TUESDAY
ISSUE
Next Issue Friday^
Vol. 32, No. 48
Red-Hot Time
Predicted at
Folk Festival
Smilin’ George Pegram,
the famous Iredell banjoist,
and George Hamilton, young
Chapel Hill welkin-ringer
Jtavhose powerful voice is
amazingly well equipped to
deliver the comic songs he
writes and sings, will be
seen and heard at the folk
festival to be held at 7:30
p. m. Friday, June 22, in the
Carrboro Lions Athletic
Park for the benefit of the
Carrboro Cubs baseball)
team. With these two and:
many other native enter-:
tainers on hand, a hot time'
is predicted at the event.
The entertainers and con
testants will include two
string bands, Ed Norwood
and his Rhythm Rangers and
another group headed by
Robert Butler of Carrboro;
Linda Yancey, singer; a
singing - trio composed of
Leah Fitch, Alvene Williams
and Martha Ann Cheek; Pa
tricia Simmons, dancer; A.
T. Turner, who gives vocal
imitations; Betty Butler, a
tap-dancing Carrboro house
wife; Smilin’ George, and
and his Country
Gentlemen. Pokey Alexander
will be the master of cere
monies.
The Cubs are sponsoring
the event to raise money to
keep their team in operation.
Admission will be $1 for
adults and 50 cents for chil
dren.
George Pegram is noted
here for his banjo perform
ances in the annual Carolina
Folk Festival, and also for
his singing of “Here, Rat
tler” and “That Good Old
Mountain Dew.” In 1954 he
represented the United
States at a European folk
festival in Italy and appear
ed there before 45,000 peo
l,le - •
George Hamilton and*bis
( ountry Gentlemen have be-
extremely popu 1a r
around here for their high
pressure singing and unique
styling. They have a regular
show on radio station WCHL
and have made several rec
ords of songs written by Mr.
Hamilton.
Television Program
Planned by D.A.K.
“Glimpse- of the I). A k. in
< oriscrvation,” a television pro
gram sponsored by the Daughters
of the American Revolution as a
feature of the week of the or
ganization's Conservation Com
mittee, will he aired from 8:15
to 8:80 tomorrow (Wednesday;
evening by the University’s tele
vision station, WUNC-TV.
Mrs. Robert M. Lester of Cha
pel Hill’s Davie Poplar Chapter
of the D. A. R. and Wesley H.
Wallace of the University’s
Radio and Television Department
will take part iij the 15-minute
program.
▲ The script for the show was
r prepared with the cooperation
of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Architect* on Visit
Arthur C. Nuh, the Univer
sity’s consulting architect for
many years, was here last week
for two uays to confer with tne
faculty Committee on Buildings
and Grounds. Horace W. Peaseiee,
the presenting consulting archi
tect who succeeded Mr. Nash,
was also here. Both Mr. Nash
and Mr. Peaseiee live in Wash
ington, D. C.
High School Library Open
Beginning tomorrow (Tues
day), the High School Library
will be open from 1 to 4 p.m. on
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and
Thursdays. If the demand war
% rants, longer hours will be in
stituted. |
Time’s A Wastin’
Time’s a-wastin’ for you
yonngsters to take advantage
of the Weekly’s free want-ads.
For children under 16 years
( of age, tb* Weekly will run
I their advertisements frae dur
ing the month of June. Turn
to the Classified Ad psf* today
The Chapel Hill Weekly
Street Changes in Area near the Carolina Inn to
Improve Traffic Conditions Are under Discussion
Ways of changing the lay
out of roadways and side
walks near the Carolina Inn
and the west gate of the
University campus were dis
cussed at meetings of the (
Faculty Committee on Build-,
ings and Grounds. Arthur;
C. Nash, who was the Uni
versity’s consulting archi
tect for many years, and
Horace W. Peaseiee, who has
now succeeded him in that
post, came from Washing
ton to confer with the com
mittee on University physi
cal development problems.
|No decision was made about
this particular one. It is still
being studied.
