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TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday Vol. 33, No. 45 Huggins Store Has Reopened After Costly Conflagration Huggins Hardwarere sumed business yesterday in a brand new fashion amid beautiful settings. A number of changes have kn made in the popular! iblishment at 107 Eastj Franklin Street during the! 65 days it was closed on ac count of a June 3 fire. They, include: 1. Innovation of self-serv-| ice whereby customers may; browse, study, handle and; possibly taste before select-' ing the purchase. 2. Installation of store-j wide air-conditioning and improved lighting for the comfort and convenience of j shoppers. 3. Provision of two en-| trances whereby one may enter either from Franklin Street or from the free park ing lot in rear of the store. 4. Decoration of the store in beautiful murals of all co lors which plainly mark ev ery department and which *%re actual colors of the paints and enamels offered for sale. The completely renovated hardware store will continue principally in hard wire, gifts, housewares and paints, including all the items that go with those broad categories; and there fore, it is still the one-stop store for anyone wanting al most any item, save furni ture or major appliances. “Yes, we’re happy to get back into business,” declared L. Victor Huggins, owner of the store. “This is a resump tion of business, not a for* mal opening. We’re not re opening with any fanfare. That’ll come later, actually during the week of Septem ber 12, when we’ll have free gifts and door prizes and factory demonstrations. J Right now we’re just reopen-j ing our doors and getting back into business for two reasons. One is we feel obli-| to our old friends and customers who want to clean up, paint up, fix up and re-! decorate before school opens in the fall. And the other (Continued on page 8) Free Show Set For Tomorrow Evening A variety show, free to every body, will be given at 8 o’clock tomorrow (Wednesday) evening In the Forest theatre under the sponsorship of the University Summer Activities Council. If the weather is rainy the show will A given at the same time in Me morial hall. The program will include music by a combo made up of atudents in the University’s School of Nursing, a number of skits, a solo, a rendition of the Charles ton, and music by Johnny Woot en’s combo. Summer Session students who will perform are Ed Guien, New York; Ken Callendar, Greensbo ro; Sylvia Yelton, Bakesville; Charlie Kim, Los Angeles; Wat Geddie, Rocky Mount; Anna Windley, Washington; Louise Cooper, Graham; Johnny Woot iww Kinston; Bud Levin, New rak; Marv Porter, Henderson ville, and the girls in the nurses’ combo. | Tom Brame of Durham will be master of ceremonies. Negro Youth la Drowned Marshall Timberlake, 10-year old Negro, was drowned Sunday morning while wading with four other Negro youths in a pond at the Terrace View Church of God camp grounds about five miles west of here on the Greensboro highway. He and Frank Fuller. 18, stepped in a hole while wading near the Shore. Fuller was res cued, but the other three young men were unable to swim well enough to save Timberlake. The victim, son of Mrs. Ethel Timber lake, lived on the John Tilley farm on Chapel Hill Route 1. Paper Drive Plsaaoi The Chapel Hill Jayseos win conduct their mat m rap pap* drive on Sunday, August flft, “Deadwood Dick,” Rousing Old-Time Melodrama, Will Be Staged Here Next Week by Youngsters memm mmst ■ ‘Mm . m*9 m m % * m Bx&SiS[ Bar dL .4W ffj mBBf . v£sRBB mRIE ■r/J Wp \ • , j ■ f m d fi Sr. \ ’fe gs a | Wr Iji •• , - . ATsfiM'}* ' gg.*£f?r kartt Nixon Lauterer, Chapel Hill’s promising young act or who scored a great hit as the confused Philadelphia son in the Carolina Playmak ers’ recent production of | “The Remarkable Mr. Pen nypacker,” is shown here at right as he will appear in the role of a Chinese cook in “Deadwood Dick,” the com Group Will Ask Permission to Acquire Property for Downtown Public Parking The group of East Frank lin street businessmen who plan to provide off-street parking in their area will file an application for a char ter of incorporation that would empower them to lease or acquire property for that purpose, a spokesman for the group told the Week ly yesterday. It is expected that the ap plication will be filed this Jweek with Secretary of State |Thad Eure. It is being draft ed by Emory V. Denny Jr., Chapel Hill lawyer, and will be submitted to Mr. Eure as soon as the group’s steering committee reaches agree ment on certain phases of the