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FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday \ 33 No. 79 .d Memorial Halls University's Majestic Mistake * jgp? “ - ,v >t ~?w !§■£ - r . :' < --4< , v-.-' J 1 " 4 * MB ... ■*,..- aHHQy> w* w ,ylKjß * Dh*. rT ’Z'--- ; - - SB ■ ■ •» rv"v --• -wKM By Billy Arthur Old Memorial Hall, shown a bove, was a building that was erected by mistake, that few people wanted and fewer could use, and that, for all practical purposes, should have been closed the day it was opened. Yet, many a Chapel Hillian and University alumnus fondly re members the structure. For they climbed in it, carved their initials in it, tried to hear in it, and got in it. ▼ During commencement in 1883 Governor Jarvis, observing the disappointment of hundreds of people unable to find seats or standing room in already filled Gerrard Hall, promised the people that a suitable and sufficiently larger auditorium would be pro vided for University functions. Funds which had already been set aside for remodeling Gerrard Hal) were used to employ Sam uel Sloan, a Philadelphia archi tect, who was either a genius or a fool and who was either totally ignorar.‘ '(f “the art of est) mating cost?" gr confident that the trustees and the people of North Carolina wouhj see the building to completion. Mr. Sloan's first estimate of total cost Was $20,000, which he later upped to $30,000 and then to $40,000. Eventually all the monies appropriated for a memorial to David 1,. Swain, governor and president, those which were raised by outright joules of memorial tablet spaces,! Mrs. Fowler Marks Her 82nd Birthday Mr*. John T. Fowler, the' mother of nine children, includ ing Boh Fowler and Jim Fowler, of Chapel Hill and Marvin | Fowler and Col. Marion Fowler of Durham, celebrated her 82nd birthday Wednesday at her home in the Graham Court Apartments. Her visitors included many Chapel Hilliaris as well as some from Greensboro, Durham, and , other towns in this area. | The highlight of the day was • a birthday dinner given by one i of Mrs. Fowler’s daughters, Mrs. | Clyde Brooks of Greensboro. Here From Dxvidnoii Davidson College students home for the Thanksgiving holiday in cluded David Garvin, a fresh man; Ned Hedgpeth, a sopho more, and Alex Bhepard, a Junior. Borden Abemethy, who is a senior at Davidsoa, spent the holiday in Memphis, Tenn. Faculty Wives’ Meeting The Faculty Wives of the Uni versity’s School of Business Ad- will meet at 8 p.m. ! December «, in Car- ; roll Hall. The hostesses will be Mrs. Rash! Fein and Mrs. James C. Ingram. Auxiliary te Meet There will be a general meet ing of the Woman’s Auxiliary of the Chapel of the Cross Epis copal Church Monday, December 5, at 8 p.m. at the Parish House. Chapel Millnotei Nice work on WUNC-TV’s Christmas book telecast by Paul Smith of Intimate Book shop, Mrs. Charles Valentine of Bull’s Head Bookshop,v and University Librarian Andrew Horn. Real actors all. e • e One thousand one hundred and sixty-four University co eds and every darn one of them wearing white socks. The Chapel Hill Weekly ■ ■•?■—- - ■— ■" ■ ”•**»'» contributions by alumni and a loan from the chairman of the building committee were needed to finish the monstrous cavern. Mr. Sloan proposed a hexagonal building supported by two ma jestic semi-circle arches of wood extending from front to rear, and 18 other arches reaching from different point.' on the foundation to the tw v ' center beams. It was to have one of the largest spanned woode.i roofs in the world. And it did. Chapel Hill and Carrboro Merchants Will Meet on Monday to Pick Officers f The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Mer . chants Association will hold its final meeting of the year Mon day night at tha Carrboro Bap | tist Church. Business matters to follow g . dinner at 6:30 p.m. include tMg , election of officers for the of r gsnization for 1960. Also on the f agenda are finaasktl MfwrU ts r t Lhu*lfc* tftMMMnMud * tbi* , et rg<Vw fOr r tMfrlhmig> > year. I The slate of officers for 1960 an .selected by the nominating - . i {Crafts Fair Slated i Today, Tomorrow L , Articles made by some of North s Carolina’s leading craftsmen at : the Benland School will be on , I sale here today (Friday) and tomorrow at the Gruham Memor ial at a crusts fair sponsored by the Chapel Hill chapter of -!the American Association of Uni 'versity Women. The fair will be lopen from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. to !day and from 10 a.in. to 6 p.m. tomorrow. Hand-made articles for sale will include jewelry, ceramics, mats, skirts, stoles, and children’.