North Carolina Newspapers

FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday Vol. 32, No. 57 Students Are To Be Guests Os Merchants Thirty $lO jri ft certifi cates will be featured in the Welcome to Stu dents" this fall. This pro gram is planned by the Trade Promotions Commit tee of the Chapel Hill-Carr boro Merchants Association i and is designed to welcome and orientate new Univer sity students to merchants of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and (lien Lennox. Plans for the program began to take shape at a Monday meeting of the As sociation’s Trade Promotions Committee. The gift certifi cates will go to the first 30 winners of a campus quiz contest that will be given to all new students] of which there will be about 2.000. Monday, September 17, will be Open House, Day at local stores. An information booth will be set up for the distribution of maps, local newspapers, and a booklet containing a classified list of the members of the Asso ciation. This booklet will al so be given to any other |tw residents of Chapel Hill, and (lien Lennox. Uni v e r s ity Orientation ( hah man Hill McLean met with the committee to help formulate plans for the program. H. S. McGinty, president of the Associa tion, will address all new students in a general assem bly on September 14 and will welcome them and outline the program planned by the merchants. “Welcome Stu dents" banners will be dis played on all stores. Most of the merchants wilLgive out favors that day, September 17. Mrs. Jam Whitefield, sec retary of the Association, emphasized that Carrboro and Glen Lennox are also taking part in the program said that new students would be urged to visit the open houses in those two areas. There, will be four sets of campus quizzes, based on student orientation. Stu dents may take the quizzes by going into any of the stores that day. Students can take the quiz as many times as they want to, but not twice in the same store. Each store will give a prize to its own winner and w ill turn in the name of that winner to the Association. Thirty of these names will then be drawn from a hat, these persons will each receive a $lO gift certificate from one of the stores. This is the sixth promo tion this year of the Trade Promotions Committee. Carl ton Byrd is chairman. Other members are Joe Augustine, Monk Jennings, T. M. John son, O. T. Watkins, Jane Whitefield, Roland Giduz, R. B. Todd, E. C. Smith, and Sandy McClamroch. Mrs. Whitefield said this year’s welcome to students would be the biggest and best ever given by the As sociation. Street Markers to VBe Painted Soon i In addition to other measures in preparation for Fall, the Town of Chapel Hill plans to repair and repaint its street markers and replace them where neces sary, Town Manager Hose said last week. Mr. Rose hopes to have the job completed by the time students return for the regular sessions of the Univer sity in September. The street markers were erect ed and donated to the Town by the Jayeees about three years ago, and at that time the Town purchased stenciling equipment in order to be able to keep them up. The markers are white con crete columns about four feet tall and have the street names lettered in black. 5 Cents a Copy N(*w (>a(ltolif (lmrcli to Hr Completed in November \ Jr i wmm a... ’’mH '* 1 mrjrmm. ■ Mbtllbct inffiMt '''.- -.‘sr > V*** , . «t<Ao!vX< » j tf M r LiufrA-- . wWTCTflfcftfc. > JST. m ■ .'•»£ 'A- . | 4 ' S' 4ms[ * '* v *t' JSl^P ym --fY,' KKJm •» "i%t : v ;j|Bb|E ** 9fl t - i " wP^BWHHcTTIff" iaMWißPr# Photo Uy BiU Prouty Work on the SIBO,OOO Catholic church being built on Gimghoul Road is pro gressing on schedule and the building is expected to be ready for use in November, according to the Rev. John A. Weidinger, rector of the Chapel Hill parish, who is shown above watching a stonemason at work on the st ructure. The new church, to be named the Chape! of Saint Chapel Hillians Speak Before Special Sessions of State General Assmbly Several Chapel Hillians spoke Tuesday in Raleigh at the spec lal session of the General Assem •bly called by Governor Hodges' for the discussion of problems caused by the Supreme Court’s school integration decision. Mrs. Charlotte Adams, pres ident of the Chapel Hill Chapter >f the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, suggested that “integration in North Carolina public schools be gin with the first grade in 1957.” Mrs. Adams said her organiza tion has “more faith” that the people of the state “are willing to be law abiding citizens and accept gradual integration in the i public schools because of their, fundamental sense of justice and