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FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday Vol. 32, No. 59 School's Gym May Be Built By September Os Next Year are essentially, com plete for the new $150,000 Chapel Hill High School gymnasium, and the con struction work is expected to begin soon. A call for bids will probably be issued next month. The gymnasium is expected to be completed by the beginning of school in 1957, according to Grey Culbreth, chairman of the local school board. The gymnasium will be built behind the present aud itorium and will seat around 900 persons, with addition al space in the balcony to add more seats if needed. It will include a regulation size basketball court, dressing rooms and shower rooms for boys and for girls, and fa cilities for badminton courts. The floor will also have two basketball practice courts running across the width of the gym. The building will be 85 feet by 102 feet. The boys’ dressing room will be be low the gym floor level and Ajl open directly onto the athletic field behind the building. The girls’ dressing room will be above the gym floor level at the rear of the balcony. The main floor of the building will be five feet above ground level. The new gymtorium at Lincoln High "School haa been inspected and approv ed, Mr. Culbreth said. Other building projects under way or being planned for the Chapel Hill schools include a $40,000 fire tower intsallation and renovation job at the Chapel Hill ele mentary school, which is ex pected to be ready when schools begin this fall. As a part of this job a new sewer line from the street in front the school is being laid co the new toilets that will be installed. Asphalt tile is being laid on top of two floors of the school. Floor tile is also being in stalled in one classroom wing and in toilets at the North side Elementary School, and drawings are now' being pre pared for a new six-class room wing to be built there. Hoped to be completed by the beginning of school next year is a new shop building at the Lincoln High School. A complete outside painting job has been done at Lin coln; and at the Glenwood Hl'inentary School the play ground behind the new class room wing is being enlarg ed. George Cutten to Preach This Sunday George B. Cutten, former pres ident of Colgate University, will preach at the 11 o’clock service Sunday, August 5, at the Chapel Hill Baptist Church. Assisting him will he the Rev, J. R. GreenJ a retired Baptist minister who was pastor of the Baptist Church in Drexel for several years. Both are members of the local church. On August ’l2 the Itev. Hu bert Mumford, Superintendent of Missions for the Yates Bap tists Association, will speak at the church’s 11 o’clock service. 1/ Lutheran Women’s Meeting The evening circle of the Unit ed Lutheran Church Women of Holy Trinity will meet at 8 p.m. Monday, August 6, at the home of Mrs. R. W. Bost at 218'/i Vance Street. Mrs. Bost will Jbe the hostess, and Mrs. John Herion will have charge of the program. Chapel MillnoteA Gardens and lawns making a come-back after rains that followed early summer drought. • * • Pat Snook, here from Char lotte, spreading cheer on Franklin Street. 5 Cents a Copy People Think Friday In the Man for llie Job William C. Friday, 36- year-old Acting President of jthe University of North Car olina, depicted above in a drawing by the Weekly’s :staff artist, William G. Man gum, holds the reins at a crucial time in the 161-year history of the institution. Many of its best teachers are leaving for higher pay elsewhere, its integration problem is far from solved, ia new Chancellor is needed at the Woman’s College in Greensboro and a new one will be needed here next year, and the prospect *f greatly increased enroll ments in all three branches of the University faces it with the necessity of costly physical expansion. | Mr. Friday was appointed Acting President of the Con solidated University last March to succeed J. Harris Purks, who had been Act ing President since the de parture of former President Gordon Gray. There is a strong feeling in Chapel Hill, and seemingly throughout the state, that he has made an excellent Acting Presi dent and that the University, Trustees need look no furth-j