FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday Vol. 32, No. 53 Credit Bureau Here Receives Superior Rank Special recognition and a loanee to expand its opera-) tion have come to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Credit Bureau. Mrs. Jane Whitefield, mana ger of the office, has been notified that the local bu reau has been admitted to membership in the Associat ed Credit Bureaus of Amer ica’s Collection Service Div ision. Collection offices must meet a rigid set of qualifi cations before they are ac cepted as members of the Collection Service Division. Their methods of doing bus iness, their capital, the man ager' s qualifications—all these points come under close scrutiny from this in ternational organization of top collection people. Mrs. Whitefield said thaU one of the benefits of be-1 longing to the Collection Service Division is that the local office can give better service to local credit grant-] ers—those who turn over accounts to it for collection.) The organization has over !•§()() members all over the j United States and Canada,! and each member must) maintain a high standard ofi efficiency. Should a debtorl leave town owing bills to local merchants, she said, the accounts can be collect ed, in most cases, through Collection Service v Division members in the debtor’s new home. This improvement and ex- ( pansion of collection service means surer profits for the credit granters of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, Mrs. Whitefield said. ‘Goodbye, My Fancy’ Will ( lose Friday “Goodbye, My Fancy,” the Carolina Playmakers’ summer production, will be concluded with the 8 p.m. performance in the Haymakers Theatre today (Friday). The show opened la.->t night (Thursday). Under the direction of Kai Jurgenscn, the cast includes Jo Iteason in the lead role of a congresswoman, Robert Thomas, Robert Chase, and others. Miss iteason and .Mr. Chase are newcomers to the i’layma kers this summer, but Mr. Thont-j as is familiar hereabouts. He has! appeared in several productions,! Uind also played the lead in i “Horn in the West,” the out-j door drama at Boone, last sum mer. Knights of Phythias Hold Installation Martin Ross was installed as chancellor-commander of the Damon Lodge of the Knights of] Pythias here Monday night. He succeeds Romulus Best. Other officers installed in cluded I.cster Foley, ceilor; Mark Whitaker, prelate; Mr. Best, master of works; Leary, Colie, master of arms; Clyde Jones, inner guard; Mark Spar-] row, outer guard; Floyd Bow den, treasurer; A. B. Chrismon, recording secretary; and T. M.j Greene, financial secretary. Of-j ficiating at the installation were] Claude Best, past grand chan-! ceilor, and George StansburyJ grand inner guard. Page at Pope Field Joe Page, who is a major in the Air Force Reserve, recently two weeks as an ex ecutive officer of a summer training base at Pope Field, Fort Bragg. He commuted daily be tween here and Fort Bragg. Attends Conference Mrs. Stephen Emery recently attended a Danforth Conference on religion, drama, and litera ture at Drew University in Mad-i ison, New Jresey. Chapel JfillnoteA Heating engineers testing the system at the Tony Jen zanos on hot Tuesday p.m. • * * Independence Day contrast: Business as usual on the cam pus; no business up tm. Community Sets New Record for Amount of Water Used as Exceedingly Hot Dry Weather Continues Count ’em—one, two, j three, four, five—five con secutive days with the tem- 1 perature above 90 degrees. Count ’em again—one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine—go on 1 back to June 2—all those days with no rainfall at all. Well, almost none. The results: 1. Chapel Hill and Carr boro set an all-time high in water consumption Monday, July 2, when the communi ty’s residents used 2,971,-! 000 gallons. 2. That broke an all time record set on June 25 when 2,798,000 gallons were con sumed. 3. The water level at the University Lake on Tuesday of this week was down 10 inches. 