humanity than the Advisory Committee on Education would have us believe.” She recommended the legisia-, ture “accept and proceed with l the proposals for meeting the j problem that have been put for ward by the North Carolina Congress of Parents and Teach ers.” Robert Mann, University proJ fessor of mathematics, speaking for the Interracial Fellowship for the Schools of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, said his organiza tion believed that efforts to pre-, serve racially segregated public education are misdirected. Mr. Mann pointed out that the Fellowship was founded on the conviction that “we should be |gin working toward the abolition lof racial segregation in public education both because justice it, and also because the ■ supreme law of our land requires it.” He attacked the proposed tui tion grants because they “would ■transform our public school sys-' tern, in part at least, into a sys tem of private schools" . . which could he attended only by ■ the children of the more well-to do families. He added that the power to close public schools “undermines the birthright of 'every North Carolina child to a ■public education." Mr. Mann urged the state gov ernment «ot to commit itself to! a policy ”which would inhibit local effort* to desegregate.” He I The Chapel Hill Weekly Thomas More, is on the south side of Gimghoul Road just to the east of Hippo] Castle, the stronghold of the Order of GimyTiouls, a secret society of University • stu dents. It will be the first Catholic church ever built in Chapel Hill. For some years, Catholic services have been held in Gerrard Hall on the University campus. The structure is being built of Salisbury granite added thaJ a general election early in September "would be too soon to allow the citizens of the state to consider the ques tions fully.” In answer to a question from a legislator, Mr. Mann admitted that he bad only been a citizen of North Carolina a few years, j “Where, then,” asked the legis lator, “did you live before you came to North Carolina?” Mr. Mann confessed that he had been born and brought up in South Carolina and had lived there all his life until coming to Chapel Hill, a reply that brought a great deal of laughter from the audience. Also speaking for the Fellow ship, the Rev. T. I*. Uurhart, pastor of the St. Paul’s A. M. E. Church, added that many people in the state are ready and that i many communities are able to begin to desegregate the public 1 schools now. A fourth Chapel Hill speaker was the Rev. Maurice A. Kidder, president of the Chapel Hill- Carrboro Ministerial Association. ' Excerpts from his speech fol low: “The first root of this whole proposal (the Pearsall Plan) is hypocrisy, because it pretends to do something and intends to do nothing. The Pearsall report i points out that the Supreme Court is the law of the land and that it should be obeyed. Then (Continued on Page 7) Visitors From California Miss Ann Rose and Augustus Rose Jr. recently flew from Hev erly Hills, California, to visit their North Carolina kin. They were with Mrs. J. Maryon Saun-' ders and Mrs. A. W. Rose here about ten days. Before return ing to California they also vis ited in Fayetteville, Beaufort, Washington, Baltimore, and New York. Joins Merchants Association Gran Childress, local agent of the Jefferson Standard Life In surance Company, recently be came a member of the Chapel Hiil-Carrboro Merchants Associa tion. His office is at 136 East I Franklin Street. CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY. JULY 27. 1956 and will be trimmed with Indiana limestone. It will in clude a main chapel and an auxiliary chapel, the latter to be used for weekday serv ices. The basement will house classrooms, a kitchen, and an auditorium with a vstagr. Adjacent to the main chapel will be a “cry room,” where parents may attend their babies and smaller children while at the same time watching the service through a window and hear ing it by means of a public address system. The room will be insulated against sound so that the crying or talking of the children will not interefere with the serv : ices. A road at the rear of the I church w ill permit access from the Raleigh Road, Mr. Weidinger said, and a park ing lot will be built. George Kane of Durham is the architect for the new church, and James W. Brown and Sons of Greensboro are the contractors. Doris Okerson Will Sing Here Tuesday Doris Okerson, mezzo sqpiano, will give a recital at K p.m. Tues day, .July 31, in Hill Hall under the auspices of the University’s | Summer Activities Council. Ad mission is free and everybody is invited. Miss Okerson has sung