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Vol. 33, No. 42
Smith Thinks
Negroes Will
Not Apply for
School in Fall
i
Chapel Hill School Board
Chairman Carl Smith told
the Weekly yesterday that
he neither predicts nor ex
pats any applications from
children to enter
Chapel Hill white schools
this fall.
“If there are any such ap
plications,” Mr. Smith said,
“the School Board will con
sider them and make its de
cision on the basis of the
individual merits of the ap
plications.
The regular meeting of
the local School Board is
scheduled for Monday eve
ning, but Mr. Smith said
only routine business was
expected to come up. He
said the question of inte
gration and segregation in
the schools might be dis
cussed, as it often is at
board meetings, but it is not
specifically on the agenda.
In commenting generally
on the U. S. Supreme Court’s
segregation rulings, Mr.
Smith said the Court “has
never asked us to mix the
races. It only said that to
deny anyone admission to
tfA schools because of his
c™r is illegal.”
Mr. Smith said bids for
the Lincoln high school gym
tori um would be opened at
2 p.m. on August 10. The
School Board then will have
30 days to decide on which,
if any, of the bids it will
accept. He said he hoped
construction would start
*oon afterward, and that the
gym tori urn would be ready
for uae by September of
1966. ' *
A meeting «of the Chapel
Hill and county Bchool
boards with the county com
missioners has been sche
duled for September, to dis
cuss capital outlay needs
and the amount of bonds
which might be necessary to
carry out a building pro
gram. Mr. Smith said the
noting was to be held in
amicipation of a bond elec
tion next spring to provide
for school building needs.
Meanwhile, the county
Board of Education was
scheduled to meet last night
to discuss steps to be taken
to comply with the Supreme
Court's ruling*. Superintendent
Paul Carr of Hillsboro said the
board has been studying the
rulings for some time, and will
probably consider the appoint
ment of a committee to conduct
a further study.
to Speak at
Atomic Conference
Eugene P. Odum, professor of
biology at the University of
Georgia and son of Mrs. Howard
W. Odum of Chapel Hill, flew to
Geneva, Switzerland, last week
as a delegate to the International
Conference for Peaceful Uses of
Atomic Energy, to be held there
from August 4 to August 19.
At the conference he will pre
sent a paper that grew out of
ecological researches conducted
last summer at Eniwetok in the
Pacific by him and his brother,
l|feard Thomas Odum of Duke
Itonrarafty’a biology faculty.
Mr. Odum was accompanied to
Switzerland by his wife and their
son Bill. They will visit other'
places in Europe before flying
back from London early in Sep
tember.
Ten Degrees Cooler
The Donald Beltons have
moved into their new home in
Sherwood Forest, the new hous
ing development on the Raleigh
road. "We’ve slept under a blank
et the three nights we’ve been
out there,” Mrs. Bolton told a
friend. "The nights are ten de
grees cooler than they are la
town.”
Opens New Denial Otoce
Dr. Carl W. Dickens has
spsnsd his new dental oAee at
408 West Franklin street. Hie
telephone number is 8-0811. He
finiafy occupied Dr. Mauriee
Newton's eflea in the Tankeeeiey
hnfldiag while Dr, Newton warn
In Mm Amy Dental Carpi.
Boy Scouts, Other Groups and Individuals Taking
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The boys in the picture above are members of Boy Scout Troop 45 of Carrboro. They are
shown on the west roof terrace of the Morehead building looking toward the planet Saturn.
The enormous object in the picture with them is the University’s 15-inch reflector telescope,
which is available for use, by appointment, on Monday and Thursday evenings. (Photo by Hauser)
By Chuck Hauser
It was one of those bright,
clear nights when you suddenly
get an urge to look at the stars.
