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r'ol. 34, No. 31
University Women’s Club Elects Its New Officers
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Here are the new officers and the out-going president of the University Women’s Club.
From left to right, they are Mrs. Clifford Lyons, out-going president; Mrs. J. C. Sitterson,
secretary; Mrs. (Gordon Blackwell, president; and Mrs. J. C. Lyons, treasurer.
Branch Office of Carolina Motor Club
Coming Here; Will Sell License Tags
A branch office of the Caro
lina Motor Club, to provide a
local outlet for sales of state
automobile license tags in the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro community,
will be opened here probably
within the next .'lO to 60 days.
Local residents have been push
ing the move for some time. It
was hoped that such a branch
would be available for license
sales this year, but arrange
ments could not be completed
in time.
The Chapel Hill Automobile
Dealers Association has .pointed
out to Carolina Motor Club of
ficials the need for an office
here and the inconvenience to
local residents who have to go
to Durham to buy their license
plates. John Umstead, Orange
County representative in the
General Assembly, provided hi*
good offices to see if he could
help persuade the Motor Club
to put a branch office in this
M. Y. F. Is Planning
Hobo Picnic Party
The Intermediate M. Y. P. of
the University Methodist Church
will have a hobo party tomorrow
(Saturday) evening. Members are
to meet at 5 o’clock at the church
and proceed from there to the
“hobo jungle” for a picnic sup
per and songs and entertainment
around the campfire.
Arrangements are being made
by the organization’s recreation
committee, which is composed of
Sally Sloan, iletsy Fitch, Jimmy
Jamersori, David Hill, Patricia
Armstrong, and Jane Hedgpeth.
Altar Guild to Meet
The Altar Guild of the Chapel
of the Cross will meet at 8 p.m.
Monday, April 28, at the Kpisco
pal parish house.
University Students Rip Phone Wires,
Steal Equipment From Police Station
The ( hapel Mill Police station
hail its hands full last Monday
night when about fifteen Uni
versity students, present in the
station to make bond for their
friend iiosea Wilson of Danville,
ripped out two telephone wires,
set a fire in a wastebasket, and
relieved the Police Department
of several articles of its equip
ment.
Patrolman Graham ('reel, who
was on duty in the station when
the incident occurred, tells it
this, way:
"Amos Horne and Howard Pen-'
dcrgraph brought in the Wilson
boy on a drunk driving charge.
His bond was set at S2OO and I
let him call up his buddy to get
him to come down and pay his
bond. Well, about 16 of ’em came
down and I was so worried about
being fouled up on the money I
said a check would do. They
were ail milling around in the
hall and the chief’s office and 1
was too busy making sure of the
check and writing out the receipt
to pay much attention to ’em.'
Chapel H’llnote*
Postmaster Paul Cheek ar
riving at Pott Office in hit
pajamas last Monday at 16
minutes to midnight to mail
his incoii* tax return.
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W. H. Pranch home, at al
ways, looting like a dream.
area.
Recently Mrs. Bessie B. liallen
tine, executive secretary of the
North Carolina Automobile Deal
ers Association, wrote a letter
to Jake Conners of Harriss-Con
ners Chevrolet Inc., quoting
Frank Miller, vice-president and
secretary of the Carolina Motor
Club. Mr. Miller said John R.
Elliott, club field secretary, “has
been instructed to find a branch
office location (in Chapel Hill)
suitable to the Department of
Motor Vehicles, the Automobile
Dealers and the Carolina Motor
Club.”
It. was believed the Motor Club
branch office would be set up
in the Chapel Hill Tire Company
offices here.
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Jaycees Will Bock Cancer Society in
Annual Campaign Beginning Tomorrow
The Orange County Unit of
the American Cancer Society
will launch its annual campaign
for funds tomorrow (Saturday)
land it will be highlighted by a
community-wide door-to-door so-'
Imitation next Thursday, April
26. The goal this year is $7,000.
Announcement of plans for the
campaign were made yesterday
!by Monk Jennings, Chapel Hill
j merchant, who is county chair-!
man for 1956.
| Mr. Jennings said that the
Chapel Hill Jaycees had under
taken the house-to-house solici
tation as a civic project, and
that Donald M. Stanford of the
Jaycees is directing the cam
paign in the rural areas.