- clothes. Some of the teacher* from the Benland School will be on hand to demonstrate weav ing, silk screen printing, and jewelry making. I In connection with the fair, the University's television sta tion, WUNC-TV, was to have given a program on North Caro lina crafts from 9 to 9:30 last night (Thursday). Also in con nection with the fair, some of Mrs. English Bagby’s dancing pupils are to give a program of folk dancing and square dan cing at 11:16 a.m. Saturday in the Roland Parker lounge of the Graham Memorial. At Recreation Conference Miaa Lucille Caldwell, director of the Chapel Hill Community Center on Graham Btr«et, was in Charlotte Tuesday and Wednes day attending tha North Carolina Recreation Conference, which wae held nt the Hotel Charlotte. Empty Stocking Campaign Rolls Into High Gear; Case History of 'ilfri. AT Listed Beginning Monday, December 6, the Junior Service League’s Empty Stocking Campaign rolls into high gear as more than 400 family or individual applicants go “up for adopt ion." All organisations, church groups, neighborhoods, bridge clubs, sewing circles and in dividuals are urged to call Mrs. Gordon B. Cleveland at 3666 before the December 12 dead line and “adopt a family" by filling a box with food, cipthes and toys and taking it to the Institute of Pharmacy at Rose mary and Church Streets on or before December 17. There is a family or individual to fit everyone’s abilities, so please call early for your family. To 6 Cents a Copy —Photo by Wootten-Moulton With construction under way, Mr. Sloan came up with a second cost estimate. To meet that Presi dent Battle proposed converting the building into a general mem orial in which would be tablets to careers of eminent alumni. With that plan he added the SIO,OOO by 1884. Came the day when the two 127-foot majestic arches were completed en the ground and when they were to be raised. (Contiaued on page 6) committee is as follows: H. S. McGinty, president; E. G. Danziger, vice president; L. J. Phipps, attorney; Whid Powell, state director; directors, Mrs. Lucy Sutton, James Davis, Bern ard Whitefield, and Bill Hobbs; members of the advisory board, C. E. Teague, J. S. Bennett and Uni stead. During the election, the floor vdtl be thiWwn open far other nominations. Mrs. Jane Whitefield, executive secretary of the association, urg ed members to notify her office of reservations for the dinner which will be served by the I-adies of the Carrboro Baptist Church. Association members should call 9-2U61 or 8435 before Saturday morning. Mrs. Whitefield has announced that stores in the Chapel Hill areu will be open every Friday night before Christmas, and ev eiy night of the week preced ing Christmas Day on Sunday, December 25. Attending Conference Arthur S. Hoe of the Univer sity’s Chemistry Department is attending Oberlin College’s eighth annual Men's Carper Con ference at Oberlin, Ohio. Jaycees, Varsity Theatre Plan a Film To Get Food Gifts for Stocking Fund The Chapel Hill Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Varsity Theatre are jointly sponsoring an Empty Stocking Fund movie, admission to which will be by some gift of food for needy families in Orange County. The movie has been scheduled for 10 o’clock on Saturday morning, December 17. The feature will be "The Last of the Mohicans,” the exciting film adaptation of the James Fenimore Cooper novel. A cartoon is also scheduled, and there may be one or more additional short subjects. Persons attending the movie must present some item of non-perishable food, such as canned goods. In addition, there will be a bin placed in front of the theatre for several days before the movie for food contributions from persons who cannot attend the movie. All food contributed will be turned over to the Junior service League for distribution through the League-sponsored Kmpty Stocking Fund. Arrangements for the movie have been worked out by Chick Ehmig, in charge of the project for the Jaycees, and Andy Cutierres, manager of the Varsity Theatre. The Varsity is providing the film without charge. date 40 “adoptions" have been made. Cash contributions, which will be needed for unadopted families, may be sent to the Weekly and made payable to the Empty Stocking Fund. “An empty stocking is an empty Christmas." It will be for Mrs. M., who last year moved into an old two-room abandoned schoolhouse when her house burned. With her are a five-year-old daughter, 10- month-old son and a 13-year old half-brother. Her husband was sent to prison in Septem ber for two years. Mrs. M. has worked in tobacco to earn what she can and she appreciates the Aid to Dependent Children grant which she receives from CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1955 Heavy Program of Athletics Is on Tap For This Weekend A well-packed athletic program, beginning tonight (Friday) and including the nationally televised Carolina- Duke football game tomor row (Saturday), is on tap this weekend