FRIDAY ISSUE • Next Issue Tuesday Vol. 33 No. 36 Four Crosstown Routes Are Recommended in Traffic Plan; Rosemary Not to Be Widened Four “crosstown” routes form the heart of a thorough-, fare and traffic operations plan for Chapel Hill prepared by W. F. Babcock, consulting engineer from Raleigh. A preliminary report on the plan was received early this week at the Town Hall. Rosemary street “might saye” as a northern cross t report on the progress offfcvj pMteon-oirculators was |MM. to be received at tfjfl nigadi meeting of the Jtanfdß Chamber of Commerce, which is] sponsoring the campaign. If enough signatures are ob- • turned, the county commission-' ers will be required to call an election on the issuance of $250,- 000 in bonds and the levying of a 10 cents tax to support the district. On Dean’s List Chapel Hilliuns on the Dean’s List in the University’s School of Business Administration in the spring semestfer were Wilbert F. Altemueller, Louis Henry Campbell Jr., Robert Leon Farmer, Randall T. Ferguson, Henry Murcellus Hobbs Jr., Fred Bennett James, Guy Pitman McCormick, Morris Edward Mc- Crary, Robert Theodore McGim sey, Sanford Bascox Morton Jr.,l Thurman Dean Nail, David C. Myers Jr., Otha Kenneth Spain hour, and Hal Everett Wilson. Lem Wrenn Returning Sergeant First (lass Lemuel (). Wrenn, son of Mrs. Lola M Bradshaw of Chapel Hill Route 1, is scheduled to return to the United States from France. He has been overseas since 1952 and is attached to the Maintenance] Company of the European'Com munications Zone's 7839th Army Unit. He has had sixteen years of Army duty. Square Ddftce This Evening A square dance will be held at 8:16 this (Friday) evening on the terrace at the Woollen gym nasium. It is being sponsored by the University’s Summer Activi ties Committee. Admission is free and everybody is invited. I Chapel Mill Chalf L. G. I heard the radio report of the first game of the double-header of the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees on the Fourth of July. When I met the Rev erend R. J. McMullen the! next day he told me he had heard the same report. He added: “And I turned the* button on the dial back and forth and took in the game between the Giants and the Phillies at the same time.” 1 * * * * Mrs. Frank R. Strong, wife of the dean of Ohio ' State University’s College of Law who is, a visiting pro fessor in the Law School this summer, likes to make watermelon rind 1 : pickle. It distressed her. after she had attended with ! enjoyment the recent water melon festival on the cam- I pus, to” see the great quan tity of rinds that were about to go to waste. So she gathered up a lot of them and took them home with her. (I mean of course, her temporary home here in Chapel Hill, which is the Hanfts’ regular home.) The pickle she made has given delight to Dean Brandis, the rest of the Law,* School 1 faculty, and other firiends of the Strongs. * * • • 1 Often, in the summer t * j time, we take our first coffee ' , of the day on the porch at 1 i the west end of the house. This place, which gets frightfully hot later, is nice 1 1 and cool at an hour when the i»un is climbing up the east- 1 jhrn sky. One morning this MMk my wife, after she had ■R.«Rt the tray with thetr-j nSol battle, cups, and cream; (nVeager), disappeared for a minute ar two, came back \yith a bunek of flowers, and put them in a vase. They looked pretty. “What are they?” I asked, (Continued on page 2) Blue Cross Plans Honored in Asheville At Meeting of NC Hospital Association North Carolina’s two Blue Cross Plans were cited for the stabilizing influence they have had on the financial standing of the state's general hospitals at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Hospital Association being held this week in Ashe ville. The two plans, the Hospital Care Associatibn, of Durham, and the Hospital Saving Associa tion, of Chapel Hill which to gether have paid out $78,500,000 in benefits for their combined membership of more than 760,- 000 persons over the past 25 years— at a dinner meeting lastSnight at the Battery Park hotel. The NCHA Council on Public Education, of which Gordou W. Poole, of Raleigh, Administrator of St. Agnes Hospital, is chair man, was in charge of arrange ments for the dinner program, which attracted between 160 and 200 hospital administrators and special guests, including Gov ernor Hodges, N. C. members of Congress, state health leaders, and others. The dinner highlighted North Carolina’s participation in the nation-wide celebration this year ■ -i- -mcnri - Hill * v_l 1 I l g T F . y ■ t il l Sk m I .j eWM jjd < U yv f 1 Fh Ib |gji hand picture, freai left to right, are the junior division winners: Jee Twamley es Baltimore, Md.. third; Rees Jervis es Chapel Hill, •rat; sad Gserge Csnaefas es Chapel Hill, second. (Photos by ■riahtnei). Commissioners Leave Connty Tax Rate at 62 Cents; Supplementary School Tax Is Raised to 15 Cents; Gymtorium Will Probably Be Built Chapel Hill schools fared* well at the hands of the' county commissioners this week. The question of whether Lincoln high school would i get its gymtorium.remained! in doubt, but it appeared that enough money would be available for purpose, j Here is where the gym torium funds will come from: 1. $53,593 in county and ad valorem taxes. .2. $17,000 in county bonds (one-half of the bonds which the commissioners may issue without an election; the other half goes to coun ty schools). 3. About SIO,OOO which Chapel Hill School Board Chairman Carl Smith said: he thought could be obtained by “raking and scraping around” in school funds. That still leaves Chapel Hill short of the amount needed to build the struc ture, which was estimated earlier to cost SIOO,OOO. | However, Mr. Smith said he thought new bids for the; : project might show a de crease in cost and permit i constructon to proceed. The other two capital out lay items requested by Chapel Hill school officials— slo,soo for new equipment and $3,390 for library ma terials—are definitely out of the picture. | The commissioners ap proved a Chapel Hill supple mentary school tax increase .of from 12 to 15 cents. A 20- 'cents increase had been re quested. But with increased jfunds from county ad val orem taxes, nothing will be I. (Continued on page 6) of the 25th Anniversary of the Blue Cross program, which now covers more than 48,000,000 Americans. The main speaker for the oc casion was K. A. van Steenwyk of Philadelphia, well-known au thority in the prepayment field. He has been since 1938 executive director of the Associated Hos pitul Association of Philadelphia, fifth largest of the nation's 84 Blue Cross Plans. His Blue Cross career began in St. Puul, Minne sota, in 1935. While in Minnesota van Steen wyk designed the official Blue Cross emblem used today by all Blue Cross Plans approved by the American Hospital Association. The author of many books and articles on prepaid health care, van Steenwyk has served as con sultant on prepayment to the U. S. and a number of foreign gov ernments. He went to Australia in 1952 to assist the government of the Commonwealth in setting up a national voluntary health scheme pattereried after Blue Cross. Samuel K. Hunt, until recently director of the Memorial Mission Hospital in Asheville, introduced van Steenwyk. $4 a Year in County; other rates on page 2 i, ——♦ Boy Cole Xamed i hairnan of Evaluating Group Roy Cole has been ap pointed chairman of the evaluating committee of the Chapel Hill Community, Chest, succeeding Henry Brandis, who was the 1964- 55 chairman. The duties of the evalua-t ting committee are to re-! ceive requests from various organizations for inclusion in the Community Chest’s benefits, to study the budget requests made by such or ganizations, and to make recommendations as to what the Chest goal should be and ,how the fund should be di vided. The Chest is spon sored by the Chapel Hill Community Council. The new chairman is ex pected to appoint his com mittee members within the next few days. He will also' ;get in touch with the or ganizations that were in cluded in Chest benefits last year and find out what their 1955-56 budget requests are.j I Mr. Cole, who is a lawyer,! was appointed by the execu tive committee of the Com-! .munity Council, of which Phil Green is chairman. Music Under Stars This Sunday Night A “Music Under the Stars” program will be given at 8 o’clock Sufeday evening, July 10, in the Forest theatre under the sponsorship of the Community! Church of Chapel Hill. Admis-j sion is free and everybody is in vited. The program will consist of s high fidelity recording of Bee thoven’s Third Symphony in E [Flat Major, Opus 65, furnished by Kemp’s Music Store. The re cording is by the Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Herbert von Karajan. j An announcement of the event jsuys: ‘The music will begin promptly at 8 o’clock. Late comers are asked to approach the theatre and take their seats quietly. Silence is requested dur ing the playing of the music.” William Terrill Honored William A. Terrill, associate i professor of