The area around the Inn
is one of the worst places in
Chapel Hill for the crowding,
of traffic andJjor speeding.
There have b*|m complaints
for years about the condi
tions there, specially about
the danger to pedestrians
crossing the high as
they go between the east
door of the Inn and the
Carrboro Mills' Vacation Schedule Is
Announced by Manager Thomas Murray
Employees of the Carrboro
Mills plant will observe the en
tire July 4 week as a vacation
week, it was announced yester
'day by Thomas H. Murray, resi
dent manager of the local unit.
He said the plant would close
down at the end of operations on
Friday, June 29, and would re
sume operations Monday morn
i irig, July 9.
The Carrboro Mills plant is a
unit of Pacific Mills, a division
of Burlington' Industries, most
of whose other plants through
out the Southeast will also ob
serve the same vacation week
Mr. Murray said,
j At the same time Mr. Murray
said that vacation bonuses would
Mrs. Marjorie Campbell in Britain
Mrs. Marjorie Campbell of
King's Mill Road, who is abroad
this summer, recently sent a
Chapel Hill friend the following
letter about, her travels in the
British Isles:
'I his was a wonderful week for
me. The scenery I think surpass
es Maine ami Nova Scotia, and
our hotels and food have been
excellent. There was the coast
with steep hills first, then gar
den ami estate country with
quaint fishing villages, old his
toric castles and monastaries,
j and ruins of the 11th century to
the 1400’s- .Sir Walter Raleigh’s
birthplace, for instance, and eas-
Mios built by King John the hirst
in 1185. One now is the residence
Os the Duke of Devonshire and
has lovely grounds running down
to the river Lee, which we fol
-1 lowed for a long distance.
Today we passed the place of
the Earl of Dunronen, who is the
head of the Irish sweepstakes
and has a stable of fine horses
himself. Many with colts were
| in his fields.
Tonight I am at Galway,
which was Columbus’ last stop
on his way to discover America.
A Galway man went with him.
Spaniards have long been in this
vicinity, and many say the com
| b,nation of dark hair and blue
eyes here is due to that. As for
the countryside, the green but
tree-less hills with patches of
yellow gorse, purple rhododen
J. B. Robbins Starts Remodeling Program
i An extensive remodeling pro
gram designed to serve a dual
purpose—to beautify and to in
crease the sales area—was start
ed at J. B. Bobbins House of
Fashion during the week end.
Immediately planned is low
ering the ceiling and installing
in it above the,stairs a dome with
indirect lighting to give a plane
tarium effect. Also, the walls
will be reshaped in a curved
fashion and convex shaped coun
ters installed to give more sales
area and afford more freedom
of movement by customers. Gen
erally, the wall pattern of the
.downstairs area will be followed
Visits New Grandchild |
Mrs. H. D. Crockford left Fri
day for Dallas, Texas, to see
her new grandchild, Kathleen
Helen Winn, who was born on
June 20 to Mr. and Mrs. Marlin
Winn. Mrs. Winn is the daugh
ter of ths Crockfords. On the
way to Dallas, Mrs. Crockford
stopped in Atlanta, Ga,. and
spent ths night with another.
5 Cents a Copy
opening in the campus be
hind the Peabody building,
i Automobiles go past this
i opening at frightful speed.
This results (1) from the
: drivers’ eagerness, when go
• ing north toward town, not
;to be halted at the intersec
tion at the campus gate by|
• 'the stoplight’s changing
[ from green to red and (2)
ijfrom southbound drivers’
: gathering speed after they
-ihave passed the stoplight.
• South Columbia street at
-| this point is part of an im-
Jportant north-and-south na
tional highway, No. 15, and,
l many drivers along it have 1
{seldom or never been in'
l Chapel Hill and hende know
i nothing about the crossing
f. for pedestrians. A large pro
. portion of the drivers who
vdo not know about it act
- like a large proportion of
t drivers everywhere, i. e., as
s though they don’t give a
s hang whether they run any-;
t body down or not.
el This is a problem for the
> be paid to all eligible employees 1
- just prior to the vacation week,
i In most cases this means that
■ employees with more than one
-! but less than five years’ service |
. will receive amounts equivalent
1 ' to one week’s pay, or approxi
i mately two per cent of their an
nual wages. Those with more
than five years’ service will re
ceive an amount equivalent to
i two weeks’ pay, or four per cent
i of their annual wages.
