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<wrn route “for a few
years,” according to Mr.
Babcock’s report, but he did
•not recommend that Rose
mary be widened. He did
urge, however, that parking
be prohibited on both sides
of Rosemary from Hillsboro
street all the way out to
where Rosemary joins Main
street in Carrboro.
“Crosstown routes are
needed as the -basis for an
effective traffic street sys
tem in Chapel Hill,” Mr.
Babcock said. “They fdrm
the heart of a system of
streets that will be able to
divert traffic from the cam
pus area, from residential
areas, and from many busi
ness area streets.
“They will require street
openings, street widenings,
and many street revisions,”
he continued. “The cross
town system is recommend
ed as a very high priority
item of the thoroughfare
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Ts Rosemary street can
only serve as a Northern
crosstown route “for .a few
years,” what will be the
permanent northern thor
oughfare? The answer’s
easy. North street. Accom
plishing the fact is not so
easy, however. You see,
there’s an enormous gap in
North street from Hender
son street to Hillsboro
street.
Town Manager Thomas
Rose pointed out yesterday
that the North street gap
would be expensive to
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John Paul Maggard
Going to Tennessee
John Paul Maggard Jr. lec
tor here in the University’s
.s£»ol of Business Administra
tion, has resigned to become as
sistant professor of marketing at
the University of Tennessee and
will assume his new duties in
September.
A native of Hyden, Kentucky,
Mr. Maggard received his H. A.
degree from the University of
Kentucky and his master’s degree
in business administration at the
University of Alabama, where he
later was an instructor for two
years. He has been on the U.N.U.
staff since 1951 and has been lec
turer in business administration
since 1953.
Drama Group Meeting
The Community Drama Group
fipl read Christopher Pry’s “The
Lady’s Not for Burning” at 7:46
Sunday, July 10, in the Univer
sity Library’s assembly room.
Keen Oliver will direct the read
ing, open to the public. The
group is sponsored by the Chapel
Hill Community church. Its
membership is open to everybody
who liken to read plays or hear
them read.
Armstrongs in California
Norman Armstrong and his
daughter Ixiuise have gone to
Santa Barbara, California, where
thay will attend the 31st annual
rating of the National Shade
Tree Conference, to be held from
August 1 to August fl. After the
end of the conference they will
visit relatives in the southern
part of California and will re
turn to Chapel Hill in early Sep
tember.
Visiting with Linkers
The Burt Linkers will have as
visitors beginning this weekend
their sons with their families —
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Burton Linker
Jr. of Syracuse, N. V., and their
children, Joe, 6, and Jane, 2; and
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Linker of
Martinsville, Va., and their son,
Mark, 9’ months.
Wiley Studying in Washington
[,ee Wiley, professor of French
in the University, has gone to
Washington, D. C., to do research
work in the Folger Library for
about ten day*. He is gathering
material for a book on “The Be-;
gi tunings of the Prof eeeioaal |
Theatre In PHusee.”
Pennypacker Play
Scheduled lor
This Evening
The Carolina Playmakers’
production of Liam
O’Brien’s great comedy,
i“The Remarkable Mr.
Pennypacker,” opened last
night (Thursday) at the
Playmakers theatre and will
be given there again at 8:30
this (Friday) evening.
Tickets on sale, at $1
each, at Ledbetter-Pickard’s
and at the Playmakers’ busi
ness office in Abernethy
hall. \
The play is being directed
by John W. Parker, business
manager of the Playmakers.
Baxter Sasser of Carrboro
is seen in the title role, and
Les Casey of Qiapel Hill is
Mrs. Pennypacker. Other
Chapel Hillians in the cast
include Manly Wade Well
man, Mrs. Barbara Bounds,
Judy Timmons, and the fol
lowing Pennypacker chil
dren: Clarissa Joyce, Frank
Martin, Mike Casey, Dee
Casey, Shane Liston, Nixon
Lauterer, Don da Parma,
and Lawrence Cramer.
New Restaurant
To Open Tonight
Robert and Paquita Fine are]
opening a new restaurant, the
Wishing Well Restaurant and
Supper Club, on the U. S. 15-601
highway bypasi today (Friday).;
Regular hours will be
beginning this morning, * Ifce
restaurant will be open ftgMt 11
a.m. to 11 p.m. every day except
Sunday, when the hours will be
11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. It will be
closed one day a week, but the
j particular day has not yet been
| chosen. 1
Willie Hargruves and his band
will play for dancing from 8:30
]to 11:30 tonight and tomorrow
I night. However, dancing will be
in order from 8 o’clock on every
evening. Prices will be competi
tive, but a 20 per cent caberet
tax will go into effect at 8 p.m.,
and a minimum of $1.50 per per
son will be charged on nights
,when the band is present.
The restaurant is located near
the Valley drive-in theatre on
the bypass.