accounting in the j University’s School of Business , Administration, has received a j Lybrand Award for the distin guished character and excellence jof his contributions to the titers ture of industrial accounting The honor was bestowed in New York City at a recent conversion of the National Association! of Cost Accountants. A certificate of merit was awarded to Mr Terrill for his recent article on “Cost Basis, the Samson Tresses of Accounting.” Full-Fledged Pharmacists Miss Joyce Nelson of Eubanks’ Drugstore and Miss Barbara Gilliam of Sutton’s Drugstore recently successfully passed the practleal examinations of the I North Carolina Board of Phar macy. Since the practicals are the final exams given by the board, the two young women have now completed their ap prenticeship and are full-fledged pharmacists. They were class mates as students in the Uni versity’s School of Pharmacy. Leigh Skinner le Here Leigh Skinner has come home from the Central Carolina Con valescent hospital In Greensboro to spend the rest of the summer with his family in Forest Hills. His eon, Eagle Scout Leigh Skinner Jr., who is on the staff of Camp Durant this summer, came home from the camp last weekend to see his father. Red Cross Meeting The annual meeting of the Chapel Hill chapter of the Amer ican Rad Cross will be held aft 8 o'clock Friday evening, July 8, la the Institute gs Pharmacy build ing oa Church street. FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday • The county commissioners voted Tuesday to leave the county tax rate at 62 cents for the coming year. They increased the Chapel Hill supplementary school tax from 12 cents to 15 cents, rather than to the maximum 20 cents requested. The difference in school funds, however, was made up in current expense money from county ad valorem ; taxes, and Chapel Hill School Board Chairman Carl Smith said he and other local school officials felt the 15-cents tax was “quite satisfactory.” The commissioners ap proved a total county budget of almost ”$870,000 for the 1955-56 fiscal year. They will meet on July 28 to formally adopt the budget as required by law. The Chapel Hill school district received a total bud get appropriation of $37,744 jfor current expenses,. and $53,593 for capital outlay. County schools received $95,446 for current expenses (including state funds), and $98,272 for capital outlay. No salary increases were approved in the overall coun ty budget. However, the •commissioners agreed to ini- ' tiate a job analysis and clas sification study, with the help of the Institute of Gov ernment, as soon as possible for future use in maintain showed a major dungi wag the sheriffs department. I The comniissioners voted $12,485 for this item (for 'administration, not counting sal aries), compared to $7,805 for the current year. The sheriff was granted a new deputy, as he had requested, al though the commissioners turned down his request for a clerk. In stead, they made arrangements • for the clerk of the county Re corder’s Court to set up her desk in the sheriff’s office to help him. i Other items in the sheriff’s budget included $2,510 for new • equipment, including two new i two-way car radios and funds for moving the police radio aerial from the roof of the new court house to a water tank outside Hillsboro owned by the White , Furniture Company. The sheriff , is also to be provided with a new automobile. t’ndcr the farm extension bud get, a M.Afi item was authorised for te its building in Hillsboro ■ ( hild r fIL Library Invitation Newcomer* |L tSotT children •re invited use of the Mary Bay ley Hwtt Children’* Library ea the second fioor as the Chapel Hill eUaseatary school on West Franklin street. Under its summer schedule, it la now open from 9 a.m. to It noon daily from Tuesday through Sat urday. The library’s weekly program includes a story hour for younger children at 10 a.m. Wednesday! and a story hour for older child dren at 10 a.m. Saturday. I Books are available for lend! ing to children from pre-school to high school age. Records arm also available. I Mrs. Nina Chaateen is thl summer librarian. 1 Carolyn Ellis Honored 1 Miss Carolyn Ellis was tfl guest of honor at a shower ghrfl recently by Mrs. James Fowlfl Mrs. C. P. Hinshaw, and lffl Sue Fowler at the home of MB Fowler on Coolidge stree t Jfl Ellis’s mother, Mrs. James poured punch. Mlae Ellis ill be married soon to Stanley Pvfl fswff, cߧ ftmsiftntfd ', Mu a. H. Hobbs Jr. as <|Mai fl has been reappoint*! fi? fl Luther Hodges as a membfl the North Carolina Band fl