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. 3 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.! i 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. ■— —» m m »• » mwm w• w ■—- w 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 (Continu<* 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 • jL . siiigß . j \ Jgj^' 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.