FRIDAY
ISSUE
Next Lssue Tuesday
Vol. 34, No. 6
Feeding Youngsters at School In an Enormous Task
These youngsters are shown turning; in their trays after they finished lunch at the
school cafeteria. From left to right at the edge of the counter are Sally Wells, Judy Carol
tioodwin, Mike Casey and Bari Ellington.
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No time for conversation when you’re eating, these children seem to be illustrating.
The six happy diners are, from left to right, Donna Benzie, Tom Konman, Hethie Davis,
Jimmie Shannon, Holly Jones and Jay Gilchrist.
By Susan Quinn
An amazing accomplishment—
clearly a product of modern man
agement and efficiency—takes
place five days a week right here
in Chapel Hill but very few
people ever stop to think about
it #
This accomplishment is the
feeding of GOO elementary and
high school students, by 10 peo
ple, in a remodeled classroom
area that seats about 125. It
takes two and a half hours, but
the food is good, the service, is
fast, and each- child has a half
hour to eat his lunch and a rela
tively calm atmosphere to eat
it in. .
Beginning at 11 am., a class
Aeornes into the cafeteria about
every five minutes. The children
form a line which moves from
the cashier to the heated plate
lunch counter to the milk cooler.
They can take their seats at
tables assigned to their class. As
soon as a child finishes eating
he returns lus dishes, tray and
trash to the kitchen, and goes
out to play.
Postal Receipts Up
Eighteen Thousand
Postal receipts at the
Chapel Hill post office totaled
*258,300.73 during the calen
dar year 1055, Postmaster
Paul Cheek announced yester
day. They represented an in
crease of $18,525 0.) or 7.2 per
cent, over 1954.
As receipts increased ho did
services rendered. Postmaster
Cheek recalled that a new city
route was created, the rural
free delivery System extended,
and a branch office opened at
(Hen I/ennox. Also during the
ff year two additional employees
were added to the postal per
sonnel here.
School Bond Steering Committee Named
Forty Orange County citizens 1
interested in school development
have agreed to serve on a coun
ty-wide steering committee which
will lay the foundation for the
March 20 election on the $2,-
000,000 school bond issue.
The committee, to which other
persons will be added as soon
as they agree to serve, will
hold its first meeting Monday
night at the new Courthouse
in Hillsboro at 7:30 o’clock. Co
chairmen will probably be elected
that night.
The 40 citizens who have al
ready agreed to serve follow:
Mrs. Marvin Allen, Mrs. Kay-
Vjinond Andrews, Mrs. Wallace
Bacon, Mrs., Bernard Boyd, Or
ville Campbell, Marshall Cates
Jr., Clem Cheek, Mrs. Roma
Ctaaek, Walter Clark Jr., Luther
Corbett, Robert V. Cox, Mrs.
Mac Paul Efland, R. 0. For
reat, Hurley Green-, Mrs. Dewey
GuMs, Ed Hamlin,' Alex Heard
]Uv. Charles Hubbard, Joe
Hafhas, C. P. Jones, Mrs. Glean
Under this set-up, the behavior
problem is practically non-exis
tent. There is no long period of
standing in line, for weekly lunch
tickets speed up the cashier’s job,
and under the federal school
lurich program there are seldom
choices the serving counter.
Each teacher supervises her own
group during the meal, and the
children know there will be
plenty of time for play outside
on the playground.
Ferhaps the most important
factor in the calm atmosphere is
that the youngsters are just too
busy enjoying the food to misbe
have. Teachers ut the school say
the meals are “unusually good,"
and Miss Mildred Mooneyhan,
principal, commented, "Feople
Town and University Officials,, Students
Get Together to Discuss Car Problem
A special meeting to discuss
the student automobile problem
was held in South Building Tues
day afternoon with representa
tives of the University adminis
tration, the student body, and
the Town of Chapel Hill at
tending. As was expected by
most of the participants, very
little Was accomplished.
“It was mostly a bull session,
and nothing concrete was de
cided,” said one person who at
tended. "
"We spent two hours talking,
but Fred (Dean of Student Af
fairs Fred Weaver) is determin
ed not to take any action to
restrict student cars except as
a final resort,” said another.
Dean Weaver has previously
gone on record as opposing any
restriction on student car own
ership as a violation of tradition
al student freedom. In his let
ter inviting persons to attend
Tuesday’s meeting, he made it
Kennedy,
Van Leslie Kenyon Jr., A. K.
King, John Link, Rev. J. R.
Manley, Mrs. Marvin Ray, Mrs.
Bruce Riggsbee, Hubert Robin
son, Mrs. W. L. Sloan, Mrs.
