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TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday Vol. 34, No. 11 Power Fails Near Church Mysteriously What was described as “an extreme short circuit” of mysterious origin plunged a small section of the village into darkness twice last Thursday evening. The af fected area centered around the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church on the corner of East Rosemary Street and Rick ard Lane. Members of the church were in the building at the time preparing for the ser vice of dedication scheduled for Sunday. Suddenly the lights went out. The time was about 7 o’clock. A work crew was dispatch ed' from the University’s power plant, and electricity was restored within a half an hour. The repair crew then was sent to Carrboro on another job. Just about the same time it reached Carrboro—7:4s p. m.—the lights in the section around the church blacked out for the second time. Again the cause was unknown. Thev crew returned, and by 9:30 p.m. had power restored for good. Grey Culbreth, superin tendent of utilities for the University, said that what ever caused the trouble “blew a fuse of considerable magnitude—one that would n’t have blown except in the case of an extreme short circuit.” Mr. Culbreth said the same thing had happened once before in the past year, and at that time there was also considerable activity go ing on.in the church. Rut no cause for the short cir cuit could be determined for either incident. Actually, Mr. Culbreth ex plained, the 7:45 blackout last Thursday blew several fuses up and down the near by power lines. He said utili ties ■ employees are still searching for the source of the trouble. Lenten Services at Episcopal Church I lenten services this week at ,the Chapel of the Cross he as follows: Ash Wednesday February 16, Holy Communion at 7 a.m., 10 a.m., and 4:30 p.m.; evening service at 6:15 p.m. Half-hour service at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Services next Sunday, Febru ary 19, will be at 7:30 a.m., 9:15 am., 9:30 a.m., and 11 a.m. and Bible study at M p.m. Lent begins on Ash Wednes day. Faster Hay will be April 1. Bishop Henry’s visitation will la; a* the 11 a.m. service on March 18. Henry Srhulman Visits Here Henry Schulman of New York, one of the counOry’s leading dealers in rare medical and other science books, was here two days last week with Hr. and Mrs. Warner Wells. The Medical His tory Club, composed of physi cians and students in the Uni versity’s School of Medicine, gathered in the Wells’ living room Friday evening to hear Mr. Schulman tell of old medical books and his experiences in f.nding them for collectors. Vanstorys l.iwng Here Mr. and Mrs. Peter Vanstory, who were married last month in Charlotte, are living at 69 Max well Road while Mr. Vanstory is studying in the University’s School of Business Administra tion. He is from Greensboro and served in the U. S. Marines fori two years. Vanstory, the former McCray of Charlotte, was graduated from the University here in 1953. She is a secretary in the University’s School of Nursing. Moves Here From Durham Roy W. Morrison, for * nierly of Chapel Hill, has sold her home in Durham and has moved from there to 10 Lanark Road in Glen Lennox. She haa resumed her teaching at the Hope Valley School after a six weeks illness. Mr. Cobh's a Busy Man Building Ciolf Course** fjjif IlllliiiilllPf \ ::y _ ' S| * j\ * —Photo by Chuck Hauser GEORGE COBB . . . HE’S TO BLAME FOR THE WATER HOLES By Billy Arthur For youthful George Cobb of 10 Brandon Road, this is a rapid ly changing world in which much is happening, especially in golf. Virtually unknown, except to Uncle Sam’s Marines, eight years ago, yet touched with a sort of ambitiously-inspired vision and courage, Mr. Cobb has suddenly become one of the foremost golf architects of the generation. He has put new ideas, designs, ef ficiency, beauty and sport into golf courses by combining the knowledge of a landscape en gineer with a love for the game of golf ami the use of modern construction methods and equip ment. The result: Right now, be has 12 courses under way or on the drawing board. Under construction are courses at the University of Maryland, Glenn Dale, Mil., Tow son, Md., Greenville, S. G. and the Woman’s College of the Uni versity of North Carolina and [another at Greensboro. In the design stage are courses at Lau l rel, Md., Martinsville, Va., Isle of Palms, S. Greenville, S. C., Manteo, and LaPlata, Md. Last year alone be completed Army courses at Fort Eustis, Va., and Fort Meade, Mil., Jack sonville, N. C., Sapphire Valley at Cashiers, N. C., and Lynwood Country Club at Martinsville, Va. Others he has done include Camp Friedrichs Have Returned Mr. and Mrs. WWqier P. Fried rich-and their daughter Nickey have returned from ttr year’s ab sence during which