TUESDAY
ISSUE
Next bene Friday
Vol. 83 No. 66
Mrs. Brittain Has
Come Back Here
From Flood Area
By J. A. C. Dana
“When I left they were
preparing for the second
flood,” said Mrs. Mabel R.
Brittain, executive secretary
of the local Red Cross Chap
ter, who has been working
in Connecticut flood dis
aster area around Ansonia
and Seymour on the Naga
tuck River since August 25.
Mrs. Brittain returned to
Chapel Hill Sunday.
“The many manufacturing
plants were all on the river
and they were hit very hard
by the first flood. We had
rehabilitated about 601 fam
ilies when I left. A good
thing about the second flood
was that they were alerted
and they could move out in
time to avoid being hit too
hard. The last I heard there
were 100 families in Red
Cross shelters in Aasonia.
“Seymour and Ansonia
are pretty good sized towns,”
Mrs. Brittain went on. “Sey
mour is about 10,000 and
Ansonia is about 35,000. In
Seymour one whole block
washed away. I went in there
and I couldn’t even visualize
how there had been a street
there before. Houses, stores,
gauges, church, public lib
rai^—all washed away. The
Naugatuck River splits all
those little towns in there in
half, and there were many
homes and businesses on
both banks. There were
bridges across the river, but
they were washed away in
the first flood. The Army
Engineers set up emergency
bridges, and they were wash
ed away in the second flood.”
Mra. Brittain explained that
there are two phases of Red
Cross disaster work. The first
phase is the emergency phase—
coffee and doughnuts and shelter,
emergency aid of all kinds. The
second phase is the rehabilita
tion phase, in which the Red
Cross helps re-establish families
iri homes with furniture, where
they can continue to live on a
fairly comfortable basis.
‘‘l worked with the people di
rectly,” said Mrs. Brittain. ‘‘lt
*just impossible to describe.
•n I got there the streets had
been bulldozed through and the
mud was piled as high as a car
door. The first Red Cross work-'
ers were flown in by helicopters i
because the roads were closed, i
We didn’t have water for some
time. They brought drinking
water in by trucks, and water
was boiled. It was amazing bow
fast they got the water mains
working, but of course you
couldn’t drink it or wash in it
for some time.
“There were cemeteries on
both sides of the river, and these
got flooded too. There were cas
kets washed out of the ground
Jfcd into the main streets of the
Wrn*.
“We were hoping to close the
operation at the end of this
month.”
Before the second (Jood, 3V4
million dollars had been spent
for flood repairs and rehabilita
tion in Connecticut, which was
the hardest hit state.
“The wonderful thing about
the whole operation," concluded
Mrs. Brittain, “was the way
people came from all over the
United States to help. Nobody
questioned anybody else; every
body just worked together to get
A«gs straightened out. They
from everywhere the
West, the South, the North.”
2 Chapel Hillians
Struck by Auto
Mrs. Sarah L. Hughes, 62, and
her grandson, Patrick S. Hughes,
both of Chapel Hill, were severe
ly injured when struck by an
automobile in Durham Thursday
night.
The condition of Mrs. Hughes
was described as “fair” Monday
morning. She is in Watts Hospi
tal. The child was released from
the hospital Sunday.
Mrs. Hughes and the boy, who
reside at 168 Daniels Road, were
preparing to visit McPherson
Hospital when they were struck
by a car being operated west
on Main Street by Sterling M.
Brock well Jr., of Durham. Po
lios quoted him aa saying be
did not see the pedestrians in
tfane to avoid an accident. No
ulmgis have hew preferred.
The Final Estimates of School
Building Needs to Be Decided
Final estimates of capital outlay needs for Chapel
Hill district schools were expected to be made by the
School Board last night. However, the previously
announced figure of a one million dollar bond issue to
finance construction of the school additions was ex
pected to stand.
