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The Chapel Hill Weekly
Chapel Hill North Carolina
IX E. Ramuri Telephone M2TI or Mil
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Published Every Tuesday end Friday
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The School Bond Issue Can Be Defeated
Next Tuesday If Its Supporters
Are Too Complacent to Vote
“We urge you to vote YES or. the
school bond issue for March 27th. We
realize that pood schools are essential
for the well being of this community.
We know that additional facilities must
be built during the next five Years to
take care of increased enrollment The
only way Orange County can finance
it's school needs is through the support
of this bond issue. We are going to vote
YES. and we urge you to vote YES on
March 27th.''
The above paragraph heads up the
wording or a petition that has beer,
mailing the rounds for the past few
weeks. Chances are ten to one that your
minister, your banker, your neighbor,
your fellow worker signed it. Chances
are also ten to one that you affixed
your own signature to the document.
Tne Weekly adds a hearty AMEN.
We are most happy to note that over
90 per cent of the civic clubs, FT A
'groups, merchant groups, and church
groups are working for better schools:
for their children. But it will take much
more than the signing of the petition.
We must get out the vote next Tuesday.
E'v er. with the overwhelming sup
por* that seems, to be in evidence, the
bond issue could be defeated. Those who
1 are against it will ce rfcin! y go to the
polls and vote. Our neighbor, Durham,
l voted on a $5.4 million dollar bond issue
last weekend. Less than • ight per cent
of the eligible voter went to the polls
The margin of yes. votes over the no
votes was about 500. We assume that
most of the 28,283 Durham v oters who
didn't vote were in favor of the bonds.
I The complacency that was shown on
I the part of the Durham voters could
I have easily defeated a very important
I bond issue.
If that same complacency is shown
jin Chapel Hill our school bond issue
I could be defeated. The rest of the county
I does not favor the bond „e as strong-
Ilyas we do. There -orn*- organized
I opposition to it
I Don t Quit When Votes Are ( ounted
I Our interest in the school bond
■ issue should not stop after the votes
lare counted next Tuesday. We should
■Voice our thoughts and voice them
■strongly on how the money is to 1/e
Ispent. Our local and county school
■boards will be. happy to listen. An ac-
Itive interest on the part of all taxpayers
■will 1/e a good reminder that careful
■deliberation is necessary on the spend
ling of every dollar.
I (Mary) Margaret and (Elbert) Clifton
I For some reason we had been won-
Bdering all week how the New York
■Times would report in its Sunday’s
woundup of the week’s news the forth
■coming wedding of Margaret Truman
Hind E. Clifton Daniel. The Times did
Hiot disappoint us. Under the heading of
■Margaret’s Man the paper had this to
Jay:
I The listings in the 1956 edition of
■‘Who’s Who in America” includes these
ft wo:
■ TRUMAN, (Mary) Margaret,, con
vert singer; born Independence, Mo.,
yeb. 17, 1924; d. Harry S. Truman (33d
Vres. of U. S.) and Elizabeth Virginia
■ Wallace) Truman; grad. Gunston Hal!,
■Vashington, 1942; A. 8., George Wash
ington U., 1946. Radio debut as concert
linger with Detroit Symphony Orches-
Ira, 1947; concert tour 1947-48; 1949
I * * Appeared on Carnegie Hall pro-
Jram, 1949, 1950; network TV appear
ances as singer, comedienne, actress
i 960— * * *.
I DANIEL, (Elbert) Clifton Jr.,
newspaperman; b. Zebulon. N. C.. Sept.
19. 1912; s. Elbert Clifton and Elyah
D. (Jones). A. B. U. N. C.. 1933. • * •
With Asso. Press in N. Y. C-, Wash
ington, Berne. London. 1937-43: corr.
N. Y. Times 1944—. stationed in Lon
don, * * • Paris, in Middle East, in Ger
many. in V. S. S. R. 1954 * * *.
Las: week, in the Carlyle Hotel in
New York. (Mary) Margaret Truman
introduced a> her fiance f Elbert i Clif
ton Itamel Jr., back from Moscow and_
n< to "the foreign editor of
TheHftw York Times, and announced
they would be married in Independence,
Mo., m April.
