FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday Vol. 34, No. 35 Democrats of Orange County , Will Organize Democrats of Orange County’s 16 precincts will j meet tomorrow (Saturday), \ May 5, to organize and elect 1 delegates to the County, Democratic Convention, I which will be held a week ; from tomorrow on May 12. I County Democratic Chair- I man Bob Forrest of Hills boro this week issued the ! call for the precinct sessions to be held at 2 p. m. at all the precinct polling places, except Hillsboro. The Hills boro precinct meeting will be held in the Courthouse at the same hour. Chairman Forrest also set the time for the May 12 County Convention at 2 p. m. at Hillsboro Courthouse. Precinct meetings are held each general election year, according to Mr. Forrest. All registered Democrats in the various precincts are eligible to attend and vote for the committee members and delegates to the county convention. The county con vention will name a chair man and delegates to the state convention. l Each precinct has a five ' member executive commit tee as well as chairman, vice-chairman, secretary and convention delegates. Carolina Pharmacy To Be Restaurant The Carolina Pharmacy, until recently a combination eating place and pharmacy, is under going change. Miss Helen I>u guid, who was the pharmacist, has left Chapel Hill to take charge of the ■' v Show m Kinston as pharmacist, and; Mrs. Kuby Grogan remains in charge of the Carolina Pharmacy, j which she is busy transforming into a restaurant only. Mrs. Grogan plans to sell the| drugs remaining in the pharm acy department and enlarge the seating capacity of the premises, since the eating clientele is grow ing rapidly. She also intends to ) change the name, hut is not yet; certain what the new name will; he. The changes should be com pleted soon, Mrs. Grogan said.! Miss Duguid and Mrs. Grogan j have been partners in the husi-| ness since they purchased it from; Phiiiip Lloyd a year ago. Prior; to that they operated a farm on the Pittsboro Road. For a num-; her of years Miss IJuguid was a pharmacist at Eubank’s Drug Store. . Visits in Carrboro Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Stokes of Winston-Salem, visited their son and family, the Rev. and Mrs.; uJlenry B. Stokes, and Julia and) Stokes at their home oni T’oplar Street in Carrboro last weekend. Cltapel MlllnoteS The Weekly’s managing edi tor Joe Jones taking off for a Georgia vacation in a mile long Cadillac, his brother’s. * » * The stairway leading down to the Tempo" Room, East Franklin Street’s latest bev erage shop, still displays wall paper with a kiddie motif — a hangover from the days when it was the Baby Shop. Have Your Say: Do You Like Our Christmas Candles? Folks in the Chapel Hill-Carr boro community always have a lot to say about the village’s Christmas decorations when the familiar candles and Christmas trees are erected in November of each year. This year the Chapel Hill-Carr boro Merchants Association, which puts up the decorations, is inviting everyone to put in his two cents worth of comment in May—so there will be plenty of time to act on worthy sugges tions. The association has polled its members on the subject of street decorations, and is now in the process of polling men’s civic clubs. All clubs and groups in the community are invited to poll Beauty Abounds in This Bream i| L M Ufa* . j; sbjkl j£lßL’ ** liKUSIpC rJ /fill Kit / **) : ; lit ania. played by Mrs. June Albans of Chapel Hill, is shown above with two fairies, Mrs. Barbara Bounds and her daughter, Bobbie Bounds, both of Chapel Hill, in a scene from the Carolina Playmakers’ production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which opens at the Forest Theatre here tonight (Fri day) for a three-night run. The production will be repeated tomorrow and Sunday nights. Curtain time is 8:30 o'clock. Other Chapel Hillians who will be seen in the Shakespeare comedy are Miss Gloria lli Costanza, Mrs. Mary Smith, Kai Jurgensen, Walter Smith, Miss Dee Casey, Miss Gretrhen Fink, Mrs. Ann Smith, Mrs. Hope Heifers, and Miss Judy Brown. Planning Board Recommends Rezoning of Durham Road Property for Ford Garage The Chapel Hill Planning "and Zoning Board recommended this week that certain property adja ■ cent to and near Radio Station , WCHL he classified as suburban