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TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday Vol. 34, No. 28 Work on Lots Now in Hands Os Engineers Chapel Hill's projected paved parking lots are fig uratively in the hands of engineers and contractors. | Carl Smith of the Chapel Hill Parking Association yesterday that the pav ing of the lots had been de layed while engineers and contractors proposed grad ing specifications and bids. Watts Hill and Bill Sloan, owners of the lot at the cor ner of Rosemary- and Co lumbia Streets, want to low er it before the parking as sociation paves it. They’re awaiting bids from the Nello Teer Construction Company for grading. When the lot is lowered, the paving will be done, Mr. Smith said. As for the parking lot on the American Legion*site on Rosemary Street, .Mr. Smith said engineers had complet ed their survey to determine how much of a retaining wall would have to be erect ed on the back end, and how much grading would lie necessary before surfacing' is done. “We realize people are in terested,” Mr. Smith said, ® ’especially since we an nounced several weeks ago that the surfacing would be started immediately. But we didn’t know then of Mr. Hill’s wishes to lower the property and how much work would be necessary on the Legion site, before we could go ahead with the pav ing.” I*TA Will Hear Art Teacher Thursday W. K. Stars, art teacher at the Durham High School and instructor in art education at Duke University, will speak on “The Necessity of Creative Training for Your Child” at a meeting of the Chapel Hill Par ent-Teachers Association at 8 .pm, Thursday, April 12, in the auditorium ,of the Chapel Hill iementary School on West' franklin Street. His talk will he illustrated by two color movies which he and his students j produced and which show in aj few minutes color and techniques! <if several processes which could otherwise he demonstrated in not less than some hours. After the meeting parents wilt have the opportunity to visit their children’s teachers in home rooms. Art work of Elementary! School pupils will he on view in the halls of the Elementary! School, and art work of high school pupils will he on view in the Elementary School Lib rary. A native of Florida, Mr. Stars received his A. B. degree from! Duke, his M. A. from the Univer-j sity here, and is now working for a Ph. D. degree from New! York University. Newtons Get Home From Virginia Trip Dr. and Mrs. Maurice Newton » and their daughters, Nancy Mere *dith, Beverly Ann, and Maureen, returned last Wednesday from a week’s trip during which they visited relatives in Richmond and Arlington, Va. In Richmond they visited Mrs. Newton’s mother and other relatives, and in Arl ington they visited her brother in-law and sister, Col. and Mrs. B. T. Franck 111, whose son, B. T. Franck IV, will leave aoon for Rome, Italy, where he wifi study for the priesthood. Dr. and Mrs. Newton took the r children sight-seeing in Wash ington, I). C. They and the girls also stopped off to visit friends at Fort Meade, Va., where they lived when Dr. Newton was sta tioned there in the Army’s Dental Corps. Benefit Performance Erroli Garner and his trio will "Appear for the benefit of the Chapel Hill Recreation Center at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in Memorial hall under the spon sorship of the University’s Pan hellenic Council and Inter-Frat ernity Council. Tickets, at $1 each, are on sale at the YMCA, * the Town and Campus Store, Kemp’s Record Shop, the Caro lina Sport Shop, and the Reeraa tion Center. Chapel Hill Youngsters Participate in CAP Work - , B5&P" tHf vb 9 wm^ . SB! " ' I 1- V bhßbbßßßt-- : t jt i —Photo by M A. Quillen The youngsters in the picture above are 1 hapel Killians who participate in the activities of the Civil Air Patrol unit in Durham. Show n inspecting an airplane at the Raleigh-Durham airport are, left to right, Nancy Cleveland, Phillip Ordway, Martha Adams and (linger Kenney. Frank Land to He DeMolay’s Speaker Frank S. Land, founder of the Order of DeMolay and Past Imperial Potentate of the Shrine, wilj constitute the University Chapter i f the Order in Hill Hall on the campus of the Uni versity at 2:30 Monday, April 16. The degrees will be con ferred on a large group of can didates. All members of the Order and all Master Masons are invited to attend. “We ara honored in