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FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday Vol. 34. No. 23 High School Swimming Team Places Third in Slate '■'*-*‘V7 It l - ~ ’ 4PV JWWIPBPiipWBr *k* i>&W*s»3iw ||m f £r?k :^H S' -<;..«H jp* ■ f ..._ 111 «.*ii®ls§®le |M|L.. -Jf:| ; ' *&Bm V fH| y **» c?.Bpl im> -'■* **~x I : - jp|t, || ft t i / ft* K *j\ jfe 9 |JK J|| Ik ii"' i'i i 'l! i ft/Bhl > * 'T' v? .& jf aMk, • mW' : 111 jk? y \H ■ .’iMF ,/■»• • ■BBT w iMP : '"'... VapT Jp mr 9^:^99 —Photo by M A Quillen Here is the Chapel Hill Ilijih School shimming team which placed third in the state at the championship meet held last week. Front row, left toright: Jimmy Jamerson, I’ete Talbert, Chris Fink, and Teddy Moore. Hark row, left to right: Tommy Butler, Coach Bill Burgess and Ben Crutchfield. The Chapel Mill High School swimming team closed out its season by tying for third place! in the State Championship Swim- 1 iniiig Meet held here last Satur-j day in Bowman Gray Pool. This; was a fine showing for a squad 1 with much less numerical strength than most of the other high school swimming teams in North Carolina. In fact, the team has only six regular members, as follows: Teddy Moore, and Pete Talbert, seniors; Ben Crutch field, a sophomore, and Jimmy Jamerson, Chris Fink, and Tom my Butler, freshmen. Bill Bur Children at Glenwood Make Good Use Os Peter Garvin Memorial Library Children at Glenwood Elemen tary School have read,,in e«er*ge of 41 books each since school started in September, Mrs. Gor don Ellis, school librarian, told members of the board of trustees of the Peter Garvin Memorial Library this week. Mrs. Ellis entertained mem bers of the board and their wives and husbands at dinner at her home on Pine Lane. Dr. Kerr White, board chairman, presided at a business meeting held fol lowing dinner. The total circulation of library books since September has been 15,540, Mrs. Ellis reported. Al-* though the largest number of; hooks circulated was fiction, there; were 5,075 books of non-fiction read by the 1175 children in the school. Biography led the list,: with 11,022, followed by pure science with 817, applied science with <551, social science and fairy! tales with 546, history and geog ! raphy with 526 and fine arts with 146. The Peter Garvin Library nowj has a total of 1,902 volumes, with| several hundred more expected; Plemmons to Be Inaugurated President Os Appalachian at 10 A.M. Tomorrow William Howard Plemmons, formerly a member of the fac ulty of the University’s School of Education, will be inaugurated president of Appalachian State Teachers College at 10 am. to morrow (Saturday) at Boone. The inauguration ceremonoes, In be* held in the college’s audi torium-gymnasium, will begin with music by the college or chestra and choir and an invoca tion by 1. G. Greer of Chapel Hill, consultant for the North Carolina Business Foundation and an old friend of Mr. Plem mons. Greetings on behalf of various groups will be brought by Gov ernor Luther Hodges, speaking for the State; I). Hideri Kamsey, chairman of the State Board 'of Higher Education, speaking for the state institutions of high er education; Hoyt Blackwell, president of Mars Hill college, speaking for the private and church-related colleges; Harry Hallburton of Drexel, president of the Appalachian Alumni Asao La»t Call for School Bond Essays ¥ Today (Friday) it the last dug children may enter the Weekly's school bond issue assay contest. Entries must be postmarked not later than today. Open to any child in Orange County, the conteet offers SSO , it prises for the best 100-word essay completing this sentence: “I wont my parents to rote YES on the scheol head fetus be cjuse . . ." gess, former University swim mer ami now a graduate student at the University, is the team's •coach. He describes his six swim | mers as "willing workers.” The record shows they were ' indeeil willing. Although there weren’t enough of them to win 1 any dual meets, the six of them , scored enough points in individual events to have won had there , been a diver on the team and enough members to compete in the relays. In five dual meets the team lost twice to Raleigh (46-21 and 42-26), twice to Greensboro (41-26 and 4D-22) and ■ to he added during the year. Mrs. F'lis said that the next serious need of Cis library was a.v*jr set of Compton’s Fncyclo' <sdi*. Mrs. Robert Cadmus, chairman of the PTA library committee, announced that 72 books had been donated by children at the school, part of them on the reg ular birthday program, in which each pupil is asked to give a book to the school library on his birthday. Harold Weaver discussed plans for the presentation of a memori