TUESDAY
ISSUE
Next Issue Friday
Vol. 33, No. 51
Committee to
Evaluate the
Request for
Chest Funds
Roy Cole, chairman of the
Community Chest’s evalua
tion committee, has announc
ed that the following men
have been appointed to the
c^imittee:
Gordon Perry, the Rev. W.
E. Wilson, Roy Holsten, Paul
A. Johnston, Crowell Little,
F. E. Strowd, John T. Man
ning, and Oliver K. Cornwell.
“The purpose of the com
mittee,” Mr. Cole said, “is to
receive and evaluate the re
quests for funds made by
agencies that want to draw
support from the Community
Chest in the coming year.
The committee will receive
written requests for funds
and will hold hearings at
which representatives of the
agencies will present their
cases and answer questions.
After the hearings the com
mittee will prepare a report
for the executive committee
of the Community Council,
which sponsors the Commun
ity Chest, recommending the
total Community Chest quota
for the coming' year and
quotas for the individual par
ticipating^agencies.
• forms for
by the agencies are now
available and are being
mailed to the groups that
have already indicated a de
sire to receive support from
the Community Chest.”
Organizations that have
expressed such a desire are
the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts,
Negro Community Center,
White Recreation Center,
Y-Teens, Roscoe B. Jackson
Memorial Laboratory, Peter
Garvin Memorial Library,
Florence Crittenton Home,
Golden Age Project, Holmes
Day Nursery, Mary Bayley
Pratt Children’s Library, Hu
mane Society, and Carolinas
United.
Other agencies wishing to
be considered by thq Com
munity Chest are asked to
get in touch with Mr. Cola.
Chapel Hill Woman
At Sorority School
Mr*. William P. Richardson has
been attending the Delta Delta
Delta Leadership School this
week at Miami University in Ox
ford, Ohio. The purpose of the
aehool, the first of its kind to be
held by a sorority, is to provide
instruction in campus and chapter
leadership. Mrs. Richardson is a
national director of the sorority.
Delta Delta Delta is a collegi
ate sorority with 99 chapters in
universities in the United States
and Canada. More than 250 alum
w groups assist in the organ
nation’s programs. The sorority
has 55,000 members and has
given about SBOO,OOO in scholar
ships to promising women stu'-
dents. One of its chapter# is at
the University here.
Appointed Production Hesd
R. S. Dicks of Charlotte, son of
Mrs. R. Stanley Dicks of Chapel
Hill, has been appointed produc
tion manager of the cellulose com
pany for which he works. Mrs.
Dicks recently visited him in
Charlotte. Before coming home
she also visited her sister, Mrs.
K. Keeter, in Morganton, and
Mrs. Frank Strowd in (iranite
Falls.
Barbara Sirvis in Hospital
Barbara Sirvis, eight-year-old
granddaughter of Mrs. A. A.
Pickard, underwent an appendec
tomy last Wednesday at Watts
hospital. She and her mother,
Mrs. G. S. Sirvis, the former
Mias Margaret Pickard, have
been here visiting Mrs. Pickard
and had planned to leave last
Saturday for their home in Playa
del Rey, California. ”
• Landaus Move Here
Dr. and Mrs. S. J. Landau and
thair children, Charles and Rich
ard, have moved here from New
Haven, Conn., and are living at
14 Audley Lane. Dr. Landau
studied at the Yale Medical
School and is aqsr an intern her*
at Memorial heepital. Mr. and
Mrs. Landau, who are of the
Jewish fatthjay they like Chape)
Marvin Fowler, Tony Gobbel, and Tom Rosemond
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pupils of his summer swimming class and re
ceives their enthusiastic thanks for five weeks
of instruction and fun. The pupils are, left to
right, Marvin Fowler, Durham businessman;
Tony Gobbel of the Bank of Chapel Hill, and
Tom Rosemond, proprietor of the Electric Con
struction Company. The picture was taken at
the Carolina Coffee Shop at a banquet held in
Horse Chase Starts in Carrhoro,
Goes Through Chapel Hill, Ends at
Wilson Farm on Hollow Rock Road
By J. A. C. Dunn
On Sunday afternoon at about
two o’clock we were out in Carr
boro and we happened to see a
horse go by. Quite unattended,
she was trotting placidly down
the street trailed by a long line
of cars and looking as if she were
bent on a pressing and important
errand. We hopped in our car and
followed.
The horse continued down IpW
mary Street, and soon we ywi
ized that all was not well wttw
this horse. She was being closely
followed by Billy Hewitt, her
owner, riding in Dr. John S.
Hooker’* car. Billy was frantical
ly wielding a lasso. Every so often
Dr. Hooker would get ahead of
the horse, and Billy would jump
out and try and rope her, but to
no avail. The horse neatly dodged
all attempts to recapture her, and
went right on trotting down
Rosemary Street, breaking into
an exuberant canter every so
often.
