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TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday Vol. 34, No. 9 Two Candidates in Senate Race 11 f ■l'll. jfjvHgigi. ' w John Manning (left). Chapel Hill attorney, and Ed Hamlin, Hillsboro newspaper publisher, are the first two candidates to formally announce for the vacant Orange-Alamance seat in the State Senate. Political observers predict a heated campaign, with a much larger-field expected than just the two men who have jumped into the race so far. Operation of Local Schools Is Being Studied by Interracial Fellowship Studies in the operation of the local School Board under cur-, rent state education laws and ore the effects of desegregation on t .school costs were launched here. Thursday evening at a meetingj of the Chapel Hill Interracial | Fellowship for. the Schools. The, group also decided to begin plans j for interracial work with chil dren and young people’s groups, and to publish a monthly bulletin to report these activities and to summarize news of progress to wards integration elsewhere in North Carolina and the South. Jhese projects were adopted after the meeting, under thej chairmanship of Dr. (ieorge Pen iek, had separated into four dis cussion groups, topics being Effects of Desegregation on School Costs, with Dr. Edwin I Hiatt as chairman; Problems, of| the Local School Boarii Under j Desegregation, with Mrs. Frederic Cleaveland as chairman; Work with Children and Young People, with Mrs. J. E. Adams as chair man; and Public Information, with Mrs. Mary Nies as chair man. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Joseph Philips, assisted by j Mrs. Bessie Edwards, while re ports from the discusion groups were heard. Other business in- Wildcats to Play Two Lames Away Now in fourth place in Class A A District Three conference, Chapel Hill High School’s bas ketball team takes on. both Ox ford and Hillsboro High Schools this week Neither of the games, to be Tuesday and Friday nights respectively, will be played here. The Wildcats apparently re covered from a siege of injuries that caused them to drop three games in a row. Last Friday oight they defeated Graharii with Cordon Neville back in the line up and scoring 17 points. < oach Bob Culton has a strong team when not beset by injuries, and maybe the Wildcats can advance in the standings this* week. They have beaten both Oxford and Hillsboro in earlier games. in last Friday night’s game against Graham, the Wildcats returned to the victory column with a r>G-4D victory. In addi tion to Neville’s 17 points, Jim Dosher and Merle Teague, both starters, followed up with 15 and 10 points, respectively. In the preliminary game, the Graham girls captured a 51-JO win over the Chapel Hill girls team. Pat Preston Hired As Grid Assistant Pat Preston, former athletic director at Wake Forest College, has been hired as assistant foot ball coach at the University. He is regarded as one of the all time great linemen at both Duke and Wake Forest College. Mr. Preston is the fourth as sistant to be named to Coach Jim Tatum’s staff. The other; three, Ed Kensler, Emmett Cheek, 1 and Eddie Teague were all Tat um assistants at Maryland. Mr. Tatum said he will hire one more varsity assistant. Spec-j ulation is that it will be Felix 1 (Doc) Blanchard, a cousin of Mr.: Tatum and former great Army All-American fullback. Meantime, the University of South Carolina announced it had employed Ralph Floyd, fresh man coach here for the past two years. Marvin Bass, another for mer aide here, was employed by the Gamecocks several weeks ago. W . '• ■E&y' Ji % i ■ ■ Wb JL *' ■> Jj& eluded the appointment by Dr. Penick of a nominating commit tee to select candidates for a chairman to succeed him. Mem bers of this committee are the Rev. Clarence Parker, chairman; Mrs. Robert Bunting, and Dr. Walter Hollander. The group meets the last Thursday in 'each month. Legion Post to Receive Honors The Chapel Hill Post of the American Legion will be present ed with a special Certificate of Distinguished Service at a meet ing tomorrow (Wednesday) night at 8 o'clock at the Legion Hut here. Jake Nurkin of Durham, chair man of the state and national membership and post activities committee, will make the pre sentation. The local post is being honored for re-enrolling a 11(511 membe ship equal to the 