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FRIDAY ISSUE ' Next Issue Tuesday VoL 33 No. 38 Boom Town with No Boom Left . . . Reporter Staggers Oat of His Bed at 4:30 in the Mormng And Gets New Perspective on Chapel Hill with the Milkman dSmd H*® “* Hk ftJBSTW mWm \ « "ME- ■ INI ; ~, '. ;/ /j*. , i; . ’ * ' ]f\ * ' •'•■.— . ..^* The gentleman with the milk ia Hess. who get* up at 4:15 every morning to go to work. The gentleman standing in the milk truck watching him ia J. A. C. Dunn, who got up at 4JO in the morning only once—to write this article on Mr. Hess and his day’s work. The scene ia Victory Village. (Photo by Hauaer) By J. A. C. Dunn Chapel Hill in the early morn ing looks much like a boom town with no boom left. As everybody knows, this condition does not prevail the entire day, but at 5 a.m. practically nothing is mov ing. Practically nothing, that is, eApt the milkmen. we staggered out of bed at 4:30 one morning last week, reel ed groggily over to Long Mead ow Dairies, and joined Sam Hess on his milk truok for a pleasant morning’s jaunt about the coun tryside. We found Sam, who lives in Dogwood Acre* and gets up at 4:15 to go to work, busily shovel ling ice into hi* truck on top of case* and case* of Milk. ‘‘Hard to keep it on the milk in this weather,” he said, piling a re serve supply of the dairy’s arti ficial snow in the back of the truck. “Nice and cool now, but wait until about nine or top o’clock when it gets really hot. We said we came from Charles ton and knew what heat was, and we would wait, thanks. Sam started bis truck (he drives standing up, since there is/ no seat) and we rolled away toward Victory Village. “I do the near side of the Vil lage today,” he said. “Tomorrow I’ll deliver the other side and the rural section.” We entered Vic m Village and Sam started ping the little truck from house to house, dashing quickly (but very quietly) up the steps with a quart, two quarts, two quarts and cream, or whatever was needed. "Lots of these stu dents out here have early classes, so I try and get the milk deliver ed to them before they have to leave,” he puffed breathlessly at one point. It was only six o’clock, Aldermen Studying Annexation Request "If we don’t hurry up and ex tend our town limit*,” Alderman Hubert Robinson told his fellow Bard members on Monday eve ning, “we are going to be just a little spot in a big community.” Mr. Robinson’s comment seem ed to reflect the general opinion of the Board of Aldermen, as it received a new request for an nexation from a development in the area of the 15-601 highway bypass southeast of Chapel Hill. H. W. Wentworth, writing the board in his capacity as real Mtate agent for Colonial Insur ance and Realty’s "Ridgefleld” development, requested a hearing by the aldermen or one of their committees on the question of mwxation. Oliver Cornwell an nounced that Mr. Wentworth would probably be heard by the board at its August meeting, al though Town Manager Thomas Rose might confer with the real estate agent at an earlier date to get some detailed information for the aldermen. Going to Kanuga Lake Mrs. Irl Summerlin will leave tomorrow to attend a one-week Sunday school conference at Ka nuga Lake. Mr. Summerlin will drive there next Thursday and they will visit Mrs. Summerlin’s sister, Mrs. Emma Clark, near Hendersonville. They will come back home Tuesday. July 26. Home from Ceylon Erwin Danxlger has returned from Ceylon, where he waa a stu dent at the UatversMr at Qeyton. On hie way home he made a weet era tour that included visits to San Francisco, Seattle, and Vaa- The Chapel Hill Weekly but even so he was sweating with the exertion of running up and down steps. At some houses there was a note in the empty bottle on the step, and Sum said that after a few months he could tell what the note meant without having to go up and read it. He took a break at the end of Daniels Road and drank some of his own choc olate milk. “Nothing more iw Sabarban Fraternity Court Is Under Consideration along the Raleigh Road Charles Nottingham appeared before the Planning Board Tuaa day evening to ask advice an getting a suburban section cf lend rexoned for use as a nap fraternity court. The piece of preparty |a pafM tion is on the Raleigh across the Finlejr Goff uonMe road