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Vol. 34 No. 86
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Ten-year-old Brace Desroaiers brouKht tw o of hia three brothers with him last week when
twrcame by the Weekly's office to collect the 125 L'.S. Savings Bond he won as first price in our
Christmas Coloring Contest. In the picture, Mrs. Marion Harden of the Weekly staff is shown
presenting Bruce his prize, while seven-year-old Paul (far left) and four-year-old David (in
sailor suit) look on. The fourth boy in the family, two-year-old Mark, stayed at home. The boys
are sons of the Rev. and Mrs. Norman A. Desrosiers of Carrboro.
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Local and State Auto License Tags to
Stay on Sale From Jan . 3to Feb . 25
Chapel Hill residents will hsv*
■bout 46 days in which to pur
chiM 1966 town and state license
tags far automobiles and other
vehicles after they go on sal*
January 3.
And, as in years past, Chapel
Hillians will have to go to other
communities such as Durham to
purchase their state tags, or
have them mailed from the Motor
Vehicles Department in Raleigh.
I/ocal tags will go on sale
at the town hall on January 3,
but residents will not b« allowed
to purchase them until after
they have bought their state
The price for local tags
1966 tags, fl.
Last year, the period for pur
chasing the tags extended for
02 days, from December 1 until
January 31. During 1960, how
ever, the period will extend from
January 3 through February 16.
The nearest place Chapel If ill -
lans will be able to purchase
state tags will Ik- in Durham at
the Carolina Motor Club which
will be located at 301 Holloway
street instead of 1111 West Par
rish Street by the time the tags
go on sale.
However, some automobile
dealers in town have offered 1
to purchase tags for the resi
ddpU, making it unnecessary for
nr owners to travel to Durham.
Some firms in Chapel Hill
attempted to get permission to
sell the elate tage, hut as of
Thursday, none had received
word that sale of the tags would
be allowed her*.
The price range for the 1966
tags will be the same as for
the 1966 tags, »10 to |l6 for
paaaenger cars. Prices for truck
tags, as for 1966 tags, will be
baaed on truck weight.
In Chapel Hill, the first 20
local tags will be sold to town
Attends Cruikahank Paaeral
Has Alice Noble went to Ral
eigh Tuesday to attend the fun
eral es Mrs. Ernest Cruikshank
In the chapel at Bt. Mary's
College; A native of Hillsboro,
Mr*. Cruikshank was president
of St Mary's from 1982 to 1946.
Mh» Jamersoa Entertains
Misa Ann Jamerson entertain
ed at an open house at her home
on Rooeevelt Avenue Wednesday
evening. Cueeta were principally
Chapel Hill girls who were her
high school classmates.
Psst Office SchedsU
Thee* will he a* window
service Monday, January 2,
at the Chapel Mill Poet Office,
aad a* tewa or ratal dohvety
except far apadel delivery
parcel* aad letters. The Mm
wifl he spaa, a* aaaal, fra*
lutU midnight, auM wffl
he pal ap la the haaa* a*
"haadfed
officials. Number one will go
to Mayor O. K. Cornwell, and
the foilowiqg six to the alder
men. Town Manager Thomas
Ropp will get number eight. Re
corder’s Court Judge William
Stewart, number nine, Chief of
Police W. T. Sloan, number 10,
town auditor E. K. Peacock,
number 11, Fire Chief J. 8.
Boone, number 12.
Tags 13-17 are presently un
aasigned, but are expected to
be sold to P. R. Perry, G. S.
Baldwin, W. 11. Ray, C. L. Mer
ritt, Charles Etheridge, and Char
les Byrd.
Number 1H is assigned to Mr*.
Mary Love joy, town clerk, 10
to Shelton Womble, und 20 to
Dr. O. D. Garvin. Tags 101-
103 are assigned to the town's
three police cars.
Attend Family Reunion
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Thorne
and their daughter Nan met
Mr. Thorne's mother, Mrs. An- 1
nie B. Thorne of Washington,!