1955 membership. Dieticians to Meet George S. Abshier, State Col lege extension specialist in con sumer marketing, will address a meeting of the Chapel Hill-j Durham Dietetic Association at 8 p.m. tomorrow (Wednesday) in the School of Nursing Audi torium at Memorial Hospital. His topic will be “The Nation’s Food Supply.” The meeting is open to all dieticians and nutri tionists aniFTIII others interested in the subject Panel of Foreign Students to Discuss 4 Changing Status of Women Everywhere A panel of foreign students in the University here will iis-' cuss “The Changing Status of! Women Throughout the World’ ! at a meeting of the Chapel Hill; unit of American Association of j University Women at 8 o’clock I; this (Tuesday) evening"' in • the faculty lounge of the Moreheud Planetarium. Preceding the meet ing, coffee will be served at 7:30. Ail student participants are attending the University on fel lowships or grants from their respective countries. “Mrs. Kirsten M. Milbrath, executive director of the Univer sity YWCA, will serve as moder ator. Although born in Brooklyn, Mrs. Milbrath grew up in Norway. She studied at Oslo University, received an A. B. degree from St. Olaf College, and an M. A de gree from the University of Minnesota. Before coming to Chapel Hill, she taught in the public schools and worked for the Girl Scouts in Nashville, ' Tennessee. Miss Milagros Guzman, from San German, Puerto Rico, holds a government scholarship to , study in the Department of , Psychology. She is a graduate of the Folytechnical Institute, , Puerto Rico, and is employed , as a test technician for the Offi- | ce of Personnel. After a year’s , study in _the United States she j will return to her position with . the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Dr. R. Vasantina, a specialist! in gynecology ond obstretics, isj studying for an M. A. degree) in public health. Dr. Vasantini received a Ph.D. from the Medi- > cal School in Bangalore, India, i She was a member of the govern- ■ ment of India Project for Faini- • ly Planning. I The fourth member of the i panel will be Miss Neora Gar- < funkel. Born in Danzig, Miss < Garfunkel emigrated to Israel in , The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents a Copy ‘Football Road f Is To Be Completed Starting in March It wasn’t known whether the hiring of Jim Tatum as the University’s football coach had anything to do with it or not, but the State Highway Commission an nounced over the weekend that the Chapel Hill-Durhani “football road” will have its second lane paved as soon as warm weather arrives. The final grading and pav ing of the remainder of the' dual-lane boulevard will get under way "probably around the middle of March.” ac cording to John W. Thomp son Sr., president of the Thompson-Arthur 1’ a,v i n g Company of Greensboro, which was awarded the con tract by the Highway Com mission. Mr. Thompson said he expected the \york to be finished in late August or early September. Highway Co m m is s i o n Chairman Sandy Graham said the surface of the sec ond lane will be similar to the present surface of the existing road. The Commission had twice before rejected bids for pav ing the 5.5-mile strip as “too high.” The Thompson bid was $292,757.20. The low bidder on the previous two occasions was the Nello L. Teer Construction Company, which paved the original half of the boulevard. Last March, Teer offered a bid of $433,902.25. Bartholomew Heads Local News Office Robert Bartholomew has re signed from the stuff of the University News Bureau to be come director of the Durham Herald’s Chapel Hill bureau, re placing Hank Messick. | An alumnus of the University,j Mr. Bartholomew had worked | for the University News Bureau since last April. Before that he was on the staff of the Univer sity Library about three years. He worked for the Chapel Hill Weekly in 1960 and 1951. Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew live at 110 .Can Street. Mrs. Bartholomew is employed at Memorial Hospital. 