George Smith, Dupree Smith,
Edmond Strowd, Roland Taylor,
Bill Toler, Frank Umstead, Mrs.
Bernice Ward, Roosevelt Warner,
Dr. Kerr White, farter White,
and A. L. Stanback.
Change in I’rire of Eggs
In the lower left hand corner
of the Colonial Stores advertise
ment on page ten the price of
pick-of-the-nest large Grade A
eggs should be 61 cents a dozen
instead of 63 cents. The change
in price was received by wire
after page ten had gone to press.
Caldwells to Be Here
Robert Caldwell and his wif<
and two children will arrive
about February 10 to visit hi*
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
.aidwell.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
5 Cents a Copy
who eat in various school cafe
terias say ours is better than
average.” According to Mrs.
Lucy Bell, manager of the lunch
room, the students also seem
pleased. “They leave very little
on their plates," she said. "Usual
ly one person can carry out all
of a day’s garbage.”
The youngsters themselves
say this is so. Franklyn Range, a
seventh g.rader, und Alex Lon
don, Johnny Ailcott and Jock
Lauterer, fifth graders, agree the
lunches are "pretty good—espe
cially when we have hotdogs,
hamburgers and french fries,
but lots of times we don’t get
enough." (ieorge Ham, who’s in
(Continued on page 11)
clear that the discussion was
not'evcn to spend time consider
ing possible restrictions on car
ownership. Said the letter:
“1 hope it will not be neces
sary to have more than one meet
ing, since this group will be
concerned only with the matteri
of regulation. If it becomes neces |
sury to restrict cars in any way,
that will be handled through the
Administratative Board of Stu
dent Affairs.”
Persons representing Chapel
Hill at the meeting were Mayor
Oliver Cornwell, Town Manager
Thomas Bose, and Alderman
Gene Strowd. Students present
were Jim Monteith, Dave Reid,
and Student Body President Don
•Fowler. University personnel in
cluded J. S. Bennett, ('. P. Erick
son,.'Philip Green Jr., Sam Ma
gill, C. E. Teague, J A. Wil
liams, Ray Jefferies, and Dean
Weaver. R. J. M. Hobbs was
also invited to participate, but
he could not be present.
The student delegation, led by
President Fowler, pushed for its
previously announced plans of
construction of an off-campus
storage lot where students would
presumably leave their cars dur
ing the week. The committee
generally agreed that any such
proposal would be impractical.
In a November report, the
Fowler-appointed Student Traf
fie Committee had announced,
“In examining this problem,
we have found that it is not
as serious as some would be
lieve, and we feel that eithei
of the above mentioned plans
would answer the situation snn
ply and feasibly.”
Non-students at the meeting
were not inclined to either un
derestimate the problem or con
sider the student-suggested so
lutions as feasible.
Attend Realtors Meeting
John Poushee, T. A. Thomp
son, George Vinson and Mr. and
Mrs. Wilbur Kutz have returned
from Washington, D. C., where
they attended a convention of
real estate agents.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1956
Emmett Cheek
Hired as Aide
To Jim Tatum
Emmett Cheek, Orange
County native, will be one
of the University assistant
football coaches, Head Coach
Jim Tatum announced this
week. Mr. Cheek is the son
!of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin
Cheek, who reside near here
On the Greensboro highway.
Mr. Cheek, who has been
'an assistant to Mr. Tatum
at the University of Mary
| land, is a graduate of Chapel
Hill High School and the
j University here. He played
guard under Mr. Tatum when
he coached the University
freshmen and later as a var
sitv man under Carl Snave-
Mr. ( heek obtained his
master’s degree in physical
jeducation at the University
in 1950, and was football
line coach and baseball coach,
at Guilford College in 1949
and 1950. One of his prin
cipal Johs at Maryland was
scouting, and he also dou
bled as a physical education
instructor.
Another assistant coach
employed by Mr. Tatum this]
week was Edsel Kensler.i
who also was an assistant;
at Maryland. A Kansan, he;
is a Maryland alumnus and!
former assistant coach at!
| Washington & Lee and Vir-I
jginia Military Institute.
Ritchie Will Head
Red Cross Drive
H. K. Ritchie has been appoint
ed chairman of Chapel Hill's H)sti
Red Cross fund campaign, which
will be held in the first week
in March. The annopneement of
his acceptance of the chairman
ship says:
“Mr. Ritchie has long been
interested in the Red Cross,'and
was. chairnian of the University
.campus division of the 11)54 cam
; paign. The Chapel Hill Chapter
|is most fortunate in securing
his services for the coming
drive.”
