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TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday Vol. 32, No. 50 County Board Working This Week on New Tax Schedule The Orange County Board of Commissioners last night % Monday) began work on the 1956-57 budget with every intention of holding the tax rate to 70c per SIOO valuation. The Commissioners last week completed hearings from various county depart ments on budget requests for the fiscal year beginning July 1. Last night the board sat down and began going o'.er the estimated needs. They hope to complete the pob this week in order that some action may be taken at the July meeting next / Monday, July 2, if possible. r One of the commissioners said yesterday that the con census of the board is to hold the rate at 70c. That still would be an increase of eight cents over the 1955- 56 rate of G2c. But it is es timated that at least eight cents will be needed to pay interest on school bonds to lOt sold before January or on short term bond revenue an ticipation notes which might be marketed immediately in place of the bonds. In addition to the schools, other county departments have requested budget in creases for the coming year. The commissioners, how ever, hope that the increased property valuation will bring in sufficient revenue to meet what requests they will ap prove. County Accountant Sam v'iattis told the Weekly yes tei.'tfty morning that he be-! lieveu the final total of prop erty values in Orange Coun ty woulu .be around $78,-' 000,000, whf'di would be an increase of over the past year, jit least, that * the figure v'he commis sioners will be Urfng when they discuss esti mates and the rate this week. Mr. Gattis' explained that the values In all the townships, except Chapel Hill, have been checked and totaled, but that kt is impos sible to give the accurate figure until Chapel Hill is completed. -• Two Brothers Are Here From Iceland Peter Petursson, J 4 years old, and his brother Harold, 12, ar rived in Chapel Hill last. Wed nesday from Reykjavik, Iceland, to visit their parents, Dr. and Mrs Km a Petursson. They came to North Carolina by tram from New York City, where they had docked the day before aboard the MS Codafoss. ]>r. Petursson came to Chapel Hill from Reykjavik in January «rs this year for a one-year ap pointment as a fellow in neuro logic medicine in the Univer sity’s School of Medicine. Attends Ohio Meeting Mrs. Raymond Adams was at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio,! from June 14 to Ik at the annual j meeting of the U. S. Section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. St. Peter’s Day Services Holy Communion will be ob served on St. Peter’s Day, Fri day, June 29, at 6:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. at the Chapel of the Cross. Chapel Millnotei Paaaerby saying “How're things?" to town employee dwho walks up and down side walks and gutters spearing bits of paper with nail on end of stick and receiving reply as follows: "My business is good —neiWr saw so much trash be fore." Man waiting to get chest x-ray in Health Department trailer parked on Franklin Street saying to friend walk ing by: "Better get in Line. Chapel Hill’s Undefeated Tennis Team Is Gunning for Championship m i > , j * «_■*, -vy, ■. s , v ; A v «*, . *\ ;■ . %-9m\ 'v" I t y yflgySjgg I 4 - *» k ; t r rj^^P' rW|i w 1 ? Mcmbe is <»f the Chapel Hill Tennis Club shown above are (left to fight) H. S. McGinty, Bill Lee, Dudley Cowden, Henry T. Clark Jr., John 'I apley, Ted Sharpies*. A. M. Jordan and Norman Jarrard. The club he* been runner-up for the champ Robert Marshall Dunn of Orange County Showed Great Skill In Becoming North Carolina's Champion School Bus Driver By Charlie Robson Orange County school bus driv ers did wonderfully well in the first annual School Hus Roudeo driving skill and safety compe tition ipijrtiplated here this past week. Robert Marshall Dunn, driver fur the Aycock School in northern Orange County, won the state championship for male drivers, and Jean Bradshaw, driver for White Cross School and recent graduate of the Chapel Hill High School, is girls’ cham pion for the district composed of Orange, Person, and Durham Counties. Alice Faye Pritchett of Greensboro, winner of the girls' state championship, is the sister of Miss Kathryn Pritchett, assistant Home Demonstration Agent in Orange County. The contest originated wilti the Governor’s Traffic