FRIDAY
ISSUE
Next Issue Tuesday
Vol. 33, No. 44
Big Turnover
Suggs Is Named
New Principal at
Carrboro School
Reid Suggs was confirmed
this week 'by the county
Board of Education as the
new principal of the Carr
bowschool.
Mr. Suggs, who taught
the seventh grade at the
Chapel Hill elementary
school during the past year,
came here from Winston-
Salem, where he was prin
cipal of an elementary
school. In his new job he
succeeds William W. Ram
sey.
C. W. Davis, Chapel Hill
superintendent of schools,
said yesterday, “Mr. Suggs
is a very good teacher. We
hate to lose him, but we are
glad to see him get the prin
cipal’s job.”
Mr. Suggs is only one of
35 new teachers and prin
cipals approved in the coun
ty school system. The num
ber represents a 25 per cent
turnover. Here is the rest
of the list of new appoint
ments, as approved by the
county board on Monday:
Carrboro elementary:
Jane McKeithan, Martha
Buc&m, Jewel K. Alexander,
ColWance Strupe, Pansy
Dobson and Claudia Cates.
Hillsboro high: Anyce
McKee, Fred Claytor, Clyde
Erwin, Jane Byrd, Margaret
Richmond, Jean S. Dew and
Caunie Ruth Cooke.
Murp he y elementary:
Marion L. Crawford and
Nancy B. McKee.
Efland: Arnold Straugh,
Caroline Ballance, Joann EL
Richards and Mrs. Batty L.
Cowan.
Efland (Negro): Dorothy
Dixon and Norma Snipes.
Aycock: J. L. McDaniel
(principal), Mrs. Minerva
Kenyon, Mrs. Ann D. de
CMazarra and Mrs. Ruby
Tucker Creel.
Central high: Grace Mc-
Mullen, Audrey F. Burt,
Gloria Jones, Taleton Davis,
Marguerite Porter and
Sawßi B. Weaver.
Three additional vacan
cies remain to be filled—one
at Aycock, one at Hillsboro
and one at White Cross.
Kiwanis Club Will
Finance a Student
Members of the Chapel
Hill Kiwanis Club at their
Tuesday night program at
the Carolina Inn, voted to
sponsor a foreign student in
our local high school for the
cAing year.
Ttogers Wade and Frank
Umstead led the discussion.
Slated to come to Chapel Hill
will be a boy from Japan. He
will enter the senior class at
the high school and will stay
in a private home. Any per
son desiring additional in
formation may get it from
Mr. Wade or Mr. Umstead.
M Muaie under the Star*”
Another “Muaic under the
BUra” program will be given at
8 fjm Sunday, August 7, in the
Foifit theatre under the auspice*
of the Community Church of
Chapel Hill. Admission is free
and everybody ia invited. The
program wfll conaiat of a high
fidelity recording of Tachaikow
aky’a “Swan lake." Thla record
ing, lent by Kemp'a Muaic Store,
{a by the Philharmonic Orchestra,
with Robert Irving conducting.
Planning Board to Meet
The Chapel Hill Planning
Board will hold its August meet
ing at the Town Hall tonight
(Friday) at 8 o’clock. Several
matters are expected to be acted
upon for presentation to the
aldermen when they meet Tues
day night.
Dr. Peacock ia 8k Louis
Dr. Erie E. Peacock haa gone
to St Louis to join the faculty
«f Washington University as a
fellow and assistant in plastic
surgery in the department of
•urvry in the Medical School.
Mixed Schools Don’t Seem to
Be in Cards for This Fall, But
Policy Will Be Set on Aug. 15
Will Chapel Hill have mixed schools this fall?
The answer, while it is almost certain to be “no,” is
still unsettled. In a week of
integration-segregation field,
occurred:
1. The Chapel Hill School
Board called a meeting for
August 15 to determine its
policy for local schools for
the 1955-56 fiscal year.
2. The Chapel Hill Council
for Negro Affairs, through
its chairman, J. P. Burnette,
announced it will attempt to
enroll “a few” Negro stu
dents in white schools here
in September.
(A member of the Negro
community told the Weekly
that the Council was not a
large organization and did
not have widespread support
in the community. He said
Mr. Burnette, who preaches
at a church some miles north
of Chapel Hill, took the
chairmanship after the
isters of the established
Chapel Hill Negro churches
turned it down.)
3. School Board Chairman
Carl Smith told board mem
bers he thought integration
in the public schools was
“feasible,” “possible,” and
“inevitable." However, he
said integration was also, in
his opinion, “highly unde
sirable.”