from the Pines restaurant. Mr. Nottingham told the board he planned to divide it into five lots, with a grassed court in the center. The layout wov,d be somewhat similar to the frater nity court on South Columbia street. The property is at present zoned us highway residential, and would have to be rezoned to permit the erection of fraternity houses. Mr. Nottingham was advised Dean Katherine Carmichael Flans to Do Research Work during Leave of Absence Miss Katherine K. Carmichael, who has been granted a year’s leave from her post as the Uni versity’s lieun of Women, plans to spend the year in research in the history of the duties and ac complishments of deans of wom en during the last 15 years, with special emphasis on social and economic changes which are af fecting the education of women. Her study will be financed by the M. Margaret Stroh Scholar ship, granted to her by the Delta Kappa Gamma (Educational) Society. Her one-year leave was given in order that she might accept this scholarship. She will do field work for several months and will write up her findings during the latter part of the year’s leave, which will be from September 15, 1955, to June 16, 1956. The following statement about Miss Carmichael’s appointment to study under the Stroh Scholar ship was in an announcement by Dr. Carolyn Gusa of she Univer sity of Indiana, chairman of tha national scholarship committee of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society: "Dr. Carmichael, who received her Pb.D. in 1948 from Vander bilt University, plans to use this scholarship for raaaarch and Aldermen Approve Budget for Fiscal Year The Board of Aldermen Mon day night gave a final vote of approval to Chapel Hill’s $261,- 414 municipal budget for the 1956-56 fiscal year. The action also officially set down taxes for the new year at tha past year’s rata- 4)6 cents per SIOO property valuation. The budget is more than SII,OOO larger then tha $240,073 appropriated for 1964-66 opera tions. It waa given its initial ap proval on July 16, but law re quires a 20-day waiting period prior to final passage. Included in Mm budget is n to organisation of the fir* depart ment with J. 8. Mesne as fall 5 Cents a Copy 9 freshing,” he said, and polished off a pint in about three gulps. From then -wudfik? ride was punctuated by ptotmical remarks made by Sut *• fin subject of in i 1 k -d e We went patted a dog afraid of dogs; ifi or-'f looks like it might bite me T take a chance.”); to Purefoy Road, (Continued on page II) by the board to mako a formal request to the Board of Alder men for rezoning. The aider men would then turn the raquest over to the Planning Board for Warming Raaai aeek advice about a real estate development he is planning along Bolin Creek west of the old Airport road. M. M. Timmons requested per mission to expand the Porthole restaurant, even though the building is zoned as part of the University campus. A spokesman for the board said the group was "sympathetic” to the request, but action was deferred. The board members also dis cussed the Chapel Hill traffic plan submitted by engineer W. F. Babcock of Raleigh. writing. Her subject will be ‘The History of the Position of the lieun of Women,’ a subject which holds added interest for Dr. Car michael, since she has been Dean of Women at the University of North Carolina since 1946. Her study will emphasize sociological changes that have affected this position during the past fifteen years.” In expressing her appreciation for the scholarship, Miss Car michael said: "My gratitude I express to the Delta Kappa Gamma Society for granting me this scholarahip of $2,000, which is one of the organ ization’s top scholarships. This opportunity for research comes to me as a peculiarly happy ex periment, since for some years I have felt the need to know more about the position of the dean of women, and to relate the position to tha education of young women. I am especially grateful in that, through this grant, I have the confidence of the backing of 50,000 American teachers. "I hope that in June of 1966 I shall know much more concern ing contemporary sducation than I now know. I earnestly urge all of my friends to give me any (Continued on page 12) time fire chief. P. R. Perry, who 1 has headed the department aa a