TUESDAY
ISSUE
Next Imm Friday
Vol. 33, No. 55
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Chapel Hill
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/i tyocxd “Place 'tyou
Seven Months
Required for
This Edition
Five tons of paper, more
than two dozen gallons of
ink, and hundreds upon hun
dreds of man-hours of labor
have gone into the produc
tion of this 56-page special
edition of The Chapel Hill
Weekly.
The edition, seven months
in preparation, will have a
total circulation of 10,000
copies. It goes, not only to
regular subscribers and on
newsstands as usual, but is
being distributed to new Uni
versity students and to their
parents, and will be sent to
new and prospective Chapel
Hill residents during the
next year or so by the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro Merchants As
sJteation.
jhe seven-section news
paper is the largest ever
published in Orange county,
both in size and circulation.
Billy Arthur, former
owner of the Jacksonville
News and Views and now a
staff writer and columnist
for the Weekly, was in charge of
the special edition.
“The edition would have been
impossible without splendid
work of Mr. Arthur," said Or
ville Campbell, general manager
of the newspaper. “He, and all
the other member's of the staff
and the printing plant, have done
ari exceptionally fine job in pro
ducing this issue.”
Mr. Campbell also singled out
for praise O. T. Watkins, the
Weekly’s advertising manager,
and Charlton Campbell and Billy
Bowman in the composing and
press rooms.
Every civic club, church and
organization in the Chapel IlilJ
jpkrrboro area was asked to con
tribute something to the paper.
They were asked to prepare their
own news copy, in order to in
sure accuracy and complete
coverage. Most organizations co
operated fully, and they are
represented in the pages of this
issue.
•Some stories in the edition ap
pear to he duplicates of others
appearing in different sections,
hut they were prepared by dif
ferent people who saw the same
aspects oi life in Chapel Hill
from different points of view.
“We have not gone too much;
in detail as to history," said Mr.;
Arthur. “The purpose of the spe-
A dal edition was to show Chapel I
®HiU os it is in September, 1U66,!
and to discuss its hopes for the
future. The only use made of his
tory is to show that Chapel Hill
does have a heritage, and that it
has lived up to that heritage in
progressively becoming a finer
place to live us the years go by.”
Mr. Arthur expressed the
Weekly’s appreciation to all local
oiganizatioris who contributed
articles and information for the
edition. The University Library,
the University News Bureau, and
many other agencies were ex
tremely helpful in the collection
and preparation of material for
Mr. Arthur also ex
pressed the paper's appreciation
to local merchants whose support
made the edition possible.
The primary purpose in pub
lishing this edition, according to
Mr. Arthur, was to gather as
much information as possible
about Chapel Hill-Carrboro and
to present it in a form that may
serve as a brochure or prospec
tus of the community for new
and prospective residents, and as
a valuable collection of Chapel
Hiltiana for current residenU.
Extra copies may be purchased
at the Weekly office behind the
Bank of Chapal Hill on Rosemary
street.
Chapel Millnotei
Dale Hanson apparently lost In
the alley back of tha N. C. Cafe
teria.
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first leaves falling from tram.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
A Good Place for You
Chapel Hill is a good place to study, to work, to
live and retire, to play and to worship . . . which
makes Chapel Hill a good place for you.
Chapel Hill is a good place to study because of
the research and academic resources of the Univer
sity, because of the fine local school system, and
because of its tradition of freedom of speech and
thought for persons of different beliefs and views,
regardless of how unorthodox they may seem.
Chapel Hill is a good place to work because of
the large number of positions available in the Uni
versity and other state agencies, because of the in
itiative and imagination of local businessmen, and
because of the promise of future industry to pro
vide nearby jobs without destroying the charm of
the community.
Chapel Hill is a good place to live and retire be
cause of its quiet and informal atmosphere, its fresh
air and green trees, its wholesome attractiveness as
a place to raise children, its freedom from the
cramped confines of city life.
Chapel Hill is a good place to play because of the
year-round temperate climate, the athletic facili
ties of the University, the multitude of concerts and
plays and other outstanding forms of entertainment,
and because of the youthful and healthy outlook of
its citizens of all ages.
Chapel Hill is a good place to worship because of
its number and variety of ehurches, because of its
religious heritage expressed in its very name, and
because of its traditions of tolerance.
There’s no question about it! Chapel Hill is a good
place for you!
Welfare Head Says Foster Home Needed
In Chapel Hill for Abandoned Children
By J. A. C. Dunn
We whirled over to Hillsboro
one day last week to see Mrs.
