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FRIDAY ISSUE Next v Issue Tuesday Vol 34. No. 25 Communities Plan Rites at Country Club An Easter Sunrise Wor ship Service for residents of Chapel Hill and Carrboro will be held Sunday morn-: ing at 6 o’clock on the grounds of the Chapel Hill Country Club. Sponsored by the Chapel Hill Council of Churches, the service will include tra ditional hymns, prayers, re sponsive readings, and Scripture passages appropri ate to the Resurrection. Under the direction of Joseph C. Wood, the Chapel Hill High Schdbl Band will play. Arrangements for the ser vice are being directed by the Rev. Henry Stokes of the Carrboro Baptist Church, Rev. Charles S. Hub bard of the University Methodist Church, and the Rev. Wade F. Hook of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. $798 Still Needed In Red Cross Drive I A total of $8,386 has been: collected in the annual Americanj Ited Cross membership drive here.! This is S7OB short of the $9,184 goal. "It has come to our attention,” an announcement from the local Ited Cross chapter said yesterday, "that many people who contri buted in past years have been missed this time. That some should be missed by our can vassers is inevitable, and we are hereby appealing to all persons who wish to contribute and have not done so, to mail their checks now to the Red Cross Office, I*. O. Box 777, Chapel Hill, so that the drive can be brought to a successful clo.« . "Mr. Gofobel, - ha, ter chair man, and Mr. Ritchie, rftiid chair man, wish to take this opportun ity to thank the many workers who gave so generously of their time and effort during the drive, and also to thank the many peo ple of the town and county who have recognized the worth iness of Red Cross service and have given it their support. The chapter is greatly indebted to each one of you.” Memorial Trophy Committee Named A steering committee was nam ed this week to establish the trophy which will be divert to the outstanding senior of the Uni versity School of Nursing each i commencement in memory of the late George I.ivus, popular and prominent Chapel Mill business man. / Conceived by the officers of the Nursing School senior class, the proposal has been approved by the class and the University. Members of the steering com mittee are K. C. Smith, Tom Kosernond, Jake Conners, Bill Sloan, Sion Jennings, Joe Rob bins, George Barclay, and Or ville Campbell. I'ersons wishing to contribute to the fund to establish the trophy may do so with any mem ber of the committee or at the Chapel Hill Weekly office. Hospital Telecast Tonight How a hospital with hundreds of diseases and infections present during the course of a few days is a healthful place for treatment and recovery will be demonstrat ed from 0 until 10 o’clock to night (Friday) on WUNC-TV. Dr. Warner Wells, surgeon and ' translator-editor of the best selling “Hiroshima Diary,” and Leon King, head of the Central Supply Service of the North Carolina Memorial Hospital, will cooperate in acquainting their audience with the theory and practice of sterilizing equipment and supplies by a live telecast, l from the Hospital itself. Miss l.uey Cobb Here Miss Lucy Cobb of Raleigh is here on .c visit to Mrs. Collier Cobb and Miss Mary Cobb. Chapel M’llnote i Driver of huge cat and dog food truck stopping on Frank lin Street at 7 a.m. yesterday to ask how to get to Lenoir Dining Hall. * • * Windy day spectacle: Mile high kites over Glen Lennox. Victory Village Nursery Gutted by Furnace Fire; Children Are Saved* Only One Person Injured | * 11 111 §| 82 ■ ■fT■ r : ; - 'J-'' . deA* ■& Here is the Victory Village Nursery, seen from Mason Farm Road, as the building burned Wednesday afternoon. Chapel llill lire engine number three is to the right The worst of the fire was centered in the kitchen and furnace room wing on the other side of the building. By J. A. ('. Dunn A major tragedy was averted when between 36 and 40 pre school children were awakened from their naps and led and car ried to safety from the burning Victory Village Day Care Center here Wednesday afternoon. No children were harmed or hurt. In one minute the sprawling frame structure was emptied by what Fire Chief J. S. Boone described as “protective instinct” in the four women supervisors: Mrs. Edgar Ilaire, Mrs. Janie Ward, Miss Ethel Gitlin, and Miss Susie Bynum. From the moment the fire wigs discovered there was no panic, and the children were out of the burning building before patents had a chance to be come excited. "We weren’t heroes,” said Mrs. Haire. "Each supervisor knows her own children amt got them out. We just knew we had to get them out fast.” Their work was made slightly easie because the nursery us uall' has ome 60 oV!7 1 < a day. On Wednesday m«u> of them hud accompanied their fam ilies home for the Easter holi days. The others were napping in several rooms when the fire broke out. The first call at 1:43 p.m. re ported oidy u trash fire. The Kiwanians Honor Rotarians and Feed Them Stuffed Rock Cornish