She caused something of a stir
in the crowd of churchgoers out
side the Negro church; she went
through someone's back yard (a
startled housewife looked out to
see a large black mare dart un
der the clothesline, hotly followed
by a panting boy); she took to
the, sidewalk for a while; mostly
she stuck to the road. Billy was
getting desperate. He tried to
his horse from the moving
car and failed. He' tried to rope
her while running and failed at
that. He talked to her, he pleaded
with her, he uttered sharp com
mands. No results. The mare
went right on down Rosemary
Street.
She was still going strong at
North Columbia Street. She went
through the intersection with her
head held high (fortunately the
light was green) and trotted spir
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itedly on down Rosemary Street.
Eventually, at the end of Rose
mary Street, she took a different
tack, and header! across country
through back yards toward the
Durham Road. I)r. Hooker gave
up the chase, and Billy comman
deered our car to aid in the chase.
Luckily we have a running board,
and this made it easier for him.
We wheeled around and started
■lkeDerhawi road. No aign
UfoXx
her Ifehe had seen an un
chaperoned horse go by. She
looked a bit startled and said no.
We went on down Strowd’* Hill.
At the Whitehall Antique Shop
we sighted the horse again, and
in this neighborhood we stayed
for some time circling, backing,
and filling futilely, trying to get
her cornered. Two more ears
joined the chase, one driven by
Roland Giduc, the other, filled to
overflowing with lusty young
men just aching for a goed here*
chase, driven by Billy Bowman,
the Chapel Hill Weekly's press
man. T. J. Williams was wish
him, and Henry Morris, Wilmer
Lunsford, Leon Lunsford, Esse!
Womble (old Uncle Tom Cobbly
ahd all!).
After a considerable time spent
dashing feverishly around in the
bushes off Strowd's Hill and
around the Whitehall shop, and
after several near captures had
aeemed imminent, but had failed,
Billy’s black mare took off down
the Durham road again in an un
wavering line straight for Vir
ginia.
Billy, who was still riding on
our running board, shouted,
“She’s goin’ home! She’s goin’
down the Durham road! That’s
where we bought her!’’ We tag
ged along, keeping pace with the
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1955
celebration of the completion of the swimming
course. Others who took the course, held at the
University’s Bowman Gray pool, were Bob
Fowler, Bob Varley, Mrs. Katherine Clark,
Mrs. Esther Watson, Mrs. Nancy Hundley,
Mrs. Allene Merritt, Mrs. Frances Kapner,
Miss Beatrice Bacon, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lytle,
Kenneth Sugioka, and K. J. Boniface.
Public Golf Meet
Will Begin Sunday
About 24 persons already have
entered the second annual Chapel
Hill Jaycees Amateur Golf Tour
nament, to be played at Finley
golf course Sunday and Monday.
Fred Abernethy, chairman of
the tourney, said yesterday that
entrants may register as late as
tee-off time at 9 a.m. Sunday.
Eighteen holes will be played
Sunday and 18 on Monday, and
trophies will be awarded for low
net and low groas scores.
Last year’s winners were Arch
ie Maekms and
Per' In ahy ngMji far tfeU
year’s play with either Mr. Ab*M
nethy, at the Town A Campus, or
at Finley golf course.
A Wonderful Surprise
Mrs. Annie Halthcock of 302
Pritchard Avenue had a wonder
ful surprise Friday night when
she received a trans-Atlantic tele
phone call from her son, Airman
Third-Class Clarence Halthcock,
from his station in London, Eng
land. Airman Halthcock is attach
ed to an administration head
quarters and la going to school at
night. H* told his mother he likes
London fine. Another thing he told
her was to please have the Chapel
Hill Weakly started to him.
Hargrove Car Damaged
The new Ford automobile of
Dr. Eugene Hargrove was badly
damaged Saturday afternoon
when one of four children wait
ing in the car released the emer
gency brake, and the car rolled
backward down the drive, hit
ting two trees at his Greenwood
road residence. Tom Hargrove
suffered a minor cut on the back
of the head, the only injury. The
Hargroves were preparing to em
bark on a weekend trip when the
accident occurred.
Bill Grices Are Here
Mr. and Bill Grice and their
daughter Ann, arrived Thursday
from Hendersonville, where Mr.
Grice had been on the staff of
Camp Mondamin. They will leave
day after tomorrow for Oberlin,
Ohio, where Mr. Grice, former
Chapel Hill high school coach, is
to join the coaching staff of Ob
erlin College.
