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. JW SiST*’ l ~- /?:T.-. < JtaHßßn yv>yad»MliWSv: :>: ft WtLiff Sbk. Photos by M A Quillen 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