I rang the bell at the service
entrance of the Morehead build-1
ing (“One ring for Bob Fetzer, 1
two for all others”) and after a 1
Roy M. Cole Reports J 4fill Raised in
Cancer Drive, Topping Goal by $1,017
\
Roy M. Cole, campaign chair
man of the 1956 drive put on by
tM Orange county untf es the
American Cancer Society, re
ports that $4,017 was raised in
the drive. This amount exceeds
the $3,000 quota by $1,017. “The
people of Orange county should
be proud of this record,” Mr.
Cole said in announcing the re
sults.
“During the campaign,” Mr.
Cole added, “I had the pleasure
of observing the energy and en
thusiasm of many of the Chapel
Hill and Orange county citizens
when they are working in such a
cause as this. At first some are
doubtful as to their own ability,
then when the work is in prog
ress they really dig in and at the
end, when the goal is in sight,
there is pride and happiness in
accomplishment.
“I want to personally thank all
the workers for their splendid
co-operation and I want to thank
. them on behalf of the American
: Cancer Society. My appreciation
goes to our county commander,
Mrs. Kenneth M. Brinkhous, our
field representative, Mrs. Mitzie
Alexander and the executive sec
retary of the local unit, Mrs, Nall
McCaskill, for actually spear
heading the campaign and for
doing much of the work and
planning.
' “Richmond Sloan, Orange
county chairman of the Mm
' paign last year, did an excellent
' job aa publicity chairman and as
special adviser to me.
A Sears Man Decides to Build Houses
Wd l is s jftjji mu
E. L. Gray ead hie daughter, Mary, peee in front of a house
which Mr. Grey recently had constructed on his praperty sooth
of Chapel Hill
Out on the Mount Carmel Road <
(at the end of a dirt road start- i
lag la the Mount Carmel Spar
row's cemetery) an energetic i
trie of enterprising aeon an busy <
adding yet another bulge te
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short wait I was admitted by
Jim Gates, who came out of the
technician’s office in answer to
the bell. Jim showed me to the
elevator, and I buzzed up four
flights (ground to basement to
first to second to third) and got
in a corridor off the plush
“Sandy McClamroch was our
special gifts chairman for €hap
el Hill, Dr. Dwight A. Price was
our chairman for tha Glen Lan
nox area, Lloyd M, Sen ter, for
Carrboro, Bobby Knight for
Hillsboro, Betty June Hayes,
special gifts chairman for Hills
boro, and Mrs. Stella Forrest
for Kfland.
“For the rural areas the chair
men were Mrs. R. E. Hughes,
Cedar Grove; Mr. Bill Miller,
Schley Grange; Mrs. Ruth
Thompson, St. Mary’s Grange;
Mr. Hubert Carter, Buckhom
Grange; I-emuel Cheek, White
Cross Grange; Mrs. W. A. Ne
ville, Calvander Grange, and
Bob Stray horn, the New Hope
community. The Pomona Grange,
headed by Vance Martin, and
which is the master grange for
the county, sponsored collections
in the rural areas through the
several granges.
“For the Negro communities,
Powell Woodson, principal of Ef
land Negro school, and Harold
Webb, principal of the Cedar
Grove Negro school, were our
chairmen for those ootumunlUes.
"Our block chairmen, by super
vising the passing of the envel
opes from neighbor to neighbor,
contributed a great deal to the
success of the program.
“Especially, I want to express
our Appreciation to the people of
Orange county who contributed
S 6 generously. The cause, in my
opinion, is worthy of your gen
erosity.”
Che pel Hill's swelling residential
mmi
Thane three E. L.
Gray, Bob Oakes, ead W. ■» Un
church, have formed their ton
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1955
banquet hall under the dome at
the top of the building.
| I walked through the banquet
hall, stepping gingerly on the
thick carpeting, and made my
I way out to the west side ter
race, where I found Sam Boone
and John working on
the big 15-inch reflector tele
scope.
The ’scope looked like a sawed
off atomic cannon. Sam, who is
a member of the Chapel Hill
Astronomy Club and serves as
one of the volunteer guides for
Monday and Thursday telescope
users, seemed to be having
trouble with it.
“I came to take a picture,” I
announced, "of some Boy Scouts
coming up to look through the
telescope at Saturn.”
