FRIDAY
ISSUE
Next Issue Tuesday
Yoi. 32, No. 55 ’
About 350 at
Picnic Staged
By Merchants
Bv Charlie Johnson
Ants, bingo, softball, fried
Ricken, prizes, and a good
time for everybody were;
featured at the Chapel Hill-
Carrboro Merchants Associ-j
ation’s annual picnic last
Wednesday afternoon and
evening at Camp New Hope.;
The softball game was
won 1-1-1 by a team of play
ers from the north side of
town. Tommy Lloyd pitched
for the north team, and Ken
I'utnam pitched for the
south team. The game was
close during the first few
innings, but later turned
into a slugfest, with every
body just trying to have a
good time. They had it too.
Mea nwhi 1 e , others were
enjoying swimming in the
new pool at New Hope, play
ing ping pong, and hanging
around talking and waiting
for supper.
Fried chicken, Brunswick
stew, slaw, corn on the cob,
peach pie, sliced onions,,
rolls, and lemonade and iced
tea were on the menu. Al
most 250 plates were sold,
ami after getting the food,
[Rple then sat down on the
grass amid ants and all to
J enjoy themselves.
During supper, one little
girl- in a bright yellow play
dress, was entertaining her
self by crawling around and
picking up dead leaves. Her
m other, sitting nearby,
would take the leaves away
from her. The little girl then
looked up at her mother and
apjKiared to be thinking,
“How can I get anywhere
this way, Mom?”
Girls and there
in long pants, short pants,
and medium-sized pants.
Flashy striped shirts could
be seen on picnickers wear
ing Bermuda shorts. Even
some of the older men came
adorned in newly styled Ber
muda shorts.
Bingo and drawing for
prizes followed the supper,
prepared by the women of
New Hope Baptist Church.
I‘okey Alexander called the*
game, assisted by Ken Put
nam. Among the 65 prizes
some donated by local mer
chants were a potted plant,
three-pound bags of coffee,
a charcoal grill, gift certif:-
(Continued on j age 12)
Give Polio Vaccine
Thursdays, Fridays
Salk polio vaccine is avail
able foi every person under 20
jAvs of age and for pregnant
toothers, according to Dr. O.
David*’Garvin, District Health
Officer.
Dr. Garvin said the vaccine
will he administered free at the
Health Department here every
Thursday and Friday afternoon,'
rather than Mondays and Thurs
days, beginning at 1:30 o’clock.
He also said local physicians
had an ample supply of the vac
cine which they will administer
by appointment. Since this is the
beginning of the polio season,
the health officer urged first
shots he taken immediately by
all persons under 20 who have
not had them.
At Memorial Hospital
I*ocal persons listed as pa-,
tients at Memorial Hospital yes
terday were Miss Beatrice Ba-j
con, Mrs. Lewis Cobh, Kinston
('*tton, R. B. Fitch, W. D. Har-'
R, E. B. Harris, Mrs. E. D.
Hill, Mrs. W. P. Jordan, Phairo
thana Kitpowsorig, Andrew La
vin Jr., Allen Moore, Mrs. M. B.
Morrow, W. D. Neville, Mrs.
Mary Nies, C. S. Partin, Robert
B. Sharpe, W. A. Sims, Mrs. A.
H. Williams, and Mrs. Louis
Williams.
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Flit Guns Out
Hit guns are out as effec
tive weapons against bugs and
germs. T hey Use ultra violet
rays and similar gadgets now.
The Advisory Budget Commis
sion has approved $2,450 fo»*s
such germ killing lamps at
Gravely Sanatorium. The ex
perts said the light raya would .
do th* job.
5 Cents a Copy
The Mavor and Ilis Descendants Hold n Reunion
i —Phuto by BUI Prouty
Mayor (>. K. Cornwell and his children and grandchildren have been having a family re
union. They are shown here at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Green, the parents of the wife
of Mr. Cornwell’s older son. Dr. Sam Cornwell. In the back- row : (left to right) are Mr. Corn
well's daughter, Mary; the Mayor himself, with his nine-year-old granddaughter, Elizabeth,
and his younger son, Robert, In the second row are Mrs. Sam Cornwell, the former Byrd
Green, and her husband. Dr. Cornwell. From left'to right in the front row are Mlison Corn
well, 2; Debra Cornwell, 4; Janet Cornwell, t>, and Candy Kersling, a neighbor of the Sam
Cornwells in Boston, Mass., who accompanied them here on their visit. The four little Cornwell
girls are the daughters of Dr. and Mrs. Sam (Ornwell. Mrs. (>. K. ( ornwell was unable to be
in the picture because of illness.