with 'the Philadelphia Grand Opera ‘Company and was a member of j tile "Saint of Bleeker Street" troupe in its New York, Wash-' * ington, and Boston runs. She has : appeared as soloist with the Concert Choir in New York and jon tour. She has just returned j from a twelve-weeks tour of Eu rope and the Near East. At Memorial Hospital Local persons listed as pa tients at Memorial Hospital yes terday were George Bason, Mrs. IT. E. Best, Mrs. William Bibb, Theodore Blackwood, Y. Z. Can | non, Kinston Cotton, Ervin Lu i hanks, Mrs. John Gemmell, W. It. Harrell, Mrs. W. T. Harville, K. E. Jameraon, Mrs. W. P Jor dan, Miss Ann Lacock, W. D. Neville, Mrs. Mary Nies, Roberto Sasso, William Taylor, Mrs. Louis Williams and Green Lloyd. To Attend Institute Mrs. Jane Whitefield, execu ive secretary of the Chapel Hill- Carrboro Merchants Association, will attend the Credit Bureau, Merchant Association, and Col lection Service Management In stitute August 5 through 11 here at the University. I’nivorsity to <>rl S2.<MMMMM» Loan From laovoriiiiioiil Approval of a $2,000,000 Federal loan to the Univer sity was announced last Monday by John C. Hazel tine of the Community Fa cilities Administration. The money will be used to build an addition to Spencer Hall to house approximate ly 75 women students and to build three new men’s dormitories behind Kessing Pool for 571 male students. Final plans on the dormitor ies are now being drafted. The 40-year loan is grant ed under a program pro viding federal loans for col legel housing. I diversity enrollment of 6.575 has increased 71 per cent since 1959, the last normal pre-war year, and the l diversity anticipates a .continuing increase to more than 10,000 by 1965. 2,433 Enrolled in 2nd Summer Term j Knrollmcnt for the second ] term of the I niversity's Nunt | nier School totals 2,1.1.!, it is announced h> (,u> 11. Phillips, j director of the Selwjgh This is , ] an increase over last year's i second session, in which -,27l were enrolled. The first term ol this year’s Summer Ses sion had an enrollment of 3,110. Paper Drive to He Held This Sunday The Chapel Hill Jayeees will | conduct their monthly paper i drive this Sunday afternoon, July 2lt, beginning at 1 pin They ask bundles of waste paper be placed on the curb or front ! porch by not later than that i time. The Jayeees conduct such a ill ive on the last Sunday of each month The proceeds from the sale of the paper ale used to I help finance the organization’s civic project's. Mrs. Jennings Moves Mrs. M. 11. Jennings Sr. has moved from McCauley Street to I‘urefoy iioail. Chapel Hill and Orange County School Boards Cooperate to Solve Problems No definite action was taken T . I at. a limiting W**<lm*s<lay night of the* Orange County School Hoard, the ( haptd Hill School Hoard, and a ( ai l boro .school com in i ttu«- to di.scu.S'j possible ways open to the tan boro White ( loss area to share the eosts incurred by the Chapel Hill schools m admitting children who live outside the ( Impel Hill special school taxing area hut are assigned to the ( Impel Hill Schools by the County Hoard of education. v, i Three possible ways of sharing the costs discussed were (1) a i aunty wide special tax with the Chapel Hill Schools being re imbursed on a per capita basis, (2) a special tux in Carrboro: and White Cross with the Chapel Hill schools being reimbursed, on a per capita basis, and (3) j holding' a referendum in Carr boro on merging the Carrboroj and -White Cross districts with the Chapel Hill schools into a single administrative district, I The merging of the districts' took up most of the discussion at ihe meeting. The question of when an election could be held came up, and the Carrboro com mittee said they probably could not hold an election until the spring of 1958. The committee said the people in Carrboro need ed time to digest the recent bond issue before they would agree to pass a referendum to merge the districts. The meeting was called at the request of the Chapel Hill Board as a continuation of past ses sions it had held to try to work out with the County Board a satisfactory agreement to reim burse Chapel Hill for the chil dren from the County District Here From California Mr. and Mrs. Lee M. Brooks of W'hittier, California, are here as the guests of Mrs. Howard W. Odum. Professor Brooks re tired from the University’s De partment of Sociology and An thropology in the spring of L 956 after having been with the de partment thirty years. He is now on the faculty of Whittier Col lege at Whittier, California. Chapel Mill Chutf L. G. In some years the tree that comes up through the stone-floored