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TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday Vol. 34, No. 22 County Unit of Patriots Claims * More Than 1,500 Members By Chuck Hauser The membership of the Orange County chapter of the Patriots of North Carolina Inc., a statewide pro-segrega tion organization, has reached more than 1,500, according to Carlton Mize, a member of the county executive board. At an organizational rally held in the new courthouse at Hillsboro on Friday night, the county unit signed up 219 new members to push it over 1 the 1,500 mark. Speakers at the rally were W. C. George of Chapel Hill, state pres ident of the Patriots; Bev erly Lake, former assistant attorney-general; and S. H. Me C all, a Montgomery County lawyer who is a member of the Patriots’ state executive committee. At the close of the rally on Friday a short business meeting was held and the following persons were named to the county execu tive board: Mr. Mize, Mr. George, Charles Johnston, Douglas Fambrough, Bruce Riggs bee, Roy Cole, Hubert Mehc ham, Sam Latta, O. M. Powell, E. C. Smith, Lucius Cheshire, Bill Durham, Jack W. Sparrow, Reece Birmingham, Jack Jurney and Robert Fine. More persons will be named to the board soon to bring it up to its authorized strength of 25 members, according to Mr. Johnston. More than 300 persons crowded into the courtroom to hear the three speakers discuss the aims of the Patriots. The main speaker of the evening was Mr. Lake, who presented the legal brief for North Carolina in its role as “amicus curiae” in the Su preme Court case which resulted in the historic decision of May 17, 1954, banning segregation in the public schools. “The important. question to day,” said Mr. Lake, “is nqt how to preserve the public schools but how to educate our children.” The speaker said three roads were open to North Carolina as a result of the Supreme Court decision: (1) Mixed schools, (2) “Voluntary segregation" where by members of different races voluntarily send their children to separate schools, (3) A system of private schools, "with grants-in-aid to children whose parents cannot afford to send them there.” Mr. Lake discarded the first possibility. The second, he said, would not work because of “a fly in the ointment—the NAACP, which would not permit such a system without challenging it in the courts. The third course, according to Mr. Lake, is the one for North Carolina to follow. He said a system similar to the federal “(11 Bill” could legally be insti tuted to provide the tuition grants for children attending the private schools. He urged, following the meeting, that a special session of the General Assembly should be called as soon as possible to eliminate the state constitutional provision that requires the operation of public schools. Noted Organist to (Jive Concert Here i Alexander Schreiner, organist of the Salt Lake Tabernacle, will give an organ concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, ini Hill Hall under the auspices' of the University’s Music De partment. Admission is free and everybody is invited. The concert commemorates the 25th anniversary of the dedica tion of Hill Hall and its Reuter 4-manual organ. The organ was given in 1931 by Mr. and Mrs. John Sprunt Hill of Durham, 1 who were also responsible for the remodeling of Hill Hall for use by the Music Department, it was formerly the University Library. Church organist., concert and radio artist, Mr. Schreiner is now on a tour of the major cities of the nation. His concert here will include works by J. S. Bach, Mendelssohn, the American com posers Richard Keys Biggs, Fan ny Charles Dillon, and Camii Van Hulse, and the French composer Louis Vierne, with whom Schre iner studied at Notre Dame in Paris. Faculty C|ub Luncheon Urban T. Holmes Jr., Kenan professor of romance philology, will speak at the luncheon meet ing of the Faculty Club at the Carolina Inn today (Tuesday) at 1 p.m. Fraternity Pledges To Do Good Works Today (Tuesday) is “Work Day” for some 400 University fraternity pledges who will be working with University, town and church organizations on jobs of a constructive nature. Some of the pledges will be clearing new apartment sites in Victory Village, clearing away trees blown dow-n by hurricanes in Battle Park, and- clearing a' site for a girl’s camp and play ground in Victory Village. Window washing and general cleanup will be done at