commercial. The recommendation will be i transmitted officially to the i f’lmr) of 41dermen for cppruval Ijor disapproval at its regular i; meeting on May 14. The recommendation directly and immediately affects two pe jtitioners - Crowell Little and iGeddie Fields Jr. Mr. Little pro poses to build a 12,000 square foot building for Ford sales and j service on property on the side of the radio station toward Chapel Hill. Mr. Fields’ property is a triangular shaped area lying ;on the other side of the radio {station toward Durham. Both are on the south side of the Durham Road. ; op position to the rezoning was (heard by the board, hut it unani mously voted for a reclassifica t ion. In other action Chairman Frank Umstead appointed an | architectural review committee j composed of Henry Royall, a member of the board, and L. J. j Phipps, J. P. Harland, Miss Eliza jbeth Branson and Jack Pruden. The zoning board will not meet again until May 15 at which time it will receive a report from its : consultants on development needs; iof the central business district' and suburban commercial dis tricts. The hoard also approved its White t russ Meeting The Advisory Board of the White Cross Community announ ces its third efficiency meeting tomorrow (Saturday) at the Community Building. At 5 o’clock there will he a baseball game and contests for the youngsters such as catching the greased pig and a guinea race. A basket picnic supper will he served stalling between 6:80 and 7:00 n. m. After supper there will be a lecture on some phase of j agricultural efficiency and a lo icai talent program. their members and let the Mer i chants Association know the re i suits, and individuals are urged > to drop a postcard to the asso i ciat'ion at Box 127 expressing ' their tastes. These questions may be help ful: | Do you favor retaining the pres ent candle decorations, and ( would you like to see more of , them? Do you favor adding a differ ent type of decorations, or pub i stituting a new theme for the ; candles? i Do you like the idea of the : Christmas shopping season -pa i rade, community sing and square 1 dance? The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents a Copy annqal report which will be form ally/ turned over to the Board of Aldermen on Monday, May 14. The report reviews the work :of the board for the past year 1 and discusses current and future ; expenditures. In connection with its genera! land development plan fur Chapel FI ill and environs, the hoard said lin the report that it had com pleted the following studies; (1) a revision of the economic base study, (2) a revision of the pop ulation forecast, (8) a survey of land use, and (4) a preliminary plan for lesidential development in the area. “By the end of the present fiscal year,” the report continues, "a plan for the central business district and recommended stand ards and policies for suburban commercial zones will he received by the board from its consult ant.” In addition to its major proj ects, the hoard reported that it supplied assistance to the School Board, in the study of sites for' a new elementary school on the north side of town. Baseball Here Tomorrow Wake Forest will play the University in a baseball game at Emerson Field here tomorrow (Saturday), beginning at 3 p. m. Mrs. Grey Culbreth Wins a Blue Ribbon Mrs. Grey Culbreth stands beside a table setting which she prepared for the Oakview Garden Club’s spring flower show last week. The setting, which won a blue ribbon, feature*, a floral decoration of bachelor buttons and rrape foliage. A light green tablecloth and alternating green and roae nap kins form a background for blue glasses, candles and gift • packages, yellow plates, and dark wooden candlesticks. The screen is green with spattered gold. CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1956 Only 2 Saturdays Left to Register (See map of precinct boundaries on page 5) Prospective voters in the special annexation election of the Town of Chapel Hill May 26 were reminded yes terday that only two more Saturdays, tomorrow includ ed, remain for them to reg ister anew for the special vote on annexation, accord ing to officials of the Orange County Flections Board. They the registra tion reminder yesterday, be cause on the first registra tion day last Saturday only 33 people signed up to vote —22 