Sam and Robert Cornwell
left yesterday (Thursday)
after spending several days
here with their father, May
or Oliver K. Cornwell. Sam,
who is now on the staff of
the Chelsey Naval Hospital
in Boston, Mass., had his
family—his wife who is the
former Miss Bryd Green,
of Raul Green, and
Col. Burns Leaves Command of NROTC;
*
Captain Patterson Will Succeed Him
Colonel Robert Carter
Burns gave up on Wednes
day his command of the
University’s Naval Reserve
Officers Training Corps and
left with his wife and 8-
year-old daughter Mary Car
ter to take over his new post
at Camp Lejeune. lb* is now
chief of staff of the 2nd
Division of the U. S. Marine
Corps. He is the.only Marine
(’orps 'officer who has ever
commanded tin* Naval RO D
lure.
Captain Alexander Mc-
Leod Patterson, U. S. Navy,
graduate of Annapolis and
veteran of World War 11,
will be the next commander.
He and his wife are expected
to arrive August 2. They will
live in the University house
that the Burnses occupied
at the corner of East Frank
lin street and Battle lane.
Col. Burns received his
orders from USMC head
quarters in Washington to
go to New Mexico Saturday,
August 4, for a week’s train
ing course in the use of new
weapons.
The last word the family
had for their neighbors be
fore setting out for ('amp
Awards for Talented Young Musicians
Are Planned hy Chapel Hill Music Club
The recognition of young
. Chapel Hiilians who have mus-|
ical talents was decided on as a
project of the Chapel Hill Music
, Club at a called meeting held
Sunday evening in the choir
. loom of the Baptist Church un
,!der the chairmanship of Mrs.
Louise Jefferson, president of
the club.
As a means of fostering music
appreciation and development i
among young musicians of thoj
community, the club voted to j
donate two memberships in thej
North Carolina .Symphony Soc-j
iety and two season tickets for!
the forthcoming performances]
, of the Chapel Hill Concert Ser-j
ics. These awards will go to four
top quality musicians in the'
. Chapel Hill High School, two
boys and two girls.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
his four children—-with him.
Robert, who is a Lieutenant
j.g. in the Navy, will now
report to the Naval Post
Graduate School at Monter-j
rey, Calif.
Sam, the older son, was
graduated from the Uni
versity in 1944 and received
his M. A. degree here in
1948. He then got M. 1).
■ Lejeune was that some day,
when the Colonel’s retire
■ ment time cutnie, they would
1 be coming back to Chapel
Hill to live. “And before
that, while we’re stationed
at Camp Lejeune,” said Mrs.
Burns, “we hope to bi* up
here on a \ isit now and
then.”
Colonel Burns was in ser
vice- on tin* European front
in tin* Second' World War.
He came here three years
i ago from a post on Long
Island.
Besides commanding the
NROTC he took courses in
the University and won his
Master of Arts degree and
a Certificate in Spanish
American Studies. In his
last year here he was a vol
unteer counselor to fresh
men and was on duty in
that capacity in the South
building eight hours a week.!
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Before her marriage Mrs.!
Burns was in the Duke Uni
versity Medical School for
three years as a psychiatric j
social worker and was in
Washington two years as
director of hospital service
for the Red Cross.
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The winners will be selected
‘through auditions that will be
judged by adult music experts.
The time and place of the audi
tions will be announced later.
At the Sunday evening meet
ing Miss Emily Pollard was
elected program chairman toi
succeed Joseph Wood, who had
served in that capacity during
| the past year. She was also ap
pointed Junior Counselor to act:
|as a liaison officer between the :
club and the young musicians of
] the Chapel Hill-Cariboro com
munity. A report on the meeting
jsald that the club is looking for-'
I ward to active participation in,
the promotion junior activi
ties and to the formation of a
| junior unit of the National and:
| State Federations of Music.
CHAPEL HILL, N. <\, FRIDAY. JULY 20, 1956
and I‘h. D. derives from the
j University of Minnesota. He
expects to serve foilr more
years in the Navy.
They also visited Mrs.
Cornwell's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C.reen, while here for
their 2 week vacation. Sam
and Byrd went to high school
here in Chapel Hill together
and also attended the Unf-j
versify together. They were
married in 11)45 on Christ
mas Day.
“YVe certainly enjoyed
being here,” Sam said, “ This
is really our home, and we
hope eventually to come
back hero permanently.”