Safely Council and was effected by the Traffic' Safety Division of the State Highway Patrol as a part of its program to promote safer driving in North Karolina. The actual competition was super vised by (lie North Karolina Mo tor Carriers Association which has "been holding similar contests among truck drivers for many, years. This, however, is the first; League Endorses TV Political Program An all out summer educational project preparatory to the coin ing national elections will he launched by WUNC-TV, Channel 4, on Sunday, July L Adlai Stevenson and Kates Ke fauver, the top contenders for the Democratic presidential nom ination, will join an assay of na tional political leaders as “stars" in a new educational television film series starting at 2:00 p. m. The series, “Prelude to the Presidency,” is designed to ex plain and evaluate the presiden tial nominating process. The Chapel Hill Chapter of the League‘of Women Voters is en dorsing this series, together with another political program, "Hats in the Ring.” “Hats in the Ring" is telecast twice each Wednesday first at 2:00 p.m. and again at 9:00 p. m. "The League is grateful to educational television for the op portunity of bringing these pro grams to the public,” Mrs. Ef raim Rosenzweig, publicity chair man cf the Chapel Hill chapter, said today. “The league of Wo men Voters is vitally interested in our government, and puts forth information without parti san influence. That is what these programs do.” In addition to “Prelude to the Presidency” and “Hat* in the Ring,” Channel 4 will telecast a aeries called "American Politics •ach Thursday at 9 P* »•« ing July I#. „ “Prelude to the Presidency, which begine Sunday on Channel 4, features special iuWrviews The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents a Copy time a school bus driving com petition lias been held in North Carolina, and the first Roadeo of its kind in the country. But the Roadeo was not a single ev«jnt taking place here at Chapel Hill; it was a series of contests organized from local through state level, and the finals here last week were its climax. Several months ago the princip als of all the schools in North Carolina were asked to rate their school Inis drivers as potential candidates in the Roadeo. They were requested to make the fol lowing considerations in consul tation with the chief school bus mechanics and others who so pervised the bus drivers: ( 1) Skill of driver in operating Inis. (2) Courtesy as related to pas sengers and other motorists. (.'() Ability to maintain discipline and handle any such problems as may arise in normal course of his duties. (4) Employing safe prar tires in ill phases of discharging his duties as a school bus driver. (5) Cleanliness and mechanical condition of school bus through out entire school year, (ti) Driv ing record as it pertains to the operation of vehicles other than a school bus. (7) Attitude toward Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois; < lifforil 1.. Case of New Jersey; Hubert H imphrcy of Minnesota; James H. l>uff of Pennsylvania; arid George 11. Bernier of Ohio. Henry Cabot Lodge, James Far ley, former national chairman of the Democratic party ,and Mayor David L. Lawrence of Pittsburgh will also appear in the! series. Local Raequeteers Heat Durham, 8-1 Chapel Hill defeated Durham, 8-1, Sunday in an Eastern Caro lina Tennis Association match. 0 The nummary; John Tapley (CH) defeated Bob Fairey, 6-3 6-1; Henry Clark (CH) defeated Jim Jones, 6-0, 3-6, 6-2; H. S' McGinty (CH) defeated Jim Gib bons, 6-0, 6-1; Bill Lee (CH) de feated Bill Griffith, 6-2, 6-2; Dud ley Cowden (CH) defeated Joe Holloway, 6-1, 6-4, Mike Tred-, more (D) defeated Bob Moore, 6-3, 6-0. Doubles: Norman Jar rard and T. M. Jordan (CH) de feated Fairey and Gibbons, 7-6, 6-6; Tapley and McGinty de- I lea ted Treamore and Griffith, 8-6, 6-3; I-ee and Cowden de jfeated Holloway and McMilan, 6-0, 6-2. Kay Proctor in New York Kay Proctor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Proctor, }s liv ing with her aunt, Mrs. A. R. Johnson, whila working in New York this summer. She will en ter the University in September CHAPEL HILL, N. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1956 iontship of the Eastern Carolina Tennis Association for the last four >ears and shows proniiat of winning the title this year, ha\tng already beaten last year's champ, Raleigh, hy a score of 5-3. Ihe club has won six matches this year, losing none. | his responsibility as a school 1 ous driver. (8) Ability to get along with students, mechanics, prin cipals, etc. (9) Consistency in maintaining schedule und keep . ing records. Jean Bradshaw and Marshall i Dunn both received the highest J possible ratings from their prin jcipais, Mrs. Blanche S. Mattox |of the White Crass School and Mr. Jesse L. McDaniel of Ay cock High School. Their records .were then checked hy the law; enforcement sections of the High i way Patrol for any violation ofl the law or demonstration of un safe driving at any time. On June <i district competition was held at Lowes Grove School in Durham County. Jean Brad shuw and Marshall Dunn won here to go on to the state finals in Chapel Hill. Similar district! {contests were held in each of! the ;tu State Highway l’utrol Districts, and a total of s(i con testants were chosen for the finals. Each district was repre sented hy at least one contestant,: and usually both a hoy uud a girl were chosen. The Roadeo finals staged here eonsisted of three main parts -! a written test composed of mill ! tipie choice, true false, and other types of question somewhat sim ! dar to only much more diffi- ( cult thun those asked on the driver’s license examination, a driving skills test through an obstacle course on Intramural Field, and a road test in truffle on the Raleigh Road. 1 Probably the most difficult; portion of the contest was the obstacle course. The bus drivers; hud only six minutes to guide their buses through u series of obstructions, around sharp cor ners, and into narrow driveways, sometimes with only three inches to spare jn each side of the bus. (Continued on Page 8) Tabulation and Comparison of Balloting in Primaries Lanier Manning Hamlin Stanford Efland Precinct May 26 June 23 May 26 June 23 May 26 June 23 Carr 30 27 13 5 24 6 27 Cedar Grove 47 74 27 11 31 34 ' 49 Tolar’s 19 53 42 22 37 22 52 Caldwell 22 43 25 16 44 7 58 Cheeks 39 78 44 24 63 21 82 Efland 47 82 67 178 93 15 261 Hillsboro 154 450 229 321 613 170 589 St. Mary’s 19 31 18 22 15 2 49 University 25 90 57 52 100 49 86 Hock Springs... 47 65 27 10 14 17 57 Cole’s Store 25 47 47 33 13 35 41 Patterson 27 10 52 51 11 43 16 White Cross 84 59 61 49 24 69 33 Carrboro. 218 267 156 139 69 227 155 Chapel Hill,No. 1_ 160 136 163 158 48 174 79 No. 2. 183 179 182 144 36 244 ‘ 66 No. 3 208 162 287 222 00 325 $0 No. 4 266 236 249 182 28 324 75 No. 5. 153 122 279 214 40 208 40 Carrboro Cubs Win 7th Straight (Jame Carrboro’s semi-pro Cubs took two baseball gutties last week end to bring their winning streak |to seven games without a loss. Friday night they defeated Swep uyi jille, 8-tl, in Swepsonville and f!*mrday they took the Durham | Hams under the lights in Dur ham Athletic Park hy a score of 0-5. In the Swepsonville contest Bill McGinn started for the local club hut was relieved by Earl Dawkins in the second. Wilson Scholars had the game’s lone home run in the fourth inning, and Jack Mitchell scored u triple and a double in four trips to the plate. Lloyd McKnight and Don Saine shared the pitching duties for the Cubs in the Durham game; Ivalee Hill und Jack Mitchell were leading hitters with two each to their credit. Two away games are schedul ed for the Cutis this week. Tues day night they face the Koxboro Colts at Roxhoro, anil Thursday night they take on the Shady Oaks team at Shudy Oaks. Ice (ream Sale Tomorrow The Men’s Brotherhood of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church will hold a door-to-door ice cream sale tomorrow (Wednes day) afternoon, June 27, to raise money for the local Sea Explorer Scout Unit. The ice cream, pro dured hy Dulrylund Farms, will he sold in half gallon cartons only and will lie available in many flavors. Proceeds from the sale will go for rebuilding und re modeling a ship that wus given to the Sea Explorers hy the Navy. P. O. Box Kents Due Post Office box rents are now due for the Juiy-Septuinber quar ter. They must »e paid in ad vance arnf are due by July 1. Chapel Mill Cha(( L.G. I don’t know any better illustrations of the recent changes in communications and travel than the message ( the children of Dr. and Mrs. Isaac Taylor sent to their father in the Antarctic on his birthday, June 15. and the way in which the family moved from Chapel Hill to their ’summer vacationing ! place in the North. Mrs. Taylor called up Western Union and gave the address: Lt.