proposed organization. One of these is a name, and New Plays Will Be Given Here This Week Three new one-act plays writ ten by students in John W. Park er’s playwriting class in the Uni versity’s drama department will be given at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, August 11 and 12, in the Playmakers theatre. Admission is free and everybody is invited. “An Angel Came Walking,’’ one of the plays, was written by Carolyn Kimzey Sumner of Bre vard and is being directed by Ruth Hubbard Young of Salis bury. The cast includes John A. Parker Jr. of Chapel Hill; Harold Williamson, Sims; Miss Pearl Fishel, Chapel Hill; Mona Allen, Harriman, Term., and Sarah Kel ly, Liliington. Miss Young is also the author of “Board Meeting,” another of the play*. Martha Kanklin of Montgomery, Ala., is its director. The cast consists of Peter O’- Sullivan, Fran Thompson, and WUNC-TV to Take Classroom into Home Want to come to college in the fall? You can do so without ever leaving your living room. Juat tune your television set to WUNC-TX. Channel 4, after September 26 and brush off your note books. Under the expanded schedule planned to go into effect follow ing WUNC-TV’s summer vaca tion period August 24 to Septem ber 26, North Carolina’s pioneer educational TV station will not only beam the lectures into your own living room, it will also per mit you to receive bonafide col lege credit for work successfully completed. These “college credit nights,” first begun this summer, will be an improvement over the summer courses in that they will appear over your television set on a reg ular schedule twice » week. They will appear in a eeriea at three courses—cue originating The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents a Copy edy to be given next week by the Junior Carolina Play makers under the direction of Mrs. Louise I.amont. He is a son of Mrs. Myra Laut erer and a grandson of Charles E. Rush, former University Librarian, and Mrs. Rush. Other members of the cast shown in the pic- Iture are Evelyn True of another is whether or not the organization will be set up as a non-profit enter prise. Herbert Wentworth, chairman of the steering committee, said yesterday the committee was to meet yesterday afternoon or to day to settle these questions. Mr. Wentworth added that he was still anxious to receive offers of suitable property for lease or sale in the vicinity of Rosemary street and close to the busi ness section of' East Frank lin street. The newly organized group is composed of about 20 businessmen and proper ty owners. Myra Lauterer, all of Chapel Hill; Bob Andrews, Durham, and John Conner, lowa Falls, lowa. The third play, “Ladies of Lee,” was written by W. Norman Book er of Greensboro and is being di rected by John Conner. The cast includes Pat Liston, Hugh Down ing, and Frances Perry, all of Chapel Hill; Ken Callender, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Charles Barrett, Hickory; Jo Anne Hobby, Greens boro; Carolina Williamson, Fay etteville, and Edward Duke, Ra leigh. Mrs. Simmons Returns Mrs. Claudia Simmons has re turned from a month’s stay with her son, Dr. Norwood Simmons, in Pasadena, California. Her fwo young granddaughters, Carol and Claudia Simmons of St. Simons Island, Qa., are here visiting her. at each of the University of North Carolina’s TV plants—be ginning every Tuesday and Thursday night at 8:30 p.m. Each of the courses will be telecast for 30 minutes, accord ing to Duff Browne, WUNC-TV program director at Chapel Hill. Subjects to be taught in the series have not yet been deter mined. Mr. Browne also said the three studios at Woman's College, Greensboro; State College, Ra leigh; and UNC at Chapel Hill plan to offer more on-tbe-spot programming through remota fa cilities after the fall reopening, plus special programming on Saturdays and Sundays. Ha said tha staff is now plan ning a series of “in -school” pro grams which will ba beamed di rectly into the classrooms of eio naatary schools within raaga of tha WUNC-TV transmitter. . CHAPEL HILL, N. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1955 | Pittsburgh, Pa. (left), and Pattv Leslie of Tukhannonk, Pa. Young Vic Huggins, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Hug gins of Chapel Hill, plays the leading role of Nick Har ris, alias Deadwood Dick himself. The play, described as a “rootin’ tootin’ melodrama of the gay nineties,” will be given at 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, August 19 and 20, in the Playmakers thea tre. Tickets (75 cents each) will go on sale next Monday at Ledbetter-Pickard’s and at the Playmaker ' ' 'siness office in Abernethy hall. The cast of the play is made up of high school stu dents and recent high school graduates who have come here from this and other states to study drama courses being given for them in the University Summer School by the U.N.C. drama department. Costuming for the production is by Bob Snead, the settings by Har vey Whetstone. “In ’Deadwood Dick,’ ” Mrs. Lamont said yesterday, we are staging a dramatiza tion of a dashing dime novel of the kind Grandfather used to sneak out in the barn to read. It is about lily-pure maidens and black-hearted gamblers. “In 1876 a little-knowm writer, Edward L. Wheeler, started turning out dime no vels about a Robin Hood of the Black Hills whom he named Deadwood Dick. Overnight Dick became so popular that the series con tinued for fifteen years and Wheeler gave up only when he had written 64. “Taking the most exciting situations, the more colorful characters, and the most amusing dialog from these novels, Tom Taggart has fashioned a Gay ’9o’s melo drama that has all the ele ments that made those blood-and-thunder melodra (Continued on page 8) Mra. Katteoff Wiiu Trip I Mra. L. 0. Kattsoff of Chapel I Hill, who is in Allenhurst, N. J., for the summer, has just been notified by the Jackson Vitrified China Company of New York that she is the winner of the grand prize in a nation-wide con test sponsored by the company. The prize is a two-weeks tour of two European countries by-way of Pan American Airways planes. For a number of years Mrs. Katt soff has been taking part in such contests and has won many prizes. To Open Bids Tomorrow Bids for the construction of Lincoln high school’s proposed new gymtorium will be opened tomorrow in School Superinten dent Davis’s office in the Cone house oa Weat Franklin street, it Is annouaced by Cari Smith, chairman of the school board. Mr. Smith said about 10 goneral coa traetrs aas oxpoctod to submit m | Community Church Buys Tract from I Wesley Sparrow The Community Church of Chapel Hill has bought a 14- acre tract from Welsey 0. Sparrow at the corner of | Purefoy road and Mason I Farm road (out beyond Vic tory Village) and will use it as a building and recreation al site. The price was $7,500. jAt present the church, of i which the Rev. Charles M. Jones is pastor, is holding its Sunday morning services in jthe Forest theatre in the summer and in Hill Music ‘hall the rest of the year. The ! church’s office is in the Uni | versity’s YMCA building. “Gifts from more than one hundred members and friends of the church made (possible the purchase, free s os indebtedness,” Joseph Straley, chairman of the I church’s executive commit tee, said in announcing the transaction. ' “We have already held | discussions in neighborhood groups as to the uses of the property, both immediate and future,” Mr. Straley con tinued. “We have also ap pointed a church property development committee charged with the responsib ility of proposing to the con gregation an overall plan for usage of the property.” A member of this commit ! tee reports that it will initi ' ate and supervise such pro jects as picnic, recreational, and camp ground facilities on the tract, and that ar rangements will also be I made for outdoor devotional programs there. The announcement of the 1 purchase of the property in cluded the following com [ ment: “The Community ; Church of Chapel Hill is a , worshipping and a working fellowship of people from varied backgrounds and , faiths, a church of open mindedness and free from . denominational limitations. It is a fellowship dedicated to the worship of God and to outgoing Christian service.” Convict-Chasing Is Hot Work in August , ££■ - ' , I KfW mm**4 K Jri 9MM i Shown above in their search for two convicts who oscaped the Orange county prison early last Friday are, left to right, two prison dog handlers, Deputy Sheriff Dallas M. Long, District Prison Director John Barnet, and Deputy Sheriff Rainey .Roberta. Behind Captain Barnes la a esmsra-shy bloodhound. Photo by Hank Messick. By J. A. C. Dunn Last Thursday was is excit ing day. Acting on a suggestion from patrolman Herman Stone of the Chapel Hill police force that if wa wanted a story with plenty of action we should dash right out the Raleigh road to where Orange County Sheriff Odell Clayton was running down two escaped convicts, we dashed right out tha Raleigh road. A few frenzied seconds later we arrived at the little creek bot tom just past the new Sherwood Forest housing development, where two