i.n Ward 3 at Woollen Gym and 11 in Ward 5 at Glemvood School. To be eligible to vote in the annexation election, one must be a resident of the » areas, which are proposed to become a part of the Town of Chapel Hill, and meet other qualifications for bal loting. The special registration in no way affects registering to vote in the Democratic primary, which will be held on the same day. If one voted in the 1954 primary or general election, or in this year’s school bond referendum, he need r.ot re-register. If he I did not vote in either and chooses ito vote in the primary May 26, he must meet the following re quirements and register: Resi dence of one year in North Carol jlina and JO days in Orange Coun ty, age 21 years or over, a born or naturalized citizen of the U. S., and able to read and write, Persons desiring to register may do so at the polling "places jin Chapel Hill and Carrboro to | morrow and next Saturday from |U a. m. to sunset, or with the j registrar at his home or place! of business in the interim. The lulling places and regis trars are: Chapel Hill Precincts —No. 1, Town Hall, Mrs. Henry . Royall, registrar; -No. 2, Student Hut at Presbyterian Church, J.j IA. Warren, registrar; No. 3, Woollen Gym, Harold Walters, registrar; No. 4, Cone House at 1 Chapel llii! High School, Mrs Irene Scruggs, registrar; and No.I 15, Glenwood School, Lind say Neville, registyfr; Carrboro| Town Hill, W. n. Ray, regis trar. At Memorial Hospital Among local persons listed as patients at Memorial Hospital on l Thursday morning were Lewis Cole, Mrs. James Crabtree, G. J. j Dixon Jr., Mrs. Mary Halperin,] Mrs. Callie Lloyd, Miss Nettie) Lloyd, Mrs. Nora Lloyd., Dr. Al jbert McCreery, E. 1). Nrarkham, Mrs. Frank Moore, Mrs. Julia; Nunn, J. \. Parker, Betty Pear : son, G. S. Taber 111, and R. A. Worn Lie. Dormitory President Tish Harrer of Chapel Hill has been elected president of Smith Dormitory. Chapel Mill ChaH L.G. It happened that I drop ped into Harry’s Grill late one afternoon last week only a few minutes after Harry Muckiin, the proprietor, had been stricken suddenly ill.! Dr. Kemp Jones was in a rear room with him at the time and presently he was taken to the hospital. Last Friday’s issue of the paper told of how his sister, Mrs. Harry Stern, hastened here from Baltimore to help Mrs. Macklin with the work in the restaurant, fell when stepping out to the side walk, and broke hqr hip. She underwent an operation (the kind in which the sections of a bone are fastened together with silver plugs) and will be in the hospital several weeks longer. The double stroke of bad luek brought the kin flock ing from Baltimore to Chapel Hill to give the com fort of their presence and whatever help they could. Mr. Stern, told by telephone of his wife’s accident, came by airplane. The next arrival was Mrs. Stern’s sister, Mrs. Kd Adler, and she set to jvvork immediately as Mrs. jMacklin’s partner -in - toil. Then came Mrs. Ronnie Moss, niece of Mr. Macklin and Mrs. Stern, and Mrs. Macklin’s brother, Samuel Feldman. Assembly was fol lowed by dispersal as the Stern-Macklin skies began to brighten. Mr. Macklin was discharged from the hospital Saturday and went back to jwork Monday. * * * One of the poems I learned by heart in my school days in the 1890’s ;W»i* William Cullen Bryant’s j“Thanatopsis.” If I tried to recite it now I’d get stall-, ed soon alter the beginning, .‘To him who is in love of! nature,” etc.; but through the years my memory has clung tight to the final four (Continued on Page 2) Knter Mothers In Robbins’ Contest Entries for the J. B. Robbins i House of Fashion special Moth jer’s Day contest, now being held in addition to the Chapel Hill <'an boro Merchants Association j contest, tire still being accepted, land will he accepted until mid night, Tuesday, May 8. The contest will select two, “Mothers of the Year,” each will be awarded a SIOO wardrobe. One j mother will represent the campus, I the other the village. The procedure for entering a mother in tlfe contest is as fol lows; To J. B. Robbins, Box 1107, Chapel Hill, write a letter nomi nating your choice and explain-j ing why you think your nomi-l nee should win, including as much information about her as pos sible. The contest Will not bej judged on the quality of the let-j ters, hut on the qualifications of the