All members of the board were expected to be pre
sent at a dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Grey
Culbreth. Carl Smith, chairman of the board, said
the one million dollar figure probably would be agreed
upon unless some member of the board strongly re
commended a change.
The board is expected to carry its figure before
the Board of County Commissioners and the County
School Board on November 7 when Chapel Hill’s re
commendation will be studied in connection with a
bond issue for county schools.
No recommendations have been announced for the
size of the county’s bond issue. Chapel Hill officials,
however, feel that the size of the county’s bond issue
may have direct bearing on the size of the district’s.
Also, it has not been decided whether there will be
two distinct bond issues, or only one to cover both
the county and Chapel Hill school district needs.
The County Commissioners are to decide whether
Chapel Hill’s request will be excessive, and if so,
probably cut it before the total bond issue is an
nounced and an election date set for approval or dis
approval by the voters.
The proposed bond issue for Chapel Hill would
cover needs of local schools for the next five years.
Officials feel that a one million dollar bond issue
should be readily approved by the people because of
a pressing need for new classrooms for the present
school population.
Miss Katherine Jones, Author, To Speah
At Bulls Head Tea Thursday Afternoon
Miss Katherine Jones of Green
ville, S. C., who is the author
of “Heroines of Dixie,” will be
guest speaker at the first Bull’s
Head Bookshop tea for the 1955-
56 school year Thursday, Oct.
20 at 4 p.m.
Aside from her latest book,
Miss Jones also is co-editor of
“South Carolina in the Short
Story," and editor of “New Con
federate Short Stories.” At the
present time she is writing anoth
er book which is scheduled to be
published early next year*.
She is a professional librarian,
having been connected with lib
raries in Washington, D. C., Col
umbia, S. C., and is now re
ference librarian of the Greenville
(S. C.) Public Library.
Her “Heroines of Dixie” is the
current selection of the Civil
War Book Club.
Ralph S. Henry, in writing
Schools to Close
At Noon on Friday
The Chapel Hill High School
and the Chapel Hill Elementary
School (on West Franklin Street)
will be dismised at 12 o’clock next
Friday, October 21, so the pu
pils may attend the State Fair
in Raleigh that afternoon. Friday
will be the only day students will
be excused from school to attend
the fair.
Free tickets to the fair will
he given out to the pupils just
before the 12 o’clock dismissal
hour that day. No lunch will be
served in the school cafeteria,
and the school busses will leave
promptly at 12:05 p.m. to take
the children home.
Drama Group to Meet
The Community Drama Group
will meet at 7:46 p.m. Sunday,
October 23, in the University
Library's assembly room. Mra.
Lea Casey will direct a reading
of Eugene O’Neill’s play, “Mar
co’s Millions.” Everybody is in
vited. Those wishing to read the
play in advance may obtain a
copy from Mrs. Casey (tel. 9-12-
21).
Pageantry and Music Contribute to University*s Celebration of Its 162nd Birthday; Cornerstone Laying Re-Enacted
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Tka University celebrated its l(2nd birthday last Wednesday
with pageantry, meek, prayer end e re-enactment of the laying
of the coreeretoee of Old Beet, the eideet bonding ae the cam pea
of a ate to university in the United States. la the photograph at
the far left, Carl Williams, Jim Potest, end Al Gerdau (from left
to right) are shewn hi the urn ileai laying pantomime la the
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the introduction to “Heroines of
Dixie,” said of Miss Jones, “Miss
Jones has brought to her work
the qualities requisite for pro
ducing what is, in effect, a com
posite autobiography of Con
federate women. In doing so,
khe lets the actors tell the story
in their own words, with a mini
mum of connective tissue to keep
events in focus. There is no at
tempt to round up views from
all sources on each phase «£' the
story but the quotaHmm Riven
are each of suffiriMß length
to preserve their flavor end af
fect."
