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TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday Vol. 33, No. 49 Town’s First “Dollar Days" Described as Huge Success Chapel Hill and Carrboro’s| first cooperative “Dollar Days” promotion was pro-i nounced a “tefrific success” < yesterday. The “Dollar Days” were held Friday and Carlton Byrd, chairman of the special sales event in which almost every retail business establishment in the two communities parti cipated, said Monday that „ ‘iit was a terrific success and ' r far exceeded any expecta tions that I personally had.” Mr. Byrd reported that he had talked with “only sev eral of the merchants be cause I was so busy Satur day I couldn’t get out of the store,. But those I did talk to were more than pleased with the results. I hope we will make this an annual event, and it probably will be if all the stores got the results that we did here at Belk’s.” Joe Robbins, chairman of the cftapel Hill and Carr boro Merchants Associa tion’s trade promotion com mittee, was “excited” about the sale. “We did well at B. Robbins. It shows €rat cooperation among merchants can do to bring business into the commun ity.” A. B. Whitfield of White Oaks Department Store at Carrboro reported Friday and Saturday’s business “very satisfactory. This is a good promotion.” Banks reported a notice able increase in depoaitf qver the weekend, an indication that new money was in cir culation. Not only stores but also cases, service stations and garages felt a surge in busi ness as a result of the values offered for sale, the exten sive promotion given the event, and the shopping traffic that was brought into both Chapel Hill and «larrboro. Stores that did ot actively participate, for instance the dime stores, re ported more shopping traffic than usual. “It was a shot in the arm, a boost to busi ness,” said one businessman whose firm did not take an active part. “It was a good thing. We felt it, and we hope more will be held.” Award for Traffic Safety Is Received The Town of Chapel Hill was gatnnual pedestrian safety award its third consecutive by the American Automobile As sociation last Wednesday for hav ing no pedestrian traffic fatali ties within the city limits during 1964. Mayor O. K. Cornwell and Chief of Police W. T. Sloan re ceived the award for the town. It was presented by Bill Harris of Chapel Hill, who represented the American Automobile Asso ciation. "Story of • Poet" The American Adventure Ser- As», the weekly presentation of was interrupted because of a conflict with a public service program, will be resumed over the National Broadcasting Com pany and Raleigh radio station WPTF Thursday night at 8:30 o’clock. The series was written and produced at the Communica tion Center of the University. This week’s program, “Btory of -a Poet,” is the fourth in the 13- week series. Janine Basile’s Birthday Janine Basils, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Basils of Davie Circle celebrated her eighth birthday last Tuesday afternoon, August' 16, with a movie party from 8 to 5 o’clock. Afterwards, games and refreshments were enjoyed by the guests, who were Joy Yates, Mary Both Elks, Kay Ogham, Leslie Stanley, Bara Je Walker, Bmsky ■sdsahsieser, Jody Began, and Dane Kalita. Fine New Building Is a Dream Come True for Hard-Working Congregation of St. Joseph's Church wm dJ i | |g| i , w Ilk. .JHL m % . MR . IlliFplj Ipiffp m JHBw ■ ; ai mWm H , la hI gt ... . - > Much of the actual labor that went into the construction of the new St. Joseph CJH.E. church (above) was done by members of the congregation without pay. In the picture are Willie Burnett (with wheelbarrow), a trustee of the church who did some of the work; the pastor, the Rev. W. E. Wilson, under whose guidance the structure was financed and built. By Charles Dunn A long-cherished dream of the congregation of the St. Joseph C.M.FL church be came a reality day before yesterday when the first service was held in the new church, much of which was built by the members them- Instructions about Opening of Schools Are Announced by Superintendent Davis C. W. Davis, superinten dent of the Chapel Hill schools, announced yester day morning that all chil dren within the local district are assigned to the buildings they attended last year and that the children who re ported for the pre-Bchool clinic are assigned to the building in which they at tended the pre-school clinic, with three exceptions. These exceptions are: (1) Children who attended Northside school last year and were promoted to the seventh grade are assigned to the Lincoln high school; (2) Children who attended the Glenwood school last year and were promoted to the seventh grade are as signed to the up-town ele mentary school, and (3) Children in grades one through six inclusive living either south of Morgan creek or east of Bolin creek and who have been attend ing the up-town elementary school are assigned to the Glenwood school. Children not covered by the above