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Page Two The Chapel Hill Weekly Ckapd HU, North Carotins ISt B. RMMury Tetoyk—e 0-I*7l m Mtl Pnbiiafced Every Tawday and Friday By The Chapel Hill PnbHohlng Cewpeay, loc. Loon Gkavsb Contributing Editor Job Johb Managing Editor Obvxllx Cuonu General Manager Bmiill H nm< <»■■ Mtttr Mnary tt. IMS. at Ikt . - (t OaM HIS. North Carol!aa. «B4or Iho art 4 ■ SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Orange County, Year f-00 * (6 months $2.25; 3 months, $1.60) Outside of Orange County by the Year: State of N. C.. Va., and S. C. 4.60 Other States and Dist. of Columbia 6.00 Canada, Mexico, South America 700 Europe —— ADVERTISING RATES Natioaal, for agencies, 84c col. inch . . . Local transient, 76c; open, 66c; regular, 66c; consistent (60 inches or more average per week), 64c . . . Classified, payable in advance, minimum, 60c for 12 words, every additional word 4c; All classified ads running four or more times carry a 26% dis count . . . Legal and tabular, 1 time 80c per inch; 2 times 76c; 3 times, 70c; 4 or more times, 65c , . . “Readers,” separate from reading matter and clearly marked “adv.," 76c . . . Political (in ad vance), 76c. a——■ 11 —— •*"“ ' ' "' A Question: Will the Present University Consolidation System Be Abandoned as A Result of the New Law Creating The Board of Higher Education? There have been so many burning ques tions demanding attention, in international and national and state affairs, that the people of North Carolina have not given as much thought as they would have given in a quieter period to the creation of the State Board of Higher Education. As time goes on they will become more aware of the importance of this new agency. For, its assignment, to supervise state-sup ported institutions of learning, gives it a power that may have a revolutionary effect on the State’s system of higher edu cation. Governor Hodges’ appointments to the Board give assurance that its work will be carried on with a high degree of intelli gence and with fidelity to the public in terest. The nine members are D. Hiden Ramsey of Asheville, former member of the State Board of Education; Major L. • P. McLendon of Greensboro, Robert Las siter, jr., of Charlotte, Charles H. Reyn olds of Rutherfordton, textile manufac turer and State Senator; William F. Womble of Winston-Salem, and Represen tative in the Legislature; Reginald L. Harris, Roxboro banker and former Lieu tenant-Governor; W. J. Kennedy, jr., of Durham, Negro business leader; Santford Martin, who will represent the State Board of Education; and Mrs. Thomas K. Easter ling of Rocky Mount, former president of the North Carolina Congress of Parent- Teacher Associations. The Legislature of 1953 provided for a Commission on Higher Education and di rected it; (1) to study the state-supported institutions, of higher education; (2) to study-their interrelationships; and (3) to “make recommendations to achieve maxi mum educational benefits forthe people of the State.’’ The Commission was headed by Victor S. Bryant of Durham, its re port, submitted to this year’s Legislature, formed the basis of the law creating the State Board of Higher Education. The best way of telling what the Board is assigned to do is to quote these pass ages from the Commission’s recommenda tions : ‘That the Board serve as a coordinating agency for state-supported institutions of higher education. ‘That the Board determine the general functions and activities of such institu tions and the tyjies of degrees to be grant ed to the end that uneconomical practices may be eliminated. ‘That the Board, after holding hearings on the budget requests of such institu tions, make such recommendations to the Director of the Budget and the Advisory Budget Commission as it deems necessary for the most efficient operation of each institution. “That the Board have the power to grant approval of the quarterly requisi tions of allotments from appropriations, or such modifications of them as it may deem necessary to make, subject to the approval of the Director of the Budget who is to be notified of any such action. ‘That the Board have the power to adopt a revised budget for each institu tion, after consultation with the officers of that institution, so as to adjust sack budgets to any reduction of appropriations by the Director of the Budget in order to prevent an overdraft or deficit as is now permitted by law. . "That the Board have (he power to grant approval of requygjits from each in stitution for transfers and changes as between objects and items in the budget of the institution making the request, sub ject to the approval of the Director of the Budget who is to be notified of any such action. “That the Board prescribe practices and policies for the institutions. “That the Board engage in study and planning directed toward the development of a unified program of State-supported higher education. ‘That the board of trustees of the re spective institutions continue to control such institutions as at present, subject to the action of the State Board of Higher Education within the limits of its juris diction.’’ These passages show what extensive powers are possessed by the new Board, what a vast influence it is capable of exerting upon the development of our edu cational system. The creation of such an agency natur ally leads to speculation as to how, if at all, it will affect the present University Consolidation plan. Including the three institutions in the Consolidated Univer sity, there are twelve state-supported in stitutions of higher learning in North Carolina. The question has already been asked: Why should only three, not all twelve, of the state-supported institutions be embraced in a single University ? This question becomes more pertinent now that the State has a coordinating Board with powers superior to those of any existing board of trustees. I have heard it suggested that the studies of the new Board may bring about the expansion of the Consolidated Uni versity to embrace all twelve institutions. I have also heard it suggested that maybe Consolidation on the present plan will be abandoned because the new Board, whose chief task is to be the coordination of the activities of all institutions, will render useless a Consolidated University board of trustees. Itfevould be a good idea, it seems to me, for every one of the institutions to have its own separate board of trustees, a plan that makes for concentrated attention and good morale, while the new Board would determine the scope of the institution’s activities in relation to those of other in stitutions in the State system. The new Board would thus be supreme in the di rection of general State policy with re spect to higher education, but it would leave to every institution’s board of trus tees control over the operations of that There is rid reason why the new Board, with the great powers for coordination that it possesses, cannot prevent duplica tion and overlapping without mingling the institutions. —L. G. Extracts from the Report Here are some extracts from the report of the Commission on Higher Education: “North Carolina is not getting the re j suits in higher education which might be expected in view of the amount of money ! being spent. One reason for this is the j duplication of programs and functions by ! the institutions.” ‘The many problems which the in creased college enrollment in the next fif teen years will precipitate furnish eloquent argument in support of the need for long range planning.” “The size, length of terms, and organi zations of the boards of trustees of the institutions vary widely. There is no agency, short of the General Assembly, empowered to exercise any over-all co ordination of the programs of all the in stitutions.” “Some duplication is not wasteful, for example freshman and sophomore English must be taught at all institutions. When competing programs at a higher level, however, attract only small groups of students or produce more graduates than can be absorbed in the fields for which preparation is given, then it is highly questionable whether the financial; re sources devoted to higher education by the State are being wisely used. Competi tion among institutions encourages an over-extension of offerings and activities beyond the real needs of the State.” ‘The recruiting of students for State institutions of higher education might be removed from the control of separate in stitutions and be performed by a central information agency for all of them. The employment of personnel for field work in soliciting students and the use of other such devices to induce students to attend one institution instead of another are hardly in the over-all public interest. In some states a central agency provides a publication to inform high school seniors what the state colleges have to offer. This is far less expensive than making a cata log or other literature from every institu THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY Sartta Clans in the Fishbowl... The Story of William Alexander: From Air Corps Sergeant To Actor to Restaurateur to Radio Announcer to Alderman By 3. A. C Dunn When we walked into WCHL the other day we expected