• TUESDAY
ISSUE
Next fame Friday
Vol. 34 No. 84
1955’s Empty
Stocking Fund
Almost Filled
There will be almost no
empty stockings in Orange
County this year thanks to
the great generosity of hun
dreds of people who have
contributed quantities of
B§ys, food, clothing and more
than $825 in cash as well as
those who had adopted 250
families by the end of last
week.
Over the past weekend
members of the Junior Ser
vice League have filled boxes
for the 150 unadopted fam
ilies, and they were able to
give very amply due to the
generous response through
out the county. Yesterday,
families receiving boxes be
gan picking them up in
Chapel Hill at the Institute
of Pharmacy and in Hills
boro at the New Courthouse
storeroom.
Mrs. Fred Weaver, chair
man of the campaign, has
urged all persons who have
failed to bring in their gift
boxes to the Institute of
Pharmacy to do so immedi
ately lest a family come and
find nothing for them.
Tomorrow Will Be
The Shortest Day
Tomorrow, Wednesday, De
cember 21, is the shortest day
of the year. Sunrise will be at
7:31 a.m. and sunset at 4:67 p.m.
The sunrise and sunset hours
on Christmas Day will be 7:33
and 4:59 and on New Year’s Day
7:36 and 6:04.
For about 44 of a month sun
set comes later and sunriae
conies later, too, so that one just
about offsets the other and the
lengthening of the day i» small.
It seems greater than it is,
though, because people are up
and about in the afternoon and
give more attention to what’s
going on then. It is not till Jan
uary 19 that sunrise begins to
get earlier. On that day sunrise
will be at 7:31 and sunset at
5:21.
Episcopal Church’s
I; Christmas Services
A number of special,services
and programs will be held during
the Christmas season at the
Chapel of the Cross.
A Christmas pageant and par
ty for church school pupils and
their parents will be held at 5
p.m Saturday, Christmas Eve.
The children will bring presents;
to be sent to needy children in
a mission field.
Holy Communion was held yes
terday (Monday) and will bo
held again at 10 o'clock this
(Tuesday) morning and tomor
row morning.
On Christmas Day, Holy Com
munion will be held at 8 a.m.
and at 10 a.m. At the 10 o’clock
observation of Holy Communion,
for all ages, a Christmas offer
ing will be taken for the Presid
ing Bishop’s Fund for World
Relief.
United Church Party
Families of the United Congre
gational Christian Church will
hold their Christmas party Thurs
day at 7 p.m. at the church. A
program will be presented by
the children, followed by a visit
from Santa Claus.
iff Installing New Cushion*
Installation of new foam rub
ber aeat cushions in the Carolina
Theatre was started last week.
Manager E. Carrington Smith >
said the new cushions will add'
greatly to the comfort of the
theatre.
Chaptl Millnote*
Miss Lena Ellington, in the
spirit of Christmas, telling a
waitress, "This coffee is so
bad I don’t believe even Santa
Claus would drink it.”
• * •
Miss Alice Jones, after read
ing list of proposed qualifica
tions for new University presi
dent drawn up by local chap
ter of American Association
of University Professors: "If
they find a man that perfect
they shouldn’t make him Presi
dent of the University. They
should put him in a cage and
charge admission for people to
Schools Aided as Business Picks Up at Thrift Shop
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—Photo by M. A. Quillen
Mra. Oscar Ray, manager of the PTA Thrift Shop on Weat
Franklin Street, ia shown arranging a window display at the
ahop.
SIO,OOO Goal Set for March of Dimes
A SIO,OOO goal has been set
for the 1955 Orange County
March of Dimes Drive, according
to E. Carrington Smith, who will
direct the local drive this Janu
ary as he has done for the past
several years.
Assisting Mr. Smith will be C.
W. Gardner, treasurer; Mrs. Or
ville Campbell, director of the
Mother’s March; Mrs. Jesse L.
West, director for Carr boro, and
t;harl& ‘Dunn, publicity. The
Hillsboro Lions Club will appoint
a director for that community in
the near future. The director for
the Chapel Hill colored commun
ity is also to be named.
Miss Mary Frances Kellam has
charge of mailing out the annua!
letters announcing the opening of
the drive. These letters will be
mailed early in January.
