TUESDAY
ISSUE
Next Issue Friday
Vol. 52, No. 58
Autos Collide
At Corner of
Franklin and
Columbia Sts.
Kenneth Ness had just
passed through Chapel Hill’s
main intersection at 9 a.m.
Sunday and was driving on
down Franklin Street past
the Bank when he heard an
ear-splitting crash behind
him. He looked in his rear
view mirror and saw geysers
of something yellow spout
ing upward from the back
of a car wildly spinning un
der the traffic light of the
intersection. His first
thought was that the yel
low stuff showering the
street came from buckets of
paint being carried in the
open trunk of the car.
In reality, the golden gey
sers were composed of gar
bage Sim Farrington had
just collected at the back
doors of Chapel Hill restaur
ants and was taking home
to his hogs in cans and
hampers in the trunk of
his car. It just wasn’t Sim’s
lucky day. He not only lost
his garbage but a little while
later lie was indicted for
failing to yield the right of
fiy.
A 51-year-old Negro who
lives out toward Bynum, Sim
was crossing Franklin Street
from North Columbia Street
when his car was struck by!
a car being driven east on
Franklin Street by R. P.
Shannon Jr., a high school
student from Durham. Sim’s
car was spun like a top and
came to rest with its rear
bumper against the road-;
sign post at the northeast
corner of the intersection a
few feet from Sloan’s Drug
store. The other car came toj
a halt about three-fourths
of the way through the in-'
tersection just to the east
of the traffic light, still
headed in the same direc
tion it had been going when
it struck the other car.
Neither car was seriously
damaged and neither driver
was hurt, though both were
shaken up and had to remain
seated’for some minutes be
fore they felt equal to get-,
ting on their feet. The I)ur-'
ham youth was specially
unnerved, Weeping and
wringing his hands while
being questioned by Police
men W. F. Hester and Skip
py Etheridge.
At the time of the acci
dent the traffic light was on
the blinker switch instead
of the usual red and green
stop and go switch. When
iL is thus regulated (at
Whes when traffic is light)
it blinks red on Columbia
Street and amber on Frank
lin Street, thus signaling
Columbia Street drivers to
stop before crossing Frank
lin Street. This Sim failed
to do.
Student Center Site
Bought by Baptists
The Baptist State Convention
has purchased the 161 East Rose
mary Street property from J. S.
Matthews to be used as a Bap
tist student center in Chapel Hill.
The convention will take poss
ession of the property on Sep
tember 6 and is expected to open
it to Baptist students about Oc
tober 1.
She Baptist Student Union will
l move its headquarters from
the Chapel Hill Baptist Church
to the new
At Presbyterian Church
The Rev. Rabb Minto, chaplain;
to Stanford University, will be.
the guest preacher this Sunday,!
August 5, at the morning wor
ship at 11 o'clock at the Chapel!
Hill Presbyterian Church. He is j
a visiting professor here at the
University for the second term!
of the Summer Session.
Nursing Course Opens
The fourth and final course in
“Special Fields in Public Health
Nursing" began yesterday (Mon
day) at the University.
5 Cents a Copy
Huge Lot* Installed to Support Footbridge
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—Photo by Bill Prouty
This gigantic seventy-foot pine log spans a channel of Morgan's Creek on the eight
eenth fairway of the University's Finley golf course. When this picture was taken last week
the log had just been put in place and Walter McMillan, a workman at the course, was scraping
off the bark so a preservative could be applied. The log supports the same bridge framework
that had spanned the channel for some years. The framework is still sound but its underpinn
ings had rotted. Ihe creek has two channels at this point and a similar pine log has just been
put in place to support the footbridge across the other channel nearer the green. The huge
logs were cut on University property on the south hank of Morgan's Creek about 300 yards
upstream from the seventeenth fairway. The work of cutting, moving, and installing the logs
was done under the supervision of K. 1.. Hutchins, the University’s superintendent of mainten
! ance of athletic fields and grounds.
Chapel Hill Swimming Club Will Hold
Exhibition Meet Here This Afternoon
The Chapel Hill Swimming
Club will hold an exhibition meet
this (Tuesday) afternoon at li
'o’clock in Kessing Pool. The i
event will feature races for the ;
j junior team and comedy races
for the older swimmers.