Author, Traveler to
Speak on Thursday
H. Shepard Jones, author, dip
lomat and world traveler, will
speak at the Thursday night
meeting of Pi Sigma Alpha in
the assembly room of the Library
at 8:30. His topic will be “A
Public Affairs Officer in the
Middle East: Problems, Perspec
tives, Possibilities.” The public
is invited to attend.
Mr. Jones, who is Burton
Craige Visiting Professor in Jur
isprudence at the University, is on
[leave from the State Department
for the current academic year.
A Rhodes scholar, he received his
Fh.D. from Oxford University in
1936, and has been with the State
Department for the past 13 years,
spending part of that time in
the Far and Middle East. He has
traveled extensively, having lived
or visited in 35 countries.
This will he the first public
evening meeting of Pi Sigma
Alpha, political Science honorary
fraternity. Refreshments will he
served after the meeting.
The general public is cordially
invited to attend this meeting
and hear Mr. Jones.
Special Service* Officer
Maj. Archie Donald Christo
pher of Carrhoro, a senior cadet
in the Air Force ROTC at the
University, lias been named wing
special services officer for the
fall semester.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C.. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, I^§
Appointed
William R. Cherry, assist
ant cashier of the Bank vs
Chapel Hill, will head the
Chapel Hill Jaycee committee
which haa taken the responai
bility for the Community
Cheat drive in the businean
district.
Mr. Cherry was appointed
by Gran Childreaa, president
of the Jayeees. Personnel of
the com nut tee which will con
duct the solicitation will be
announced later, Mr. Cherry
said. The goal of the 195«
Fund drive to run November
1-9 is $25,733. Nine Chapel
Hill agencies will be benefici
aries of the Chest. I
Graham High Tops
Chapel Hill 32-12
In Friday*s Game
Chapel Hill High School lost
its first Eastern Class AA Dis
trict Three game to Graham Fri
day night there. The score was
32 to 12.
Larger and stronger Graham
scored four times in the first
half and once in the last quarter.
The Wildcats could not get roll
ing until the third period.
And then it was Ruffin Har
ville’s exciting 60-yard punt re
turn that got the locals the first
score. In the final period, Gene
Smith got Chapel Hill’s other
touchdown on a seven-yard sneak.
The score had been set up
with a 35-yard pass from Rudy
Barker to Paul Cheek.
Richard Gunter and Tommy
Hogan were impressive on de
fense for the Wildcats, who now
have a 2-1-1 conference record.
Y-Teens Will Hold
Service Tomorrow
The Junior and Senior Y-Teens
will hold a candlelight recogni
tion service at 7:30 p.m. tomor
row (Wednesday) at the Chapel
of the Cross. The public is in
vited.
' AraMqgMMMta for the service
•n baing'aNda by the following
(Mel Pm Williams worship
committee chairman of the Jun
ior Y-Teens; Donna Ballenger,
membership committee chairman
of the Junior Y-Teens; Barbara
Butler, worship committee chair
man of the Senior Y-Teens, and
Margaret Evans, membership
committee chairman of the sen
ior Y-Teens.
Student Awarded Scholarship
Samuel E. Penegar, a Univer
sity student from Monroe, has
been awarded a S6OO scholarship
by the Great Southern Truck
ing Co., of Jacksonville, Fla.
A Chest Agency
Humane Society Cares for Homeless
And Restores Lost Animals to Owners
Animals as well as humans
benefit from the Chapel Hill
Community Chest, a fact of
which animal lovers and others
will approve.
The Chapel Hill Humane So
ciety during the first nine
months of this year took care
of 650 animals as compared
with 500 during all of 1954.
The Humane Society at
tempts to care for homeless
animals reported to it as well
as for lost pets. Funds grant
ed to the society are spent
entirely on medicine and food
for the animals, both of which
are furnished at cost, and on
medical care, available at half
the usual fee from Dr. L. L.
Vine, cooperating veterinarian.
