hia new dental office July 16 in
the building now being completed
on West Franklin atreet by the
Carolina Conatruction and Realty
Company, lie had been occupy
ing Dr. Maurice Newton'a office
in the Tankeraley building during
the abaence of Dr. Newton, who
recently returned to Chapel Hill
after two yeara in- the Army
Dental Cor pa.
Dr. Dickens ia now on a vaca
tion trip te the Dare county
beachea with hia brother, George
of Caata' s, who waa
WrraduaUd thia mo th from State
College.
Mra. Raymond Knight will
continue as receptionlat at Dr.
Dickena’s office when it reopens
on West Franklin street. The
office will be the first door to
the right on the ground floor
of the new building.
Dr. Ewing Given Talks
Dr. John A. Ewing, Instructor
in psychiatry in the University’s
School of Medicine, recently gave
three lectures on alcoholism. On
June 10 he spoke on “The Causa-
Jten of Alcoholism" at the Epia-
Jkpal Conference et Kanuga. In
connection with summer studies
on facta about alcoholism con
ducted by several stats colleges
and the North Carolina Alcoholic
Rehabilitation Program, he lec
tured on June If at the North
Carolina College in Durham end
on June 23 at the Agricultural
and Technical College ia Greens
boro. His topic at both places
waa “Horns Aspects In the Caua ;
ation and Treatment of Alcohol
ism.”
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Bracks*ridges Leave
Mr. end Mrs. M. 8. Bracken
ridge recently went to Btroator,
111., to visit their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Gaither
Newnham. Afterwards they were
to visit the Frank Hanfts at the
letter's summer home te Minne
sota and then go te Austin,
Tones, where Mr. BnskcurMge
M te leech te the summer sseMen
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The man whose photo
graph you see here, William
M. Dey, waso76 years old
yesterday, Thursday, June
23. He was born in Norfolk,
Va.
As far as I can see, his
step is just as springy as it
was when I chronicled his
79th birthday in June of
1960, and he is just as alert
and his smile and his talk
are just aa engaging as ever
they were.
Mr. Dey was a student in
the University here in\ 1897-
98; took his M.A. degree at
the University o/ Virginia
in 1903 and his Ph.D. degree
at Harvard in 1906; and was
at the University of Miss
ouri for three years. He
married Miss Alice Old of
Norfolk in 1910. He came
here in 1909, rose to the
post of head of the depart
ment of Romance languages
and in 1950, after 41 years’
service in the faculty, he re
tired from active duty.
The University kept him
at work for a while in the
si/mmer after his official re
Everybody in Town Is Invited to Eat
Free Watermelon Tonight on Campus
Everybody In town is invited
to come and eat frea watermelon
at tha University Hummer
Heaaion'i seventh annual Water
melon Festival at 7 o’clock this
(Friday) evening under the
Davie Poplar. The schedule calls
for full-scale watermelon eating
from 7 te about 8 o’clock, when
other forma of entertainment will
begin.
The first feature on the pro
gram will be a melon Mting con
test contest between a faculty
team end n student team. This
has always bean one of the meet
popular events nt the feettval,
which waa Inaugurated by tha
Graham Memorial student union
seven years ago to liven up cum
mer activities on the campus.
Jim Wallace Opens Travel Agency Here
Jim Wultecu, director of the
Graham Memorial student union,
has opened a traval agency In the
Carl Smith building te the earns
office with tbs Chapel HUI-Cair
boro Merchants Association.
Mr. Wallace Mid the agency,
which is svnilable for the use of
tbs public, would replace the
agency which ha had previously
operated In the student union
building and which was for ths
convenience of students only.
The name of the new firm,
which la already in operation, ia
thi Continental Traval Agency.
Frederick Williams Coker, who
wm graduated from ths Univer
sity two yoore ago and studied
at Oxford last surname, la Mm
manager. Ha has resauily hem
assistant office manager at Urn
Graham Msmorial and waa wall
mpteteMrjtt
Mr. WaOaaa, who la watery
a# ths Chapel BUB Csnsnrt Sarteo
6 Cents a Copy
tirement because it needed
teaching personnel and he
was willing to fill in, but
after that short extra spell
he was well content to drop
out of the old routine.