terrace at the rear of the Cotten-1 lender son house on Hooper lane bears hundreds of big heal thy pears, but this year it has borne only half a dozen shrunken little things. The reason for this was the lute season freeze. A strange circumstance about the failure, or it will strike you as strange till it’s explained in a moment, is that the owners of the tree (Mrs. Lyman Gotten; her sister. Miss Mary Hender son; and her son. Lyman Gotten) don’t care a hang whether there are pears on the tree or not. The explana tion is that, when there are any there, they do not have any taste. * * This saddened the family when they discovered it on building the house and mov ing in fourteen years ago, but they have long since quit bothering about it. ’Hie pears simply don’t taste and that’s all there is to it there are plenty of other things about the place to occupy their attention. Their indifference to the fruit does not mean at all that they are indifferent to the tree. Very much to the contrary. They love shade and this is a fine shade tree. It was some six or eight (feet from the edge of the house until an extension to the south was built this last spring. The old terrace, con verted into a room, was re placed by a new terrace, and ja well in this new terrace en closes the pear tree. The tree [gets plenty of watering and ■all the other care it needs; its foilage is happily ad mired; and its pears are happily ignored or, some times, laughed to scorn. * * * Mrs. Shipp Sunders (the former Miss Kate Graham) (Continued on Page 2) who attend schools here. The! < Impel Hill Board has felt that! a financial reckoning was in or-j der since the non-district chil dien receive the benefits-’- from the 1 5e supplementary school tux paid by taxpayers of this Dis -9 net, yet no such taxes or coin pen. ating payments are made to • ha pel Hill for taking these out side children. An average of 100 pupils from the White Cross and Carrboro attendance districts have been (assigned by the County Board to attend local schools for the past several years, and the num ber is expected U> be higher this .coming year. Miss Mann to Succeed Jimmy Wallace As Director of the Graham Memorial Miss Linda Mann of Holly wood, Fla., has been hired by the Personnel Committee of the | Graham Memorial student union building to succeed Jimmy Wal lace as the director of Graham Memorial. Mr. Wallace has re signed as of September 1. Miss Mann’s appointment is temporary for one year or until a new permanent director is named. It is expected that her temporary appointment will be approved at the first fall meet ing of the Graham Memorial’s Hoard of Directors in October. She will begin work at the Gra ham Memorial on August 15 in order to be able to work with Mr. Wallace in becoming ac quainted with her duties, which will include responsibility for the management of the building, its staff, and its programs for stu dent activities. Miss Mann was graduated from the University this year with an A. B. degree in psy chology and is also an alumna of Briarcliff Junior College at Briacliff Manor, N. Y. She serv ed as vice president of the Gra ham Memorial Activities' Board during the 1955-56 school year. Recently returned from a Eu ropean tour, Miss Mann said -in a letter to Student Body Presi- s 1 a Ye.ar in County; other rates on page 2 72-Cents Tax Rate and Budget Os $950,091 Approved by Orange County Commissioners Comer Burial To Be Held Here Today --f -a* >’/*£ ; jEI& ' • '*FJ HAKin F. COM Kit Harry. F. Coiner, 69, secre tary of the University YMCA for almost 30 years, died Wednes day in Johnston Memorial Hos pital in Abingdon, Va., where he had lived most of the time since his retirement in IjJIT. lie had suffered a heart attack on July 17. Funeral services will be held at 9 a.tn. today (Friday) in Abingdon, and burial will fol low at -l o’clock this afternoon here in Chapel Hill cemetery. The family requests that in lieu 'of flowers contributions be sent to the Heart Association or to the Washington County Life Saving organization in Abing don. Mr. Comer, a leading figure in Chapel Hill’s religious and civic affairs for many years, was with the University from 1921 until 1917. He had a strong influence on thousands of students who were members of the YMCA during his long and useful ten ure of office. University Chan cellor Robert li. House said of him: “lie was one of the most con structive and creative men in the entire University during some 25 years of service. He was a power not only in religious affairs, but also in educational affairs. He was a splendid friend and companion.” A veteran of World War 1, Mr. Coiner was