TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday Vol. 34, No. 1 Firecrackers Still Menace In Community Miss Anno Fitch, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. K. B. Fitch of 620 East Rosemary] Street, had a close call Sat-1 urday night as she and oth er high school students were ►’about to go home from the | V-Teens’ Nt\f Year’s dance, at the Monogram Club. After she left the building and was walking to the car that was to take her home,'one of a group of boys stand ing on the MotiOgram Club porch tossed a lighted fire cracker , toward her. It ex ploded almost under her feet and gave her two painful in juries, one on the leg and one in her right eye. Her friends rushed her to Memorial Hospital, where her injuries were .found to be not serious. Next morn ing her eye was terribly bloodshot, and it gave her some discomfort throughout the day. Hut yesterday it was better and it is expect ed to clear up satisfactorily. Although the Chapel Hill police have been cracking down on firecracker shoot ers, especially University many people feel •that the law against their use is not enforced as rigid ly as it should be. A friend of the Fitch family saijl yesterday, “If Anne had lost her sight, there would proba bly be no more firecrackers going off around here for a long time. As it is, some • body else will probably have to be a martyr before this happens.” In this coTrnYction, we of fer the following editorial from last Friday’s issue of the Smithfield Herald: Johnston County had a gory as well as a merry Christmas. There was a series of dynamite explosions hard to reconcile with the spirit of the season. One of the ex plosions, set off when fire- 1 Jyackers accidently came in' contact with sticks of dyna mite in the back seat of a; car, sent three persons to] a hospital.- The automobile! was torn asunder and *its occupants survive only by what seems to have been a miracle. 1 There was a nauseating rape incident. A train struck an auto mobile at a Smithfield cross ing.' There was a cross-burning incident. And there was that ter rible post-Christmas fiery wreck which claimed the lives of two Canadians trav eling on a truck. Instead of the hoped for, fullness of joy and |>eace on, earth, Johnston County ex perienced an overabundance of tragedy and near tragedy, some of it clearly avoidable. 4) Prevention of atrocious crimes like‘>ape involves so ciological and psychological solutions as well as effective law enforcement. There is no easy answer to any sex crime. Nor is there any easy solution to the problem of curtailing or preventing hu man slaughter on the high (Continued on Page 8) JS Chapel Millnote* As seen from Columbia Street, a full moon sitting at the end, and smack in the middle of East Franklin Street. « * » Town officials, policemen, firemen and newsmen grouped 4 around a radio in the fire de partment’s garage, listening to ...the Dixie Classic. • * * Coeds, coeds, coeds, as they alighted from busses after the holiday!, and the policemen who were requested by Acting Dean cf Women Isabelle Mac- Leod to give them safe trans port to (heir dormitories dur ing the night. Slory of a (irecii Monkey Looking for a New Home iP§ ■m 17 - V —C.iotu by ( buck liauset 1 hret--year-old Wendy 1 anham (left* and her four-year-old sister Kathy pose with Kox anne, an African green monkey who feels rightat home with people. By Chuck Hauser The height us the Christmas rush (which affects newspapers as well as department, five-and ten, and ABC stores) was upon us in all its commercialized in-! sanity a week or so ago when a telephone call brougt(4 us up! short. | “You want .to sell a what?” asked Oliver Watkins, our ad vertising manager, into the phone. He listened, his face a kaleido scope of emotions. Then he took down the following classified ad: “FOR SALE. Pet African green monkey, 8 months old. Call 9 9774 ” I looked over his shoulder, read the message, and promptly went to my desk and called 9-9774. No, 1 wasn’t looking fur a pet African green monkey, 8 months old. 1 just wanted a story. Charles i.anham, who lives lat 70 Hayes Road in Glen Ken ! tj«x, answered the phone, and I invited me out to take a look, |at the animal. i When I arrived. Mi I.anham | briefed me on the household pet 1 before taking me Into the k:t hen to see her. “Her name is Roxanne, he, told me. “From Cyrano?” 