1936 where she graduated from ihe Hadessa Nursing School in ! Jerusalem. She has had expert cure as a nurse in the Israelian army and is now employed by | the Israel State Department of [Health. At present she is study ing public health nursing at the University. The program was arranged by Miss (ora Bomar, chairman of the unit’s Committee on the Status of Women. (Benwood Parents To Hear Discussion “After Glenwood, What?” will be the topic of the Glenwood PTA meeting to be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, in the school cafeteria. Wesley Noble, principal of the Chapel Hill High School, and Mrs. R. B Miilman, seventh grade teacher in the Junior High School, will describe the education that awaits boys and girls after they finish their sixth grade studies at the Glen wood School. The teaching of mathematics, English, and foreign languages, the physical education program, guidance facilities, and social ac tivities will be discussed. The educational philosophy, the ade quacy iof physical plant nnd teaching faculty, and the degree of success of the schools in pre paring students for college will' also he described. The meeting is open to the! public. On Way to Alaska Captain and Mrs. Edward P. Didier and their five children, on their way to Alaska, stopped off here to spend the weekend with Mrs. Didier’s parents, Mr, arid Mrs. Paul Smith. They will live in Anchorage, Alaska, where Captain Didier will be stationed! with the U. S. Air Force. The' children are Karen, Michael, Jill, Alison, and John Matthew. i CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1956 Bond (>lllll pnign Leaders Meet Jr Judge William Stewart of Chapel Hill (left) and Remus J. Smith Sr. of Hillsboro, co-chairmen of the two-million dollar county school bond campaign, met yesterday to begin planning strategy for the March 27 bond election. Mr. Stewart said he and Mr. Smith hoped to announce names of committee chairmen within the next few days. Research Grants Amounting to $60,000 Are Given to Six University Doctors Six members of the Depart ment* nf Medicine of the Univer sity Medical School have been awarded research grants total ling. more than $50,000, Dean W. Reece Berryhill has announced. Grant recipients are Dr. Charles H. Burnett, professor and department chairman; Dr. Ernest (Taige, associate profes sor; Dr. Thomas W. Farmer, pro fessor of neurological medicine; Dr. Dan A. Martin, fellow; Dr. Jeffress G. Palmer, assistant professor, and Dr. Louis G. Welt, professor. Dr. Burnett’s grant, in the amount of SSOO, was awarded by the Cancer Institutional Research I ! Local Men Attend Medical Meeting Seven faculty members of the University’s School of Medicine attended the recent !oth annual meeting in New Orleans, La., of the Southern Society of Clinic** Research and the American Federation for Clinical Research. Dr. Charles H. Burnett, head of the Department of Medicine, headed the delegation of repre sentatives from his department, including Drs. Walter Hollander Jr., Thomas W. Farmer, Jeffress G. Palmer, Louis G. Welt, Frank Williams, and Robert Wayne Winters. Dr. Hollander spoke on “Renal Concentration Defect in Potas sium Depleted Rats,” at the Southern Society meeting, and Dr. Winters spoke before the American Federation on "The Effects of Phosphate on the Renal Lesion of Potassium Do pletion.” Lee Wiley Attends New York Meeting W. Lee Wiley of the INC faculty has been attending a meeting of the Renaissance So ciety of America at Columbia, University. He is .one of 11; “representatives of disciplines”! in the nation serving the Society. His specialty is French litera ture. Among topics being discussed! in New York is the third edition of the Society’s publication, “Studies in the Renaissance,” published at the University of Texas. John H. Randall Jr. of Colum bia University is President of the Renaissance Society of America. Mr. Hcnsen and His ‘Flivver’ Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine: 1956 Version By Chuck Hauser My natural curiosity being what it is, I didn’t hesitate a second when Harry Snook stuca his head in the door of my office at the Weekly on Saturday morning and asked me to ac company him to the Raleigh-Durham Airport to take a look at Igor Bensen’s latest flying machine. The demonstration was scheduled for il o’clock, and it was just that as we reached the airport. Harry dropped me off while he hunted for a parking space, and 1 strolled out in front of the new terminal building just in time to see a pair of Army two-man helicopters awk wardly soar in for a Heliocopters have always intrigued me. Their gawky appearance and their flup-flup-flup sound as they paddle the air ami hover a few feet off the ground continue to excite and amaze me as I realize that these strange creatures are man-made and man-controlled and actually fly. Carl Goerch was at a microphone telling everyone about the Bensen Aircraft Corporation, which has headquarters at Raleigh-Durham Air port, and introducing the president of the Ral eigh Chamber of Commerce and a number of IjULr ; Sir «-V Br B " j*' tk - ■S. B A ' I&cSShS ;J jljpsp\ ■i .mm ..'