assignments should make written appli cations to Superintendent Davis. Any children who have not enrolled should report to the principal of their respec tive building on August 31, between 9 a.m. and 12 noon. It is important that this Home on Bypass Is Flooded by Diane . wBKmKSm ■' - / * J 3m jtJ \ mum Mfcfe,,.. jfm mi High waters from tha rails tkat accompanied Hurricane Diana flooded tha Robert B. Fines ant as their kaara «■ tha Bypaaa last Wednesday. Tha Floss’ aon aad daagktsr, Robert Jr. aad Rote a, art shown pointing to tha high tidemark an tha wall as a bedrest as tha boat, which h was es aortal that warn landed In tie lettwnlandc aleagatdi tha Bypass. Mr. and. Met Bm are tha agtatnen as tha Wishing Wall Bantoorant, alas an the By pat ■ • « The Chapel HM Weekly 5 Cents a Copy selves under the leadership of their pastor, the Rev. W. E. Wilson. * The beautiful brick build ing contrasts sharply with the old wooden one which had served the congregation for about 30 years. The new church, valued at $70,000, is matter be attended to on time so that classification and schedules can be ar ranged before the opening of the schools on September 7. The first day of school wiH be a short one. Children wiH report at 8:20 a.m. and will be dismissed at 12 noon. The regular schedule, which will begin at 8:20 a.m., will be put into operation on Thursday, September 8. The lunchroom will be open on Thursday also, with chil dren’s meals selling for 25 cents each. Baldwins Return from Trip Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Baldwin, accompanied by their aon and daughter, Archie and Norma, have returned from a two-weeks trip to Florida and Fort Hen ning, Ga., where they visited their son-in-law and daughter, Master Sergeant and Mrs. F. W, Bradshaw and the Bradshaw’s children, Karen, U; Keith, 4, and Ken, 2. While in Georgia they also visited President Roose velt’s “Little White House” at Warm Springs. In Florida they spent several days at Daytona Beach, where Norma and Archie stayed while their parents went to St. Petersburg to visit Mr. Baldwin's brother and sister-in law, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Baldwin. Bernaaeks at l.utheridga The Edward Bernaaeks are at Lutheridge, the Lutheran sum mer assembly grounds. While there Mri. Bernasek is attending the school of music for church musicians. CHAPEL HILL, N. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1955 and the Rev. J. N. Leverette of Raleigh (on ladder), who waa the contractor. At the rear of the new building, in which services were held day before yesterday for the first time, is seen the old wooden church that served the congregation for 30 years. (Photo by Brink hous) * Gothic in design. The floor of the vestibule is tile, and the other floors are hard wood. The windows are of opalescent art glass. . Around 300 people, includ ing about 200 members of the church, were present Sunday morning to hear the dedication sermon delivered by the Rt. Rev. W. Y. Bell, Presiding Bishop of the Fourth Episcopal District of the C.M.E. church. Follow ing the service a picnic lunch was held on the church grounds. Beginning Wednesday the 83rd session of the North Carolina Annual Con ference of the C.M.E. Church will be held in the new building. Around 300 delegates are expected to at tend this conference, which will continue through Sun day. Although the actual build ing of the church didn’t start until after the arrival of Mr. Wilson, who had served in South Carolina as a presiding elder for six years, the plans were started about 12 years ago. During these years the Rev. J. H. Tucker, the Rev. J. C. Clark, and the Rev. D. W. Roston each contributed to the building program. Mr. Wilson had the task of building the church when he came to Chapel Hill in Sep tember of 1953. He found around $10,500 in the bank, and 184 members in the con gregation, most of whom were willing to work for a new building. Money was one of the main problems. Rut within 23 months of Wilson’s ar rival the church members had raised $13,000 through church suppers, personal contributions, and other methods. The job of money raising was conducted by a finance committee which was appointed along with other committees soon after (Continued on page 8) louring the middey wind, rain, and dark akiea of Hurricane Diane a flock of ten or twelve sea gulls winging westward oyer the Chapel Hill buaineaa section. • * * Sol Lipman, la his ever pleas ant frame of mind, on FrankHn ■treat talking to a friend and enjoying hie retirement. Say* he la never bored. • • • After University classes had been suspended Wednesday, stu dents at the Book Exchange sug gesting, “Let’s have a hurricane party.” • e • Joe Robbins, all dlktd out in GI attira, fatigue cap aad all, makiag his morning deposit at tha Beak pf Chapel HIU aa Diane approached. e e e la front of Resc’af and 19 amt Btsaa, «ha Uttie girl 4a aed hat mi tod ralnsaat anting a boa School Board Will Not Bar Pupils From Outside Area At a joint