Mr. Ritchie was graduated
!from the University in 11*33 and,
for twenty years has been'gen
oral manager of the University’s
retail stores,’ including the Hook
Exchange. He is a member of
the Chapel Hill Rotary Club,
of which he is now program
chairman; an active member of
the (hapei Hill baptist Church,
at present serving on its finance
committee, and is interested in
school and civic affairs in the
community. His hobby is garden
ing and farming. He owns and
operates a farm near Chapel
| Hill in ( Chatham ( bounty
Garretts to. He Here
Mr. and Mrs. Allen M. Gar
rett and their three sons, Allen!
Jr., Jim, and Toni, will arrive
tomorrow from Silver Spring,
Md., ’for a week’s visit to Mrs
Garrett’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
William H Jones. Mr. Garrett;
is on the faculty of the music
i department of Catholic IJniver
sity, Washington, I>. C.
‘Numerous Complaints,* Says Scheidt
Chapel Hill Merchants Feel, Somehow, They Were Tricked
By a Journal Which Wasn f t What It Was Cracked Up to Be
Ky Chuck Ilnuser
Chapel Hill merchants felt, somehow,
that they had heen tricked.
They had heen persuaded to place
advertisements in a publication called
“The I,aw Enforcement Journal,” print
ed in Durham. The Journal was putting
out a special Chapel Hill edition, its rep
resentatives had said. They urged that
all Chapel Hill businesses take ads to
show they were supporting their local
l>olice department.
Charlie Johnston, at the Hi-Way Ser
vice“STatTorTin CarrFbfd. said he got a
little different line. A preliminary phone
call to his place of business, he said, had
involved some mention of the Institute
of Government. He assumed the Insti
tute was backing the publication, and
agreed to place an advertisement.
Ray Jolly, who supervises advertising
for Harriss-Conners Chevrolet, Inc., said
the Journal people had called him from
the Town Hall. He assumed they were
connected with the local police depart
ment in some way, and he went along
Chapel Mill Chad
L.G.,
When 1 was with somej
newspapermen not long ago
we were talking about what;
a lucky break it was fori
Sam Summerlin that he
learned Spanish when he j
was a boy in Mexico. He
would have been on the way
up the Associated Press lad
der anyway after his no-!
table performance as a war!
correspondent in Korea, but;
his knowing how to read,
speak, and understand Span
ish led to his being sent
to Havana, with all the Car
ibbean a> his territory, ’and
then to his being assigned
to his present post at the
head of the A. P. bureau
in Buenos Aires.
Another Chapel Hill boy
named Sam who got a fine
job thmugh knowing Span
ish is Samuel Huntington
Hobbs. ;ird, the Burlington,
j Mills* vice president and
; sales manager in Mexico.
He learned .the language in
the University here. And
now there’s another Chapel
Hill Sam who is not old
enough to have a .job yet
but will probably find his
j knowledge of Spanish val
| uable in due time: 6-vear
|old Sam ue 1 Huntington
Hobbs, 4th. He is not a
jChapel Hillian by birth, hav
ing been born in Mexico,
but we consider that he be
longs to us because of his
family connections.
There are four Hobbses
with the same full name.
Every one is known to his
family and friends not by
the first name I have used
here but by a fraction of
the middle name, Hunt,
i The eldest, after-, having
lived in Clinton 78 years,
is now living in Raleigh.
At 85 he is vigorous and
alert and impresses all ob
servers by his enjoyment
of life.
His son, Hunt, Jr., was
graduated from the Univer
sity in 1916; entered the
(Continued on Huge I)
Aspiring Owners of
Ford Stock Happy
( hapei (Lilians who wanted to
buy the new Ford Motor Com
pany stock which went on the
market this week weren’t dis
appointed. There was more than
enough available locally to meet
the demand.
That’s the word from Carl
Smith, Chapel Hill representa
tive of Harris, Upham and Com
pany, Durham stock brokers.
“Most people interested in the
Ford stock were new investors,”
said Mr. Smith. "They were
either making their first stock
! purchase or were people who
own stocks hut are not normally
active in the market.”
Mr. Smith' said he was not
permitted to say how many
shares of the Ford stock were
sold locally.
with the thing.
What happened at the police depart
ment is relatively easy to understand.
Representatives of the Journal, which
is connected with no law enforcement
officers’ association or group of any
kind, had walked into the office with a
flattering tale of how they were go
ing to “write up” the local police de
partment. This seemed like a nice soci-
thing to do, so the police said that
was fine, and they had no objections.
Mrs. Jane Whitefield, executive sec
retary of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Mer
chants Association, said when the group
applied for permission to solicit adver
tising in the village, she assumed they
were connected'with a state law enforce
ment officers’ association. The merchant
committee on solicitations, with one
negative vote, approved the organiza
tion’s activities.