volunteer for many years, re mains as honorary chief and head 1 of the volunteers. The budget contains automatic 1 salary increments for all mem bers of the police and fire de partments. However, future in -1 crement* will be awarded on the t beais of merit only. A full-time town tax collector • is provided for, as ia a traffic ■ clerk for the police department. I Another major change ia the budget b the increased sppropri • atioa far tha Planning Beard from $260 to HAOO far the sens tag rear. CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1955 Cheek Is Postmaster Paul Cheek was confirmed this week as Postmaster of Chapel Hill. He had been Acting Postmaster since Aug ust 15, 1954, having oeen ap pointed soon after the death of Postmaster William S. Hogan. He has been on the staff of the post office here since 1924 and is a member of the Republican party. Mr. and Mrs. Cheek and their 15-year old son, Paul Jr., live at 10 Cottage lane. Two Towns Sign Contract for Radio And dail Service The mayors of Chapel Hill and Carrboro—Oliver Corn well and R: B. Todd—this week signed a contract for ■the two towns to share cer tain jail and police radio ifacilities belonging to Chapel Hill. The contract, approved by the Chapel Hill Board *>f Aldermen on Monday eve ning and by the Carrboro Board of Commissioners on Tuesday night, provides the following: 1. The Chapel Hill police department is to serve as radio home station for Carr boro police cars, as in the past. 2. For radio service, Carr boro will pay Chapel Hill $25 a month. 3. Chapel HiH will con tinue, as in the past, to house Carrboro prisoners in the Chapel Hill town jail. 4. For this privilege, Carr boro will pay a turnkey fee of $1 per prisoner, and will also pay the sum of 967 for back fees to Jan. 1,1965. (Carrboro will provide food lta,jypjgrisoners houajflj men: 1. Agreed to provide newer service to a proponed 109-acre Service Insurance and Realty de velopment near Hidden Hills un der the same eontract terms as those given to developments on Oakwood drive, Rogeraon drive and other suburban areas. Agent Jerry Hudson told the board the development would begin with 10 houses and might expand to 200 in the future. 2. Approved a motion by Ken l'utnam to renew a SIOO annual municipal grant to the North Carolina Symphony. 3. Invited William Muirhead and John Manning to the August meeting of the board to discuss a dispute over location of a road on Mr. Muirhead’s property across the highway from Glen I,ennox. Mr. Manning and James Godfrey, who own a nearby piece of prop erty, have asked that the new road run along their property line. 4. Voted to refund $l5O in sewer rental overcharges to S. H. Itasnight. The amount of the overcharge was S3O a year for five years. The board took no action on Mr. Basnight’s request that he be paid 6 per cent annual interest on the amount due him. 5. Instructed Town Manager Thomas Rose to look into the benefits of the North Carolina Police Voluntary Benefit Associ ation as opposed to life insurance policies for town policemen. 0. Voted to purchase some land adjacent to the new municipal cemetery. The property concerned is owned by Homer Holloway, who is asking S6OO for his land, and Lester Foley, who is ask ing $l6O for his section. Merchants' Picnic Wednesday Tha Chapel Hill-Cerrboro Mer chants Association's annual pic nic, open to the public, will be held Wednesday afternoon, July 20, at Camp New Hope, begin ning at $ o’clock. Tickets, at $1.60 each, are on sale at the Town and Campus Store, the Association’s office building in the Smith building, and at the Andrews-Riggsbee Tractor Com pany in Carr boro. The program will include games and other con tests. Door prises will be given. Ou Dean’s List Tha following Chapel Hillians were on the Dean's List in the University's College of Arte and Sciences during the spring se mester: Mrs. Marion T. Edward., Alfred R. Pathman, Jamas C. Fox, John M. Gwyna Jr., Arnold K. King, J, Oray McAllister 111, Richard M. McKenna, Rickard W. Molten, Valle Norman, Banner A. ■■undies, and Je mma H. Senega, Chapel J4ill Chaff L. G. We were talking about the way things accumulate jin a home, and Clarence Heer said in a plaintive tone of voice: “I’m always re solving to get rid of a lot of stuff but never can make up my