for University and Chapel Hill High School supporters. Tonight Chapel Hill High School’s basketball team opens its 1955-56 season against Pittsboro High there at 8 o’clock. Tomorrow at Duke stadium the Univer sity's football team will clash with its arch rival, Duke, be fore millions of football fans who will be watching the game over the nation-wide National Broadcasting Com pany television hook-up. The program starts at 1:45 p.m., the game at 2 p.m. Tomorrow night the Uni versity’s varsity basketball team | will meet Clemson at Woollen !Gym. The varsity game will be gin at 8 p.m. A game between the UNC frosh cagers and the jU.S. Atlantic Fleet team will be gin at 6:16 p.m. Last night '(Thursday), the Carolina varsity land frosh played the McCrary 'Eagles and Edwards Military Academy respectively. Also tomorrow night, beginning at 7 o’clock the University Swim ming team will meet the U.S. Naval Training Station frogmen from Bainbridge, Md., at Bow man Gray pool. In preparation for the general ly regarded big event, the Caro* Una-Duke football game, a “Beat Dook" parade will be held to day, beginning at 3 p.m. at Wool len Gym and proceeding through the campua and Chapel Hill busi ness district. Twenty-one frater nity and .dormitory floats will ba in the parade. Ths game tomorrow will write finis to ths career of Chapel Rill’s Jack Maultsby on the UafalgNt* team. 11a has been an ing tackle and has eamWwEnT greatly to the team. He is tlw son of Mrs. Mary Maultsby of! Chapel Hill. He played on the Chapel Hill High School team, then the Carolina varaity before entering the U.S. Marines. He re turned to the University team at the end of hia Marine hitch, during which he played fine foot ball for Camp Lejeune. Other seniors who will be play ing their last game tomorrow will be Will Frye, Norman Lane, Larry Muschamp, Kolahil Per due, Wilson Shoulars, Bill Roman, and Ken Keller. Church Supper Tomorrow A barbecue und brunswick stew supper will be served tomorrow (Saturday) evening at the Carr boro Methodist ( hutch for the benefit of the church’s building fund. It will begin at 6:30. Everybody is invited. the Welfare Department, but she likes to “make it on her own" as much as possible. In October Mrs. M. arranged to have her half brother from New York come to live with her, because the boy had been “left out" of the new family when his father remarried after the death of his first wife. He had become involved in very serious trouble. After he had been expelled from school and had been brought before the juvenile court, Mrs. M. felt that if he could come to stay with her he would be away from the city and the environ ment which seemed to get him into trouble. His father, glad te be free of the responsibility, pays S2O a month for his care Chapel Mill Chaff J. J. , Homer Holloway is might ily pleased with the birthday present his family gave him. i It is one of those remote - control gadgets that permit ■ TV viewers to turn the sound ■ off and on without getting ■ up. > “I use it all the time to ’ shut off commeffcials I,don’t l like,” Mr. Holloway said. “Don’t get me wrong—l’m 1 in sympathy with the ad i vertisers because I know i they pay for the entertain i ment I see. But they make t a serious mistake when they ■ step up the sound volume i of the commercials and make • it blare out so much louder • than the rest of the program. - I don’t believe I’d turn them - off if it wasn’t for that.” * * ♦ - Miss Maude Lee looked . happy and excited Saturday morning when she was get - ting in her car to go to visit 1 friends and relatives in 1 Dunn. , “I tell you,” she said, . “Dunn is a wonderful place. ■ It might not look like a whole 1 lot, but the people are what r count. When you drive up , to somebody’s house down there they really let you : know they’re glad to see you. ■ They know what living is. • It’s the same way in Green [ ville, the grandest place this side of the portals of heav »» . en. ■ Miss Lee was bom in 1 Dunn, lived there till she ’ was five, and then moved [ to Greenville. “Many a time,” she. said. ■ “I’ve thanked my Maker I ' didn’t grow up in some big , city but in a place where , I could run down to the > spring house for a drink MriMUL shake mulberries jHI we -Arw im the hogs down Gum . Lane barenx>ts£" * + * ' I have always been an ad mirer of the writings of (Continued on page 11) School Bands Plan Concert on Sunday The Chapel Hill High School Band, attiied in its new uni form*, will give a concert on Sunday, December 4, at 4 p.m. in the High School auditorium. The program will altio include number* by the beginner*’ hand and the intermediate hand. The public in cordially invited to ut tend. Statistic* Colloquium Recent research on analyst* of categorical data will be pre sented at the next two