mothers nominated. The vil-j lage “Mother of the Year” will! '>e chosen from Chapel Hill, Carr-; boro, and environs, and the fam ous mother will he a dormitory, fraternity or sorority house mother. Mrs. J. J. Keller Jr. I i To Head Auxiliary Mrs. John J. Keller Jr., has been elected president of the! Chapel Hill Unit of-the Ameri- 1 can Legion Auxiliary. She sue-1 ceeds Mrs. John C. tleitman, who will become district com mitteewomen and second vice president of the local unit. Other officers elected were: Mrs. D. M. Horner, first vice president; Mrs. Ruby Mellette,! treasurer; Mrs. Norman Jackson, recording secretary; Mrs. Alta' Singleterry, historian; Mrs. Fred; Varley, chaplain; Mrs. Troy Hern-j don, corresponding secretary; and! Mrs. Arth.ir Ward, sergeant at arms. The election was held at the home of Mrs. W. G. Fields with Mrs. Herndon as co-hostess. ' Miss Inez Belyesinsa, a Ful bright exchange student at the University, spoke to the group on customs and education in the Philippine Islands, her native home. Three Mothers* Names Drawn; Still Time to Enter imuflMKl-.' • > ■■■■ r'ritw^—i^—s——asm———B Hi it , ?v \ x wXmmm Blw y-: \ill Ay'S m iy' * c-.Y. & s : v I —i Tuto by Chuck Hauser 11. S. Mc(iinty (left), president of the ( hapel Hill-C'arrhoro Merchants Association, pre sents orchid corsages and engraved medallions to two of the first three winners of the anno tation's 1958 Mother’s Bay celebration. At center is Mrs. Myra Lauterer, and at right i» Mrs. P. (i. Phialas. In the foreground is the pile of more than 1,600 entries for the first of the two drawings. The first three mothers to be honored in the 1956 Chapel Kill- Carrboro Merchants Association Mother’s Day celebration have been selected, and entries are now being turned in at a rapid; rate for the second drawing of three mothers. The three winners are Mrs.; I*. G. Phialas of Flemington Road, who was entered at Belk- Leggett-Horton by her son Mark;! Mrs. Ruth B. Pendergrass of! Carrboro, entered at Rose’s by her daughter Carole; and Mrs. Myra Lauterer of Pritchard Avenue, entered at J. B. Hob bins by Mrs. C. E. Rush. The drawing was Iwld Tues- Moving to Raleigh Oscar J. Coffin is applying for retirement as professor of journalism in the University and he and Mrs. Coffin will ; give up on the first of June the University house on l’aik" Place in which they have lived for many years. They will live in Raleigh with Mrs. Coffin’s sister, Mrs. A. A. Dixon, in I the winter and will continue to i spend the summer and will j probably spend part of the fall j also in Mrs. Coffin’s family : home in Waynesville. Spend Weekend in Fairfax Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Phillips spent the past weekend in Fair-! fax, Va., with Mrs. Phillips’ sis-- ter and brother-in-law, Mr. and; Mrs. J. B. Armfield and family. They were accompanied by Mr.! Phillips' sister, Mrs. B. F. Mof-' fitt, and Mrs. Phillips’ sister,! Mrs. E. G. Shugart, of Owens- 1 boro, Kentucky. Enter State Tourney Linda Lackey, Jean and Jackie, Rigsbee, who were winners in! the Regional Baptist Training j, Union Work Tournament two! weeks ago, will participate in the Stale Tournament at Fort Caswell this summer. Scholarship Winner Molly Cameron, daughter of , Mr. and Mra. E. A. Cameron and a senior at Chapel Hill High School, is the winner of a scholarship to the college of her choice from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. She has not yet decided where she will ante* school in the fall. (See story on page 9.) $4 a Year in County; other rates on page 2 !day night. On Wednesday morn ; ing Mrs. Lauterer and Mrs. Phia-| las reported to the Merchants! Association office to receive or chid corsages and engraved sii-| jver medallions. Mrs. Pendergrass could not be present, but her) (initial prizes were sent to her.j Anyone may enter a mother! in the drawing, and a mother! may be entered in any number! of stores. Bkmks are available ’ at all member firms of the Mer chants Association. No purchase must be made to obtain an en -1 trance blank, which can be filled out in less than a minute. The deadline for the final drawing is \ o’clock next 7 'ueriay after- All Precincts in County Are Organized To Support the Governor's Candidacy Orange is one of the first— and possibly the first—county in North Carolina to set up a jfullscale