“I have in mind a lot of
things I’d like to do,” he told
hia friends. What he meant
was that there were scholar
ly studies that he would likfc
to pursue. A good part of
the time since hia retire
ment he has devoted to jpe
search into the life And
works of the Freno/i poet
philosopher of the 19th cen
tury romantic period, Alfred
de Vigny.
One day in the fall of
1949, seven months before
his retirement, Mr. Dey had
a surprise that was really
sensational. It was a letter
from Henri Bonnett, the
French Ambassador in
Washington, and it read as
follows:
“Dear. Sir:
“I have the honor of in
forming you that by decree
of the President of the Re
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The festival ia a high a pot of
the aummor with Chapel Hill
children, and everyona ia urged
to coma and bring the whole
family. Camera buga are alao
welcome, and the festivities
promiae lota of Intonating pic
ture material for flash bulb fan
ciara.
Other itema on tha program
are the crowning of the Water
melon King sad Queen, a per
formance by a faculty band under
tha direction of Chancellor Rob
ert B. House, and a student skit.
Following the program, there will
be square and round dancing to
the music of Jim Crisp and hia
combo on the YMCA pleas and
In the Hanes hall parking lot
and a member of tha Kiwanis
Club, mid tha agency ia equipped
to provide a complete travel serv
ice, including transportation and
hotel reservations, traval Infor
mation, and tickets for ships,
airlines, and railroads.
Hs said there is ao charge for
the services provided by the
agency, other than ths list prices
on tickets and hotel accommoda
tions.
Homecoming services will ho
held at tha Mount Pleasant
Methodist church this Sunday,
Juno M, beginning at II sjsu,
when the memorial address will
bo giveo by the Bov. W. C. Show,
pastor of tha cbotch. Tha doyt
program will alas include a pie
featuring singing by various
omottog. AA rnemhsw. friend*
CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, JUNB «•» ISK
CamD OppMCS
Hiktag SehMl Tax
!■ Lecal District
D. D. Carroll, who waa a
member of the Board of
Assessment for property re
valuation two years ago, ap
peared before the county
commissioners Wednesday
night to oppose an # increase
in the supplementary school
tax for the Chapel Hill
school district,
i “When I agreed to serve
[as a member of that group,”
Mr. Carroll said, “the com
missioners assured me the
[revaluation wasn’t going to
|be used the tax
burden. Ifit is used that
way I would be a party to
the injustice.”
Mr. Carroll said it would
not be fair to the taxpayers
“to jump this rate on the
j basis of the high assess
ment.” He said revaluation
had about doubled property
values for tax Mirposes, and
jthe people asking the com
missioners to put the sup
plementary school tax at 20
cents—the maximum auth
orized—were, in effect, ask
ing for a 40 cents tax on the
| basis of the old property
valuation.
The commissioners cut
the special tax levy from 20
cents to 12 cents last year
following revaluation. They
said their action was based
on the theory that revalua
tion was for equalization,
and not to increase tax
revenue.
Mr. Carroll made three
other major points before
the commissioners:
1. A total of 340 children
from outsids the school dis
trict attend school inside the
district "The rate is already
unfair, and thia compounds
tile imfsimess because tl||
people inside the dletriot
must pay this special tax to
give children from outside
the district the benefit of
better teachers and better
equipment”
2. Is it needed? The
Chapel Hill school district
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Student Says His Business Was Hurt
By Weekly’s Story about Rude Peddler
Benjamin C. Hedgepeth, a Uni
versity student who has charge of
distribution of Kirby vacuum
cleaners for Orange and Chatham
counties, called ths Weekly day
before yesterday to say that none
of hia salesmen met the descrip
tion of a high-pressure vacuum
cleaner peddler described in a
news story last week.
Mr. Hedgepeth, who is in the
School of Business Ad ministra
tion, said h«v had two other Uni
versity students working for him
—E. J. Kaminski and H. P. Sieg
ter. Ha Mid ha and the students
demonstrate tha Kirby machine
and take orders ia Chapel Hill
The story published by the
Weekly concerned a police report
of mi obJictifliiiMi laWtmaf!
driving a car with aa Alabama
Iteenaa plate. Mr. Hedgepeth Mid
neither the description of the car
nor of tha ssteamaa fitted either
of Us employ sea.