meetings of the Statistics Colloquium by 5. N. Hoy und H. K. Mitra. Mr. Hoy will present the first part of this research at 4 p.m. Mon day, December 6, in 206 Phillips Hall, while Mr. Mitra will pre sent the second part a week later, on December 12, at the same time and place. The meet ings are open to all who are in terested. Philogical Club Meeting The Philological Club will meat i at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, December | 6, in the faculty lounga of the Morehead Planetarium. Profes sor Peter Phialaa of the Uni- | vanity's English Department will | give a paper on “Thg Coherence of Theme in Bhakeapeare*a Joy ous Comedies.” here, and the boy has respond ed to his sister's “loving," as she puts it. He has been in no trouble since coming to Or ange County and he has found work to do after school. Mrs. M. and the three chil dren are having a hard time meeting everyday needs and have nothing left over for "fun things" for the children. Mrs. M. also is concerned because she will somehow have to get a warm sweater for her hus band who is an arrested TB case and she worries about him as she knows what work he must do/ on the roads out of doors. Won’t you help fill their stocking f Board of Higher Education Coming Next Week; It Will Be Discussed by McLendon and Parks At a Public Meeting at 7:30 Thursday Night Parade Opens Shopping Season : SaEJ^iflfli ||g| |pPll|Slfe .y ■H P i JM m J 9 S yr Ase. S | 'll? Santa Claus and his admirers are shown in front of tha Carl Smith Building following the big parade Monday night which officially opened the Christmas shopping season in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. (Photo by Brinkhouse) New Telephone Directory, With Bright Red Cover, Is Now Being Distributed Chapel Hill's new telephone | directory, dated December, 1965 . and nattily attired in a bright ( red cover, made its appearance in the village yesterday and will 1 be distributed to all customers I by some time next week. I The new ’ book is four pages ! longer than its plum-colored pre decessor, making a total of 68 pages. It contains 520 new al phabetical listings and 27 new business listings, which represent 512 new telephones (440 stations and 72 extensions) that have been installed since publication of the June 1956 directory. The new phones make a total of 6,955 instruments on 2,600 lines now in use in this area. In all, 9,600 phone books have been printed. They will be dis tributed on the basis of one per instrument. The Chapel Hill Telephone Company, owned and operated by the University, will deliver the books door to door in the village, and will leave a single book if no one >m at home. Additional books may be picked up at the utilities build ing in the East Franklin Street business district. Telephone users are being re quested to turn in their old di rectories when they receive their pew books. The outduted direct ories will be contributed to the iaycees’ waste paper drive. Simultaneously with the is suance of the new directory, the telephone company announced new services and a change In a present service. One new service is a 24-houi ay station telephone which has been installed in the lobby of the utilities building. A night depository for payment of utili ties bills after office hours will also ba placed in the lobby, pro bably by Christmas. The service change involves a billing procedure. In a notice being distributed along with the new directories, the company says: “Tha Bell Telephone Company Methodist Women’s Meeting The December meeting of the Methodist Women’s Society es Christian Bervice will be held at 8 p.m. Monday, December* K, in the east parlor of the Metho dist Church. The program topic will be "We Would See Jesus | Today." A white offering will be taken. The members of the Patricia Nelson Circle will be hostesses. * i —-■ Seriously Burned Betty Partin, well-known Chap el Hill colored woman, was ser iously burned when her clothes caught fire while she was pre paring breakfast at her home off the Airport Road early Wednesday morning. The wife of London Partin, she is a pa tient at Memorial Hospital, where her burns were described as 70 per cent and her condition critical.] 