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TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday Vol. 34, No. 26 Mrs. Heilman Honored lor Volunteer Hospital Work 9me'y»/J'Z-. v. •. •■’•'•' . K>, k MK. * ' y ' ? ; 'V'iPSf ~s4’' < A “^ V< ’ '’jflßß —Photo by Chuck Hau*#r Mrs. John ('. Heitman (second irom left), president of Chapel Hill l'nit fi of the Ameri can Legion Auxiliary, is shown as she received a Volunteer Hospital Worker’s fin last week in recognition of her many hours of service in the Veterans Administration Hospital in Durham. The pin represents 50 hours of work, but Mrs. Heitman has actually spent much more time, including her work in Durham and in the Oteen veterans' hospital. From left to right are Mrs. J. A. l/ong of Durham, I'oppy Production Chairman of the Durham VA Hospital: Mrs. Heitman; Mrs. 1). It. Perry of Durham, Hospital Representative for the VA Hospital; and Mrs. W. C. Alexander of Durham, past national chaplain of the Legion Auxiliary and past department commander. j4rfs and Crafts Exhibit To Be Friday The annual exhibit of the work of the Arts and Crafts Depart ment of the Chapel Hill Com munity Club will be held Friday of this week at the . Institute of Pharmacy Building. The exhibit will open in the lounge at 2 p. m. so that it may be inspected before the business meeting of the club, which will start at '1 p. m. The exhibit, however, may be viewed by the public until 8 p. m. Friday evening. Important business on the agenda will include presentation of the newly revised constitution, election of delegates to the state convention at Durham April 24- 2G, awarding of' prize to local music contest winner and dis cussion of proposed state legis lative measures. The Arts and Crafts Exhibit, under the general direction of Mrs. Florence Hall Highsmith, department chairman, will be in five sections. Mrs. H. C. Bose, leader of the workshop for block printing and fabric design, will show the work of her group. As a special feature for the after noon, Mrs. Bose will also present on the screen, some of the beau tiful colored pictures which she took on her trip abroad last | year. Mrs. M. S. Breckenridge, chair man of Needlecrafters, will pre sent members’ work in knitting, crocheting, finger lace, Swedish embroidery, as well as the co operative quilt being made for a Veterans Administration Hospi tal. Work in pastels and oils will Miss Chapel Hill Entrants Total S The entry of two University coeds in the Chapel Hill Jaycee : ponsorcd beauty pageant Mon day brought the field of hopefuls for the title of Miss Chapel Hill of I»5<S to eight. Pageant Chairman M. H. Jen nings Jr., said the two latest en trants were Miss Jo Anne Knott and Miss Joan Willsey. The other entrants to date are Misses Eve lyn Ann Matthews, Joan Nor wood, Libby McDowell, Shirley Caipentei, Sylvania Tarantino, and Nancy McFadderv Miss Willsey, 21, is a third year student at the .University from Norfolk. The five-foot seven brunette’s talents are dan-, cing and baton twirling. She has been in the yearbook beauty court and the Homecoming queen’s court. A 20-year-old junior from Ox ford, Miss Knott is a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority and a sociology major at Carolina. She attended Oxford High School and St. Mary’s Junior College, and has been a runner-up in her hometown beauty pageant. At Carolina she has been on the Dean’s List, a sponsor for the Air Forces ROTC, rush chair man for her sorority, and a mem ber of the YWCA. Manning Files Chapel flill attorney John | T. Manning officially entered the campaign for the vacant Orange-Alamanee seat in the State Senate on Friday. Mr. Manning paid hi* fifing fee to Ham Latta, chairman of the county Board of Eire lions. Other person* who have an nounced their intention to run for the poet, are Ed Lanier of Chapel Hill and Ed Hamlin of Hillaboro. be on display by members of the Paint and Sketch group, under the direction of their chairman, Mrs. ,1. Bright Kelly. Mrs. H. 1.. Weeks’ Workshop for Rugmakers has proved so popular 'his year that two sec tions have been opened. One section of the exhibit will be devoted to the work of mem bers who are specialists in sev eral other fields, such as weav ing, lampshade making, doll trays, and other crafts. Gordon Neville Is Honored by Capers Gordon Neville, third-year cen ter of the Chapel Hill High School basketball team, was se lected the outstanding player of the year by a secret vote of his teammates and honored at the annual father-son banquet here last week. Youpg Neville was presented a trophy given by Richmond Sloan. The presentation was made by Supt. ('. W. Davis. Others on the program were Coach Bob Culton, Jayvees Coach Al Wells, Paul Check, H. 1,. Dosher, Frank Schwent ker, Roy Teague, Neil Clark, Harold Weaver, Gordon Black well, and S. Justice Haswell. \_ Bake Sale Friday The Women’s