-Commander Isaac M. Taylor, Mobile Con struction Batallion Special, U. S. Navy AIROPFAC. Me-, Murdo Sound, Antarctic, care of Naval Communica tions Station, Washington, D. C. The message was the song, Happy Birthday to You, signed by the Taylors’ five: children. , The Western Union opera tion here sent it to Wash ington and there it was sung by wireless to Dr. Taylor in the Antarctic. A couple of: Inlays later Mrs. Taylor got a joyful acknowledgment from him. As for the children’s and| the mother’s travel: Alex land James flew to Boston Wednesday and were met: there by their grandmother I and taken to her home in i Newburyport. Mrs. Taylor,! Kate, Livingston, and Hugh j took a plane to Boston one; day last week, took posses-j sion of the station wagon! which was driven there from! |( Impel Hill by David Hare.j and drove to Newburyport. After a short visit there' they will go to Woods Hole! at the south end of Cape Cod to board a boat for Martha’s Vineyard. They have a cottage at Gay Head on that island for the rest of the summer. * * * A man in Raleigh wrote last week to ask me about the origin of the name, Chapel Hill. This is old stuff (Continued on l’«Ke 2) Umstead, Fogleman Ten Chapel Hill and Carrboro “Lucky Dads” and nine members of the Merchants Association went to the Fastern North Caro linu coast lust weekend on the annual fishing trip promoted hy the association. Monk Jennings was in charge of the trip. Two $7.51) cash gift certifi cates redeemable at uny member of the Merchants Association were awarded for One went to Frank Uinstead for catching the most fish; he caught around 15. Tin* other went to Herman Fugleman for catching the largest fish, which was u 15 pound blue dolphin. The party left Chapel Hill around noon Saturday, spent the night at ilarker’s Island, about 20 miles south of Murehead City, fished Sunday from 4 a.m. to 4 p in. and returned to Chapel Hill Sunday night. They went out about JO miles off Cape ixxokout in two cabin cruisers and located, according to Mr. Jennings, blue dolphin, king mackerel, Spanish macker el, amherjacks and rock bass. “It is generally agreed that the trip was one of the best fish- $4 a Year in County; other rates on pace 2 Lanier and Stanford Defeat Manning and Efland in the Second Democratic Primary Miss Taylor Will , Appear in Recital A public recital will be given! i by Ali.ss Caroline Taylor, talent-i tni pianist from Wadesboro and New York, at Hill Hall tonight; (Tuesday) at 8 o'clock in con-!, i nection with the annual Clinic for l’iano Teachers and Students! now being held at the Univer-j i sity. Miss Taylor is the daughter of [former Lieutenant Governor H.| P (Pat) Taylor. She has given lecitals in various cities on the I east coast and has appeared as soloist with the X. C. Symphony' in PJSS. Norwood’s Rhythm Rangers Win Prize Kd Norwood and his Rhythm Rangers, a local string band, won the first place trophy in - the folk festival held in Carr ; boro last Friday. The “Wildcats,” a square j dance team from White Cross,! won second place, and a trio of : Leah Fitch, Alvene Williams,! | and Maltha Ann Cheek won; ; third place. Trophies were also! ! awarded second and thins place: j winners. The festival was sponsored by j ; the Carrboro Cubs baseball I team in an effort to raise money Ito keep the team in operation. J The turnout for the festival was more than was expected, accord | mg to officials in charge. Langstons Will Be In Lane Residence ; Mr. and Mrs. Reach Langston,' ; former Chapel Hillians, will come ! from California on July 1 and will occupy Mrs. B. 11. Lane's house during the second term of the University’s Summer School. Mr. who teaches at the California Institute of Technol ogy. will do research work this summer at the University. The Langstons have three teen age daughters, who will be here with them. Mrs. Lane will be away visit ing her sister in Pensacola, Flor ida, and her son Ben, in St. Louis, Mo. Best (?) Fishermen ling trips ever to be staged by |the- Merchants Association. All the fathers who went expressed their appreciation to the local merchants for making the trip possible,” Mr. Jennings said. Three Are Honored At Luncheon Party Miss Mary Broome, Mrs. B. B. Lane, and Mrs. J. P. Watters,! who are retiring from the staff of the University’s Wilson Li brary, were honored at a lunch eon party given for them recently! jat the Monogram Club by Li - j brarian Andrew jl. Horn and Chancellor Robert