The Hoy and Girl Scouts and
I the Y-Teena will have charge
of the coin boxes, and will
make their first appearance to-:
morrow (Saturday). Members
'of the three organizations wiil
n Just as soon as they left 1
y smelled smoke, and so I went
- into the chief’s office and found
ea fire in the wastebasket. I ■
r called the last boy who left to I
!, help me put out the fire,
i, “I didn’t find out about the I
i telephone wires and the other I
t things until the next morning. I
-They pulled out both telephones I
|in the chief's office and stole I
!> the chief’s gun out of his desk I
i drawer and tiie ink roller from I
t 'he fingerprinting box and a I
j desk pen and a stack of parking I
.1 tickets. I’m not sure who they I
, were.”
The 15 students were reported I
[ to be members of the Ugly Club, I
t a student club on the campus, I
s which had been having a party I
I that evening. The stolen articles I
t were returned to the Police De I
[ partment, but at press time yes- I
, terday no names had been re- I
| leased. The Police Department in- I
tends to serve warrants on some I
,'of the boys involved, but cannot I
do so, of course, until names are I
(released either by the University I
administration or by the Ugly I
Club.
Clifton Whyhurn Honored
Clifton Whyburn, son of Mr,
and Mrs. W. M. Whyburn of
lit Bolus Drive, was recently
tapped for membership In Sigma
Pi fjigma, honorary physics fra
ternity, at the University of
Alabaau, where he is a sopho
more.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
5 Cents a Copy
Perry Nominated
New Lions Prexy
James L. (Pepsi) Perry has
been nominated president of the
Carrboro Lions Club for 1956-
57.
Other officers nominated in
clude Jack Mcllade, first vice
president; Tom Murray, second
vice-president; J. S. Gibson, third
vice-president; Mack Watts, sec
retary; Ashwell Harward, assist
ant secretary; Harry Andrews,
administrative treasurer; Wilson
Lackney, project treasurer; Bob
Rush, tuil twister; John Boone,
Lion tamer; Bob Ray and
Paul Crabtree, new directors;
June Merritt, F. M. Duncan and
Barnard Whitefield, carry-over
directors. The election will be
held at the next meeting and
the officers will be installed as
of July 1.
be on Chape) Hill and Carrboro
soliciting funds, and will
be at the Carolina and Varsity j
theatres Saturday, Sunday and
Monday to receive contributions.
“This year’s goal is the high-l
est ever assigned us,” Mr. Jen
nings said yesterday. “But we!
live in one of the few counties
in the nation which uctually
get back more than we put into
! it. Eighty percent of the funds
j we raise ire retained in the coun
ty. In addition to that, the Ameri
can Cancer Society awards grants
and other funds for research and
hospitalization at N. (' Memorial!
Hospital.”
The initial gifts committee will!
mail out letters asking coritribu- [
tions of local businessmen and
usually large contributors this
weekend.
“Any person, however," Mr.
Jennings said, “who wishes to
make a contribution may do so
by sending his check or cash
to the Chapel Hill Jaycees, to
me here at Town and Campus, or
to Mrs. K. It. Brinkhous, who
is chairman of the Orange Coun
ty Unit of the Society."
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Belk-I.eggett-Horton of Chapel Hill, in celebration of
ita Founder’s Day, has presented copies of the biography of
William Henry Belk to a number of local librariea. In the
picture above. Mias Julia Graham, librarian at the Chapel Hill
High School, la shown receiving the books from Carlton Byrd
of Belk-Leggett-Horton. One will remain in her library, and 1
•he will distribute others to the Chapel Hill Elementary Hcheol,
Lincoln High Reboot, NorthaUe, Carrboro, Hillsboro, Central <
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1956
‘Meet the Candidates’
State and County Aspirants to Attend
Two Orange County Rallies Next Week
Two ‘‘Meet the Candi
dates” rallies will be held
in Orange County next week.
On Wednesday night at 8
o’clock at the Courthouse in
Hillsboro the Business and
Professional Women’s Club
will present the Orange
County candidates for public
office in the forthcoming
campaign. Candidates for
state offices have been in
vited.
On Saturday night, April
28, at 6 o’clock at the Schley
Grange, the Orange County
Young Democrats will com
bine a barbecue, candidates
meeting, , and membership
drive.
County Yl) President W.
M. Alexander announced
yesterday that about 20
candidates for county and
state offices had already ac
cepted invitations to attend.
They include Congressman
il’arl T. Durham of Chapel
.Hill and his opponent,' Ralph
Scott, all the aspirants for
lieutenant governor, several
gubernatorial candidates and
others.