mind what to throw away.” Millions of men and wo men have been confronted by this problem and I dare say that nobody has ever at tacked it with firmer re solutions, or come out of it with less success, than I have. I have many boxes, wood and cardboard, filled with old letters, photographs, business documents, sections of magazines apd news ’ papers, miscellaneous clip -1 pings, and souvenirs such as play and concert programs. , Only three or four days ago ‘ I came upon one of these ‘ boxes, which have increased > frightfully in number 1 through the years, stopped 5 the work I was doing, put the box on the bed beside ! me, and began to go through 1 the contents with an iron ' determination to throw • them all, or anyhow most of them, into a trash basket. Presently, ,when I had got 1 rid of two or three pieces, albeit with painful doubts a$ to whether I should let 1 them go or not, I was deeply 1 immersed in a magazine tfticle which I remembered having kept with the pur i pose to use it as a text for •ctne sort of piece of ' Writing. I had tucked it aV«y ai >d forgotten all about it, and now it had a fresh ■H*** W* back td HR awerwMM tftai f had set myself to a tawh! getting rid of the contents of the box. But the first thing I knew I was reading some thing else. Then I was de bating with myself whether I had better discard one thing or another. All of this (Continued on page 11) Extension, Widening, and Elimination Os Parking on Rosemary Are Urged (Another in a series of re ports on the recently completed Chapel Hill traffic and street plan, published by the Weekly as a public service.) What does W. F. Babcock, the traffic engineer from Raleigh, recommend concerning one of Chapel Hill’s oldest thorough fares—Rosemary street? In an earlier report, the Week ly erroneously said Mr. Babcock, hired by the town to accomplish a detailed traffic and street-plan ning survey, did not recommend the widening of Rosemary street. He did recommend such a step, but he did not place it in his list of “critical” street - widening needs, although Rosemary come* under hi* heading of "important internal streets” in his overall thoroughfare planning for Chapel Hill. "Previous reports to the Town i'ianning Board and the Board of Alderman,” Mr. Babcock writes in his preliminary traffic report, “have indicated the need for the improvement of Rosemarystreet. They have suggested ways in which costa of improvements might be shared. "Preliminary plans have indi cated that it is possible to widen the street to at least four operat ing lanes. It is recommended that Rosemary street ba widened by a combination municipal and property owner participation, and that a minimum of 44 feet of pavement be provided.” How about parking on Rose mary street? Mr. Babcock reo ommanda flatly that parking should ba eliminated on the tree shaded lane from Hillsboro street west to where Rosemary joins Main street in Carrboro. And what happens to the park ing situation if Rosemary street is widened to the recommended 44 feet? Even in that event, seys Mr. Babcock, perking will, "in ell probability, ba eliminated from this street as it becomes a busi ness street. Adequate off-street parking will be very important” Under a heading in hie report entitled “Major Radial Thoreugb fa—a" My. Babcock Proposed Location of Guard Outfit In Chapel Hill Suffers a Setback as Doctor Set to Head Organization Labeled Out of Picture by Raleigh Court ('racks Down ou Collectors of Parking Tickets; Student Pays (85 By Chuck Hauser It doesn’t pay not to pay your parking tickets in Chapel Hill. Monroe C. Campbell, a University student from Wil son, found that out the hard way on Tuesday in Recorder’s Court. Judge William Stewart fined the young man $65 and court costs for 65 parking violations during the past year. How ever, he imposed no penalty beyond the $1 fine per tucket. Mr. Campbell was given until July 19 to dig up the money. A prominent Chapel Hill lawyer, aware of the legal con sequences of ignoring parking tickets, had walked into the Town Hall just a few minutes earlier and turned over sl9 for 19 parking violations to Mrs. Barbara Howdy, the town’s new traffic clerk. Two other Chapel Hill law yers received letters this week from Mrs. Howdy requesting them to pay off accumulated parking