L; Some of the more recently-ao?
- quired segments of the Burling
ton organization, however, will
; ! use a slightly different basis for
I making vacation bonus payments
’ to their employees, Mr. Murray |
I-said. j
f dron growing wild, black and!
i gray blue cows and white sheep!
i marked hy their owners with red
» and blue splotches, then valleys. I
• with winding rivers, and high up)
lakes coming into view as one
(hives through a gap make this;
a joy for touring.
Ij From Dublin around through j
,Cork and up through Killarm-yi
l it has all been very wonderful,
land rewarding. We have been to
ilSt. Kerin’s shrine on a high
• ! mountain lake and to the ocean!
, I sands along the end of Bounty'
i Bay, Gh-ngaiiff at its head and
, mountains all around. Now that
J am used to the quaint names:
i Puss of Keimanetgh, Gorgane
. Barra Lake, Mai room, the home
1 1 of William Penn’s ancestors
, all of it fits a perfect scheme of
rhythm and beauty which 1 will
not easily forget,
f As for our party, 1 am the
: only tine from the U.S.A. There
( is a rich cattleman and his wile
( from Australia, feeling very
J much the stepchildren of the
Empire as they had to give $725
, for a stiuo English fare on their
i tour. Their money has the lowest
. rate of exchange in the Empire.
. Then there is an Englishwoman
i who has a job in India with an
- English engineering firm, a Ger
• man girl who has been in Dub
- lin with a German engineering
L firm but who is now returning
f to Germany—pretty and sad, for
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- on the ground floor level.
1 if time permits between now
- and when the fall semester be
. gins at the University, Mr. Kob
f oms said the front of the store!
building may be changed and'
. sales area expanded by some 90b
-square feet toward East Frank-;
i iin Street. If time does not per
- mit, Mr. Bobbins said that por
ijtion of the reihodeling would be
| done during the University’s
. Christmas vacation.
,
■ Picnic for Healtors
Mrs. T. M. Andrews gave a
* picnic supper one evening last
| week at her home, Bolin-Brook
| Farm, for those attending the
i annual Bealtors Institute at the
University. Entertainment in
j, eluded swimming and badminton.
| There were 80 guests.
»
Keith Albert Torgerson
i A son, Keith Albert, was born
I to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Torger-
I son on June 9 at Memorial Hos
r pital here. H« weighed mm
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1956
State Highway Department,
the University, and the
town, and one for the solu
tion of which all three must
work together. The discus
sion of it was an important
part of the report to the
Board of Aldermen made by
; Mr. Babcock, the traffic ex
pert, a few months ago.
The chits reason for the
bad traffic conditions here
is the offset in Columbia
street. Coming south from
Franklin street Columbia is
broad, but the west part of
{it is blocked by the Carolina
Inn yard and so it becomes
much narrower to the south
'of Cameron avenue. All per
sons taking part in the dis
cussion of the problem agree
that widening, to obliterate
or greatly reduce the offset,
is the first necessity.
One suggestion that has
received much favorable con-!
sideration is that the east;
{ sidewalk opposite the Inn be I
made part of the roadway!
and that a new sidewalk be
substituted for ‘it on the
campus side of the present!
stone wall from down' near
i the Armory to the campus
gate, and that the Inn yard
be cut away enough for the
street to be widened some
six or eight feet on the west
side. If these two operations
'were carried out they would
add some twelve to fifteen!
feet to the width of the;
street.
As this problem receives
further study the Weekly
will give more information!
about it.