“The battle against polio is not
over,” Mr. Smith said in an-
At Memorial Hospital
Among local persons listed as
patients at Memorial Hospital
yesterday were Dr. Wilrnar Ma
son Allen, Miss Thelma Doyce
Atwater, Nathaniel Bell, Miss
Estella Council, Charles L.
Diggs, Mrs. Leola Lee Edmonds,
Charles C. Edwards, Mrs.
jCharles E. Flowers, Mrs. Ann
IC. Hansen, Kiehell Johnson, Dr.
Robert M. Nelson, Mrs. Estella
Oldham, Thomas A. Rosamond,
Mrs. William B. Stovall, Conrad
L. Thurstone, Willie Ward, and
Mrs. Walter J. Williams.
Higleys in Florida
Dr. and Mrs. I* B, Higiey are
in Florida for the holidays. They
planned to visit their son and
daughter-in-law, Dr. and Mrz.
Bruce Higiey of Coral Gables,
and Dr. Higley’s brother-in-law
and sister, Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Nowers of Ocala. They will also
drive down to the Florida Keys.
Rumors (Mostly About Tatum) Fly as
University Searches for a New Coach
As the University’s basketball
team soared into the heights of
national recognition last week,
tbe Carolina football organisa
tion was searching for a new
head coach. Rumors were plenti
ful, but the biggest and most
persistent of them all was the
one which said alumnus Jim
Tatum, now head coach at the
University of Maryland, would
be named head coach at Carolina
as soon as his Maryland team
completes its Orange Bowl en
gagement with Oklahoma.
University Chancellor Robert
B. House said he had been re
ceiving many recommendations
on the coaching vacancy, both by
letter and in person. Hs added
that many people making the
recommendations “Voice the im
pression that an athletic coach
controls the standard and ad
ministration of admissions, aca
demic requirements, and student
conduct.”
Such is not ths case, accord
ing to the Chancellor. He con
tinued, “The institution seta its
standards through the faculty
and in harmony with tha stan
Hie Chapel (£ll Weekly
5 Cents a Copy
nouncing the opening for the
March of Dimes drive. "Our
dimes and dollars are still need
ed to continue caring for our po
lio victims and money must be
available for cases anticipated
this year.”
Masons Elect John
Oldham as Master
John A. Oldham has bean
elected Worshipful Master of
University Lodge No 408, A. F.
& A. M., to serve in 1956. He will
succeed Gran Childress as mas
er when the new officers are
installed on the first Monday
night in January.
Other officers elected were
Lloyd E. Riggsbee, senior war
den; W. T. Durham, junior
warden; John H. Hinson, secre
tary, and Joe D. Page, treas
urer.
The election of Mr. Hinson as
secretary marked the retire
ment of Jack Andrews as secre
tary after he had served in that
capacity for as many as 42 years
at one time or another. Mr. An
drews, who hi a past master of
the lodge, has served as secre
tary for the past 15 years con
secutively, and put in some 27
years off and on as secretary
prior to that.
Baptist Christmas Service
The Baptist Church will hold
its annual candlelight Christmas
service at 11 a.m. next Sunday,
Christmas Day. The program will
include the singing of carols.
Kings to Take Trip
The Rev. and Mrs. A. Kimsey
King will leave Monday to spend
a week at Mrs. King’s former
home in Morgantown, West Vir
ginia.
!ard-making agencies to which
t belongs. We have never had a
oath and ataff more coopera
tive with University standards
ban Coach George Barclay and
tis associates, nor a more co
•perati ve group of boy* than our
>resent athletic squads. They
lave all set a mark in these met
ers which we look on with af
fection and pride. Such will be
the case in the future.”
The recommendation of a suc
cessor to Coach Barclay will be
made by Athletic Director Chuck
Erickson, the Athletic Council
and the Faculty Committee on
Athletics, following a report by
he coaches committee of the
Athletic Council.
Bob Brooks, a sports writer
for the News and Observer, in an
article late last week made the
following comments on the situ
ation :
“The five men who have the
biggest say-so in naming the
new coach are Dean A. W.
Hobbs, O, K. Cornwell, H. D.
Wolf, Grady Pritchard and Dr.
