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
«<iut .Jamie, Willy and Johnnie,
-pectively."
Mias Sue Fowler Here
Miss Sue Fowler, who la a
medical science secretarial stu
dent at Averett College at Dan
ville, Va., is here for the holi
days with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. James 8. Fowler of Cool
idg*/ Street. She j* a member
of the college’s choir and recent
ly took part in the campus pro
duction of “The Nativity," which
was given in tableaux, narration,
and song.
Fleeted to Office
Ernest 11. Wood, professor
of radiology in the UNO Medical
School, has been installed as
president of the N. C. Radiolog
ical Society. Dr. William 11.
Sprunl 111, assistant professor
of radiology, has been installed
us secretary-treasurer.
Chapel Mill note i
Passersby delighted by pret
l ty little 4-year-old child stand
ing in front of Carolina Sport
Shop singing Christmas carols
to music played on loudspeaker
over shop doorway, while her
equally pretty Mama standi
by patiently waiting.
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I Winter's first snow flurries
early Tuesday morning.
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The apparent loneliness of
tiki dogs roaming aimlessly
i n the campus now that stu
dents are away for the holi
fl days.
Everyone Asked to
Sign Telegrams to
Bowl Participants
The Chapel Hill Athletic!
Club is sponsoring telegrams |
bearing good wishes from!
Chapel Hill residents to fourj
University football stars
who are playing in bowl
games throughout the coun
try during the next few
weeks.
The telegrams, which can
he signed at the Bank of
Chapel Hill, Jeff’s Confec
tionary, and Sloan's Drug
store, will be sent to guard
Bill Roman, tackle Jack■
Maultsby, and hack Ken Kel
ler, who are in the Blue-
Gray game at Montgomery,
Alabama, and to end Will
1 Frye, who will he playing in
the East-West Shrine Bowl
game at San Francisco and
the Hula Bowl in Hawaii.
Miss Claudia Cannady, man
ager of the Western Union office,
here, said about 50 names have
been signed to each of the tele
grams, but more signatures are
needed if the telegrams arc to
compare with similar ones to
players during previous seasons.
A signature consisting of two
names on telegrams going to
players at Montgomery costs
only five cents, she said. A sig
nature on the telegram to Will
Frye at San Francisco is 10
cents.
Mite Cannady recalled that a
telegram seat to Charlie (Choo
Choo) Juetice when he played in
the first North Carolina-Notre
Dame game consisted of enough
signatures to extend its length
to 80 feet. A telegram to quar
terback Buddy Sasser' from his
friends in Conway, South Caro
lina, for the North Carolina-
Okluhomu game here this year
reached ,'Jd feet in length.
The Athletic Club is urging
more Chapel Ilillians to sign
their names to the telegrams as
soon as possible, and by the end
of next week at the latest.
Orange B. & L. Ups
Rate of Interest
The directors of the Orange
County liuilding and l.oan As
sociation voted at their meeting
to raise the interest rate on sav
ings deposits .from to .'i Vi per
cent a year. This change goes
into effect January 1. All de
posits up to SIO,OOO are insured.;
There will he no increase in the!
interest rate on loans to bor
rowers for home-building.
Executive Officer W. O. Spar
row reported to the directors
the total assets of the associa-'
lion were $1),095,000, an increase
of SIOO,OOO in the last month. I
Loans are $2,782,000, an increase!
of $17,000 in the last month. I
Deposits now stand at $2,879,000.
New«: Obie to Be
Here ChristmaH
This Christmas will he only
the second that Obie Davis has
pent in Chapel Hill during his
27 years of residency.
"Nope, not going anywhere
this year,” be said this week.
“The other Christmas we spent
Here wts about 16 years ago.
We’ve always gone to Texas or
to Florida, and somewhere along
the line we’ve always run into
sleet hi snow. Getting old? May
la? that’s it."
Athletic Club to
Honor Cage Team
The recently-organized Chapel
Hill Athletic Club will honor
the University’s basketball team
at a Christmas party at the
Monogram Club tonight (Fri
day) at 7 o’clock.
Refreshments will be served
and gifU will be presented the
players by Santa Claus.
The club is composed of local
sports-minded people who seek
to bring closer together the
townspeople and the athletes
representing the University and
town.
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Town Hall Offices
To Taice a Holiday
The administrative offices at
the Town Hull will be closed
from noon toilay (Friday) until «
Tuesday morning for the holi
day period, Mrs. Mary Lovejoy, I
town clerk, suid yesterday. 1
Mrs. Herman Ward, tux col
lector, and Town Manager Thom- 1
as Rose have been away from the 1
office because of illness for most
of the week. Mrs. Ward, now at
Duke Hospital, is expected to (
return to her home for < hrist
mus day. Mr. Rose is expected
to lie back in his office after
the holidays.
I NC Dentist Speaks
Dr. I’aul W Vinton, head of :
t.h" Department of Prosthodontics 1
at the University School of Dent- I
i-.try, was the main speaker at I
the December meeting of the 1
Orange County Dental Society 1
at Winter Park, Fla. i
Record Volume of Christmas Mail Handled at Post Office
This year's volume of Christ
inas mail is, the largest ever
I andled by the ('impel Hill Post
Office, according to Postmaster
Paul Check.
“But we have been able to
keep it moving, and our plana
are to have everything delivered
Christmas Eve. And we will
make deliveries of parcels and
special delivery mail on Christ
mas Duy, Sunday.
“If the people had not been
cooperative and mailed early, I
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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
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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<n
it. On Chriatnas Day, tib*
*" 3r * *thF' oT h
quence? After all, the im»
portant thing we celebrate
is that almost 2,000 years
ago Jesus was born, that he
dwelt on earth for a time
with men and his teachings
have altered the history of
the world.
('•rrburo Christmas Program
A Christmas program will be
held at 7:30 thia (Friday) even
ing at the Carrboro Baptist
Church. It will include the
presentation of gifts for needy
families.
Christmas Sunrise and Sunset
On Christmas Day sunrise will
be at 7:25 a m. and sunset 5:00
i p.m.
No laaue on December 27
In line with its policy of
past years, the Chapel Hill
Weekly will skip one issue at
Christmas time in order to
give its employees a holiday.
The issue that will be dropped
i thia year will be the one that
would normally appear on
Tuesday, December 27. The
paper will reappear as usual
on Friday, December SO.
the little boyn and girln who are
very poor. I would like a 24-inch
bicycle."
Santa naid he wan really im
prenned by the good report* he
han received on the behavior of
children here. “One boy wrote
that he had been very good
while hi* mother wan in the hoa
pital,” he naid. “But he had
been ao good we had already
received a npeclul report on
him.”
“One little girl naid aha would
leave my reindeer nomethlng to
eat,” naid Santa. A four-year
old Chapel Hill boy was thought
ful to nay, “1 hope it is pretty
weather when you come ao your
reindeer and you don’t get »o
cold."
Banta naid he got an unuaual
request from a University stu
dent nurse. She asked him to
“bring me somebody I can love
and who will love me." Santa
said he wasn’t certain he could
supply real boy friends, but be
would give it a try.
His weatherman haa predicted
that It’s going to be pretty eeid
Saturday and Sunday, Santo
said, but be plans to wrap t#'
well, and bis Meads w* had*
warned Mm abeat catching Mid
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