.NiiGwBIHKwBBB Foundation for the period end ing Aug 31, 1956 j and will be used to help activate the Meta bolic. W aid. Drs Craige, Farmer, Palmer and .Welt are recipients of U. S. Public Health Service grants. Dr. < taige's grant of $24,991, for the period Jan. 1, 1956-Dec. 31, 1956, is a continuation of Dr. Craige’s training grant. With his grant of SIO,OOO for Dec 1, .1955, through Nov. 30, 1956, Dr. Farmer will continue studies on a project entitled “Co operative Study of the Effective ness of 1 -Asparagine in Control of Seizures." Dr. Palmer’s grant of $6,000, also for Dec. 1, 1955,' through Nov. 30, 1956, was given for a study entitled “Investigation of Factors Influencing the Rates of Production and Destruction of Leukocytes.” , Dr Welt will use his grant of $14,662, from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 1956, for continuation of a project on “Studies of the Factors Regulating the Internal and External Exchanges of Electrolytes and Water in Health and Disease.” The sixth recipient, Dr. Mar tin, was given a $5,000 Research Fellowship by the American Heart Association for one year, starting July 1, 1956 Tryouts for Playmakers’ ‘Seventeen To Be Held Thursday in Memorial Hall Tryouts for the Carolina Play makers’ production of Sally Ben son’s musical comedy, ‘'Seven teen," will be-—held at I, p.m. arid 7:30 pin. Thursday, re bn i ary 2, in Memorial Hall. The ast calls for ten principals, includ ing inert ami women who can sing and a ten year-old girl, plus a chorus of at least ten women and ten men w ho can sing and dance. Speciality dunces will be needed. Atiditionels will be asked to sing a number from any Broadway musical or another song of that type. The tryouts are open to everybody, whether or not they are connected with the University. Based on the novel and lateij the play of the same name, both by Booth Tarkingtori, Sally Ben son’s “Seventeen” appeared on Broadway in 1951. It is a comedy about adolescent love in the first decade of this century. Willie Baxter, moonstruck from the mo ment he meets cute, blonde, and baby-talking Lola I’ratt, goes to hilarious lengths to impress other people whose remarks didn’t interest me in the least, so I jockeyed for position on vhe rail to get a good view of what Mr. Bensen calls his “flivver of the air.” The first demonstration involved a Gyro-Glid er, which has no engine of its own hut is towed iy ari automobile—-in this case, a Carolina-blue Ford station wagon. Mr. Bensen wus the pilot, a fact, he was the only person who piloted iis inventions throughout the demonstration, which :aused me to wonder whether he was the only person who had confidence that the things would, aold him in the air. The Gyro-Glider looks something like a mod :rn, tubular aluminum porch chair, with three great pider legs on which are Wheels, and with a post rising up from the back of the chair *0 mpport a two-blade rotor. That's all there is: he chair, the legs, and the rotor on top of a vertical shaft. This contraption was hitched, by a long cable to the back of the station wagon, which buzzed lown the runway. When the car hit about 25 miles an hour and the pull of the twirling copter blades provided enough lift for the machine to rise into the air. Mr, Bensen waved gaily as he (Continued on- Page 8) , Chapel Mill Chuff L.G. It wa.