the Baptist, .Presbyterian, Lutheran, Episcopal, and Congregational churches, and at the Hillel Foundation in Chapel Hill and St. Joseph’s and the First Bap tist Churches in Carrboro. A public carnival will be held Thursday on the Navy Field. Bond Essay Contest Extended to Friday At the request of Chapel Hill School Supt. C. W. Davis, the Weekly’s public service ' essay contest on the school bond issue has been extended through Friday, March 23. Entries postmarked on that day will be considered for the total of SSO in cash prizes. Children are invited to write essays of 100 words or less, completing this sentence: “1 want my parents to vote YES on the school bond issue on March 27th because ” Children may receive help from any source, but the essay must be in their own hand writing. Officers Announced By Flower Society Mrs. Noel Houston of Chapel Hill was elected president of the North Carolina Daffodil Society at its organizational meeting Sunday afternoon at the Church of the Holy Family. Mrs. Clar ynee Heer of Chapel Hill was elected secretary-treasurer, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Moffitt of Burlington w-ere named as the society’s horticultural con sultants. It was decided that all who | join the society before o May 1 w ill be listed as charter members. Membership dues arc $1 a year, j payable to Mrs. Heer. j More than 200 varieties of duf- Ifodils were displayed at the j meeting, hostesses for which jwere members of the three local | garden clubs, the Chapel Hill j Garden Club, Oakview Garden Club, and W. C. Coker Garden ( lub. School Entries Impressive Chapel Hill High School made an impressive showing in state music and drama contests last' week. At Greensboro, the judges 1 commented favorably on Chapel| Hill’s one-act play; and at .Raleigh the band scored an* excellent rating. Lloyd Named Bank Director Roy S. (Tete) Lloyd, a local businessman, has been elected to| the board of directors of the University National Bank. He| succeeds the late George Livas, one of the founding directors' of the institution. . ! Chapel Hillians Can Now Call Eastern Airlines Without Using Long Distance Eastern Airlines has notified the Weekly that a direct tele-| phone service from Chapel Hill j to the Eastern Airlines desk' at the Raleigh-Durham Airport; has been installed and is in working order. All that is necessary to com- ( municate with Eastern AirljnCs now is to lift the telephone receiver and dial 8404 or 8405. The two circuits are on rotary service, which means that if one is lyisy, then the connection automatically switches over to' the other number. Formerly persons calling the Raleigh-Durham Airport from! Chapel Hill had to call long dis-| tance, This direct telephone line; from Chapel,, Jlill is the first j such service to hi iltflaMi The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents a Copy Presbyterians Launch Building Fund Drive For sloo,ooo* to Get $.300,000 From Synod r . .. . . j .■■ ■.. - j ' i i ' * JUb*. - ft y | tHfr By Joe Jones This is a drawing of a front view of the Presbyterian Church as it will look following the com pletion of an expansion plan outlined Sunday evening at a fund campaign launching meet ing of its congregation. Only a small part of the greatly ex panded building can be seen in the picture.' The most obvious addition shown here is the chapel (at left), which will have its back to Kemp’s Music Shop and its front toward the church’s facade and main entrance, which will not be changed. The south wall of the chapel will be Six Girls, Including Two From Here, Have Entered Jaycees 9 Beauty Race .Three more University coeds, including one from Chapel Hill, have entered the Miss Chapel Hill Beauty Pageant sponsored by the Jaycees. Monk Jennings, chairman of the event, said yesterday that the three latest entrants are Miss Joan Norwood of Chapel Hill, Miss Sylvia Tarantino of Tampa, Florida, and Miss Nancy Mc- Fadden of Atlanta. Miss Evelyn Ann Matthews of Chapel Hill is the other contest ant who calls the village her home. She was the third person, to enter the pageant, having been preceded by two coeds, Miss Shirley Joy Carpenter of Oakboro and Miss Libby McDowell of Wake Forest. Mr. Jennings thinks almost 20 girls will enter the contest, the winner of which will com-j pete for the title of Miss North I Carolina. All prospective en-j trants may obtain full informa-' Alden-Newman Recital to Be Tonight