Game Hens For the first time in some years, Kiwanians and Rotarians met at a joint civic pow-wow last. Tuesday night in the hall room of the Carolina Inn. They ate dinner. They made short speeches. They listened to some entertainment by a hillbilly com bo. Anil they did the job up. The Kiwanians were hosts to the Rotarians, so Orville Campbell, Kiwanis president, presided. Just to get into that nice, settled, well-fed mood, members of the two clubs plowed gaily through a lush meal, starting with one-half a sherried grape fruit and continuing through such infrequently-met delicacies ai stuffed rock Cornish game hen and green goddess salad, and wound'up with a cherry tart. Some of the men, pleading diet, tried to palm the cherry tart off on neighbors; few succeeded, since the neighbors pleaded diet too. After the feast had been duly decimated and extensive opinions on the endless variety of sub jects about which Kiwanians and Rotarians have'opinions had been exchanged (slightly muted, no doubt, by mouthfuls of Cornish game hen), a welcome was spok en by Kiwanian Bill Richardson. Store to Open for Breakfast at 5:30 For the second consecutive year, the Carolina Pharmacy will open at 5:30 a.m. on Easter Sun day in order to provide break fast for people planning' to at tend the Easter Sunrise Ser vice at 6 o'clock at the Chapel Hill .Country Club. The store will remain open and continue to serve breakfast till 9.30 a.m., when it will close for the day. It will be “closed all day Monday, April 2, and will reopen for business Tues day morning, April 3. The custom of opening early on Easter morning for the con venience of those attending the Sunrise Service was inaugurated ’ast year by the store’s proprie tor*; Miss Helen Duguid and Mrs. Ruby Grogran. , The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents a Copy Eire Department speedily obliged with the small truck—small truck for a small fire. No sooner had the .small truck whirled, shriek ing and roaring, out of the ga rage, when a second call came from the Nursery: trash fire nothing, the whole building was on fire. The Victory Village Nursery was, indeed thoroughly on fire. Smoke \?as streaming insidiously out from under the eaves along ■MU A^4fflt!tßWS3m9&' Help Needed Contributions of children’s sweaters, blankets, shoes and other clothing to replace items lost In the Victory Village Nursery fire will be welcomed, a Village spokesman told the Weekly yesterday morning. The parents of many of the children who lost clothing in the fire have a hard time sup porting their families and maintaining their academic work in the University. Such contributions should be left a* the Nursery's tempor al,, . eadquarters in the base ment of the University Metho dist Church between 9 a.m. and noon today (Friday) or be tween 7:45 a.m. and 5 p.m. any weekday beginning next Tues day. ■ Dr. Richardson pointed out that i the two clubs have both similari ties and differences, though the • differences are only superficial, and told an anecdote about Rev, . Mabel. It seems Rev. Mabel was : ill some years ago, and in order • to save the hospital the epn s| fusion of people calling all the ■ .time to find out how he was, a ■system was developed of post ing notices giving the condition , of the Reverend on the bulletin , board outside the church This worked satisfactorily until the day when the subject of the sub stitute minister’s sermon for the ! next Sunday was posted on the board “Cod Is Cood” Isdow which was posted the unnounce- I ment that “Mabel is better.” Rotarian Whatley Pierson , spoke a response to Dr Richard son, and hoped the joint dinnei , would become an annual uffair. (Continued on page 12) Gordon Blackwell Takes Top Prize Thirteen Winners of Essay Contest Are Announced; 236 Entries Were Received The 13 winners of the Chapel Hill Weekly School Bond Es say Contest have been picked by the editors of the Weekly from among 235 essays sub mitted. First prize is S2O, sec ond prize is sls, and third prize is $5. Ten additional awards of $1 each will also he given. -The first prize went to Gor don Blackwell, a senior ut Chapel Mill High School. Sec ond prize went to Ginger Zwahlen, a fourth grader at the Chapel Hill Elementary School, and third prize was given to Tim Hubbard, who is in the sixth grade at the Ele mentary School. One dollar prize-winners were Minnie Williams, sixth grade, Northside School; Anne Jones, sixth grade, Elementary School; Pat Lacock, tenth grade, Chapel Hill High; Mary Lee Springs, sixth grade, Ef land colored school; Karen Honigman, seventh grade, Ele mentary School; Carolyn L. Traynham, ninth grade, Hills CHAPEL HTLL, N. C., FI the whole length of the building, and the back wing, containing the kitchen and the furnace room, were completely enveloped in smoke, through which at regular intervals there flashed balloon ing sheets of flame. The woods and grounds around the Nur sery were swarming with Vic tory Villagers, many of them shepherding frightened, coatless children away from the