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FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday Vol. 34 No. 8 Like the Man Who Came to Dinner, the Snow Arrived at Supper Time and Decided to Stay Like “The Man Who Came to Dinner," Chapel Hill’s first 1956 snowfall ar rived at suppertime on Monday evening and decided to stick around a while. It had been raining spasmodically during the day Monday. At the University Filtration Plant, Superintendent Max Saunders recorded .36 inches of rain from 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon to _____ 5 o’clock Monday afternoon. At just alMUit the time Mr. Saunders was taking his Monday reading, the rain turned to sleet which rattled down on Chapel Hill's wet sidewalks for a good portion of the next hour. Then, just as villagers were beginning to sit down to supper, the snow began. It snowed and it snowed and it snowed. Sometimes it stopped, for a while, then resumed. When Chaj>el Hill went to sleep for the night, it was snowing. When the town woke up the next morning, the snow was still sifting down, through the naked branches of the vil lage trees. The snow finally quit a bout the middle of the morn-' ing. Mr. Saunders picked up a ruler, went outside, and tiK)k several readings in flat areas. The snow on the ground measured three inch es. More than that had fal len, but some of it had melt ed as it hit the ground ear ly Monday evening before the temperature slipped be low freezing. C. W. Davis, suj>erintend ont of schools for the Chapel Hill district, ordered classes suspended at the Chapel Hill High School, the Elemen tary School, Glenwood School, Lincoln High School, and Northside School. Near by Carrboro and White Cross schools, part of the county system, were also ordered closed for the day. University students and faculty members who live outside of town slipped and (Continued on page 12) Monte Milner Is to Become an Eagle Scout at Ceremony This Sunday Night The Boy Scouts of Orange will stage their first 1950 Quarterly Court of Honor at 5 p. rn. Sunday, January 29, in the Morehead Planetarium under the direction of Tony Jenzano. Monte Milner, member of Troop 9 sponsored by the Lay men’s League of the Chapel of the Cross, will be awarded the Kagle rank in a ceremony which will climax awards to Scouts in the various troops throughout the county. The unique ceremony planned will involve the use of the stars as guideposts. Kach troop is ex pected to attend as a unit. This will be the first in a series of four district Courts of Honor for the Chapel Hill and Orange County Scouts. Prof. Kueben Hill will stage the next ceremony, which is scheduled for the fifth Sunday evening in April. The Court is a function of the district advancement committee headed by Dick Dorman. Vernon Crook, Jesse Dedmond, Jesse Knight, Herman Preslar, and Howard Williams are committee I members. Mr. Donnan has re ported that in 1955 nine of the Tax Filing Deadline January 21 is the deadline for employers in commerce and in dustry and certain housewives to file their quarterly social security tax returns on their employees who worked during October, November, and Decem ber of 1955. Reports must be filed with the Director of In ternal Revenue at Greensboro. Saturday School Chapel Hill school children, ears glued to radio sets Tues day morning, greeted with glee the broadcast announce ments that all local schools would be closed because of the k heavy snow. By Wednesday, however, the glee had faded. Superintendent C. W. Davis announced that all Chapel Hill schools would make up the lost day tomorrow (Saturdayholding classes on a regular week-day sched ule. Carrboro and W'hite Cross schools planned to hold classes oii Saturday, also. • ... m Photo by Chuck Hauser Workmen use shovels to clear the sidewalks of snow and ice in the East Franklin Street business district following Monday night’s heavy snow. Big Time Sports , Press Freedom Are Involved in a Bubbling Student Dispute A student political fight, con cerning Big Time athletics and freedom of speech, boiled over on the University campus and spilled into the state press during the past week. The latest development in the fight was an official announce ment by Don Fowler, president of the student body, that the co editors of the Daily Tar Heel— Ed Yoder and Louis Kraar— must stand a recall election about two weeks after the spring se mester begins next Wednesday. Some views of the co-editors had long disturbed the student body. The biggest complaint the students had agi&prt the cam pus newspaper was its condem nation of Big Time athletics. However, Mr, Yoder and Mr. Kraar never claimed to he rep resenting the popular view. They said they were elected to the job to express their own convictions 59 Kagle scouts in the 10-eount’y Occoneechee Council were from Orange County, anil seven of