4. Lawns and gardens are parched, and farmers in the immediate vicinity of Chapel Hill and Carrboro are fac ing fall crop shortages. Max 1). Saunders, super intendent at the University] filter plant and local weath er observer, says two water] pumps are running full time to keep fill the present 250,000 gallon water stor age tank. He hates to think what would happen if Summer Session Chorus Will Give Ito Annual Concert Tuesday in Hill Hall The University’s Summer Ses sion Chorus will give its an nual concert at 8 o’clock Tues day evening, July 10, in Hill I Hall. Admission is free and ev erybody is invited. I The director will he Edgar vt-n I ehn. ar*d the pianists will be Maurine Synan and Mary Alice lialrymple. Carolyn Davis will be the alto soloist and Donna Patton soprano soloist. Hunter Tillman will be the narrator. • ”A feature of special music,”! says an announcement of the] concert, "will be the presents-, tion together of two great Mass movements, the first by the great Renaissance leader of Mass composers, Palestrina, and the !second by the renowned opera! j composer dasic Vienna, Mo zait. i ”ln celebration of the nation al holiday season, six excerpts from Ringwald’s ‘Song of Amer ica’ have been selected. It will lie the first performance of this] ] work by a campus organization Chapel Hill. Ringwald, who ; w rote this composition for the Fred Waring organization a few years ago, is recognized as per jhaps the first choral aranger in j America today. “Sandy Thomas, a member of (he chorus and a senior in the University, has had several works played by U.N.C. instru mental groups and has arranged ‘Prayer of the Norwegian Child’ especially for use by the chorus j this summer. Miss Synan and Miss Dalrymple have both been accompanists for several years at the University, where they are graduate students. Miss Sy nan is a graduate assistant, being an instructor in piano in the Department of Music. Edgar vom Lehn is a graduate of Belk’s Sponsoring Doll Contest Again Make a doll for a needy child in Europe and possibly win a two-week trip to Europe as a result. That will be the reward for some lucky girl in the “Seven teen” Magazine-“ Save the Child ren Federation Christmas Doll Contest,” sponsored locally by Belk-Leggett-Horton, Inc. The contest opened June 28 and will last through September 7. Local judging by a specially appointed committee will take place September 10-19. The contest is a good-will pro ject designed to. provide needy children in rural America and overseas areas with dolls made by teen-age girls in the United States. An estimated 75,000 A merican girls are expected to make the dolls which will be sent to Australia, Italy, Greece, Ko rea, France, England, Ireland, and several other countries in time for Christmas, To enter the contest a girl must be between 13 and 19 years old and make a doll using one of the official doll kits sold by Belk-Leggett-Horton. The kit contains a white sock for the body of the doll, a plastic doll's! The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents a Copy power shortage ocurred and halted pumping, or a disas trous fire broke out when; pressure is low. “It seems everyone and every place except us here in Chapel Hill are getting enough, or at least some, rain,” he says. “AU aroundj us, they’re getting a little, j Wednesday a week ago I almost got drowned golfing] in Durham, and when I got home here the trees weren’t I even wet.” ! The hard part of the cur rent drought is that while 1.89 inches of rain were re corded for the month of June, 1.51 inches fell at one time on June 2. Since then — through Wednesday of this week—only .38 inches had fallen. Os that .21 inches fell on June 20, and the remain der could be called only a trace on four other days. Mr. Saunders also report ed that the temperature has been 90 or above in six of the last seven days. It was 97 on Tuesday, 96 on Mon day, 93 on Sunday, 90 on last Saturday, 88 on Friday a week ago, and 93 on Thurs day a week ago. With the dorught and temperatures so high, it’s only natural water consump Princeton University and of the University of North Carolina, has studied on a fellowship at the Julliard School of Music in New York, is at present a teach ing assistant here in the Depart ment of Music, and is minister of music in the First Baptist Church of Burlington. The concert program will in clude passages from Palestrina’s “Missa Brevis” and Mozart’s | “Requiem Mass;” Randall Thomp- I son's “Alleluia;” six excerpts from Roy Ringwald’s “Song of ] America;” Edgar's “My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land;” ' Kountz-Thomas’ “prayer of the j Norwegian Child,” with Caro lyn Davis as soloist; Dawson’s ! arrangement of the Negro spir itual, "Boon Ah Will Be Gone,” and Joseph Wagner’s “Ballad of Brotherhood.” The chorus is made up of the following singers: Sopranos, Grace Alley, Bootsie Fowler, Nauwita P. Hogan, Nancy Jerni gan, Margaret Jurgensen, Joan Kiser, Julia Ratdiffe, Melba Be ring, Elizabeth Royull, Mela Royail, (juiilian White, and Pol ly Wilkerson. Tenors, Aaron Carroll, Dick Frank, Charles Fulghum, Janie- Kiser, Dun Malpass, John Shan non, and Gilbert Wrenn. Altos, Henrietta Allen, Sarah Brawley, Carolyn Davis, I.ucy Dearing, Helen Gillingham, El eanor Gwin, Marilyn E. Jacox, Dorothy Johnson, Bennie Joe Michael, Sally Peyton, Lois S. Rice, and Carla Smith. Basses, Larry Fisher, Byron Freeman, Clarence Hayes, Gene Hudson, Dale I.appin, Lawrence L. I.ohn, Burton Mackey, Neal O’Neal, James Poteat, Fred Rierson Jr., Sandy Thomas, and Hunter Tillman. face, and complete instructions and suggestions for making the doll, and is provided at cost, 25 cents. The doilmaker may en ter in either of three categories: baby, character or fashion. The contest is in its fourth year, and this is the 2nd time i that Belk-Leggett-Horton has sponsored it in Chapel Hill. Last year a Chapel Hill girl, Vicky 1 Greulach, was one of the nation-! al winners. This year the makers of the best three dolls in the country will win a free trip to New York where they will ap pear on Ed Sullivan’s television show. The top winner will make a two-week trip to Europe via Pan American Airlines to pre sent the dolls. Many other prizes will be awarded both on a nation al and local level. Also, a re ception for the winners will be held at the United Nations in New York. Anyone with questions about the contest is requested to go to Belk-Leggett-Horton. Return From Vermont Mr. and Mr*. W. L. Engels returned laet Friday from a ten |dey trip to northern Vermont. CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1956 tion is great. So great has is been during the peak hours about dusk that the pressure is far below norm al. That has cut into the ef ficiency of air-conditioners and electric garbage dispos als. Neighbors Pitch in And Help a Family A good example of love for-fellowman was evident here this week as neigh bors joined the family of] Cesco Mays to help them re-] pair and repaint their Dur ham Road dwelling, which was damaged by fire early !Sunday evening. ! The SI,OOO fire occurred | as the Mays family was pre paring to leave for Florida on a vacation trip. Immed iately after the blaze was ex tinguished, neighbors be gan helping the family clean up and provided food and lodging. The next day they joined in repair and repaint work, and Mr. Mays said he !believed the dwelling would jbe restored by today (Fri day) . A driver for the Tar Heel Cab Company, Mr. Mays said that the fire prevented the Florida trip, but that jhe hoped to have enough money saved by Christmas to make it then. His son, Kenneth Mays, was the apparent fortunate one—if that be possible— in the fire. Although he lost his clothing, a stuffed chair tossed out of the window of the hurtling structure con tained nine SIOO bills he had' saved to begin his Univer sity studies this fall. They were undamaged. I I'aientiar of EVENTS ' MMiIW "’ffltflY ulm ii ' iiHuMMS Friday, July ft • 3:30 p.m., Little League basc ball game, Indians vs Yan kees, Carrboro Lark. • 4:,‘50 p.m., Little League base ball game, Giants vs, Cubs,! High School diamond. • 6 p.m., Little League baseball game, Tigers vs. Dodgers, ( anboro Park. • 8:30 p.m., Carolina Playmak ers’ production of “Goodbye, My Fancy," at Playmakers Theatre. Sunday, July 8 • 8 p.m., Eddy Asirvatharn of Nagpur University, India, to give public talk on “The Role! of India as a Neutral in the! East-West Struggle.” Monday, July 9 • 7 p.m., Public hearing on an nexation, Town Hall. • 8 p.m., Baseball game, Carrboro Cubs vs. Fuquay Springs, Carrboro Park. ♦ * * At the Morehead Planetarium: “Mars, Planet of Mystery,” 8:30 p.m. seven days a week plus ll a.m., 3 p.m., and 4 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m., 3 p.m., and 4 p.m., •Sunday. * » * At the Carolina Theatre; -Fri day, “Dallas,” with Gary Coop er and Ruth Roman; Saturday, “The Wild Dakotas,” with Bill Vt illiams and Coleen Gray; Sun day and Monday, “Santiago,” with Alan Ladd and Rossana Fo desta At the Varsity Theatre: Fri day, W. Somerset Maugham's "Quartet;” Saturday, “One Min ute to Zero,” with Robert Mitch um and Ann Blyth; Saturday late