political organization on the precinct level to support the candidacy of Governor Luther Hodges for re-election. The Gov ernor will he on the ballot for the Democratic nomination on May 20, and if sueessful will jgo on to the general election jin November. j The co-chairmen for the Hod iges campaign in Orange County are L. J. Phipps in Chapel Hill land R. O. Forrest in Hillsboro, j Co-vice-chairmen are Mrs. Robert Karl Hughes of Cedar Grove and Mrs. George Nicholson of Chapel Hill. ! The following committees have | volunteered to support the Gov jcrnor’s candidacy in the precincts t indicated: Chapel Hill No. 1: T. B. Creel,' Gran Childress, Mrs. Frank IJm stead, Mrs. W. H. Fugleman and W. K. Merritt. Chapel Hill No. 2: Collier Cobb ;.Sr., E. B. Crawford, Kenneth it. Cheek, Miss Sarah Umstead ami Mrs. G. S/ Franklin. Chapel Hill No. 3: Sandy Me- Clamroch, Miss Harriet Herring, W. M. Alexander, Gordon B. Cleveland and F. S. Hudson. Chapel Hill No. 4: J. Q. Le-j Grand, Mrs. 1,. J. Phipps, Mrs.! George Nicholson, Mrs. G. E.j Shepard, W. E. Thompson and W. L. Sloan. Chapel Hill No. 5: W. M. ! Geer, Mrs. ltalph Blackwood, Or-! ville Campbell, J. M. Penny and Kenneth M. Mclntyre. j Carrbono: I). M. Ray, Mrs. Jj L. West, W. E. Williams, Mrs.: Bruce Riggsbce and R. B. Todd, j Hillsboro: Ben G. Johnson.' Mrs. Carl Davis, Otto King, Mrs. Jackson Ke-elected Legion Commander Norman F. Jackson was re elected commander of the Chapel Hill post of the American Legion at its annual election Wednesday night at the Legion Hut on Rose njary Street. Other officers elected were: Charles Johnson, first vice-com mander; John J. Keller Jr., sec ond vice-commander; and Robert Rush, service officer. Other officials of the post are appointive, and Mr. Jackson will select those sometime within the next two months and before his installation for a second tern. FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday I noon. Three additional mothers’ i names will be drawn at that time, and the winners will receive cor | sages and medallions. On Thursday, May 10, the six j winners’ names will be placed in ju hat and drawn out one at a i time to establish the order in which prizes will be awarded, j First place winner will receive jsfio in gift certificates, and sec ond through sixth place winners will receive SSO, S4O, S3O, S2O • and $lO in gift certificates. The drawing is being conduct ed by the Trade Promotion Com • mittee of the Merchants As : sociation, under the chairman* - shiprbf Carlton Byrd. * R. O. Forrest, Mrs. S. M. Gattis. Bonner D. Sawyer, F. E. Joyner, Mrs. Clarence Jones, W. John Clayton, Marion Allison and E. i H. Kennedy. Tolars: Neal Sumner, Mrs. Neal Sumner, Mrs. J. E. Hawkins, ■ Clyde T. Roberts and A. H. i Hawkins. I Rock Springs: W. M. Snipes, Mrs. W. M. Snipes, Miss Saline Sykes, C. W. Lloyd and J. M. Snipes Jr. University: W. P. Andrews, I Mrs. J. B. Griffin, J. C. Trues . dale, Mrs. B. F. Spooner and . J. Marvin Ray. I Carr: E. C. Conklin, Mrs. L. J. Rogers, W. H. Wade, Mrs. J. Knox Woods and W. M. Ward. Cedar Grove: Donald R. Mc- Dade, Mrs. Robert Earl Hughes, jG. M. Long, Z. C. Burton and Mrs. R. .Harris Pope. Efland: M. P. Efland, Mrs. J. M. Howard, Mrs. Turner For rest, Frank Pratt and J. L. Ef land. Caldwell: A. E. Wilson, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Murray, Clyde Wal ker, (J. L. Blalock and Mrs. Clyde Roberts. Patterson: L. A. Hogan, Char lie Hogan, Mrs. A. J. Altemueller, J. R. Whitfield and A. C. Weaver. White Cross: J. T. Whitfield, Miss Martha Lloyd, F. M. Ward, Mrs. T. J. Bradshaw and Mrs. iC. W. Stanford. Cheeks: Ben F. Wilson, Mrs. Ben F. Wilson and Henry Heath. Coles Store: Luther Sharpe, Mrs. Mitchell Lloyd and Mrs. Winston Stray horn. { St. Mary’s: Henry Walker, Mrs. Henry Walker, Reid Rob erts and Mrs. C. T. Walker. Postal Receipts Up In First 4 Months Receipts at Chapel Hill Poet Office for the first four months of 1956 were 14,748.91 higher than during the corresponding period last year. Postmaster Paul Cheek announced yester day. Stamp sales for the period ending April 30 this year amounted to 388,198.17, com pared with 383,449.33 in the name four months of 1933, Mr. Cheek reported. It represents a gala of slightly mom than firi percent, which is ahosrt the asms percentage 1 ift of 1333 over 1334 for the oa«m four-month period.