E. M. Hedgepeth. They eonsti
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C.. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1955
By Lyn Overman
Chapel Hill’s community
project, the PTA Thrift
Shop, which is attempting
to alleviate a shortage of
materials and services not
provided by the school sys
tem, is doing a thriving
business.
However, as Mrs, Kerr
White, chairman of the
shop’s control board, says,
the business still is not large
enough to bring in neces
sary funds to finance all
the services the PTA would
like to furnish school child
ren.
The Thrift Shop, undoubt
edly, is the only place in
town where a person can
“lay away” an article with
a down payment as low as
10 cents. The clothes and
articles given the shop by
residents of the area bring
prices from a dime up, and
each article sold is a “bar
gain” for the buyer.
Mrs. White says the shop
already has brought in en
ough money to meet the
1955-56 budgets which the
Chapel Hill PTA and the
Glenwood PTA have set up
as means of providing the
school children with needed
services and materials.
Funds for the budgets will
be given to each PTA on
Here is the Chapel Hill
PTA budget which shows
the purposes for which mon
ey received for the sale of
goods given by Chapel Hill
residents is used:
Playground equipment,
$425; audio visual aid, $300;
music supplies, $410; art
supplies, $250; science ma
terial, $150; teacher’s sick
leave fund, s2 §o; safety
patrol, S6O; professional ap
provement fund, $200;
lunches for indigeats, SSO;
miscellaneous, $295.
Here is the Glenwood PTA
budget, also financed from
the shop’s proceeds:
Classroom supplies, $65;
library books, $300; supple
mentary books, $75; music
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Bruce Strowd Dies at 64
Bruce Strowd, one of Orange
County’s most prominent natives,
businessmen, and civic leaders,
died here Friday at Memorial
Hospital. He was 64 years of age.
The son of the late Robert Lee
Strowd, 'also a prominent mer
chant, and Mrs. Fannie Headon
Strowd, Mr. Strowd was born
here .at the family homeplace on
Strowd Hill. He attended N. C.
State College in Raleigh.
During his teens, Mr, Strowd
demonstrated his natural bent
toward mechanics by building a
motorised cart. Clyde Eubanks,
who remembers it, said it was
not actually an automobile “but
it would go. He had a gasoline
motor on the back that didn't
have a muffler and that made so
much noise it frightened the
horses. There were no automo
biles around then. And they had
to run Bruce off the streets with
his car. But it would go.”
It was in 1914 that Mr. Strowd
opened an automobile dealership
in Chapel Hill. It was the Ford
agency which he owned and oper
ated until his retirement from ac
tive business several years ago.
Since then he has lived on his
farm between Chapel Hill and
Pittsboro and raised cattle.
A charter member of the
Chapel Hill Rotary Club, Mr.
Strowd was honored by being se
lected the town’s most valuable
citizen in 1937. In public life, he
served as a town commissioner
and chairman of the Orange
County Welfare Board. He was
one of the several non-teacher
Greetings from Switzerland
A Christmas card from the
Bob Bogus family in Geneva,
Switzerland, wishes a merry
Christmas to all thalr Chapel Hill
friends. The Bogues formerly
lived here. They now live in Ge
neva, where Mr. Bogus is on the
staff of the World Health organ
ixation.
Dick Qninna Move Here
Mr. and Mr*. Dick Quinn
Kava moved from Burlington to
Chapel Hill an 4 are living on
Davie Circle. Mr, Quinn was re
cently released from the armed
for«M after service (a Oksnawa.
Ckaptl Mill Chall
L.G.
F. O. Bowman had a heart
attack two or three years
ago and he was telling me
the other day that his doc
tor, after examining him
thoroughly, had instructed
Him to quit smoking. I ask
ed him how many cigarettes
he had been smoking before
that and he said three packs
a day. When I asked him if
he had obeyed the doctor
and quit he said, well, no,
he was still “smoking some.”
When I asked him how many
cigarettes he now smoked
in a day he said: “Three
packs.”