Jane Parker, the director of the
j Orange County Welfare depart
| ment, about foster homes for
I babies. We don’t need a foster
home; and we don’t know anyone
who does, but Mrs. Poster knows
of quite a few instances in which
foster homes are badly needed.
We inquired about this matter.
“We have two kinds of foster
j homes,’’ said Mrs. Parker in a
<risp, clear-cut Massachusetts ac
cent. “The first kind is for babies
awaiting adoption. We have no
foster homes in Chapel Hill at all
now, which is bad. We used to
have some, but they moved away.
We find the best foster parents
are among the students or among
middle-aged people with children
of their own. We used to have
a honey of a home in Victory
Village a couple that just loved
;kids and ready knew how to
! handle them and make them
j nappy. The elderly people are
good too, because they’ve had
| children in ttieir families and
|>ney know the problems ami
joys—on both sides of having
j children in a house. It's ham
Horace Williams’
Life Dramatized
The story of the late Horace
Williams of the University fac
ulty will be dramatised over the
National Broadcasting Company
network and radio station WPTF
Thursday night at K:3O o’clock.
The presentation, tilled “Eccen
tric," is another in the American
Adventure series, written and
produced on the University cam
pus.
Horace Williams was the first
philosophy professor in the South,
and he considered himself re
sponsible for awakening the
young men of the then sleeping
South.
An eccentric in almost every
way, Mr. Williams was a terror
in the classroom—although he
was consistently voted the most
popular professor at the Univer
sity—and was a thorn in the side
of his fellow professors. He chal
lenged fearlessly, believing that
to tear down and rebuild was the
best hope of the South.
From his classroom came many
of the South's leaders.
John Ehle will play the part of
Mr. Williams in the radio drama.
Ha will be supported by the late
Malcolm Rawlins, Earl Wynn,
Jo-Elien Wade and Josephine
Sharkey.
This Issue 25 Cents a" Copy
work having a child in your
home, you know.” We agreed
that when we were a child, we
must have been pretty hard work
ourself.
“The county pays sl2 u month
(Continued on page 6)
Housemothers At
Sororities Named
Mrs. Ronald L. McDonald has
been appointed housemother ol
Delta Delta Delta sorority and
Mrs. Katherine Boston Moiris has
taken the same position with
kappa Delta sorority.
A native North Carolinian,
Mrs. McDonald has been making
her home in Silver Spring, Md.
She is a graduate of the Woman’s
College in Greensboro. She re
places Mrs. Eleanor Carter, who
is living with her daughter here.
Mrs. Morris replaces Mrs. E. H.
Graham, who is returning to her
home in Goldsboro. A native of
Elkin, Mrs. Morris giuduuled
from Mitchell college in States
‘ vilie and later studied at Colum
bia university and at UNC.
Housemothers in three other
sorority houses and in the six
women’s dormitories are remain
ing from last year. They are Mrs.
~e»iie Babcock, Hi Beta Phi; Mrs.
ieggy Bisseii, Chi Omega: Mrs.
Bessie Buchanan, Spencer Bali;
Mrs. J. C. ( lamp, Alderman liall;
Mrs. Florence Cook, Mclver Ball;
Mrs. Sedalia Gold, Smith dormi
tory; Mrs. Victor Humphreys,
Kenan half; Mrs. Daphne Max
well, Alpha Delta Pi; Mrs. laj
rene Pattee, Alpha Gamma Delta;
und Mrs. Charles Seward, Carr
dormitory.
Lincoln High Gymtorium Bids Accepted
The Chapel Hill School Board
voted at a special meeting Thurs
day night to accept the bids on
a new gymtorium at IJncoln high
school. Tha coat of tha project
will run over 0100,000, and at
present the Board has only around
080,000 available. Tha difference
will be made up out of the capital
outlay funds received next year,
it was decided.
The Orange County School
Board has 010,000 that can b*
“loaned” to the local School
Board but will be accepted only
if the construction schedule re
quires the money during the flacal
year. If tha money is used, it will
be repaid from either state school
bond funds or from next year’s
capital outlay program.
Tha Board decided to use
“change order*” which would per-
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1955
Dry Cleaning
Prices Hiked on
4 Basie Items
Chapel Hill dry cleaning
establishments, following the
lead of their counterparts in)
nearby towns, scheduled
price increases to go into ef
fect yesterday on four basic
items of wearing apparel, i
The price hikes were the
result of a meeting of own
ers of local cleaning firms
here last week. The follow
ing four items were sched
uled to be increased from 85
to 90 cents fpr cash-and
carry, and from 95 cents to
$1 for pick-up and delivery
service:
Men’s suits,- ladies’ dress
es, topcoats, and bathrobes.