1 asked, show ng off my literipry* background. “No, from the pet store,' he answered, puncturing my com posure completely. But he wasn't being humorous He meant tbalj the owner of the pet store in Norfolk where he bought the monkey had named her. Mr. I.anham works for the Nehi Beverage Company, and he travels through eastern North Carolina, and tidewatei \ irginia. It was on one of his huSfrricss School Board Scheduled to Discuss Creation of Educational Advisory Unit The Chapel Mill School Hoard was scheduled to meet last night and discuss a recommendation I from the State. Advisory Com mittee on Education that it [temporarily halt any study of j integration in the public schools by groups other than the board, i A majority of the board mem bers asked to make comment on the recommendation last week refused to give their opinion as to whether or not they would dis solve the newly created nominat ing committee which was set op to name members fyr a local advisory commit fee h\n?.. Guy B. Phillips, chairmanNrf the nominating committee, an nouncer], following receipt of the recommendation by School Sup erintendent C. W. Davis, that his committee would not hold a_ meeting until further instruct ions are received from the board. Carl Smith, chairman of the board, said he has maintained that appointment of a local ad visory committee to study the problems of segregation is un necessary because the board would still huve the responsi bility of passing on applications from Negro children for ad mission to white schools. 1 Any recommendations from such a committe would be stu died, he said, but the school board’s views would be controi ang because of that rssponsi The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents a Copy • j trips, that he Mopped at the ; i Norfolk pet sh,op. He brought > the monkey home, and then be • gan worrying about where to l keep her. •| “What you need r u .i monkey IKabv Horn llorr * C laims Ti«> Honor Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie A. 'Merritt felt slighted. They look ; ed on the front page of Mon day’s Raleigh News and Ob i server and read that the “un official North Carolina 1956 Baby Derby” had been won hy , a Rocky Mount couple who had twins-the first at 12:08 i a.in. and the second at 12:14 a m. on the morning of Jan , uaty 1, 1956. The third 1956 baby bom in the state, accord ing to the was an* Asheville boy who arrived ! in the world at 12:25 am. 1 -Mr. and Mrs. Merritt wanted i ; to set the record straight, j They didn’t have a cleat cut winner, they said, hut they ! ned a tie foi fit i plai e Their six pound 10 ounce baby : girl arrived at exactly 12:08 on New Year’s morning th.e | same arrival time as for the ' fust of the Rocky Mount twin girls. . T» it? child Was hoi li I , the Durham couple at .Memorial Hospital here-. Di. Tom Vestal Cot tin) hospital stall, .wl,co de livered the baby, confirmed the 1 time and officially entered young .Miss Meriitt* in the Baby Derby. Exrdpt for injured feelings, Dr \ ■ slal reported, mothei aud child and father, lu« ale i|o ing just fine. bility. Some members of the hoard said they had not had time to consider the recommendation and had given it "no thought.” Mr. Davis, who is also secre tary of the hoard, said he was “surprised to see it in the paper,” and he does not see that "it is anything to get disturbed ab'** ” The chairman of the state com mittee, .Thomas Pearsall of Kocky Mount, said the letter to local school superintendents through out the sate was prompted by a tendency of school boards to -shift their responsibility in the segregation issue to the local advisory committees. Mr. Smith indicated that since the state committee is prepar ing rules which it thinks the boards should adopt in passing upon applications from Negroes, the organization of a local study committee here may now be com pletely unnecessary. Mr. Pearsall, however, said that it is not the intent of the state committee that local study groups should be disbanded. He did riot say whether iocal boards should go ahead with present plans to set up such study groups. However, he did say that he thinks the local committees have helped school boards in the past and will prove more valuable in the future. CHAPEL HILL, N. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1956 •‘is a fenced ar«i with a tree iaiul some 1 space to exercise,” he explained When he bought i the animal, the i.anhams were j planning to move. The plans j changed, and they were forced to offer thin pet for sale. We went into the kitchen to visit Roxanne. 1 "Her favorite perch is on the pencil sharpener,” said Mr. l.an ham. To prove his point, Rox anne scrampered up the kitchen door and perched on the pencil sharpener. t “The kids around here fascinated with the way she peels a banana before she eats it,” said Mr. I.anham. Roxanne took a banana from his out stretched hand and disdainfully began to gnaw on it without peeling it. Then- she repented her attempt to make Mr.' I.an iium out a liar, and carefully peeled t tie fruit 1 Mr. I.anham picked her up to show me why this species of monkey hears the name African green Her, stomach fm was an ! unmistakable shade of pastel green. (ireeni li yellow ban.-- hlended w ith daik in ow n on | her back and hei head, surround'-1 : mg' a'-pjii kish idack face whicli j constantly lelledeii a mixturi ■of innocence ami devilment Just then J was attacked from two directions, and Roxanne wasn’t .guilty 'in either' case Something grabbed me around the knees and yelled "Hey!” at me. it was. Mi I.anhum ex plained, iii- four yi-ai-old daugii ter K atii> Sirniiltanioasly, i a whin* of wing.-, and JMnething Cltlo.i on top of lilt head. That ..cording lo Mi i.anham, wa fweety-liii ii, a paiakeet whicli had - previously managed to get itself mentioned hi the news lapei- by disappeaiTng foi a week and winding up on the other side of town. i shooed Tweety-Hird off my head, and Mr. I.anham, Kathy, Roxahne, and I went into tin living room. There we ran into] three-year old Wendy, who made] a grab for Roxanne, marched I off to the sofa with the monkey t firmly under her arm, and lie gan smoothing its fur. MrS. I.anham, who had ar-j rived a few minutes before, com-] mented, “Wendy* thinks Roxanne’s] people, and Roxanne thinks] Wendy’s monkey.” Roxanne deserted Wendy and! crossed the room to say hello] to Mrs. Jim Pooie, who had corner in with Mrs. I.anham. Thej monkey climbed on Mrs. Poole's] shoulder and bit her ear. At] least, I thought she bit her ear.i Mrs. I.anham explained that it] was just a kiss. Roxanne began chewing some-1 thing hidden in her mouth. I, glanced quickiy at Mrs. Poole’s] ear to make sure Mrs. I.anham knew what she was talking about. “It’s the banana,’’ said Mr.! I.anham. “She’s just like a squir-] rel. She fills up those pouches’ in her cheeks with food and eats it later. Sort of like a cow with her cud.” I mentally switch ed from a picture of a squirrel: to one of a cow. Neither seemed! remotely like Roxanne, who had tfven up chewing and was roll-j >ng around on the floor. (Continued on Page 8) Chapel Mill Chutf U.G. Maybe Dr. R. R. Clark [doesn't know that he was I responsible for my quitting tennis, but he was. He co lapsed on the. court one hot day several years ago and was told by his doctor that the exercise was too violent for him and he had better not play any more. When 1 heard this and reflected; that Dr. Clark was much younger than 1 was, I de [ cided 1 had better give up | the game, too. i 1 might have kept playing t while longer but for the pack of response I got when' 1 tried -to introduce a re-; form in our tennis-playing| j Schedule. In England, which is on i latitude far north of ours*, | with therefore longer days 1 in summer, tennis-playing goes ott till 9 o’clock, and 1 I in Scotland to an even lat-| ■r hour. Here in 1 haj>el Hill the light lasts long enough on summer days for a coui>-j le ot hours of play begin-1 ning at five-thirty or six' .o’clock. In my opinion this is the best time of day for tennis in our climate. But when 1 proposed this sched ule the other players in the quarto! Jt-* M Johdan and W . A. tfm'en and Lee Wiley, ; laughed me, to*.scorn. They iwanted to start playing at , three-thirty or four, when , the heat was at its peak i They .were a good ileal younger than I and were better able to take it. But i think