having ’Dad’ Land here and it is hoped that a large number will be present to greet him and to offer encouragement to the boys who are starting the Chapter,” said an official of the University Lodge in announcing the event. Miss Stiles Leaves Miss Barbara Stiles, who has tpen* here visiting her t—G Vi ter; Mrs. Rogers Wade, ‘left last Tuesday for New York where she is spending two weeks at National Girl Scout Headquarters before going to Europe, where she will be for two or three years as a field representative of the Girl Scout organization, with headquarters in Heidelburg, Ger many. Before her visit here she had been doing similar work in the Far East, with headquarters in Japan. j Classroom Session for Executives’ Wives When wives of executives came to Chapel Hill last week to see their husbands graduate from the University’s special course for top businessmen, they suddenly found themselves escorted back to the classroom, too. In a regular class lecture, the ladies were given a problem in management to solve. Prof. Rich ard P. Calhoun presented a “case” in human relations in a modern industrial plant, and the wives of executives discussed the solution to the problem involved. The ladies now know what their husbands have been doing, when they traveled to Chapel Hill on alternate weekends since last October, in the UNC School of Business Administration’s “Ex ecutive Program.” Willard Graham, who is in charge of the program, said he planned the special classroom discussions*—for wives only, with husbands excluded —because he Program Presented By Glenwood Pupils The pupils of the first two gTades at the Glenwood Ele mentary School, directed by Mrs. Giilis and Mrs. Strauch, gave an Easter party and program for their parents the Thursday before Easter. ■; All tne children took, part in the program. They told stories about Mozart which they had learned in school in Mrs. Fred McCall’s music classes, played rhythm instruments, did coun try dances, gave an Easter play, sang songs, and did the minuet. Each child gave his parents a plant he had carefully tended and grown in a paper cup filled with earth. Books in the Lead Fiction best-seller in the Bull's Head Bookshop last week was MacKinlay Kantor’s “Anderson ville.” Professor A. C. Howell’s “The Kenan Professorships,” a recant publication of the Univer sity Press, was nonfiction best seller. __ The Chapel Hill Weekly 6 Cents a Copy Melvin Bernstein to Be Guest Soloist In U. N. C. Band Concert This Evening The University Concert Band, conducted by Herbert Fred, will play in Hill Hall tonight (Tues-| day), at 8 o’clock. Making its first appearance on this semes ter’s Tuesday Evening Series, the 60-piece student ensemble will feature Gershwin’s “Rhap sody in Blue” for piano and band. Melvin Bernstein, pianist and part-time instructor in the .IJNC Music Department, will be guest soloist. Before entering the Uni versity as a graduate student in musicology, he studied piano with Irwin Freundlich in New York. In Chapel Hill he has been guest soloist with the University Symphony Orchestra, the Univer stiy String Quartet, and harp sichordist with the Baroque Chamber Ensemble. Other works on the program are: Rossini’s “L’llaliana in Al geri”; Gerald R. Kech ley’s “Suite for Band”; Haydn Wood’s "Manx it ha [is oily”; Morton Gould's “Jericho”; Manuel de Falla’s “L‘Amour sorcier”; and Gordon Jacob’s “Music for a Festival”. Gould’s "Jericho” is a rhap sody in four movements: Pro logue (March and Battle), Roll 1 Call (Joshua’s Trumpets), Chant thought the ladies might get a kick out of actual class prob lems their husbands have been working on, rather than spending all their time in receptions ami teas. The wives appeared to enjoy the experience hugely. The ladies also heard Harold F. Smiddy, vice president of Gen eral Electric, who was here to make the “commencement” ad dress. Smiddy advised the wives to be kind to husbands when they must work late and have to come home late for supper. “In modern industry it’s neces sity that a wife understand why the life of a manager is rough sometimes,” he said. “Today the executive has more to cope with in this changing world. It’s es sential that the wife know about the nature of her husband’s job.” Another Look at an Important Document A Comment on the Widespread Misunderstanding of the Advisory Committee Report By Chuck Hauser If an