tickets. One had about 15 tickets, and the other had seven or eight. Police Chief W. T. Sloan re Test Case on Chapel Hill Zoning Law Slated for Superior Coart Jury Trial George Athorne’s test case of Chapol Hill’s new zoning laws will not be tried in Recorder’s Court here. A conference be tween Mr. Athorne and Judge William Stewart yesterday re sulted in an agreement to take the cum directly to Superior Court. > , M r - Athorne, real estate man charged with a violation of the zoning law, told tho Weekly yes terday his case would be tided before a jury at the August term of court in Hillsboro. The violation with which Mr. Athorne is charged was the building of an extension to his real estate office on the Durham road without obtaining a build- what he recommends in this sec tion: "Rosemary street should be ex tended easterly to make a junc tion with the Durham road in the vicinity of Elizabeth street. This will permit the central area to be served by both Franklin and Rosemary streets.” in connection with the Rose mary street parking situation, Mr. Babcock mentioned off-street parking. He has more to say on this interesting subject. In fact, he maintains that the stability and prosperity of central business areas in towns of all sizes de pend to a great extent on ade quate parking space, and off street parking seems to ba the modern answer to the problem. "It has been demonstrated rather conclusively,” says Mr. Babcock, "that tha shoppar de sires parking within 600 feet of (Continued on page 12) Canadian Gives Talk Neal Harlow, a visiting librari an from the University of British Columbia, spoke here Tuaaday at a staff meeting of the Univeraity of North Carolina Library. Town Attorney to Prepare Ordinance Banning Bicycle Riders on Sidewalks Town Attorney J. Q. LeGrand was instructed by the Board of Aldermen Monday evening to prepare an ordinance prohibit lag riding or parking bicycles on the sidewalks of Franklin street. The elect limita of the ordinance were left open for further consideration by the board. * Mr. LeGrand reported to the eldermen that ha could And no ordinance in tho town records prohibiting riding bicycles on tha ■idewaika, but ha did locate the record of a past board action re ducing the line for sidewalk bi cycle riding from $6 to sl, ”1 don’t know of » town in North Carolina where it’* lawful to ride a bicycle on tbe sidewalk,” be told tha beard. Alderman Hu hart Brtftwim commented **»»* Chapel HUI parents n y hs- $4 a Year in County; other rates on page 2 quested that the names of per sons who have accumulated large numbers of tickets not be published, but he said a crack down was in progress on per sons who aren't meeting their ticket obligations. At the trial of Mr. Campbell on Tuesday, Judge Stewart asked the defendant why he had ignored the tickets. “I don’t feel I exactly ignored them,” said the stu dent. “I came in at the end of tjie spring semester and talked to Chief Sloan. I was planning on going to work in Detroit, and he said it would be all right if I sent him the money after 1 went to work. “The automobile strike kind of messed up the job situation, and 1 came back to Chapel Hill. But I still meant to pay for the tickets. I’m sorry I had to be cited to court over the thing.” At this point the number of tickets Mr. Campbell had ac cumulated had not beea brought out in evidence. Judge Stewart asked him how many (Continued on page 12) ing permit. The office is outside the Chapel Hill town limits, but the soning law jurisdiction ex tends as far as four miles from town at aome points. Mr. Athorne said ha was nuk ing a test ones of the matter in an attaal9t .lt get. tha ordinance declared JMMfMIMMpt' WMhi as i(| limits tl anWgw ued. , Present at the conforms* in Judge Stewart’s office yesterday were Mr. Athorne; Bonner Saw yer, his attorney; Town Manager Thomas Rose; and Emery Denny, town prosecutor. Mr. Athorne said he and Mr. Sawyer had under consideration a move to Ale civil suit against tha town in a separate attempt to get the ordinance declared unconstitutional. Ha said this step was being considered be cause the question of consti tutionality might not arise in connection with the single viola tion with which he is charged. The Athorne case was origi nally scheduled for trial in Re