I
•j Dave Mclnnis, a member of
the University swimming team,
will give a diving exhibition as
a part of the meet. He is cur
rently high and low board champ
'jion in the Atlantic Coast Con-;
I ference.
J Last weekend the Chapel Hill 1
swimmers went to Morganton
, for the Junior Olympic Short
i Course Championships. The meet
featured swimmers from both
i North ami South Carolina, and,
although no official point scores
were kept, Chapel Hill placed
high up in both the girls and ;
boys divisions.
In the girls 11-12-year-old di
vision Bev Davis placed first in :
. the 50-yard backstroke and in
j both the freestyle and medley!
| relays, Judy Timmons was sec I
!ond in the 50-yard breaststroke
'and first in the freestyle relay,j
Avery Hall placed second in the!
i 50-yard freestyle and first in
both relays, Kate Talbert came 1
in second in the 100-yard free- ,
i style and first in both relays,;
Dee Casey placed third in the!
50-yard breaststroke arid first in 1
tlie medley relay, and Lee Milner
was first in the diving,
j In the 13-14-year-old group for
girls Sue Ham was second in the
100-yard backstroke, in the 100-
yard freestyle, and in the med- 1
ley relay, Sue Gabus was second
in the medley relay, Virginia ■
Ellis came in third in the 200-1
yard. individual relay, third in i
the 100-yard butterfly and sec- <
ond in the medley relay, and 1
/Carol Manning was also on the '
team second in the medley relay. I
The 15-16-year-old girls had I
Neal Morgan first in the 100-
yard freestyle and both relays, I
Virginia Timmons second in the i
Nancy Woodard Is Runnerup in Semipro
Baseball Beauty Contest at Roxboro
Misg Nancy Woodard of Carr
boro was runnerup in the "Miss
North Carolina Semipro Base
ball” contest held at Roxboro
Saturday night. She represented
the Carrboro Cubs in the contest
held in conjunction with the
North Carolina Semipro Baseball
Tournament, which the Cubs en
tered.
The contestants were paraded
; around the baseball field in con
| vertibles, and when the top beau
‘ ties were named, Tom Maultsby,
j manager of the Cubs, went out
land congratulated Miss Wood
’ ai d.
I Local persons attending the
contest were Manager Maultsby,
Mrs. J. P. Gill, mother of Miss
Woodard, Mrs. Ann Reed, Miss
Sarah Umstead, Mrs. * Mary
Maultsby, Mrs. IT. S. McGinty,
Calvert Crabtree and Miss
Claudia Cannada.
In tournament play the Cubs
lost their first game to the Burl
ington Warriors to move into'the
The Chapel Hill Weekly
100-yard backstroke and first in
both relays, Pat Chapman first
in both relays, and Ginger Ken
ney second in the 200-yard free
style and first in 'both relays.
In the 13-14-year-old boys;
class Monte Milner was second:
in the 200-yard freestyle, Minor
Davis was first in the 200-yard
individual medley relay and sec
ond iri the 100-yard freestyle,
Terry Stapleton came in second
‘in the 100-yard backstroke, and
j third in the 100-yard freestyle,
and Ed Kenney placed third in
'the 100-yard backstroke. These
four boys teamed together to
place third in their freestyle
relay event.
Among the 15-Di-year-olds Win;
Hall was first in the 50-yard
freestyle, first in the 200-yard |
freestyle, and second in the 100- 1
yard freestyle. Ben Crutchfield
placed first in the 400-yard free
style and third in the 50-yard
freestyle.
Avery and Win Hall art
brother and sister from Durham,
and ail the rest of the swimmers
are from Chapel Hill.
The team is coached by David
Howard of Dania, Fla., former
University swimming star who
is here for the summer.
Tennis Title Won
By Charles Shaffer
< harles Shaffer of Chapel Hill
won the boys’ singles title of
the Eastern Carolina Junior Ten
nis Championships in Durham
Saturday.
Young Shaffer defeated Reed
Nelson of Rocky Mount, 0-7, and
6-0. Then he teamed with Nelson;
to win the doubles honors by
whipping Fred Norman of Dur
ham and Blarney Tanner of
Rocky Mount, 7-5 and 6-4.