interested political ob server were to point out the most outstanding aspect of the state reaction to last week’s report from the Advisory Com mittee on Education, he would probably be forced to choose the widespread lack of under standing of the document. This lack of Understanding extends farther than the gen eral public: it has been clearly reflected on the front pages of some of the state’s leading daily newspapers. Most of the state press play ed up the tuition grants-in aid and the local option fea tures of the committee’s recom mendations. These were not the most important part of the report. The heart and soul of the document was Governor Luther Hodges’ earlier pro posal that the integration prob lem could beat be met in North Carolina through what has come to be called “voluntary segregation.” There are three salient points CHAPEL HILL, N. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1956 '(The Walls Came Tumblin’ Down) and Dance (Hallelujah). “Music for a Festival” by Jacob was commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Brittain ! for the 1951 Festival of Brittain. I It is also a suite, consisting of 11 sections alternating betw.een a group of trumpets, trombones and tympani, and the full band. The finale joins all forces. The Intrada for brass, the Overture for band and the finale for brass and band will be played on the program. Drama Festival to Hear N. C. Archivist Christopher Crittenden, author, editor, archivist? and director of the N. C. Department of Archive* and History, will be featured speaker here at the 33rd annual Festival of the Carolina Dra matic Association Thursday through Saturday of this week. Mr. Crittenden will speak on j “History and the Playwright,” lon Saturday at 11 a.m. in the 1 1’laymakers Theatre, home of UNC’s dramatic group, the Caro lina Playmakers. The program of the Festival ]also includes the presentation of 23 one-act plays by various North ( arolina dramatic groups repre senting schools, colleges, and com n.unities; and exhibit, discussions, and a demonstration of “Techni cal Arts in the Theatre.” At the close of the Festival, Rus sell M. Grumman, UNC Exten sion Division director, will pre sent awards to winning produc i lions and playwrights. Therapy Chief at Meeting Miss Margaret L. Moore, head of the Department of Physical Therapy, UNC Memorial Hospi tal here, is in New 1 York attend ing a meeting of the executive committee of the National Re gistry of Physical Therapists. On Friday she delivered a lecture at the University of Connecti cut, Storrs, Conn. Hillel Women’s Meeting The Hillel Women’s Club will meet at 8 p. m. tomorrow (Wed nesday) at the Hillel House. in the committee report. They are: 1. Voluntary segregation is the basis on which the future of North Carolina’s public schools should be built. (The report says, "When the fires have subsided, when san ity returns, when the NAACP finds that it cannot use the Federal Courts as a club in a fight with the white people, and when the North Carolina Negro finds that his outside advisers are not his best or most reliable friends, then we can achieve the voluntary sep aration which our Governor and other State leaders' have so widely advocated.”) 2. Where voluntary segrega tion is not perfected, and where some parents object to their children attending classes in schools which may be partially integrated, then tuition grants in-aid should be made avail able to those parents to send their children to private schools. (The report says a constitu Reaction Mixed On School Report (Editorial comment on page 4) The State Advisory Com mittee aroused quite an ar ray of opinions among Chapel Hillians with its re port last Thursday evening t>n radio and TV. Few, if any, people seem to know exactly what the report means and what the pro posed amendments to the state constitution entail. The fol lowing opinions bear this out. Chancellor R. B. House was cagey. “I’m not ready,” he said firmly-. "I glanced at the news papers and it seems a good re port, but I’m not prepared to make a statement on it. I think a lot of people are going to pop off in a hurry saying things about it, but l want to read it: first. I’ll make a statement lat-j er.” University student James Tur-! ner was- a little less restrained. His reaction to the Advisory Committee’s report seemed to be formed from the political in nuendo angle: "I’m intensely disappointed in it," he replied with complete can dor to questioning. “As soon as! I saw who was on the committee 1 saw they had no liberals, and so their report must be pretty much a-foregone conclusion. It’s! nice they still respect the Su-| preme Court, and at least this report won’t give Tom Sawyer and his bunch sufficient grounds to oppose the Governor. And at least we’ll have a semi-liberal legislature next session.” Mrs. Douglas Fambrough’s re action was entirely different. “I think it was wonderful,” she said enthusiastically. “It wasn't ex treme in either direction. It was a frank and forthright report.” Her conception of what the two proposals mean: “The two proposals mean we are not go ing to be extremists and defy the Supreme Court, but we’re going to be sensible and work it out ourselves. I don’t think the grants in aid will be necessary.” Paul Smith, proprietor of the I/Aunate Bookshop, viewed the repqrt from a completely differ ent point. Mr. Smith said, “I don’t know enough about it to know just what it does mean. I gather that the gist of it is that South Carolina business of let ting the people pay for their own education. 1 personally dis approve of it. I think we're go ing to have integration sooner or later, and the more beating about the bush . .” Mr. Smith broke off and waved his ciga rette “All I heard was a short radio resume. I would like to say one thing, though. I’m very much concerned about the effect of all this on Latin America and foreign relations. I’ve just come hack from Latin America and: all that Alabama Miss Lucy busi ness was fMint-page news down there, ( think people who blow off ail the time in favor of seg regation are helping the com mies just as much as they can. It's surprising how much pub licity these Southern politicians’ speeches get down there. And all this publicity is bad for the United States.” i Monk Jennings in Town and] Campus gave his opinion of the Education Report quickly and hard. “I disagree with one thing that guy (Committee Chairman Thomas J. Pearsall) kept saying about how we had to rebuild the school system. He talked like we were back in the dark ages. i| think he’s wrong. I think we have (Continued on page 8) tional amendment should be drawn which would provide: “Authority for the General As sembly to provide from public funds financial grants to be paid toward the education of any child assigned against the wishes of his parents to a school in which the races are mixed—such grants to be avail able for education only in non sectarian schools and only when such child cannot be con veniently assigned to a non mixed public school.” (Note that this section as sumes there will be some mix ing of the races in the public schools; this might amount to only a few Negro children at tending a white school, and objecting parents may seek re lief through the tuition grant clause.) 3. Where voluntary segrega tion breaks down completely, the voters of s school district may bold an flection to abolish their public school system (and, presumably at the same Chapel Mill Chaff L.G. The tops of the trunks of the two giant cedars flanking the entrance to Kay Kyser’s place on East Frank lin street, and the branches all the way down, have been failing for a long time. Kay has known that a serious trimming job was necessary,i and he had it done last week. One part of it put him in high favor with the neigh bors. I’m not sure he even knows about it yet. That is the way he disposed of the dozen or so trunk sections that he had sawed off. What he did was simply to tell the tree-cutters to put them out on the street for any body who wanted them to take away. We, next door, saw them first. They were whopping big, ranging up to a couple of feet in diameter. My wife and I liked the look of them and we liked the fragrance of them. In a few hours four of the sections were scatter ed around our garden, each one standing beside a bench or a chair. They are excel lent for holding glasses, cups, dishes, books, maga zines, or anything else we want to take out into the open, or to sit upon. The Joseph Warrens were another Battle lane family who made a successful raid on the sidewalk treasure. Os course we hope, as Kay Kyser does himself, that the rest of his trees will flour ish so that he won’t need to have sections of them cut away; but, if he ever does, we pray