Cubs Defeat Bees j
In an Extra Inning
The Carrboro Cuba scored a
j close victory over the Durham
| Bees last Thursday night, 1-0, to
{mark theii third shut-out win
|of the week and their first tri- j
1 iiinjili over the Bees tins season
j Lloyd MeKnight went the full
(-seven iniiirigs and one extra in
ning to win the game, giving uj>!
loiily four hits.
The game was over in the
eighth when a single hy lvalue'
llill, followed hy a sacrifice, a
walk, and a second single hy Tom
Stephens, added up to score the
winning and only run.
'
At (amp Green Cove
Miss Mary Shepard left last
week for (amp Green Cove,
where she is a riding instructor
Indians, Tigers, and Yankees Emerge
On Top in Three Little League Games
Chapel Hill’s Little Leaguers I
playeil three baseball games last;
Friday, two in Carrboro und one
at Chapel Hill High School. In
the first contest of the after
noon the Indians conquered the
Cubs, 23-10, and in the second
< ’arrboro game the Tigers shut
out the Giants, 10-0. In the game
played at Chapel Hill the Yan
kees beat the Dodgers in a close
contest, I'M2.
Gordon Cleveland and Charlie
Biggsbee pitched for the Indians,
while Bucky Burns, David Chan
ney, and Alec McKay threw for
the Cubs. Wayne Hudson had
two home runs and a single fur
the Indians in four times at bat,
and Frank Martin got three hits
in five tries. Ned Martin was the
leading hitter for the Cubs.
In the Giants-Tigers duel the
Tigers’ Larry Kenney pitched a
I two-hit game and scored the
'game’s only home-run in the
.fifth. Butch Began and Bandy
i Ellington hurled for the Giants.
Go to See Mrs. Selden’s Play
Mrs. George Crow, her sißter,
Miss Beaulah Armstrong, and
Mrs. Marian Gay went to Greens
boro last Friday to see the play,
"Let Freedom King,” written by
Mrs. Crow’s daughter, Emily
Crow Selden, in celebration of ;
the bi-centennial of the Buffalo
Presbyterian Church. The play is
based on a scenario by Grace
Van Dyke More.
Hartung Gets Degree
Richard W. Hartung of Chapel
Hill received the degree of Mas
ter of Arts last Saturday at the
University of Michigan.
Baaoa Graduated Cum Laude
Georgs F. Bason Jr., was grad
uated eum laude from the Her-
Faculty Members
T® Be Honored at
Annual Reception
The annual reception in
honor of the faculty mem
bers of the University’s i
Summer School will be held
from 8 p. m. to 10 p. m. to
morraw (Wednesday) eve
ning in the Morehead Plane
tarium building under the
auspices of the University
Woman’s Club and adminis
tration of the Summer
School, it was announced
% i
yesterday by Mrs. Gordon*
Blackwell, president of the
club.
“The reception will give
the University Woman’s*
Club members and their hus-{
bands an opportunity to be-!
come acquainted with the
Summer School faculty
members and their wives,”j
Mrs. Blackwell said in mak
ing the announcement.
New Deadlines
In order to maintain the
i present attractive presentation
of the Weekly’s popular Class
ified Ad page, new closing
hours for the classified page
will be started with the June
81’ edition.
For classified ads to appear
i on the page, they must be
phoned or mailed to the Week
ly by 5 p. m. on Wednesdays
for the Friday issues and by
5 p. m. Fridays for the Tues
day issues. This will begin with
the issue of Friday, June 22.
j Classified ads received after
; 5 p. m. on Wednesdays and
Fridays will be inserted in the
current issues hut on another
page and under a separate
heading ‘"loo Late to Classify.”
Story Program for
Carrboro Children
| The children’s story hour spon
!sored hy the Carrboro Civic Club
;fv 'ary will have its opening
(program at 9:80 am. Thursday,
June 21, at the ijSrury (back
nf the Carrboro *hool). The
story hour, for children from
five to nine years old, will he
held at the same hour every
Thursday morning from now
j through July. Mrs. Thomas Mur
ray, the librarian, said yesterday
ia variety of interesting programs
'had been planned.