er for a capable full-time President. From remarks heard here on the street and at social gatherings, and from editorials and articles in the daily papers, it is evident that faculty mem bers and men who reflect public opinion in North Carolina think Bill Friday is the man to take on the problems now confronting the University. Mr. Friday, a vigorous and tireless worker, has been making an all-out effort to secure increased appropria tions to permit the Univer sity to preserve the high caliber of its faculty. At the meeting of the Trustees in May and at appearances 'since then throughout the Stancell Will Head Annual ‘Gold Rush’ Charles Stancell will be co ordinator of the annual Boy Scout “Gold Rush” this year, it was announced at the weekly meeting of the Exchange Club at Brady’s Tuesday night. The date of the event will be October 6 and it will be held on a site west of University Lake. Other chairmen and committees named for the “Gold Rush” are: Promotion—W hid Powell, chairman, Dr. D. M. Getsinger and Jack Golden; grounds— George Cannefax, chairman, Coy Durham, Bill Blake, Lester Foley, John Webb, Wallace Williams, Dennis Williams, George Poe, James Neighbours, Bill Ray, and J. C. Parsons; judging—Herb Holland, chairman, Bill Tyler, Pat Pope, and Nello Clark; and The Chapel Hill Weekly state he has strongly point ed out that something must be done to raise faculty sal aries in order that the Uni versity may keep the good men it has and obtain the services of others it needs. It is known' that he is mak ing every effort to get the next session of the Legisla ture to recognize this prob em and make additional appropriations that are nec essary if faculty salaries are to be raised. Beginning in 1951 Mr. 1 Friday served as assistant to President Gray and later as Secretary of the Consoli dated University. For three years prior to 1951 he was assistant dean of students at the University here. Reared in Dallas, N. C„ Mr. Friday attended Wake Forest College in ’37-38 and was graduated from State College in 1911 with a B.S.‘ Community-Wide Understanding Makes Chapel Hill Inviting Place , House Says “There is less ‘town’ and ‘gown’ feeling in Chapel Hill .than in any other college community I know,” Uni versity Chancellor It. B. House told the Chapel Hill Kiwanis Club at its weekly meeting Tuesday night at the Carolina Inn. Speaking on the future of Hill and the Univer sity, the chancellor declared that "the understanding which exists between the University and the business people of the community has I made a great contribution toward Carolina growing in a wholesome way an<j Chapel Hill remaining a charming, inviting, and healthy' place to live.” The chancellor said that “the Chapel Hill of the fu ture would certainly be a city, but it would continue to look like a village. Such awards, Dick Young, chairman, Rev. John Weidinger, Doug Yates, Skinny Carroll, WWtjts Poe, Vernon Lacock, Dr. L. L. Vine, and H. M. Vandivere. 'I he Coateses’ Trip to Michigan Mr. and Mrs. Albert Coates come home Tuesday from a trip to Mackinac Island, Michigan, where Mr. Coates went to deliver an address on the Institute of Government at the national con vention of the Michigan Associa tion of Prosecuting Attorneys. They traveled by air. Returning they flew from Detroit to Wash ington on one of the Capital Line’s new jet-type Viscount planes. It made the flight be tween the two cities in about two and a half hours. CHAPEL HILL, N. C. ( FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1956 degree. He entered the Uni versity’s Law School in 1911. received his LL.B. de gree in 1948, and passed the State Bar the same year. At State College he was presi dent of the senior class, pres ident of the North Carolina Federation of Student Gov ernments, and a member of the Golden Chain. Here at Carolina he was president of, the Law School Association! and a member of the Golden Fleece, highest honor or ganization among U.N.C. students. In World War II he served in the Navy from 1 1942 to 1946 as a lieuten-j ant, senior grade. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Latham j Friday of Dallas, is a mem ber of the Baptist Church,! and is maried to the former Miss Ida Willa Howell of Lumberton. They have one daughter, Frances, born in 11952. an atmosphere will make it an ideal place to live, work and study. “There will probably be 10,000 to 15,000 students in the University during the next 10 years. It takes a whole lot of University to take care of the four and one-half million citizens of our state. “There will have to be a great building program to take care of our increased needs. At present there is a shortage of proper housing and classroom space. To build these new facilities, the University must look not only to the .State but also to private sources for needed financing.* Chancellor House said that 20 per cent of the present student body was composed of married students. “This has brought about," he said, “more demands for apart ments and other small hous ing units. The University has an obligation to these students.” Along with the increased en rollment and to take care of the present enrollment there is a : need for additional teachers, ex plained the chancellor. Also there is a great need for an increase in the present salary scale. During his talk Mr. House dwelled a moment on the Con solidated University and pre dicted it would continue to ex ist for many years to come, He also said he felt something should be done whereby High way 15 (which now lies between the Carolina Inn and the cam pus) would be moved to by pass Chapel Hill. ' Business Upsurge Is lining Felt ■n ttrange County Regardless of opinions to 1 the contrary. Orange County j business during June of this year was better than in ; June of 1955, and even ex jceeded May of this year. Reports of sales tax col lections by the N. C. De partment of Revenue sup port that. Sales tax collections in Orange County in June of this year amounted to $38,- 43/7,60, which was $6,971 gfeater than the correspond ing month last year. June’s receipts were also $1,557.63 greater than the total collec tions of $36,879.97 in May of this year. . Mermen Discuss Parking Problems * The Chapel Hill Board of Al dermen, meeting Wednesday as a j committee of the whole, observ jed and discussed the parking problem on Franklin Street and also inspected other streets and roads. , ‘ The committee made a tour of the various sections of the town that have had parking or traffic problems, including the Raleigh j Road in front of Woollen Gym nasium at the traffic light. The | aldermen discussed the possibility of putting traffic lanes at this intersection to ease the flow of traffic. The recommendations of the] Aldermen will be presented at the Board’s meeting on August 13 in the Town Hall. The Board ' also inspected Penick Lane with the possibility of taking it over for town maintainance, looked over drainage off Tenney Circle, and inspected road conditions on Roosevelt Drive and Briarbridge Road. Dashiell* Take Trip Mr. and Mrs. John F. Dashiell have returned from a trip during which they visited Mrs. Dashiell’s son-in-law ami daughter, Dr. and' Mrs. I). W MacKelcan, in Wil. mington, Delaware, and Mr. Dashiell’s son and daughter-in law, Mr. ami Mrs. Dick Dashiell. in Washington, I*. C. Accompan ied by their ten-year-old grand daughter Mary Lee MacKelcan,' the John Dashiells went from Wilmington to Rochester, N. Y..,| and Niagara Falls, N. Y. Mary Lee came with them to Chapel Hill, spent a few days here, and; flew home to Wilmington last 1 Saturday. Greulachs in Virginia Mr. and Mrs. Victor Greulach and two of their daughters, Su san and Vicki, are at Mountain Lake, Va., where Mr. Greulach is on the staff of the University of Virginia’s biological station.' Knights of Pythias Urge Drivers to Observe Rules of Safety —Photo by BUI Prouty The Knights of Pythias are sponsoring “Highway Courtesy Month” in Orange and Durham Counties during August. ' This week Mayors OHie Corn well of Chapel Hill, second from Heft above, and R. B. Todd of Carrboro, fourth from left, is sued a joint proclamation urging “all people to cooperate with the Knights of Pythias in this wor thy project.” Representing Da mon Lodge No. 97 of Chapel Chapel Mill Chaff L. G. ; When Mrs. Gordon Ed wards (the former Miss An gela McCaull), sister-in-law of William I). Carmichael 1 and aunt of University Vice- President William D. Car michael, Jr., was at the Car olina