FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue December 30 Vol. 34 No. 85 Out of Hundreds of Entries Brace Desrosiers of Carrboro Wins Savings Bond in the Coloring Contest Bruce Desrosiers of Carrboro was selected as the first j*rize winner in the Chapel Hill Weekly s Christmas Coloring Contest. He was awarded a $25 U.S. Savings Bond in an informal ceremony at the Weekly offices on East Rosemary Street yesterday morning. The contest judges, Miss Emily Pollard and Otto spent many belying the hundreds of contest entries before they finally reached their deci sion as to who would win the 11 prizes offered. The 10 winners other than Bruce received as prizes either books from the Inti mate Bookshop or special sets of reproductions ofj works from famous artists from the Bull’s Head Book shop. In second place was Carol Jenzano, age 9, of 31 Rog erson Drive. Five-year-old. Martha June Giles of Ra leigh took third place, and fourth place winner was] Linda Caldwell, age 6, of 107 Roberson Street. The other winners, notj necesarily listed in order of merit, were: Candace Meacham, age 5,' of near Chapel Hill; Chris tine Ewing, age 6, of Milton Avenue; Tom P. Linker, age 7, of 702 Gimghoul Road; ■Jpiy Chapin, age 8, of 50 Oakwood Drive; Weldon Mc- Adoo, age 9, of Cedar Grove; Nancy Young, age 10, of Mebane; and Kay Perry, age not listed, of Chapel Hill. Thad Jones Praised In Washington Post Thad Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jones of Chapel Hill, recently received high praise for one of his musical compositions playlid at a concert at Catholic University in Washington, D. C. A review written by Irving Low ons in the Washington Post said: The most impressive event on last night’s Chamber Arts Society concert at Catholic Uni versity was the premiere of (iaorga Thuddeus Jones' two “Soogs Without Words for Ho ping*, string quartets and piaat.” “Composers have been fasci *ed with the possibilities of human voice divorced from words and have lrequently ex perimented with it in combina tion with instruments of vari ous timbers. Mr. Jones, a faculty member at Catholic University, wrote these beautiful and ex pressive pieces last year. They are extraordinarily fine, and they reinforce the impression that he is a composer of great talent. “Katherine Hansel, who did an excellent job a* the vocalist in the Jones pieces, returned after the intermission to sing thiee Beet hoven settings of {Scottish folk songs. These were sad songs « am warn \ - r :% ■ HI SHiPI -/H ■ —tsnoio oy M. A. Hunmn Three hard-workiag post office emptoyeaa agree with the Weekly’# cameramea that the Chrietmaa reek really peta a straia en them. Mm handling heHday package# b the Poet Office are, left to right, 1. R. Webfc, H. K. Ferry, and Fred Ceoaer. CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1955 The Christmas Chapel Hill Is Hospital Sent Association BUg The Christmas capitol of Chap el Hill is the Hospital Saving Association building on West Franklin Street. From its front door right on back to the ele vator Hhaft, from the duplication department in the basement clear up to the chief executive’s head quarters on the top story, room by room, floor by floor, corridor by corridor, on walls, windows, desks, pillurs, tallies, filing cab inets, arid typewriter stands, it is all diked out with a bewilder- 1 ing array of Nativity scenes,] Hantu Clauses, ungels, reindeer,j ■wise men, candles, Christmas j trees, stars, palms, tinsel, snow-i soupes, mangers, fireplaces, chimneys, haloes, and wreathsj garlands, and streamers of cellar, pine, holly, and laurel. And ini all these aforementioned places is heard trie soft, never-ending l melody of Christmas music be- 1 ■ I don’t know how we would have’ handled it. They've been nice j about early mailing this year,” he said, “and we appreciate it.” Nine extra helpers were ern t ployed ut the Pdst Office this I year to assist in handling the Christmas mail. They were I needed, because both the incom ing and outgoing mail were ex tremely heavy. “We were flood i ed Tuesday," said Mr. (heek, 1 1 ‘and on Monday the parcel post Bill Bowman Viola Barrett Billy Barnes Lawrence Campbell Fred Dale John Fitchett Marion Harden ing played in a minor key. You wonder where this delightful sound is coming from, for no where in sight is uny phono graph or radio or television cab inet. The secret of it is that the building's entire inter-office communication system hus been connected to a record player set to turn out Christmas songs and arias in tones so muted you wonder whether you are act ually hearing it or only imag | ining you are. All this Christmas atmosphere lis the work of the 130-odd em i ployees who work in the build |ing (the home office of the I North Carolina Hospital Saving Association). Virtually all of them have had a band in it, and 1 most of them gave u week of | spare time to tiie planning und •xecution of the multitudinous displays. They were encouraged arrivals were very numerous. [The same is true for dispatches. Our stamp sales mu much ahead if last year,” he said. Monday, December 2d, how ever, will be observed as the Christmas holiday at the Post 1 Office. There will he no win > dow service and no rural or local .carrier service, except special deliveries. Mail will he put in local boxes, however, and , outgoing mail w ill be bundled as usual. —Pby Chuck John Johnson Ik>bby Moore Lyn Overman Sonny O’Neal Ben Potter Randal Shelton Charles Reap Jr. in this by their Steering Com mittee, the employees’ social or ganization committee, wbtafc of fered prises 4© the departments having the best decorations. The judging of the displays was done this week by a jury if experts, and the awards were made yesterday afternoon by Executive Vice-President E. B. Crawford ut the employees’ an nual Christmas party. It was announced that two departments had tied for first place. They were the Cashiers Department, which had constructed a re plica of the front of the build ing, including its Christmas dec orations, a Santa Claus figure whose face wus a photograph of Mr. Crawford, unit other figures with faces of officers and em ployees; and the Group Depart ment, which had made a replica of