U. S. Senators Kerr Scott
and Sam Ervin have written
they will attend if Congress
does not meet that day.
“Since it appears that the
principal issue between the
Democrats and the Republi-
Junior Recital Set
For 4 P.M. Sunday
University students Mollis'
Hough, soprano, and Shirley Car
penter, pianist, wiil give a junior
recital at 4 p.m. Sunday, April
22, in Hill Hall. Admiaaion is
free.* <*
Miss Hough, a student as As
sociate Professor Joel Carter, will
be accompanied by Hunter Till
man of Koxboro. Daughter of
Mrs. John Gurion Hough of
Washington, N. C., she attended
Woman’s College in Aireensboro
| before entering UNC, where she
! will receive an A. B. degree in
June. She is soprano soloist foi
| the University Methodist Church
choir.
i Miss Carpenter is a student of
Associate Professor William ,S.
Newman. Her parents are Mr.
and Mrs. K. C. Carpenter of
Oakboro. She also formerly ut
tended the Woman’s College in
Greensboro.
Athletic Club to Meet
The Chapel Hill Athletic Club
wiil hold i smoker at the Mono
gram Club Monday at 8 o’clock.
Coaches of the University foot
ball and baseball teams will be
present anil report on the spring
practices and contests. Coffee
and sandwiches will be served.
At the I nited Church
William 11. Poteat of the IJni-!
versity’s Department of I'hiloso
phy will be the guest speaker
at the 11 o’clock service Sunday
morning, April 22, at the United
Congregational Christian Church. 1
cans this year will be over
the farm program,” said Mr.
Alexander, “we have secured
a farm wagon from which
each of the candidates will
be permitted to speak.”
R. 0. Forrest of Hillsboro
will be master of ceremonies,
and the Rev. C. S. Hubbard,
pastor of University Meth
odist ('hurch here, will pro
nounce the invocation. Also
on the program will be Hen
ry Wilson of Monroe, state
YD president.
Tickets to the barbecue
and the rally cost $1 and
include a year’s membership
in the Young Democrats.
Women Racqueteers
To Live Exhibition
Two of the nation's foremost
young women tennis players, na
tionally ranked and former mem
bers of the junior Wightman Cup
squad, will give a free demon
stration here on the University
courts Sunday afternoon, begin
ning at 2 p. in.
Students at North Carolina
! Woman’s College at Greensboro
who teamed to win the national
Junior indoor doubles champion
ship in 1952, they are Misses
Belmar Gunderson and Mary
Slaughter. In addition to the
doubles, Miss Slaughter, daugh
ter of E. R. (Butch) Slaughter,
long, time University of Virginia
football coach, won the national
junior indoors title in 1952.
Tlie demonstration was arrang
ed by North Carolina tennis coach
John Kenfield and Mrs. Frances
Hogan of the U. N. C. women’s
physical education faculty, who
is prominent in state tennis
circles. The public is invited.
Ham Strayhorn, acting North
tennis coach during
Coach Kenfield’s illness, is as
sisting Mrs. Hogan in mulling
plans for the exhibition, which
is expected to draw a large crowd
of tennis enthusiasts in this area.
Visitors Frsm Cary
Mr. and Mrs. Otis M. Hunks
of Cary visited the Hilly Arthurs
here Monday night.
Merchants Stage What People Call the
Best Party Ever Put on by Association
A real rock and roll dinner
meeting was staged by the
Chapel Hill Carrboro Merchants
Association Monday night at the
Ranch House. It was marked by
much good fellowship, plenty of
excellent food and drink, and
very little speeehmaking.
Scheduled as an annual event
in honor of new members and
prospective members, the dinner
was attended by a record crowd
of about 180 people, including
merchants and their friends, em
ployees, and relatives. Everybody
said it was the best such meet
ing ever held by the Association.
Jimmy Wallace was chairman of
arrangements. He is the Asso
ciation’s entertainment chairman.
The meeting was presided over
j Officers Elected
By Education Frat
Ben E. Fountain Jr. of Chapel
ilill has been elected president
of Phi Delta Kappa, professiona l
fraternity for men in education,
which has its headquarters at the
UNC Education Department and
which is composed of leading
North Carolina educators inter
ested in furthering educational
research, service, arid leadership.
Mr. Fountain, former principal
of a Rocky Mount school, is now
associate secretary of the North
Carolina State Board# Associa
tion.