Brick Gettinger advanced to
the semi-finals of the tourna
ment.
• lower bracket of the double elim
i ination play. In their second
■ game, played last Wednesday,
i they were edged out of tourna
-1 ment play by the Camp Lejeune
• Marines.
i Because of poor attendance at
1 games played in the local Lions
■ Park the Cubs will play no more
home games in Carrboro this
| season, it was announced yester
day. Some games, however, will !
be scheduled in other towns.
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Maultsby Tries Out
With Toronto Team
; i
r Jack Maultsby of Chapel Hill,]
; former University football play
i er, is now trying out with the
' Toronto Argonauts of the Big
> Four Canadian Football League.
' Mr. Maultsby was granted his
requested release from the Los
( Angeles Rams, with which he
was practising, in order that he
; might go to Canada.
CHAPEL HILL. N. C., TUESDAY. JULY 31, 1956
Franz Polgar Will
Perform Thursday
Franz Polgar, world renown- j
ed hypnotist and a frequent per
former here in Chapel Hill, w ill I
present a show at H p in. Xhurs-!
(lay, August 2, in Memorial Hall,!
! Admission is free to everybody.
Sponsored by the University’s
Summer Activities Council, the'
.->how will feature a performance'
of telepathy, memory feats, and
hypnosis. Polgar, who last ap-i
peured on the University campus'
last fall, claims he is able *4
hypnotize a group of ten or twei)-|
ty volunteers chosen from the'
audience at random.
He then makes the hypnotized
volunteers do anything he wants
them to. In the past, he has made
jthem fall asleep at his command,
'shiver at his suggestion that it’s;
suddenly turned cold, and just
as swiftly perspire when he tells
'them it is unbearably hot. He
says he can walk down a line of
100 people and he introduced to
them, and then go back up the
line and identify every one of
them by name.
Polgar can make persons un
der his spell believe that a pair
of lensless glasses he puts on
them enables them to see
through clothing and other items,
lie ha s also been known to use
his mental process to find the
check for his performance after
it has been given to someone in
the audience.
Demorath to Join
St. Louis Faculty
Nicholas J Dernerath, who re
cently resigned from the faculty
of the University here, has been
appointed director of the newly
created Social Science Research
(enter at Washington Univer
sity in St. Louis, Missouri, and
will also serve as chairman of
the Sociology and Anthropology
Department there.
The new Research Center will
facilitate theoretical and applied
research by anthropologists, ec
onomists, political scientists,
psychologists, and sociologists.
Various professional schools, in
dustries, and community agen
cies will also participate in the
work of the new center.
Adams Will Preach
At Outdoor Service
i
Raymond W. Adams, Univer-j
sity professor of English, will;
preach at the Community
Church’s regular outdoor Sunday
morning worship service at 9:30
am. next Sunday, August 5, in
the Forest Theatre.
The service will be preceded by
a musical program to begin at
9:15. Those attending are asked
to approach and enter the the-i
atre quietly. If the weather is j
tainy the service will be held at
9:30 a.m. in Hill Music Hall.
Other guest preachers at the
Community Church’s services
this month will be Ram Ilesikan,
graduate assistant in the Uni
versity’s Department of Statis
tics, on August 12, and Preston
H. Epps, Kepan professor of
Greek at the University, on Au
gust 19. 1
N>w Boulevard
May Be \a moil
For Bov. I m*toail
The State Highway Com
mission tomorrow (Wednes
day) will be asked to name
the new Chapel Hill-Dur
ham dual lane highway the
I’mstead Memorial High
way in memory of the late
Governor William B. Um
stead.
The commission is now
considering two possible
highway projects as memor
ials to the Orange County
native. One is the bridge
now under construction over
Croatan Sound. The Second
is the highway in Durham
and Orange Counties.
Representatives of the
Durham Chamber of Com
merce will appear before the
commission with the re
quest.
The Chapel Hill Chamber
and the Orange County
Board of Commissioners;
have been invited to par
ticipate.
It is contended by those
favoring the Chapel Hill-
Durham highway as a me
morial that the recently
completed roadway is logi
cal for reasons that the late
governor was a native of
Orange County, attended
the University here, and
spent most of his life in
Durham.