D. and other members of
the fumily at the old Thorne
home in Rocky Mount for the
Christmas weekend.
To I'rearh Sunday
The Rev. William K. Cheyne
of Durham will preach at the
morning worship service at AliJ
ersgate Methodist Church Janu
ary 1 in the absence of the
pastor, the Rev. Kimsey King.
s6fioo Check Is Received Here From
Polio Foundation’s National Offices
Asa stopgap measure to meet
this community’s acute need for
funds to continue care of polio
patients, a check for (6,500 from
the March of Dime* headquar
ters in New York wes received
today by the Oranga County
Chapter of the Notional Founda
tion for Infantile Parelysia.
“This money,” explained Cel.
P. C. Shepard, Chapter Chair
man, “is an advance supplied by
chapters operating in the black.
When it wes realised that more
then 1,200 chapter* would ex
haust the March of Dimas funds
available to them, National
Foundation headquarters celled
in funds from chapters whidh
had surpluses.”
Recognizing that polio re
spect# no state or county lines,
Col. Shepard said, chapters with
funds have willingly answerad
the distress signals of those op
erating la the red to ineare the
necessary care of polio patients.
Encouraging the “have#" ta help
the “have-nots," ho continued,
la one way the March of Dttaoe
aeenres that the Uvea and use
fulness of polio patients every
where in the country sen he
•erod.
The check resolved by the
Orange Comity Chapter udti help
The Chapel Hill Weekly
5 Cents a Copy
Carmichael Heads
Heart Fund Drive
W. D. Carmichael Jr., vice
president of the Consolidated
University, has accepted the
chairmanship of the 1966 cam
paign of tM N. C. Heart As
sociation, awarding to 'the cur
rent issue of the N. C. Heart
News.
The News also reports that
Bob Cox of Chape) Hill and
Supt. of Schools Paul Carr of
Hillsboro will be the Orange
County chairmen for the drive.
One of the features of the ef
fort will be a telephone cam
paign to solicit volunteers for
work on Heart Sunday, which
has been set for February 26.
Fly to Columbia, S. ('.
Collier Cobb Jr., his associate,
Jerry Hudson, and Mr. and Mrs.
1 ><ui» Craves flew to Columbia,
S. C., yesterday (Thursday)
morning in Mr. Cobb’s company
plane, and flew back home in
the afternoon. Mr. Hudson was
the pilot. The flight each way
took about an hour. In Columbia
the travelers called on Mr. and
Mis. Ccorge Coffin Taylor
Sing Christmaa Carols
On Tuesday night, December
20, about 40 of the Y-Teens
went caroling in a big truck
in spite of the intense cold.
They sang at homes and also
st Memorial Jioapital. They were
ante ruined at the end of their
trip by Mrs. B. J. Howard, who
served cakes and aandwiches.
meet long overdue bills for pro
viding treatment and equipment
for the eleven polio patients in
this area who received assist
ance. Col. Shepard predicted that
because many of these patients
will continue to need help, the
chapter would be forced to ask
for additional funds in tha near
futon.
“Tha financial burden our
chapter has had to assume Is un
fortunately shared with others,”
Col. Shepard said. “Destitute
National Foundation chapters
will require an estimated
(6,000,000 from headquarters to
meet patient cere Mila which the
Chapters could not meet them
selves.
“Our present situation may be
he lot of other communities nett
year,” he went on te esy. “It is
hoped that the money we have
received can be returned to Na
tional Foundation headquarter*
from contributions te the next
March of Dimas In January as
1966 for tMiftlAiM to ntW
ehapters in need.
“The promioe of the Salk vae
«fne ie bright, bat the fall rent
nation of that premise ie far (be
fntara. As we la Oiaaga Cm*
<amr tea wall, potto isn’t defend
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1955
Mountain Tract Is
Soli Near Here to
Botanist Wm. Hunt
Percy Horton of Durham
has sold to William L. Hunt,
the botanist, a tract of about
250 acres on Edwards
Mountain, five miles south
of Chapel Hill in Chatham
county. The sale was made
through the Foushee-Olsen
Realty Co. Mr. Hunt is go
ing to use part of the land
as a sort of experiment
station for the planting of
flowers, shrubs, and trees
native to many regions.