To Study at Charlotte
Miss Earlene Settlemire, who
was graduated from the Chapel
Hill high school last June, will
enter nurses’ training at Mercy
hospital in Charlotte tomorrow.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Settlemire. The Week
ly had erroneously reported that
she would enter Watts hospital
for training.
After »11 then years since Dm
fountain mi closed, people (till
trying to got ice cream or a soft
drink at Kubanka’ Drag atora.
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Swimmers Score
High in
•Vunlor Olympics
Chapel Hill swimmers
made a creditable and com
mendable showing in the re
cent Carolinas AAU Junior
Olympics at Charlotte. Com
peting with 600 swimmers
from North and South Caro
lina. the Chapel Hillians won
seven events and set four
records, placed second in
six, and third in eight. All
the relay teams placed. Ac
tually, 16 of the 17 swim
mers making the trip placed.
Howard Stepp coached the
entries.
Terry Stapleton himself
set three records when he
came in first in the junior
boys 50-meter butterfly,
backstroke, and free style in
39.9, 38.5, and 32.2 seconds
respectively
The junior girls 200-
meter medley relay team
'took first place and set a
!new record of 3 minutes
12.9 seconds for the event.
The team was composed of
Kitty Calhoun, Virginia
Ellis, Pat Gallagher, and B.
Davis.
Susan Calhoon came in
second in the peewee girls
50-meter breast stroke and
50-meter butterfly, and
pl&ced third in the 50-meter
backstroke.
Minor Davis placed first,
second and third in the 200-
meter medley, 50-meter
free stroke, and 100-meter
breaststroke respectively.
Virginia Ellis was first in
the junior girls 50-meter
breast stroke and third in
in the 50-meter butterfly.
Lee Milner was first in
the peewee girls one meter
and Monte Milner was
third in the intermediate
hmrs 100-meter backstroke.
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girls 100-meter backstroke,
intermediate boys free style,
and peewee boys backstroke.
The junior boys 209-
meter relay team came in
second. It was composed of
Terry Stapleton, Joe Twam
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Chapel Hill IsDoing Fine In Campaign
To Provide Assistance to Flood Victims
Centributions to the Chapel
Hlll-Carrboro $1,500 Red Cross
disaster relief goal are coming in
at a fast clip, and officials hope
to wind up the speedy campaign
tnis week, according to Miss Eliz
abeth Branson, co-chairman of
the disaster relief committee.
She pointed out yesterday that
all contributions would go to a
special fund to be expended by
the Red Cross for strictly per
sonal needs of families not only
in the flooded areas of the north
eastern states but also in the
hurricane damaged areas of the
Carolinas.
Contributions may be mailed to
or left at the Red Cross office on
West Franklin street or the Rank
of Chapel Hill and the University
National Bank.
The Red Cross office an
nounced yesterday that Mrs.
Mabel Brittain, who left last
week for emergency work in the
stricken areas, had been assigned
Mattis Gives Talk
Norman Mattis of the Univer
sity’s English department ad
dressed the August meetipg of
the Beta Sigma Phi sorority at
the University Library. He spoke
on “Fundamentals in Making a
Good Spsesh.” Members of the
sorority report'that his was a
good one.
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WoodhoqM Family Leaving
Mr. and km« Edward J. Wood
house, tipis son, and Mrs. Wood
house's mother, Mrs. Kinsman,
wm'iae\A this week to return to
thsis Rome in Conway, S. C.
Chapel Millnotei
i for bragkfast aoon after 6:30.
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dium, gift of Jack Hazzard con
ditional upon it being bung di
rectly la front of the door ao
eraryOOa can aee it, ia Lawyer
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Chapel Mill Chaff
Before our Contributing
Editor left for Europe he
promised to send us some
notes for his Chapel Hill
Chaff column. The first such
communication arrived by
air mail last Thursday morn
ing, August 25, having been
postmarked in Southampton,
England on Tuesday, August
23. It follows:
Dear Joe,
1 meant to write you some
sort of shipboard story, but
as soon as the Queen Eliza
beth left the pier I was en
veloped in a profound lassi
tude and throughout the
voyage have not been able
to shake it off.
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A daily newspaper, “The
Ocean Times,” is slipped
under our cabin door early
every morning. Although
the vast majority of the
passengers on board are
Americans, the paper is al
most entirely made up of
news from Great Britain and
far-off dominions and colon
ies. There has been only a
meagre little 3- or 4-inch
piece in each of the last two
issues about the frightful
storm in the United States,
about which all of us are so
eager to hear. On the first
or second day out, before
the floods in the Northeast,
I saw a tiny,note about the
flooding of Washington,
North Carolina. I am hoping
eagerly that when we get to
Cherbourg, to take a boat
train to Paris, we will find
on sale the Paris edition of
the New York Herald Tri
bune.