A Bow to Eastern Air Lines
Eastern Air Lines, which is noted
for its courteous way of doing business,
has provided a new service for the peo
ple of Chape! Hill. You no longer have
to pay long distance toll charges when
you phone Eastern at the Raieigh-Dur
ham airport. Just dial 8404 or 8405 to
secure information or place your reser
vations. The two,circuits are on rotary
service, which means that if one is busy,
then the connection automatically
switches over to the other number.
Tne Weekly has felt for some time
that, considering how many Chapel
Hillians use air service, there should be
some way in which they could secure
the necessary information without hav
ing to pay for it. Eastern is the first
air line to provide free phone service,
it deserves congratulations. No
doubt other lines will follow suit, but
we are glad Eastern was progressive
enough to see the need and realize its
importance.
iWe Like “The $64,000 Question”
We must admit that our week isn’t
complete if we don’t .suffer with the
TV contestants on ‘The $64,000 Ques
tion.” The other quiz shows, even the
one that gives away SIOO,OOO, don’t in
terest us one whit. But “The $64,000
Question,” perhaps because it started
this thing of gigantic give-aways, seems
to be a part of the family.
Since “The $64,000 Question” went
on th*- air forty-two weeks ago it has
given away a -half-million dollars, or
approximately $12,000 per week. Jn this
day of spectaculars arid the fantastic
prices that are paid for guest spots,
$12,00# is strictly small change for a
program that has dominated all rating
reports.
Only one contestant could not an
swer the first question asked. All three
who tried the $64,000 prize were
successful. Once a contestant gets past
the $4,000 plateau he never seems to
miss a question. Only six consolation
prizes (a Cadillac convertible in this
case) have been given away.
New Slant on Do-It-Yourself
An Editorial Contributed by the N. C. Society
tor Crippled Children and Adult*
Do-It-Yourself is a slogan learned by
many young j/eople in the course of
their camping chores. Camp life helps
children to develop their abilities, to
mature, to get along with others, to do
things for themselves, to develop inde
pendence.
That is the got/d that camp does for
normal children.
But the camp is good, also, for the
crippled < hild. In camps for handicapped
children, those with limited physical
abilities are permitted—and required—
to do things for themselves, as far as
they are able to go.
In the Easter Seal Camps in North
Carolina, crippled children are invited to
develop and to participate in camp life
to the limits of their abilities.
Doctors, camp counselors, physical
therapists and others declare crippled
children like it and appreciate doing for
themselves all that they can do.
Two camps have been organized this
year through the N. C. Society of Crip
pled Children and Adults, one at Camp
New Hope near Chapel Hill, the other at
Camp South Toe River near Micaville
and Mount Mitchell.
You can help a crippled child attend
one of these camps next summer by
contributing to the Easter Seal Sale.
You can do this by letting your Coun
ty Easter Seal chairman, Dr. O. David
Garvin at the District Health Office,
know that you want to help send a crip
pled child to camp this summer.
Essential characteristics of a gentle
man: The will to put himself in the
place of others; the horror of forcing
others into positions from which he
would himself recoil; the power to do
what seems to him to be right, without
considering what others may say or
think.—John Galsworthy
THF CHAPEI, ILL WEEKLY
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I HAD NOT PLANNED TO ATTEND the organi
zational meeting last Friday night of the Orange County
chapter of the Patriots of North Carolina Inc.; 1 con
sidered the address by Philippines Ambassador Carlos
Romulc much more worth my while. Rut I wound up
in Hillsboro instead of Memorial Hall just the same.
The reason I went to Hillsboro was quite simple;
U*had been invited NOT to go there. The invitation to
stay away had arrived in Friday morning's mail, and
it read as follows:
“For your information and to avoid embarrass
ment, the \public meeting of Patriots, to be held in
Hillsboro Courthouse, Friday night, on segregation will
not be for publication. News reporters will not be wel
come. Official report!* of the ipeeting will be forth
coming."