Edwards Mountain, which
has an area of around 700
acres, lies between the Pitts
boro highway and the Mount
Carmel (or Farrington)
road. The best view of it
is from the latter. Go out
past Mount Carmel church,
which is just this side of
the Orange-Chatham line,
and half a mile further on
you will see, off to your
right, the mountain rising
sharply from the surround
ing country.
It is rough territory, un
fit for farming. Until a few
years ago it was heavily
wooded, but now it has been
cut over and the stumpg
and rocks, and the litter
of felled saplings left by
the lumbermen, make a
rather dreary sight.
If stories told by some
of the people who live round*
about are to be believed,
Mr. Hunt’s purchase includes
something he would no doftbt
be willing not to own; that
is, wildcats. Not spurious,
timorous wildcats such as
are often seen in these daye
but the old-timey snarling,
vjfious, aggressive ‘creat
ures. They arf said to W»
'way back in the depths of
caves among the rocks.
But Mr. Horton, whom
I questioned about this mut
ter when he was in Chapel
Hill night before last, said
that, though he had hunted
all over the mountain often
when he was a boy—his
home was nearby—he had
never seen any wildcats.
“But 1 used to get plenty
of coons and wild turkeys,”
he said, “and I wouldn’t la*
surprised if there’s still
good hunting up there. 1
hear the woods are full of
squirrels.
“One of the most interest
ing things about the moun
tain is a lake near the top.
All the time that 1 knew it,
it never went dry. It must
be fed from springs. I re
member I used to see mi
grating Canadian geese on
it. I’m told that it’s clutter
ed up now with trees that
have died and fallen in it.
If it were cleaned out it
might be a good lake again.’’
A narrow road made by
the lumbermen, what peo
ple call a sawmill road, leads
from the Mount Carmel road
to the mountain. A better,
though longer, approach is
from the Pittsboro highway
to the west, byway of Lya
tra church.
Store* to Close
Merchant* in Chapel Hill
will clom th#lr itora on Isa
aarjr 2, according to the
Chapel Hill • Carrboro Mer
chants Association.
Do People Ever Apply for a Coach’s Job? Why, Certainly!
When we met University
Athletic Director C. P, Erick
son on the street the other
day, a question suddenly came
te mind, and we broached it:
“During all this upheaval
—if that’s a good word—over
a football coach . .
“Transition la s better one,”
Mr. Erickson suggested.
“Well, what we’re getting at
ie thin," we went on, “When
ever there’s a poeeible change
in the football coaching site
atiefe, we always read where
aamoana ie wanted for the
Job, where semsine bae hem
—fleeted for it. Bat we never
mil haring mi a* heard
New Parking Regulations to Go Into
Effect Jan. 1; Ticket Receipts Boom
Workmen were busy putting up “No Parking” signs in
Chapel Hill this week in preparation for January 1 when four
new ordinances prohibiting parking on several streets are
scheduled to become effective.
As the signs went up. Town Hall officials reported that
the police department took in (11,208 in parking fines during 1956.
The ordinances prohibit parking of any vehicle at any time
on the following streets: Rosemary Street between Henderson
and Church Streets; on Mallette Street; on either side of Pittsboro
or McCauley Streets within 150 feet of the intersection of the
streets; on Hillsboro Street between Rosemary and East Frank
lin Streets.
Parking on the east side of Henderson Street between
Rosemary and East Franklin Streets will be prohibited. Park
ing on the west side of Henderson between the two streets
will be limited to 10 minutes.
A one dollar fine is provided for violation of the ordinancas.
Os the (11,268 collected in parking fines during the year,
(5,871 has been collected since the end of the fiscal year ending
June 30.
Police Chief W. T. Sloan said he believed the collections
during the last half of the year represented a considerable in
crease over the sum collected during the same period last year.