The younger son, Robert,;
was graduated from the
U. S. Naval Academy at An
napolis in 11)51 and then was
with a group of destroyers
that made a trip around the
world, including a stopover
in Korea. In 1952 he fin
ished flight school at Ben
saeola, Kla., and was' then
attached to the (Kith Fighter
Squadron of jets. He was 1
assigned to the aircraft car
rier Tieonderoga, and was
in the Mediterranean area
from last October until his
recent release.
His assignment in post
graduate work is for three
years of advance work in
aeronautical engineering at
California Tech. He is mar
ried to the former Miss Bat
Ford of Lincolnton, who is
a graduate of the Universi
ty here.
Mayor Cornwell is the
head of the University’s De
partment of Physical Edu
cation and President of the
University National Bank. |
Town Asks $27,000
In Highway Funds
The Town of Chapel Hill
to get approximately $27,000 inj
Powell Hill funds this year, Town
Manager Tom Rose disclosed this:
week.
If the State of North Caro
lina allocates the whole amount
of funds asked by the town for
maintenance of streets used a
- this year’s allotment
will he around $4,000 greater
than lasi year when $22,000, in
round figures, was given the
town.
The increase in request is due
to streets which have been •*
part of the State Highway sys
tem but which have been taken
over by the town as a result of
the recent annexation election.
Summer at the Beach
Mr. and Mrs. K. C. Harris*,
are spending the summer at
Wrightsville Beach.
S.'H)(),()()() Ktiildiug
Program S«*l For
Psychiatric (’enter
An estimated $200,000
building program for the
Psychiatric Center of Me
morial Hospital is sched
uled to begin late this year.
Dr. Robert K. Cadmu.s,
director of Memorial Hos
pital, said that 50 per cent
of the funds required for
the project will be supplied
by the federal government
through the North Carolina
Medical Care Commission.
The remainder comes from
the state.
Dr. Cadmus said yester
day that plans were expect
ed to be available for con
tractors in September and
that bids will be called for
in October.
The Psychiatric Center is
in the hospital’s South
Wing, which was completed
in January of 1955, with the
exception of the major part
of the ground floor.
Present plans call for the
completion of the ground
floor. This space will contain
laboratories, offices, and
treatment rooms for the
Outpatient Department of
the Psychiatric Center.
A two-story addition to
the present building also will
be constructed. This addition
will project east from the
present building, making
the completed building an
I*-shaped structure. The
South Wing is not a part
of the Memorial Hospital
Building, but is connected
to it by an enclosed passage
way.
The first floor of the new,
addition will In* a flat-floor
auditorium. This will be used
for occupational therapy as
well as for seminars and oth
er educational purposes.
The second floor of the
addition will connect with
the Outpatient Department
and will be used for offices
and treatment rooms, par
ticularly in child psychiatry.
Approximately half of the
work load carried by the
center is with outpatients.!
The addition will be built
in such a manner that other
stories may In* added at a
later date. The South Wing
is a five-story building.
Barbara Green and Mrs. Wilbur S. Kutz
Finish in a Dead Heat for Picnic Prize
The question iif who shoubb
I i t the hitm hafflei! thi* i-onilur
tors of the bingo game at the;
Merchants Association picnic!
Wednesday night. Two winners
pupped up, and Pokey Alexander,
Jimmy Wallace and Ken I'utnam
were just about ready, to saw
the ham in half to settle the dis
pute.
The ham was donated by Bra
dy’s as one of the t>s prizes that
were to be given away. Pokey
Alexander, who called the game,
wanted to make sure at first
that there would he no dispute,
so he asked Judge L. J. Phipps
to decide upon a set of rules just
in case a tie should develop.
It was decided if two persons
got bingo at the same time, the
winner would be the one who
hud the most numbers covered
on' the card. Well, it happened
that two persons did get bingo
at the same time. They were
Mrs. Wilbur 8. Kutx and Bur-j
bura Green, little daughter ofj
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Green. Mrs.,
Kutz is the wife of a local real!
estate man.
But, the tie still stood, be
cause both of them had the same
number of numbers covered on
their card. So, they decided to;
add up the numbers they had
covered other than the ones they •
had to have to have bingo.
The tie still stood. Both sets
Vacation in Missouri
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Alternuel-j
ler and their children, Anna and
Allen, are on a vacation trip dur
ing which they are visiting Mr.
Altemueller’s parents in Wash
ington, Missouri. They will be
gone another week or ten days.
Roger Peek* in Chicago
Roger Peek*, brother of Stan
ley Peule, is spending some time;
in Chicago with his mother,!
Mrs. Katherine Peeie, and will
enter the University’s B®>olj
of Medicine in September^^L!
Chapel Mill Cha(l
L. G.
The white cat of Charles
1 Strowd, 10-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Kennon Strowd
ouf ,oiV'.the Mann's Chapel
■’ road, is a prominent figure,
though not a hero,, in my
i latest animal story.