Wesley J. Noble, principal of
the Chapel Hill High School, was
elected vice-president, and Frank
Greer, a Kellogg Foundation Re
search Fellow at the University,
was selected secretary-treasurer.
W. D. Perry was elected faculty
sponsor.
Glenwood Car Pool
Member# of a car pool will
transport the Glenwood Elemen
tary School pupils to Memorial
Hall for the North Carolina Sym
phony Orchestra’s annual chil
dren’s concert, today, (Friday)
to begin at 2 o’clock. Children
from the Chapel Hill Elementary
School will walk to the concert,
Mid children from other schools
will be brought by bus.
Chapel Mill ChaU
L.G.
Dr. Isaac M. Taylor is
“holing »n” for the winter
|at the Navy’s McMurdo
Sound base in the Antarctic,!
|and no more letters can
come through to Mrs. Tay
:lor until summer is under
way there. The next one will
probably get here around
Christmas.
But this doesn’t mean
that Dr. and Mrs. Taylor
are out of communication
with each other. They ex
change weekly messages, by
'combined radio and tele
graph. through the Navy
'Communication Center in
Washington. Mrs. Taylor
will get a telephone call from
the Western Union office
there in Chapel Hill, and the!
operator will say, “Here’s a !
wire from your husband,"
land will read it to her, and
then will send the copy to
I her by mail.
To reply Mrs. Taylor will
read to the Western Union
, operator what she wants to j
say, just as she would in
telegraphing to any place in
this country. When she sent
the first of these messages!
she was astonished to be
told that the charge for a
39-word night letter was
only 90 cents. That was be-!
cause she was paying for the'
service only from here to
Washington; the Navy took
care of the message from
there on to the Antarctic.!
It’s like sending an air-mail
letter to a man overseas
with the Army or Navy; you
send the letter at the domes
tic rate to an Army or Navy
post office box number at
New York or San Francisco.
The latest word from Dr.
Taylor came laat Sunday.
( One thing he said was that
he wanted to get into con
tact with some of the
“hams” (amateur radio op
erators) in Chapel Hill. Two
whose names Mrs. Taylor
has given him are Gray Mc-
Allister and Fritz Thurs
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Iby 11. S. McGinty, president of
| the Association. Tom Itoseinoml
j wo# master of ceremonies. A
I brief address of welcome to nyAv
members and prospective mem
I ber# was made by Ray Jolly,
membership chairman. Ten door
prizes were given to the holders
of lucky numbers. They were pre
sented to each winner by Mrs.
Jane Whitefield, the Association’s
secretary. Music was provided by
George Hamilton’s Country Gen-'
j tlemen.
In Symphony Concert Mere This Evening
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harl and Phyllis Kraeuter fabove), violin and 'cello duo,
will perform hero thia (Friday) evening in the North Chrolina
Symphony Orchestra's annual Chapel Hill concert, to begin at
•» Memorial Hell under (he baton of Benjamin Swalin.
The Kreeutors, who have appeared aa soloiato and in chamber
Music program all ever America, will play the Brahms Double
U * h * e ***rt la free to members of
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School Bus Forced Off Road
By Big Truck on Bypass; No
Children Are Hurt in Mishap
A school bus carrying
about 35 children from the
Glenwood School to their!
homes on the 13-501 bypass
route on Wednesday after
noon was forced off the road
bv a transport truck which
attempted to pass with too
little clearance. No one was
injured in the mishap.
I,eom Ivey, Chapel Hill
High School senior who was
driving the bus, gave this
description of the incident:
“I’d just made my second
stop and there was a feed
truck behind me and a trans
port truck behind the feed
j truck. J list as I started up,
I the feed truck pulled out to
pass, but he saw a car com
ing the other way pulling
Senior Class Is to
(iive ‘State Fair’
i The senior class of the Chapel
Hill High School will give the
comedy “State Fair" at 8 p.m.
Friday, April 27, in the school
auditorium. Admission will be
.>0 cents for students and 75 cents
for adults.
The cast includes Clyde Camp
bell, Molly Cameron, Gordon:
I Blackwell, Margaret Evans, Ted-!
|dy Moore, Beth Fleming, Mike
Alexander, Judy Hill, Phyllis
Jones, Pat Burns, and Bobby Po
teat. Miss Jessie Belle Lewis!
is directing the play and Miss I
May Marshbanks is directing the
stage work and committees.
The play tells the story of
a family that has exhibits at
a state fair. They make new
friends there, and the youngsters
run into complications in their
love life.