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There was one resolution
we made in our household
long ago and we have obeyed
it ever since to our great
satisfaction. Whenever we
get a gift of something to
eat or drink, for Christmas
or any other anniversary,
if it comes ahead qS time
we start eating it (or drink
ing it, as the case may be)
right away, with friends
probably, instead of waiting
for the anniversary to ar
rive. Our notion is that you
had better eat or drink while
you have the appetite for
whatever It is. If you delay,
there’s, a chance you may
lose the appetite. Or some
thing else might happen to
keep you from enjoying the
gift, yourself; for example,
something that might pass
it on to your heirs. Is that
a gruesome thought? Maybe
so, but it’s also gruesome
to think of missing some
thing you’d like to eat or
drink.
* • *
When George S. Lane and
I were seated beside one an
other at a gathering one
evening recently, talking of
tW|a and that before the
formal proceedings began,
he remarked that he had
re-read Xenophon’s Anabas
is last summer. I remember
that tale of the heroic march
of the Ten Thousand as
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members of the University Fac
ulty Club.
Mr. Strowd is survived by his
widow and a son, Robert Lee
Strowd of Chapel Hill; a daugh
ter, Mrs. J. B. Johns of Asheboro,
and two sisters, Mrs. R. E. Dev
ereux of Blacksburg, Va., and
Mrs. C. G. Ashby of Elkin.
Funeral services were held
Saturday afternoon from the
University Methodist Church,
conducted by the Rev. C. E. Ro
zelle of High Point, former pas
tor of the church, assisted by the
Rev. C. S. Hubbard, pastor. Bur
iul was in the Chapel Hill Ceme
tery.
Seals Available in
Lobby of the Bank
Persons who haven’t received
Christmas seals sent out by the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Tubercu
losis Committee may gat them
in the lobby of the Bank of
Chapel Hill. Those who prefer
to make a direct contribution,
without picking up the seals,
should send their checks to Mrs.
A. M. Jordan, treasurer of the
campaign. Checks may be made
out to Mra. Jordan.
Proceeds of theannual seal sale
Proceeds of the annuel seel sale
against tuberculosis. Mayor Oliv
er K. Cornwell is chairman of
the campaign this year.
Local Stores Will
Stay Open Nights
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Mer
chants Association reminded
Chapel Hilliane yesterday that
stores in town will be open every
night this week through Friday.
Stores will be closed Saturday
night, Christmas Eve.
M. 11 ■ -
Marvin Fowler Honored
Marvin M. Fowler, a Durham
banker, last week was elected
chairmen of the board of trust
e*i of Watts Hospital in
Durham. Mr. Fowkr is a native
and former resident of Chapel
Hill who spends much of Us
elms hereabouts mss now.
University Has Got $1,800,000
From Escheats in Last 22 Tears;
History of the Fond by Robinson,
Just Out, Gives Complete Record
Judges of Christmas Coloring Contest
Are Busy Studying Hundreds of Entries
Judges for the Weekly’s
Christmas Coloring Contest
went to work yesterday study
ing the hundreds of entries from
children all over the state. Most
of the pictures, of course, have
come from the Chapel Hill-Carr
boro-Glen Lennox area, but
others have come in from all
parts of Orange County, from
Pittaboro, Durham, Raleigh and
as far away as Windsor.
The judges, Miss Emily Pol
lard and Oscar Stuhlman, are
having a difficult time determin
ing who will win the $25 U. S.
Savings Bond first prize and the
10 additional secret prizes. The
Weekly hopes to be able to an
nounce the winners in its Fri
day edition this week.
The Weekly wishes to thank
everyone who participated in the
contest, and to tell all the chil
dren who have sent in pictures
that we have thoroughly enjoyed
looking at your work. We are
sorry we cannot give everyone
a prize, but we must decide on
the 11 best pictures. Ages of
participants will be considered
very carefully in determining
the winners.
Here are the names of children
who have submitted entries for
the coloring contest since we
last published a list:
Dean Bell, age 7, 163 Hamilton
Road.
Martha June Giles, age 5, 3322
Ruffin Street., Raleigh.
Sallie Whitcher, age 4, Dog
wood Acres.
Allen Bream, age 8, 408 Whit
aker Street.
Monika Bargman, age 5, 81
Maxwell Road.
Patti Terrill, age 8, 85 Hamil
ton Road.
BUI McAllister, age 7, P. O.
Box 471.
John McAllister, age 8, P. O.
Box 471.