“I was in the bathroom
about six-thirty one morn
ing last week,” Mr. Strowd
I told me yesterday, “when I
heard a furious barking and
snarling. This went 'on about
ten minutes before I could
get dressed and come out
to see what the row was
■ about. Our cat was such a
boss, so used to driving
■ every sort of animal before
I him, that I wondered how
' he could be having such a
tough fight.
“Then, when I walked
[ down the hall and stepped
out of the back door, I saw
• him flash past chased by a
( gray fox. My guess is he had
thought it was another cat
- —just what I thought at
my first glimpse—had jump
[ed it, and had found he
‘couldn't handle it. He didn’t
! stop running till he had hid
on top of the furnace in the
basement.
“He turned out to be bad
ly bitten and scratched, but
Dr. Yine decided it wasn’t
necessary to have his head
sent to Raleigh to be exam
ined for rabies. He seems to
be getting well fast. He's
acting a lot meeker than he
used to and we’re sure he's
not going to be jumping
jon any more foxes.”
There's no such violence
as this among tin* wildlife
ion our premises on Battle
lane, but plenty of competi
tion. Here most of the ac-,
jtivity runs not to assault
but to theft. The busiest
performers are the chip
munks. For a long time they;
were also the most success
ful hut it’s not that way
now.
Ever since we’ve been liv
ing here, these thirty-five
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In Village Apartnienta
Mi ss Mae Win sham has iiuiv ;
eil into the Village Apartments,
taking the apartment formerly
1 miupieil hy Miss Anne Tinker.
of numbers added up to 111.
During this time, Judge Phipps
walked up and gnl the ham and
walked awuy, apparently decid
ing that was the best wuy to
settle it all in a joke.
They finally drew numbers for
both winners from the picnic
tickets used for drawing for
other prizes, with the ham go
ing to the one with the highest
number. Mrs. Kutz won. Miss
Green wasn't without her prize
though. She received a doll kit,
complete with a little suitcase
and clothes, which probably
meant more to her than the ham
would have to her or her par
ents.
Many prizes were given
away, hut only the ham caused
such trouble.
Small Boy Narrowly Escapes Serious
Eye Injury When Hit by BB Gun Shot
A f> Vi-year-old lx>y was shot
near the eye with a Bff gun here
last Tuesday afternoon, but in
jury to his eyesight is not ap
parent us yet.
Dewitt Ashby, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Lowell D. Ashby of Cobb
Terrace, was hit above the inner
corner of one of his eyes, about
an eighth of an inch from the
eye itself. *
Some neighborhood children
and others from a nearby neigh
borhood were apparently play
ing "war" when the accident oc
curred, according to Mrs. Ashby.
The youngster was taken to
to Memorial Hospital, and after
examination minor surgery was
required to remove the embedded
shot. Two stitches were put in
the cut.
Mrs. Ashby said she was pre
paring to take her children
downtown. Some children came
up in the yard, and her children
s l a \ ear in County ; other rates on page 2
Chapel Hill Ministers Will
Send Spokesman to General
Assembly’s Special Session
\<‘w Mini«4t«»r l»
Arrive August I
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REV. HARVEY L. CARNES
Mr. and 'Mrs. Harvey L.
Carnes and their three children
will move here from Franklin,
Va., on Saturday, August 4, and
will make their home at 78
Hayes Road, Glen Lennox. The
next day Mr. Carnes will preach
his first sermon at the Chapel
Hill Congregational Christian
Church, of which he is the new
pastor. The children are Deborah.
Deane, 6; Harvey Larabee Jr.,
3, and Emily Lois, 2.
Mr. Carnes, who had been pas
tor of a church in Franklin since
11*53 after serving pastorates in
Kentucky, Massachusetts and
Florida, has been in church work
fiom his youth up. At the age
of 17, and again at 18, he ac-'
ccpted a student summer pas
torate and was appointed to his!
first regular pastorate near Har
rodsburg, Ky., before reaching
his 2Uth birthday.
His father, the Rev. B. G.
Carnes, is an approved evange
list of the Congregational |
Methodist Church it ik(. also'
serves as superintendent of
( hureh Extension for that de
nomination. Several other mem
bers of his family are in the
ministry, and his mother was
named Kentucky’s Mother of the
Year for 11)55.
Mr. Carnes Was graduated in
11148 from the Ashbury Theolo
gical Seminary, lie then became
pastor of the First Parish Con
gregational Church at Abington,
Muss. (11)48-51), and after that
was assistant pastor of the First
Congregational Church in St.