that he’ll put them out on the sidewalk to be pettes on the basis of first come, first served. We’ll keep a sharp watch and try to be sure to be, again, the first comers. ¥ ¥ ¥ I never cease to be as tonished at modern inven tions. What 1 mean is, I never get so used to them (Continued on Page 2) Immanuel Ben Dor of Israel to Speak This Evening on u Dead Sea Scrolls” Immanuel Ben Dor, deputy di rector of the Department of Anti quities of the State of Israel, will speak on “The Dead Sea Scrolls” at 8 o'clock this (Tues day) evening in Carroll Hall. The public is invited. Mr. Ben Dor, at present visit ing professor at the Harvard Divinity School, will share with his audience Die scholarly world's finds and reflections with respect to the world-famous texts. This talk is one of the several lectures and cultural presenta tions being sponsored by the B’nai B'rith Hillel Foundation at Chapel Hill this week, in honor of the forthcoming Blh anniver sary of Israel’s Independence Day. Mrs. Cilli Abraham, vice-con sul of the Israeli Consulate in New York City, will speak on time, they will set up a private corporation to take over the educational functions previous ly performed by the public schools). (The report recommends a constitutional amendment to provide: "Authority for any local unit created pursuant to law and under conditions to be prescribed by the General As sembly, to suspend by majority vote the operation of the pub lic schools in that unit, not withstanding present constitu tional provisions for public schools.”) In other words, the commit tee report says it believes that voluntary segregation will solve most of the problem, that where there is a “little” in tegration parents may resort to the tuition grants if they so desire, and that where vol untary segregation breaks down completely the voters may sub stitute a system of private schools (with all pupils receiv ing tuition grants from the state) for public schools. $4 a Year in County; other ratek on page 2 Nine Candidates Have Entered Democratic Primary in County; Saturday Is Last Day for Filing As of yesterday (Monday), nine candidates have posted their filing fees to the Democratic nomina tion tor county and state offices in the May 26 primary. Saturday noon is the deadline for entering the lists. S. T. Latta, chairman of the Orange County elections ■ ——— Jean Vernon Is to Sing This Thursday Joan Harper Vernon, soprano, will he presented in a senior re cital in Hill Hall Thursday at 8:00 p. m. Student of Joel Curter in the UNC Department of Music, Mrs. Vernon will sing the following program: 4.u11y, “Bois epais” from “Amadis;” Monsigny, “II regardait mon bouget” from “Le Rio et le Funnier;” Gluck, “Di vinites du Styx” from “Alceste;” Mozart, “Un mota di gioja; “Ved rai carino” and “Batti, tutti, o bel Masetto” from “Don' Giovanni;" Schubert, Wohin, Der Linden baurn, Heidenroslein, Am Meer, Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Puc cini, “Si, mi chiamano Mimi” from “La Boheme;” "In quelle trine morbide” from “Manon Les caut;” Borodin, “A Dissonance;” Gretchaninoff, “My Native Land;” Rachmaninoff, “Lilacs, How Fair This Spot;” and Hen schel, “Spring!” Mrs. Vernon is a graduate of Stratford Junior College, Dan ville, Va., having been a pupil of Miss Anne Raddey in the Music Department. She was presented in a graduation Recital at Strat ford in May, 1954, and gave a re cital here in Chapel Hill in May, 1955. A member of the Univer sity Mixed Chorus, Mrs. Vernon was guest soloist with the com bined choruses last February in Mozart’s Motet, “Exultate Jubi late.” Going to Hawaii Mrs. VV. C. Coker is in New York awaiting the sailing of the S. S. President Hayes, which is to her to Los Angeles by way of the Panama Canal. From Los Angeles she and Mrs. John M. Booker will go to Hawaii. Faculty Wives Meeting The Faculty Wives of the Uni versity’s School of Business Ad ministration will meet at 8 o’clock this (Tuesday) evening in Carroll Hall. Hostesses will be Mrs. E. E. Peacock and Mrs. It. W. Pfouts. “The Status of Women in the Middle East Today” at a lunch-j eon in the Carolina Inn today at 12:30 p.m. Among others visiting Chapel Hill this week is Raphael i’atai, internationally renowned authori ty on the folklore and ethnology of the Middle East, who will speak at 8 p.m. Thursday in the University Library’s assembly loom. «• Mr. Ben Dor was born