those were from Troop 39 of Chapel Hill. Parents are especially urged to attend this colorful ceremony which recognizes Scouts for their achievements. The ceremony is u public function and there will be no admission charged. Tatum’s Contract ! Wasn’t a Secret University Chancellor Robert B. House told critics this week that football coach Jim Tatum’s contract terms were never in tended to be a secret it was just that no one bud asked for them before. That is, no one had asked except a representative of Time Magazine on January 13. The University News Bureau at that time obligingly reported the .errns: Five years, at 1(15,000 a year, “renewable after five years if mutually satisfactory,” in the words of the Chancellor. Mr. .louse added, "There is no mone .ary, tenure, or other agreement with Mr. Tatum outside this simple agreement.” Mr. H ouse also made official! his week the announcement of Kddie Teague as another Tatum assistant. He joins Emmett Cheek uid Ed Kensler on the coaching staff. Mr. Teague has been an as-| sistarit to Coach Tatum at Mary-j land, since 1952. He is a Marine (veteran of the Korean War, and formerly played football both here and at N. C. State College. He received his‘master’s degree here in 1947 following a three year hitch in the Marines, and then went to GuilfoVd College where he served as a coach and athletic director prior to his second tour of duty with the Marines. Greenwood Coffee Club Mrs. J. C. D. Blaine and Mrs. William Cherry will entertain , the Greenwood Coffee Club at 8 p.m. Tuesday,, January 31, at Mrs. Blaine’s home on Greenwood Road. Mrs. Blaine will show colored slides taken during her trip to Puerto Rico and other islands in the Carribbean Sea. The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents a Copy honestly and frankly. Some students thought the ed itors had gone too far when they editorially deplored the hiring of head football coach Jim Tatum as the final step toward full scale “professionalism” in ath letics at Chapel Hill. At least one E. L. Nance, decided t ,about it. Operating under consti tutional procedure, he circulated a petition for a recall election. He secured the signatures of more than the necessary 10 per cent of the student body, and turned the petition over to the president, who announced that the election would he held in Feb ruary. Meanwhile Coach Tatum wrote Mr. Fowler and asked him to block the election “in the best interests of traditional University freedom.” Said Mr. Tatum, “I believe implicitly in freedom of expression and practice it about ns much as any man alive.” Chancellor Robert B. House jumped into the picture and said that while he would not interfere in a student matter, he felt such an election would he “a very foolish thing,” anil he thought the student body would retain the present co-editors. About this time the daily newspapers of the state became interested in the fight. Excerpts from their comments follow: Raleigh New* and Observe! : "Maybe such an electftfn will serve a good purpose, The issue in it, of course,' will not lie mere ly firing editors left .vhether or not Carolina is a college in which freedom of editorial opinion is tolerated. At this point in the University’s story, it would he well to have that clear. Caro lina’s sprawling growth at this moment is a good deal more ob vious than the devotion to free dom which prevailed on that campus before the bulldozers and the builders arrived—long before Tatum came.” Durham Morning Herald: “At this point it should he said that the opportunity to recall student officers is as integral a part of the democratic system as free dom of expression. It is just— and democratic- to provide away for the student body to remove officials. But to seek their re moval because a group happens to disagree with their expressed opinion seeks to mold opinion in to a force to compel conformity and to silence dissent. Such a force I* killing to a democracy." The Greensboro Daily News lauded Coach Tatum’s statement (Continued on page 12) .JfS HII- -Jll H ■ . Isl 3 v# -. \y 181 /.v. . ! '- _. ■•' * '■ '/ fj * > ■', / - T/Wj.', '’ yZ&tf&fctjSyA 4?%%zjrxi£mtiffiXß3!&k * H|HB «1 & JKBb£%«22L A : PMS Inggi kiamj jSSisis 1 >,■. is''* r ’ *4%'js * WsMmm In tfie picture at left. All-Atlantic Coast Conference end Will Frye (left) ia being handed a watch by former Coach George Barclay. In the second picture, the persona standing in the ehow line facing the earners are. left to right, Barge Keller, Dr. CHAPEL HILL, N. C.. FRIDAY. JANUARY 27. 