Meanwhile, in Hillsboro,
the Board of Education for
the county school system
(which does not include
Chapel Hill) postponed
taking any action on inte
gration policy. The reason
given was the absence of one
of its members, Harry P.
Breeze.
Th% county board was dis
cussing the wisdom of set
ting up a committee to study
the segregation question and
to make recommendations to
the Board of Education.
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Merchants Looking
For New Secretary
The Board of Directors of
the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Merchants Association were
scheduled to meet last
night (Thursday) to discuss
the hiring of a replacement
for Executive Secretary
Jake Trexler, who has re
signed, effective August
15th.
President Crowell Little
said before the meeting that
no one had been approached
about the job. “We hope to
have a replacement before
the end of the month,” he
added.
While there is nothing
definite, the Weekly has
learned that several mer
chants are anxious to see
Mrs. Clarence Whitefield
(the former Jane Smoak)
return to the office. She
served as secretary until last
Hpring, when she resigned
to become bookkeeper at the
Pritchard-Little Motor Com
pany.
Mrs. Whitefield’s entry
Into the picture takes on a
strange twist in that she is
working at present for Mr.
Little, the Association’s
President. Mr. Little has
commented that he would
hate very much to see Mrs.
Whitefield leave his organ
ization, but he would cer
tainly have no objections to
the job being offered to her
if that were the wishes of
the board of directors.
Hospital Meeting Today
.District Four of the North
Carolina HospiUl Aaaociation
will meet at Duke University to
day (Friday). About 60 hoapital
administrators and directors of
nursing aervice will attend the
meeting, the topic of which will
be “Better Utilization of Nursing
Personnel." Chapel Hill's Me
morial hospital will be one of the
institutions represented at the
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Pete Ivey to Head
UNC Mews Bureau
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Alfred Guy (Pete) Ivey,
above, has been appointed
director of the University
News Bureau, succeeding
the late Robert' W. Madry,
who served more than 30
years with the bureau as its
only past full-time director.
Chancellor Robert B. House
announced yesterday that
Mr Ivey, now executive edi
tor of the Shelby Star and
formerly associate editor of
the Winston-Salem Journal
and Sentinel, would take
over the office September 1.
Since Mr. Madry’s death
on April 8 the bureau has
been in the charge of Jake
Wade, University sports
publicist, who was not a can
didate for the permanent ap
pointment.
Mr. Ivey, a native of
Rocky Mount, is a Univer
sity alumnus of the class of
1935. While here he was edi
tor of the Carolina Bucca
neer, the student humor
publication: director of the
Graham Memorial; prolific
writer for the Tar Heel, the
campus newspaper; manag
ing editor of the Alumni Re
view, and captain of the
wrestling team. He was
widely known as a humorist
and after-dinner speaker.
In 1938 Mr. Ivey joined
the staff of the Winston-
Salem Journal and Sentinel
and worked, progressively,
as reporter, feature writer,
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War Memorial Is
Target of Vandals
The new memorial to Chapel
Hill’i World War II dead ha*
only been in position in front of
the high achool for little more
than a week, but already vandal*
have started to work on it.
In the four corner* of the
bronze plaque were placed tiny
replica* of service insignias.
Sometime this week one of the
insignias disappeared, apparent
ly the work of a vandal.
At Memorial Hospital
Among local persons listed as
patients at Memorial hospital
yesterday were Charles Barbee,
John Myers Blount Jr., Mi**
Constance Brooks, Maggie Ann
Cole, Franklin Davies, Miss
Eleanor Alice Driscoll, Mrs. Ed
ward Duncan, Mrs. Charles M.
Durham, Mrs. Isaac Edwards,
David 8. Evans, Miss Catherine
Henley, Louis John Jacobs,
Howard Jenner, Jack Lasley, Mrs.
Otis M. Lowrey, Mixa Bessie
Minor, Ray Hamilton Morrison,
Mrs. John R. Poole, E. I* Shel
ton Jr., Robert M. Snipes, and
Horton Ray Upchurch.
Walaer on TV This Evening
Professor Richard Walser of
the English department of State
College, one of Ihe best informed
critics of North Carolina litera
ture, will be a guest on WUNC
TV’s “Almanac" program at 6:26
this (Friday) evening.
At the United Church
Dean J. Earl Danieley of Elon
College will preach this Sunday,
August 7, at the regular ten
o’clock morning worship sendee
•t the United Congregational
Christina church.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1956
Two elaycees Are
Mamed Chairmen
Os State (nroups
Two Chapel Hill Jaycees
were appointed chairmen of
state committees at the dis
trict Jaycee meeting here
Wednesday night.
They were Collier Cobb
111, who will be state sports
chairman, and Dr. W. T.
