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Vol. 34, No. 19
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Sam Blackwood (left), Marvin Thompson (center), and the Rev. John Ensign are shown
doing the honors at the laying of the cornerstone of the fifth building to be occupied by the
New Hope Presbyterian Church in its 200 years of existence. Members of the congregation
saved about one-third on the estimated $60,0(H) cost of the new brick building by doing a
large part of the labor themselves.
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Members of the congregation of the New Hope Presbyterian
Church are shown leaving the final set vices held in the
fourth church building. The new building will be the scene
of services beginning this Sunday.
Planning Board Votes 5 to 3 Against
Rezoning of Area on Durham Highway
The Greater Chapel Hill Plan
ning Board has, by a five to
three vote, refused to endorse
a request by a local real estate
firm to rezone a strip of land
on the Chapel Hill-Durham High
way from- residential to subur
ban commercial.
The request, presented to. the
board Tuesday night by attorney
I, J. Phipps on behalf of real
tors R. G. Windsor and Walter
West, involved a strip of land
on the north side of the highway
near the entrance to the old Uur-,
ham Road.
Stuart Chapin, secretary of
the board, said the board voted ;
to recommend disapproval of the
petition to the Board of Alder- (
men because the rezoning
move would “begin a splattering
of small business developments
all along the highway.” He said
the policy of the board was to
confine business developments to
centralized areas.
The petition was originally pre
sented to the board a month ago
by the three men who owned
the property at that time—J.
R. Ellis, E. T. Broadway, and
J. R. Crisp.
Mr. Chapin said Mr. Ellis in
tended to put a restaurant on 1
his piece of land, along with a
lake which would sit between
the restaurant and a motel to
be built on the Broadway proper
ty, which has now been taken
over by Paul Roberts; Messrs.
Windsor and West now hold an
option on the Crisp land, and
intended to construct a business
Club Approves Shrine
The Chapel Hill Exchange Club
approved installation of a Free
dom Shrine in the High School
at its weekly meeting at Watts
Grill Tuesday night. The club
also took in Bill Ray, local fire
m»n, as a new member.
building there.
The Planning Board turned
'over to its subdivision committee
|a request for approval of a new
subdivision planned by Bobby
Roberts. The area, to be known
as Hillview Extension, lies be
tween Bolin Creek and Plant
Road beyond the present develop
ment in that area of Strowd Hill.
The board received an interim
report on a revision of a land
development plan for Chapel Hill
and environs from Webb and As
sociates of Chapel Hill. Robert
I Gladstone represented the com
pany before the board.
W. F. Babcock, thoroughfare
and traffic planning consultant
(from Raleigh, also met with the
board. He and Mr. Gladstone
discussed their plans for joint
ly submitting an integrated plan
on land development and traf
fic control for the Chapel Hill
area.
Baltimore Field Trip
Mrs. Everett Wilson, associate
professor in the University’s
School of Social Work, has been
on a field trip to Baltimore.
Petite Masicale Scheduled Sunday to
Feature Piano Music 'and Narration
The Graham Memorial Acti- 1
vities Board will present the,
second in this semester's series 1
of Petite Musicales on Sunday,
March 11. The recital, which
will begin at 8 o’clock in the
main lounge of the Memorial,
is free of charge, and the pub
lic is invited.
The performance will consist
of the melodrama “Enoch Ar
den” by the romantic composer
Richard Strauae. The melodrama,
which Is baeed on Tennyson’s
The Chapel Hill Weekly
5 Cents a Copy
The Rushes Skim
Over Los Angeles
Day before yesterday Mr. and
Mrs. Charles E. Rush were skim
ming over I.os Angeles in a heli
copter, combining two forms
of enjoyment, (1) looking down
on the city from a level low
enough for them to get a good
view of all the buildings and
streets and parks and scurrying
people, and (2) saving time in
getting from the airport to the
home of their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. B. J.
Caldwell.