Petersburg, Fla., from 11)51 to
11)53.' While in Massachusetts he
took graduate work at Harvard
University.
The fifth of nine children, Mr.
Carnes was burn September 1 of
1D25 in YYilmore, Ky., and lived
there till hi* was graduated front
the seminary. He was valedict
orian jut his high school gi'utlu
(Continued on page 12)
Hicls Are ( ailed
For Resurfacing
The State Highway and Public
Works Commission proposes to
tesurfaee 3.1)3 miles of U. S. 15
and 501 from N. ('. 64 here south
to the Chatham County line. The
commission this week called for
bids to be opened in Raleigh
on August 2.
Bake Sale Friday
The Woman’s Society of Chris
tian Service of Ahler.xgate
Methodist Church will hold a
bake sale at the Glen Lennox
Colonial Store today (Friday),
beginning at 10 o’clock.
ran out with them. A few mo
ments later, they ran back in
screaming. She suid she “calmed
them down, and then took De
witt to the hospital.
It took about an hour to re
move the shot, Mrs. Ashby said.
It is believed there will be no in
jury to his sight. A check-up
later this week is expected to
tell if his sight is injured.
Mrs. Ashby said she did not
know who had the gun when her
son was hit. She said she would
like to warn adults who see
children with BB guns to take
the guns away from them, or
else make sure they are careful
ly watched.
Some of the children said the
shot glanced from the street be
fore hitting the Mrs.
Ashby said from the way the
shot was embedded in the flesh,
she did not think it happened
that way, hut that the shot hit
the hoy directly.
FRIDAY
ISSUE
Next Issue Tuesday
• The Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Ministerial Association has
asked permission to make
known its feelings at the
special hearings next Mon
day and Tuesday at the Gen
eral Assembly’s special ses
sion called by Governor
Hodges for the considera
tion of legislation proposed
by the Advisory Committee
on Education.
The Association will be
represented by its president,
the Rev. Maurice A. Kidder
of the Episcopal Church of
the Holy Family, who will
go to Raleigh for the hear
ings. Mr. Kidder said yes
terday that the Association
!is opposed to the proposed
legislation because “it is
too one-sided” and appears
to be “set up as a threat to
any school system that com
■ plies with the Supreme
' Court’s non-segregation de
j cree.”
i The decision to send a
representative to the hear
-1 ings was made at a meeting
of the Association’s execu
tive committee and other
Association members, Mr.
Kidder said. Testimony to
be given at the hearing will
bt* formulated by Mr. Kidder
and then will be approved by
the executive committee. He
said he did not yet know
which of the two days he
would appear.
The proposed legislation
consists of five bills. The
first is a bill to amend Art
icle IX of the North Caro
lina Constitution so as to
authorize education expense
orrants and to authorize le
va I option to suspend opera
tion of the public schools.
This amendment, to become
effective, would have to be
approved in a referendum by
the people of the State. The
' second bill is to provide for
ja general election on Sep
tember 8, 1956, at which
time the amendments will
be voted on.
The third bill provides
for education expense grants
. for children attending non
i public schools, the fourth
for jt local option to suspend
;'operation of public schools,
I and the fifth to amend the
, General Statutes relating to
compulsory school attend
ance.
Commissioners to
Meet on Monday
The Orange County Board of
, Commissioners will meet in
, Hillsboro Monday morning to
, adopt formally the l!)5li-57 bud
. get and tax rate. Other matters
probably will be heard by the
'commissioners at this interim
meeting.
A budget of $1)50,091 and a
county-wide tax rate of 72c per
. SIOO valuation were tentatively
s approved on July 2. At that time
i'a 15c special school tax for the
:! Chapel Hill Administrative Dis-
Jtrict and a 10c special tax for*
the Greater Chapel Hill Fire
District also were given tenta
tive approval. They, too, will
come up for formal adoption
Monday.
I.aying Larger Lines
l.arger water mains were be
-1 ing laid on the northern end of
!j Greenwood Road from Old Mill
Road this week. The work is
preparatory to putting fire hy
■ drants into the entire Greenwood
• urea.
Jayrees Induct Howter
Jack Howter was inducted as
a new member of the Chapel Hill
' Junior Chamber of Commerce at
I u meeting held last night (Thurs
day) at the Carolina Inn. He waa
sponsored by Gran Childress.
Chapel Millnotei
•it
■ First fog of the month lay
ing a blanket over Chapel Hill
• yesterday morning.at dawn.
• * or
• Fourteen-year-old boy in
I Carolina Inn lobby wearing
I very short shorts and dressy
coat.