the main rea son they wouldn't agree to my proposal was that their wives wanted them to get through playing in time for an early dinner. Maybe they preferred that, too, but I always suspected they turn ed me down because they were not masterful enough to say to their wives, "We il play just as late as we please- your job is to be ready to feed us when we get through.” ' Continued on page 2) I hi- Pearl fishers Norman Cordon will narrate ;.Ibe I i arl b i.shei >, an opera i I ieoi gc.S BlZel o% I wM n • A Sumbi.i, -fan s, at 2:15 p.m. fin it -11 ,\ii C ’onion’s ‘•■auiai sei ies of" Let's Listen! to Opera." Hr/.it i... i),, aaitioi of || l( . j in.) o.ui tal "l ariaeii. The Pearl j t lshei , in "l.i ; Pechcurs de • '■lie-" was written iiy Bizet 12. :A iars in tore he unite l anin n. i’ ha i'eeh - .el! i Neglected Hi A n.el iea. t ordon .-av tuiehls ol the lippetls All Inez Bate.- of lireenville, / I la h Mi ■ a|, James Tip pett. Ottn ■/ < fill 1 111 a . guests of di ami Jfl i- I ippett were Mi.-.- Dladys yfiew ai ami Miss .Susie j i>«• wmi Li Raleigh Mi-- Gladys! I la war/had a birthday while she ■'•a- /ere, and Mia- Nan I,acy ami /Mi.«s Frances l.aey came o e/fiom Raleigh In attend her li.nfiiday dinner. / * J Kent a I Pictures Due j Person Mali rental picturea that were due to lie returned |mi January I should h,e return led today, Tuesday, January .'j, j>l *s announced hy Miss Lynette I Warren, curator. The gallery was I dosed yesterday arid. Sunday. Hug Workshop so Meet The f’ommunity Club’s rug workshop will meet at 2:50 p.m. Wednesday, January 4, at. the theme of Mrs. S. Logsdon on 'Laurel Hill Hoad. University TV Resumes Programming Over Channel 4 A stepped-up schedule of in | school programming for North Carolina classrooms wa.s usher ed in with the New Year when j WUNC-Television, Channel 4, re turned to the air op January 1, j 1956. Even more programs for 'schools are expected to he added during the winter months. The first in-school program* I began Monday, January 2, at [112:45 p.m. The new in-school schedule will include “Today on the Farm” in cooperation with the Extension Division of State College, for agriculture e less* a, and engineering visits from State Annual and Sometimes Unpleasant Duty of Tax Listing Scheduled to Start Today at Town Hall Taxpayers in Chap*‘l Hilb and throughout the county! begin their annual listing of! real and peD *it uU property taxes today 1 Tuesday). All iresidents of Chapel Hill are I required to file lists w ith ■{both county and town tax listers. Tax lister for the Town of Faculty Committee to Aid Trustees in i Search for President Holds a Meeting a •*•••-■ ' , The University faculty com- j i mittec which is working with i a special University trustee ' ! committee on the selection of . a nominee for the office of 1 president of the University 1 scheduled a meeting here yes- ! ' terday (Mondavi, i The committee, consisting of 1 seven faculty' .member*, was James Webb Is in New Banking Post Word has been received here that James E. Webb, who was! 1 graduated from the University i here in lt*2B, has been appointed director of the Federal Home! Loan Bank of Topeka, Kan. Mr. Webb is a native of Gran v’ille County am! c-has been . as sociated with the Federal Gov ernment in various positions since 1932. His work in Wash ington began as secretary to Congressman Edward W’. Pou.! Later he became executive "as sistant to the late O. Max Gard ner a'nd then held the position 6f Under-Secretary of the Treas ury. He theft became dj rector of the Bureau of the Budget and following that Under-Secretary pf State. Mr.iWebb is a veteran Marine, having served on active duty from 1930 to 1932, and again during World War 11. He now holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Coip- Eeserves. University Holiday Ends The University’s Christntas and New Year’s holiday l will end today (Tuesday) with the re sumption of classroom work at 8 a.m. The holiday began De cembei 17 Fall semester classes will hold their last meeting on ] Wednesday, January 18, with examinations to begin January 19 and continue through Janu i ary 28. - ' - Oxford Lecturers Two I Jnivei -it v of Noi t h (’ato- Im.i [Unfessois who have lectur i i .it Oxford Univeisit'y• in 