June Reeves, age 10, P. O.
Box 223, Hillsboro.
Linda Caldwell, age 6, 107
Roberson Street.
Tony Chaplin, age 8, 60 Oak
wood Drive.
Debora Poole, age 7, 40 Hayes
Road.
Candace Meacham, age 5, ad
dress not given.
Linda Bemasek, age 5, P. O.
Box 481.
Sandra Faye Gattis, age 7, 126
Graham Street.
Kaki Daniel), age 6, 129 Pure
foy Road.
Nlni Daniell, age 8, 129 Pure
soy Road. *
Jane Childress, age 7, 60 Dav
ie Circle.
Linda Caldwell, age 10, 505
Pittaboro Street.
Carol Jenzano, age 9, 31 Rog
erson Drive.*
Sarah Bodenheimer, age 6, 117
Kenan Street.
Becky Bodenheimer, age 7, 117
Kenan Street.
Alvin Whittinghill, age 7, 119
Maxwell Road.
Tom Polk, age 7, 702 Gim
ghoul Road.
Carol Calhoon, age 6, 104 Pine
Lane.
Linda Caldwell, age 10, 606
Pittsboro Road.
Barbara Alice Conner, age 944,
R. F. D. 2.
Fred Conner Jr., age 8, R. F.
D. 2.
Nelson Capehart, age 6, Wind
sor.
Price Heusner, age 8, Box 176,
Oakview Club to Meet
The annual Christmas party
of ths Oakview Garden Club will
l>e held at the home of Mrs.
R. E. Dickinson, ths president,
it 20 Howell l ane tonight (Tues
d'-v) at 8 o’clock. A program
will be given, presents will h#
exchanged, and a report will
lie made on the Christmas door
way decorations contest.
Visitors From Wilmington
Mrs. David Murchison and
Mrs. Ann Womrath of Wilming
ton were here last week on a
visit to Mr. and Mrs. George
Shepard. Mrs. Owen Holmes, also
of Wilmington, was the weekend
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Shepard.
Home From Darlington
Ramsay Green and George
Shepard have com* home from
I Darlington Sehdol, Rome, On.,
far tha holidays.
$4-* Year in County; other rated on pace 2
R. F. D. 1, Durham.
Caroline Tyler, age 8, P. O.
Box 573.
Brenda Patterson, age not giv
en, Box 170, R. F. D. 4 Mebane.
Kurt Getsinger, age 6, 224
Flemington Road.
Faye Dean Johnson, age not
given, Box 142, R. F. D. 1, Ef
land.
* Paul Patrick Rhyne, age 9,
508 Pittsboro Road.
Beatrice Rhyne, Age 7, 508
Pittsboro Road.
Millie Blackwell, age 7, 529
Dogwood Drive.
Angie Galloway, age 8, 603
Park Place.
Stephen Emory, age 5, 215
Flemington Road.
Genette D. Ashby, age 8, 9
Cobb Terrace.
Five Boys Are to
Get Eagle Ranking
Five Chapel Hill boys will re
ceive the rank at Eagle Scout
at an Eagle Court of Honor
to be held at 8 o’clock Thurs
day evening, December 22, in
the auditorium of the Institute
of Pharmacy on Church Street.
They are Tommy Butler, Allen
Smith, Joe Burket, and Robin
Gallagher, all of Troop 37, and
Ben Potter Jr. of Troop 9.
The Rev. Charles S. Hubbard
will make the presentations of
the Eagle Scout awards, the
higheat rank in Boy Scouting.
The ceremony will be followed
by a reception honoring the new
Eagle Scouts and their parents.
The public is invited to the en
tire program.
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Aldersgate Church
Has Yule Program
A Christmas program was pre
sented by the children of the
Aldersgate Methodist Church
Sunday school st Glenwood
School Sunday evening.
Titled “The Nativity” and un
der the direction of Mrs. Frank
West, the program was nar
rated by Neal Paulsen and Ann
Penick after the welcome was
spoken by little Bill Joyner.
Among the children taking
part were Adrian Colville, Joy
Yates, Ann Fernandez, Joan
Jackson, John Paulsen, George
Rettie, Harold Cranford, Tom
West, Damon Coe, Cam Schin
han, Bill and Reid McAllister,
Joffre Coe, Annis Arthur, Jay
Hill, Anna Paulsen, Jane West,
and Joan Jackson.