Society of Chris tian Service of the Aldersgate Methodist Church will hold a hake waie at the Glen Lennox Colonial Store next Friday, April 0, beginning at 9:30 a. m. * | .si Kjat jv * 1 , y 'ty&Mjftfc’s- ' ■ ■ <■■//: w. "-r . —Photos by Chuck Hauser Genial, cigar-emoking Jim Gilliland i* shown behind his desk in a relaxed mood. The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents a Copy Many Birds Killed By Poisoned Grain People in the neighborhood of the corner of Vance and Ransom Streets have been disturbed in the last few days by the spec tacle of dead and dying birds in their yards and on the streets and sidewalks. Cardinals and white-throated sparrows have been among the victims of what was at first a mysterious killer but which was later discovered to be an exterminator company’s representative who hud scattered poison grain in the open to kill mice and pigeons. It was feared that dogs and cats belonging to residents of the neighborhood might be poisoned by eating the poisoned birds. Some of these pet owners have been trying to find out whether or not it is against the law to scatter poison in the open. A Weekly reporter who tried yes terday to obtain information about the existence of such a law was unable to do so because the offices of the town manager and town attorney were closed for Faster Monday. Candidate Is Visitor Alonzo Kd wards of Greene County was in town Friday shak ing hands and campaigning for the nomination of lieutenant gov ernor of the State in the May Democratic primary. At the Weekly office Mr. Edwards was surprised to find Hilly Arthur, with whom he served in the House of Representatives in 19-1:1 and 1945, and Chuck Hauser, who covered the 1955 N. C. Sen ate for the Associated Press. CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1956 Initial Polio Shots Urged Immediately The Chapel Hill District Health Department an nounced yesterday that it will nq longer administer free polio vaccine shots to persons 20 years of age or older. Dr. O. David Garvin, dis trict health officer, issued a statement saying the State Board of Health had noti fied the department that I persons above 19 years of age receiving free Salk vac cine was in violation of Fed eral statutes. At the same time, Dr. Garvin announced that the department would receive 450 centimeters of the Salk vaccine this week, and that it will go principally for in itial inoculations. Pointing out that the free vaccine is available only, under Federal law, to per sons from infancy through the age of 19, and to preg nant women, Dr. Garvin’s statement read : “The Health Department can no longer give vaccine to adults because we do not have vaccine purchased or supplied from any source other than that purchased through the State Board of Health under the Poliomye litis Vaccination Assistance Act. “It is urged by the U. S. Public. Health Service and the North Carolina State Board of Health that em phasis be placed on first inoculations and that second and third inoculations be de layed. The Health Depart ment urges that persons de sirous of poliofhyelitis vacci nation consult their family; physicians without further) delay.” Faculty Wives to Meet Mrs. K K. Peacock ami Mrs. K. W. I‘fouts will be hostesses at a meeting of the Faculty j Wives of the School of Business Ailministration at Carroll Hall tonight (Tuesday) at 8 o'clock. Y-Teen Meeting Days Beginning this week, theOlun | ior Y Teens will meet on Wed nesday afternoons and the Senior Y-Tcens will meet on Thursday afternoons. ‘Nobody Knows the Trouble* I’ve Seen . . •’ Folks in Warrenton Are Agreed on One Thing: Jim Gilliland Talks Too Much (11l War re ii ton, just 7(1 mile* Irom ( Impel Hill, a young attorney in in hot water with hiH Icllow low iiN|>eo|>le. Ihe Weekly Nenl Associate Kditor Chuck Hauser lo I lie lowii to spend a day uncovering Hie story behind the story. Follow ing is his report.—Kd ) By Chuck Hauser Listen to the voices of War I'entori: ‘‘Folks are re#l tolerant in this town. . .except when it comes to the race iiuestipn.” That's the editor of the week ly newspaper. “There’s one thing we won’t stand for around here, and that's talk about mixing the colored folks in with the white folks.” That’s a salesman for an automobile dealer. “We don’t want troublemak ers in Warrenton.” That’s a clerk in a local dry goods store. * • * James I). Gilliland is a .'bi year-old lawyer who has been practicing in Warrenton since he was graduated from the Wake Forest Law School in I*l4B. He is a heavyset person, quite bald on top, and he has a comfortable, round face which is reminiscent of a well fed Santa (Jiaus without a beard. Santa Claus, however, has never seen the sort of trouble Jim Gilliland is in. Gilliland has been expelled from the Warrenton Lions Club, booted out of the Golf Club, asked to resign as solicitor of the county Recorder’s Court, and