1 I. nd recently uj e Gordon Bluck I well, head of the Institute fol lie-can h* in Social Science at II ha pel Hill, :emi I i ban i Holim-s, uuthoiily on Renaissance : -Indies! Utilities Office Announces a Change in Billing Procedure for Many Customers ■ ■ i The University Service Plants i offh e has* annoum wl a chan*, !in hilling proveduFe. for about j two-thirds of its electric and ! watei customers. The persons who will be as | fecli d hy the change received the following printed notice with their utilities bills early this week: “The hilling date of your elect ric and water full is being chang ed to u date nearer to the date your meters are read. Instead of billing all electric and water | customer on the first of each! month, ’some electric ami water bills will be issued as the first of the month, some as of the 11th of the month, and some as of the 21st of the month. “The enclosed bill issued Jan uury 1, 1956, is for service to the date indicated by your meter readings on your bill, and it has been prepared in the usual way and is now due and payable. “We shall qssue your next bill College. The “Today on the Farm” program has been moved from an evening time slot to a l p.m. daily telecast for school students. The University School of Edu cation will present programs on vocations, geography and physi cal education. Art, music and physical education programs huve been scheduled by the Woman’s College School of Education. Regular programming was re sumed Sunday, January 1, at 9:4b a.m., with the Sunday School ies •on by Chancellor Robert B. HaA of the University at 10 $4 a Year in County ; other rates on page 2 f httpt‘l H-ill is Mrs. Httjpn Uiiduz who will be on dtity j tt the Town Hull from 9 to 12 o’clix'k and 1 to 5 o'clock Monday through Friday, and! 9 to 12 o’clock on Saturdays. I Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Cheek! will be at the Town Hall’s ioard room to accept listings rom residents in Chapel ; appointed by the faculty council ■ to work closely with the trus- ! I tee committee in nominating a ! | successor to past president ! | Gordon Gray. Two other sac- 1 ! ulty committee-, one front the 4\ oman - Colleg.- in Greens- I boro and one from North Car olina State College, are also 1 working with the trustee com . imttee. I he committees, whose work is strictly confidential, held • their first . mei'ting with tne ! j trustee committee in Raleigh i on December 17. Members of the l niversity | j faculty committee are I). D/j Carroll,- 1 chairman, Alexander i Heafd, Dr. VA R Bertyhill, ( laiborne Jones, Lee Wiley, i William Wells, and 1.. JU Wil son. Party for Sixteen Miss Mary Burgess and Miss jTiphaine Burge-s entertained | sixteen guests Thursday evening lat their home, “Lenevar,” on \ Morgan Creek Road. Guests from Durham (where the hos tesses lived before coming to Chapel Hill) were Mrs. John Friaelle, Mrs. Hugo Walker, Mies Frances Woolwurth, Mrs. Charles Stuart, and Mrs. Lessie Fulbright and her mother, Mrs. Freeman. Feast of Lights The annual Feast of lag) U! Epiphany service will be held at! 8 p.m. Sunday, January 8, at the; Chapel of the Cross. The oldest* know n Christinas drama, this I service depicts the coming of Christ as the Light of the World, the coming of the Wise Men to woiship him, and Christ's., send ing out his disciples to carry the light to all the world. BA V acuity W ives F’uculty Wives of the Uni versity’s School of Business Ad ministration will meet m Car roll” Hall at 8 o’clock this (Tues day) evening. Hostesses will he Mrs. c. s. Logsdon and Mrs. Clifton Kreps. Baptist Supper Meetings ; The -Baptist Church will re-j. sume its family night suppers: at ti Ui pm Thur-day, January: 12. on the date indicated above (eith ei the 11th or the 21st, depend ing on which group the customer j is assigned to) as your future; !billing date, and it will be for service showing the amount of I electricity and water used. Your bill will be due and payable upon receipt. Thcie is no change in electric or water, rates. “We ate making these changes lin billing dates to spread out! billing throughout each month! land thus make it possible for, lus to give you better * service. | Your continued kind cooperation will be appreciated.” Victor