scene. The fire, which started, Be coming to Fire Chief J. S. Boone, urpund the top of the furnace from some undetermined cause, was centrally located at its worst in the smoke-hidden hack wing, though it had, and still was, spreading with remarkable de termination through thi_ hot air duct syst-m from the furnace. At the hack door to the furnace room five or six volunteers, led by Fireman Mebane Durham, were aiming a reluctant and kicking hose through a smashed window, and several other towns people were energetically (and with a good deal of understand able pleasure, one always sus pects) shattering more windows with axes snatched from the fire engine. Chief Boone appeared at a dead run, shouting. “Mebane, how’s your pres sure ?” There came-a muffled reply of "OK.’’ “(let an electrician down here to cut off that power . . .” An electrician appeared with a ladder and a pair of pliers, climbing a telephone pole with the former and snipped the wires with the latter. At this point a slight shift in the wind blinded everyone near the wing with smoke. At the same time a frantic crew of people were pulling furn iture out the north end of the building, which wasn’t burning, drugging chairs and tables away into the playground. "Hank, how ’bout runniii' in there an’ gettin' me a I'epsi?” shouted one man to another, pointing through a door to the smoke filled interior. “Heck with you!” said Hank, and staggered off with a chair. An onlooking woman in the crowd of bystanders said tensely to her neighbor, "It. seared me to death when 1 heard about it. I hope they got all the children out. Someone said they were asleep when the fire started and they couldn’t get them waked up and make them understand what was going on, so they just (Continued on page 12) boro Central High; Carol Ray McKee, fifth grade, Caldwell; Carolyn Dillehuy, fourth grade, Carrboro school; Ruth Logan, seventh grade, Elementary School; and Valgean Snipe, fifth grade, Efland colored school. The second and third prize winning essays are printed be low. First is Ginger Zwahlen’s entry: Here in the Essay Which Won Contest Hy Gordon Blackwell I want my parents to vote YES on the school bond issue on March 27th because as a student in a public school of Orange County I have experienced first hand the needs of the schools in Orange County. Many people have asked me "Why do you care? You are a senior,.it won’t help you any.” But they are wrong. \ I love this town and this county and 1 hope some day to settle down here. If I do live here, I don’t want my children learning under the same conditions I have had to endure. Our school system is basically very good, however, there are seme facilities which are inadequate. Without better facilities our system will continue to grow more and more inadequate. The bond issue is our only snswer. I hope everyone whs is eligible will vote for it. I wish I could. IDAY, MARCH 30, 1956 Chapel Mill Cha // L.G. I used to hear the late William C. Coker, the bot anist, say what a serious mistake it was to plant trees that stretched up and little and waving.' “Some people think that's the way to get a full grown tree in the least possible time,” he would say. “It is not. A tree stretching up twenty-five or thirty feet when it’s planted may look all right for a while*, but |soon it will begin toCshow its weakness. “A tree needs to have strong roots to have a strong trunk and strong branches, and the way for it to get strong roots is for it to be cut back after it is planted. Then watering and fertiliz ing have the best effect.” On the campus are trees that demonstrate Mr. Cok er’s knowledge and good judgment. You can see them when you look up from Franklin street and when you walk along near the Well and the South build ing. Examples of trees that were planted when they were long and spindly are those along Franklin street op posite the Morehead build ing. They have been there about three years and they are no better looking than they were at first. Two of them are actually having to be held up by guy-chains. A lot of trees have been cut down in front of the Institute of Government’s new building. 1 suppose that new ones are to be put in their place. To the V. I. P„ who has the say-so in this matter—Chancellor House, or J. S. Bennett, or Acting- President Friday, or Vice- President Carmichael, or Al bert Coates, or whoever it is— 1 say this pray er: "Please follow the tried and true Coker method of tree planting. No more long, spindly trees so weak that they have to be held up with guy-chains, please.” Gilbert and Sullivan Selections to Be Offered at Petite Musicale on April 8 The Basingstoke Sextet, which I specializes in Gilbert and Sul l livan operas, will present the ' semester’s fourth Petite Musi cale in the main lounge of lira | ham Mentoiiul Sunday, April 8, at 8 p.m. | The Sextet has appeared in j Chapel llill before, and is com posed of Jan Saxon, soprano, Jim Pruitt, tenor; John Ludwig, baritone; James Chamblee, bass; and Walt er Guide, pianist. A great deal of