He noted that Mrs. Barbara Howdy was hired in July as
traffic clerk to follow up parking tickets, a job which patrolmen
had not had time to do.
Since July, the collections have averaged about (1,000 per
month.
Three Female Traffic Officers Hired
To Guard School Children’s Crossings
Three women, two white and
one Negro, have been employed
to work a* traffic officers at
Chapel Hill school crossings.
Police Chief W. T. Sloan an
nounced this week.
However, the women are not
expected to begin work in time
for the return of children to
the schools at the end of the
Christmas holiday period.
Chief Sloan said at present
the women are waiting for the
arrival of their blue, regulation
police uniforms from A. Dubois
and Son, Inc., in New York
City. When the uniforms arrive,
he aaid, the women will begin
work immediately.
Markings on Curbs
And Streets Painted
Ryilliant yellow curb markings
and snow white traffic and
Mating lanes adorned Chapel
nflt ttracts In ierreaabig num
btrs this week as town workman
sought to compiste their exten
sive repainting job before stu
dents return to the University
Tuesday.
Town Manager Thomas Rosa,
pointing out that the entire job
si being carried out with hand
brushes, he plans, in the fu
ture, to have the painting done
with a small lane marker, if he
can find a relatively inexpensive
one on the market.
Most of the markura, especially
those used by the state, ure too
large for use in Chapel Hill, und
too expensive, he added.
A small marker, however,
would cut down considerably on
the labor time involved, he said.
Won Another Prize
Ten-year-old Bruce Desrosiers,
who won the first prize of a (25
U. S. .Savings Bond in the Week
ly’s Christmas Coloring Contest,
hud one of his original pictures
chosen for a prize in a children’s
art contest when he was attend
ing the Craedmoor elementary
school. He is the son of the Rev.
und Mrs. Norman A. Desrosiers
of Carrboro. „
Vialt (lie MacCarthya
Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Dean
of Dumbarton, Mrs. R. M. Fin
ley, and Mr. and Mrs, R. L. Whit
mire of Hendersonville ware din
ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Her
ald MacCarthy on Christmaa Day.
Mrs. Whitmire, their daughter,
was here fur a weak and Mr.
Whitmire was hare over the
weekend. Mrs. Dean ia the daugh
ter of Mrs. Finlay.
Churcb of Holy Family
The Church of the Holy Fam
ily will have regular Communion
at 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday
with family worship and church
school at 9:30 a.m. Tharo will
bo no ovtning service.
•rail/ and actually applied for
the job. Do you over got any
application* 7”
"Ugh," Mr. Eriekaon grant*
ad, “about tbla many." Then,
with hi* thumb and index
finger he indicated what ap*
peered to be a stack of paper
about three iachee tall. "There's
always someone looking for
a coaching job, or someone
writing, telling us that seme*
one might be interested," he
said,
Grady Pritchard, a member
es the athletic isnadl, was
given the seme gneetfen. "Meet
es the folks ticking for jehe
get aems alumnae to feel eat
The traffic officers are Mrs.
I.ucille E. Horne, wife of Chapel
Hill police officer Amos Horne,
Mrs. Alice Martindale who lives
on Durham Road, and Mrs. Lat
tice Vickers of Carrboro.
Employment of the women as
traffic officers was approved
by the Board of Aldermen as a
means of releasing patrolmen
for other duties.
The women, Chief Sloan said,
will be stationed behind the Chap
el Hill Elementary School on
Cameron Avenue, in front of
the school on West Franklin
Street, and near the intersection
of South Graham and West
Franklin Streets where Negro
children cross West Franklin on
their way to school.
The women are expected to
be paid about (2.75 a day for
working during the hours of
8 to 8:30 a.m., 12:45 to 1:20
p.m., and t)B9 to 8:30 p.nw
.x£3±PP*a2L
for me«e «NM|wiN daring
the wisjr trafHc hoars, Chief
Sloan said. At present officers
must take time from tkeir regu
lar patrols and leave their care
in order to aid the children in
crossing streets.