graduated from Vanderbilt University and re ceived his M. A. degree from Columbia University. Before | coming here he was director of the YMCA at Georgia Tech. Surviving are his wife, the J former Jane White of Mason, |Texas; a sister, Miss Mary Corn ier of Comer, (ja., and two brothers, J. T. Comer, also of Comer, <ia., and M. A. Comer of Atlanta, ( u. Ilinkleys .Move Here Mr. and Mrs. Clark Hinkloy have moved here from Hazel wood, N. (’., and are living at H A < lark Court. Mr. Hinkley is a pre-medical student at the University. He formerly attend ed Duke and more recently has been in the armed forces. His service included 1M months in the Panama Canal Zone. dent Bob Young, “I would bet most happy to accept the posi-j tion if the Board of Directors' sees fit to give me the respon sibility. 1 enjoyed my work with the Activities Board and look forward to coming back to Chap el Hill.” Mr. Young, speaking in behalf of the Personnel Committee, said, “On the basis of Miss Mann’s work with GMAB, and her pro mise to fulfill the duties of di-j rector, we wholeheartedly en dorse her and recommend that she he approved. “We feel that she will be most cooperative with students and| administration Connected with! Graham Memorial and will do a most satisfactory job during the I coming year.” Mr. Young also} expressed regret that Mr. Wal lace was resigning. Returns From Turkey Miss Betty Holton has just! returned home to Chapel Hill! from Ismir, Turkey, where she spent the past year. She taught in the Armed Forces Dependent High School there. Miss Bolton is now visiting' her mother, Mrs. R. L. Bolton, at 224 McCauley Street and will begin work as a librarian in a school Roanoke Rapids this fall. FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday ' The Orange County Board of Commissioners formally approved a 1956-57 county wide 72c per SIOO tax rate and. a $950,091 budget here last’ Monday afternoon at a special meeting. The Board also made an inspection tour of roads in this vicini ty. The tax rate is ten cents higher and the budget is $77,519 higher than for the past fiscal year. The com missioners also okayed ti $97,049 budget and special 15c tax for the Chapel Hill Administrative School Dis trict. No changes were made in the budget as informally approved previously. Resi dents of the Greater Chapel Hill Fire District that were not included in the recent annexation will also pay a special 10c fire tax. fc 'The new county budget includes the following gen eral appropriations: General bond fund, $44,560; farm fund, $20,204; county gen eral fund, $147,660; health, $20,000; recorder’s court, $15,880; county w ide schools current expense, $87,170. and capital/outlay, $98,014; welfare. sirt,Bs6; old age assistance, $104,760; and aid to dependent children, $98,- 880. For the Chapel Hill Ad ministrative School Dis trict the Board formally approved $43,198 for current expense and $53,851 for cap ital outlay. Exactly $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 appropriations for all other county departments amount to but $27,519. Eight cents of the 10c in crease in tax rate goes for schools, and only two cents for other county depart ment appropriations. The new budget includes an av erage five per cent salary increase to both elective and ,appointive county employ ees. After the budget approv al, the Commissioners in spected Severn Street, a road off Purefoy Road, a road near Mt. Carmel Church, Circle Drive and Dogwood Acres extension road, several small roads off the new Greensboro Highway and several roads leading north off Highway 54. Play Tryouts Are Scheduled Monday Tryouts for the Carolina Play makers' bill of four student written one-act plays, to be pre sented August 9 and 10, will be held Monday, July 30, at 4:00 and 7:30 p.rn. in the Play makers Theatre; All students, faculty members and townspeople are invited to try out for parts in the plays. Copies of the four plays are available for reading at 101 Saunders Hall. Hubert Chase’s "Children of the Earth” will need I three women and three men. j”The Waiting Room,” by Ruth ] Young, requires two men and one woman. Katherine Singleton’s “Miss Carrie” and Lore Schul ler’s "Unlabeled,” both comedies, call for a total of eight women and three men. All authors were students in John W. Parker’s ! play writing class during the first Summer Session. Chapel Millnote* Two Chapel Hillians, Robert Mann and the Rev. T. P. Du hart, competing against “The $64,000 Question” for televi sion time Tuesday evening when addressing the General Assembly. • * * Scarlet - leafed sourwoods giving first signal that fall la on- the way.