Chapel Hillian la
-At Meeting
Walter Spearman, professor of
journalism, is in South Carolina
this week to lead discussions at
the annual South Carolina High
School Press Association meeting
being held at Anderson under thej
leadership of Fletcher W Fergu
son, director of the association
and former journalism student
here at U. N. C.
Mr. Spearman will address the'
opening session of the conference
on “Tired Old Words,” and will
also lead a discussion group on
problems of editorial writing for
high school students. During the
past summer he wrote editorials
for the New Orleans Item and
is now writing for the Greens
boro Daily News.
Concert Tuesday Night
The UNC Men’s Glee Club and.
University Chorus, conducted by!
Joel Carter, will give a concert!
at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, in!
Hill Hall. Admission is free and
everybody is invited.
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f a long house trailer and he
-1 pulled back into line. Just
r;as soon as he pulled back in,
* the transport truck pulled
- out and started to pass. He
1 had a pretty good speed up
l and I could see that he was
) too far past the feed truck
s to pull back in. so I pulled
off the road onto the shoul
-1 der. I didn’t see any letter
s ing on the truck and the li
s cense plate was muddy so
: I couldn’t get the number.
.1 I was worrying about the
1 bus then, anyway.”
The bus was mired in the
I soft earth. Ivey flagged a
passing car and contacted
j Raymond Kiddoo, principal
-of the Glenwood School, who
■f went out with a shovel in
his pickup truck to dig the
bus out. A new bus. mean
, while, was sent down to
pick up the children. The
,1 stalled bus was eventually
e pulled out by a gravel truck,
i. C. W. Davis, Superinten
’’ dent of Chapel Hill Schools,
who is in charge of the
school bus operations, said
yesterday, “I think the boy
„ acted wisely in pulling off
- the road. That kind of thing
e | will happen sometimes re
gardless of the State High
way Patrol or anything else
* y.ou can do. There’re just
L . some people who think they
own the road.”
f The parents of the child
t ren who were riding in the
v bus are concerned about the
8 bypass as a speedway. Mrs.
r Harley Shands of Morgan
Creek Road said her two
daughters, Cathy and Betsy,
came Moot* with a tale of a
- horrible accident after hav
*|ing smeared themselves with
f ketchup at a nearby house
“to try and scare her.
£| “I was taken in for a split
k , instant,” said Mrs. Shands,
e j “but then of course I saw
all was well. I do think some-
II thing’s got to be done about
1 the speeding on that high
iway. This incident indicates
I that people aren’t watching
II school busses. If busses ar'e
n going to be forced into
r things like this because of
e trucks then something ought
to be done out here. We just
.live in dread of that high
way.”
Mrs. Douglas Fambrough,
who has been ill in bed, re
plies on the story her nine
i year-old daughter Lee told:
Y’My daughter said, ‘lf it
( weren t for the presence of
mind of our wonderful bus
driver we would have all
been killed.’ She thought the
truck was going pretty fast.
J 1 thought the bus driver
I showed great presence of
I mind myself. 1 think some-
I thing ought to be done about
I the speeding on the bypass.”
At Memorial Hospital
Among local persona listed as
I patients ut Memorial Hospital
i yesterday were Clarence Atwater,
II C. Blackwell, Jo Anne Bow
| den, I'. H. Bprna, Christopher
Doughty, Wiley P. Franklin,
Samuel E. Knight, Mrs. 11. D.
Leigh, H. B. Lloyd, Mrs. M. A.
McCauley, Dr. A. H. McCreery,
Kenneth Melvin, Mr». W. E. Nix,
J- A. Page, Mrs. H. A. Payne,
j J. A. Perry, Mrs. W. P. Richard
son, Oscar K. Rice, W. F. Senter,
Mrs. J, M. Tapley, Mrs. Gordon
Taylor, V. G. Thompson, Maurice
Vickers, and R. A. Womble.
Med Wives Dance
The annual Med Wives dance
for the Medical School will be
ieid from 8:80 to 12:30 on Sat
irday evening at the Chapel Hill
Country Club. The theme of the
emi-formul dance will be “Docs
nd Dolls’’ and tickets, being sold
>y members of the club, cost (2
for a stag or couple.
Mrs. Taul White Leaves
Mrs. Taul White has moved
from Chapel Hill to Memphis,
Tenn., to be with her son,
ford White, who is chairman 6f
the drams department at the
University of Memphis. Bha was
recently in Memorial Hospital
because es serious trouble with,
eyes.