Inn last winter I used to hear her talk of the happy voyages she had made on the Andrea Doria. It was her favorite of all the ves sels she had traveled on., Because it was completely booked up she couldn't get passage on it for her return to Europe this year, but when she left here in April she was still cherishing a forlorn hope that somebody would cancel and so give her a spot aboard, i Since this was now’ made impossible by the sinking, 1 and since she had been un able to get passage on any other ship, l wrote her 1 hoped she would come back to Chapel Hill. As a lure I told her of the air-condition ing of the sleeping rooms in the Inn. But in her reply she! said she couldn’t come. “I’m so distressed by the tragedy of the Andrea Dor ia,” she wrote. "1 loved the boat and feel deep sympathy for the captain and officers, whom I had come to know. “Staterom No. 56, that |was in the line of the col-! lision, was mine the last| time 1 came over. This was the room in which a woman from Montclair, New Jersey, was killed. “My bags are a necrology of ships. I have tags of the Normandie, which burned in: our port; the Paris, that sank at Le Havre; and now . the Andrea Doria. That No. 56 staring at me is like a monument. “I still have no passage. Perhaps there will now be cancellations, but the 1,100 people who were to sail to day on the Andrea Doria must be taken care of. (Continued on Page 2) - Iveys Going to Beach Mi. and Mrs. Pete Ivey and ;their daughter Helene will go to; Atlantic Beach next Monday for 'a week Sally, their older daugh ter, is at Rogers at Roaring Gap. Going to the Mountains Charles Mungum and his cous in, Bill Manguni, will drive to Little Switzerland today to be the weekend guests of Mrs. Kent Brown. Hill and Carrboro directing the "Courtesy Month” are also Les ter Foley, above left, vice-ehan jcellor of the lodge, and James Allen, middle, and Ralph Mor gan, extreme right, mambers of | ihe lodge. Mr. Foley and Eugene Laws of Hillsboro lodge are also mem bers of the Orange-Uurham dis-J ■ trict safety committee which I the motor vehicle , check points to be maintained $4 a Year in County; other rates on page 2 16-Unit Apartment House Is Started on Hillsboro Street; July Permits to Build Soar Preparations for erecting a 16-unit apartment house in the -100 block of Hillsboro Street were started this week by Chapel Hill Apartments, Inc. Hill Sloan Named To School Hoard William L. Sloan, prominent Chapel Hill business man. has been appointed to the Chapel j , Hill School Board to serve the unexpired term of Carl Smith, who has reaigned. Mr. Sloan ia the owner of (he Sloan Drug Company and a director of the t nversity National Bank. He ia a grad uate of the Chapel Hill and Hillsboro Schools and the Uni versity here. He is a past presi dent of the local Jaycees and a former treasurer of the Ro tary Club, of which he is an active member. - Mr. Sloan will be sworn in at the August meeting of the board Monday night at the High School Library at 8 o'clock. New NROTC Head Reports for Duty Captain Alexander McLeod j Patterson, US.N, new commander !of the Naval KOTO here, is scheduled to report for duty this week. Capt. Patterson succeeds Col. | Robert Carter Burns who has I been named chief of staff of the Second Marine Division at Camp Lejeune. Col. Burns was jthe first Marine officer to com 'mand the University of North Carolina Naval ROTC unit. Capt. Patterson is a naval officer. Capt. Patterson is married to the former Miss Mary Mcßryde of Raeford. They have one daugh ter. Visiting in Maine Mrs. Phil Green and her chil dren left yesterday for a visit to her father in V.nine, while Mr. Green, who is a major in the Army Reserves, is on ac tive duty at Fort Jackkson, S. C. Parties for Visitors Mr. and Mrs. Le.e Brooks, former Chapel Hillians now liv ing m California, were honored at several social events during their recent visit here. These in cluded a small party given by Miss Katharine Jocher at her home on Pittsboro Street and an I open house at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Hill. In N. Y. Bridge Tourney Mr. and Mrs. Vic Huggins of Chapel Hill and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smith of Cincinnati, Ohio, formerly of Chapel Hill, are