The letter bore the typed signature, “The Com
mittee." No return address was on the envelope, which
carried a Chapel Hill postmark.
I immediately called the state president of the
Patriots. W. C. George, who was scheduled as one of
the speakers of the evening. I read him the letter and
asked him if it were true that reporters were not wel
come at the meeting. He replied that it was not true,
and he had no idea who might have sent the letter.
When I arrived in Hillsboro I learned that the
Durham Morning Herald had received a similar note,
and had reacted in a similar fashion, except that the
Durham paper sent a reporter AND a photographer.
No other news media in this area had received such
a letter, although in addition to the Weekly and the
Herald, correspondents were present from the Greens
boro Daily News, the News and Observer and the Ra
leigh Times. It was a well-covered meeting.
No officials of the Patriots could shed any light
on the question of the origin of the letters. And no one
gave any indications that the press representatives
were not completely welcome.
I’m glad I went to the meeting. I consider it an
educational experience of the greatest value. I learned
many things, including the facts that (1) these people
are serious and determined in their efforts to abolish
the public school system of North Carolina, and (2)
they can legally do it, if they are able to capture a
majority of the votes in the statewide election which
would have to 1/e called to amend the Constitution.
If former Assistant Attorney-General Beverly
Lake’s proposal to substitute a system of private
schools for our present public schools (with GI Bill
like tuition grants to students) becomes an accom
plished fact, two serious problems will arise in the
educational picture: (1) The likelihood that the over
all cost of education to the state will he increased (in
the face of the fact that more than half the state’s in
come now goes to education); (2) The loss of the com
pulsory attendance law.
The first point is admittedly debatable, and I do
not have the facts at. my disposal to debate it at the
present time. I am of the personal opinion, however,
that the total cost wiJ jujnp considerably. (If for no
other reason, because lfce many hundreds of children
now attending private schools will be in a position to
demand tuition grants along with the children who
are switched from public schools into the proposed
new private school system.)
The second point is extremely serious. I presented
it to Mr. l>ake following the Friday night meeting. In
answer to my question: Is there any way the compul
sory attendance law can be salvaged under the pro
posed system of private schools? His answer was: "1
don’t know ... I’ll have to give it some thought.”
Mr. I>ake then said he believed the problem would <y
not be as serious as I seemed to indicate. He said he
thought all parents who had been to school would want
their children to receive an education, and compulsory
attendance would be enforced on the family level.
I can’t agree to that, of course. I am fully con
vinced that the elimination of the compulsory attend
ance law would result in a sharp decrease in school
attendance among the people who need schooling the
most—the poor, whose kids will wind up in the cotton
patch when they should be in the classroom.
Let me sound a warning: Don’t laugh at these
people. Don’t bury your head in the sand and hope the
Patriots will go away. Don’t pretend that North Caro
lina’s public schools are safe from destruction.
These people are serious and sincere. lYiey arc
determined to do anything short of violence to block
integration in the schools. Expense to the state amj
loss of universal education are not obstacles in their
eyes.
1 pray that the General Assembly, when it con
venes in special session this summer (as it now def
initely appears it will do) will tackle the problem with
cool heads and common sense. ’The race issue, how
ever, is something which is not noted for its ability to
inspire common sense and cool thinking.
If the General Assembly adopts a constitutional
amendment eliminating the clause requiring the state
to operate a free public school system, the decision will
be up to the voters of North Carolina to approve or
disapprove such an amendment. I would like to be able
to say that I am confident the people of this state will
never vote for the elimination of public schools. I
would like to, but I’m not so (sure any more.
Chapel Hill Chaff
(Continued from page 1)
he’s worth half a million now,”
the customer said. “Some of
the students used to work
their way through school by
cutting hair in their dorm
rooms. I remember Coley Wil
liamson had a chair in his
room in Battle about twenty
five yeurs ago.
“Anyway, every now and
then a student getting a hair
cut in Marley’s room would
forget his books and never
come back for them. At the,
beginning of the next term
Marley would sell all leftover
books to other students. That
«u J»ow he found out there
was good money in old books.