Edgar Alden, violinist, and Wil liam S. Newman, pianist, will present a recital of sonatas in Hill Hall tonight (Tuesday) at 8 o’clock. Members of the music depart ment faculty, Mr. Alden and Mr. Newman have appeared to gether in recitals in Chapel Hill and throughout the state under the auspices of the Extension Di vision. Their program will consist of the following works for violin and . piano: Sonata in G. Minor by Jean-Marie Leelair; Sonata in C Minor, op. 30, no. 2 by Bee thoven; Sonata in' E flat, op. 18 by Richard Strauss. Jean-Marie Leelair (1697-1764) born in Lyons, France, composed chamber music, concertos, one opera, ballet music, and diver tissements. Known for his abili ty as a violinist, Leelair wrote several books of violin sonatas. Most of these works have con siderable technical difficulties. since the Airport was built in |1943. Eastern Airlines' wished to (emphasize fact that only i Eastern Airlines can be reached ,by the two above numbers. Con-j | nection with any other airline [there still requires a long dis , tance call. To Give Wednesday Recital Polly Wilkerson, pianist, and Dewey Brett., 'cellist, University 1 students, will present a junior | recital in Hill Hall, Wednesday at 8 p.m. Their program will I include works by J. S. Bach, ißela Bartok, Chopin, and Saint jSaena. Brett will be accompanied jbjr Hunter Tillman from Rox- CHAPEL HILL, N. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1956 much nearer Franklin Street than the front of the church. Seating 108, the chapel will be used for students' meetings, Sunday school worship meetings, special week-day worship services, and weddings. Just beyond the westernmost pillar of the church porch is a window of what will be the church parlor, and to the left of that is the hall that will connect the chapel to the rest of the church plant. Projecting beyond the tree at the far right is part of the three-story Sunday school addi tion that will be folded around tion from Mr. Jennings at Town and Campus. Miss Matthews is a 21-year old five-foot-three brown-eyed brunette end daughter of J. S. Matthews of Chapel Hill. She is a graduate of the Chapel Hill High School, where she was ia the Valentine Court three years. She also attended the University here and Hanjbarger’s Business College in Raleigh, and has been active in Y-Teens and Town Girls Association activities. Miss Carpenter is an attractive brunette junior in music at the Llniversity. Miss McDowell is. also a music student at UNC. In past years, Chapel Hill’s winners have been Miss Dot Hogan, who is now Mrs. Wil liam D. Basnight, Miss Iris Mer ritt, Miss Ann Jacobs, Miss Bar bara Ann Stone, and Miss Joan ; Brown. Three of them have plac ed in the finals of the state con -1 test. Occasionally an entire movement may be written in doublestops. The sonata in C Minor was writ ten in approximately 1728. Strauss, composer of songs, tone poems, and operas, wrote the violin sonata, op. 18, in 18- 87. It was one of the first works to appear in the new “Expres sionistic” style advocated by Strauss’ friend, Ritter. At this time, the composer was assistant conductor of the Munich Opera. The sonata displays evidence of more advanced harmonic idiom characteristic of “Till Eulenspie gel,” “Salome,” and “Electra." Beethoven’s violin sonata is one of three published in 1802 and dedicated to the Czar Alex ander of Russia. In four move ments, the sonata was written the same year as- the Second Symphony and the Piano Sonata Op. 31, No. 2. Women Voters’ Study Meetings Study units of the League of Women Voters will meet this week as follows; Unit 1 at 10 a.m. today (Tuesday) with Mrs. Memory Lester at 606 Pittsboro Road; Unit 2 at 8 p.m. Wednes day in the Town Hall; Unit 3 'at 2:30 Thursday with Mrs. Car 'son Ryan on Mason Farm Road; | Unit 4 at 8 p.m. Thursday with j.Mrs. Walter Hartung on Goose , neck Road. The topic of discus- I sions at all meetings will be (“American Tariffs and World Trade.” Community Club Meeting The Community Club’s Ameri can Home Department will meet at 3 p.m. Thursday, March 22, at tlie Style Craft Shop on the Chapel Hill-Durham highway. The group will tour the shop and inspect ita line of furnish ing*, after which Mrs. Mary Hel en Cole of Durham will speak on “Interior Decoration.” All maw ben are . «rgc4 to be on the rear of the church and extend ulmost back to Rosemary street and east and west from the Basnight