Sick or injured animals are
second picture, the same three are HM aa thay flrat appeared to
the large crowd la froat of South Building. They ere walking
down theeeeth atepa, flanked by ■ euier guard aad where es the
University Chores. Ia the third picture. Chancellor Robert &
House (left) eud Acting University President 1. Harris Paths
deemed tha stags. Behind Ur. Parka la the Rev. Ssmoei T. Babel
Chapel JiiU Chaff
J. J.
Many Durham people
break the tedium of city
life by driving over here on
Sunday to have lunch at the
Carolina Inn cafeteria. For
some reason or other, most
of these short-term refugees
are what might be called
pioneer residents of our big
neighbor to the east. Two
In this category are Mrs. E.
C. Murray and her foster
daughter, Miss Clara Craw
ford, who are regular Sun
day patrons of the Inn. Mrs.
Murray, whose father help
ed found the Citizens Na
tional Bank (then the More
head Bank) and whose hus
band was the trust officer
of the Fidelity Bank, came
to Durham about eighty
years ago when it had a
population of 2,500. Miss
Crawford, who has been Li
brarian of the Durham Pub
lic Library almost forty
years, was the first woman
in Durham to drive her own
automobile. Mrs. Murray is
a charter member of the
Durham public schools, hav
ing been in the first grade
of the Durham elementary
school the first year there
was a Durham elementary
school.
Both Mrs. Murray and
Miss Crawford well remem
ber the days when a trip
from Durham to Chapel Hill
and back was an all-day
journey, and when many
people wouldn’t attempt it at
all in the winter unless they
had an unusually strong
horse to pull their buggy.
That’s because the mud was
regularly so deep on the
highway at that time of
year. A small horse couldn’t
„iake it without becoming
exhausted.
Miss Crawford, who is Mr.
Murray’s cousin, came to
Purham from the family
plantation in Alamance
County when she was five
years old. “At that time,”
she says, “Durham’s Main
Street was often in such bad
shape you couldn’t cross it
without getting your shfoes
covered with mud. At the
corners were stepping stones
for people to walk across
(Continued on page 2$
treated or done away with in
a humane manner. Pets which
have strayed from home are
restored to their owners if
possible. Owners pay the entire
costs for their pets so that
funds granted by the Com
munity Chest go entirely for
starving, sick, and injured
strays.
Mrs. A. M. Jordan, in re
porting to the Chest evalua
tion committee for the Humane
Society, pointed out that she
and others hear much of the
expense normally borne by a
humane society.
The Humane Society will
receive S6OO of the $25,733
budget of the 1956 Community
Chest, the drive for which will
be conducted November 1-9.
Town Government Is Cooperating With County
In Taking Recalcitrant Taxpayers Into Court;
Eight Suits Are Already Filed in Tax Showdown
By Lyn Overman
The Town of Chapel Hill
is cooperating with Orange
County in bringing tax suits
against recalcitrant taxpay
ers, some of whom owe taxes
for periods as far back aa
1929.
The “showdown” began on
October 6 when county at
torney E. B. Denny filed the
Mrs . Coenen Says She Is Not Trying
To Stand in the Way of Alley Widening
By Chuck Hauser
Mrs. Susan Coenen told the
Weekly yesterday she was “cer
tainly” not trying to stand in
the way of the town’s widening
and paving the alley which runs
behind the East Franklin Street
business district.
Mrs. Coenen said she -only
quoted a price of S9OO for a
four-foot strip of land at the
rear of her Rosemary Street
property after Town Manager
Thomas Rose asked her to name
a price.
At a meeting of the Board of
Aldermen last week, Mr. Rose
said the town was interested in
paving the alley but that it
should be widened to 20 feet
for efficiency. He said Mrs. Coe
nen would agree to sell only
four feet of her property—
enough for a 16-foot alley.
Bob Cox, one of 17 merchants
who petitioned the aldermen to
pave the alley, told the board
Walter Creech would also agree
to sell only four feet of land,
Kovacs to Play
Here on Oct 25
Stephan Kovacs, concert pian
ist and former member of the
American Piano Trio, will appear
at the University Oct. 26, at the
weekly Tuesday Evening Series
His prifeniQMfc'la set fbr 8
p.m. in Hill Hall.