county dog trucks were sitting baalda the road. We puffed up to a large man in a green shirt, notebook at the ready, tha aafety catch off our pencil, and nakad was this tha right place for the conviet chase. “Well, I donna,“ said that man, sad robbed hie eUa. “Dags 're dawa tha croak there, duaae jeet Chapel J4ill ChaH Pete Ivey, who is to come to Chapel Hill next month as director of the University News Bureau, was known as a distinct item when he was a student here about twenty years ago. His exploits of those days are remembered by many Chapel Hillians but may not be familiar to others. Some of them were recounted in an illustrated feature story on ‘ Pete that appeared in the' state’s lead ing dailies just before he left the University’s protective arms in 1938 to strike out for his conquest of the world. Here are passages from the story, which was written by Joe Jones of the Weekly’s staff: An era will end n6xt week in this pleasant little univer sity town. Pete Iyey, incom parable master of the revels, is going away and there will never be anybody to take his place. It was Pete who intro duced life and gayety 'into the administration of the Graham Memorial Student Union and made it, m a true sense, the center of student activities. Pete is the only man ever to be editor of the Carolina Buccaneer, the stu dent comic magazine, in his junior year. He is the only Buccaneer editor ever to be on the boxing team. He probably knows more people by name than anybody else his age in North Carolina. He is 25. Pete gave the New York jokesmiths and sports col umnists something to write about when our football team went there to play N.Y.U. He wrote Mayor LaGuardia for permission to build a bonfire and lead a cheering squad in Times Square. Parts of his letter, with editorial comment add ed, were published in several New York dailies. Pete chartered a special train, took several hundred Caro lina students to New York, and led cheers on Times (Continued on page 2) where they are.” How far down the creek were they? “Pretty far down. ’Bout three miles. Tell you what, go up the top o’th’ hill, turn right, an’ go ’till you come to another creek, and the resta the men’s down there.” At this point Sheriff Clayton roared by in a thin, blue cloud of motor oil smoke and a stern aura of officialdom, and we followed him. At the other creek, on the other side of the block of woods just east of Sherwood Forest, we found a large collection of men sitting by the side of the road, in their cars, on fenders, all sweating profusely, complaining of tba heat, and waiting for tha dogs to coma oat of the woods, presumably with the oonvkte ahead of thorn. Wa learned that tba two convicts, Jamas Christian $4 a Year in Comity; othef rates on page 2 Re-Zoning of Bypass Property Is Recommended to Aldermen By Chapel Hill Planning Board Chapel Hillians in Eastern Carolina Tennis Tournament Nine Chapel Hillians will compete in the 10th annual Eastern Carolina Tennis As sociation tournament start ing Wednesday at Rocky Mount. The defending champion is John Tapley of Chapel Hill. Others in the first round singles will be Bill Lee and Norman Jarrard. In the men’s doubles will be H. S. McGinty and Henry Clark in the first round, but John Tapley and Jarrard drew byes. In the veterans doubles, McGinty and Dudley Cowden drew a bye, but in the mixed doubles Jarrard and Miss Frances Hogan and John Tapley and Miss Ann Tomp kins will play the first round. Miss Hogan will also play in the women’s singles and doubles. Kerchants to Hire Woman Secretary The board of directors of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association has agreed to seek a woman to fill the post of execu tive secretary of tha erganiz*-. tion. The decision was rs sails d at a special aieeting of tha board Thursday night; and President Crowsll immediately Issu ed an Imitation for applications. Three had bean filed with the president-|g of Um*qi morafcg. MW’ttjpfiTwrc nett week or ten days, Mr. Little said. The directors felt that one should be employed immediately because of the added duties on the office as the University’s fall semester approaches. The new secretary will succeed Jake Trexler, who has resigned. His duties have already ceased, but he is being paid his regular salary through August 15, the actual effective date of the resig nation. Kutz Will Manage Poe Motor Company Wilbur Kutz has been appoint ed general manager of the Poe Motor Company, it was announc ed yesterday by company offi cials. Mr. Kutz has been in the real estate business hfcre for