Aider man William Alexander to be slender. We were mistaken. He is short and plump; with a white beard and a red Siberia suit in stead of argyles and a green sport shirt he would make a good Santa Claus. A* a matter of fact, he probably does, since he i has two small children. He led |us into the small office from which he directs WCHL's adver tising, waved a strong, fat hand at a chair and asked us what we ! wanted to know. W’e understood, we said, that he had won his seat as a Chapel Hill alderman by Rogers Wade’s default last month after the question was raised as to Mr. Wade’s ability to qualify as a candidate for alderman. Mr. Alexander said this was true, and that he regretted the controversy, but that by the let ter of the law he was elected— though it was offiicially said that he was appointed—and wasn’t there something else we wanted to know ? We said we wanted to know anything he thought it worth our while that we know—-about him—and that whatever he thought was important, was im portant. On this trifling provocation Mr. Alexander started talking. He continued to talk for about ten minutes without cessation, dur ing which time we broke our pen cil three times and filled six notebook pages. “Born 1921 in Atlanta,” said Mr. Alexander. He leaned way back in his chair, wrapped his gigantic' hands around his head in a thoughtful kind of way, de cided, apparently, that his birth day was really a pretty good be ginning, and took himself on ward step by step through the following 34 years of his life. He went to a very progressive Quaker prep school in Philadel phia where the students worked much on their own (“1 got my interest in politics there”), and came to UNC in 1939. The day the war broke out he left the University and went to State to take a short defense course in engineering, was subsequently, drafted, and spent 4! months in, the Air Corps as a Staff Sergej ant in charge of a ground ereW responsible for the maintenance of one plane. During this time he was in England, France, and Belgium ( - ‘I got to Germany On a sightseeing trip”). After the war be returned to I'M and in the summer of 1946 opened a sum mer stock company in Flat Hock composed of college students; the company performed nine shows in nine weeks. After that he worked for Emmett Robinson "f the Eootlight Player- in Char 'lestori, S. ('., for two years, tour |ing South Carolina with a PTA (children’s theatre as a sideline. [He then returned to Chapel Hill [and was married in the summer [of 1948 (his wife is the former Margaret Newell of Bronston, Ky.), and went to work for YVTJK in Diy-ham. Afiei the merger of WTIK and VVDUh he lan the "Fishbowl,” a Chapel Hill ladio program broadcast from the lobby of the Strowd Motor Company and, incidentally, the first regular radio program origi nating in Chapel Hill. In 1961 he and his wife went into several smal-1 businesses, he and Ted Danzigti started the Ranch House. The Ranch House soon turned out to be not the sideline it was originally con ceived as, but a full-time job, so Mr. Alexander quit his other businesses and stuck to shish kebab and old wines Until he went to work as advertising manager for WCHL, where, he says, he is much more contented. We were about to shoot in a word or two of tactful journal istic prodding at this point, think ing that Mr. Alexander’s auto biographical mixmaster had prob ably run down. Not so. He switched to politics, Chapel Hill brand. “In a town like this we should have a model civic government We have the resources and ad vice and knowledge of the best people available on questions of government, but there’s still a good deal to be desired. “One thing: I have observed the dividing line between the town and jthe University com munity becoming less and less visible as the town grows.” Chapel Hill’s problem, said Mr. Alexander, is money. We tried tion available to every senior.” “It seems clear that the determination of what curricula, degrees, and programs of study are to be offered at each institu tion should not be left entirely to the ad ministration and controlling board of that institution. That is about where it is left today in North Carolina. As presidents J 2 WL % BEL , , m Mk Wt? m gk jjjp 1 —Photo by Lavergne , WILLIAM ALEXANDER ) - to remember where we had heard - that word befbre. Mr. Alexander t pointed out that the town’B big- L gest income is a tax-exempt busi -1 iness—the University—and there; fore the town hasn’t the money r to have a model government, i "There are only two ways of L getting money,” Mr. Alexander s said through a small piece of - notepaper he was