meeting of the Chapel Hill School Board and the County School Board held Wednesday eve ning in Hillsboro the Chapel Hill Board agreed to con tinue to accept (at least for the coming year) about 400 non-district students with out charging them tuition, iThese students are from the Carrboro and White Cross communities. Non-district students from those areas have been attending the Chapel Hill schools, without paying tuition, for some years. | In return, the Orange iCountv School Board agreed to meet with the school com munities of Carrboro and White Cross to see what could be done about solving the problem. One possbile so lution would be a supplement to help support the Chapel Hill schools. The local school (Continued on page 8) New Church Holds Its First Service The first worship service of the Glen Lennox Methodist church was held Sunday evening in the basement of Glenwood elementary school by the Rev. Kimsey King, pastor and organi zer of the new congregation. Mr. King said he was pleased with the attendance and appre ciative of being permitted to use the school. “We are grateful,” he said, “to be able to meet temporarily in the Glenwood school building, and I am confi dent that with God’s held and our working together in a common cause, we will soon move into a building of our own.” The church’s Sunday services Will continue to be held at 7:30 p.m. through September 11, after which they will be held at 1) a.m. The charter membership service and formal opening of the church will be held there at 11 a.m. Sunday, September 25, when the Rev. W. L. Clegg, Dur ham district superintendent, will deliver the sermon and present certificates of charter member ship. The Northside elementary school will begin its 1955-56 acad emic year at 8:30 a.m. Wednes day, September 7, at which time the student body will assemble in the school auditorium for instruc. tions and class assignments. The faculty will consist of 21 teachers headed by the principal, J. H. Peace. New faculty members will be Miss Montrose I). Robin son of Durham and Miss Mattie M. Wallace of Rockingham. Re- School Football Practice The Chapel Hill high school football team has begun its sec ond week of pre-season practice under Bob Culton, the new coach. More than 40 boys are out for the team. Most of last week’s sessions were spent in getting the candidates in shape for the heavy work that began yester day. Florida Vacation Mr. and Mre. J. A. McMahon and their three children have re turned from a throe-weeks Florida vacation. They said tha waather was perfect while they ware there. Chapel J4illnotei of popcorn, oblivious to the rain and wind attendant to Diane. • • • Policeman Edward Stone par ticipating in Dollar Days by marking parked car* oa Eaat Franklin Street. • • • When the University shut down Wednesday morning because of Diane'a approach, its employees leaving the safety of its strong brick and steel buildings and hurrying off to their compara tively flimsy wooden homes. • • * *“■ Car with New York plates parking In 100 block of North street every night with rear end sticking out in the street. Stick ing out worse than ever early last Sunday morning, but with tickwt mi irindahitltl 0 0 0 First autumn leaves, from the elms, Uttering sidewalks. Out in the ecmnWf the kuorweede turn* Northside School Lists 21 Teachers Chapel Mill Chaff J. J. Before Louis Graves left for Europe last week he told me to open any mail address ed to him that looked as if it might be something to go in the Weekly. A promising item in this category ar rived Friday in the form of an air mail envelope bearing the return address of Gerald R. MacCarthy, University geologist who, as in past summers, is studying perma frost at Barrow, Alaska, far to the north of the Arctic Circle on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. In addition to a letter to Mr. Graves, the envelope | contained six identical ob jects the like of which I had never seen before. Each one looked like a powder puff made from the fleece of a white angora rabbit and mounted on a six-inch grass stem. I picked up one of the puffs to examine it closely. Snowy white and soft as down, it appeared more than ever to be made up of white rabbit fur, but when I rub bed it between my thumb and fingers it rustled like silk. These strange and beauti ful objects were identified in Mr. McCarthy’s letter to Mr. Graves, which follows: "Remembering your inter est in things Arctic while you were the active editor of the Weekly, and assuming that some, at least, of your interest was personal, rather than wholly professional, I am taking the liberty of sending you herewith a sample of ‘Arctic cotton’ or cotton grass —Eriophorum Scheuxhzeri, according to a botanical friend. Some stretches of the’ tundra her* this summer are nearly as white with the stuff as a Carolina cotton field. How ever, it seems not to be good for much: I’m told it’s too brittle to spin. The old Eskimos used it as an ab sorbent liner in the leather (Continued on