Kohn, who will be eye bank'
chairman. That Chapel Hill
got two chairmen was con
sidered complimentary to
the local organization, be
cause there are only 33 state
appointments to be made.
The two Chapel Hillians’
appointments were an
nounced as 185 Jaycees from
12 clubs in this district met
at the old Chapel Hill Coun
try club for a buffet supper
and business session. All
clubs in the district, except
Pittsboro, were represented.
Present for the meeting
was Past President 1 Bill
Henderson of Reidsviile as
well as officials of the vari
ous clubs and National Di
rector Bob Cox of Chapel
Hill. Cox described the dis
trict meeting as “one of the
best I ever attended. There
was good spirit and lots of
business that was taken
care of speedily. And the
food was good.”
The group here represent
ed some 1,000 Jaycees in the
district which extends west
to High Point and Greens
boro and will soon include
the Guilford College club.
Mr*. Prouty in Pittsburgh
Mrs. W. F. Prouty is in Pitts
burgh, Pa., visiting her son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Chilton E. Prouty, and their
children, Billy sud John. She
and her eon Bill drove there this
week, BUI will return soon by
car and Mrs. Prouty will fly back
later in the summer.
Free Square Dance Tonight
A square dance will be held at
8:15 this (Friday) evening on the
terrace of the Woollen gymnas
ium under the auspices of the
University’s Summer Activities
Council. Mrs. Beth Okun will call
the figures. Admission is free
and everybody is invited.
Library Here Has Fine Collection of
Material on Napoleon and His Period
The University Library has re
ceived, Mince 1963, about 1,000
volumes from the William Henry
Hoyt Collection of French His
tory, consisting of books and doc
uments relating particularly to
Napoleon and the Napoleonic
period in Europe.
Mr. Hoyt, a distinguished New
York attorney, is also a historian,
having written a study of the
Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde
pendence, published in 1907, and
having edited the papers and let
ters of the North Carolina jurist
and advocate of public education,
Archibald I)ebow Murphey, which
were published in 1914. For sev
eral years he has been engaged
in research for a book which he
is writing about Peter Stuart
Ney, the North Carolina school
teacher who is purported to have
been Marshal Ney of France, un
der Napoleon. In the course of
this research, Mr. Hoyt collected
about 6,000 volumes of French
history.
George V. Taylor, the Univer
sity’s French history scholar,
says of the Hoyt collection: “Not
only does it amplify and extend
our facilities for graduate train
ing and faculty study, but also it
marks our Library as one of the
few American centers of Napo
leonic research and provides us
with a fine stock of rare mate
rials, handsomely bound, many of
them distinguished by eminent
past ownership.”
Among source materials in the
Hoyt Collection are printed
manuscripts of Napoleon as well
as papers and letters of other
important figures of the Napo
leonic period, such as the private
and public papers of Metternich
and Nesselrode, the journals of
Priederlch von Gents, the collect
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Phillip* Russell Is 71
Phillips Russell was 71 years
old yesterday. He was born
August 4, 1884, In Rockingham,
N. C. His family has been closely
connected with the University for
180 years. His great-grand
father, James Phillips, and his
grandfather, Samuel Phillips,
were members of the faculty, and
he has been a member of the
faoaHy let abort » yean.
Chapel Mill Chaff
L. G.
I met Jack Sparrow at the
post office Monday morning
after not having seen him
for several months. He said
he had been spending most
of his time lately with his
son in Fayetteville. I noticed
he was smoking a cigarette.
“You look well—smoking
doesn’t seem to have hurt
you,” I said .... “I don’t
put any stock in all this talk
about smoking and cancer,”
he said. “I don’t drink at all
any more. I had to quit be
cause it was bad for my
stomach. Smoking is the
only comfort I have left in
the way of a habit. I can’t
see that it’s doing me any
harm. I smoke about twenty
cigarettes a day.” He
thought a minute and added.
“Well, I’d better say I light
about that many. I throw
a cigarette away when it’s
half smoked up.”
So, the quantity of tobacco
Mr. Sparrow smokes in a day
amounts to only ten whole
cigarettes. A lot of people
do fractional smoking like
that. Ix)ok at the ash trays
after a party, or at the
sweepings in the gutters
along sidewalks, and you see
a mass of butts, some so
long that evidently only
three or four puffs have been
taken on them. If all the
cigarette smokers in the
country paid for only the
quantity of tobacco they!
actually-smoke, it would be
a major calamity to tobacco
growers and the tobacco in
dustry.