Sponsored by tlfe Graham
Memorial Activities Board and
by the Music Department, Kovacs
will play a program including
compositions by Hungarian Com
posers Liszt, Szelenyi, Dohanyi.
In addition to these piano
works, Kovacs will play his own
arrangement of Strauss’ “Fled
ermaus Waltzes;” Liszt’s ar
rangement of Wagner’s “Tann
hauser Overture.” Other major
works for piano will include
Brahm’s “Paganini Variations”
and Liszt’s “Dante Sonata.”
Kovacs is a composer as well
as an arranger and pianist. He
not only arranged all of the
piano numbers used on the Ameri
can Piano Trio tours but he was
engaged to arrange the concert
and recording works played by
such teams as I.uhoshutz and
Nemenoff, Bariett and Robertson,
and Appleton and Field.
He is a graduate of the Franz
Liszt Academy of Music in Buda
pest and was a special student of
Zoltan Kodaly. Kovacs also won,
in Vienna, the international Franz
I.iszt piano competition.
Pi Phi Alumnae Meeting
AH Pi Phi alumnae are invited
to meet the new province officer
at 8 o’clock this (Tuesday) eve
ning at the home of Mrs Tom
Boat Jr. at 719 Gimghoul Road.
Named Rhodea Candidate
William Thomas Wolf, a Chap
si Hill graduate student, is among
the four University students se
lected as Rhodes Scholarship
candidates this year.
of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, who deMvorod tho Invocation,
and at tho loft roor la an unidentified member of tho chons. At
for right is the speakers’ stand. On It, from loft to right, aro Nr.
Haboi, narrator Potor O'Sullivan (partly hidden behind Mr.
Habet), Chancellor Heme, Alumni Association President John
Harden. Rtodsat Body Prmldmt Dm Fowled and Fwriicnl Parks.
>4 a Year in County; other rates on page 2
first of eight tax suits now
pending in Orange County
Superior Court at Hillsboro.
Town Manager Thomas
Rose announced last week
that he and Town Attorney
John Q. LeGrand were di
rected by the Board of
County Commissioners to co
operate with Mr. Denny in
bringing into court persons
and he was asking $1,500.
The alley, widened and paved,
would not only provide easy ac
cess for delivery trucks, but
would keep commercial traffic
out of congested East Franklin
Street.
Mrs. Coenen brought a new
factor into the alley controversy
yesterday. She revealed that her
deed to the property which runs
alongside the present alley forc
es her to keep open another alley,
10 feet wide, which runs be
tween the building on her pro
perty and the business alley.
The 10-foot alley must be avail
able for access to the adjoining
property.
She said the terms of this
deed force ..er to offer only four
feet of land for sale, rather than
the eight feet needed for a 20-
foot business alley. She said
selling eight feet of land would
leave her with a piece of land
too small to be developed, lying
between the business alley and
the 10-foot alley specified in
her deed.
The Weakly received written
statements from both Mrs. Coe
nen and Mr. Creech over the
weekend. Mrs. Coenen’s state
ment follows:
“The property on East Rose
mary Street which I bought at
public auction in 1948 was divid
ed into three separate lots, one
facing Revmary and two facing
tto whoOhw latter were sub
jeet to spirited bidding and were
(faiaily tmfht at a price far
in excess of what anyone would
pay for “the rear of a lot.” I
bought these lots in order to
provide parking space for the
people who would occupy the
dwelling there.
“My family has already given
to the town of Chapel Hill a
driveway 12 feet wide and 300
feet long from the west side
of this lot—as well as the pre
sent alley 12 feet wide extending
100 feet between the Franklin
Street stores and the Rosemary
Street lots.