When Mr. Rush was asked
Monday for his schedule he said:
“We’ll leave the Kuleigh-Dur
hani airport tomorrow (Tues
day) night. At Washington we’ll
board a plane for a non-stop
flight to Los Angeles. We are
scheduled to arrive there at 6:10
Wednesday morning. The Los
Angeles airport is on the west
side of the city, toward the
ocean. Pomona, where we are
to visit our son-in-law, is east
of the city. If he had to come
to meet is in an automobile the
drive, most of the way through
crowded traffic, would take him
about two hours. The round trip,
four hours. Hut we are going
to take what they call the ‘taxi
helicopter,’ and that takes only
twenty minutes to get to Pom
ona."
Mr. and Mrs. Rush will he in
California about three weeks' and
then they will visit Mr. Rush’s
two sisters in Santa Fe, New
Mexico. They will get home April
4.
Double Birthday Party
Terry and Christy Graves,
daughters of Cmdr. and Mrs. John
if. Graves Jr., celebrated their
eighth and fifth birthdays on
Saturday, February 25, with a
balloon party at their home on
[Greenwood Drive. Balloon games
were played by the guests, who
included Mary Carter Burns, Jan
Childress, Meredith Josselyn, Jo
an and Dcbby Peters, Toby New
ton, Harriet Good, and Lana
Good son.
Mrs. Charles Wood Leaves
Mrs. Charles Wood who has
been in Chapel Hill visiting her
son, Bill Wood, Executive Direc
tor of the N. C. Heart Associa
tion, left last week for New Eng
land. She will be in Boston, her
home, a few days, but will go
from there to visit her son,
Charles Wood, and his family in
Antrim, New Hampshire.
Barretts Return
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Barrett
have returned from Little Rock,
Arkansas, where they attended
the dedication of the new Old
Line Building.
■'poem, is arranged for piano and
(j narration.
i 1 The artists will be Walter
, Golde, prominent voice teacher
i now living in Chapel Hill, and
i Carl Williams, a University sen
, ior majoring in dramatic arts.
Mr. Golde will play the score
while Mr. Williams reads the
i narration.
The next musical*, scheduled
’ for March 18, will feature Wil
, li*m Klenz, 'cellist, assisted by
i Mima Caroline Sites, pianist.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1956
Hobbs Files
For Coming
May Election
Chairman R. J. M. Hobbs of
the Orange County Board of
Commissioners announced last
Monday that he would run
for re-election to his third term
as a member of the board.
The coming election, in which
the seat held by Sim Efland
will also be up for re-election,
will be the first one in'which
members will be elected for a
four-year term. Previously, when
the board was composed of only
three members instead of the
present five, members were elect
ed for two years. With the
11)54 change to a five-man board,
four years w,as established as
the length of the terms.
Mr. Hobbs, who is acting dean
of the School of Business Ad
ministration at the University,
is the only candidate who has
announced his intention to run
in the coming election, which
will come in November after a
May 26 primafy.
It is unknown at present whe
ther .Mr. Eflarid plans to run
for re-election or resign. He
is in Texas and will return on
March 2d.
Other members of the board
are Edwin Lanier, candidate for
state senator; Dwight Ray, and
Henry Walker.
Carrboro to Hold
Pre-School Clinic
The Carrboro Elementary
School, in cooperation with the
Orange County Health Depart
ment, will hold its annual pre
school clinic at the Carrboro
School Tuesday, March 13th,
from 8:30 to 11 a.m.
All children who will have
reached their sixth birthday on
or: before October 15, this year,
and are planning on entering the
Carrboro School in the fall, are
expected to attend with at least
one of their parents. This is
necessary to get information re
quired for beginning the child’s
schob'l record.
No immunizations will be given
at the clinic, but because State
law requires that all children
on entering school must have
been immunized for smallpox,
diptheria, and whopping cough,
parents are required to bring u
record of such immunization to
the clinic. Parents should bring
(he child’s birth certificate and
a record of his illnesses, if any,
so this information can be enter
ed on his record. All parents
are urged to huve their children
examined and immunized by
their family doctor, and bring
the record of the physical ex
amination to the- clinic. The
school health doctor will lie at
the clinic for physical examina
tion of those desiring his ser
vices.
An opportunity will l>c given
parents to meet the first grade
teachers and to visit the first
grade rooms. The P. T. A. will
serve refreshmeents, and there
will be favors, some made by
this year’s first graders.
School Hoard Hires
One New Teacher
The Chapel Hill School Hoard
accepted the resignations of two
teachers and hired one new
teacher at its meeting on Monday
night.