William Cheeks I s ave
Ur. and Mrs. William S. Cheek
have returned to their home in
Memphis, Tenn., after having
'been here two weeks visiting
Mrs. Cheek’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. F. P. Kirby of Route 3, and
Dr. Cheek’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. I.eon C. Cheek of Route 3.
Ur. Cheek is an assistant pro
fessor of pathology at the Uni
versity of Tennessee’s School of
Medicine.
Civil Service Exams
Examinations for career-con
ditional appointment to the job
of Federal wage-hour investiga
tor are announced by the Board
of U. S. Civil Service Examiners.
The beginning salary is $4,525
a year. Vacancies to be filled are
in North Carolina, South Caro
lina, Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
and Mississippi. Application
must be made by not later than
July 26. Full information and
application forma may be ob
tained at the Chapel Hill post
office.
Education Colloquium
“Progressive Practices in Pub
lic Schools’’ will be the topic of
the fifth program in tha Uni
versity Summer Session’s educa
tion colloquium series, to be held
at H p.m. Tuesday, July 12, in
the Forest theatre, with W. Car
son Ryan presiding. The pro
gram will also include thf allow
ing of “Passion for Life,” a
French language movie.
Going to Far Eaat
Mrs, Bobby Jean Vanhoy of'
Durham, who was graduated
from the University here in 1948, i
has been assigned as a stenog
rapher, in the American Rad
Cross services in the Armed
Purees program in the Far East.
;Bha reported on July 6 to Inn
Francisco, from where riw-wfll
go to the Orient ,
The Chapel Hill Weekly
6 Cents a Copy
A Davy Crockett with Sneakers
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Sixteen-year-old Jan Pianey of Chapel Hill, outfitted as Davy
Crockett from head to—well, not quite to toe, considering the
anachronistic tennia sneakers—nerves aa a live advertisement for
the Varsity theatre’s showing of Davy Crockett early this week.
Jan's the Davy at left; on the right is a cardboard model of Feaa
Parker, who played the title role in the picture. See J. A. C.
Dunn’s story on page 8 for details. (Photo by Brinkhoua).
Fathers Set to Go
On Fishing Party
Sixteen local fathers, winners
of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Mer
chants Association’s Father’s
Day fishing trip contest, will
leave at noon tomorrow (Satur
day) from the Carl Smith build
ing for a weekend at Harkars
Island.
The fishermen will arrive there
lata Saturday afternoon, and will
head out in the qoean by boat
, early Suadav morHjp
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(Jeorge Denny to Speak
(Jeorge V. Denny Jr., foun
der and for many years mod
erator of the famous Town
Meeting of the Air radio pro
gram, will speak on “(Jive
Your Mind a Chance” at 8 p.m.
Monday, July 11, in the audi
torium of Carroll hall. He will
describe some practical ways
to train your mind. Everybody
is invited. Mr. Denny is an
alumnus of the University and
was active here in the Carolina
I’laymakers and other campus
organizations.
At Memorial Hospital
Among local persons listed as
patients at Memorial hospital
yesterday were Miss I.ucy Black
wood, J. M. Blount Jr., Theodore
J Bynum Jr., Miss Janie Carter,
W. T. Davis, Miss Celie Farrar,
William A. Graham Jr., Barbara
Lee Jones, Matthew Leggett,
j Suzanne Litwaek, Mrs. W. A.
McNeil, Mrs. Redell Minor, Teddy 1
Ragan, Cynthia Ray, Miss Ollie
Mac Steele, Marie Winstead, and
Mrs. R. A. Womble.
Hamiltwns Here from Paris
Mrs. Dan K. Hamilton and her 1
son Kirk arrived last Saturday
from Paris, France, and are here
for the rest of the summer with 1
Mrs. Hamilton’s mother, Mrs.
William Cobb. They crossed the;
Atlantic on the Liberte, docking!
Wednesday of last week in New'l
York. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton i
and Kirk have been living in i
Paris for the last two years. Mr. ;
Hamilton will return to Chapel I
Hill from France in October. |1
Brown of Carrboro and Jervis of Chapel Hill Capture Bait-Casting Honors
JmMtetgMßttf l Si' fr
Hero are the winners in the belt-esstlag centeat held on Thurs
day night of last weak at Kseeing peel ea the University caatpee.
la the left-hand picture, free: loft te right, are the eenler division
winners} Inch lewder of Chapel Hi, thirds Ray. Brava as Carr
barn, first; and Fred Bernard as Hlfcksn, ascend, la tha right-
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1955
Time for Petitions
Has Been Extended
Bob Cox, indharge of circula
ting petitions in support of an
election on the creation of a
Chapel Hlll-Carrboro recreation
district, said yesterday the drive
for signatures would be extended
until the end at July.
Mr. Cox said so many people
were out of town during tho
Independence Day holiday that [
an extension of time was neodadj
> 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.
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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,
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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
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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
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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