al plaque to the late Peter Gar vin, son of Dr. and Mrs. O. David ; Garvin, in whose memory the li brary was established. The , j : plaque will hang in an appropri ate place on the walls of the library. Plans were also discussed for S setting up a summer program for the Peter Garvin Library, which will be worked out in co j operation with the Mary Bayley Pratt library downtown, so both i libraries will be able to provide | summer reading material and [story hours for Chapel Hill chil | dren. ciation, speaking for the alumni; William II Henson of Mocksville, president of the Applachian Stu dent Bi*dy, speaking for the stu dents of the college; and J. T. C. Wright, head of the department of mathematics at Appalachian, speaking for the faculty. The president will be installed by William J. Conrad of Winston- Salem, chairman of the Hoard of Trustees of Appalachian State Teachers College. Following the installation, Mr. Plemmons will give his inaugural address. The program will end with the Alma Mater, sung by the audi ence. The benediction will be giv en by the Rev. L. H. Hollings worth, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Boone. The orchestra will play, as the postlude, “Tri umphal March” from Greig's “Siguard Jorsalfar.” Following the formal exercises of the inaugural, an invitation luncheon will be served in the college cafeteria to the college's official delegates and guests. The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents a Copy once to the Duke freshmen by only 45-39, with Duke getting its winning margin in the final relay. In the season’s championship meets the team took fourth place in the East Carolina Invitation Meet, ninth in the Southeastern Championships at Atlanta, Ga., third in the high school division of the Southern Scholastic Meet here in Chapel Hill, and tied for third in the State High School Championships. In last Saturday's State Championships members of the Chapel Hill team scored as fol lows: Jamerson, Ist in 200-yard freestyle; Talbert, Fink, Jamer son, and Moore first in 200-yard medley relay with a new state record of 2:00.4; Talbert 2nd in 100-yard backstroke; Fink 3rd in 100-yard breaststroke; Moore 3rd in 50-yard freestyle, Crutchfield, Butler, Galla gher, and Alexander sth in 200- yard relay. New swimming records for Chapel High School were set during the season as follows: Teddy Moore: 50-yard freestyle, 24.7; 100-yard freestyle, 58.3. Pete Talbert, 100-yard back stroke, 1:08.6. Jimmy Jamerson, 200-yard freestyle, 2:10.2; 220- yard freestyle, 2:35; 440-yard freestyle, 5:30. l’ete Talbert, Chris Fink, Jimmy Jamerson, and Teddy Moore, 200-yard med ley relay, 2:00.4. l’ete Talbert, Mike Alexander, Ben Crutch field, and Teddy Moore, 200- yard freestyle relay, 1:46.5. Chris Fin k, 200-yard breaststroke, 2:49. Red Cross Seeking Another Thousand Chapel Hill lied Cross officials announced yesterday that SB,- 160 had been collected in the local chapter’s annual member ship and fund-raising drive. This is almost a thousand dollars short of the $9,181 goal. Persons who have not contrib uted to the drive and would like to help make up the difference are asked to send contributions to the Chapel Hill Red Cross Office, P. O. Box 777, or bring them to the office itself, which is at 318',ii East Franklin Street (upstairs next door to Wootten- Mouiton). Reunion of Winstons March 31 Roger Goiran, Mrs. Goiran (the former Miss Carolyn Winston), and their two sons and two daughters, Pierre, Philip, Ann, and.four-year-old Po-Lucie, began last Saturday in Washington an automobile journey that is bak ing them to visit in Virginia, Oklahoma, and Mississippi. They wJI reach here in time for a fam ily reunion on Jo-Lucie’s birth day, March 31, at the home of Mrs. P. H. Winston and Mr. and Mrs. George Winston and Barry and Judy. Mr. and Mrs. Pat Win ston and Phyllis and Susan will come from Greensboro. When the Goirans leave for Washing ton April 1 Mrs. P. H. Winston will go with them for a visit. She will be with them on her birthday, April 10. Miss MacLeod in Cincinnati Miss Isabelle MacLeod, the University’s acting dean of wom en, is in Cincinnati, Ohio, at tending the annual meeting of the National Association of Deans of Women, which began Wednesday and will continue through Sunday. CHAPEL HILL, n7c., FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1966 Chapel J4ill Cha[[ J. J. Saturday morning in a crowded Chapel Hill barber shop a Qian in a hurry came in to get a haircut. Since he didn’t have much time to [ spare from his business he | was about to leave without sitting down when he saw his own ten-vear-old son and found out the boy had been there a while and was in deed next in