The unsmoked parts of
cigarettes don’t go to waste
in some other countries as
th|y do in prosperous and
profligate America. That is,
not if other countries are as
they were when I knew
them. I remember that when
I was in Paris, in the year
after the First World War,
a familiar sight was a sharp
eyed man shuffling along
the street, eyeing smokers,
and then pouncing upon a
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ed work* of Saint-Jast and an
edition of Marat’* pamphlets a*
well a* hi* letter* and documents.
A complete edition of the “Mon
iteur” covering the year* 1789-
1801 will enable the faculty of
the history department to initiate
for the fir*t time research pro
ject* relating to the period of
the Directory.
A recent shipment contained
1i.'12 original and scarce broad
sides, bulletins, and proclama
tions issued by Napoleon and hi*
general* which Mr. Hoyt pur
chased from the Andre de Cop
pet Collections of Printed Book*.
Other important *ource* are a
number of issue* of a rare Ger
mun field newspaper of 1813-14;
Kondonneau’s official edition of
the Code Napoleon, and. a com
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Chapel Hillians Going to Fort Jackson for Army Training
These Chapel Hillians, all members of the 108th Division Artillery Headquarters, an Army
Reserve unit stationed la Durham, are going t* Fort Jackson, South Carolina, this weekend to
participate la tw* weeks saaMaer training. They are skew* looking at mope of the Jackson
military reservation at a recent meeting to plan camp activities- The thro* seated at the
are, left t* right, Bft. John H. Cato, Sgt. Earl D. Lowery and CpL Sam Emory Jr. Standing, left
to right, are Copt. Rshort H. Strayhera, CpL Robert W. Heath, let Lt. Charles (Check) Hauser
mUUtU. Robert Bmrila. Sgt. UWery recently moved from Chapel WH to Durham, but he
wfll «taHm tssibtog daces* la Liacela high wheel here.
Businessmen Create Organization
To Build Off‘Street Parking Areas
In East Franklin Shopping District
A group of businessmen and property
owners in the East Franklin street busi
ness district this week set op a prelimin
ary organization looking toward eventual
acquisition of property for off-street
parking.
Some 16 men who have pledged financial
support to the project to afford more
parking accommodations in the central
business district agreed to go ahead on
the formation of a corporation, and they
named a steering committee for that pur
pose. The chairman of the group is Herb
Wentworth, and he will be assisted by
Joe Page, Joe Robbins, Bill Sloan, and
Harvey Bennett.
They immediately invited any person
or persons having available property for
sale or lease on Rosemary street or im
mediate vicinity to list it with the group
for consideration. The committee then
will report to the full group before any
final action is taken.
To handle the capital necessary to lease
or acquire the needed off-street parking
area, a corporation will be formed with
the advice of legal counsel. It will have
a name akin to Chapel Hill Parking Asso
ciation, and will probably support not only
its own initiated projects primarily but
also any legitimate off-street parking pro
Air-Conditioning
Following the example set
by the Town Hall business
office and the fire department,
Chapel Hill’s police force in
stituted its own “air-condi
tioning” program this week.
The gentlemen in blue didn’t
install their heat-defeating de
vices in the windows; they pat
them on their backs, In the
form of open-neck, shortsleeve
shirts.
Bermuda shorts? Not this
year, but maybe next, accord
ing to a police department 1
spokesman who preferred to
remain anonymous.
Postal Receipts
Ahead of 1954
Postal receipts at the Chapel
Hill post office are moving ahead
of last year by a substantial per
centage figures compiled by Post
master Paul Cheek disclosed yes
terday.
Receipts for the first six
months of 1965 were 7.87 per
cent over the corresponding
period lust year, and thoae for
the month of July jumped to
19 per cent over the same month
of 1964.
Receipts for the first six
months of 1965 totaled $125,-
556.09 against $116,839.50 for the
same period last year.
For July this year the receipts
were $24,176.22 as compared with
$20,313.84 for the corresponding
month of 1964.
Post office receipts are con
sidered by businessmen a good
index to business conditions.
When they are up, business is
usually good; and when they are
down, business likewise is off.
Browna in the Mountains
Mr. and Mrs. Roy M. Brown
are at their summer cabin in the
mountains near Boone.
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ject in the community, Mr. Wentworth
said. »
For several months businessmen and
property owners in the East Franklin
street district have been considering
means by which more parking spaces could
be afforded the shopping public. Several
casual and impromptu meetings have been
held, resulting in Mr. Wentworth making
a survey of businessmen in the area and
discussing with them the possibilities of
banding together to provide their own
cooperative facility.
Mr. Wentworth found 20 businessmen
and property owners who were willing to
back the program with a substantial pur
chase of stock in such a corporation. They
were then invited to lunch at the Pines
Tuesday when the steering committee
was appointed and instructed to proceed.