He quit harboring and opened
a second-hand book store next
to the post office on the sec
ond floor of the Tankersley
building. He seemed to do all
right, but he knew he could do
a lot better if it-wasn’t for
Milton Abernethy, who had a
better location in the Intimate
Book Shop. He couldn’t find a
suitable ground-level location
where he could compete with
Abernethy, so he moved his
business to Durham, and there
it grew into the biggest sec
ond-hand bookshop in North
Carolina.
“But like many people who
The '■
Roundabout
Paper**
or. J. A. C. Dunn
DID YOU EVER WANT to
go to sea and rollick saltily
about the world yo-ing and
heaving and ho-ing in a turtle
neck sweater and peaked cap?
Certainly you did. Perhaps you
still want to. In any case, Jan
de Hartog, the author of "The
Little Ark," and “The Four
poster," actually did g0...t0 sea
—at the ape of ten, and ap
pears to have been hobbling
around in boats ever since. He
has written a book about it
too, called "A Sailor's Life,”
which, he says, started out to
be advice to a young man about
going to sea and what to do
when he got there, and wound
up as an intimate portrait of
the author as a middle-aged
seafaring man.
"A Sailor's Life” is not a
story; it is simply a long se
ries of short essays on some
200-odd phases of life at sea,
ranging from what to pack in
one’s duffel bap and how to
handle one’s mother at depart
ure time, through captains and
bosuns and cooks and crews
and seasickness and ghost
stories and navigation and
foreign ports and lascars and
lifeboats, all the way to what
it feels like to retire from the
sea and come home for good.
Evidently Mr. Hartog just de
cided it was time to talk about
shoes and ships and sealing
wax and went right ahead and
talked about everything in
cluding why the sea is boiling
hot.
Needless to say, it’s a fasci
nating book, told with both
humor and poignancy, and with
Mr. de Hartog’s extraordinary
economy of words. I found it a
sort of vicarious sea-voyage,
and felt sufficiently brine-en
crusted at the end of it to
qualify as an experienced mar
iner.
If the humdrum of a settled
life is beginning to get you
down (or up, as the case may
be, in restlessness out of your
favorite chair), I recommend
you buzz around to the Inti
mate Bookshop and snaffle a
copy of "A Sailor's Life.” It
has the most wonderful effect.
* * *
THE CAROLINA QUART
ERLY has sliced another notch
on its doorframe, so to speak,
with the recent publication of
the Winter-Spring issue. I have
read everything in this issue
except William J'oteat’s duly
footnoted an d undoubtedly
mouthfilling words on tragedy.
Mr. Roteat will have to come
later, when I have time to sit
down for an hour and am pre
pared to be intricately philoso
phical to the exclusion of all
other demands on my attention;
at ieast, I assume these con
ditions will be necessary, judg
ing by my experience in Mr.
Poteat’s classes, which are
stimulating but highly involved
intellectually.
As far as the rest of the
Quarterly is concerned, I must
say in all honesty that it did
not loosen my roots. The fic
tion was well-written, but had
on me about the same effect
as being given only half a
glass of water when 1 need a
whole one. I liked the story
about the revival in the back
woods, “Cry in the Wilderness.”
I differ with Ed Yoder’s com
ment in The Daily Tar Heel
that “Cry in the Wilderness”
was not a story because it had
no conflict. How about the con
flict between Birdie and the
call of religion, Mr. Yoder?
No conflict there? No? Well,
there wasn’t much, I admit,
but enough to make it a story,
J think. Anyway, the author
had a good idea but didn’t ex
ploit it as fully as possible.
i got awfully tired of the
pregnant woman wandering
around in the garden contem
plating hanging herself to the
nearest mundrone tree, or
have had a taste of Chapel
Hill, Marley didn’t like to iive
in Durham. He had his eye
on an apartment on the second
floor of what is now the Port
Hole Restaurant, but he could
not get it at his terms. So he
bought the building and moved
into the apartment. This left
him with the whole downstairs
to rent out. In the same build
ing with his bookshop in Dur
ham was a commercial artist’s
business operated by M. M.
