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FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday Vol. 33, No. 46 Smith Thinks Intergration Is Secondary To Buildings “We talk a lot about in tegration, but the real prob lem facing the Chapel Hill schools is adequate physical facilities for both white and afegro,” Carl Smith, chair man of the local School Board, told members of the Kiwanis Club at its dinner meeting Tuesday evening at the Carolina Inn. In one of the most inter esting programs of the year, Mr. Smith expressed the op inion that “the sentiment of ninety-nine per cent of the Negroes in this community is against integration "in the white schools.” He added. “But they demand, and right ly so, better school facilities for their race. When we give them those better facilities we will bring an end to the discussion of the race profit lem in Chapel Hill.” According to Mr. Smith, there must be built, during the next five years, eight additional classrooms for Negroes and twelve addi tional classrooms for whites. In order to accomplish this a special bond issue of from «ha!f to one million dol must be undertaken soon. “The citizens of this com munity must put the interest and welfare of their children above everything else,” Mr. Smith said. “Certainly it will take additional taxes, but there is nothing more im portant to the progress of a community than proper edu cation of its children.” Mr. Smith pointed out that the present school pop ulation consists of 43 per cent Negro and 57 per cent white, and that 20 per cent of the students lived outside the school district. During the past five years there has been an increase of 56 per cent in white enrollment and 38 per cent in Negro enroll ment. County wise during, same period the increase was only 12 per cent for whites and four per cent for Negroes. Mr. Smith said that the relationship be tween the white and the Negro of this community is at this time “the finest that it has been since I have lived in Chapel Hill.” Mr. Sjpith praised the ad dress on integration deliver ed Monday evening by Gov ernor Hodges. Bill Thompson had charge of the program. Pete Ivey, *io will become director of e University’s News Bu reau on September 1, and Jule McMillan of Reidsville were special guests. Trial of Students Has Been Put Off Trial of five University stu dents on charges growing out of a panty raid on the University campus last April was postponed at Hillsboro Wednesday until the fall term of Superior Court. It the third postponement of the cases. The students are charged ac tually with disturbing the peacs and women student*. They are Robert Lynch of Raleigh, Donald Strayhom of Wilmington, Wil liam Latham of Bethel, George T. Eanes of Thomasville, and Hugh Muryay 111 of Raleigh. Fillers in Sherwood Forest Dr. and Mrs. John D. Filley and their children, Bruce, three and a half years old, and Brenda, two months, have moved from Maxwell road to a new house in Sherwood Forest, the new resi dential colony on the Raleigh road. Mrs. Perry Leaves Hospital Mrs. Gordon Perry, who suffer ed e heart attack last week aad who has bean at Watts hospital ti Durham, cams home yesterday. Rm will have to narnia to bad • •ample es weeks. Real Police Work Is Done at Night? All Those Sleeping People Depend on You, Says Officer V ' tfllPi rT IK, IS| fll n Wmmrn mm \ gif f \ ’« m I#*' *•“ II . Shown climbing out of their patrol car to look for a reported night prowler (as described By J. A. C. Dunn At eleven o’clock on a Friday night we went down to the Town Hall and joined officers Graham Creel and Charles Etheridge on their eleven to seven police pa trol. After "Big Boy" Mason’s Jaw-shattering escapade earlier in the week, we were fully pre pared to fight drunks, speed faster than speeders, and shoot it out with gangs of shotgun packing die-hard desperadoes. Unfortunately, such did not turn out to be the case, though tha night was not uneventful. Officer Creel explained, as we started out, that since the police Lincoln School Gymtorium Bids Exceed Available Funds by More than $30,000 The question of whether the j gymtorium at the Lincoln high school would be started on in the near future remained in doubt { following the submission of bids Wednesday afternoon. The low est possible cost of the structure, based on the low bids submitted, would total over $30,000 more than the funds available. No definite decisions as to whether the Chapel Hill school hoard will attempt to raise the additional money will he reached until that group meets Monday night in a special session. Sever al suggestions as to what to do about the problem were offered at the board’s meeting