Rainfall Is Heavy
In 48-Hour Period
Chapel Hill was soaked
by 1.54 inches of rain be
tween 6 p.m. Sunday and 8
' a.m. Monday, Weather Ob
! server Max 1). Saunders
reported yesterday.
,' That was the heaviest fall
> reported yesterday morning
to the weather information
gathering center at the Ral
l eigh-Durham Airport. Since
i .28 inches fell here between
8 a.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. 1
Sunday, the total fall
amounted to almost two;
inches in a 48-hour period.!
Miss Libby McDowell Did Fine Job of
Representing Chapel Hill in Pageant
“Although she didn’t win, Missl
l.ihby McDowell well represent
ed the town of Chapel Hill at
the state beauty pageant held
last weekend at Morehead City,”
according to Monk Jennings, who
escorted Mi s McDowell to the
contest.
Mr. Jennings said it was one
of the best pageants he’s seen
and that Miss McDowell “did a
terrific job of meeting contest
ants and other persons at the
tontest.” He said she spent a
lot of her time signing pro
grams and giving out autographs.
Miss McDowell, sponsored by
the local Jaycees, sang for her
talent presentation, “One Fine
Day” from the opera "Madame
Butterfly.” She was named
“Miss Chapel Hill of 1956” at a
local Jaycee-sponsored contest
last May.
She will appear in Durham
Saturday night on a “Boost the
Bulls” program sponsored by the
Durham Hulls professional base
ball team. Also appearing will be
several other girls who were in
the state contest, Miss Raleigh,
Miss Durham, Miss Henderson
and Miss Wake County. Miss
McDowell will alsp make several
Frank Graham on Visit
Frank P. Graham, former
president of the University here,
jcame to Chapel Hill from Nags
'Head, where he and his wife are
on vacation, over the weekend
to attend the funeral of Harry
Comer. He spent the weekend
with his sister, Mrs. Shipp San
ders. Mr. Graham visited friends
here in town and on the campus
and also visited ' some of his
friends who are ill at Memorial
Hospital. He went to Raleigh
and will speak today (Tuesday)
|at the opening session of the
'2Bth annual convention of the
American Institute of Coopera
tion. He will leave from Raleigh
| and return to Nags Head to
ijoif: his wife.
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Carrier Boy Wanted
1 The Weekly needs a carrier
boy in the Airport Road area.
Applicants for the job may call
9-1271 or 8461.
Chapel Mill Chuff ]
L. G.
From the President’s
health, which comes into
every conversation in these
days, we passed on to his
age, and then to the ages (
of past Presidents of the 1
United States and various
other persons in history. '
The timeliness to Chapel
Hill of the quest in which
the Trustees of the Uni
versity of North Carolina
are now engaged led us nat- ;
urally to the ages of the t
Presidents of the University, f
The fact that many fam- f
ous persons became famous r
when extremely young is.'
;something well known to t
everybody, but it always has 1
a fresh interest. It comes <
,to you always as a surprise, t
j somehow, to be reminded
lagain that this or that great j
statesman or military lead
er or writer or composer or i
artist was capable of such t
marvelous achievements sol
early in life; and so, too, you t
are surprised at the tri- (,
untphs in old age.
Mozart was a composer ‘
famous over Europe at 7,.
and Verdi’s last opera was <
. brought out (54 years after t
his first) when he was 80. 1
Napoleon had beaten the i
Austrians and ' was the <
world’s foremost soldier at <
28, and Hindetiburg was I
brought back from retire- i
meat at 67 to crush the Rus- <
sians at Tannenberg in 1914 t
and to be President of the;
German Republic for nine i
years till his death at 87.!