“All of us realise the need for more
parking space in the area,” Mr. Went
worth told the Weekly yesterday. “Even
this summer and right now with a com
paratively few summer school students
in town it is virtually impossible to get s
parking space in the main business dirf*
trict. What it will be this fall when
the students return and more people com%,
to town .fe djCMMe
Cokers in ffiWfiWWin Return
To Puerto Coming Here
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Cokd£j
who have been living ig Masj||jj
guex. Puerto Rico, while ifi
Coker is serving on the staff 9
the University of Puerto Bi 9
recently flew to the Un|fl
States but will return to M«
guez without having visited thjl
home here. The chief purpoeejH
the trip is for Mr. Coker, whqjS
a zoologist, end one of his dK
leagues, Juan Rivero, to make!
tour madae laboratories <M
foundations in the sIMMBEfiBatfH
States. A oeom panigd < MMw
Rivero, the two bote#aibVl4l jMj
a* far north as the marine tib
ortory at Woods Hole, Mass. (Mr.
Coker was head of the zoology
department of the University
here till his retirement several
years ago.)
Mr. and Mrs. Coker and Mr.
and Mrs. Rivero flew from
Mayaguez to Miami on July 17.
Plana for the trip were described
in a letter Mrs. Coker wrote to
n Chapel Hill friend on July 13.
Here are passages from her
letter:
“i will leave the other three
ut Miami to fly to Pittsburgh,
Pa., where the entire R. E. Coker
Jr. family of four will meet me
at the airport and take me to
Butler, Pa., for a visit with them.
Robert will join me there at the
end of July ( and on August 2nd
we will to Charlotte and go
to Blowing Rock, where we will
be in one of the Norvall apart
ments until August 11, when we
John Phay to Give Talk
John E. Phay, professor of
education at the University of
Mississippi, will speak at the
Summer Session’s final Tuesday
Colloquium next Tuesday eve
ning, August 9, in the Forest
theatre. His talk will conclude
the series, which began June 14.
FRIDAY
ISSUE
Ne*i lame Tsasday
Charleston, and then on
■Hk to Puerto Rico.
®We are sorry we will not get
■|t Chapel Hill on this trip but
lip expecting to come home at
Intend of this year-—unless they
Hmr-persuade us to stay longer
■mi in May ague*. Robert is
■Mnendously intemted in the
Mpelopment of the marine lab-
here, and they have made
PTmuch progress since he has
Hpn here it is very gratifying
PpMm Mjipleasing to the Uni-
'tfeHnp * a*
trying to get
help them in developing marine
labs, but I do not know whether
or not he will want to continue
on indefinitely. He has greatly
enjoyed his work here and is full
of energy and pep.
“Puerto Rico is hot and humid
but, to give the place its due, it
is a very beautiful and interest
ing island. We have as comfort
able a house as one could wish,
and I have now learned my way
around and know how to find
what 1 want. Imagine my buy
ing some frosen chicken breasts,
to read on the label, ‘Packed by
the Farmers Cooperative, Dur
ham, North Carolina’! When I
hear people talk now, too, it
Mounds like a language and not
the gibberish it did at first. I
can read the Spanish pretty well,
and manage enough phrases to
get what I want, but that’s all.
They talk too fast.”
Schedule of Story
Telling Announced
There are three more story
hours on the summer schedule
of the Mary Bayley Pratt Chil
dren’s Library on the second floor
of the Chapel Hill elementary
school on West Franklin street,
it is announced by Mrs. Nina
Chasteen, the summer librarian,
who also acts as story teller.
The remaining story hour sche
dule will be as follows:
At 10 a.m. tomorrow (Satur
day) at a story hour for pre
school and first-grade children
Mrs. Chastesa will tell the
stories, “The Boy Who Cried
Wolf,” "The Golden Touch," and
“Dick Whittington and His Cat.”
At 10 a.m. Wednesday, August
10, at the story hour for older
children, Mrs. Chasteen will con
clude the reading of John Rus
kin’s “The King of the Golden
River.”
| At 10 a.m. Saturday, August
13, at a story hour for pre
school and first-grade children
Mrs. Chasteen will tell “And
rocles and the Lion,” “The Frog
Prince,” and “AU Baba and the
Forty Thieves.”
Saturday, August 18, will be
the final day of the library’s sum
mer session. All children an in
vited to use the library and to
attend its story hours.
Atkinson Plans Pend
Georg* Atkinson, who** farm
is on N. C. t$ between her* and,
Hillsboro, ie planning to build «
pond that pin provide water for
Me tfleedbifc and also be
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