“You might take a picture,”
Sam said, “and entitle it, ‘Bey
Scouts look vainly for Saturn.’
Wa’re having a hard time get
ting it into focus this evening.
. . . That’s Saturn . . . that bright
object right straight up over
Graham Memorial.”
I saw the object. It looked
rather innocents—just another
spot in the sparkling night sky,
albeit a little brighter than its
heavenly brothers.
“Now take a look through this
view-flnder,” Sam said, “and you
can Bee what we're hunting for.”
The view-flnder was a small
telescope mounted on the side
of the big job. I looked through
it. Sure enough, tkere was Sat
urn, rings and all, clear as a bell,
looking like an enormous flanged
pie plate riding the heavens.
“If it looks this big through
the view-flnder,’’ I wondered out
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Service Station and
Ice Plant Robbed
Burglars pried their W4JT Into
Charlie Johnson’s Hl-Way Ser
vice Station and into the Chapel
Hill Ice Company’s plant early
yesterday morning and escaped
with a total of about sllO.
Mr. Johnson lost SIOO in cur
rency end change, and the ice
plant was missing just $lO in
change.
Carrboro Pofhre Chief J. A.
j Williams, who investigated the
burglaries, said they were prob
ably committed by the same per
son. No information was avail
abc late yesterday on the pro
gresa of the investigation.
"Music under the Stars’’
Another "Music under the
Stars” program will be given at
8 p.m. Sunday, July 81, In the
Forest theatre under the spon
sorship of the Community Church
of Chapel Hill. A recording of
I Bela Bartok's “The Wooden
Prince” will be played. Lent by
Kemp’a Music Store, this record
ing is by the New London Sym
phony directed by Walter Suse
kind. Admission is free and
everybody is Invited.
Lutheran Women's Meeting
The Lutheran Woman of the
Church will meet at 8 p.m. Mon
day, August l, at tha homo of
Mrs. George Horntr on Lon#
9b» hne. Mrs. 0. L. Rockwell
Will have charge of the program.
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Mrs. John Wright
Gets a Surprise
From Her Parents
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. May
field of New Martinsville,
West Virginia, who had been
here several weeks visiting
their son-in-law and daugh
ter, Dr, and. Mrs. John J.
Wright of Laurel Hill drive,
gave the Wrights a surprise
the other day as the time ap
proached for them to return
to West Virginia.
! “We were much concern
ed,” Mrs. Wright told a
friend, “about the long hot
500-mile automobile trip
they had to make. We
usually take them half way,
and my sister and her hus
band meet us and take them
the rest of the way. In fact,
since they are both past
eighty, we were quite sure
they couldn’t manage the
trip any other way.
j “You can imagine our sur
prise when they calmly an
nounced they had decided,
to fly home! Neither of. them
had flown before. But they
had always wanted to, they
said, adding that this was a
good time to do it since the
flight to Parkersburg is non
change and takes only three
hours, as against two days
by car.
“Well, fly they did, while
I figuratively paced the floor
waiting for a telephone call.
llt came, finally, and in de
lighted voices they told me
it was the most wonderful
trip they had ever had in all
their lives, that they enjoy
ed every minute of it,-
weren’t a bit tired, and never
expected to travel any other
way again.
‘Talk about parents not
knowing their children! How
about children not knowing
their parents? I should have
known. They have surprised
me before.
x
“I almost forgot to say I
had never flown for fear it
would worry them!”
Looks like Mrs. Wright
can fly all she wants to now.
Contributions of $5 or Less Are Asked
To Establish a Thomas Athletic Trophy
A campaign to collect contri
butions—none of which should
be more than $6 —to establish a
Jeff Thomas Trophy to be award
ed annually to a distinguished
University athlete has been
initiated by a group of private
citizens here.