chewing. "Either get it from the state or • raise the town tax. Neither can : be done, so there you are.” i We asked if the town’s growth - and the subsequent increase of - taxes did not cancel each other : out. We were not quite sure what we meant by this, since we ljhave trouble adding five and five, ’ but it sounded pretty knowledg -5 able. Mr. Alexander evidently 1 thought so too, because he said - no, it didn’t. • "No.” he said, ‘tmost of the -jtown's growth is outside the city [limits, and therefore those peo -9 [pie are exempt from town taxes.” • Perhaps it would be a good idea: 9 to juStf quietly, one night, extend' ■[the city limits so as to include; 1 such hotbeds of potential revenue Has Glen I>ennox. “That, of course, i is what should be done,” said Mr.! A. And did he have any other[ : thoughts on politics? > "The lack of interest people, i have in local government fright , eas me to death,” he said tarn-! got rid of. It made a vexing problem for C. E. Mclntosh, manager of the colony. He had to lis ten to both sides and make decisions that were sure to displease one side or the other. Now and then he issues a bulletin containing informa tion, directions, and requests for the occupants of the four hundred apartments in the colony. In the latest bulletin he says: “We have explained that for over a year we issued permits for all dogs, cats, etc., which residents wished to keep in their apartments (46 permits, all told), but after some people disregarded their pledges to keep their pets at home, and after we had an alarming rabies scare, we had to cease altogether to issue pet per mits. That was in the spring of 1951. We stated that any one then possessing a pet permit might keep his pet so long as he lived in a Glen Lennox apartment, provided he did not allow his pet to disturb any other resident. Now there is only one of |these pets remaining. When it leaves there will be no more pets here whatsoever.” Mr. Mclntosh says his action on pets has given gen eral satisfaction because the people in Glen Lennox Jwho don’t want pets around (outnumber by far the peo ple who want to keep them. Pets whose owners live in detached houses with ample yards can be kept fairly well under control, but where apartments are crowded close together pets are apt to give neighbors a good deal of trouble. and trustees change, an institution may re-cast its whole character in a very few years under the impact of a forceful execu tive or board. Such a shift may or may not be in the State’s best interest. No agency is non? charged with the respon sibility for determining this fact in re viewing such a proposed change/- estly, “People scream and yell when they find a hole in the street in front of their house, but when it comes to taking part in civic matters they won’t parti cipate. “I think a person who has the time and inclination should be obligated to take part.” Mr. Alexander breathed a min ute after this, and then quickly added that he had been President of the Jaycees for two years and had received a commendation for instigating the Jaycees’ fight against the Ku Klux Klan, had been co-chairman of the county cancer crusade, two among many other positions, and was there anything else we wanted to know ? Yes, we wanted to see a radio station. He took us into a side room and pointed through a huge glass plate in the wall, and there be fore our very eyes was a real live disc jockey spinning platters and telling people the time of day with cool aplomb and a pipe in his mouth. Discs weren’t all he was jockeying. We asked what the alarming rows of little knobs and flashing red lights were arranged on a panel in front of this god of the microphone, and Mr. Alexander said in an offhand way, “Oh, he’s his own engineer.” We clutched a table edge in fascination while the god informed Chapel Hill that it was 3:14 and here was a nice little tune they might remember from some time ago, put the record on and sat back puffing at his pipe. We asked how long it took to learn to be one’s own engineer for one's own program. “Not very long,” replied Mr. > Alex ander, like a mysterious ancient Roman priest telling an inquirer that it wasn’t Jiard to" be a Vestal Virgin—all you had to be was good. As we left, Mr. Alexander re iterated how much he was apall-, ed at the Jack of interest people showed in local government, and added in an almost gouty and definitely mournful voice that "tomorrow is my birthday." We wished him a happy one, and de-[ parted wondering how long it 1 [really did take to become a knob god arid a disc-spinner too. Chapel Hill Chaff (Continued from page 1) In a