show and Sunday and Mon day, “Storm Over the Nile,” with Laurence Harvey and An thony Steel. Save Waste Paper The next Jaycee paper drive will be held Sunday afternoon, July 20. Everybody is asked to save old magazines, newspapers, and other waste paper to put out for the Jaycees to collect that day. Methodist Deacons’ Meeting The Board of Deacons of the University Methodist Church will meet at 7:46 p.m. Sunday, 1 July I, at the church. On the Recreation Front i Up-Town ‘Rec’ Still Looking for Home; Jaycecs Renew Efforts for Huge Center Petition Circulated For a Referendum I A concerted effort to se cure 500 more names to a petition for a recreation tax referendum was launched this week by the Chapel Hill Javcees. Dr. J. Kempton Jones, co chairman cf the Jaycee long pending recreation project, urged Javcees to complete | the list of the needed 1,100 petitioners. Some 600 al ready have signed. It is j hoped that the petition will be completed by July 16. So designed and planned by the Charles M. Graves Organization, Bark and Rec reation Engineers of Atlan ta, Ga., that the center can be built in progressive stag es, it would be located in the southeastern corner of Or ange County on a 16-acre tract owned by Roy Brown but under a two-year option to the Jaycees. A prospectus complete with architect’s conception and description of the fin ished center is being shown by Jaycees circulating the petition. , The petition itself asks the Orange County Board of Commissioners to call a special election on whether or not the county should is sue $250,000 in bonds to acquire, build, equip, and maintain the center, and on whether or not a tax of 10c psr SIOO valuation should‘ I be imposed for operation. A tax to pay off the bonds also is included. (Continued on Page 8) Fourteen New Teachers Hired; Smith Tenders Resignation to School Board At the July meeting of the, Chapel Hill School Board Mon day, Chairman Carl Smith re signed, Architect James Webb 1 was authorized to proceed with designing a six-classroom addi-j tion to Northside Elementary! School, and 11 new teachers were] employed. One teacher, Mrs. Annie Mc- Alister, was hired at Glenwood Elementary School; Janie.-- Vause and Mrs. Helen Ashworth were hired for Chapel Hill Elementary School; Charles Riel son, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Edmisten, Thomas Herndon and Mrs. June Bacile were hired for Chapel Hill High School; and for the Lincoln school, the hoard hired Clark Egerton, Willie Bradshaw, Mrs. Katherine Davis, Miss Lorene Rhodes, Mr. Ozzie Edwards and Miss Ruth Thompson. C hildren’s Story Hour Is Announced A story hour for children from four to eight years old, inclus ive, will be held at 3 o’clock Tues day afternoon, July 10, at the Mary Bayley Pratt Children’s Library on the second floor of the Chapel Hill Elementary School on West Franklin Street. Miss Gloria di Costanzo will tell fairy tales. All children in the designated age group are invited. The library’s summer hours are from 2 o’clock to 5 o’clock every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday afternoon. Church Council Meeting The Church Council of the Un ited Congregational Christian Church will meet Sunday even ing, July 8, at the church. Exchange Club Meeting The Chapel Hill Exchange Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tues day, July 10, at Brady’s Restau rant. P. O. Receipts Up Receipts at the Chapel Hill Post Office for the quarter ending June 30 were $2,211.51 greater than the corresponding period last year, it was dis rlosed this week. Receipts for April, May, sad June of 1964 totaled 941.425.14 1 tempered vtik (UJIUI dur- I iag the anaee «•after in 1946. Schools Offer Only Immediate Location By Charles Robson “We don’t know where! we’ll be next year, or wheth er we’ll have any place to 1; go at all,” says Miss Sarah ] Umstead, director of the j Chapel Hill Recreation Cen- J ter. Y The "Rec”, which for [! some time has been housed , in the old church building ! un the University Methodist .! Church property, will be I without a home next year. The church plans to expand . and the old "Rec” building —it is almost a wreck in ' every sense of the word — will have to be razed to ! make room for the expan- 1 ! sion. So the center will have to (find a new home. Kenneth ] Putnam, Roland Gid uz, I Charlie Phillips, Dr. W. G. 1 Morgan, and O. A. Allen! compose a committee with Miss Umstead and are look-! ; ing for a temporary location. 