There was no agreement
on other increases, but a
spokesman for the cleaners
said some of the firms might
make additional price ad
justments.
Raleigh dry cleaning
prices went up several weeks
ago. Pittsboro and Sanford
followed suit. Durham fell in
line last week, raising its
prices 10 and 15 cents over
former levels. The four basic
items in Durham now cost
an average of $1 for cash
and-carry and sl.lO for pick
up and delivery.
Carl Smith, owner of
Smith-Prevost cleaners here,
sounded a warning for the
future: “The thing hanging
over cleaning prices now is
the proposed $1 minimum
wage law,” he said. “If dry
cleaning establishments are
brought under that, prices
will go up again.”
Powell Bill Fund
Allotments Made
Three Orange county in
corporated towns will receive
a total of $34,763.78 from
Powell bill funds for im
provements on non-highway
system streets.
Chapel Hill will receive
$23,537.76, and Carrboro will
get $5,991.10. Hillsboro will
ue paid $5,234.92. Checks
will be mailed to the towns
>y the State Highway and
Public Works Commission in
mid-September.
The funds come from a
i/-»c per gallon of the total or,
gross 6c gasoline tax collect
ed by the commission during
the fiscal year 1954-55. The
allocations are based on
population und relative mile
age of non-state system or
local streets used us high
ways.
AHi ndi, Wedding
Miss Belle- Hampton of Chapel’
Hill attended the wedding of her
nephew, George Coggiri Hamp
ton 111 of (ireensboro to Miss
Cynthia Ann Weld at Alturnont,
N. C., on .September 4. The bride
in the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy l.ynn W'eid of Altamont, and
the groom in the son of Mr. and
Mis. George Coggin Hampton
Jr., of Greensboro. The couple
wijl live in Greensboro.
Visit in Mississippi
The M. T. Van Heckes drove
to Oxford, Mis#., where Mr. Van
liecke spoke at the annual meet
ing of the .Southeastern Law
Teachers convention. Later they
drove on to Jackson, Miss., to
visit their son, Bayard.
mit certain items to be dropped
from the plans and added later
when fund* are available. By ac
cepting the bids the board has
the advantage of holding the line
on the bids a* they were submit
ted, and avoiding higher payment
on materials that may increase in
price before they are used.
Tha gymtorium ia expected to
be ready by next September but
much of tha work will be done
during the summer after the
start of tha next fiscal yaar.
Tha Lincoln high school gym
torium has bean described as tha
number one need in the local
acboo) district. Tha school has
lost its accredited status for the
lack of tha facilities of a gym
torium. Tha bid* wore submitted
on August 10.
Chapel Mill Cha/l
J. J.
Chapel Hill is now moving
with a powerful forwart,
.thrust that won’t be slowec
by traffic jams, small-bort
water lines, or people wht
want to stop and look back.
The streets will be widenec
iThe two-inch pipes are being
dug up and replaced by
mains big enough to, fill all
the tubs and flush all the
toilets in a thousand and one
new houses along the high
ways and in the woods and
fields. Anybody pausing for
a backward glance is likely
to be left standing beside the
road.
The sleepy little college
.town is sleepy and little no
more. Now it is bigger and
better. It has a gigantic new
hospital, four supermarkets,
a Planetarium, a Glen Len
nox, more and better stores
than ever before, a TV sta
tion, a radio station, two
movie theatres, two banks
i a dozen new residential de
velopments, and about 25
filling stations. It is getting
ready to have a million-dol
lar art museum.
Obviously, this is all to the
good since it means that
Chapel Hill is doing more
things for more people.
What makes it even more
! to the good is that some
1 things remain changeless in
the midst of change. Th<
old unmatched structures ii
the center of the University
! campus look much as they dt
i in pictures made a hundred
years ago. Between South
building and Franklin Street
stand oaks and poplars the
Indians walked under. On a
1 Sunday afternoon in spring
the student band is heard
there, and children and dogs
race and romp among the
Oiled benches and past the
conductor’s podium, and no
body worries since cars can’t
come there to endanger the
toddling babies who a e
squeals and laughter only
(Continued on page 2)
Postal Receipts
Continuing Climb
Postal reecipts jumped up
ward in Chape) Hill during
the month of August. Post
master Paul Cheek reported
receipts of $17,883, com
pared to $13,733 in August
of 1954.
Receipts for the first two
months of the quurter end
ing Sept. 30 showed nearly a
24 per cent increase, from
$34,047 in 1964 to $42,059
this year. July receipts
showed only a 19 per cent in
crease, but the August boom
pulled the uverage up to the
24 per cent figure.