“If the people wa call on un
derstaad that tha Kirby salesmen
Waste Paper CaOactteo
A »aste paper drive will be
rendoeted by the Jayceee this
Bonffay afternoon, Jane M.
hsgteolaa at I e’eteefc. Every
body la stead te hoodie op eld
newspapers, magaateea. sad
other waste paper aad pot the
hondtes an tea cote by out
later thaa that flaw. Aaybody
whose handle hasn’t been pick
ed op by I pjo. Is asked te call
tha Golf Service Station
<M*7>.
M»H«lwrw at United Cboreh
la tha absence of the Rov.
Bkhard L. Jackson, pastor of ths
United Conffrofational Christian
tkntfc, tho Sunday Ser
vian thoro will bo conducted by
tho Hot. Hack Hartshorns, a now
resident of Chapel HOI who
taafht for SO poors as a member
•< thsfaoattyoftfm Yale Dirla
h-j-srrraTtrs
CkapdJmOaU
ui
People who luita fired in
Chapel Hill and gone away
eften declare, hi a yearning
sort of tone, that they would
like to come back aid start
being Chapel Killians all
over again.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthar C.
Nhsh and their daughter,
Miss Katrina Nash, talked
like that when I had a de
lightful evening with them
on mv visit to Washington
at the week-end. Fred
Archer and his wife (the
former Miss Flora Thorn
ton) told me a couple of
years ago, when they left
Alabama, that they would
have decided to settle in
Chapel Hill if they hadn’t
wanted to be near their
daughter and her husband
and children in Washington.
(To be exact, not “in Wash
ington”; both families live
across the Potomac in Alex-!
andria, Va.) Then, when I
got home I found a letter
front George Coffman (who
retired as a member of the
faculty here in 1961) which
was highly charged with
nostalgia. He was renewing
his subscription and. after
making a few remarks about
the Weekly of the sort that
puff up an editor and persu
ade him that maybe after all
life is still worth
wrote about the sweetness
of his memories of Chapel
Hill. He said he missed “al
most more than anything
else” his chats with friends
whom he used to meet along
the streets and at the post
office.
There are all ""» nn T of!
circumstances that may pre
vent people who Uks Chapel
Hill from living hem, Fkr
me thing, there are dOMg
places they also like, ana Dor
pull may not be quite as
strong as another place’s
pull. The nature of a man's
work, and of his opportuni
ties and his interests, may
determine his choice. As in
jthe case of the Archers, the
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war* not the onea referred to in
the news story," Mr. Hedgepeth
••id, “we feel we might meet
with i little better reception."
The Chapel Hill Weekly re
quests all residents who have
trouble with high-pressure sales
men to call the newspaper office,
2491 or 9-1271, with complete in
formation, and we will be glad
to publish a story to warn other
people of the trouble-makers.
Calendar of Events
Friday, Jane 24
e 2:20 a.m. A.A.U.W. hake aale,
Fowler's Food store,
e 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. National
Collegiate Tennis Tournament,
University courts,
e 7 p.m. Annual Watermelon
Festival, Davie Poplar.
' fi Saturday, Jane 2S
e 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. National
Collegiate Tennis Tourna
ments, University courts.
• 1:20 pan. Chicken stow and
brunswick stow supper, Carr
boro Baptist church.
Sunday, Jane 29
o 1 p.m. Jsyeee paper drive,
a 7:49 p.m. Community Drama
Group, Library's Assembly
The Capes Wayaicka Are Here
Mr. and Mrs. Capes Wayniek
an here for the rest of the year
and have rooms In the hems of
Mrs. Edgar W. Knight. Mr. Way
niek was reeently appointed
chairman of the Governor's Small
Industries Plan and ho Is direct
ing a study of industrial potontl
alitlss In North Carolina, speci
ally la the counties in the lowest
income bracket
Carrbere Story Hear
A story hour for children la
bring held from 9 to 10 amt
ovary Tbursday -at the Can-bote
Chris Club's building near the
Carrbere nsheei. The library
there la upon Aram lift to fi<9
Ml etegy Unwed ay and frees
• to IS am. every Teaeday. The
through jJJT 1 *
Property-Owners May Petition to
Have Sidewalks Bricked, but They
Most Reimburse Town for the Coat
Here in one of the reasons why Chapel Hill
needs hrick sidewalks. This scene is on East
Franklin street. Rains continue to wash
dangerous gullies in the town’s sand walks.