section of the bulletin devoted to traffic Mr. Mc- Intosh says: “Several years ago more than seventy-five mothers in Glen Lennox petitioned us to put up warn ing signs along the streets, reading “Danger Please Drive Slowly—Our Children Are Playing.” We put the signs up and they have been so well heeded that as yet we have not had a single fatality. We beg everybody to drive slowly, at no time over 20 miles an hour.” WUNC PROGRAM SCHEDULE Frequency 91.5 megs. Power: 5760 Watts Friday 7:00 Children’s Circle 7:30 Music in the Air 7:45 Schools Today 8:00 Astronomy for the Layman 8:30 l.isten to Opera 10:00 AP News 10:05 Program Preview 10:10 Evening Masterwork 11:30 Sign Off Saturday 7:00 the Air 7:15 Vistas of Israel 7:30 Paris Star Time 8:00 Musicale 9:00 AP News 9:05 Program Preview 9:10 Evening Magterwork j 11:30 Sign Off Sunday 7:00 Sunday Show Time 7:30 Magterworks from France 8:00 Symphony Hour '9:00 AP News 9:06 Program Preview 9:10 Evening Masterwork 11:30 Sign Off Monday 7:00 Stories ’N’ Stuff 7:30 Over the Back Fence 7:46 Let There Be Light 8:00 A Box at the Paris Opera 9:00 AP News 9:05 Program Preview 9:10 Evening Masterwork l\ :30 Sign Off LOST AND FOUND DEPARTMENT: The little boy who was holding the cow’s tail for Carrboro Mayor R. B. Todd in the milking contest is named Bob Massengale, age 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Massengale of Cobb Terrace. DAVY CROCKETT NONSENSE to end all Davy Crockett nonsense: Homer and Jethro’s just-released re cording of “Davy Crewcut —the Cat with the Coonskin Cap.” Final line of the chorus: “He has the only crewcut coonskin cap in town.” REAL ESTATE MAN 808 WINDSOR, on the sub ject of walking shorts, reports that one day recently when he was in the yard of his home, dressed in shorts, he was whistled at by a Duke Power Company lineman who wto| engaged in running a power line across his property. ™ Now this business of Bermuda shorts is dear to m/ * c heart, because I am a firm believer in comfort. The pur pose of the shorts, as far as I am concerned, is comfort, and anyone who dons those knee-length sox which are supposed to be fashionable is defeating that purpose. . Charlie Craven, the underworld expert for the News and Observer, penned a communique from Rusty’s the other day chronicling what happened when a State Col lege student came into that infamous bistro (dressed in walking shorts) to get a pack of cigarettes. After the student had bought his cigarettes and departed, one of Rusty’s steady clientele—l believe it was “Shaky Jake,” although I can’t be sure—made the classic comment: “That’s the ugliest pair of knees I’ve ever seen on a woman.” * 0. T. Watkins, the Weekly’s advertising manager, who doesn’t have the most beautiful set of knees in the world himself, disclosed a week or so ago that he secretly wanted to wear Bermudas to work, but he wasn’t going to do it unless someone else did, too, to give him moral support. “I’ve got some walking shorts,” I told him, “and the only reason I haven’t been wearing them so far this sum mer is that the weather has been so cool they aren’t necessary. But if that’s what it takes to get you in them, I’ll wear mine to work tomorrow.” And I did. 0. T. left the office as soon as he had checked my garb, went downtown and purchased himsaH a pair. Not only purchased them, but wore them out of the store. He agreed that they certainly were comfort able, but he reported later that he was darned uncom fortable when he went home and his wife saw the things. KIDD BREWER, RALEIGH INSURANCE MAN and former star athlete at Duke, is in the race for lieutenant governor of the state, and Jake Trexler, secretary of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association, is already one of his ardent supporters. Mr. Brewer and Mr. Trexler went to school together at Duke, and the latter says of the former: “Anytime, anywhere,*Kidd Brewer’s slogan through life has been to help others.” Another Brewer slogan, “You’ll be glad you did,” is on signs which Mr. Trexler has posted around the Mer chants Association office. This is a teaser. The next set of Brewer signs will say “When you vote for Kidd.” And a little later, a third set to be issued by the Brewer cam paign headquarters will read “Be Sure with Brewer.” HOMIS l Buy a $29.75 Glider at the Regular Price, and receive a $12.95 Match ing Chair FREE. ■ ■■ OPEN FRIDAY EVENINGS TILL »JE CLOSED WEDNESDAYS AT OrJ— "Quality is remembered long 1 pfter price is forgotten" m 422 W. Franklin St. plme 8-451 On the Town By Chuck Hauser Friday, July 1, 1955
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