Mr. Fried rich was a Fulbright lecturer, with headquarters at the Uni-! versity of Melbourne in Austral-' ia. While abroad they visited many countries in Asia and Eu rope. On their way home they stopped off for a vtsit in Thun, Switzerland, Mr. Friedrich’s na tive town. Nickey has returned to school in Northfield, Mass. Mr. Friedrich is chairman of the University's Department of Comparative Studies. Needlecraft Workshop The Community Club’s Needle craft Workshop will meet at 10:30 a.tn. today (Tuesday) with Mrs. Gilbert L. Kelso at 104 Carr Street. Boy Scouts Celebrate 45th Anniversary National Boy Scout Week marking the 45th anniversary of organized Scouting in America was observed last week in Chapel Hill and other areas of the Orange District with appro priate activities. The week’s events were concluded on Run day with Scouts attending special church services in their honor. The week’s events included a three-day training course held in Chapel Hill for Cub leaders from throughout the county. Den mothers also sponsored a special session for den chiefs. Scouts cooperated by arranging special window displays calling attention to the role of Scouting in the life of the community. Eagle Scout Montie Milner went to Raleigh to represent the dis The Chapel Hill Weekly 5-Cents a Copy I and Cherry Point, Green Valley at Greensboro, Fort Jack son, Greenwood, S. C., Carmel at Charlotte, and Finley at Chap el Hill. ■ Because he is rising so fast as a golf architect, few people in Chapel Hill know or even see Mr. Cobb. He darts here and there from Manteo to Murphy, Essay Contest Won By Eleanor Davis Eleanor Dale Davis won first prize in the essay contest held at the Carrboro Elementary School under the auspices of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Tuberculo sis Society. Other winners were Judy Ward, second, and Judy Bradshaw, third. Each girl re ceived a science book as a prize. The prizes were presented at the school’s chapel program one morning last week by Mrs. Sturgis Leavitt and Floyd Senter of the Tuberculosis Society. After autographing the books, the prize-winners gave them to the school’s library. The war against tuberculosis was the topic of the essay con test. Hanultons on Visit Here Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. ! Hamilton were here at the week end visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Cameron. They were entertained Sunday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Norval Neal Luxori on Mount Bolus. Mr. Hamilton was here from 1942 to 1945 as head of the academic department, of the Naval Pre j Flight School, lie now lives in Columbus, Ohio, and is an officer of the national organization of the Presbyterian Church. Landscape Study Session The third meeting of the Chapel Hill Gurderi Club’s land scape study group will be held at 10 a.rn. Thursday, February 16, at the home of Mrs. C. S. Logsdon at 204 Laurel Hill Road. William J. Brown of Chapel Hill, proprietor of the Mayflower Garden Service, will speak on “Erosion and Drainage atvd Problems of Paths and Drives." All members of the Gurderi Club are invited. trict in a special Boy Scout Week program presented to members of the executive board of the Occoneechee Council. Members of -the Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs heard about the objectives and progress of Scout ing in the county. Radio Station WCHL cooperated by providing time in which Roy Armstrong and other Scout leaders described the program and activities currently available to Boy Scouts of the area. During the week a new Cub pack was launched in Carrboro by the Methodist Men’s Fellow ship. Hillsboro spoheofed a com munity-wide “‘pot luck” supper to boost Scouting. In Efland the local P.T.A. featured a program on Scooting. CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1956 | from Baltimore, Md., to Green jville, S. C. to check construction progress or to confer further on course designs. And all this came much about by accident. Mr. Cobh was graduated from the University of Georgia in 1937 with a degree in landscape architecture, and immediately, went to work with the National Park Service. When the park service transferred him to Canm Lejeune, N. C., about the time the U. S. entered World War: 11, Mr Cobb volunteered in the I U. S. Marine Corps, but retain-; ed his membership in the Ameri can Society of Landscape Archi tects. Lt. Col. W P. T. Hill who supervised the designing of Camp Lejeune and who later was quartermaster general of the corps, got the "word,” as the Marines say, of Mr. Cobb’s landscaping knowledge ami in terest in golf; so it wasn’t long before they were discussing building a golf course for the base. Mr. Cobb suggested that Fred Findlay, the dean of Ameri can golf architects, be called in. And Mr. Cobb wofked with him on construction of the first •IM