a Christmastime living room scene, including a full-size fire place, gifts under a real tree, and curtaina ut the windows. Honorable mention awards went to the Sales Department, which had Christmas candles and reindeer on top of a number of filing cabinets nnd a miniature snow-covered village on other filing cabinets; and the Subscrib ers Service Department, which had a fireside Christmas scene, including a decorated tree, us observed through u snow-edged window. Mr. Crawford also presented service awards to employees who have been with the Association for five or more years. Two of these, to John licit man and Mrs. Katharine Thompson, were for 16 yeurs of service; and two others, to W. H. Jones and W. E. Merritt, were for ten years. Tiie Steering Committee, made up of elected representatives of all employees, is composed of Sai ah Dodson, chairman; Miss Ruth Hundley, Mrs. Norma Horton, Mrs. Billie Milton, Mrs. Jean Blackwood, and Mrs. Fin- Mi* Bennett. A spokesman of he committee said that the Chri-tmas decorations were put jp at no expense to the Asso ciation The work was done dur ing spare time and the materials were either left over from pre -iou* years or were made or pro vided by the employees thern ' selves. Notice to I*. O. Hox-llolders Pm (.master Paul Cheek wants o remind box holders that Da cember 31 ia the deadline for (ay deposit refunds. Refunds are being made on not more than two keys per Jterson. Mr. Cheek said that an announcement of . the refunds had bean made soma months ago, but that many box holders have not claimed theirs. Saturday, December 81, will be the last day on which such re fund! may be claimed. $4 a Year in County ; other rates on page 2 It's Christmas in Chapel Hill, And the Tempo of Village Life Daily Increases in Intensity It’s Christmas in Chapel Hill. Children are anxiously awaiting the arrival of Santa Claus, mothers are hastily preparing sumptous feasts, and fathers, as usual, are buying last minute gifts. Chapel Mill ChaU L.G. I Jack McMullan (John! Henry' McMullan, if you want his full baptismal i name) and I entered the; University together 56 years; ago, in the fall of 1899. Hei left in 1901, the same year: that his younger brother, 1 Harry McMullan, came for; a two year’s stay. Both re turned later to study law. 1 Since our student days I have seen Jack only two or three times, and then all too briefly. He has lived in Edenton all his life ex-! jeept in his early childhood and he was mayor of the town for several terms. In a letter I got from him last week he tells me about a remarkable experi ence he had with some mer-i chandising he did in Chapel Hill in the fall c>f 1900. “I came near killing the entire University faculty,” he says. “A fisherman who owed me some money ship l>ed me several barrels of herring in payment. I en gaged old Peg Leg, the Ne gro drayman, to vend them for me, and they sold like hot cakes. The next dap Judge Macßae invited me to dinner, saying that he had a surprise for me. It was a surprise indeed. The herring,thik he served were foul, sa I called him mM| and hh t of ~ne uation. “I rushed from his house and went out to the rail way station where Peg Lsg lived and asked him if he knew to whom he’d sold the herring. He said he did. 1 told him to saddle his mule and ride like Paul Revere, warning all of the buyers that the herring were foul and promising to redeem them the next morning. This saved the entire faculty from ptomaine poisoning, for every member had bought some of the herring. The man who had sent them (Continued on page 2) Carl F. Ilrown Honored Curl F. Brown, professor in the University's School of Ed ucation, hus been appointed to membership on the Organization al Committee of the Internation al Reading Association. The As sociation was recently formed by a merger of the Internat ional Council for the Im provement of Reading and the Nutiunul Association of Remed ial Teachers, for which Mr. Brown is the Southern area chairman. Santa Quotes From His Holiday Letters Well, kid*, Christman in just around the corner and Santa ClauM haa been (food enough to notify the Weekly that he will be in Chapel Hill around mid night Saturday night. During our telephone con ver nation yenterday, Santa naid he ban received noine very interest ing and roneiderate letter* from children in thin town and in neighboring communftien thin year. “If aybody didn’t receive an uni’wer," he naid, "I want to take thin opportunity to nay it wan an error, probably by my ntaff while addrenning the letter* up here, but I have read all the letter*, you ran be sure of that.” Santa liked the letter* ao well, he quoted from a few of them for un. One little (hapel Hill girl wrote’that nhe ie “going to have a nurpriae” for Santa before nhe anked for a “baby doll, a doll carriage and a doll bed.” “I’d like a uranium prospect ing outfit,” naid a Chapel Hill boy. "Also a rocket ship control panel." “Ie Rudolph be with you?” anked another little girl. "Plenee let all the little children have In happy Christmas, eepeeiaily FRIDAY ISSUE Not I— IXimW SO More than 100 University professors are packing clean shirts to attend professional meetings throughout the land, and relatives are ar riving by every means of transportation. Children home from col lege are hot-rodding the area, high school students are enjoying parties and dances which seem more gay at this season. House wives are pulling out their best silver, and men folks are withdrawing corks to toast the occasion. Businessmen are subcon sciously totaling their year’s ; sales volume, and service ; establishment workers are ! literally cussing ’cause they ! have to work Christmas Day. Postal workers are nurs ling sore feet, and physicians and druggists are wishing everyone good health so no calls or compounds will he necessary. Police and fire men are hoping everyone will behave and be eareful. Ministers are condensing their Christmas sermons, and choir members are guarding their throats. Yes, it’s Christmas in Chapel Hill as it is the world over— a fussy, frantic, frust rating, and yet festive sea son. Tis said that Christ mas is for children, but young and old have enjip» meat in it and fatigue fH isat Mife- (dial