University Names
Adviser to Women
‘Mi«« Martha Darker of Miami,
Fla., an alumna of the IJnlvei*
sity, hag assumed the ilutieg of
personnel adviier to women at
the University, Dr. Katherine
Carmichael, dean of women, has
announced.
Mix* Decker did her undergrad
uate work at the Univeraity of
Florida, graduating in 11*53, and
entered the Univeraity Law
School the following year. While
here, ahe aerved aa graduate
counaelor in Smith dormitory.
Before her appointment here,
ahe waa field secretary for Phi
Mu aorority, a position which
took her to colleges and universi
ties throughout the country. Miss
Decker replace* Mrs. Albert
Schaeffer, who la now with the
Univeraity Pres*.
Plan Novaaibar Meat
Dr. Chari** E. Jordan of Dur
ham, president of tb# North
Carolina School Boarda Associa
tion and viao-president of Duka
univtraity, announced today that
tha A rat annual delegate as
sembly of the North Carolina
School Boarda Aaaodatton will be
held hare November 10, on the
Univeraity campna.
UNC Enrollment Booms Upward;
More than 6,500 Are Expected;
Federal Court Rules University
Must Process Negro Applications
Coronaries Disnlay Golfing at Its Easiest
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Hill Poe of the Kiwanis club
(left, above)*and Vic Huggins of
the Rotarians exemplified golfing
at its easiest when the civic clubs
teed off in a match at Finley Golf
Course Wednesday afternoon. Be
cause both Mr. l’oe und Mr. Hug
gins suffer from heart ailments,
they were provided a three-wheel
mechanized cart. But even it
didn’t help Mr. Poe, who was de
feated 3 to 0. The Kiwanis team,
However, beat the Rotarians 27
to 12. i.ow scorer was Howard
Culbreth with a 71. Four matches
were played, tile Kiwuniuns tak
Student Credit Problems and Costs of
Education Revealed in Old Catalogue
It is common knowledge that
nowadays a college education
conies dearer than it did a hun
dred years ago. However, wiiat
is not so common knowledge is
the extent to which the price of
education has risen in the last
100 years. The University catu
logue for the year 1856-56 in
eludes the following table of es
timated expenditures for the
average college student of those
jelays, as calculated by the Uni
! varsity administration;
Tuition 060 $ 50
| Room rent 10 10
‘.Servant hire 5 5
Deposit 4 4'
Board for 40 weeks 00 120
Bed und washing 16 21
Wood 6 h
Caudles 5 6
Total, from 0186 to $227
The comparirfori between theu
and now is obvioOs. Other com
parisons which are not evi
denced by the above taifie ure
found in three statements in the
Indy of the section on expendi
tures:
“Board of a quality not in
ferior to what is furnished at
the tables of the most respect
able boarding houses in the
nt ighboring villages, inay be hud
at $9 to 012 per lunar month."
This implies, just to make a di
gressive observation, that in the
lhOU’i one was expected to pay
(Continued on page 3)
Hillel Group to Meet
The Hillel Women’s Group will
hold its first masting of the sea
son on Tuesday, Beptember 13,
8:00 p.m. at the Hillel House on
West Cameron avenue. All new
and old mambara of the Jewish
community are cordially invited.
Local Man Victim of “Slowpoke” Law
A 20-year-old Chapel Hillian
played guinea pig for the state’s
new Vowpeke” driving law in
Durham Recorder’! Court lari
Thursday.
Clarence A. Ashley waa charged
with violation of the law against
iriving a ear in a manner and at
a speed ao as to impede the nor
mal flow of traffic, ft waa the first
such violation to be prosecuted
in Durham county.
1 Mr. Ashley pleaded guilty to
$4 a Year in County; other rates an page 1
> ing three and tying one. Highi
scorer for the afternoon was Bill!
1 Sloan with 106, and next High
i was Gray Culbreth with 100.
' Second low was racked up by
Herb Wentworth with 70. Play
ing were Dick Jamerson, Walter
, Rabb, Gray and Howard Culbreth,
I Baldy Williams, Orville Camp
• bell, Tony Gobbcl and Vance
Hogan for the Kiwanians, and
; K. A. Jolly, Mr. Wentworth, Gor
don and L. J. Perry, Mr. Sloan,
Miles Fitch, Matt Thompson and
Sion Jennings for the Rotarians.
Correction
We hoped it wouldn't hep
pen, but it did and we apolo
gize. For (he past two weeks
everyone connected with the
Weekly has been working
night and day preparing this
special edition. We’ve checked
and doublechecked. We knew
there would be some mistakes,
and there are several.