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I observe that in one re
spect life on a transatlantic
ship is exactly the same now
as when I made my first trip
across in 1908, forty-seven
years ago. That is, they try
to feed you to death. In
cluding coffee, bouillon, and
tea, there are six or seven
meals a day. I gorged my
self the first day. I can’t
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to headquarters at the Taft Hotel
at New Haven, Conn. She is
working principally at Ansonia,
Conn. While away, her duties in
the local Red Cross office are be
ing assumed by her assistant,
Mrs. A. P. Hudson.
In reporting on the contribu
tions to the disaster relief fund,
Miss Branson added words of ap
preciation to those people who
have already made* donations and
to radio station WCHL and the
local newspapers, including the
Weekly, for their cooperation in
soliciting contributions and em
phasizing the need for them.
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Real Building Boom 'ls Going
On in Town and Its Suburbs;
Almost Half - Million Dollars
Worth ofWork Is Under Way
New Pupils Should
Report W ednesday
To Their Principals
All children planning to en
ter the Chapel Hill schools
this fall for the first time,
whether transfers or first
grade beginners, should re
port to the principals of their
respective schools between 9
a. m. and 12 noon tomorrow
(Wednesday) if they have
not already enrolled. It is iim
portant that this be done at
the scheduled time so that
classifications and schedules
can be arranged before the
opening of the schools on
September 7.
The first day of school will
be short. Children arc to re
port at 8:30 a. m. and will be
dismissed at noon. The regu
lar schedule, under which
school begins at 8:30 a. m.
daily, will be put into opera
tion on Thursday, Septem
ber 8. The lunchroom will be
open from Thursday on and
will provide childrens meals
at 25 cents each.
Four Families Are
Changing Domiciles
Four families are changing res
idences in Chapel Hill this week,
and if one of them gets delayed
or something happens to the mov
ing van there might have to be a
bit of doubling up.
On account of contractual
agreements, the Bernice Wards
must move to their new home on
Greenwood Road to make way for
the' Harold Harrises who wilt
move into where the Wards have
been living at 307 Pritchard
Avenue.
The Harold Harrises have got
to move from 305 North Colum
bia Street to make way for the
John Crawfords to move in. And
the John Crawfords have got to
vacate their apartment at 106
Carr Street so that the Willard
Ranges can move in.
The Ranges? No need to go
chasing after their apartment.
They came here from Georgia so
Mr. Range can do graduate work.
At Isle of Palms
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Allen and
their children, Beverly, 11, and
Buddy, 5, are at the Isle of Palms
in South Carolina. Beverly will
come home next week to be here
in time for the opening of school,
and the rest of the family will
come a few days later.
New Home Almost Ready
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Peele
plan to get into their new home
in Dogwood Acres by September
1. They were married last month.
Mrs. Peele was formerly Miss
Carolyn Ellis.
by Charlie &Uae.ll who la hoildtaf a home
went as dispel 81k near Glen Leuncat. ttaa
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TUESDAY
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* From January 1 through
August 26, building permits
issued by the Town of Chapel
Hill were for an estimated
$579,00Q in new construc
tion, alterations, and repairs.
But the figure is in no way
indicative of the total dollar
volume building and repair
program now underway or
completed during the same
period.
A Chapel Hill building
supply man “guessed” yes
terday that there is now
more than $400,000 in budd
ing and repairs being done in
Chapel Hill and its immediate
vicinity.
The reason the total dollar
volume does not show alto
gether in the town building
permits is that work outside
the town limits requires only
a minimum fee permit, while
for that within town the
owner or builder must give
the approximate cost.
For instance, during the
first 26 days of August per
mits to erect 21 new resi
dences were issued by Build
ing Inspector P. L. Burch.
Only one of those is within
the town, and the approxi
mate cost of that one is
$19,500. The other 20 are
outside the town but within
the suburbs covered by the
town’s zoning and planning
law. They might reasonably
average SIO,OOO per unit. If
so, some $200,000 in new
home construction was start
ed this month.
The August permits carry
a total (4 a>n
tions to Mi ttoUtotto
commercial property. Except
for the $19,500 new home on
Westwood Drive, the re
mainder was about equally
divided between commercial
and residential property for
alterations and repairs.
The repairs and altera
tions to commercial property
included cooling system
towers for Town and Cam
pus, Huggins Hardware, the
Little Shop, and the Carl
Smith building, new fronts
for the N. C. Cafeteria, the
Carolina Coffee Shop and
Ledbetter-Pickard, doubling
of sales floor at Lacock’s
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Dick Hirtui Here
Dick Harttmg, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Hartung, is now in
i Chapel Hill after being dis
charged from the Army. He is
planning to leave soon to do grad
i uate work in physics at the Uni
versity of Michigan