\ my agreeable ex perience, one day this week, to meet Bertram Col grave, a member of the faculty of Durham University in Eng land, who has come here as a visiting professor of Eng lish for the present semester. He has been going about, in and around the village, and he remarked to me that it made him feel at home to see so many highway signs bearing the name, Dur ham. Something else that may have reminded him of his home town was the Gothic architecture of Duke Uni versity. Whatever differen ces there may be between the ancient cathedral in Durham, England, and the thirtv-vear-old chapel at Duke, nevertheless they are kin. Often, . when a visitor from afar comes to Chapel Hill, l look in some book o find out something about the place he is from. Thou sands of our American fam ily names had their origin in England, and of course 1 knew that our family nam ed Durham, which gave its name to the city, was one of these. But 1 didn’t know that the name was not or iginally what it is now un til 1 read these words in the Britannica: “The place was first called Dunholme. It was softened in Norman times to Duresme, whence came Durham.” next time 1 see our Congressman, Carl Durham, for whose great-uncle, Dr. Bartlett Durham, the city of Durham was named, 1 am going to ask him if he knew his original name was Dunholme. My guess is he’ll say no. When 1 said to Mr. Col grave that last summer on the way from Edinburgh to London my wife and I had a view of Durham’s beau (Continued on Page 2) her as he competes with other hoys in the neighborhood for her attention. "It is one of the most charm ing musicals 1 know," says Thom as Patterson of the Playmakers staff, who will direct the pro duction, “it is not only a good play, but it has music that is exuberant, light, and very me lodic.” The play will be given March 2,3, and lin Memorial Hall. At Chicago Workshop Mrs. Mary Bell Jones, super visor of night nurses at Mem orial Hospital, flew to Chicago day 'before yesterday to attend a one-week national workshop for evening and night supervisors of nurses. Business Meeting The Chapel Hill Exchange Club will hold a business meet ing ut the Ranch House to night (Tuesday), beginning at 7 o’clock. 54 a Year in County; other rates on page 2 Annual Mothers’ Polio March Is Scheduled for Tonight; You Are Asked to Leave a Light on ( hapel Hill and Carrboro mothers will make their annual Mothers March against polio tonight (Tuesday). Ihe house-to-house canvass will begin at 7 o’clock with the sounding of the fire sirens in both Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Last year the Mothers’ March collected Legion Auxiliary Planning Bridge Party, Poppy Sale The annual benefit .bridge party of the American Legion Auxiliary will he held about the* middle of March, the date and, placg to be announced, it was decided at last week’s meeting! of the Auxiliary. The unit also placed its order ser poppies to be sold on Poppy Day in May to raise funds for, its child Welfare program. 'Mrs. P. C. Gardner was ap-| pointed musie chairman and Mrs. A. S. Lineberry radio and, television chairman, and the unit! voted to meet jointly with the Legion tomorrow (Wednesday)! night at the Hut at S p.m. Mrs. N. F. Jackson, scholar-! ship chairman, and Mrs. John".!. Keller Jr., child welfare chair-; | man, who were joint hostesses’ at last week’s meeting, will di-; rect the forthcoming bridge party. It was also announced that a survey is being made in the county to determine the number of children of veterans attend ing town and county schools with a view toward aiding children of deceased veterans, whether killed in action or deceased from serv ice connected disease or dis ability, and of permanently and totally disabled veterans. The survey will also make possible for the Auxiliary to cooperate with existing agencies in giving children of such veterans the educational rights’to which th'ey are entitled. Plans Are Formed For Sales Events A Chapel Hill-Carrboro Mer chants Association subcommittee met on Friday night to lay the groundwork for a year of sale»s and bargain days to convince villagers they should do their shopping at home. The subcommittee, parGof the Trade Promotions Committee headed by Carlton Byrd, dis cussed the following events to he held during the coming year: Feb. 17-18, Dollar Days, under the supervision of (). T Watkins; May 13, Mother’s Day, headed by Mr. Byrd; June Dairy Month, R. B. Todd; June 17, Father’s Day, Monk Jennings; July 23, No-Name Special Sales Event Day, Joe Augustine; Aug. 18-19, Dollar Days, Moyle Johnson; University Orientation Week, E. C, Smith; Nov. 23, Christmas Season Opening, Roland Giduz and Sandy McClamroch. The subcommittee also dis cussed its campaign to raise money to finance the various tiade promotion events through out the year. A separate fund will he set up so regular Mer chants Association funds will not he channeled into the special