1956 George Barclay to Purchase Service Station Enterprise George Barclay, former University football coach, has given up coaching in favor of settling down in business in Chapel Hill. Mr. Barclay told the Week ly yesterday that he had nearly completed arrange ments to purchase Odis Pendergraft’s Texaco ser vice station at the main downtown intersection on the corner of East Franklin and South Columbia Streets. “I hope to be able to take over by February*!," he said yesterday. Meanwhile, Mr. Pender graft said he hadn’t vet de cided what his plans were. "I have several projects in mind,” he said, “and I de finitely hope to remain in business in Chapel Hill.” Mr. Barclay spent three years as head football coach at the University. His con tract expired at the end of the past season, and he was replaced by Jim Tatum, former head coach and ath letic director at the Univer sity of Maryland. Road Block to Be Set Up Tomorrow The Jaycees’ annual road block for the March of Dimes will be set up tomorrow (Saturday) on West Franklin Street in front of the Poe Motor Company. Manned by public-spirited young men who arc members of the Jaycees, it will be in operation from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. As in former years, motorists will be asked to stop and con tribute to the March qf Dimes, the nation’s most potent weapon in its battle against polio. About S4BO was collected at the road, block last year. Roy Martin and Don Stanford are co-chairmen of the project this year. Girl Scout Cookie Sale Begins Today The Girl Scouts’ annual cookie Hale will begin today (Friday) and continue a week. Members of the various troops will make a door-to-door canvass during! the drive and will also self boxesj of cookies on the street in the! business district. Proceeds of the sale will be used to provide' camping equipment for all (iirl Scouts in the community. The sale is being directed by' Mrs. Marty McGuire, with the assistance of group captains m the various neighborhoods throughout town. She asks that everybody buy as many cookies as they can use. Football TVam FiiJovn a liar homo About 251) people were on hand to eat barbecued steer Monday night in the Tin Can at a supper given for the University football team by the Chapel Hill Ath letic Club. They included the players and coaches, .University officials and faculty members, former University athletic stars, and members of the Club arid their guests. Coach Jim Tatum spoke, making his first public appearance here since he was signed up this month as the Uni versity's new football coach. Chancellor R. B. House pro nounced the invocation and in troduced other officials of the University. E. Carrington Smith, president of the Chapel Hill Ath letic Club, made a short speech of welcome addressed to every body at the supper and then Chapel Mill Cha/( L.G. A remarkable parallel be- I tween a scene immediately _ before the eye and a scene described in a poem came ’ to the mind of Walter Eaton 1 at our house one day last 1 week. Amanda Kay Kvser, the beautiful three-vear-old ' daughter of Mr. and Mrs. |Kav Ky-er, came in and be 'lgan to play with our globe, ’ja Christmas gift from my 'j nephew, Pembroke Rees, 1 mounted on a table in the 1 corner of the room. She 1 stood and looked at it, fas • cinated by the varied bright ‘ colors of the world’s lands and waters, and then she patted it and revolved it ‘ on its axis. Mr. Eaton asked me if • I had Palgrave’s “Golden 1 Treasury,” the famous an ' thology of lyric poems. 1 1 said yes and brought him what 1 thought was all of ? Palgrave. But it wasn’t. It i was a reprint of the first, -edition published in the 18- f 50’s, and did not contain 5 what In* wanted to see. The . next day I got a letter from - him saying he had been to - the University Library and had found in the complete Palgrave, a later edition than mine, the poem that “I was pleasantly reminded r of when your small neigh ( bor and your globe were in , close proximity.” i The poem, a charming san s cy indeed, appears on the 1 next page. The man who 1 wrote it was the older broth | er of Alfred Tennyson. The explanation of the name, , Tennyson-Turner is that he - added Turner because of an , inheritance he received from 1 ar> i„ide of that name. I j, learn from Edmund Gosse’s ‘ article on Alfred Tennyson I in the Encyclopedia Britan : nica that his brother Charles "published four volumes of sonnets which have been highly praised.” These facts are no doubt (Continued on Page 2) Dining Itoom Staying Open The Monogram Club Dining ' Room, which is open to the pub- j lit-, will remath open every day jbetween the University’s fall se mester, which ends today, and it he spring semester, which will j begin Wednesday. Its serving hours are from 12 noon to 2 p.m. for lunch and from 5:20 to 7:20 I p.m. for dinner. | Mrs. Hogan Improving Mrs. M. K. Hogan, who has been in Watts Hospital two or three weeks, is improving and hopes to come home this week end. I presented trophies to the gradu jating members of the football ■ j team. i Chuck Erickson, the Univer jsity’s director of athletics, intro duced each one of the players by name and introduced Coach ’ Tatum prior to