page 2) turning teachers are as follows: Mrs. Julia B. Baker, Mrs. Sara J. Barber, Mrs. Luella B. Games, Mrs. Frances N. Hargraves, Miss Pauline C. Hogan, Mrs. Helen B. Horton, Miss Lillian K. Husband, Mrs. Christine W. Jones, Mrs. Pearl S. Lampley, Mrs. Nannie S. Leonard, Mrs. Gloria R. Man ley, Mrs. Lucille R. McDougle, Mrs. Jeannette W. Monroe, Mrs. Constance T. Peace, Mrs. Lillian P. Robinson, Miss Sara T. Ruf fin, librarian; Mrs. Kuzelle P. Smith, Mrs. Louise H. Summers, and Mr. Peace. A Visitor from Raleigh Ac Ann McGalliard, daughter of Mr. and Mre. Harry McGalli ard of Raleigh, has been here visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. McGalliard. Bill Brinkhous Wins $lO Prize in Photo Contest V - 7 . This picture as yf»r"4*g heU, taken by BUI Hriakhsna, Weakly etaff yhsfgraphsr. wen the ll* aeeead prise In the photo ssnteet span* aeredbythe Urivesulty's flnmmer Activities CennriL The Hi Bn* prise wee map by ■l —__ _ m Ali_ $4 a Year In County; odbr rates Chancellor Predicts William Plemmons Will Give Brilliant Performance in New Role as The President of Appalachian V** m a WILLIAM PLEMMONS Changes Being Made At Danziger*s Some changes are being made at Danziger’s Res taurant and Gift Shop. They include expansion of the gift department, improved light ing, a general clean-up, and Mm rearrangement of the handreds of photographs on 8m walls. The work is being directed by Erwin Danziger, son of Proprietor Edward Dan ziger. He said that from sow on dining would be confined to the rear portion of the shop in order to make room for new display cmaee and shelves for the bigger gift department. Candies and pastries will continue to be displayed and sold in the front, aa in the paat, but the tables and booths have been remo'WfJ from there to make way for the added gift dis plays. All the pictures, most of which are of Chapel Hill res idents and visitors, have been temporarily removed from the walls, which will be cleaned. Then the pictures will be rehung and re arranged. They are a popu lar attraction at Danziger’s, which has been collecting them since it opened in 1939. “This change means only that we’re enlarging our gift department,” Erwin Dan ziger said. “We’ll still have candies and pastries and gifts up front, and still serve meals.” Byrte Abernethy Return* Borden Abernethy recently drove to Henderson to brine home hie sinter, Byrte, who was a councillor at Camp Green Cove. They were accompanied back to Chapel Hill by Mary Shepard. While Borden and Byrte are away at college this year their mother, Mrs. W. B. Abernethy, will teach the eighth grade at tha Lowe's Grove school. es the Old Wefl. X ririnis ky Fred Pewladps es the News Leader -wen hsnnrshls manMsn. There wore H entriad ht the sedset lUamif heU » the heme of As tMHHUfw 9*** w.j. —»* • V • i . * JH ** l mmWtUy [ “I ap delighted at the ap pointment of Bill Plemmons as President of Appalachian State Teachers College, and I believe that he will per form brilliantly in his new position,” Chancellor R. B. House told the Weekly yes terday. Chancellor House also said he would like publicly to offer his congratulations to both Mr. Plemmons and the State. “At the same time,” he continued, “I have a pro found sense of personal and institutional loss in the fact that he is leaving Chapel HiU. He has been a most 'congenial colleague and a distinguished performer in his professional field.” Mr. Plemmons’ appoint ment was announced last Friday by W. J. Conrad of Winston-Salem, chairman of the Appalachian board of trustees. He will take over the position on September 1. The new president suc ceeds B. B. Dougherty who retired (m June 14 after more than 50 years as foun der and president. Be is a native of western North Carolina having been born on a farm in Buncombe county. He attended Mars Hill Junior College and was graduated in history to am Wake Forest Collage. He re ceived his master's degree at Duka University and his doctorate from tha Univer sity of North Carolina after * special studies at the Uni versity of Chisago. mm felififcr a~«fc* rural Am! «MDHMkaiIK Kn eluding a term as principal of the Leicester school and as principal of Asheville’a senior high school. Since 1941 he has been connected with the University here in various posts, especially in the field of education. Dr. Plemmons had been very active in community affairs in Chapel Hill. He is a past president of the Rotary Club, and in 1964 served as Chairman of the Board of Deacons of the Baptist church. He lives in (Continued on page 8) At Memorial Hospital Among local persons in Memorial hospital yesterday were George W. Abernathy, John Blackwood, Larry S. Colvert, Mrs. James Case, Alfred Fath man, George W. Freeland, James F. Freeman, Robert E. Gaines, Miss Catherine Harria, Mrs. Wil liam D. Harrison, Billy Edward Mausr, Mrs. Jsmes R. Fools, Dr. Arthur J. Prange, Mrs. Richard K. Wagner, Mrs. Wilson C. Zackary, and Mrs. Charlie Price.
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