“The necessity for procuring
land to widen the alley was
brought about by the extension
of Stevens-Shepherd’s store to the
limit of Jack Lipman’s property
on Franklin Street. The attention
of the city authorities was called
to the problem that this ex
tension would create when the
building was begun; but no ac
tion was taken to prevent it.
“It is quite clear that the wid
ening of the alley is for business
purposes of the merchants whose
stores border it and is therefore
not primarily for pubfic pur
poses.
“The price which 1 set on the
portion of my lot, 4800 square
feet of which has already been
given to the town, is quite rea
sonable.”
Here are the facts in the alley
situation, as reported by Mr.
Creech in his statement to the
Weekly:
“1. The present alley, 12 feet
wide and 400 feet long, running
from Rosemary Street south to
the rear of the N. C. Cafeteria
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TUESDAY
ISSUE
Nazt Issue Friday
who owe back county and
town taxes on property in
Chapel Hill.
Up until now the town
and the county have been
depending on the sale of
property which requires
owners to clear property of
all back taxes before trans
fer of title. With the filing
of tax suits, persons owing
ad valorem taxes will be
brought into court and forc
ed to sell their property for
payment of the delinquent
taxes.
Mr. Rose said the suits
are being brought against
persons who owe county tax
es for periods further back
than 1950. Taxes owed the
town up to 1949 totaled
$13,549 as of last July 1,
he said. «
Mr. Denny said he has
not estimated the amount of
delinquent county taxes on
property in Chapel Hill.
However, he added, that
property in Chapel Hill will
be involved in the tax suits
although the delinquent tax
payer may not be resident
of the town.
The town has been au
tomatically buying tax liens
on property, Mr. Rose said,
“but that can go on forever,
unless we want a show
down.”
The town manager said
as of July 1, 1955 a total of
$28,618 in town taxes pay
able into the General Fund
had not been paid for the
years 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953,
and 1954. The total delinq
uent taxes for the general
fund for 1954 alone totaled
$13,760 as of July 1, he said.
However, he added, the
total figure for the five-year
period has been “consider
ably reduced” since that
date. In addition, to the gen
eral fund figure of delinqu
ent taxes for the period, tax
es owed debt service totaled
$7,599, making a total figure
of $36,217.
Horn and Littleton
On TV This Evening
A discussion of the various
exhibits found at the UNC Li
brary will be held on the weekly
Library television show from 7:15
to 7:30 this (Tuesday) evening.
Librarian Andrew H. Horn
and Assistant to the Librarian
1; T. Littleton will be on the
program, along with a number
of student assistants who work
in the Library.
Among the exhibits now being
shown are one on Bath, the
State’s oldest town; the UNC
campus, showing early scenes of «
the campus; a group of colored
prints showing the types of
clothing and uniforms that were
worn centuries ago, and an ex
hibit of textbooks and other pub
lications that were written by
UNC faculty members.
Dr. Palumbo at Richmond
Dr. Leonard Palumbo Jr. of
the University’s School of Medi
cine will have a leading role in
1 a meeting of the Virginia Medi
• cal Society today in Richmond.
He will read a paper on “Omis
sions and Commissions in Mater
nal Mortality” and will be moder
ator of a panel discussion. Dr.
Palumbo, who is assistant pro-’
fessor of obstetrics and gyne
cology, recently spoke before the
Greenville, S.C., Medical Society.
I Chapel Jfillnotes
Boys being stopped from
plsying football in Glen Leo-
I nox shopping center by man
i who said, “You boys should
know better than that” Where
upon, lad remarked, M I know
who he is and where he Uvea,
I and I’m gonna put ten rotten
: eggs on his porch Hallowe’en
night”
• • •
I ' Sidewalk speculation ran
i ning high on possibility of
high-powered Jim Tatum eom
i ing to Carolina, 10-gallon Stet
son and all.
• * •
Chilly air over the weekend
heralding another winter of
strange weather, and inspiring
rsminiscensea about last year’s
heavy snow and last Jane's an
seasonable sold snag,