Van Hecke to Be Installed Tonight as
Head of U.S. Law School Association
M. T. Van Hecke, Kenan pro
fessor and former dean the
University’s Law School, will be
formally installed as president
of the Association of American
Inw Schools at the closing sea
ion of the association’s three-day
annual meeting in Chicago to
night (Friilay).
Mr. Van Hecke will hold office
through 1956. He was chosen as
president-elect at the organiza
tion’s meeting last year in New
York, und has served during
1955 us a member of the execu
tive committee.
The association, created in
1900 for "tha improvement of
the legal profeasion through le
gal education,” ia made up of
about 110 of the principal law
schools in the nation. The Uni
versity hare became a member in
1920.
Mr. Van Hacka, educated at
Beloit Collage and tha Universi
ty of Chicago, first became a
member of the University's law
faculty in 1921. Leaving in 1923,
he returned In 1928 and served
as dean of the Law School from
1931 to 1924. He has taught dur
ing the regular achool year at
the Universities of'Kanaea, West
Virginia, Louisiana, and Yale,
and during summer sessions at
the Universities of Chicago,
Michigan, Minnesota, North
western, Texas and Wlaconeln.
Mr. Van Hack# has been called
on for three periods of govern-
a direct application, The man
who’s got a job usually doesn't
want to get on tha spot by
oponly applying for another
job,” he replied. “Sometimes
I gat some phene calls from
soma teaches and they tell mo
they want the job but they
don’t want to mako It public.
I just tell them to put H la
writing to the athletic director.
“No, I don’t know how many
applications wa have aetoally
had recently, hut I knew there
won seme. When ore wove
about to employ George 800.
•Mr, »• had about 11 op It
oiwayi got them from
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Chaptl Mil CkaU
LG.
For yean Mrs. E. A. Ab
ernethy has had student
lodgers in her home on South
Columbia Street. Most of
them have been scrupulous
about paying their rent, but
a couple of years ago she
had one who let her down
badly. He left owing her
three hundred dollars. He
said he was mighty sorry;
he just didn’t have any mon
ey; he would pay her as
soon as he could.
After months had passed
and she had no word from
him she gave the debt up
for lost. When I called on
her one day last week she
told me about receiving a
wonderful surprise gift: a
check for S3OO from the de
linquent lodger.
And for this I can write
a companion piece. ‘Way
back in the 1920’s D. D. Car
roll lent a student $l6O to
help him pay his college
expenses and took a note
for it. The student was sup
posed to start payments on
the debt after his gradu
ation. But he didn’t gradu
ate and he didn’t start pay
ments. He just disappeared.
One day this last September
a letter came from him say
ing he would be in Chapel
Hill for a football game, and
would Mr. Carroll give him
an appointment so that he
could pay off the debt with
accumulated interest? This
is the sort of appointment
that appeals strongly to a
creditor and Mr. Carroll an
swered by return mail, nam
ing the place and'the hour.
The student said ha hod
foryottao Um exact amount,
but tho 00RDBii|kjphUiit.
BWBBRwVCW
Mr. Carfoll hadn’t thought
of it for 'many years and
was afraid he might have
thrown it away. But he rum
maged around and at last
(Continued on page 2)
ment service: a* a member of
the U. 8. Board of Exam
iners (1941-44), chairman of the
Southern Regional War luibor
Board (1942-45), and chairman
of the President’s Commission
on Migratory Labor (1950-51).
Home Fire Causes
Extensive Damage
Fire cauaed extensive damage
Monday to the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie Atwater at 118 Mer
ritt Mill Road. The prompt ar
rival of town firemen, however,
prevented the fire from spread
ing from the front room of the
house.
Fire Chief J. 8. Boone esti
mated that damage te the front
room totaled about (260. The
blaze started as e result of a
defective chimney leading from
a coal stove, he aaid.