, Owners of 51 per coat of the property frontage
on say given street may petition to hove the
town brick their sidewalk and charge them for
the coot.
Today aud Tomorrow
To Knd National
Tennia Tournament
Glossy Westerners domi
nate the National Collegiate
Tennis Tournament aa it
moves into its final phase on
the University courts. From
the way things were going
yesterday in the quarter
finals, it appeared that Cali
fornians would outnumber
Parybody else in the semi
•M today (Friday) aad
i final round* tomorrow*
Among those who were
fighting it out yesterday
were Jack Frost of Stanford
University; Jacque Grigry
and Allen Cleveland, UCLA
doubles team; Pancho Cont
reras and Joaquin Reyes,
Southern California doubles
team; Johnny Hernandez,
the unseeded little placement
artist from the University
of Texas who upset second
seeded Clifton Mayne of the
University of California day
before yesterday; Dick Goss
and Joel Blatchford of
UCLA; Jose Aguero, Tulane;
Tim Coas, Swarthmore;
Sammy Giammalva, Texas;
Bill Quillian and Hal Perk
ins, Washington; Barry Mc-
Kay and Mark Jaffe, Michi
gan; James Read and Craig
Garman, UCLA, and Clifton
Mayne and Bill Demaa, Uni
versity of California.
Play will begin at 10 a.m,
and 2 p.m. both today and
tomorrow. Admission ia
81.60. A ticket is good for
an entire day of play, both
morning and afternoon.
■ey site Goiag U Europe
Mr. ud Mra. Victor 8. Bryant
of Durham and tholr daughter,
Mra. Joeoph Robb, will leave New
York Tuoeduy afternoon on a
Pan-American tranMtlaatie air
liner, will tour Europe by auto
mobile, and will come bock home
Mrly In September.
Indians Defeat Dodgera, 8-0, to Keep
League Lead; Yanlu Top Giants, 16-7
The Indians maintained their
lead la the Chapel HllWCarrbero
LUtle League Wednesday after
noon by defeating tha aecond
plaet Dodgers, id), on tha Chapel
Hill high school athlatic fteld/ln
a gnaw Monday afternoon in
Carrboro, the Yankees defeated
the Giants, 19-7, and thus put
toemsrivas into a third place tie
with the Giants.
la the gam* with tha Dodgers,
Wedneeday afternoon, Indian
pitcher David Grant was ahaest
a one-man show. Ha hit a horns
ran la the first toning with oaa
ama an base, to atart hi* team
ea a five-run rally. On the mound
jto oMhe Dodger
Th* leading Utter far tha to
tdtaap tm Dm Mead, Jr, who
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$4 a Year in County; Other rates on page S
Town Manager Thomas Rose Mid yes
terday that any block-long section of side
walk in Chapel Hill can be bricked—simi
lar to the walks on the University campus
—if the owners of 51 per cent of the front
age sign a petition signifying their agree
ment to pay their pro rata share of the
cost.
* Mr. Rose indicated the town would con
tract for the work to be done, and charge
the cost against owners in the same man
ner that curb and gutter work is now
assessed against owners of property
fronting on a street being curbed and
guttered.
For a sidewalk five feet wide, Mr. Rose
estimated, the cost would be less than 82
per running foot. For example, the owner
of a piece of property with a 100-foot
frontage would pay no more than 8200
for his sidewalk. In some places in town
the sidewalks would probably have to
he narrower than five feet, and the cost
would decrease accordingly.
“I’d like to see the thing started off,”
said Mr. Rose, “by bricking the walk along
South Columbia street from the Scuttle
butt to the Texaco station. Other good
starting places would be from the Method
ist church to Graham Memorial, in front
of the high school and elementary school.
Majority of Bonds
Will Be Sold Soon
More than half of the $190,000
in municipal bond* authorised by
Chapel Hill voters in the 'apriag
election are to be sold by the end
of the summer.
The money from the bond Mle
will be uoed to buy new equip
ment and to conatruct storm and
■unitary sewers. The tote)
a meant of bonds to be sold by
Sept, 1 is SIOO,OOO. The Local
Government Commission in Re!*
ohtewtt handle Urn ante.