The library’s vacation lead
ing contest, which is independent
| of the story hour, is already in
progress, but any child of school
age muy registei in it for read
ing credit at any time. They
; may do so by coming to the
library during its summer read
ing hours, which are from 2 to
•1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thurs
days.
i There were four home-runs in
j the Yunkee Dodger game, one
j each by Jimmy Hejester and Don
! Smith of the Yankees and by
Kenny Oettinger and Bonnie
Pendergrass for the Dodgers.
Vernon Howard and Jimmy Be
jester were Yankee hurlers. Ken
ny Oettinger and Bonnie Pender
grass threw for the Dodgers.
There games are scheduled for
tomorrow (Wednesday) after
noon. The Dodgers will play the
Tigers on the high school dia
mond at 3:30 followed by a Yan
kees Indians game there at 6:00.
The only game to be played at
(’arrboro will be a contest be
tween the Cubs and the Giants,
beginning at 4:30.
Wedding Reception
A reception was held in the
cloister garden of the Chapel of
the Cross last Saturday after
noon following the wedding of
Miss Ellen Doak and Second
Lieutenant Carl Leggett. Those
assisting were Mrs. James H.
Sweeney, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs.
Lorena Patee, Chapel Hill, Mrs.
Bobby E. Barnes, Raleigh, and
Miss Patricia Noah, Chapel Hill.
Hickerson on Tour of Europe
T. F. Hickerson went to Eng
land by airplane last Friday. Af
ter ten days more there, with
headquarters in London, he will
go to Scotland, Denmark, West
Germany, France, Spain, and
Portugal. He will fly back to
New York on August 11.
D. H. Buchanan in Hospital
D. H. Buchanan recently suf
fered n stroke npd is n patient
in Memorial Hospital. He and
Mrs. Buchanan have sold their
farm and moved to 181 Hamilton
Chapel Mill ChaU
L.G.
My next-door neighbor [
Kay Kyser, wasn’t at home
when I called on him this
week; so, preparing to wait
for him, l surveyed his book-!
shelves. Many of the books;
belonged to his uncle, the
late Vernon Howell, and I
used to see them years ago
in this same living room.
The one I took down to look
at now vvas "Mark Twain’s
Library of Humor,” publish
ed in 1888. That was when
' he was his own publisher,
being a partner in Charles
' L. Webster & Co., the ven
ture that bankrupted him
five years later.
{ In place of the usual dedi
cation there is a "Compiler’s
. Apology,” in a facsimile of
Twain’s handwriting. It
reads as follows: "Those se
lections in this book which
are from my own works
(were made by my assistant
| compilers, not by me. This
is why there are not more.
Mark Twain, Hartford,
Conn., January 1, 1888.”
The 'book leads off with
j“The Notorious Jumping
Frog of Calaveras County,”
(the story which made Twain
famous when he was thirty.'
The book contains twenty,
selections by him, six by
Josh Billings, four by Bret
Harte, six by William Dean
Howells, three by James
Russell Lowell, two bv Oli
* r
ver Wendell Holmes, nine by j
Artemus Ward, and seven
by Charles Dudley Warner.
Altogether fifty-nine auth
ors are represented. Most of;
them are unknown today ex-{
eept by students of literary
historv.
I
: I found it a fascinating!
• book, and as I flipped*
\ through it, reading here and
' there, 1 vvas interested in
. speculating upon how great
■{a proportion of the pieces;
Were fairly to be character *
ized as “dated.” Obviously]
those by Josh Billings and
»
other humorists whose ap
(Continued on Page 2)
| Dinner Party Honors Harry Crane, Now
Retiring From Psychology Department
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Dashitdl
> and Miss Dorothy Adkins, chair j
man of the University’s Depart -j
ment of Psychology, recently
gave a dinner party at Miss
Adkins’ home in honor of Har
ry W. Crane, who is retiring this
year after long service as a
1 member of the department.