line. ‘Til just trade places with my son,” the man told the barber whose chair was be ing vacated. “I’ll take his place and he can take mine when it comes up.” This was all right with the barber, but not with the boy, who objected so strenu ously (and so loudly) that the father left the shop, sav- I ing he would come back for I his haircut some other day. j Another man waiting his f turn said he was reminded of a barber shop racket he had as a boy. ”1 discovered it by accident,” he said, “when a man in a hurry of fered me ten cents for my , place in line. After that I’d r go down to the barber shop I almost every Saturday, and as often as not somebody! * would buy my turn. Some ( days 1 made as much as i thirty cents. That was a lot , to a boy in those days. 1 “But the barbers didn’t J; appreciate it. When they 1 saw what I was doing, one of them went to my father i and asked him to make me s stop. Another thing about J those (lavs was that boys had to do what their parents I told them, so that was the s end of my little racket.” 1 While the conversation 1 was still on barbers and bar ’ her shops one of the custom ! era said he guessed W. M. - Marlev was the most suc cessful barber to get his start in Chapel Hill. “He began with a barber t chair in his dormitory room . at the University and I bet (Continued on Page 2) , .... . Catholic Services I The Catholic Church will hold • services at 5:30 p. m. on Holy < Thursday and (food Friday at Gerrard Hall. | 1 ' r " 1 Tut in (iloves’ Four Chapel Hillians Appear in Current Play maker Show Four Chapel Hillians are in the cast of seven in the Carolina Playmakers' production of Bax ter Sasser’s new folk comedy, "Cat in Gloves,” which opened ■ last night at the Haymakers Theatre and will be repeated at 8:30 pm. today (Friday), tomorrow, and Sunday, and at a matinee at 2:30 pin. Sunday. 1 They are Mrs. Les Casey in the leading role of Aunt Resa, and three Chapel Hill school ‘children, Gloria Di Costanza, Pa tricia Simmons, and Billy Straughn. Mrs. Casey is the wife of Ralph Casey, the University’s swimming coach. She herself won a Southern AA l! swimnring title under Mr. Casey’s coaching be- Palm Sunday Music At Baptist Church Special Palm Sunday services, including music by the 30-voice choir, will be held at 11 o’clock day after tomorrow at the Bap tist Church. Mrs. John Crabtree is the di rector of the choir, which will sing Handel’s “Since by Man Came Death,” Scimmerling’s “The Royal Banners Forward Fly,” Stainer’s “God So Loved the World,” and Handel’s "Hallelu jah:” Barbecue Supper Planned The Band Parents Club will give a barbecue supper from 5:30 to 7:30 p. m. Monday, April 9, at the high school Tin Can for the benefit of the Chapel Hill High School Band. Tickets are being sold in advance by members of the club and the band and will not be available at the supper itself. The prices are $1.50 for barbecued chicken and $1.25 for barbecued peck. The food will be prepared, by Lloyd Griffin of Goldsboro, f»- berbec— maker. Shouldn’t Affect Vote Will Public Schools Be Abandoned? By Chuck Hauser Will North Carolina ever abandon its public schools in favor of a system of private education in order to sidestep the l. S. Supreme Court ruling against seg regation? That question will probably be in the minds of some Orange County citizens when they go to the polls next Tuesday to vote on the proposed two million dollar bond issue. Why approve a large bond is sue. they may ask,,if the public schools are going to be legislated out of existence? School officials and pro-bond issue workers in the county believe that the question of possible elimination of the public school system should not be a con trolling factor in voting on the bonds. Carl Smith, chairman of the Chapel Hill School Board, voiced the view of most informed persons in this area when he made the following points for Weekly readers yesterday: 1. He does pot believe the voters of March of IHiucm Kxcceda li* boal Orange County again went over the top in the March! of Dimes drive this year. 1 Campaign Chairman E.j .Carrington Smith announc-| led yesterday that citizens! l of the county contributed $10,297.71 to top the $lO,- 000 quota. “1 want to thank every person who contributed to this worthwhile cause, and 1 I want to thank every work 'er and every chairman,” ' said Mr. Smith, who has been chairman of the an nual effort since it was founded by the late Presi dent Roosevelt. “We have always gone over the top in the drive, and we’ve done it again, showing just how wonderful and generous the ff Orange County Mr. Smith was assisted in the campaign by Mrs. Jesse L. West in Carrboro, Sheriff Odell Clayton in Hillsboro and the