JuaOmg of the
first es Re hanDriflAfly RMI
be used. Chairman PauT vregll
Mid some of tho money would be
used to buy a bulldoser with
■poeiol equipment for use at tho
sanitary till, two dump trucks
and a street (lusher.
Town Manager Thomas Rose
■aid plans for widening Rooe
mary street, provided for in the
bond issue, would be delayed
pending a report ( due July 1 from
traffic expert W. F. Babcock.
Gray to Leave for
Good, Says Rumor
A story in yesterday's Durham
Herald Mid that “sounee cloae
to tho University of North Caro
lina Mid today they believe
President Gray will resubmit his
resignation to the trustees execu
tes committee and it will be
accepted.”
This is a rumor that has been
going around in Chapel HU! al
most ever since Mr. Grey offered
his resignation to the committee
ou. June 10 to accept appointment
by President Eisenhower m as
sistant secretary of defenM for
International security affairs. His
resignation wm turned down and
Ha wm granted an Indefinite
Imvs of absence. J. Harris Purks,
provost of tho University, wm
named Mting president.
When the Weekly celled Mr.
Gray's oflet yesterday morning
his secretary sold he was in
Washington. He wm to return
yesterday afternoon, too late for
us to gat a comment from him
before press time.
hit safely tales in three times at
bah One of those hits was a
•eeand inning home run with two
•nan on base. For the Dodgers
Don FriUaman and Larry Ken
oePware the leading hitters, each
with ana for two.
Tha Indian batters shelled two
Dodger pitchers, Paul Snyder and
Billy Goodrich, for eight hits.
They scared five rum in the first
Inning on a walk, an error, a
double, and a bom* run. They
•cored thraa la tha second on a
hit, two error* end another horns
run.
Yaahem 1% Gisato 7
The Yankees pulled thaatoelvae
eat as toe League's erilar Mon
day aftoraaaa when they da
faatod tha (Meats IM to Gut*.
W«s#t was tha toad*
fifth T v*
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* ern, .. m- fe '
rmn uni iMf iy
and from the Intimate Book
shop all the way down to
Hillsboro street.
“Some of the property
along those walks,” he con
tinued, “belongs to the Uni
versity.” He pointed out
that the University has been
doing an extensive job of
sidewalk-bricking on the
campus for some time. Most
recent walks to be bricked
have been around Swain hall
and Cobb dormitory.
Former Mayor Edwin
Lmiier, now a county com
missioner, has been interest
ed in
been talking about
it for 10 years or more
around here,” he told the
Weekly. “We made an ex
periment in front of the high
school with a soil-cement
mixture. It* didn’t prove
satisfactory Neither In sur
face quality or in appear
ance, although it did make
a pretty hard surface for a
while.
“In all the talk about side
walks, there have been two
major questions: (1) what
kind of material should be
used? and (2) Who should
pay for it?
“There seems to be a lot
of sentiment for brick, which
is attractive and more in
keeping with things in
Chapel Hill than concrete.
It’s a little more expensive
than concrete, but the differ
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B & L Report Shows
Big Gains in Month
The report of Executive Secre
tory W. 0. Sparrow to tho/di
rectors of the Orange County
Building and Loan Aaaoeiatka,
at their meeting Wednesday eve
ning. Mowed that the masala
tlon’e assets had increased «99,-
000 in the last month. The total
i« now $1,490,000.
Other increases in the last
month were: loam $27,000, to a
total of $2,419,000, and deposit*
$20,000, to * total of $2,141,000.
Dividend* to depositor* to the
last alx month amounted to s>s,.
400. The rate paid an aaviaga I*
2 par cent and deposit* are In
sured up to SIO,OOO.
Outdoor Church Berries
The Community Church of
Chapel Hill will bold its morning
worship sendee at 9:80 am. Sun
day, June M, In toe Forest
theatre. The sendee will be pro
~dad by the playing of high
MeUty recording of organ maria,
beginning at about 9:09. If toe
weather la rainy tha atrvioe will
b* hrid at 1:01 to HOI Maria ball
B«k* Sal* TMay
A bake aaH wM to held Into
•too 14a. to lltoo pjg, today
(Friday) at Fawtertf Mad Stop#
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