property line ulmost to the alley on the east of the church property. Its top floor will be. for primary and junior grades, the first floor for the kindergarten, and the ground floor for high school students (on the west side) and babies (on the east side). As Alan Keith-Lucas said when he was describing plans for the Sunday school section at Sunday even ing’s meeting, “There will be a sleeping room for babies and next to it a crying room, where a crying baby can be taken before he starts an epidemic of crying.” The church has bought the vacant property between Michael’s Restaurant and the Basnight Apartments and on it will build a two-story student wing that will cover practically the entire lot from the restau rant to the Basnight line (which is very near the apartment building itaelf) and extending from Henderson Street to she main church building. Its lobby front entrance will be on Henderson Street. The . ground floor of thi* wing will include (on the south side) an auditorium or "fellowship hall” with a stage 45 feet deep and 90 feet wide. On the north side of the ground floor will be a kitchen (Continued on page 5) ! Playmakers Schedule Production of an Original Folk Comedy March 22-25 A new Carolina folk comedy, written by a former University graduate student, will be pre sented by the Carolina Playmak ers Thursday through Sunday, March 22-25. Performances will be given nightly at 8:30, with a special matinee on Sunday at 2:30. “Cat in Gloves,” a full-length play by Baxter Sasser, is the new production, written in the vein of the early UNC student written dramas during the era of Frederick 11. (Proff) Koch, former head of the Playmakers. Among the early folk-play writ ers were Paul Green, Bernice Kelly Harris, and Thomas Wolfe, who studied "playwriting before he became a novelist. Mr. Sasser is a native of Mt. Olive, in the area iti which his play takes placer After complet ing his M. A. degree here last summer, he took a teaching | position at St. Mary's College, St. Mary’s Md. His “Cat in Gloves” began as a one-act play j presented two years ago, called “Jezabel Shoes.” Cast in the production, directed by Foster Fitz-Simons of the Playmaker staff, are lass Casey of Chapel Hill as Teresa Bryant; Gloria Di Costanza and Patricia Simmons, both of Chapel Hill, as her nieces, Gracie and Susie Lambert; Flora Roebuck of New Bern as “Miss Maggie” Jenkins; Paul McCauley of Fayetteville as Keith Lambert; Harold Wil liamson of Sims as John Miller; and Bill Straughn of Chapel Hill as young Tom Lambert. Stage manager and designer for the production are James Heldman of Durham and James M. Riley, Playmakers’ technical director. The story is about "Aunt Ra sa,” who has been caring for her dead sister’s family, consisting of three children and their at tractive father, a quiet, hard working, naive farmer. “Miss Maggie" is a plump and flirta tious schoolteacher seeking a sec ond husband after the loss of her first, whom she had lured and cajoled away from straight forward, honest kesa. Ream still keeps the beautiful 20-year-old Chapel Mill Chaff J. J. Miss Marilyn Habel, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Samuel T. Habel of Chapel Hill, gave a fine tele vision performance Wednes day “evening when she ap peared on the Schiffman’s Jewelry Store program on Greensboro's Channel 2 to tell about her year of study in Europe on a Rotary Club fellowship. Her talk was re freshing because it was easy and natural, but without the slickness of the professional performer. She wasn’t afraid of the camera. She had no reason to be. When Mr. Schiffman was introducing Miss Habel he said, “This evening we have! a special treat for you—aj young lady from Chapel! Hill.” Chapel Hillians can be| proud Miss Habel appeared as a representative of their town. The impression she made on the televiewer was extremely .favorable. On.' the same program with Miss Habel were two other young women, one from Peru and one from Sweden, who are studying in Greensboro on Rotary Club fellowships. * * * I am often frightened by my narrow escapes from the misuse of words that seem familiar to me but prove otherwise when looked up in the dictionary. Os course I don’t always escape. I once wrote something about “in ternecine strife,” thinking the phrase meant a fight among brothers or people of the same group or nation. I found out later that what I wanted to say was “fratri cidal” instead of “inteme necine,” which means “mu tually slaughterous or des tructive of life” and is in no way a designation of who is fighting. A close miss was when I was about to use “fulsome praise” in a sense that ' (Continued on page 2) was never worn. "Miss Maggie” exerts her charm ovfyr Keith in stepping between Gracie and her boyfriend, John, but the family unity is a bigger Obstacle than she had reckoned for. According to the Playmaker publicity director, if the performances provide as much fun and laughs as the rehearsals have for cast, direct or, and observers, the play should be one of the most delightful ever seen on the Playmakers’ stage. Tickets for the five perform ances are available at 214 Aber nethy Hall, Ledbetter-Pickard’s, or Box 1050, Chapel Hill. All seats arp reserved. W. I. 1,. I*. F. Meeting The Chapel Hill branch of the Women’s International league for Peace and Freedom will meet at 8 p.m. tomorrow (Wednesday) at the home of Mrs. Raymond Adams on Patterson Place. The members will give reports of their study of the Middle East., Visitors are invited. ‘The Magic Pin / by Ina B . Forbus, Is to Be Published by Viking Press Mrs. Ina B. Forbus has been notified that the Viking Press has accepted a 39,000-word man uscript of hers and will publish it this year under the name of “The Magic Pin." A book for girls between the ages of eight and eleven, it is about a nine year-old girl who is given her Grandma’s pin and finds that it has the magical faculty of letting her understand and speak to animals and birds. To come out in the fall, the book will be illustrated by Cory don Bell of Sapphire, N. C. When questioned about the good news from Viking, Mrs. Forbus said, “I sent them the manuscript a year ago. They re turned it with suggestions. I reworked it during the summer and took it to them lest Septem ber when I was in New York. This time it was accepted.” Eathu ‘- wha h " $4 > Year in County; other rates on page 2 James Farlow Files for Commissioner of Labor Attorney James R. Farlow will be the only Chapel Hillian running for nomination for a statewide office in the May 26 Democratic primary. Mr. Farlow, a former Labor Department administrator in Raleigh, has paid his filing fee to attempt to unseat Local Jaycees OK School Bond Issue The Chapel Hill Jaycees endorsed the $2,000,000 Orange County school bond issue at theii meeting at the Carolina "Inn Thursday night. Endorsement of the issue followed a discussion by Supt. of Schools Paul Carr of Hillsboro and Carl Smith, chairman of the Chapel Hill School Board. ! Bill Olsen has been appointed chairman of the club’s get-out-the vote campaign for Saturday. A paper drive will be con ducted by the Jaycees next Sunday afternoon, and residents of both Carrboro and Chapel Hill were urged to begin saving paper this week. Gallery Talk Set . For This Afternoon A gailery talk on the Picasso exhibit in the Person Hall Art Gallery will be given at 5 p.m. today (Tuesday) by John V. All cott, head of the University’s Department of Art. The public is invited. The exhibit consists of 78 prints by Picasso, the most fam ous living artist. It includes cubism, surrealism, and neo-clas sical themes, early works from around 1905, and a variety of recent works. A second gallery talk will be given at 6 p.m. Friday, March 23. Bridge and Canasta Party Said Success Tte b'narflt .bridge and cm* as'a party sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary Unit at Hillel House here last Wednesday has been pronounced a success by unit officers. Mrs. J. C. Heitman, president, and Mrs. Norman Jackson and Mrs. John J. Keller Jr., co-chair men of the event, yesterday ex pressed their appreciation to the following workers: Mrs. Ruby Mellette, Mrs R. T. Madden, Mrs. T. R. Pendergraft, Mrs. F. I). Horner, Mrs. Jane Gilbert, Mrs. W. E. Williams, Mrs. Fred Bowden, Mrs. John J. Keller Sr., Mrs. C. P. Hinshaw, Mrs. D. M. Horner, Mrs. Fred Varley, Mrs. Creighton Hump hreys, Mrs. L. J. Phipps, Mrs. John Uinstead, Mrs. R. B, Fitch, Mrs. Ethel Fare, Mrs. Henry A. Whitfield, Mrs. E. B. Patterson, Mrs. Troy Herndon, Mrs. S. A. | Nathan, Mrs. VV. M. Neal, Mrs. 1 Roy Cola, Miss Betty Marks, land Mrs. John J. Heitman. It was announced yesterday | that State Department Com mander of the Legion Paul H. Robertson of Chapel Hill would be present at the radio-bingo party which the local Legion and Auxiliary will give at the I Veterans Hospital in Durham