The new teacher is Mrs. Ethel
Walker, who replaces Earl Low
ery. Mr. Lowery, a mathematics
and science teacher at Lincoln
High School, resigned in order to
take a position in Washington,
D. C.
The other resignation was that
of Mrs. Joan Falk, third grade
teacher at Chapel Hill Elemen
tary School. No replacement has
yet been hired for her.
The board voted to double the
size of the playground at the
Glenwood School in Glen lainnox.
C. W. Davis, superintendent of
schools, said the project would
begin soon.
Grey Culbreth was authorized
to seek a site for a new elemen
tary school for Chapel Hill. Con
struction of the school depends on
the successful outcome of the two
million dollar school bond election
to be held March 27.
I.acys Move Here
Mr. and Mrs. .John L. Lacy,
new residents of Glen
are living at 129 Hamilton Road.
They came to Chapel Hill from
College Park, Md. Mr. Lacy, for
merly on the athletic staff at
the University of Maryland, is
head football trainer at the Uni
versity of North Carolina now.
The Laeys are members of the
CitMh Chneeh.
Chapel Mill Cha(l
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Old-timers in Chapel Hill,
and I mean real old-timers
like me and Clyde Eubanks
and Archibald Henderson
and L. R. Wilson and Roulhac
Hamilton and W. D. Car
michael and, if you want
to know why I put me first,
it’s because I’m the oldest
old-timer of them all in point
of residence hold clear in
our memory the fireplaces in;
the buildings on the Univer
sity campus.
To think of them is one of
those adventures in reminis
cence that please you be-!
cause you can go on them
entirely in your imagination.
There's nothing you would
hate worse, short of long-|
lasting physical pain, than toi
have to depend, in these
days, on a fireplace for heat
throughout, a winter; but
when you can sit in an easy
chair, reading by an electric
light at your left .shoulder,
in a furnace-heated, thermo-!
statted room, the red, yellow
and blue flames licking up
from the logs make a fasci
nating picture indeed. And
what sweet music is the
sizzle of the burning sap!
The vision is varied now
and then by the flames’ dy
ing down and your going
over to the corner of the
room to get a new log to
throw upon she fire. This
you can do without suffering
the shortness of breath or
the tinge of arthritis that
will attack you fifty years
hence when you rashly un
dertake such a chore.
You have the logs in your
room because you have
bought them from a farmer
and had them cut into prop
er lengths and toted up
stairs. And the reason you
have done all this is that if
you had left them on the
ground down behind the
South building, or beside
whatever other dormitory
you might be living in, some
of your fellow students,
maybe your best friends,
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At Memorial Hospital
Among local persons listed as
patients at Memorial Hospital on
Monday morning were Mrs. R. A.
Boyd, Dr. .), C. Brauer, P. 11.
Bums, Dr. J. W. Cassey Jr.,
Mildred Irene Cole, Luther V
Edwards, Mrs. 11. Fred, William
F. Freeman, William J. Hill,
Michael D. Homer, Mrs. H.
Lloyd, Mrs. E. N. Mangum, Mrs.
T. M. Morris, Mrs. IL Neal,
John 1). Sawyer, Seten C. Wil
son.
Bridge ( lab Entertained
Mrs. Ray Li taker entertained
the Bridge Club last Wednesday
night at her home on North
Street. Guests included Mrs. Jack
Sowter, Mrs. George Tracy, Mrs.
Cameron West, Mrs. Bradley
Wells, Mrs. Harold Riggsbee,
Mrs. H. C. Pearce, and Mrs.
Troy Sluder.
Quinns Move to Atlanta
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Quinn, who
lived oh Davie-Circle, have moved
to Atlanta, Ga., where they will
both be in school. While in Chapel
Hill, Mr. Quinn was connected
with the Craftique Furniture
Company of Mebane.