Keats died at 26 and Shelley,
at 30, and Tennyson lived to
83 and Wordsworth to 80. 1
England was amazed by;,
;William Pitt the Younger's']
becoming Chancellor of the <
; Exchequer at 23 and by J
i Gladstone’s returning to
power as Prime Minister at!]
| 77. Fielding, the father of i
i the English novel, died at,i
48, and Hardy, the last of 1
l the great Victorians, lived
' to 88. Van Dyck died at 42, 1
(Continued on Page 2)
I other appearances later, but
.Mr. Jennings said these were'
not definite yet. i
Other than Mr. and Mrs. Jen
'jnings, local persons attending the
•j pageant were John Cates, Roland
•.Giduz, Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Mc-
Clamroch, Collier Cobb 111, Miss
i; Joyce Bennett, Mr. and Mrs.
i Dick-Young, Mr. and Mrs. Bill
l| Hobbs ami Mrs. Bob Cox, wife
■j of the State president of the
Jay ceea. .
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'j Building and Loan Figures
j Executive Officer W. O. Spar
’ i row reported total assets of $3,-
' 470,000 to the directors of the
!; Orange County Building and
' Loan Association at their meet-
I ing Wednesday night, an in
i! crease of $32,000 in the last
• month. Deposits stood at $3,356,-
j 000 (increase, $74,000) and
J Loans at $3,166,300 (increase,
.$56,000). Dividends paid to.
. stockholders June 30 amounted
. to $53,990. The transfer to re
i serves was SIO,OOO.
More Polio Vaccinations Are Encouraged
i
] The importance of widespread!
immunization against polio has;
been emphasized by officials of';
the Medical Society of North';
Carolina, which is now jjpn- i
' gaged in an ail out effort to i
1 encourage the vaccinations, and |
the local program is coming i
along at an average rate, but j
more persons should be vaccin-|
ated, according to local Health :
Department officials.
‘ First, second and third doses
1 of the Salk vaccine are still i
I available at the local department .
for persons who are 13 years old ;
1 and younger and expectant mo- j
thers. The vaccinations are ad- i
' ministered here in Chapel Hill
; every Thursday and Friday as- :
ternoon from 1:30 to 4.
1 At latest report, Orange Coun
’ ty had only one case of polio, .
that of a 26-year-old woman of
Hillsboro. Local officials have'
constantly urged parents to :
• bring their children in for the
. vaccinations, and the drive is 1
I still on to get more and more ;
persons immunized to polio.
$4 a Year in County; other rates on page 2
Rep. Umstead Still Convinced I
Pearsall Plan Best. Deplores I
Use of Intemperate Language I
In a prepared statement for publication, Orange E
County Representative John W. Umstead said yester- fl
day (Monday) that he remained “convinced” the Pear- H
Town Plans Street
Widening Projects J
The firm of Gardner and '
Meir of Durham has finish- j
ed surveying in preparation
for drawing specifications!
for the widening of Rose-! 1
mary and Henderson Streets.
As soon as the specifica
tions are completed the'
Town of Chapel Hill will re-; 1
quest bids and it is hoped ]
that work can begin soon,;!
Town Manager Rose said !
yesterday.
Plans call for the widen- |
ing of Rosemary Street be- .
tween Columbia Street and
Henderson Street from 24
to 39 feet and the widening
of Henderson Street from
25 to 38 feet and opening ;
it to two-way traffic.
At the same time the
drive behind the Post Of
fice will be enlarged in order
that the highway post office
no w traveling between
Greensboro and Durham
may stop here. The availa
bility of this service will
mean earlier and more fre
quent mail delivery in Chap
el Hill.
Harry Thomas Wins j
Short Story Prize
The SSO third prize in the
12th Air Force's short story
contest in Europe was won by
First Lieutenant Harry J. Thom
as Jr., son of Mu. r *. R. Brooks
oi 100 East Ito*'Wiity Street.
The check was presented last
week by Colonel J. A. O’Leary,
chief of the Military Personnel
Division at the Headquarters of
the Air Material Command at!
the Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base in Ohio, where Lt. Thomas
is now stationed.
Lt. Thomas’s prize-winning
story, which was written while
he was stationed in Europe, won
third prize earlier this year in
a contest held at the Trier Air
Force Base in Germany.
Lt. Thomas is assigned to the
Central Procurement Financial
Division in the Office of the
Comptroller at the Air Material
Command.
White field Named
Duke News C hies
Clarence E. Whitefield of Dur
ham has been named director of
Duke University’s Bureau of!
! Public Information.