Timmons. Marley suggested to
Timmons that the two of them
form a partnership and open a
restaurant in Marley’s build
ing in Chapel Hill. Timmons
said he was a commercial artist
and didn’t know anything about
the restaurant business.
"But Marley talked him into
it and that’s how the Port
Hole Restaurant was born.
With Timmons still running it,
it’s been a success, though
hardl/ as much a one as Mar
ley's Durham book store,' which
they tell me is still going
strong."
I Like Chapel Hilt SjSjS
Parents of children attending the Little Red School
House got two pieces of unwelcome news on last Friday
when the tykes came home with a note pinned to their
collars.
The first item was that Spring holidays would
begin March 29 and extend through April 2, and the
second was: “The children here were exposed to chicken
pox on March 13.”
Reading the note, my Missus asked: "Y'ou reckon
I ought to take Annis Lillian to the doctor? Still,
chicken pox doesn't bother me as much as worrying
how I’m going to get along with both her and Billy
Jr. under my feet for five days.”
* * * *
Mrs. Eugene Hargrove washed the breakfast
dishes and left sons Skeets, Tom and Bill home while
she went away for an hour. Upon her return there
were, by actual count, 36 dirty glasses in the kitchen.
Every time they pass through the kitchen they
got to have something to drink, and they never use the
same glass, it seems,” she said. ‘‘Well, I’m putting a
stop to that. I’ve got some paint and painted their
names on three glasses, one for each. Skeets and Tom
know theirs, and you can bet your life I’m teaching
that Bill Hargrove to read.”
* * * *
Whenever you hear a man say poverty is a great
thing, you are probably listening to a millionaire.
* * * *
The proposed reform of the calendar has both
good and bad points. It would not only add another
pay day but also another rent day. *
* * * *
The millennium will arrive when it takes as long
for nations to start a war as it does to pay for one.
* # * *
A pretty girl in a store will make every man in
town feel like buying his wife a dress.
* * * *
Some memories are nothing more than a row of
hooks to hang grudges on.
***.•»
With all our present day crime, it’s nice to know
that the sun and the moon have haloes.
whatever particular brand of
tree it was. I finished the story,*
but found myself left hanging
at the end. Whether or not the
woman was left hanging I leave
up. to the reader to find out
for himself. Another good idea
riot fully exploited, 1 think.
And then there was that lit
tle thin# at the end about the
crotchety old man and his
slightly irreverant—but wholly
excusable—son (he had millions
of matches at the end, Mr.
Yody; not millions of ciga
rettes, unless my understand
ing is at fault). 1 received the
distinct impression from this
little vignette of senility that
the author had high hopes of
there being a deep inner mean
ing behind a formless piece of
writing. I gather that the au
thor’s deep inner meaning
went no further than a state
ment of the fact that old peo
ple can be irritating; but then
a fairly blunt mind, upon the
square wheels of which the
fates have evidently forced me
to roll through life, may be
my undoing, and i may be
missing something. I did miss
something in that story, as a
matter of fact, but I ara not
Sl4*
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Friday. March 23, 1956
yet convinced that what I
missed was the deep inner
meaning.
The poetry made me im
patient. I am tired of poetry
that slaps me in the face with
word arrangements, of the
same character as that prac
tical joke in which all the
furniture in a room is fastened
to the ceiling and then you
let someone wake up in the
room with a hangover.
Please, Von’t someone write
some poetry with just plain
old everyday ordinary straight
forward syntax instead of
verses that, so to speak, tie
their shoelaces together, laugh
lightly, and start off on a
hundred-yard dash? Not "Mary
had a little lamb,” of course,
or “There was an old man of
Peru, who . . Just some
thing 1 don’t have to sweat at.
There’s enough sweat to be
sweated without sweating it
over poetry too. Poetry is for
relaxation, not penal servitude.
The magazine was very well
put together. It looks fine. A
good editing job. 1 look for
ward to the Faulkner issue,
which is apparently coming up
in the spring issue.