Parking Association Lays Its Plans
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J. B. Robbins is shown as he addressed members of the
Chapel Hill Parking Association laat Friday at the Town Hall
on plans for operation of the association’s commercial lot to
open soon on the corner of Roaemary and North Columbia
Streets. Seated at the table oa the left ia Bob Cox. At the
rear, from left to right, are H. 8. McGlnty, James Davis and
Mrs. Jane Whitefield, executive secretary of the Chapel Hill*
Symposium on Public Affairs Will
Attract Distinguished Speakers to
Chapel Hill During Coming Week
The Carolina Symposium on Public Affairs, scheduled to begin on Sunday and
continue through the week, will feature one of the largest and most distinguished
groups of speakers ever to come to the University campus. The public is invited to
attend all meetings of the program.
At the first public session, at 8 p.m. Sunday. March 11. in Memorial Hall, the
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Grass Roots Opera Company Presents
' Faust ’ in Memorial Hall This Evening
RAYMOND MCGUIRE
The Chapel Hill Conceit
Series will present . the Grass
Roots Opera Company in a
concert version of “Faust,” in
English, at 8 o'clock this even
ing (Friday) in Memorial Hall.
There will be no reserved
seats, aiqi tickets, at $1 each,
may be purchased at the Gra
ham Memorial, Kemp's Music
Shop, I,edbetter-Pickard’s, and
at the door prior to the per
formance.
The opera will be a concert
production. That is, there will
be singing and narration, but
it will not be a theatrical pro
duction.
Raymond McGuire, a 1914
How, When, and Where to Register to
Vote in March 27 School Bond Election
The following is a resume
of information which should
answer the question of residents
concerning voting and registra
tion in the corning March 27
School Bond election. In the next
issue of the Weekly (Tuesday)
will he a map »f the various
voting und registration precinct-.
REQUIREMENTS A residence
of one year in North Carolina
and 30 days in Orange County
I prior to Match 2 7 rn .it be
established f- r i<n «!, o and
voting eligibility I . ■ n ,>t
ihe born r« sstev. ‘
of the Ur C '‘/-iarfj
or over by Mai ■ - A’Usi--1 be
able to read an.i »r • When .
resident goes to register be will
be asked to slate h.s party affil
iation Democrat, Republican,
Independent. This information
will have no hearing on his eligi
bility for the March 27 election,
hut is being collected for the pur
pose of simplifying the registra
tion process for the May primary.
A voter need not state his party
affiliation if he does not intend to
vote in the May primary.
TIMES: The registration books
will be open from 9:00 a.m. to
sunset on Saturdays, March 10
and 17. Any person not finding it
convenient to register at these
times tnuy contact his or her
registrar at the registrar’s home!
or place of business between
these two dates. The books will
$4 a Year in County; other rates on page 2
ALEC DANTRE
graduate of Catholic Univer
sity in Washington, D. C., will
sing the role of Faust, Mr.
McGuire, a lyric tenor, has
studied at the opera workshop
of the Aspen, Colorado, In
sititute of Music, where he
trained under Phyllis Curtin,
New York City Center Opera
star.
Alee Dantre, who sings the
baritone role of Valentine, is
well known to North Carolina
uudiences. He is a native of
Texas now residing in Raleigh,
and has been touring with the
Grass Roots Opera Company
since the 1950-51 season.
close on March 17 at sunset and
no one may register after that
time.
STIPULATION: The following
quote from the Institute of Gov
ernment Guidebook for County
and Precinct Election Officials
should settle any uncertainty on
the part of residence-.as to inten
tion of remaining u resident.
“A person shall not be con
oilered *o have gained a resi
st me in any county of this state
snt which he conies for tempo
ral y purposes only, without the
intention of making such county
! s . permanent place of abode. ’’
This rn to be interpreted as
, ri,caning that u “permanent place
>f abode" is one uny move away
from which at upy time in the
i future thould occur contrary to
the expectations of the resident.
For example, enrollment in the
I University, and its concomitant
residence in the area, is not
considered as a valid "permanent
place of abode" if the person in
question pluns to leave the county
or state at the termination of
his school attendance.
It should be noted that a
person need not own property in
order to register and vote.
REGISTRARS: Precinct number
1: Polling Place, Town Hall;
Registrar, Mrs. W.E. Merritt,
413 Pritchard Avenue.
Precinct number 2: Polling
Place, the American Legion Hut;
Registrar, Mr. J. A. Warren, 301
Hillsboro Street.
Precinct number 3: Polling
Place, the main entrance to Wool
len Gyigpasium; Registrar, Mr.