several years. He is liquidating his busi ness interests in that field except for the management of some of his personal real estate holdings, h He formerly operated the Var sity store here on East Franklin street and before that was man ager of the University’s stores, including the Book Exchange in the YMC’A building. Local Men Authors Os NBC Radio Story The third in a series of 13 weekly programs written by John Khle and directed by John Clay ton, both faculty members of the University’s department of radio, television and motion pictures, will be broadcast by the National I Broadcasting Company over Ra | leigh’s Radio Station WPTF at 1 8:80 p.m. Thursday of this week. It is entitled "Builders on the | River." In the cast will be William Waddell, Gene Herring, Judd Beckwith, Mr. Ehle, Carl Ven ters, and Keen Oliver. The story will dramatize an incident in American history which illustrates basic values and characteristics of the American people. At Presbyterian Church The Rsv. Harry E. Smith will preach at the morning worship service next Sunday, August 14, at tha Presbyterian church. Others who will preach there this summer (while the Rev. Vance Barron la on vacation) are the Rev, Robert J. McMullen, August 21; the Bov. Charles J. Ping at Duke University, August M, and the Mew, lemnwl Boyd, Bsphimi her 4. • ISSUE Next lane Friday ’ The Chapel Hill Planning Board has voted to recom mend re-zoning of property on the west aide of the Chap el bypass adjacent to the Wishing Well. The recom mendation, passed by the board at its meeting Friday evening, calls for the proper ty to be classed as suburban commercial instead of resi dential, as at present. The recommendation was to have been presented to the Board of Aldermen at its meeting last night (Monday). The action of the planning board came after a formal petition for re-zoning was received from M. M. Fowler of Durham, who plans to build a service station on part of the property. At its meeting Friday ev ening the planning board also examined sample subdi vision control ordinances of neighboring communities. This action comes as the re sult of an enabling act pass ed by the last session of State Legislature authoriz ing Chapel Hill to exercise subdivision control. At its September meeting the board will lay down the basic standards of the town’s new subdivision control ordi nance. It will recommend these standards to the Board of Aldermen. Last Friday’s meeting was the first to be attended by the board’s two new mem bers, Ben W. Potter, Univer sity utilities engine*, and Roy M. Cole, Chapel Hil lawyer, who is on the boas| Iks legal lace wSfcnfe, D&fT A.' Low,# Frederick N. Cleaveland, act ing secretary, and frank Umstead, chairman. Revised Cook Book Now Being Printed The Junior Service League of Chapel Hill has announced that the 1965 revised edition of its “Carolina Cooking” has gone to press and will go on sale the last of September. Mrs. William S. Joyner, chair man of the cook book committee, was in charge of the revision. She has kept the favorite recipes and added many new features and sections. New recipes were submitted by League members as a result of a questionnaire. Mrs. J. M. Gallo way headed the testing commit tee. Other committee chairmen are Mrs. Roland Giduz, business manager, Mrs. Mark Hanna, pub licity, and Mrs. Ted Danziger, marketing. I Important among the new fea tures is a section on parties. Among the contributors to this were Mrs. Crowell Little, Mrs. C. F. Spruill, Mr. and Mrs. Ray mond Knight, Mrs. Orville Camp bell, and Mrs. Reuben Hill. Wilkins Family to Live Here Mr. and Mrs. John Wilkins and their three children, Carol, Jack, and Billy, have come from the Eastern Shore of Virginia to live in Chapel Hill. They have bought the house on East Franklin street next door to the E. B. Cranfords’, recently occupied by the George Winstons, and will move in is soon as alterations have been completed. Meanwhile they are at the farm of Mrs. Wilkins’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. George F. Bason, off the Manns’ Chapel road in Chatham county. At Memorial Hospital Among local persons listed as patients at Memorial hospital yesterday were Mrs. John L. An drews, John Blount, Brenda Cole, Franklin Davies, Mrs. Edward Duncan, Mra. Isaac Edwards, David Evans, Miss Catherine Henley, Miss Mary Neville, Sid ney Noell Jr., Mrs. James R. Poole, Ellen Sandifer, Richard B. Vaughan, Shirley Wade, and Mrs. Richard Wagner. Mrs. Perry Mack Better Mrs. Gordon Perry, who is a ' natJent at Memorial a—.-*»-» <• Ini flirts (Ni