1 If the Jaycees recreation ' project goes through, it is 1 hoped that it will provide J a permanent home. But when the "Rec” must < move isn’t exactly known 1 since the Methodist' i Church's building plans are] r; not entirely complete. It - may have to camp out in] J some other building for at 1 least a couple of years. >| Two possibilities may be! - open. VVith the addition of] C a gymnasium to the Chapel) ( Hill High School next year, s the present “Tin Can” ] owned by the school may be (Continued on Page 8) I It C expected that the board will discuss the appointment of ! Mr. Smith's suceesor soon. His ] term will not expire until July I, 1959, although Mr. Smith is j stepping down immediately. The board itself is authorized to fill j vacancies that occur during a i member’s term. A member of the hoard for the 1 past nine years, Mr. Smith suc ceeded .1. S. < . Henninger as a member of the board, and was elected its chairman succeeding J. T. Gobbei about five years ago. His resignation came as no surprise to members of the! board, with whom he had dis cussed the matter at length. Mr. Smith served one six-year term and then agreed to serve longer on the hoard until the members could get more exper ience after several resignations. “Six years is long enough, hut 1 was glad to stay three years more to let them gain exper ience,” Mr. Smith explained. He was on the board during two school bond issues, and he noted that there was a lot of work connected with them. “I’m going to pay more attention to my business now,” he said. Merchants Committee on Awnings and Signs Will Make Report Monday Night The Board of Directors of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association will meet Monday, July 9, at 8 p.m. and will hear a report from a committee ap pointed to advise the Chapel Hill Planning, Board on signs and awning regulations. The board will also hear a re port from the Credit Bureau Committee on collection com mission -charges. The meeting will be held in the conference loom of the association office, and members of the association who are not on the board have been urged to attend and make their views known on . matters that interest them. The Planning Board had pre viously considered recommend ing that the Town Aldermen amend the zoning ordinance to limit the location and size of signs of local businesses. How ever, it was referred to the as sociation for advice before mak ling recommendations. The report en collection commission chargee $4 a Year in County; other rates on page 2 County Adopts 72c Tax Rate. Cuts School Capital Outlay, Okays a $950,000 Budget The Orange County Board of Commissioners tenta tively approved a 1956-57 county-wide 72c per SIOO tax rate and a $950,091 budget late Monday afternoon. The rate is ten cents higher and the budget is $77,519 higher Chapel Mill Chaff ] L.G. * i No fact of nature is more firmly fixed in people’s] minds than the survival) power of cats. We may not admit to believing that a cat has nine lives but many of us have seen miraculous escapes and unexpected re-1 apperances that almost per- suade us of the truth of that ' famous saying. I never heard a stranger report upon the coming-to life of a cat that was thought to be dead than the one Mrs. Roland McClamroeh gave me yesterday. Her brother, George Lyon, has left Durham to become the proprietor of the Royal | Palm Motel on the out skirts of Daytona Beach, Florida. The move was made last week: Mr. and Mrs. Ly on, their two children, and the cat —in a cavalcade wj” three automobiles. The last thing Mrs. Lyon 'did before the departure ■ very early in the morning was to have a veterinarian give the cat a sedative so that it would be calm and quiet on the long one-day ride. This purpose was so I well achieved that w hen the ! cavalcade reached Daytona at about 11 o’clock at night the cat, instead of respond-] ing to the family’s call in. its usual alert way, was 1 j found to be stretched out motionless on the floor of its wicker basket. They ex amined it, by look and touch, and could come to but one answer: the cat was dead. The man who had sold the motel to Mr. Lyon and was present to complete the transfer, was sympathetic with them in their grief. He said he thought maybe he could bring the cat back to life. He would like to