northern section of the county, Supt. Paul Carr in the schools, Mrs. Orville Campbell in the Mother’s March, and the Rev. J. C. Burnette among the colored citizens. fore they were married in 1911. She has been in many Carolina Playmakers productions, and so have her children, Mike and Dee. The play, about a husband hunting widowed schoolteacher, is being directed by Foster Fitz ' Simons. It was written in the Mk H mH*'. ■L; Jffi r,.v,*i _ ■Heißij. gH| H BBL jfjl ” ipp-' Bhown above are Miaa Chris Di Costanss of Chapel Hill and Harold Williamson of Simt, as they appear in s scene from, the nrednetion of “Cat In Cloven." now hppeariag at the Flay* fmkffi TkMlrc. North Carolina will ever do away with a system of free public education. 2. School facilities such as those which will be built with the two million dollars in bond money will be needed just as much under a system of private education as they will be under a system of public edu cation. In North Carolina, the leading spokes man of the movement to replace public schools with private schools is Beverly Lake, a former Wake Forest law professor now engaged in private practice in Ra leigh, who presented this state’s brief as “amicus curiae” in the early segregation hearings before the Supreme Court. In Hillsboro last week, Mr. Lake sang a familiar song: The General Assembly should amend the state constitution to eliminate the clause requiring the state to operate a system of free public schools. Assuming that the amendment will be*tp proved by the people in the fall general I (Continued on page 5) I Some Good Reasons for Voting Tes' In Bond Issue Election on Tuesday (This article dealing specifi-l call) with the school bond issue |is the fifth in a series of five [articles on the Chapel Hill school j situation which the Weekly is[ publishing as a public service.) ‘ By J. V. C. Dunn Next Tuesday (March 27th) | the voters of the county will, go to the polls and vote on the two-million-dollar ‘school bond issue, and in order that these voters mark their ballots with the facts of the matter fresh| in their minds, we here present! four pertinent questions and their answers, us well as a detail ed enumeration of what the all-important two million dollars will be used for. Why is the bond issue needed ? Why can’t we wait and do it later, say some people. The rea son is quite simple—two million dollars spent now will just bare ly correct the most glaring faults in the Chapel llill and Orange County school facilities, and two million dollars spent at a later date, what with depreciation and increase in school enrollment, will not begin to do the necessary job of revamping. School buildings in all parts of the county have inadequate toilet facilities, non fire-resist ant stairways, and insufficient lunchroom facilities. O rang e County education is currently be ing administered in 42 base ments, cafeterias, libraries, audi- vein of the Carolina folk dramas written and produced here in the early days of the Carolina Playmakers about 30 years ago. Tickets, at $1.50 each, are on sale at 214 Abernethy Hall and Ledbetter-Pickard’s. All seats ure reserved. $4 a Year in County; other rates on page 2 | toriums and sub-standard rooms. [Twenty-eight of these are lo cated in the county and fifteen in Chapel Hill. Several rooms I will hold only eighteen pupils, ; which means that half of the j capability of the teacher in [charge of them is being wasted, I since that teacher could be hand ling thirty pupils in a larger | room. | Carrboro need*- and needs ; NOW—a completely new plant 'with at lea>t 16 classrooms and an auditorjum, a library, a lunch room, a music room, etc. When it rains or is cold the 1 Chapel Hill High School bas ketball team cannot play on its court because of the leaking roof and the lack of heating equip ment. Would you feel you were get ting aa much as possible out of school if you couldn't have a hot PjAji:* Os course and yet two schools in the county have no lunchroom facilities at all. That’s another reason why money is needed now. We have established that the bond issue is needed now. But who says so besides us 7 The list is impressive: National and local experts studying education al problems here and everywhere say that quick action is im perative. The County Commissioners are wholeheartedly in favor of the bond issue. The County Superintendent of Schools and the Chapel Hill Sup erintendent of Schools urgently support the bond issue, as well as the Orange County and Chapel . Hill Sc hold Boards, unanimously. , The Board of Directors of the t Chapel Hill ( arrboro Merchants Association is in favor of the ( bond issue, also the Chapel Hill |j Exchange Club, the kiwanis