holes. “It was wonderful ex perience,” he recalls. ”1 got basic training from him during that apprentice period.” So popular was the first course that another had to he built and Mr. Cobh was ordered that's the way the Marines work to handle it. Alone. That did it. Mr. Cobh determined that when his hitch in the corps ended, he would continue as a landscape architect hut concentrate on golf courses. And, that in planning ami building courses, he would give them not only the profes sional approach of a landscape architect hut also an understand ing of the problems and feelings of the average golfer. That he could do, because he had been regarded us a promising golfer' during his Savannah, Ga., high school days. He still shoots par. World War II over, Mr. Cobb opened his first office in Greens boro, and didn’t wait long lor an assignment— to build the Green Valley course there. Then he was invited by the Army to plan and construct the Fort Jack son course at Columbia, S. C. When that course was describ ed by sports writers and Lt. Gen. G. H. Decker as “capable as accommodating any golf tourn ament in the world," Mr. Cobb was firmly launched on a new career. The University of North Caro lina next summoned him to com pplete the 18-hole Finley Golf Course, now one of the finest collegiate courses in the nation. But the Korean war broke out. Suddenly, Mr. Cobb’s career underwent a change. As a re serve major in the Marine Corps, he was recalled to active duty for three years of service. Out of uniform again in 1954, he was called by the veteran golf archi tect Findlay to supervise con struction of the Chestnut Ridge Country Club layout at Balti more. There followed in the next 12 months n series of as (Continued on Pee. 84 1 » Hollar Hays Sot To llogin Friday “Dollar Days” will be held in Chapel Hill and Carrboro ion Friday and Saturday of ijthis week. It will be the first of eight sales promotion events to be held in the two communi ties this year, and merchants Were reported yesterday to be united in their effort to make this week’s event the greatest ever held here. Sponsored by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants As sociation. “Dollar Days” will i bring out bargains in every member’s store. “What does this mean?”, asked O. T. Watkins, chair man of the promotion. “It | means simply that everyone will have a good opportunity to buy seasonable quality merchandise of ali types at unusual savings from all co operating stores.” Huge banners and posters| will mark all cooperating business establishments itd bpth communities, and news papers and radios are co operating in giving advance | notice of the community-' wide event. They will also I carry advertisements later Hin the week fropi individual stores. Sketch Course Is To Begin Tomorrow A sketch class open to the public will be gi.ven this semes ter by the Person Hall Art | Gallery. It will be held at the J gallery from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. a every Wednesday evening from , | tomorrow, February 15, through' . the next 13 weeks. The fee for I the entire course, including pay ment for materials, will be sl4. SThe teacher will be John Kacher gls of the University’s Depart inent of Art. i| The class will be open both to j beginners and those with some experience. To enroll, attend the first meeting of the class to morrow evening. At Flower Judges' Meeting Mrs. W. C. Uoker, Mrs. Roy j Homewood, Mrs. Carl Pegg, Mrs. Dudley Cowden, Mrs. A. C. Shearer, and Mrs. Grey Cul breth, all of whom are nationally accredited flower show judges, were in High Point last Thurs day at the annual meeting of the Piedmont Judges of the North Carolina Garden Club. High School Sweetheart Miss Betsy Fitch was crowned Sweetheart of Chapel Hilt High School at the annual Sweetheart Ball held Saturday night at Carr boro School Auditorium. Runner up was Miss Tina Demeritt. George Livas Dies Unexpectedly Sunday || .Iff ■ y* - ,* 'J. •fgglF RIF ’ I * 2 ■> tl --sJlMmwa * k ff ; . SL jit; J GEORGE LIVAB George Livas, one of Chapeli Hill’s most popular businessmen, died unexpectedly of a heart ail ment Sunday night in Durham. He was 52 years of age. Mr. LivaH fainted at a social at the Greek Orthodox Church in Durham Sunday evening, and died at Watts Hospital around 11:30 p.m. He had been in good spirits all day und in apparent good health. A native of Greece, Mr. Lives came to the United State* in 1921 and liked it so well that ho remained. A year later he moved to Chapel Hill to work at the Carolina Confectionary, which was then operated by George Pavlakis on the site of | the into Mr. Lives’ present Car- Utapel Mill Cha[l L.G. When my wife and I were in England in the fall and were on a sight-seeing tour; out of London, we stopped' for a coffee break, or may-! be it was for tea, at the little town of Bicester be-, tween