Mr. Thomas, who has been con
fined to his bed since he suffered
a heart attack during the winter,
has been the proprietor of the
Campus Confectionary, better
known aa “Jeff’s,” for the past
25 years. The walls of the estab
lishment are covered with pic
turee of University athletes, and
Mr. Thomas has long been con
sidered one of the University’e
moit ardont sports fans.
Cash or ehoeks, to be made out
to the Jeff ThoitlM Trophy Fund,
may be Milled to Bo* 1068 or
left at the Pritchard Little
Motor Company.
Still to be decided is the sport
Speculation Starts
On Plant Location
A front-page story In yester
day’s Raleigh News and Observer
started aa erroneous wave of
speculation that Chapel Hill had
lost Its campaign to bring a large
electronic* firm to this area.
The atory referred to an elec
tronics plaht being established at
Clinton by the Best Manufactur
ing Company of Irvington, New
Jereey, According to Jake
Trailer, executive secretary of
the Chepcf HiU-Carrboro Mer
chants Association, this is not
the same company which Is in
terested ip building a plant in
this U«|,
At Memorial Hospital
Amoog-tocal persons listed as
patients pt Memorial hospital
ye4er<kgr were Thomas N. Alder-
HP Jr., Qttrta Barbee, John M.
Mtomt • Jr„ Mian Constance
>Wok*,jMagf»e Ann CMe, Mrs.
Angle Dunsan, John Lloyd Ed-
MMe, hmc Franklin Hardee,
wptar D. Harrell, Khs Cather
ine Hawley, Mrs. Hiawatha If.
•Mb, Steak Meere, Eerton K.
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Chapel Mill Chaff
L. G.
Something that many of
us did not think of, when
North Carolina’s fruit crops
were killed by the late freeze
this year, was that fruit
'trees-further north might
have escaped destruction be
cause of later budding.
My associate, Joe Jones,
who comes from Berryville,
Virginia, and gets frequent
letters from his kin there,
tells me that the apple trees
in that region were not
damaged and will produce a
big crop. Berryville, which
is ’way up in the northern
point of Virginia, close to
West Virginia and Maryland
and not more than half an
hour’s drive from Pennsy
lvania, is near Senator
Byrd’s famous orchards, and
there are many other orch
ards roundabout. Their not
being damaged means'" that
Virginia apples will be
here. I am mighty
glad of that.
You never know where the
apples put on the market in
Chapel Hill will come from.
Undoubtedly some will come
from Virginia, but probably
there will be some from
Pennsylvania, New York,
and places even. more dis
tant. I remember that one
day last year Charles W.
Shields, the grocer, pointed
to the apples in a crate in
his store and said: ‘These
are from Canada. I wonder
why we have to get apples
from as far away as that?”
The explanation seems to
lie in one or more of these
factors: labor for gathering
the fruit, packing, and
transportation. When I was
In Western North Carolina;
ar few years ago l drove
along by orchards in whicji
the trees were laden with
beautiful red apples, and we
saw a vast quantity of
apples on the ground. A man
at a filling station told us
most of them would never
,be marketed because the
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for which the annual award will
be made. However, frienda of
Mr. Thomas said baseball has
always been one of his favorites,
and that sport might win the
honor.
Building and Loan
At the meeting of the direc
tors of the Orange County Build
ing and Loan Association, Wed
nesday evening, W. O. Sparrow,
executive secretary, reported as
set* of $2,686,000, an increase
of $24,993 in (hi last month,
Other figures reported Were: de
posit! $2,519,000 (increase $49,-
687), loans $2,461,929 (Increase
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NBC Starts Broadcast
Os Radio Show Series
Produced by University
The National Broadcasting Company last night
(Thursday) earned the first of a series of 13 weekly pro
grams written by John Ehle and directed by John Clayton,
both faculty members of the University’s department of
Cloned Door Policy
Goes into Effect at
Offices in Town Hall
The door to the Town Hall
municipal offices was closed
yesterday. No, everybody
wasn’t on vacation, and they
weren’t out to lunch, and it
wasn’t that they had become
anti-social.
It was the air-condition
ing.