I this week. Norman F. Jackson and Mrs. Nancy Humphrey? have recruited a number of local volunteers to assist with the party. Paint and Sketch Workshop The Community Club’s Paint and Sketch Workshop will meet at 1:30 Friday, March 23, with Mrs. J. Bright Kelly at 38l Ten ney Circle. ten some delightful articles for the Weekly, in the wife of Sam ple Forbus, the superintendent of Watts Hospital. They live about twelve miles from Chapel Hill, off tpe old Greensboro Road, in a wonderful old house on Cane Creek. Garden Club Study Group The study group of the Chapel Hill Garden Club will meet at Mrs. Noel Houston’s home at 10:- 30 a.m. Thursday of this week to visit the garden and home of Mrs. R. J. Reid in Hope Valley between here and Durham. Cattle Sale Thursday Agricultural workers cooper ating with the Farmers Ex change Livestock Market will hold a Beef Cattle Sale at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 22nd, at the Farmers Exchange Livestock TUESDAY ISSUE Nnt tarn FMa j ’LiaDor Commissioner Frank Crane, who is running for re-election. A third candi date in the race is H. D. Lambeth Jr., Guilford County school superinten dent. Also on Friday the Orange County elections board was ap pointed. It is composed of S. T. Latta Jr., Hillsboro; Clyde C. Carter, Chapel Hill and M. L. Cates Jr., Hillsboro. In a -prepared statement of his candidacy, Mr. Farlow de clared he was running “in view of my prior experience in the State Department of Labor and Employment Service and on my background in administering the labor law and related acts af fecting the working man. North Carolina is becoming more indus trialized every day. I am inter ested in promoting our continued growth along this line and in en couraging good employer-em ploye relationships.” A native of Randolph County, the Chapel Hillian has practiced law here for eight years, fol lowing experience as a business administration teacher at High Point College, branch manager of the N. C. Employment Se curity office in Burlington, and administrative work in the State Labor Department. During World War II he serv ed as an economist with the Na tional War Labor Board and in the Air Force. He has been active in Young Democrats, serving as president of the Orange County Club two years, and is now a member of the State YDC executive com mittee. He also has been solicitor of Orange County Recorder’s Court and is now on the executive ummittee of the District Bar Association. , Women Voters Are Continuing: Study The Chapel Hill unit of the League of Women Voters is con tinuing its study in international trade, wth special emphasis on the Organization for the Co operation of Trade, known as O. T. C. The O. T. C. has the backing of President Eisenhower and is being submitted to Con gress for approval, hearings on it having been held during the past week. It is being opposed by several groups, including the American Tariff League, the Cot ton Textile organization, seg ments of the American Bar As sociation, ami others. The Chapel Hill unit’s com mittee on international trade is composed of Mrs. Rashi Fine, chairman; Mrs. Victor Masket, Mrs. James Riley, and Mrs. Rob ert Wettach. At the League’s 1 four unit meetings to be held jthis week the committee will pre- Isent the historical background lof trade policy in the United States and the pros and cons of 0. T. C. On Television Today Third graders of Mrs. Frank West’s room at Glenwood Ele mentary School will be on ■ WUNC-TV today (Tuesday) from [2 to '2:30 p.m. They will give | a demonstration of rhythms, I iearned in connection with their study project, on the Play in School program, directed by Mrs. Ruth Fink, head of the Univer sity’s Division of Physical Edu cation for Women, Change in Meeting Place Study Unit No. 4 of the League of Women Voters, scheduled to meet at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 22, at the home of Miss Lucy Morgan, will meet instead (same time and ilate) at the home of Mrs. Walter Hartung on Goose neck Road. Faculty Wives Entertained Mrs. Wilfred Gallagher enter tained the Dental Faculty Wives at a coffee hour last Wednesday morning at her home on Pitts boro Road. Chapel JHllnote* Rare sight last Saturday afternoon: Noel Houston walk ing across University campus all dressed up as if for a wedding. • * * School children asking their parents for information on ft**
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