Harold Walters, 714 Greenwood
Road.
Precinct number 4: Polling
Place, the Cone House next to the
Chapel Hill High School; Regis
trar, Mrs. Irene E. Scroggs, 322
McCauley Street.
Precinct number 6: Polling
Place, the Glenwood School;
Registrar, Mrs. L. C. Neville, 4
Oakwood Drive.
Carrboro: Polling Place, Carr
boro Town Hall; Registrar,
Benson Ray, Lloyd-Ray - Co.,
Carrboro.
Mrs. Watkins in Gatesville
Mrs. O. T. Watkins vyent to
Gatesville last Sunday visit
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James
C. Harrell, and also to visit her
brother and sister-in-law, Sgt.
and Mrs. W. E. Harrell, who re
cently returned from France,
where Sgt Harrell had been sta
tioned at Verdun. She wiD re
■tom th/a weekend,.
FRIDAY
ISSUE
Next km Tuesday
question .will be
discussed by Benjamin Mays,
president of Morehouse Col
lege. Atlanta. Ga.; C. A.
McKnight, editor of the
I Charlotte Observer, and Maj
or L. P. McLendon of Greens
boro. a member of the North
Carolina Board of Higher
j Education.
I I “TheiSouth's Progress To
ward Industrialism” will be
j discussed at 8 p.m. Monday
: in Memorial Hall by Philip
G. Hammer, head of Hammer
; and Company, an industrial
relations and development
firm of Atlanta. Ga.; Stanley
Ruttenberg, an AFL-CIO
j economist, and Rupert B.
Vance. U.N.C. sociologist.
Arrangements for the
symposium are being handled
Ijby a committee of 25 Univ
ersity students and 25 Univ
ersity faculty members, with
Chancellor R. B. House as
honorary chairman. Manning
Muntzing is student chair
man. and Frederic Cleave
land is faculty adviser.
A list of other speakers on
the week-long program is
carried in a separate story
on page 5. Some of the dis
tinguished visitors will in
clude United Nations Media
tor Ralph Bunche, New York
Times Correspondent James
Renton, physicist Ralph
Lapp, and Frank Porter Gra
ham. General Carlos Romulo,
. ambassador to the United
States from the Philippines,
./ill deliver the anniutl »>’l
Lectures Thursday an«T Friday
| nights in conjunction with tht
Symposium. * •*
j The purpose of the Symposium
t as stated by its leaders, is “tc
bring together in the spring of
, 1956 for the seventh time in the
. history of the University out
, standing minds speaking in,oper
s forum on critical problems of oui
, times.”
The forerunner of the Sym
posium was the Institute ol
. Human Relations, held six timet
. prior to World War IL The week
B 'long programs, held every twi
. years, brought to the campus out
.. standing speakers to discuss econ
f oinic, social and political theme:
of current importance.
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School Bond Rally
Set for Wednesda>
The Orange Council of tht
'• Parent-Teacher Association wil
t j sponsor a “School Bond Rally’
1 at the Courthouse in Hillsborc
1 Wednesday night, March 14, al
1 8 o'clock.
J. R. J. Smith, co-chairman o;
the Orange County Steering Com
mittee for the Bond Issue, will
* preside. Supt. of Schools C. W
1 Davis, members of the Boarc
of Education and Board of Com
r missioners, and laymen wil
> speak.
’’ All I*. T. A. organizations ir
the county are expected to have
* official representatives at the
■ meeting.
Mahoney in New York Tiraee
The book review section ol
last Sunday’s New York Tiraeq
j carried a poem written by John
Mahoney of the faculty of th<
University’s English Department
* Entitled "Responsory: For St
J Thomasi Aquinas,” it is from Mr
J Mahoney’s recently published
book of poems, “Parousia.”
\ On WC Honor Roll
| Misses Patricia Kelly anr
Do bo thy Moore, both of Chapel
Hill, made the honor roll fol
' the first semester at the Worn
* an’s College in Greensboro.
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j Local lady complaining thatfl
t a daily paper omitted the horo-1
i scope from an issue this week; 9
r therefore, she didn’t know whatl
. to do that day. 1
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, A welcome sign of spring: 1
- Frank Horton walking up I
- Franklin Street puahtng a lawn 1
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