events. Two groups of merchants, broken down into a number of two-man teams, will be named by Mrs. Jane Whitefield, execu tive secretary of the association. A contest will be held to seei which of the groups can raise the most money for the trade promotion treasury. The losing team will he required to treat the winning team to a steak dinner. ft. Baptists Schedule Five-Day Revival A five-night revival will be held at the Chapel Hill Baptist Church from February 27 to March 2, it wXs announced yester day by the Rev. Samuel Tilden Hubei, pastor. The Rev. Edward Hughes Pru den, pastor of the First Baptist Cfipreh of Washington, D. C., will preach. He was President Truman’s pastor for several years, is active in the Baptist World Alliance and was formerly president of the American Bap tist Convention. Attend Gift Market Mr. and Mrs. James Davis, proprietors of the University Florist, have been in New York attending the annual Midwinter Gift Market. TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday annul .>i,uui) in contribu tions, but E. C. Smith, di rector of the county-wide March of Dimes drive, re ports that this figure needs to be tripled in tonight’s march if the county goal is to be reached. You are urged to turn on your porch light as a signal for a mother to ring your doorbell to receive your con tribution for the battle against polio. “Make certain that light stays, on,” Mr. Smith urges, “because re gardless of the weather the children crippled ,by infan tile paralysis need your sup port to help them along the road to recovery, and the mothers will be by to pick up your contribution even if it's pouring down rain.” The Mothers’ March will be in two parts. Mrs. Orville Camp bell is directing the mothers of Chapel Hill and Mrs. Jessie West lis in charge of the March in Carrboro. The police station in Chapel Hill will be the head quarters for the Chapel Hill mo thers and the Baptist Church in Carrboro will be the other head quarters. Any family that is missed dur ing the march is requested to call one of the headquarters and a car will be sent out to receive the contribution. In Chapel Hill, the Chapel Hill police department will have squad cars out to pick up the money from the various group captains. The money will be brought to the police station where it will be counted under the direction of Miss Sarah Uinstead. ’in Carrboro the marching mo thers will bring their collections to the Carrboro Baptist Church for counting. Refreshments will be served at the church. Mrs. Campbell and Mrs. West urge all families in Chapel Hill and Carrboro to contribute to the drive. All parents know the value of the work being done by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, am) this work must be continued, so have your porch light on tonight. Carrboro will have around 30 mothers joining in the inarch. Chapel Hill will be divided into 22 areas, with each area captain jed by a mother. The area captains in Chapel Hill are Mrs. James R. Poole, Mrs. Fitzgerald Hudson, Mrs. Bill Meade, Mrs. George Hogan, Mrs. J. I). Webb, Mrs. Charles ! Jones, Mrs. W illiam Steward, Mrs. Tom Host, Mrs. Richard l)on jiian, Mrs. C. L. Merritt, Mrs. Phil lip Cohen, Mrs. Samuel T. Habel, I Mrs. Robert Patterson, Mrg. Gra dy Pritchard, Mrs. William Fri day, Mrs. Carl Gottschalk, Mrs. Clyde Allen, Mrs. T. H. Yates Jr., Mrs. David Evans, Mrs. Stu art Sechriest, and Mrs. Jessie Alston, assisted by Rosella Jones. Dill to Speak at Hull’s Head Tea Alonzo T. Dill, author of “Governor Tryon and His Pal ace,” will speak at the Bull’s Head Bookshop tea at 3:45 to morrow (Wednesday) afternoon. Mr. Dill is a native New Bernian, a graduate of the University, and former newspaperman wfio is now ‘director of the Tryon Palace Restoration Commission. The tea will be held in the University Library’s assembly room and is open to the public. Chemistry Wives Entertained The Chemisty Wives were en tertained at a dessert party given last Wednesday evening by Mrs. Dana Sampson. Chapel Millnotei Gusty dialogue in Carolina Barber Shop: W. D. Carmichael Jr.: “Jim, why in the devil donlt you . learn to keep your mouth shut?” Jim Tatum: “How can I when I’m half Carmichael?*' • * * Nesting birds in cupola of Fowler’s Service Station gi| West Franklin Street providing - a background of natural music as the customers get gasaed «P-