try, anyhow. I didn’t get an explanation from Mrs. McClamroeh of how he diagnosed the case, but she described to me (Continued ori Page 2) Notice to Subscribers Notice to subscribers who get the Weekly by carrier boy: If your paper hasn't arrived by 6 p.m. of press day (Monday and Thursday), please call Mr. Rogers between ti p.m. and 7 p.m. of that day at 9-1271 or 8-461. Return from Miami Carrboro Lions who attended the Lions International Conven tion in Miami last week included District Governor Lloyd Senter, Wilbur Senter, Shelton Lloyd, Tom Yates, Mack Watts, Ber nard Whitefield, K. B. (Vie, land Wilbur Partin. ings that the collection commis sion rates were too high. It has also been announced by the association that the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Credit Bureau has been accepted for membership in the Collection Service Division ot the Associated Credit Bureaus Collection Service Division. Membership became effective July 1. Usually a thorough in vestigation is made before ac cepting a bureau into this large nationally known organization. Tickets for the association’s picnic to be held Wednesday, July 18, at Camp New Hope will soon be mailed to association members. Extra tickets over the two automatically sent may be oDtained by getting in touch with the association offoce. It was also announced that Occidental Life Insurance Com pany is now a member of the association, and that Phillips 66 is now clearing all credit card ; applications through the associa -1 tion office along with Esso Stan FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday Man for the past fiscal year. Both will be formally ap proved in 20 days. The commissioners also okayed a $97,049 budget and a special 15c per SIOO tax for the Chapel Hill school district. However, both county wide and Chapel Hill dis trict school capital outlay proposals were slashed down to the amounts they re ceived during the past fis cal year. But, untouched were the requests of ap proximately $500,000 each for capital outlay funds from the recently approved $2,000,000 bond isue. The ; new county budget includes the following gen eral appropriations: Gener al bond fund, $44,560; farm fund, $20,204; county gen eral fund, $147,660; health, $20,000; recorder’s court, $15,880; county wide schools current expense, $87,170, and capital outlay, $98,014; Welfare, $54,856; old age assistance, $104,760; and aid to dependent children, $98,- 880. For the Chapel Hill Ad ministrative School District, the board approved $43,198 for current expense and $53,851 for capital outlay. None of the commission ers were represented as feeling any “undue violence” was done to any department al budget, uruyusals. ! They pointed out that $50,000 of the total increase in the budget this year over last is for debt service on $1,000,000 of the $2,000,000 school bonds voted last March. Thus, except for schools, increased appropria tions for all other county departments amount to but $22,519. By the same token, eight cents of the 10c increase in tax rate goes for schools, and only two cents for other (Continued on page 8) Rates Total $1.82 Residents of Chapel Hill will pay a total county and town tax rate of $1.82 per SIOO property valuation dur ing the 1956-57 fiscal year, a survey of the rates showed this year. The Town of Chapel Hill has adopted a 95c rate and Orange County 72c. On top of that residents of the Chapel Hill Administrative District will pay a special 15c rate for schools. Total $1.82. Outside the Chapel Hill town limits but within the Greater Chapel Hill Fire District, residents will pay a total rate of 97c per SIOO —72 c county, 15c schools, ad 10c fire district. Residents of the Town of Carrboro will pay a total rate of $1.65, of which 93c is Town of Carrboro, and 72c is county. Chapel Hillians to Leave for England Mrs. Edith Glover and her daughter, Miss Aletta Glover, will leave today (Friday) to fly to London, England. There they will be met by Mrs. Glover’s brother, whom she hasn’t seen for 28 years. _ Mrs. Glover’s son Dale will go to England by ship and will join them there for a tour of Eng land and Scotland. They will visit relatives Dale and Aletta have never seen. In Devon the three of'them will stay at the Smugglers’ Inn, which is somewhat off the beaten path, and will drive about the countryside. They will he abroad five weeks, during which Dale