tradition has grown up around the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, and it is in this tradition that the Basing stoke Group presents its pro gram. The program will include ex cerpts from eight of the operet tas, including “H. M. S. Pina- i fore,” “The Mikado,” and “The Pirates of Penzance.” Other high- “Why I want the school to have a bond issue: Because Chapel Hill is getting bigger every year. More people are corning to our community. And more children are going to our school, (f we don’t get a bond issue we maybe have to have two shifts. One maybe at 7:15 and the next shift at 2:30. And another reason for a bond issue is not just Chapel Hill Voters Overwhelmingly Approve The Two Million Dollar School Bond Issue by a Margin of 2,802 to 781 Orange County citizens trooped to the polls Tuesday and gave an overwhelming’ vote ot approval to the two million dollar bond issue designed to alleviate the desper* ate .plight of county and Chapel Hill schools. The total vote in the county was 2,802 to 781—a margin of better than three to one. In the five Chapel Hill precincts, the voters registered a whopping vote of 1,521 to 150 for the bond issue—a ten to one victory margin. Hectic activity on election day culminated months of intense campaigning for Hugh Wilson Announces Candidacy for Orange County Board of Commissioners Hugh Wilson, who was gradu- 1 ated from the University in 1935 and is now a dairy farmer in Bingham Township, has announc ed his candidacy for the Orange County Board of Commissioners. His announcement follows: "This May 1 will be a candidate for County Commissioner in the Democratic Party primary. "Our school bond issue has passed overwhelmingly. 1 am proud to have been the first person to publicly urge the bond election, in a meeting of Coun ty Commissioner candidates in Carrboro in May of 1954. “Now our Commissioners must see that the taxpapers get real value for this bond money. And they must be alert to .anticipate future school needs, so that the cottnty will not again lag be hind in school facilities and then have to go into debt to catch up “The Commissioners must maintain a lively interest in all county affairs. They must act ively support our county resi dents m requests to the High way Department for road im provements, so that we may catch up with neightKM'iug counties in this respect. “The State Constitution re quires a revaluation of tax prop erty every four years, and this must be done within the next term. After the last radical re valuation, there appears to he no need for a drastic job of the same kind. What must be done, must he done uccurstely, lalrly, and at the least expense to the county. “The County Commissioners must lend every possible assist ance to groups seeking to at tract industry to our county, so that increased prosperity, and the broadening of our tax base, can result in better public ser- lights of the program are two trios from “Princess Ida,” and "The Yeomen of the Guard.” Although the presentation is basically in concert form, the! group uses several costumes and properties to create the effect intended by the offerings. The concert will he free and open to the public. Dining Room C losed The Monogram Club dining room dosed Wednesday for the University's spring holiday and will reopen for lunch on Tuesday, April 3. University’s Spring Holiday The University closed yester day for itspring holiday and will reopen Tuesday morning, April 3. hut other places like Carrboro. Their school needs repairs. Schools need new equipment like desks. Some are too large for the children and some too small. The children would be comfortable. And that is why.” Here is the essay by Tim Hubbard: “Dear Sirs, * “Here is my essay: “I want iny parents to vote Yes on the School Bond Issue because In our school the plaster has cracked, and some times bits of plaster fall down. “Every time a gust of wind corn eh ,n the windows, the lights shake so much, we’re afraid they’ll fall. The lights aren’t powerful enough either. “The boards are cracked, the windows rattle, and thf radia tors leak. An elevated play ground is needed, because every time it rains, the play ground is a regular lake. The sewer system is always flood ing the playground, too. “These are just a few of the things wrong with our school.” $4 a Year in County; other rates on pag* 1 P Ibl i . Jj jfi[ i m . jgig HUGH WILSON vices to our people.” Mr. Wilson, a former resident * of Chapel Hill, where he has many friends, majored in history < and government at the Univer sit. He was formerly a director j of the North Carolina Ayrshire Breeders’ Association and the , Carolina Milk Producers’ Asso ciation and is u member of the Farm Bureau, Grange and the 1 New Hope Presbyterian Church. - ■■ " - ,i Woman’s Club Sets Date for Luncheon Woman’s Chib will /-void its I annual luncheon Ht I p.m. TV*t-*.!»