Mrs. Irma Kirkpatrick read a
Christmas story to the group,
after which the children pre
sented White Christmas gifts
and Dr. W. T. Joyner presented
a beautiful silver platter to the
Rev. and Mrs. King as a Christ
mas rememberanoe from the con
gregation.
Refreshments were served un
der the direction of Mr. and
Mrs. Thurman Nail. Mr. and
Mrs. William Allen were in
charge of the decorations.
Cold Weather
The Weather Bureau statioii
at the Raleigh-Durham Airport
tells us, just as we go to press,
that the forecast is for more
cold weather today (Tuesday),
with a turn to warmer Wednes
day.
i On 13 of the first 19 days in
{December the temperature wae
below freezing.
Max D. Saunders, custodian of
the U. S. Weather Bureau Sta
tion here, reports the lowest
reading in this period wae 11
last Saturday, the 17th. The mer
cury dropped to 13 on the 13th,
14 on the 14th, and 15 on the
16th, and 19 on the 16th. In
•.he 8 days from Sunday, the
11th, through Sunday, the 16th,
the temperature waa below
freezing.
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No Issue on December 27
In line with its policy of past
ycara, the Chape) Hill Weekly
will skip one issue at Christ
mas time in order to give Its
employees s holiday. Tim Issue
that will bt dropped this year
will be the one that would nor
mally appear on Tuesday, De
cember 27. The paper will re
tpjMtM nasal m Friday, De-
TUESDAY
ISSUE
By Lenta Graven
Before anybody talks or
writes about escheats he
should tell what the word
means. It is a curious word
and is seldom used except by
lawyers and a small num
ber of other persons who
have reason to be concerned
about the money they stand
to gain or lose through the
law on escheats.
With the definition freed
from some of the legal ter
minology that you Hud in
law books, dictionaries and
encyclopedias, escheat
simply the lapsing to the
state of land, moneys, and
any other property that be
longed to persons who have
no known heirs. It also
means, in North Carolina,
because of a provision in the
state constitution and be
cause of statutes and court
decisions, the lapsing to the
state of unclaimed deposits
in banks, refunds due from
railroads on unredeemed tic
kets and for.overcharges to
passengers, and over pay
ments that have been made
to utilities and other busi
ness concerns by customers
who have not claimed what
is due them and have disap
peared or other rea
son cannot be found.
In North Carolina, as far
as escheats are concerned,
the state means the Uni
versity. This is so because
the University has been de
clared, by tbe state consti
tution and laws enact*/’
compliance therewith, tt \
the owner of all escheif
property. -
So much for introductory*
explanations. Now to the
story of immediate interest.
There has just been print
ed a report by Blackwell
P. Robinson, entitled “The
History of Escheats,” which
gives for the first time a
complete record of the Uni
versity’s successes and fail
ures in its efforts to ob
tain money due to it under
the constitution and the
statutes. The efforts were
mostly failures for nearly
a century and a quarter.
Recently they have been
highly successful.
At the end of the report
are several tables showing
collections from escheats.
One of thess tables shows
that in the 22 years from
July 1, 1933, to July 1, 1965,
the collections amounted to
$1,800,000.
A great deal more is in
prospect. There is good
ground for the expectation
that the University will get
maybe a million dollars from
overcharges by railroads on
freight shipments, just as
it got, a few years ago,
$276,000 in the form of over
charges on passenger tick
ets. And Mr. Robinson
writes of the forthcoming
effort “to secure legislation
which would free other
sources of unclaimed public
funds which should right
fully fall to the University’s
escheats fund. Outstanding
among these sources are un
claimed money in cotton and
tobacco cooperatives, unre
deemed tickets from bus and
other transportation com
panies, and « veritable treas
ure trove at wealth, the un
claimed refunds which are
due the taxpayers of North
Carolina from the Director
of Internal. Revenue.”
The money obtained from
escheats goes into a fund
separate frail all other Uni
versity funds, and the in
come from it is divided a
mong the i three tnetitutlona
in tha CoweEkUtad Uniter
to btlSd fir fdbofatt-