in the Ukraine, is a graduate of the Hebrew Teachers College of Vi enna, and. has also studied at the Universities of Vienna and Rome. He has served as assist ant with the University of Penn sylvania's expeditions to Pales tine, Egypt, Mesopotamia 'and Italy; and was a member of the American School of Oriental Research expedition to Bet El, of the University of expedition to Jericho, and tile Harvard expedition to Van (Tur key). Supper and Fashion Show Set Thursday • The Senior Y-Teens will en tertain their parents at a supper and fashion show Thursday eve ning, April 12, at the Hillel House on Cameron Avenue. The supper will begin at 5:30 and will be foil wed by the show, to, be directed by Miss Elizabeth Branson, proprietor of the Little Shop. The models will be the fol lowing Senior Y-Teens: Beth Fleming, l,eah Fitch, Barbara Fitch, Sharon Sullivan, Anne Durham, and Julie Demerath. Helping Miss Branson to run the show will be the following Senior Y-Teens: Libby Russell, Mary Bahnsen, and Susan Greu lach. Flower Show Planned The Oak view Garden Chib’s annual spring flower show will be held from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. 'Pbursday, April 26, at tha Church of theh Holy Family. ill TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday ’board, said yesterday that the board will meet in the Courthouse at Hillsboro Sat urday at 11:30 a. m. to re ceive fees from last minute candidates. The candidates who had filed as of yesterday were: John Manning and Edwin S. Lanier of Chapel Hill, and Edwin Hamlin of Hillsboro, for the State Senate. John W. Umstead for the House of Representatives. R. J. M. Hobbs and Hugh Wilson of Chapel Hill, and Otis Evans of Hillsboro, j Route 3, for the Board of County Commissioners. John Hawkins of Cedar Grove for the Board of Edu cation. Vernon Burch for Chapel Hill Township Constable. Messrs. Umstead, Hobbs and Hawkins are incumbents seeking renomination, and Mr. Lanier is vacating his seat on the Board of Com missioners to seek the sena torial nomination. Notice to Parents Os Young Children Parents of children who are to enter the Chapel Hill Ele mentary School on West Frank lin Street this coming Septem ber for the first time, should turn in the names and addresses of the beginners to the school’s principal, Miss Mildred Mooeny hM. * Pro-school registration will be held at the school from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday morning, April 24. A child must be six years old by not later than October 16 of this year to be eligible to register. Parents are request ed to bring the child’s birth certificate to the registration. Social Meeting Is Set by Merchants The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Mer chants Association will hold a social gathering Monday even ing, April 16, at the Ranch House. The social hour will be |gin at 6 p.m., the dinner at 7 I p.m. T. A. Rosemond will be | master of ceremonies, and James 'Wallace, chairman of the enter tainment committee, has arrang ed a half hour of entertainment. Door prizes will be given. Prospective members as well as wives and guests of members are invited. The present member ship of the association is 142. Tickets, for $2.00, may be picked up at the Merchants Association office and Danziger’s in Chapel Hill, and White Oak Department Store in Carrboro through Fri day of this week. Professors to Give Scholarly Papers Two members of the Univer- , sity’s Department of Germanic Languages will present papers at scholarly assemblies this week in Baltimore and Philadelphia. George S. Lane, Kenan pro fessor of Germanic and campara live linguistics, will attend the meeting in Baltimore of the American Oriental Society «ryl will read a paper today on “The Jataka and Avadana Fragments in Kuchean” before the Indian section of the meeting. Werner P. Frederich, profes sor of German and bead df the | Department of Comparative Lit ’erature, will present a paper en titled, “The German Sources of European Romanticism” at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on Thursday, April 12. Chapel Millnote 4 Blossoming dogwood trees giving the appearance of a lovely, light snowfall. • * * In early a. m. when street* are deserted, car that speed* east on Franklin street on left hand side, hugs curb in front of post office and darts into Hen derson street, driver looking quite devilish. '