B. House. Kuril of the three received a corsage and, as a memento of the occasion, a copy o's MrJ House's book, “Miss Sue and the Sh&iff,” specially inscribed by him and Mr. Horn. Argentinian Rebellion Routs Summerlin from Hath “Chief of Bureau Sam Sum merlin in Buenos Aires was rout ed from his morning hath to take a telephone call from ft pri vate source that ‘trouble is brewing’ ”. This is -from an Associated Press inside the-family bulletin telling about how Summerlin heat all his competitors to the news of the recent rebellion in Argentina. He got it a full hour before it reached Vice-President Rojas, who was at the opera, and put in a telephone call to the AP office in New York just as the rebels seized Santa Rosa, Summerlin had met the Haiti an Ambassador and his wife, and when Argentine gunmen invad ed the embassy to capture rebels who had taken refuge there the Ambassador talked freely, and furiously, to him. At Massachusetts Conference O. K- Rice of the University’s Department of ChemistrV is in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this wsek taking part in a eenfsrence on chemical aeronomy. Sponsor ed by the Csmhridgs Air Force Research Center, the conference TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday > Edwin S. Lanier won the Democratic nomination for State Senator and Donald M. Stanford won a seat on the Orange County Board of I Commissioners in the second primary Saturday. According to the unoffi cial returns. Mr. Lanier, Uni versity student aid officer, defeated John M. Manning, j Chapel Hill attorney, by a vote of 2,211 to 1,853. The same unofficial re turns showed that Mr. Stan ford, a Chapel Hill dairy farmer, defeated the incum ! bent Sim Efland, business man and farmer of Efland, iby a vote of 2,072 to 1,865. ' The returns will be can vassed and made official to day (Tuesday) at Hillsboro. The unofficial tabulation ap pears elsewhere on this page of the Weekly today. Mr. Lanier, a former may jor of Chapel Hill who is now half-way through his first four year term as a mem ber of the Board of Com missioners, came from be hind to defeat Mr. Manning who was high man in the first primary. In so doing, Mr. Lanier lost only five— Efland, I’atterson, Chapel Hill 1.3, and s—of the coun ty’s 19 precincts. On the other hand he captured To lar’s, Caldwell, Cheeks, Hills boro, University, and Cole’s Store, which had been lost to either Mr. Manning or to E. J. Hamlin in the first primary. In defeating Mr. Efland, who is completing his third term on the Hoard of Com missioners, Mr, Stanford car ried only eight of the pre cincts, but those by wide pluralities. They were Pat terson, White Cross, Carr boro and Chapel Hill’s I through 5. Both Mr. Lanier and Mr. Stanford yesterday express ed their appreciation for the support accorded them in both primaries. ‘‘l am deeply grateful, and will work for the best interests of all of Orange County," said Mr. Stanford. He will take of fice in December. Mr. Lanier, who will rep resent both Orange and Ala mance Counties as senator in the 1957 General Assem bly, also said he was "grate ful" for the vote and sup port. "1 shall try hard to de serve their trust and re spect,” he added. Monkey Story Hour Planned for Today A “monkey ykiry hour,” for I'hililren from four to right years old, inclusive, will be held at 3 j>. m. today (Tuesday) at the Mary Bayley Pratt Children's Li brary on the second floor of the • Chapel Hill Klemuntary School an Fast Franklin Street. Stories about monkeys will be told by Kathy Writ! and Roger White. On display will be Miss Eliza ' beth Raney's collection of mon keys made of porcelain, china, bronze, and other materials. The Mary Bayley Pratt Chil dren’s* Library is open from 2 p. m. to 8 p. m. every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. All chil dren, including those of pre school ege, ere invited to use its facilities. Return From England Miss Josephina Ntggti and her mother, former reaidenta of Chapel Hill, are here visiting Mr. and Mrs. John W. Parker. They recently returned from a year in England, where Miss Niggli taught at the University * of Bristol, and on the continent. In the last few weeks before re turning to America they travel ed in Spain, Italy, France, and 1 Greece. They plan to spend most ( of the summer in Mexico. Going to Msaeecfcnestle Ray Jolly Jr. will laave June i 29 for Massachusetts, whore he i will begin working et-Cwnp Bpa-