Those attending included Mr.
i Crane’s wife, Dr. Mabel Goudge;
• Chancellor and Mrs. Robert H.
i House; Miss Frances MacKin
r(non, who lives with Miss Ad
jjkins; Mrs. Thelma Thurstone of
. the School of Education; the
- Psychology Department’s two
. secretaries and their husbands,
- Mr. and Mrs. Jack Shaffer atpl
Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Wheeler, and
r all of the departments’s faculty
- members and their wives, except
» Mr. and Mrs. Harold McCurdy,
- who are in Europe, and William
• Daniel, who was unable to be
Wilson’s 20-Year Dream Realized
, The Senate passage of the Lib-;
rary Services Bill recently mat-j
erialized the 20-year dream of,
Louis R Wilson, professor of lib- j
; rary science and administration j
, *at the University.
North Carolina Representative,
, Graham A. Barden played a ma
I jor roie in the final acceptance
; of the Federal aid program,
serving as Chairman of the
House Education and Labor
Committee.
I The bill, which will go Into
. effect June 30, 1954, will operate
in the form of a grant-in-aid. To
claim maximum benefits, North
. Carolina will have to match
. $160,344-pul—up by the Federal
, Government.
I Allotments will be made ac-
I cording to each state’s percent-
I age of the national rural popu
> lation and the per capita in
come of the state. North Caro
lina ranks among the top rural
states, and has a less than aver
- age per capita income. “This me
t thod of allotment will give the
I mast aid where it is most need
r ed,” Mr. Wilma said. "Either
i way, ws will gain according to
$4 a Year in County; other mta® on paf® 2
Senator Umstead Is Honored
For His Distinguished Service
To State Hospital at Butner
Correction \ {
h
The Town of Chapel Hill's ]
tax rate is 95c rather than 75c
per SIOO valuation as inadver
tently reported in The Weekly
last Friday.
Psychologists Are . i
To Speak Thursday ,
Two Durham psychologists !
will discuss “The Psychological
Aspects of Segregation” at a i
meeting of the Chapel Hill In
terracial Fellowships for the
Schools to be held at the Episco
pal Chapel of the Cross Thurs- 1
day evening, June 21, at 8 o’- 1
clock. |
The two speakers will be
James .T. Taylor, professor ~ of
psychology and former dean of 1
men at North Carolina College
in Durham, and Edward E. i
Jones, assistant professor of j
psychology at IXike University.
Professor Taylor received his
A. B. degree from North Caro
lina College and his B. S. and
M. A. from Ohio State Univer
sity, and he has been active in
educational and civic affairs ity
Durham. Professor Jones re
ceived his A. B. and Ph. D. de
grees from Harvard University,
i His special field of study is soc
ial psychology.
: The psychological effects of
segregation on both Negroes and
| whites will be discussed by the
{speakers, who will also attempt
jto show some possible ways of
: i hanging people’s attitudes
r ubout segregation.
The Rev. David Yates, rector
of the Chapel of the Cross and
. co-chairman of the Interracial
Fellowship for the Schools, will
preside at the meeting. Attend
ance is not restricted to members
of the group, and visitors will be
welcome.
a
—
Robert Leater in Florida
(Hubert Lester Left Sunday Ufa,
tend the annual meeting of the:
American I.ibrary Association at
Miami Beach, Fla. He will speak:
Thursday at a general session
of the meeting.
f
J sines Beeler Here
Jaiii"Ne».Jt Beeler has arrived
! from California to spend the|
summer and is occupying Pratt!
j Cottage No. 2. He is a member'
of the faculty at U. (’. !,. A.
present.
From the department Mr. Crane
I received i sterling silver cigar-j
ietle box on which were engraved:
1 I
i his name and the words, ‘‘From
His Colleagues,” and his wife
received an orchid corsage. As a
gift from his students, Mr. Crane
received a cigarette lighter en
graved with his name and “Stu
dents of 1955-5tJ."
In addition to those already
mentioned, attending the party
were Mr. and Mrs. George Wel-i
sh, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Baugh-!
man, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Dahl-!
strom, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Ros
enbaum, June Chance, Shepard;
Liverant, Eugene Long, Mr. undj
Mrs. John Tribaut, Mr. and Mrs.!