corder’s Court on Tuesday, but Mr. Sawyer requested more time to prepare tha case. Clines at Blowing Rock Mr. and Mrs. George Cline and their daughters, Barbara and Linda Lou, aye at Blowing Rock attending the North Carolina Dairy Producta Association’s summer meeting. They will re turn either tomorrow or Sunday. At Camp New Hope The following boys have been at Camp New Hope this week at tending a Presbyterian junior camp: Jimmy Barron, David Mc- Conell, Bobby Brittell, Timmy Keith-Lucas, and Barrett Graham. At Church of Hely Family Services this Sunday at the Church of the Holy Family will ba at follows: Holy Communion at • a.m. and family worship service, with church school, at 'lO a.m. itruct their children not to ride bicycle* in the etreet. Mr. LeOrnnd suggested nil of Franklin etreat be included in the new ordinance. Town Man ager Thomae Rote propoeed the limit* be set from Graham to Henderson streets. Mr. Robin son said he thought the limits should be the poet office to Sloan’s Drug Store to begin with, and they could be extended later on If necessary. He said the major bicycle problem was cen tered around the two Franklin etreet theatrea. Alderman Gene Strowd eaid he believed the board should give soma consideration to passing an ordinance prohibiting riding bi cycles a* night without light*. "Theta J» atraady a state law ; «-M<* arehiklts that." said lit. Mmw: * m I ilMfii FRIDAY ISSUE 1 Next Issue Tuesday * The probability of Chapel Hill’s being- selected at an early date as the site for the North Carolina National Guard’s Medical Battalion took a nosedive yesterday when it was disclosed the person slated to charge of the unit cannot be given the appointment. Dr. C. Capers Smith, a staff physician at Memorial hospital, was the man sche duled to command the Medi cal Battalion of the 30th In fantry Division. A medical doctor must fill the post, and town officials had had a diffi cult job in locating a physi cian who would agree to serve. Dr. Smith holds a com mission in the U. S. Army Reserve, and it was believed the only obstacle to his be ing appointed as commander of the medical unit was the transfer of his commission from the Army Reserve to the National Guard. In a telephone call to Raleigh yesterday, the Weekly learned from Lt. Col. Thomas Longest, opera tions officer in the state ad jutant general’s office, that technicalities had arisen which prevent Dr. Smith ■ from receiving the appoint ment. “He is definitely out of the picture aa of now,’’ said Col. Longest, '“'“and I don’t know of anyone else who ia under jOHisutoytjpn at pres- KMmFAk * T As recently as Monday night, Mayor Oliver Corn well expressed the belief that it was just a matter of time before Dr. Smith’s ap pointment would be ap proved. He made the com ment before the Board of Aldermen in answer to a question by Ken Putnam as to the status of the Guard unit and its assignment to Chapel Hill. Mr. Putnam said at that time that he had heard the town of Kinston was inter ested in having the battalion stationed there. Col. Longest denied that Kinston was under consider ation as a site for the unit. However, he said the town of Wilson had asked for it, although no serious consid eration had yet been given to the request. 'The Chapel Hill-Durham area, because of the medical facilities there,” said Col. Longest, “is ideal for the Medical Battalion, and that’s where we’d like to put it.” Notice to Children About Story Hours Mrs. Nina Chasteen, librarian at the Mary Baylay Pratt chil dren’s library in the elementary school, wilt hold a story reading hour for pre-school children at the library at 10 o’clock tomor row (Saturday) morning. Mrs. Chasteen will read "The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats,” "Hansel and Gretal," and "The Funny Thing.” On Wednesday mornings at 10 o’clock Mrs. Chaatsen balds a reading hour for children 7 years old and above. She is currently reading Homer Price stories., Elementary school chlldfwJ who arc helping Mrs. Chaatew in th* library this summer asm Betty Jean Hardison, Olin Real Jonas, Bath Hart, Ann L|ajs Edward Thompson, Gears Thompson, end Billy Roe. | The library is open Tucedus through Saturdays from I a.S till noon. ■ —- - - *****, *u pi VUlds ▼ gvgwW b UnJvwrsi^af^N^^C. Jw heury hare leal uuwk.