Then “The Law Enforcement Jour
nal” came outr This was late last week.
(CentUMMtf on gag* •)
Mayor Cornwell Is Placed on Spot
Again as He Breaks Vote Deadlock
And Scuttles Ridgefield Annexation
By Chuck Hauser
The Board of Aldermen managed to put Mayor Oliver
Tuesday night as it deadlocked with a 3-3 vote over th
Ridgefield area on the east end of town.
The mayor voted a firm no and killed the hopes of t
Alert Victory Village Man Averts a
Possible Tragedy: Inspection Slated
Harry Johnson, who lives in Victory Village, the L’niver
sity's housing, project on the south edge of the campus, was
walking home from work at Memorial Hospital at 12:30 <
Wednesday morning when he smelled smoke. *■ >J
"I knew that was a strange smell for around here,” he
j said. “Especially at that time of night.”
Mr. Johnson glanced up and down the rows of housing units,
i Through the window of one, he saw flames. He pounded on
the door und woke up Mr. and Mrs. Neill McMillan, who were .
i fast asleep and hadn't noticed the smoke in their house.
M. t . Rawls, a neighbor, heard the shouting and came on
the run with a huge hand fire extinguisher He turned it
| on the flames which came from the walls and ceiling beside
the McMillans’ hot water heater. The fire department ar
rived a few minutes later and completed the job.
I’ 1 Burch, superintendent of Victory Village, said the
damage would amount to only SSO to SIOO. He. said the cause
ot the fne was believed to be a stopped-up chimney pipe on
the oil-fed hot water heater.
Mr Burch said the pipes are cleaned each summer, but some
of the heaters produce more soot than others and can become
fire hazards. Following a conference with hire Chief J S. I
Boone Wednesday, Mr. Burch announced that Chief Boone would
assign one of his experienced men to make a methodical fire
inspection throughout Victory Village, probably starting next
week.
'“We've been awfully lucky out here,'’ said Mr. Burch. „
“and we don’t want to take any chances.”
U-Shaped Dormitories with Four-Room
Units to be Constructed at University
Architect’s plans for new dor-;
| ntitories—different from any now
on the campus—were approved
Iby the Building Committee of
: the University Trustees here
Wednesday, and construction bids
will be asked in about 30 days.
The new dormitories will be
U-shaped with porches and bal
conies on the outside to replace
corridors and halts. The porches
and balconies will empty Into
four-room units, and each group
of four rooms will have a bath.
Hroposed by George Watts
Carr, Durham architect, the new
design is said to be quieter and
| to offer more privacy and great-
31st Annual Midwinter Press Institute
Is Going on; Inn Crowded With Writers
The 31st annual Midwinter In
stitute of the N. C. Hress As
sociation opened here yester!
day (Thursday) with upwards;
of 250 newspaper men and wom
en from throughout North Car
olina in attendance.
An informal reception honor
ing Governor and Mrs. Luther
and 1055 award win
ners opened the meeting.
NCFA President Leslie Thomp
son of Whiteville will preside
at the sessions.
The annual NCFA. Awards
were presented .last night by
Governor Hodges at Carroll Hall.
Acting University President J.
Harris Purks welcomed the dele
gates and a response was given
by Dante Gernuno of Durham,
vice-president of the NCFA.
Governor Hodges was presented
by K. A. Kesch of Siler City,
former president of the- NCFA.
This program was carried over
the UNC television station,
$4 a Year in County; other rates on page 2
| er comfort. In addition, all room;
furniture will be built in.
The new dormitoriej will over-j
look Navy field and will be ac-l
feasible byway of a road by |
( W’oollen Gym.
Also approved Wednesday were
plans for an addition to Spencer {
dormitory'to house an additional
70 to I*o coeds. The men’s dor
mitories will accomodate approxi
mately 700 additional students.
Construction will be financed
through a loan of $2,000,000 to
be repaid from surplus to be re-,
ceived from a s3o increase in j
dormitory rent per person, which'
went into effect this year.
WUNC-TV, Channel 4.
At 10 a.in. Friday morning
representatives of . daily news
papers will meet at Room 211
Gardner Hall. Representatives of
non-daily papers will meet in
Room 2, Carroll Hall Walter
Spearman of the UNC School of
Journalism will meet with mem
bers of the non-daily papers to.
discuss how winners in that di-j
vision were selected.
Also, at 10 a.in., Mrs. N. N.|
Luxon, wife of Dean Luxon of;
the School of Journalism, will;
have the" wives of the delegates
at her home for u reception.
The University will give a;
luncheon for all members of the!