Thomas Jeffrey, Mr. and Mrs.
John Meilinger, Mr. and Mrs.
John Keiton, and Mrs. William
Daniel.
j “Here is a fine opportunity for
| North Carolina to advance public
1 libraries. The appropriation will
| seemingly double the present
state aid to the public libraries.
{ Passage of the bill is hailed by
everyone in the state interested
'in public libraries as an agency
for public education,” said Mr.
Wilson.
Mr. Wilson pointed out that
the South has long been in the
need of such a program. "We
rank below most of the nation,
but until now no" acceptable
formula or program has been ef
fected.’’
The funds will be used in all
phases of rural public libraries
except for the purpose of build
ing and construction expansion.
Mr. Wilson provided the first
step for last week’s action while
acting as President of ths Amer
ican Library Asaociation in 1936.
Bake Sale Friday
The Woman’s Society of Chris
tian Service of the Aldersgste
Methodist Church will hold a
bake sale Friday, June 28, at
the Glen Laai*>x Colonial Store,
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N«t In nM»r
* John W. Umstead Jr.,
Orange County’s representa
tive to the General Assem
bly for the past 16 years,
was honored last week as
staff members and em
ployees of the State Hos
pital at Butner presented a
portrait of him to the hos
pital. Mr. Umstead is chair
man of the State Hospitals
Board of Control.
Several hundred patients,
employees and visitors were
present for the unveiling of
a portrait at ceremonies con
ducted during the hospital’s
ninth annual Founder’s Day
program.
Mr. Umstead has served
as a member of the State
Hospitals Board of Control
since 1945 and has been
board chairman since 1953.
The veteran legislator was
largely responsible for the
legislature act that created
the State’s honor prison
camp for youthful first of
fenders. It was established
at Butner in 1949 as a then
new approach to the prob
lem of dealing with youths
in prison and was at that
time called the Butner
Youth Center. Mr. Umstead
was also largely responsible
for its development. It was
he who arranged to have the
center located at Camp But
ner so that its inmates might
work at chores around the
Butner State Hospital
grounds.
In recognition of the part
Mr. Umstead played in de
veloping the center, it’s
name was changed to Um-
Yo> v h Center o» 1953.
! A representative of the
(Jefferson Standard Life In
surance Company here in
Chapel Hill, Mr. Umstead
was graduated from the Uni
versity of North Carolina in
1909. He was a member of
the State Senate from the
16th district in 1931 and
1939 and has been a member
(of the House since 1941. He
| was unopposed in the May
26 Democratic primary here,
.seeking his ninth term in
the House.
Mr. Umstead led the way
in making the nine-month
school term the law of the
State in 1943, and is directly
responsible for more of the
most beneficial legislation
enacted in North Carolina
during the past 20 years. He
has served on all major com
mittees of both the House
and Senate, and during the
1955 session was chairman
of two committees—Mental
Institutions and University
Trustees.
Homer Rainey Is to
Talk This Evening
Homer P. Rainey, distinguiah
ed educator from Columbia, Mis
souri, who ia here for Education
Week at the University, will
apeak at a meeting of Phi Delta
Kappa, men’s honorary educa
tional fraternity, at 6 o’clock
this evening (Tuesday) in the
north dining hall of Lenoir Hall.
His talk will follow u Dutch sup
per.
The meeting will be the fra
ternity’s first meeting of the
summer. During a short business
session, committee chairmen for
the summer will be announced by
the organization’s president, Ben
E. Fountain Jr.
Dan Olsen Ist Lieutenant
, »
Daniel Olsen was commission
ed a first lieutenant in the U.
S. Air Force last week. He is a
foreign liaison officer at the
Warren Air Force Base at Chey
enne, Wyoming.
Chapel Jfillnote i
Two-horse wagon and hay
raka on East Franklin Street
Friday noon.
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The strong odor of forttll
aar about Ik* grounds «f tha
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