>', April 12, at the Carolina Inn. Wives of faculty members of the Univer sity’s English Department will be hostesses. The speaker will be Blackwell P. Robinson, pro fessor of history at High Point College and editor of “The North ; Carolina Guide.” An announcement of the lunch eon says: ■ “Notices have been sent to all members of the club. How ever, all women of *the Univer jsity are invited'■’(apd are asked to milk - reservations with .Mrs. A. P Hudson, Box 523, Chapel Mill, by not later than Thurs day, April 5. Tickets for the luncheon are $1.75 each.” Episcopal Services On Easter Sunday On Easter Day at the Chattel of the Cross there will be ser vices of Holy Communion at 7:30 a. m., at the 0:15 family service, and again at 11:00 a. in. All ser vices will be held in the large church. At 1:30 p. m. the Church School will have its F.aster Fes tival and presentation of the Lenten offering. A continuous service will be held from noon to 3 p.m. to day (Good Friday). Worshippers are asked to enter and leave dur ing the singing of a hymn, so as not to interrupt the service.! On Easter Monday there will j be an Easter Egg Hunt at 10:30 a. m. on the church lawn for pupils of the second grade down to two-year-olds. The older boys and girls will huve a play day atl 4:00 p. m. In case of rain, bothj events will tak.* place on the first clear day at 4 p. m. At Community Church A son was born to Mr. und Mrs. B. L. Crumpton of Jacksonville, Fla., on March 13. Mis name is Bernard Lee Crumpton Jr. Mrs. t rotnpton is the daughter of Mrs. ,John K. Dashiell of Chapel Mill, who has just returned from an eight-weeks visit to the Crumptons. The baby has a four year-old sister, Martha. Artexl Prints to Be Shown Charles Morgan will be at the Bull’s Head Bookshop from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, to display Artext prints and reproductions for inspection by the public. Mr. Morgan has been giving a similar display at the flull’u Head every spring for the last five, or six years. He is from Westport, Conn. FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday 'passage of the bond issue. I There wa.s no organized op- I position. I The League of Women I Voters stationed poll- watch- 1 !ers at each precinct to keep I track of who had not voted I and call delinquent voters in I the afternoon to remind I them of the election. WCHL I filled the air with spot an- I nouncements giving the lat- I est figures on how the voters I were turning out. WPTF in I Raleigh also put a spot an- I nouncement on the air. In- I stead of “How ya doin’?” or I I “How dya like this spring I weather?’ ’ most people I j greeted each other last Tues- I Jday with queries concerning I the bond election: “Heard I anything 'bout the election?” “Voted yet ?” I The totals in Precinct 1— I 207 for 31 against. j Precinct 2—250 for, 30 I against. j Precinct 3 —400 for, 22 I against. 1 Precinct 4—339 for, 39 I against. 1 Precinct 5—325 for, 28 I against. In Carrboro, 440 for and I 40 against. I In other parts of the j county: Cole’s Store—39 for, 4 I against. Hillsboro—36l for, 142 I against. Hfbdfc-v.UU Cos, Si against. St. V*2B ? or, 7 againai. Cedi* t* toy .—66 -for, against. 1 Tolar—4o for, 30 against. Carr—4B for, 15 against. Os the 19 precincts, six voted the bond issue down. These were: White Cross —45 . for, 66 against. Patterson—lß for, 22 against. Rock Springs—l 4 for, 24 against. Cheek’s—l7 for, 41 against. University—l 9 for, 50 against. Caldwell—ls for, 77 against. In reaction to the outcome of the election, Chapel Hill Super intendent of Schools C. W. Davis said, “I’in real pleased. 1 cer tainly appreciate the work of the various committees, and I think the whole county’s done a wonderful job. It’s going to give us a chance to get our needs straightened out.” Judge William S. Stewart, co chairman of the bond campaign, commented, ”1 ain personally well-pleased. It’s an expression of the people of Orange County’s faith in education.” R. J. M. Hobbs, chairman of the Board of County Commis sioners, was to hold a commis sion meeting at 11 a. in. yester day to canvass the vote, and Commissioner Edwin Lanier ex pressed himself as being in favor of selling the bonds as quickly us posisble so that the money could he put to work with no delay. The decision as to what school projects will be started first is I up to the county and local school boards. The boards will have to draw up blueprints, have them approved by the State Board of i Education, and then call for bids, ufter which the bonds can be sold. Carl Smith, chairman of the Chapel Hill School Board, aaid Wednesday that he thought ac tual work on the schools ought to begin some time in the sum mer, about four months now. Work Party Tomorrow The Community Church will hold another work party to morrow (Saturday) afternoon at the Congregational Christian Church’s hut, which been bought by the Community Church und is being dismantled and moved to its property on Purefoy Road. The job has almost been i completed, and only light work i remains to be done. i Visiting at WrighUville Mrs. Jake Wade is spending > the Easter holidays with bar mo i ther, Mrs. Frank at Wrights rills Beach. ’