among participants in the Mas -1 ters Pairs, Flight B of the Sum mer National Bridge Tourna ment now being held in New i York. • on principal highways in the two county district, including N. C. -1 54 west of Carrboro. i; The proclamation issued by • Mayors Cornwell and Todd fol ' lows: I “Whereas, traffic accidents II with their toll of deaths and in • juries continue at an alarming rate while the number of motor • vehicles is increasing, and re -1 cent exhaustive' studies of facts I (Continued on Page 8) FRIDAY ISSUE Next Lmhm Tuesday * The $85,900 structure I boosted total building per mits in Chapel Hill and vi jcinity for July to $294,022, ‘an increase of $43,510 over June. Incorporators of the firm building the apartments in clude Collier Cobb Jr. and Jerry Hudson, both of Chap el Hill. Davis and Safran of Raleigh are the contractors, - and grading on the two story structure was started this week. Included in it wil be 16 apartments of bed room, living room, kitchen, dinette and bath. The struc ture will be on Windy Hill at 106 to 410 Hillsboro Street Three small houses have been razed to make way for jt. Other permits issued in July: T. M. Danziger, SI,OOO, alter res taurant on Airport Road; D. B. McLennon, $2,000, alter service station on Highway 15-501, alter , office building on 15-501, and $5,000, alter restaurant on 15-501; !F. E. Strowd, $2,000, repair dwelling at 111 Pittsboro Street; IMrs. James Simmons, $292, in stall electric fan at 756 Christo pher Road; T. W. Gardner, $3,- 800, erect service st ition at by pass bridge adjoining Highway 16 and 501; Mrs. Burr Simmons, SBOO, extend dwelling at 534 Dogwood Drive; M. Z. Ronman, S6OO, extend residence at 107 Stephens Street; George Cobb, $3,000, extend residence at 101 Rogerson Drive; Walter Jones, S2OO, extend dwell ing at corner of Rosemary and Sunset Drive; Chi Omega Soror ity, $6,000, alter dwelling at 307 E. Franklin Street; Glen Lennox, $17,000, erect dwelling at 235 lrie*»mgtoa Road; 0. R. Kofceete, $9,500, erect dwelling on Dick erson Avenue, $20,000, erect twin duplex dwelling on North Columbia Street, $16,000, erect two dwellings on North Columbia, and $7,500, erect dwelling ton North Columbia; Warren Rose, $16,500, erect dwelling in Colon ial Heights; Mrs. Katherine M. Fitch, $14,- 000, erect dwelling on Noble Street; Willie Hargraves, SBSO, repair dwelling at 108 Caldwell Street; Edwin Caldwell, $14,000, erect dwelling on Caldwell Street; Ralph McCallister, $17,000, erect dwelling on Morgan Creek Road; O. K. Cloninger, $30,000, erect commercial garage on Durham Highway; John Golden, $3,000, extend dwelling on Stage Coach Road; and Delta Upsilon Fra ternity, $1,280, repair dwelling at 407 E. Rosemary Street. Jaycees Winding Up Recreation Petition Within the next cjouple of weeks, the Chapel Hill Jaycees hope to complete their petition for a county-wide referendum on their long-pending mammoth recreation project. Dr. J. Kempton Jones, chair man of the Jaycee recreation committee, said this week that not all of the petitions being circulated by other Jaycees have been Turned in so that a count can be made of the names. He hopes, when they are turned in, they will contain the required 1,100 signatures so that the pe titions may be carried to the Orange County Board of Com missioners at its September meeting. That way the referen dum could be held at the time of the November general election. The Jaycees hope for favorable approval by the people of Or ange County of a projected ref erendum providing for a $250,006 center on the Brown property southwest of town to be built, operated, and maintained by special taxes not exceeding lOe per SIOO valuation. “We are most anxious,” Dr. Jones said, “to enlarge the scope of the project so that it will be representative not only of the Jaycees but also the community lat large.” At Memorial Hospital Local persons listed as patients at Memorial Hospital yesterday were Y. Z. Cannon, Mrs. Mary Gemmell, W. D. Harrell, Miss Betty Mae Hopkins, Mrs. J. H. . Hinson, Miss Ann Lacock, Green Lloyd, Mrs. C. T. McDonald, John Neville, W. D. Neville, Mrs. Tom Strowd, Mrs. Henry Wagstaff, Eddie Womble, sad Miss Kathy Wilson.
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