condemned by the state leaders of the American Legion, in which ha serves as commander of the Warrenton post. Chapel Mill Chad L.G. Richard the Third, who was slain on Bosworth field by Henry Tudor (in hand to-hand combat, some his torians say) 471 years ago, is having his reputation made over. The rehabilita tion is receiving notice in this column because it has 1 Chapel Hill angles, as fol lows : 1. Don Sea well, who is leading the organized strug gle to lift Richard out of the pit of infamy into which the Tudors, Sir Thomas More. Shakespeare, and oth er censorious persons cast him, is a graduate of the University, comes here fre quently to visit his mother, Mrs. A. A. F. Seawell, and his sister. Miss Elizabeth Seawell, and reports to them and to his friends in the village on how he is getting along with his amendment of history. 2. Louis B. Wright, direc tor of the Shakespeare Fol ger Library in Washington, who has placed the great weight of his scholarship on Richard's side, took his M. A. and I’h. 1). degrees in the University, lie was in the faculty for several years and the University has given him an honorary degree. Last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine published an article by him entitled “Was He—or Wasn’t He— a Villain?" The subtitle was: “Richard 111 was stern and ruthless when kings had < to be that way, this expert says, but he was not the murderous ‘black spider’ port rayed by Shakespeare.’’ “Starry-eyed idealists may *!id it impossible to under j stand Richard or his con queror, Henry VII,” writes Mr. Wright. “We must re member violence was a wayj, of life then. The crown of i England belonged to him I who could seize it and keep 1 a head upon his shoulders to ' (Continued on Page 2) I Fay Du Hose Here | Fay Dußose, a senior at the I Madeira School near Washington, I>. has been spending her 1 spring vacation here with her I parents, - Mr. and Mrs. D. St. : Pierre Dußose. ji Why? Listen to the voices of VVui rentou. “Hit’s been a troublemaker as long as I’ve known him. He’s a rubblerouser.” That’s oiu' of Jim Gilliland's'enemies speaking. “If he didn’t like the preach er, he’d stand i ight up in church and say so.” That’s one of Jim Gilliland's friends. "I guess I talk too much.” That's Jim Gilliland himself. * ♦ * Wa rrenton is a pretty town. You drive down streets shaded hy enormous trees which date hack before the founding of the town it.self, in 1779. Beau tiful antebellum homes can he seen set back from the roads, and there Is an atmosphere of peace and contentment in the uir. Beneath the peaceful atmos ll KiJMT** *** **^3s ln [■n Here is the courthouse square in Warrenton. Attorney Gilliland's office is on the second floor of the building (white second story and dark first story) which can be seen to the right 01 the telephone ook which atnsd. ™ tha t- tW With School Bond Election Out oC the Way, Town Begin* thinking About Coming Annexation \ ote TOtyX <?#/}/>££ mJul. With the two million dollar Orange County school bond elec tion safely tucked under itheir belts, citizens of the Chapel Hill community can begin concentrat ing on the next big vote coming up: the annexation election to be held in conjunction with the po litical party primaries scheduled for May 2ti. The map above shows the areas under consideration for annexa tion to the town of Chapel Hill. The shaded areas will be involved in the May voting. The territory is broken down into sections and numbered for easy identification: Section 1, Greenwood; 2, Glen Lennox and Oakwood and Kog erson Drives; 3, Ridgefield; 4, the Country Club Road-Laurel Hill Road area. Three more numbered areas are indicated on the map. They are also under consideration for annexation, but they will not be voted on in May. They are: Sec tion 5, Estes Hills; 6, Hidden Hills; and 7, the University Mo- Injured by Own Car Mrs. Helen Bruce Taylor suf fered compound fractures of both legs between the knee and ankle last Tuesday when she was struck by her own car, which rolled down a slope and pinned her against a house after she hud parked it to call on a friend in Victory Village. She wus about to knock on the door of the house*when the car began to roll. Her legs were broken when she was caught between the car’s bumper and the wall of the house. She is in Memorial Hospital and is getting along satisfactorily. phere, however, i mis a cur rent of tension. The population of tobacco-growing Warren County is something over 29,000, and 70 per cent of that number are Negroes. White Warrenton is afraid of the word "integration." Not many people are oil the streets as you diive into the heart of the community and park your car in one of the many meter spaces open on the courthouse square. The statue of a Confederate soldier, his hands resting on the muzzle of his lisle, stands on top of a tail white shaft near the corner. The courthouse, con