Wednes day afternoon. School board chairman Carl Smith said he thought probably the best solution would be to at tempt to get the needed amount from a 25-million-dollar fund giv jen to the State Department of Public Instruction for allocation to schools, according to need and ability to pay. He added that imost school boards in the state had made requests for portions of I this fund. Another possible solution was 'suggested by Mr. Smith at the meeting when he mentioned that the board could “wait until next year and see if we can get some {more money” from the County Commissioners. Archie Royal Da vis, the architect and engineer of Durham, advised the board to delete holdups and “go ahead and start now.” Board member Charles Milner added that "wait ing isn’t going to do us any good; Sadness and Gladness on Hamilton Road Both sadness and gladness reigned in the Allen Rankin household at 182 Hamilton road Tuesday night. And all over a seven - and - three - quarter pound bass, Mr. Rankin had taken his two eons, Frazer, age 8, and Clay, age 11, to the Brodie Clark pond for a fishing trip. For almost two hours Fraser spun and spun, worked and worked, labored and labored and figuratively -4hrew his erm away ,r ying to land a fish. He finally gave up, laid aside the spinning outfit, and decided to rest Clay picked up the gear and tried a cast, kis first. The spinner lore had hardy hit the water when Mr. Baas • track It Far tha aaas few mlautes it. w*e choh The Chapel Hill Weekly 6 Cents a Copy budget was so small, and since there were several men on vaca tion, the night’s work would con sist of a combination of walking and riding. First came the riding. We drove down Rosemary street and checked the west end, took a few turns through the colored section, bumped through rough alleys behind stores (with Officer Etheridge shining the spotlight on shop doors and win dows). This was routine. At about midnight, as we passed Long Meadow Dairy Franklin street, a colored womaif hailed us and we halted. Her name was Luby something-or-other (we the cost will probably continue to go up.” The low bids submitted in the four areas at the meeting Wed nesday were: (1) general con jtract, H. F. Mitchell Construc tion Co. of Durham, $84,150; (2) plumbing contract, Copelan Plumbing Co. of Durham, $2,625; 1(3) heating contract, Arrow Plumbing and Heating Co. of Durham, $11,620, and (4) electri cal contract, Colwell Electric Co. of Burlington, $4,341. | The total of these low bids is $102,646, which is $32,053 more than the $70,593 the County Com missioners have agreed to pro vide. Here is where the gymtor ium funds that the board offi cials can count on come from: (1) |553,593 in county and ad valorem taxes, and (2) $17,000 in county | bonds, which are half the bonds the commissioners may issue (Continued on page 12) “Music under the Stars" The "Music under the Stars" series will be continued this Sun day evening, August 14, with a program at 8 o’clock in the For i est theatre. A recording of “A ;'Sea Symphony,” by Vaughn Wi ; liams, will be played. This re i cording, lent by Kemp’s Music 1 Store, is by the l>ondon Philhar monic Choir and Orchestra, with ' Sir Adrian Boult conducting. The i “Music under the Stars” pro grams are sponsored by the Com munity Church of Chapel Hill. Everybody is invited and admis sion is free. against Clay, with Clay the final victor. Yes, he was about the happiest on Hamilton road. And Fra zer—well, he was about the sad dest, thinking how he had work ed so hard so long for nothing and how clay had made a single cast and landed the whopping bass. John Crawfords Moving Mr. and Mrs. John F. Crawford are moving from Chur street to one of the new apartments on the Airport road. Mrs. Andrews to Move Mrs. Beds Andrew* will move today from SO4 Pritchard avenue $• the new apsilmsal Uldtaf os tha Aliyev* read. , CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1955 in the story below), are Chapel Hill Patrolmen Charles Etheridge, left, and Graham Creel. never did catch the last name) and she had a long, involved and just barely intelligible tale to tell about a colored boy who was watting for her somewhere with a pistol. “Peace warrant” was a word she frequently mentioned. Evidently she wanted a peace warrant against her friend with the pistol. Officer Creel asked her a few pertinent questions, calmed her fears somewhat, and she got in the car and we drove her home. From this point until seven in the morning the patrol turned out te be a series of interesting routine incidents with interims of dull riding or walking. Every so often the car radio would laconically remark “Car Two,” and officer Etheridge (officer Creel was driving) would pick the microphone off the dashboard and twice as tersely reply “Two,” and then there would be instruc tions as to a call or a complaint, where to go, what to look for, who was involved, etc., all given with as few words as possible and ax many number signals ax possible. The number signals, most of which begin with ten, and have another number added on, are the same all over the country and mean such routine things as “come to the station,” "this car will be parked until further notice,” “give me your position,” etc. “Signal 13” is a drunken driver, and “Ten-four” is acknowledgement, the police department’s equivalent of the | Air Force’s World War Two I “Roger.” We picked up a couple of speeders, drove madly through' Carrboro, squealing around corn ers, to catch up with a man who went through a stop sign, check ed a couple of suspicious pedes trians, stopped and wandered around in the bushes just off Church street looking for a re ported prowler (prowlers are very hard to catch, and are rarely apprehended though they are easily chased off), answered a call in the colored section, where | Luby turned up again still worried about the boy with the pistol, who had, she said, been waiting for her when we left her off near her house, and finally, at about two in the morning, parked the car across the street from the Colonial Press on West Franklin street and started walk ing east checking doors. We asked officer Creel, just out of curiosity, what his reaction was to being called a cop. “The Durham police call them selves cops,” he said, “but on this force all the men like their jobs, and they all take pride in being part of the unit; I guess to us being called a cop is like call ing a doctor a quack. “It’s funny where all the men come from. A lot of them quit much better paying jobs and be come policemen just because they like something that moves, a job where something happens. In a job like this you really feel you're doing something— ell those peo ple sleeping, and they all depend oa you. You do real police work on the night shift. The day shifts are pretty doll, usually.” We walked dewn as far as Balk’s sad then beak up the ether . (fsato■■■«*» gags D . Dollar Days Sale To Be Held by Merchants Here A special “Dollar Days” sales event will be held Friday and Saturday of next week, August 19 and 20, by the Chapel Hill and Carr boro merchants. In announc ing it, Joe Robbins, chair man of the Trade Promo tions Committee of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Mer-. chants Association, said it would be the. first shopping, event ever put on coopera tively by the two communi ties. Practically every store in the two towns will offer special bargains on both days, and every possible channel of communication will be employed to advise residents of Hillsboro, Meb ane, Carrboro, Pittsboro, Chapel Hill and other vicin ities of the values being of fered. Mr. Robbins said yester day the sales promotion would not be limited to > stores that are members of the Merchants Association. “We invite every business man, whether or not a mem ber of the association,” he said, “to help make this event a success. What we get out of it as merchants will depend on what we as merchants put into it.” Mr. Robbins wants to en courage all Chapel Hill and Carrboro businessmen to be gin making plans to offer special bargains during the Dollar Days. “These bar gains need not be limited to dollar items,” he said. “We can all offer special prices on whatever we want to pro mote during this event, which will give people a good chance to find out that the Chapel Hill-Carrboro com munity is the logical and economical place in which to shop.” Mrs. A. A. Pickard Moves Mrs. A. A. Pickard has moved from 211 Vance street to 107 Hamilton road in Glen Lennox. Nominations Are in Order for Members Os Greater Fire District Commission The public at large has been asked to nominate candidates fo'r membership on the newly created Greater Chapel Hill Fire District Commission. The invitation for nominations for the three posts on the commission was issued by the County Hoard of Commission ers last week at its August meet ing in Hillsboro. The three fire commissioners, who must be qual ified voters within the district, would represent the district in its dealings with the County Com missioners and would serve under the County Commissioners’ sup ervision and at their discretion. Nominations should tie made by telephone or mail to R. J. M. Hobbs or Ed Lanier of Chapel Hill, or Dwight M. Ray of Carr boro, or another County Com missioner. The appointments will probably be made at the board’s September