We would like to call one to
your attention. In the worship
section we printed the story
of the Church of the lloly
Family with a picture of the
Chapel of the Cross and vice
versa. While everyone on the
paper was bemoaning the error
someone remarked, “At least
the denomination is correct.
They are both Episcopalian.”
Away at School
The following young people
from the l.aurel Hill section will
be away at school this year:
Hugh Bryan, son of the Hugh
Bryans, at Admiral Farragut
Academy in St. Petersburg, Fla.
for his second year.
Ramsey Green, son of the
Fletcher Greens, at Darlington
School for Boys in Rome, Ga.
Charles Hobson, son of the
Chas. B. Robsons, at Hill school,
Pottstown, Pa., senior year.
Betsy Pegg, daughter of the
C. H. Puggs, ot St. Mary’s school
in Raleigh.
In Watts Hospital
Mrs. J. J, Pritchard, 86 years
old and the mother of Mrs. J. C.
Webb, fell at the King's Daugh
ters Home in Durham recently
.and ia now in Watte hospital.
the charge, and was taxed with
tha court costs. State Highway
Patrolman John Phillips testified
the defendant last Sunday was
driving 26 miles per hour in a
46-mi Is sons, and was blocking
the progress of *lB cars to his
rear.
Patrol officials cracked down on
enforcement of the slowpoke law
aeveral weeks ago. The statute
waa pat on tha law books by the
1068 General Assembly.
TUESDAY
Next Issue Friday
’ Enrollment at the Univar
sity boomed up toward tha
record level established in
post-World War H years as
more than 6400 new and re
turning students crowdad
into Chapel Hill this weak to
begin their fall irmestar
classes on Thnaday.
It promised to be e Ma
.ory-making session for the
oldest state university in the
nation. On Saturday, s three
judge federal court ruled in
Greensboro that the Uuiver- ,
sity must process sdmlsaiapa
papers of three undergrad
uate Negro applicants “with
out regard to race or color.”
The court said, however,
that it was not ordering the
University to admit the
three Durham Negroes un
less they met academic quali
fications demanded of all stu
dents. But it appeared al
most a certainty that they
would attend classes as the
first Negro undergraduates
ever to be admitted to the
institution. Negro students
have previously been enrolled
in the University’s Law and
Medical Schools.
The three boys are Leroy
and Ralph Frasier and John
L. Brandon.
This year’s enrollment will
apparently top last year's by
more than 500 students. The
1954 attendance peak was
6,061. The five highest en
rollments in University his
iu4B—7,#m, im£—Tjua, tii-»
7,419, 1950-0,804, and 194»-
6,802.
The enrollment boom stemmed
not only from the general popu
lation increase throughout the
country, but from an increasingly
large number of veterans going
to school under the Korean G1
Bill. And the World War 11 baby
boom loomed ahead to akyrocket
enrollment within the next few
year*.
For the first time since 1948,
the University last Thursday
closed the door on further appli
cations for this fall's session. Vet
erans were not to be affected by
the ban. The same sort of clauip
down on admissions, including
the loophole for veterans, waa
invoked in the fall of 1947 and
1948.
Shortage of undergraduate in
structor* and lack of housing
facilities were given as reasons
for the move. In all but three
men's dormitories on the campus,
three students weM being crowd
ed into each two-man dormitory
room. The same three-to-a-room
conditions existed in about 60
rooms in women's dormitories.
| Ibe Chapel Hill-Carrboro Mer
chants Association is busily en
gaged in welcoming new and re
turning students this week. The
association planned to establish
a booth downtown today where
maps of the community, copies of
this special edition of the Week
ly, and other pertinent informa
tion may be obtained.
The booth will’’ also provide
copies of rules for a contest being
conducted by the association
throughout the week. Contest
curds bearing a letter of the al
phabet will he placed in Hhow)
winnows of various business
firms, Students must loeat* all
the letters and arrange them to
spell a sentence. Winners, in the
oiuer In which they turn in their
correct answers, will be awarded
prize* of 010, 06, 03, 02, and 20
prizes of 01 each.
Registration for all atudenta
began yesterday and will run
through Wednesday.
In This Issue
Section I—General News tad
Pictures
Section lA—Chapel HIU, A
Good Plnco for Yon
Section B—Chapel Hill, A Good
Pine* A* Study
Section B—Chapel HIM. A Good
Place to Work
Section 4—Ckapol HUI, A Good
Place to Idve and Botir*
Soatlon •—Ckapol DtU. 0
Good Pino* to Play
Section o—Ckapol W||, A
Good Pina* t» WwnMp