Oxford and Stratford. There had come a nip in the air and our guess was that we were in for a cold spell. So I went into a shop and bought from the good mannered, genial proprietor a pair of gloves. They were of gray wool, country gloves, the kind I like. As • it turned out, the weather stayed mild most of the time and 1 had no use for the gloves except for a day or so in Scotland. But after I got home I wore them many times and with great satisfaction. Then, as often happens with my gloves, spectacles, and other, articles, I lost them. When I missed them I telephoned; to all the places I, had been, since I remembered wearing! them. That is, I thought it was all the places. Last Friday I discovered it wasn’t. I went to meet a friend coming in on the bus and was comfortably seated in the waiting room when H. 0. Pearce, the bus station man ager, walked from his of fice into the waiting room and handed me my gloves. Mr. Pearce doesn’t know what a good turn he did me by seizing upon and holding them. They are not worth much in money, but gloves or a hat or a gar ment or a picture or a trin ket, or whatever it is' th%t you have got when you were on a tour, has a sentimen tal appeal. In the case of these gloves it’s a specially strong appeal because I think of how one of those cunning little sheep I saw (Continued on Page 3) Eddie Teagues Are Here Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Teague and their 7-year old daughter Peggy bave moved here and are living at 17 Maxwell Road. Mr. Teague was on Jim Tatum’s football coaching staff at the University of Maryland and has recently joined Mr. Tatum’s staff here ut UNC. He bolds a mus ter’s degree in physical educa tion from the University here. Mrs. Teague is also a graduate of the University. Peggy is in tiie second grade at the Glen wood School. | In 1929 he formed a partner ship with James Gust und began operating the confectionary as a restaurant also. He became sole owner of the establishment in 1945. He was active in the civic and fraternal affairs of the town, and was a member of Univer »ity Lodge No. 408, A. F. A A. M. He was also a charter member of the Chapel Hill Kiwanis Club. Mr. Livas is survived by his widow and two daughters, Elaini and Katherine, all of Chapel Hill, a sister, Mrs. George Vassiliaven of Durham, and two other sis ters and a brother who live in Athens, Greece. Funeral services will he held from the Chapel of the Cross $4 a \ear in County; other rates on page School Bond Issue Described As Stopgap Measure at Panel Sponsored Here by the PTA Members of a panel to discuss the March 27 two million dollar school bond election in Orange County told the ( ha pel Hid Parent-Teachers Association last Thursday that the bond issue was “only a stopgap ““ j Lhipps Is to Head Legion Committee J Paul H. Robertson of Chapel ' Hill, state commander of the 1 American Legion, has 'appointed! Judge L. J. Phipps of Chapel Hill i as chairman of the North Caro-!, lina Legion’s special legislative; i committee that will work with!, the Legion’s national leaders on ( the War Veterans Security Bill ; i now coming up in the U. S.[: Congress. J. Addington Wagner , of Illinois, the Legion’s national! i commander, /'had requested Mr. 1 1 Robertson yo make such an ap-! ( pointment. , Mr. Phipps and his committee will work with the Legion’s na-j; tional special legislative com- ! rnittee. the members of whichj< include Co-Chairman John Stellej of Illinois, past national com-j, mander, and Herman F. Luhrsi] of Michigan; George N. Craig, | I Governor of Illinois and pastji | national commander; Earle Cocke , of Georgia, past national com- i 'mander; Maurice Stem bier, ad-j jutant of the Legion’s New York , 'department, and Michael M. Markowitz, director of rehabili tation of the Legion’s Pennsyl vania department. European Journals Recognize Ullman International recognition has come again to Kenan Professor B. L. Ullman, one of the world's foremost classicists, who heads the Department of Classics at the University. Journals in Italy, Switzerland and England ure hailing Ullman's book, “Studies in the Italian Renaissance.’’ "Sensational” is thh word em ployed by the "Hibliotheque d'- Humanisme et Renaissance” of Geneva, Switzerland, to tell of an Ullman revelation about the use of humanistic script by Pog gio between 1402 and 1403. "Ullman climbs with greater sureness thun any other living scholar from Classical literature to Medieval culture and to the humanistic schools,” declares a European reviewer. “He preserves in these diffi cult studies a sound good sense and rallies his readers with, his humor,” said the critic. A "conditional prediction" is also made: "If Ullman succeeds in establishing with equal cer tainty other phases of this great migration from old Corbie to the Sorbonne, to the Italian human ists, his name can stand along side that of the great masters: Mommsen, Delisle, Traubc.” “They Wrote on I’aper” Librarian Andrew Horn and Assistant Librarian O. V. Cook of the University Library will | give their fourth television pro gram on "The History of the Hook” at 7:15 this (Tuesday) ; evening on WUN ('-TV’s Chan ' ne! Four. Their topic will he j “They Wrote on Paper.” This {discussion, with illustrative ma -1 terials, follows their earlier TV j talks about writing on clay, pa pyrus, and parchment. At Memorial Hospital Among local persons listed as patients at Memorial Hospital on Monday morning were the following: James Baldwin, Earl Geer, Miss Catherine Henley, D. J. Herring, Mrs. Herbert Lloyd, Martitia Parker, Mrs. M. B. Sand ifer, Darnell Thompson, Mrs. Robert Tuck, and John Womble. Arts and Crafts Meeting The Community Club’s Arts and Crafts Department will meet at 3 p.m. Thursday, February 16, with Mrs. Doris C. Gross kreutz at 61 Oakwood Drive. A discussion und demonstration of weaving will be conducted by Mrs. Grosskreutz. Dental Dames Meeting The Dental Dames will meet at H o’clock this (Tuesday) even ing in the University Library’s assembly room. Dr. Leonard Pa lumbo will speak in connection with the showing of two movies on cancer, Koatera in Glen Lennox Mri and. Mrs, J. Koster have moved from Rosemary Street to 94 Hamilton Road. Mr. Koater, from Wilson, is in the junior class at the University. Mrs. Koater ia from Goldsboro. She is working at the Versity TUESDAY ISSUE a Next Issue Friday ’measure at best.” The mon ey, they said, would allow county and local schools to meet only minimum demands expected during the next five years. Members of the panei included C. W. Davis, Chapel Hill .school superintendent; Paul Carr, coun ty school superintendent; Mrs. Arthur Fink, member of the Lea gue of Women Voters and the Citizens’ Committee for Better .Schools; Clarence Jones, member of the -ounty Board of Educa tion; Chapel Hill Recorder’s Court Judjfb William Stewart, co-chairman of the steering com mittee for the county-wide bond election campaign; and Carl Smith, chairman of the Chapel Hill School Board. Mrs. Frederic Cieaveland was moderator. Mr. Smith told the PTA as sembly that even if Congress pusses a federal aid to education bill, it will have no bearing on the proposed bond issue. He said the county would receive no more than $400,000 under such a feder al bill, and even the two million dollar bond issue would only take care of the next five years’ requirements. Mrs. Fink said the major rea son why the school facilities in Orange County are extremely limited compared to other coun ties in the state is that during the past five yean the popula tion of Orange County haa in creased 14 per cant compared to a four per cent increase for the state as a whole. Mr. Carr said many schools in the county do not have gym nasiums or lunchrooms. He aaid some schools are conducting classes in their auditoriums. Mr. Carr said the moat pre valent question about the bond issue “How much will it coot me?” His answer was, “The ia sue will cost you $1.60 in year ly taxes for each SI,OOO assess ment. If you are assessed for $5,000, it will cost you $8 a year. Surely our children are worth this much.” Mr. Junes told the audience that he was optimistic about the passage of the bond issue. He added, ‘‘l have asked few per sons out in the county to work for it who have turned me down." Mr. Smith said the Negro (Continued on Page 8) Chapel Hill High Wins Double Bill Chapel Hill High School’s bas ketball teams won a doublehead er from Oxford Orphanage here Friday night. The boys won 67 to .‘57 and the girls w'ere victori ous 48 to 84. Dosher led the boys in scor ing with 16 points. Other play ers and their points were Clark 7, Weaver 6, Neville 9, Teague 6, Schwentker •>, Goodrich 4, Burns 5, Blackwell 6, und Hocutt 6. In the girls’ game Fitch was high scorer with_l7 points. Oth ers were Greenwood 5, Hackney 15, Royster 11, Yeager, Shepard, Laughon, Proctor, Evans, White heud and Davis. Visitor Front Ohio A recent guest of Mrs. Nell Spear was Andy Vuksta of Al liance, Ohio, former Air Force lieutenant who was a bombar dier on the plane on which Mrs. Spear’s son, the late James Fen ly Spear Jr., was navigator. The two men flew together in 1944 when they were in the 888th Bomber Group of the Eighth Air Force, based in Eng land. On Editorial Board Arthur Roe, Kenan professor and chairman of the Department of Chemistry at the University, has recently been appointed to the Editorial Board of "Chemical Monographs,” a series of books published under the sponsorship of the American Chemical Society. ,i Chapel Mill note* Joponica and yellowbells bursting Into bloom. Two women overheard con sulting road map in restau rant booth: First woman: "One way is just about as long as the other" . Second woman: "Yoah. an A