meeting. The County Commissioners agreed at a special meeting held several days prior to the regular August meeting to levy a tax rate of ten cents per SIOO valua tion for the fire protection dis trict. The County Commissioners can give the fire protection eith er by contracting to a municipal ity fire company, by establishing a fire department, or by a com bination of methods. The residents of the fire dis trict, which is all outside the city limits of Chapel Hill, voted last spring to pay the tax. The Commissioners at their meeting last week appointed five members to the Planning Board of the Chapel Hill Zoning District Enlarged, and five members to its Board of Adjustment. Ap pointed to the Planning Board were Frank Umstead, for one year; Luke L. Conner, for two years; Wallace Womble, for three years; Don A. Lows, for four years, and Sandy McClamroch, for five years. Appointed to the Board of Adjustment were Wil liam N. ¥yl*r and Ted Tillman, for one-year terms; Boland Wom kls, for • twe-year term, aad Wll ham Ayeoek aad Baymead Aa drewa far three year toms. . Other aetiea tofcea by the Geaaty Cammiseisaers tostofid: Chapel Mill Chaff ■ L.G. One of the most remark able book reviews I have ever read is the one by Dan iel Lang, in last Sunday’s New York Times, of “Hiro shima Diary: the Journal of a Japanese Physician,” pub lished by the University of North Carolina Press. What makes it remarkable is that nowhere in it is there a mention of Dr. Warner Wells, the man who persuad ed Dr. Michihiko Hachiya to let it be published and who : translated it from the Jap anese and edited it. In contrast, here is the second paragraph of Mar garet Parton’s review in the New York Herald Tribune: “Dr. Warner Wells, a North Carolinian, was surgi cal consultant to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Hiroshima from 1950 to 1952. During this time he heard of Dr. Hachiya and his diary, and with the aid of i another Japanese doctor, born and educated in the United States, began the la borious job of translating the diary into English. Jap anese is not an easy lang uage, and Dr. Wells, like Dr. Hachiya, is a precise man— the job took three more years to complete.” I doubt if in all the an nals of literature there has ever been a translating and editing task more expertly performed than this one which Dr. Wells began in Hiroshima and completed here in Chapel Hill. I sup pose Mr. Lang “just forgot” to mention him. It was a queer omission. * * * An article in the New York Times contains a pas sage about the crepe myrtle, which now adorns our vil lage so beautifully. The writ er, Clarence E. Lewis of the Long Island Agricultural and Technical Institute, says: “The crepe myrtle is not (Continued on page 2) 1. Authorized window screens for the ground floor of the Court House at the request of the Pub lic Health Department. 2. Granted permission for law yers to place, at their own ex pense, an air-conditioning unit In the “vault room” of the Regis ter of Deeds office. 3. Directed Sam Gattis, County tax accountant, to initiate pro ceedings with the North Carolina Local Government Commission for the issuance of $34,000 in bonds. Os this, $17,000 will go to the County xchools, and $17,000 will go to the Chapel Hill dis trict schools. 4. Officially authorized the complete separation of the Sup erior Court’s records from the County Recorder’s Court records. 6. Drew jury lists for the Sep tember and October terms of Su perior Court. Bids on Proposed Gymtorium Are Opened ipi? / / WA c -- ‘it % % IB 'X " % * a Architect Archie Davie (left) aad Carl Smith, ckalnaaa at the Chapel Hill Bcheel Beard, are skews above esaariatag hide ea Llacete high acheeTs prepaid gymtortam at a beard antof held Wedaadby aftocaeea tor the epeateg as the Mda. A etoey titott thetoto. whtohwma mmto toe MgE top theftol araiahto $4 a Year in County; other ratea on page 2 Aldermen May Ban Parking on Certain Blocks of Rosemary; Accept Bids on Motor Vehicles Carl Durham Is at Peace Conference \ In Switzerland* 1 i Congressman Carl Dur- < ham of Chapel Hill, who is a!j United States delegate to the 1 ] international Atoms forj- Peace Conference now going 1 on in Geneva, Switzerland, 1 , will make a report on the conference on Saturday, Au gust 27, at the Young Dem ocrats rally in Winston-Sa lem. On his way to Geneva, Representative Durham in spected atomic energy pro jects in Great Britain and Germany. During the con ference he will make side trips to Naples, Madrid, and Rome for similar inspec tions. He will spend two days at the Paris headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty! Organizations before return-' ing to Washington August 23. Although Congress is not in session, Mr. Durham, as a member of the Senate- House Committee on Atom ic Energy, will have to make frequent visits to Washing ton during the period of ad journment. Everybody Please Save Scrap Paper Everybody is asked to save and bundle up old newspapers, magazines, aad other atieto far £»■*.’ paper Stab!* be held Sun day afternoon, August 28, beginning at one o’clock. The above appeal was made yesterday by Lindy Sparrow, chairman of the Jaycees’ paper drive com mittee. “Everybody can de pend on us to pick up the paper that afternoon,” he said. “AH they have to do is be sure to put their bundles | out front, on the porch or, curb, by not later thaiyM* p.m. on the collection day. We’ll do the rest.” The proceeds from the sale of the scrap paper will be used by the Jaycees to help finance their civic pro jects. At Memorial Hospital Among local persons listed as patients at Memorial hospital yes terday were W. G. Aldridge, Mrs. J. L. Andrews, John M. Blount Jr., Brenda Cole, Mrs. Edward Duncan, D. S. Evans, Edgar B. Haire, Kenneth Harris, Miss Catherine Henley, H. C. Hurlburt, Mrs. Ralph Trimble, Miss Lila Ruth Judd, Raymond G. Knight, William Edgar Merritt Jr., Mias | Mary Neville, 3. T. Noell, J. A. Page, Mrs. James R. Poole, R. B. Vaughan, Shirley Wade, and Mrs. R. K. Wagner. ■* FRIDAY i ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday ’ \ By Charles Dunn The Rosemary street parking problem came up at the Board of Aldermen’s Au gust meeting Monday night in the form of a proposed ordinance to prohibit park ing on several blocks of the narrow street,. A motion pro viding that .Town Manager Tom Rose make an inquiry among the people living on Rosemary from Boundary street to Merritt Mill road to find their views on the problem was substituted and approved by the Aldermen. Mayor - Oliver Cornwell suggested that letters be mailed to the people so that they could have a say in what the Board did. Town Manager Rose later said he would probably send out a circular letter to every resi dent on both sides of the street and ask them to reply ! within a week, so that he would have some informa tion for the Board when it meets in September. The Board also approved a resolution for the sale of $102,000 of bonds for muni cipal improvements, includ ing fire department equip ment, street cleaning. and garbage dispooal equipment, the enlargement and recon struction of the surface drainage system, and the en largement and extension of the sanitary sewer system. The bonds were approved in the spring municipal elec tions. On the recommendation of the finaneg committee, the xurw * three-wheal motercyele, Spicer MotorcycL Co., $1,067; half-ton pick-up truck, Pritchard-Little, $1,800; two two-ton truck chassis, Harriss-Conners, $4,220; garbage truck, Packer Sales Co., $5,649; flusher truck, Interstate Equip ment Co., $6,870; tractor, North Carolina Equipment Co., $13,720, and small tractor, North Carolina Equipment Co., $1,630. These bids totaled $37,158, which was below the $40,000 pro vided for this purpose in the re cent bond elections. The Aldermen heard an unof ficial report that the town had spent $2,284.18 less in the year (Continued on page 12) Storm Is Effecting Seismograph Here Bob Thompson, the assistant I seismologist in the University geology department, came in yes terday and told us that since last ■ Monday, when effects were first he had been tracing Connie on the seismo -1 graph in the geology building. { Mr. Thompson, who is in .charge of the seismograph while ’ Gerald MacCarthy, the head seis mologist, is in Alaska studying permafrost, said he would post on the bulletin board of the main floor of the geolgy building the records produced by Connie on the seismograph. A seismograph, l said Mr. Thompson, measures in microaeism, which, in the case of Connie and other hurricanes, I are produced by the turbelence of the sea and not the air. Mr. Thompson said he would II include with the display a chart l of microseisms and an explana tion of why they can be picked up this far inland. Chapel Hillnotes Vic Huggins grasshopping j hither and yon getting his store reopened Monday. I• # * The lonesome appearance of the Monogram Club, closed for a while. v * • • Tommy Thompson bemoaning his failure to catch fish at Top sail and Kura beach plan and wistfully thinking ha might try them again in Oetobar. • * • Jake Wade, the drum bettor | for the University Athletic De partment, breathing a aigh of re lief that after September 1 he wont have to double to bee* at the News Bureau. ■ ’ V • e / ;•*£ The Itto Ivy wuto bWMe . be,
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