JClub, and the ('arrboro Lions Club, and the Junior Chamber of Commerce. All these organizations agree that since the state provides the teachers, the county must provide the buildings; and just to bring the buildings up to state standards we need at least 85 additional classrooms, librar ies, lunchrooms, fire towers, shops, auditoriums and gymnas iums. What’s it going to cost you? For the necessary improvements in school facilities the average taxpayer will have to foot a bill of less than twenty cents a week. There are approximately 14,000 taxpayers in Orange County with an assessed valua tion of $74,000,000. Using these figures, the maximum annual cost (based on the 16 cents per SIOO maximum increase) to the average taxpayer will be only $8.46 —less than twenty cents a week. Now think of what you spend twenty cents on every week that you DON’T REALLY HAVE TO SPEND: you buy a cigar, a pack of gum, a candy liar, one more glass of beer, a coke, odd-man out for a cup of coffee; wouldn’t you give up a candy bar or a coke so that your son or daugh ter can have a hot lunch every day? Certainly you would. But what if the bond issue fails? What if the voters don’t see it this way and turn the whole project down? Your bus iness partner, jfour minister, your barrtcer, the man who fills your tank with gas, will all tell you that they’d /really hurt inside If thejr communlty ever got so low that .people could honestly ‘(Continued on Page •) FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday Rodman Requests Court to Dismiss Local School Sait Dismissal of a five-vear old suit brought to seek equal facilities for white and Negro children in the Chapel Hill schools was ask ed in U. S. District Court at Greensboro by State At torney-General W. B. Rod man this week. As read here, newspaper stories of Mr. Rodman’s sup plemental answer to the suit were misleading. The news stories said the original suit was brought to end segrega tion in Chapel Hill schools. That was not the case. 4Jhe suit, filed January 9. 1901, sought to force the local school board to take bond money voted for Glenwoud Elementary School and with ' it complete and build a gym ! torium for Lincoln High School. Although the action has been dormant for five years, routine calendaring of it for trial next Wednesday ih Federal Court at Durham brought renewed interest in its final disposition. Trial of ! the case had been delayed i pending Supreme Court de , visions on segregation. Mr. Rodman asked for its dismissal a week in advance of scheduled trial, contend ing that the state school i board has no right, under new state law, to assign any child to any particular * school. His answer was sak , to have been predicated up ; on a fear that the court, in disposing of the suit shoulc it come to trial next week, • might read integration into r the decision. > i f HiH School Super r intfehaurit C. W* Davis sak : he does not believe the pres ent suit has had any basis since the Supreme Court’s 1 integration decision. He add ■ ed that he hoped trial of i ! would not be demanded, ant that he believed now “every ! one here is happy” with the Lincoln facilities. He said the local school board opposed the suit at the outset, because "the money : had been voted for Glen wood School. Besides, there wasn’t enough to complete 1 either it or the facilities at 1 Lincoln at the time. But ' there was nothing in the , suit about integration. We ■ even dismissed our attor neys, but this week we have employed John Q. LeGrand to represent us next week in Durham.” Special Music at Community Church The Community Church choir will present a special program of Faster music at the regular 11 o’clock worship service Sun day morning, March 25, in Hill Music Hall. Paul Gene Strassler is director of the choir. Music to be sung will include a duet, “Anima Mea, Liquefacta Hat,” sung by James Pruett and Jene Strassler, tenors; “Tamquam Ad Latronem,” by Thomas Vic toria, and “Ad Dominant Cum Tribularer,” by Hans Hassler. “Four Motets for a Time of Penitence” by Francis Paulenc will be sung by the small choir. Two compositions of R. Vaug han Williams will be presented. The first, “Valiant-for-truth,” ia based on words from John_Bun yan’s "Pilgrim’s Progress,” and the second, “The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune,” is for choir and congregation and was arranged by Williams for the coronation of Flizubeth 11. . Chapel Jfillnotei Ralph Scott, candidate for Congress, ambitiously and hopefully invading our Carl Durham’s town looking for votes day before yesterday, • • • . Carolina Pharmacy making plans to open at 5:80 a. Sunday, April 1, to am peo ple up early for Easter Sun riaa Sarrke,