structed of ( rust-colored bricks and red mortar, sits solidly in the shade of the big trees on the rich lawn. On one aide of the court house squure, on the second floor of a frame building which $4 a Year in County; other rates on page 2 tor Lodge-Pines Restaurant area.; A public hearing was held on February 27 concerning the areas to '»e voted on May 2ti. No appreciable opposition has crop ped up in connection with the annexation move, and town of ficials expect the balloting to be favorable. • As to the areas which will not be voted on in May, they can be annexeii by a simple vote of the Board of Aldermen, if a public Wes Win Company Opening Residential ® Section to Be Known as Clark Hills The Wes Win Company has an nounced the opening of Clark Hills, its new housing develop ment on the outskirts of town to the north of the dual-lane Chapel liill-Durham boulevard. The development will have 00- foot all-weather roads and ther* will be a minimum of lH,t)O0 square feet per lot. The lots will have a setback line of 45 feet and a sideline of 20 feet. All property will be restricted to residence purposes only. Before a house is built, its plan, exterior design, and de scription us its exterior mater ials must be submitted for ap proval by a committee designat ed hy Mrs. Mary C. Markham, owner of the land, it was announc ed yesterday by R. G, Windsor, president of Wes Win. Later this committee will he made up of property owners in Clark Hills. The committee was established for the protection of the develop houses a sandwich shop, is Jim Gilliland’s office.- It is pine paneled, and a secretary sits in an outer room typing, while a picture of George Washington watches over her shoulder. The secretary shows you in to the inner office, where Gilli land is working ut a wide desk covered with loose papers and law honks. A large engraving of Jefferson Davis hungs on the wall here, blessing the room with' a thin, Mona Lisa-like smile. % Gilliland is an expansive, friendly person, lie's glad to see you, and he seems to ap preciate the fact that you’re interested in what’s been hap pening to him. He tells you his story. Biographical: Born at Ma con, five miles from Wurrcn (Continued on Page 8) TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday | hearing is conducted and no pe i titions are presented requesting ■ an election. 1 Town officials are apparently wholeheartedly in favor of the ’ long-deluyed annexation move. Mayor Oliver Cornwell told th* i citizens present for the February public hearing, “I don’t think ; the town can exist without i spreading. Without increasing ‘ property values, I think the town • will be bankrupt in five years.” ment in keeping buildings up to an acceptable standard of taste ful appearance. No livestock will be permitted in the development —only dogs, cats, and other household pets. .A restriction of 1,000 square t feec pec house as a mitumoufl has been imposed, “to keep the houses looking nice,” as Mr. Windsor put it. The above rules will run until 1090, at which time they can be renewed. The prices on the lots, which are being sold exclusively by the Wes Win company, range from $750 to $4,000; prices on the houses range from SIO,OOO to $25,000. The Wes Win Com pany already has preliminary plans for several brick houses, and cun arrange for any con structor to build a house for a customer. The price of the lots includes water. At present, the development is divided into two sections, eight lots off the Eastwood Luke Road, and 20 lots off the Mount Moriah Road. These two sections will soon be connected, however, by an extension of the Eastwood Luke Road. Clark Hills promises to lie a very attractive and high ly exclusive residential district. Toys Radiy Needed To Replace Losses Toys of all descriptions, either new or used, are needed to re place those lost last week in the fire at the Victory Village Day Cure Center and Nursery. “All the Center’s toys were" lost," a Victory Village spokes man said yesterday, “and we also need children’s books, children’s phonograph records, and chil dren’s spoons and forks. They were all lost. Even the sund buckets. Gifts of any of the above items will be deeply appreciated.” Such contributions may be left ut the Nursery’s temporary head quarters in the basement of the University Methodist Church be tween 7:45 a. m. and 5 p. m. . from Monday through Friday Or between 7:45 a. m. and noon on Saturday. Chapel J4illnoteS Overheard ut u Chapel Hill lunch counter: Customer, “liam on rye, with butter.’’ Waitress, “We don’t put butter on sand wiches.” Customer, “Why not?” Waitress, “We keep it in the refrigerator and it’s always too hard to spread.” * * * Ed Lanier saying he was glad to tee Bill Friday in a sweat shirt and apparently on way to golf course Easter Monday morning. “He’s been working mighty hard; he ought to get out there mefe often*"