Mr. Whitefield is the husband
of Mrs. Jane Whitefield, execu
tive secretary of the Chapel Hill-
Carrboro Chamber of Commerce
and Merchants Association. He
is a graduate of the University
here and prior to taking the new
job was assistant city editor of
the Durham Morning Herald, j
Greens at Williamsburg
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Green are
at Williamsburg, Va., where Mr.
Green’s outdoor historical dra
ma. “The Common Glory,” is
being presented.
North Carolina’s heaviest pol
io period has been experienced
in August in a number of past
years, and the physicians of the
state are seeking to protect as
many children as possible against
polio, prior to any possible wide
spread outbreak of the disease
in the state. i
Failure of people to avail
themselves of the polio vaccina
tions has resulted in “North!
Carolina lagging in its
immunization program,” said Dr.
S. F. Ravenel, Greensboro, chair
man of the state society’s emer
gency poliomyelitis vaccine com
mittee.
“The polio vaccine is safe, ef
fective and is now available in
sizable quantities but is useless
unless injected. The physicians
of North Carolina urge every
parent in the state to make cer
tain that their child is vaccinated
immediately.
“Polio vaccinations NOW may
prevent paralysis and other dan
gers in August and September,"
!he aaid.
TUESDAY
ISSUE
Next Issue Friday
►sail Plan is “wise and for the ■
interests of the schools.” I
And he was keenly disap- I
pointed that both propon- I
ents and opponents of the I
P1 a n made intemperate I
statements at committee I
hearings of the special Gen- I
eral Assembly session last I
week. I
Mr. Umstead’s statement I
follows in full: I
“On bst Monday morn- I
ing before leaving for Ral- I
eigh to attend the Special I
Session of the Legislature I
as Representative from Or- I
ange County I gave the local I
papers a statement. I stated I
that 1 intended to support I
the Pearsall Plan unless the I
hearings should change my I
mind. I gave as my reason 1
for taking this stand that 9
1 favored some plan where- 1
lby the solution of the prob- j
lems confronting our pub- |
lie schools would be taken j
from the hands of the ex- j
tremists on both sides of I
the question and placed in |
hands that would seek a I
reasonable solution. |
“After listening to every j
word of the hearings for |
two long days and one night
session I was convinced that
my decision to support the
| Pearsall Plan was wise and
I for the best interests of the
'schools of the state. At
these hearings each and ev
ery citizen of the state was
given the time that he or
she requested for the pres
entation of their view-, and
up ; *woii/. this question.
Dur»ng these headings I
heard statements made by
both opponents and propon
ents of the plan that were
almost unbelievable.
i
“I heard a minister of the
gospel make the statement
‘the first root of this whole
proposal (the Pearsall Plan)
is hypocrisy, because it pre
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To Sing Old Poems
Here This Thursday
Verse by great English poets
will be sung, in operatic air*
and in balladry, by a special
group of singers for the 14th an
■ nual N. C. English Teachers As
sociation here at the Graham
Memwia! at 8 p.m. Thursday.
The public is invited. Verses
■ from Ben Jonson, Dryden, Yeats,
Swinburne and Matthew Arnold
will be sung.
Individual, duel and other
singers include Prof. Crastis D.
Williams, balladeer of Boone;
Mrs. Donna B. Patton, voice stu
dent at UNC; John H. Crabtree
and Richard Eaton of the De
partment of English at Chapel
; Hill; Mrs. Eaton, Mrs. Nora
Jane Throckmorton, and Herbert
Shellans.
, A special session in science
fiction will be led by Professors
J. O. Bailey ahd Norman Mattis
of UNC.
Eatons on Purefoy Road
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Eaton
are living on Purefoy Road while
both of them are working for
degrees at the University. Mr.
Eaton is a candidate for a Ph. D
degree in English. Mrs. Eaton, \
a graduate of Centre College
of Danville, Kentucky, is study-'
ing for a degree in library scien
ce. and is also doing part-time
work at the University Library.
I 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 6 p.m. and 7
p.m. of that day at 9-1271 or
8-461.
Chapel Millnote J
Two State Highway Patrol
cars “following too close”
while moving east on N. C.
Highway 54 early Monday
morning.
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This summer’s unusually
heavy population of June buys.