No one waa in the house at the
time the fire broke out. Fire
men, working from two trucks
and four hosoe, were able to
bring the blase under control
within five minutes after their
arrival.
Lonla R. Wilson at 79
Louis R. Wilson waa 79 years
old on Tuesday of this week, De
cember 27. Counting In hia year
as an undergraduate and hia
years as librarian and teacher,
and counting out tha ten years
ha was dean of the graduate
school of library administration
at the University of Chicago, ha
has boon connected with the Unl
versity 47 years. Ha took tha
A.8., tho M.A., and tha Ph.D. de
grees hare, and tha honorary de
gree of LL.D. waa conferred on
him in 1924. He waa professor of
library administration bore for
the five years after ha returned
from Chicago la 1942 and he la
still teaching la the University's
tehee! of library science. He has
been president of the North
Carolina Library Association far
several terms, as tha loothteat
era Library Association, and e st
the American Library Associa
tion, and he ia DM author of
mil n6fin ni 4nltaff
With the development, the ad-
Bfttictrattee, sad tho uio c# *
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" FRIDAY " "
ISSUE
Next Isaac Tuesday
Davis Asked
To Postpone
Study Group
For Schools
As a result of the recom
mendation by the State Ad
visory Committee on Edu
cation that local groups halt
studies of integration, the
Chapel Hill School Board
probably will decide Mon
day night whether or not
it will dissolve its newly cre
ated nominating committee
named to select members for
a local advisory committee
which would study the ques
tion of integration in public
schools here.
Following receipt of the
recommendation this week
by School Superintendent C.
W. Davis, Guy B. Phillips,
chairman of the nominating
committee, said his commit
tee would not hold a meet
ing until further notice from
the school board.
Mr. Davis said he does
not think the recommenda
tion is “anything to get dis
turbed about,” and was un
decided as to whether the
state committee’s action
would cause the board to
dissolve its nominating com
mittee.
Carl Smith, chairman of
the board, aaid the recom
mendation will be discussed
at the board’s monthly meet
ing Monday night. At pre
sent, he sakL it ia unknown
what effect the recommenda
tion will have on the board’s
action in creating the nom
inating committee to name
troupe “for the time being.”
“At the time the oomrait
tees'were first suggested by
the State Advisory Com
mittee in July, 1964," Mm latter
«M% “Circumstances dictated the
advisability of appointing such
committees. It ie felt that thee#
circumstances have changed to
such sn extent that further local
committee action at the present
time ia inadviaabla.”
Mr. Smith aaid he expects the
state committee to und school
boards a number of recommenda
tions on factors to be taken in
to consideration in passing on ap
plications by Negroes for ad
mission to white achoola.
Thomas Pearsall of Rocky
Mount, chairman of the state
committee, said the letter waa
prompted by a tendency of achool
boards to shift their responsi
bility to the study committees.
Mr. Pearsall, in a statement
Wednesday, said that it is not
the intent of the state commit
tee that the local study commit
tees be disbanded. The commit
tees have been a great help to
the local school boards, and
should prove more valuable in
tha future, he said.
Mr. Smith said, however, that
he has always maintainsd that
tha school board’s raaponslbillty
ta Chapel Hill would remain
tha asms with or without tha
appointment of suck a committee.
The school board, he addad, would
have to teko the responsibility
of any actioa on the integration
question despite recommendations
(Continued ea page 12)
Chapel JdillneUi
Acting University President
Harris Purka receiving con
gratulations on being the only
college president in the United
States with teas basketball
teams in the Ten.
A Chapel Hill woman who
has boon going to n marriage
consultant received from the
consultant a Christmas pre
sent consisting of a box of
five perfumes in five little
flasks labeled from lift (a
right in the box) as follows:
Reflextions. Klesocbet. Dan
gar. New Horisons. Surrender,
see
Overheard ia the next booth:
Pint man: “I feel dioeour
egad whan I step ta res has
hew Uttis I’ve smsugtsd ta.”
•aeend man: ’’Money's not
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« Seed teeth, tea weuffi
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