NCFA and their wives at 12:30,
p.m. Friday at the Carolina Inn.j
Chancellor R. H. House will pre-!
side and a reading, “A Salute,
to the American Press,” will be
given by Richard Burdick of the
UNC Motion Picture Division.
At 2.15 p.m. James S. Currie,
executive secretary of the Com
mission for the Study of the
Revenue Structure of N. C., will
speak on “The Revenue Struc
ture of N. C”
At 4 p.m. there wilt be a
nee ting of the Journalism Foun
iation in the Carolina Inn Club
Room.
The annual dinner at Duke
Jniversily will be held at 7 p.m.
vtth Senator Albert Gore (D-
Cenn) as the principal speaker.
He will be introduced by Senator
Sam J Ervin Jr. (D-N.C.)
Others on this program will
be Hollis Edens, president
at Duke University; Leslie
Thompson, president of the NC
FA; A. S. Brower, business man
ager and * comptroller of Duke,
ind J. Foster Burnes, who will
iirect a musical program by
nembers’ of the Duke Glee Club.
The Fast Presidents’ Break
fast will be held Saturday at
L3O a.m. at the Carolina Inn.
Holt McPherson of High Point,
immediate past president, will
preside. D. Hiden Ramsey of
Asheville will give an address
zn “The Croaking of a Retired
Raven on a Withered Branch."
A 10 a.m. business session will
bring the three-day meeting to
a close.
Preceding the institute was a
‘luncheon at the Inn yesterday
for the N. C. Associated Press
Club.
FRIDAY
ISSUE
Next Issue Tuesday
Cornwell on the spot again
le question of annexing the
**
the Ridgefield developers to
‘bring their new area within
the town limits before it is
constructed and inhabited.
In another action, the
aldermen called a public
hearing fur February 27 at
7:30 p.m. to consider the
proposed annexation of a
large 810-acre area east of
the present town. limits
which would include Ridge
field. The area also takes
in Glen Lennox. Greenwood.
Oakwood and Rogerson
Drives, and the Country
Club-Laurel Hill Road area.
The portion of the meet
ing in which the Ridgefield
question was settled took
exactly 20 minu'tes. The de
cision on the matter had
(been postponed from last
week, when Mayor Cornwell
was absent from the regular
ity scheduled January 0 meet
ing.
The mayor was ready to
move to a vote almost as
; soon as the meeting got un
der way. However, lawyer
William Stewart, represent
ing the Ridgefield develop
ers, said he had "one furth
er argument" which had not
been covered in previous dis
cussions of the issue.
"It has been suggested,"
said Mr. Stewart, “that the
annexation of the Ridge
field development might be
in some way a coercion of
the University m regard to
the water system. I wish to
point out that the Univer
jsity is always alert to pro
tect its interests, and in
(spite of the fact that this
matter has been well pub
licized, the University has
in no way protested this ac
tion, even though it is w'ell
aware of the proposal.”
(Continued on page 12)
Overhead Channel
Signs Purchased
Town Manager Thomas Hose
said yesterday he has purchased
from Durham 20 overhead street
I channel markers, and the Uni
! versity may begin installing
I them for the town today. The
joverhead markers were recom
mended by traffic expert W. F.
} Babcock, who last summer com-
| pleted a traffic study for Chapel
Hill.
| The new markers will accom
| plish the same purpose as the
|arrows which are now painted
lon the streets, but will be much
'easier to see. They are made of
! aluminum, and are 24 inches
square. Each sign must be
anchored to two wires to keep
it from flapping in the breeze.
In ail, from 45 to 50 markers
will be needed before the project
is completed. The 20 markers
purchased this week will be
placed at the following inter
sections:
1. Franklin and Columbia
Streets (eight markers).
2. Cameron Avenue and North
Columbia Street (two).
3. The traffic triangle near
Whitehead Dormitory (six).
4. Rosemary and South Col
umbia Streets (four).
At Memorial Hospital
Among local persons listed as
patients at Memorial Hospital
yesterday were Edwin Atkins,
A. D. Barnes, J. K. Bell, Aiice
Brown, Estella Council, Edward
Davis, Mrs. Edward Davis, Mrs.
Fletcher Green, W. D. Harrell,
Miss Catherine Henley, Mrs.
Robert Hux, Grover Jackson,
arid Darnell Thompson.
Chapel J4illnotei
i “Br’er Rabbit" Jim Tatum
1 renting the W. M. Prince raai
’ dence in the Greenwood “briar
[ patch.”,
.*• • ,
In the peat office, patrons
i moaning aa they withdraw
’ State of North Carolina tn
i come tax blanks from their.'
braes. f