14 a Year in County; other rates on page 2 has changed its operating pro cedures, so that now the long 1 distance operators only ask a person making a call for his , telephone number and have dis continued asking for the name of the person making the call. “Effective with our bills dated January 1, 1969, the ItemtttA soll statement will so longer give the name of the person mak ing the call. This information has been unavailable on many calls for .several months. Therefore, if you wish a record vt the name of the person making long dis tance calls over your telephone it will be necessary for you to make such records for yourself at the time the calls are placed. “This practice is in keeping with that which has been fol lowed by the Bell Telephone sy item for many years and is also followed by most independent elephone companies in North Carolina. “For your own protection you will want to see that no long listance calls are placed over your telephone without your con lent, for you are responsible for HI calls made at your telephone." Grey Culbreth, University sup- i erintendent of utilities, said the > new procedure was in line with the future objective of providing long distance dial service where in the telephone number of the : calling party is electrically re- : corded. In the meantime, the procedure speeds up placing of ! long distance calls. < A Matter of Timinfti An fiditorial Splashed across the entire top of the front page of the Wednesday morning Charlotte Obeerver was an article, complete with pictures, telling thousands of people in the two Carolines something which has been general but discreet knowledge for some weeks now. The headline over the article read: “Barclay On Way Out—Tatum Favored." We are still trying to figure out why the Observer chose its front page as a vehicle for this bit of sensa tionalised and hardly new information. The Weekly I feels strongly enough about this matter to use its own I front page to comment on it. The most unfortunate thing about the story was its timing, obviously. The biggest game on Jhe Carolina ; schedule—from the standpoint of imponance to the ! school—is the Duke game. This contest was just three I days in the future when the Observer decided to re mind everyone that the University has a coach who has • lost more games than he has won and who probably i will not be retained beyond the expiration of his con tract at the end of this season. We are not attempting to defend George Barclay or his record. We like Mr. Barclay, however, and we don’t think it is fair to him or to the members of his team for a major newspaper to choose the eve of the Carolina-Duke game to rehash something of this sort. The rehashing serves no purpose except to embarrass the persons concerned, and possibly to exert some sort of psychological effect on the attitude qf the Carolina players in their game Saturday. The Observer could have Withheld its story for four dayp and still sold | lots of newspapers. FRIDAY ISSUE Next Im Taeuday . ’ North Carolina’s new su preme authority over state supported educational insti tutions, the State Board of Higher Education, will be here on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. This will be one of a round of visits by the 9-man board, headed by D. Hiden Ramsey of Asheville, to all state in stitutions. The board has no rigid program for its visit here. It is just beginning to func tion by making a prepara tory survey. Mr. Ramsey and his fellow members will confer with Acting Presi dent Purks, Vice-President j Carmichael, Chancellor House, and other University officers, and they may talk with some of the deans and other faculty members. For the Chapel Hill com munity an event of more in terest than the board’s con ferences, which people in general will know nothing about except that they are being held, will be in the meeting of the local branch of the Association of Uni versity Professors at 7:30 next Thursday evening in the faculty lounge of the Morehead building. At this meeting, which will be open to the public, the reasons for the creation of the board, the nature of the problem it faces, and what it hopes to accomplish will be discus sed by Major L. P. McLend on, one of the members, and Mr. Purks. Major McLendon, an alumnus of the Univer sity, was on tha Board of Trustees for several years and was chairman, of the the Board of Higher Education by this year’s Legislature followed an iaquiry conduct ed by a commission of which Victor Bryant of Durham (Continued on page 12) Brodahawa on Visit Mrs. Frank Bradshaw and her three children, Karen, Keith, and Ken, from Fort Banning, Ga., spent most of last week here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Baldwin of Hillsboro Street. Her husband, Master Sergeant Brad shaw, is on tha Operation Sage brush maneuvers in Louisiana and Texas. In addition to the Bradshaws, Thanksgiving Day guests of Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin were their eon and his family, Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Baldwin Jr. and their sons, Steve and Garry, of Burlington. Visitors From Atlanta Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Snow and their son Charles were here from Atlanta, Ga., to spend the Thanksgiving holidays with Mr. Snow’s mother, Mrs. Charles G. Snow.
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