“We just haven’t had
any business,” commented
Mrs. Mary Lovejoy, the
town clerk. She didn’t know
whether the dosed door was
the reason, or whether the
word hadn’t yet gotten
around that the place was
on ice.
The air-conditioning has
just been put in by Bennett
!and Blocksidge. A unit has
also been installed upstairs
in the fire department
quarters.
The police department
doesn’t have any of the deep
freeze equipment, and the
law officers have displayed
just a touch of sour grape
ism about it. “They keep
telling us we’re going to
catch cold,” said Mrs. Love
joy.
Answer to Be Filed
ill* «a umr jZntnfy fit
a federal .court suit Insti
tuted by three Durham
Negroes seeking to enter the
University hare as under
graduates.
Attorney-General William
B. Rodman and Assistant
Attorney-General L Beverly
Lake have been working on
the answer for several
weeks. It was expected to
uphold the right of the Uni
versity to refuse admission
to the applicants as under
graduates.
Under University policy,
qualified Negro graduate
students are admitted to
follow courses of study
which are not available in
state-supported Negro insti
tutions of higher learning,
but undergraduate students
are not eligible for admiss
ion.
$46,922), dividends paid to share
holders and depositor! in the last
month, $33,719.
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television and motion
pictures.
The program is carried
in this area by radio station
WPTF in Raleigh. Air time
is 8:30. WPTF will broad
cast the entire series, on
Thursday nights through
the next 13 weeks.
The programs, which are
part of the “American Ad
venture” series, were. pro
duced by the University
Communication Center.
They dramatize incidents in
American history’whkh illu
strate basie values and
characteristics of the Amer
ican people.
According to Communica
tion Center Director Earl
Wynn, this is the first time
in the knowledge of Univer
sity personnel that any col
lege radio series has been
recognized by being broad
cast on a coast-to-coast
hookup of a commercial net
work. The programs have
previously been aired by the
University’s educational sta
tion, WUNC-FM, and by 76
other educational stations
across the country.-
The series won the Free
doms Foundation award and
a first prize in the Ohio State
| University competition. One
of the programs was select
ed as the United States
Untry in international com
rajhjkMfor the Italia Priae.
Bn thorns*
a slave boy and themdMr
who befriended him. The
second program, scheduled
for 8:80 p.m. next Thursday,
is entitled “Hearth Are,” and
deals with a Tennessee
mountain woman who la
forced by the government to
give up her family home
stead wheq land la cleared
for a Tennessee Valley Au
thority lake.
Members of the Univer
sity faculty who served as coa
eultants for the series were
Bernard Boyd, John GUlin,
Fletcher Green, Everett Hall,
Frank Hanft, Clifford Lyons,
William Poteat, Clemens Sommer
and the late Howard Odum.
The caats for the various pro
grams are composed of Univer
sity student*, faculty members
and Chapel Hill townspeople.
The east for lest night’s show
I Deluded the author, Mr. Ehle,
SSd three University students,
Charles Kuralt, Bill Waddell, and
Bill Trotman. Josephine Sharkey
will be featured in the leading
role es seat week's show
Organ Recital Set
I For Tuesday Night
[ The University department es
music and the etudent Summer
j Activities Council will present an
organ recital by John Shannon
I at 8 o’clock Tuesday evaning at
Hill Mueic hall.
I Mr. Shannon is a graduate of
Davidson College and is now a
graduate student in musicology
st ths University here. His pro
gram will includs works by
Schlick, Buxtehude, Balbastre,
Bach and Schroeder.
Ryans in Germany
Mr. and Mrs. W. Carson Ryan
loft this wook for Germany,
wharo Mr. Ryan will serve as
oaa of twe United States dele
gates to an International New
Education Fellowship meeting at
jWeilbourg. IVrtlcipant* in ths
'conference will review the year's
j work to education and disease
uUMM mmimml
Mr, «|d Mm. Ryan will vUit a
•wmher of European aotlaßS,b*-
trtok. They will retnm by pit ea
August M.
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