Bowles of the utilities accounting department said the three billing groups are being set up according to the 26 meter reading routes in use. Routes! A through J will be billed on the 11th of the month; routes K through T will be billed on the 21st; and routes JJ through Z will continue to be billed on the first of each month. am., a remote church service from the First Baptist Church of Greensboro at 11, and a variety of films on tup. The Sunday evening schedule includes the popular “Dr. Boyd and the Bible” series at 7 p.m. These are Biblical discussions by ! Bernard Boyd, chairman of the UNC Department of Reirgron. Following the Boyd program, a new film series entitled “Spot light on Opera” will begin on Channel 4. This will be the first of five new fiim series beginning on the educational station during the week of January 1. TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday Hill Township. Listings for the town are to be made, at the same time county, list ings are made at the Town Hall. Mr. Cheek will lye avail able to accept listings at Hol , low Ruck on January 4, Blackwood Station on Jan uary 5, Midway Service Sta tion on January 6, and the J’arrboro Town Hall on Jan juary L() and 11. Carr boro residents age not required to list property for town taxes because -the listings will be taken from the county lists. > ( ountv officials have urg ed taxpayers to list early in the month to avoid a last minute rush which might cause them to be liable for a 10 per cent penalty for late l listings. Farm owners and tenants are required to’ furnish in formation other* than "’that required for taxes to be used j.in making agricultural re quires tor the county to the state. For the first time, dog owners are required to pur chase county dog licenses which an owner will be re quired to have his dog wear at ali times. Men between the ages of 2L and 50 are required to list polls at the time they list taxes. Exchangeites Vote Honor to Holland The Chapel Hill Exchange Club has chosen Herb Holland as its j “Exehangeite of the Year.” Mr. Holland succeeded Pat Pope as ip eiider.t of the civic club on ! January 1. j The honor was announced by Mr. Pope at the club’s Christ ! mas party recently at the Chap-- el Hill Country Club. Mr. Hol land was presented with a pair of monogrammed cuff links and a tie clasp. The winner of the award was determined by com piling point totals based on votes taken by the dub at quart erly intervals throughout 1955. The new officers were installed by l-ee Settle, past president of the state Flxchange Club associ ation. Other officers are VVhid Powell, vice-president; Dr. Dun can Getsinger, secretary; Lester Foley, treasurer; and Red Tyler, \ ernon I.acock, and Jack Golden as members of the board of k oirtrol. Approximately 95 guests at | tended' the Uhrjstmas party. ■Charlie Static ill was in charge lot jtnangemeiiss. : New Word *“Broadvising” is a new word ! coined at Chapel Hill to indicate | what is going be done at three ]of the Carolina home basketball (games this year. The Woollen Gym is crowded. The big crowds can’t be taken care of. if all the students and faculty entitled to attend all showed up at once, there would n’t even he standing room. | ■ -80, three of the games will !be shown on, television over WUNC-TV, Channel 4. But the picture will be shown without sound. In deference to radio stations which have been carrying Caro lina games for years, it will be necessary for those who wish to see and hear the games to,, put their radio sets and their TV sets side by side. | The games to be “broad vised” are the Carolina-Maryland' game, Jan. 16; Carolina-State, Jan. 18, and Carolina-Wake Forest, jFeb. 15. Philological Club Meeting The Philological Club will meet . at 8 o’clock this (Tuesday) even ing in. the faculty lounge of the Morehead Planetarium. W, L. Wiley of the University’s Department of Romance Langu ages will read a paper on “A Royal Child Learns to Like Plays: The Early Years of Louis XIII.” Florida Vacation Trip Miss Madge Kennette and Miss Ernestine Kennette have return ed from a Florida vacation trip. Mra: Bennett in HoapMal Mrs. J. S. Bennett has been in McPherson Hospital for sev eral days undergoing treatment for a throat ailment.