his speech. Jake j Wade, the University’s sports | publicist, introduced members of (press, radio, and television sports stuffs. : George Barclay, Mr. Tatum’s predecessor as coach, presented watches to the graduating mem bers of the team It was an . nounced that Will Frye had been , selected by the players as the most valuable member of the i team, and he received the “Most Valuable Player" award. This i (Continued on page 10) Norman Bowles and B. W. Harris Jr. of Durham, and football end Paul Pulley. The scene ia the University ’Tin Can” and the event is the football barbecue staged by the Chapel Hill Athletic Club. ~ ' •John Manning and Ed Hamlin Enter The Campaign for the Senate Seat For Orange and Alamance Counties A lot of rumor and speculation about the Orange-Alamance seat in the State Sen ate died out yesterday as two Orange County men officially announced they would seek the office in the spring Democratic primary. They are Chapel Hill attorney With Remus Smith Stewart Named Go-Chairman of Bond Election Unit; Vote Set for March 27 William S. Stewart, judge of ( hapel Hill Recorder's Court, and Remus .J. Smith Sr. of' Hillsboro have been named co-chairmen of a 40-member steering committee to organize a campaign in favor of Orange County’s proposed two million dollar school bond issue. The Chapel Hill district and county school boards named the co-chairmen, as they had the members of the steering group. The election on the bond issue has been scheduled for March 27, which is one week later than originally planned. The change resulted from legal requirements affecting the New York bond at torneys handling the issue. The county commissioners had called the election for March 20, but consultation with the bond attorneys revealed that that date did not provide sufficient time for publication of legal notices Building and Loan Stockholders Told Os Flourishing Business Last Year; Miles Fitch Is Elected a Director In their reports to the annual meeting of the Orange County Building and Loan Association’s stockholders Monday night J. S. Bennett, president, and W. O. Sparrow, executive secretary, told of extraordinarily flourish ing business in the year 1955. Miles M. Fitch was elected a new member of the board of di rectors, raising the membership to nine. The eight members of last year’s board were re-elected. At the directors’ meeting that followed that of the stockholders J. S. Bennett was re-elected pres ident, W. (). Sparrow executive secretary, and ■ Douglas Fam hrough assistant executive secre tary. Important facts given in Mr. Bennett’s report were as fol lows : The interest rate on savings deposits and paid-up stock was raised from 3to 3Vi per cent. This raise went into effect Jan uary 1, 195*!. The interest rate paid by borrowers remains at 5 per cent. Loans in force December 31, 1955 amounted to $2,800,000, an increase of $011,900 since De cember 31, 1951. Assets increased $070,000 from $2,121,000 to $3,100,000. Dividends to stockholders and savings depositors increased from $02,000 to $87,000. The number of stockholders is now 1,493, as compared to 1,055 a year ago. Loans made during the year: for construction, 09; for the pur chase of homes, 45; for refinanc ing homes, 27; for other pur poses, 17. Total loans, 158. Amount of loans, $945,000, an average of a little less than $6,000. Number of mortgage loans held at end of year, 459; number of stock loans, 32. Total, 491. Mr. Bennett paid a tribute to Mr. Sparrow and his assistant, Attend Furniture Market Bernice Ward and Moyle John son were in High Point three days this week attending the Furniture Market. They returned yesterday. $4 a Year in County; other rates on page 2 and other requirements attendant upon such a bond issue. Orange County citizens may file objections to the proposed issue anytime during the 10 days beginning yesterday. The com missioners will consider such ob jections in determining whether a public hearing will be held on the matter. . Registration'books will be open from March 2 through March 17. March 24 has been announced as challenge day. A large number of members of the steering group and many school officials from all parts of the county struggled through Monday night's snow to attend the campaign organizational meeting. Promotional strategy and financing plans were dis cussed at the gathering. Committees are expected to be announced soon to handle fi nance, publicity, speakers, or ganization and other activities. Mr. Fambrough, for their excel lent performance “in handling the work of the association ac curately and promptly and meet ing all local needs as well as the requirements of the two organisa tione that supervise our .uaiutg*- ment, the State Insurance !>•- partment and the Federal Home Loan Bank.’’ In conclusion Mr. Bennett said: “\our association is in ex cellent financial condition, with adequate personnel, quarters, and equipment to handle the needs of the community .” Public Forum on Home-Building to Be Held at 10 O’Clock Tuesday Morning Several prominent North Caro ! lina architects will speak here j Tuesday morning, January 31, lin a public Architectural Forum | to he held in the University Lib rary’s assembly room by the t ha pel Hill Art Guild. To begin at 19 a.m., it will he open to everybody, without ehurge. Cof fee will he served. An announcement says that the forum will he of special interest to prospective home builders and to all who went on the Chapel Hill tour of con temporary homes sponsored by the Art Guild. Boh Gladstone of the Univer sity’s Department of City ami Regional Planning will he the moderator of the forum panel, to be composed of Charles Haynes of Durham, James Webb and Ted Tillman of Chapel Hill, Art Society Roster Reaches New Peak Membership in the North Car olina Art Society has reached a new high of 1,028, it Is reported by Miss Emily Pollard, chairman of the Society’s membership drive in Chapel Hill and the rest of Orange County. Miss Pollard said that a lead ing role in the organization’s in crease has been played by Chapel Hill, which has more than trebled its membership within the last few weeks. She urges everybody who is interested in art and the mew State Art Museum in Raleigh to join the Society. Membership dues are as fol lows: Annual, $2; contributor, $5; patron, sl9; life, $lO9. (hecks may he sent to Miss Pollard here in Chapel Hill or to The North Carolina Art Society’ in Raleigh. To Atlend Chicago Meeting Dr. R. Beverly Raney, profes sor of surgery at the Universi ty’s Medical School, will he in Chicago this weekend for a meet ing of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery. Dr. Raney, who is chairman of the Acad emy’s instructional course com mittee, is the director of ortho paedic surgery at the University. FRIDAY ISSUE Next fame Tuesday ’John Manning and Hillsboro newspaper publisher Ed Hamlin. Meanwhile, the names of at least two other persons were being mentioned as possible candidates. Both of the m —attorney , John Le- Grand of Chapel Hill and merchant R. 0. Forrest ol Hillsboro indicated they were considering ehtering the race. The Senate seat rotates between Orange and Ala mance Counties: Alamance has the seat for six years, then Orange for four. The iseat has been held for the ! past six years by present [senator Ralph Scott, brother [of U. S. Senator Kerr Scott. Prior to that it was occupied by Jim Webb of Hillsboro, who has since moved to Greensboro. In the spring primary, on ly Orange County voters will cast ballots on the Dem ocratic candidate. In the fall general election, voters from Orange and Alamance will get a chance to select the new member of the Senate. Mr. Manning is a former judge of the Chapel Hill Re corder’s Court and a former president of the Chapel Hill Parent-Teachers Association. Mr. Hamlin, editor of both the News of Orange County and the Alamance News and business manager of the Chapel Hill News ' e ider, has served as chairtnan of the Orange County Board of Elections for the past six years. He is a former presi dent of the Hiftsboro Mer chants Association. Mr. Hamlin made the fol (Continued on page 12) and Edward Waught of Raleigh. The maintenance of art in struction in the Chapel Hill pub- I lie schools is the chief purpose .of the Art Guild, which has a | membership fee of one dollar a year. Mrs. Cornelius Lansing is president of the Guild. She invites everybody to come to Tuesday morning’s forum and learn the why and wherefores of modern home-building. | " ! Wildcats Knocked To Fifth Position Chapel Hill High School slip ped to fifth place in the Class AA District Three high school basketball standings here Mon day evening us a fired-up Hen derson team crushed the local Wildcats by a lopsided score of 74-44. Henderson scored its eighth straight conference victory in the game to cushion its hold on the league lead. John Dosher was the only Chapel Hillian to score over 10 points as he poured 21 points through hoop. The Wildcats were playing without the services of three of their regular starters—high scor er Jim Neville and co-captains Clyde Campbell and Gordon Blackwell. In the preliminary girls’ game, the Henderson team defeated Chapel Hill by 42-28. Exanta to End Today Final examinations for the Uni versity’s full semester began last Weekend and will end today. Spring semester classes will be gin Wednesday, February 1. Chapel Jllllnote i l’leasant experience: Meet ing Mrs. Pat Snook walking down street holding Chapel Hill Weekly over her head to keep the rain off, and saying, gay as ever: "I tell you, television will never take the place of newspapers.’’ - ♦ * • Rural family in horse-drawn wagon pulling up to launder ette to pick up their freahly washed bundle.