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TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday Vol. 32, No. 60 Institute of Government Will Move This Week into Its New Building on the Raleigh Road The Institute of Govern-'’ rnent will move from its ®kst Franklin Street build-! ing to its new home at the corner of Raleigh and Coun-| try Club Roads the last of this week. Already the new furniture is being installed in the handsome brick structure, and University Buildings Superintendent J. S. Ben nett said yesterday “only a few odds and ends remain to be cleaned up oefore the personnel will r ove in.” The West Frankin Street building, which will be va cated by the Institute, has been set aside as offices for officials of the Consolidated University, who would be moved from South Building, Kxtensivo renovations will be necessary, however, be fore the Consolidated Of fices can be moved, it was said. At the same time Mr. Ben nett said that bids for the new Ackland Museum will be opened August 14, and that architects drawings for the new men’s dormitories Sri addition to Spencer Hall will be completed in about 30 days. All of the Institute of Government operations will have headquarters in the new structure. It also con tains dormitory space that will accommodate 120 per sons. The State Highway Patrol School personnel were to have been quartered in it last week, but were housed in Winston dormitory pend ing final completion and cleaning un of the budding. It is expected that students attending the Wildlife School, to be held by the In stitute here next week, will be quartered in the new building. J&itterson Talks to Educational Group J. C. Sitterson, dean of the University’s College of Arts and Sciences, was the guest speaker Thursday evening at the final summer meeting of the Phi Delta Kappa, honorary educational fra ternity. His topic was scholar ship. He said that a “scholar and a teacher each is a person who takes joy in "communicating knowledge to others.” Thirteen new members were welcomed into the organization by the chapter's president, Ben E. Fountain Jr. At Memorial Hospital Local persons listed as patients Memorial Hospital yesterday were Miss Donna Ballenger, R. W. Barker, Y. Z. Cannon, Mrs. Ossie Durham, M. M. Eid, Miss Kath leen Goldie-Smith, Mrs. H. T. Goulson, Mrs. Ann C. Hansen, Mrs. J. H. Hinson, Betty Mae Hopkins, Dr. Phillip Johnson, Miss Anne Lacock, Mrs. K. B. Lewis, N. G. Lloyd, W. E. Mer ritt, J. N. Neville, W. D. Neville, and Carl Nunn. Henders(on in Life Archibald Henderson of Chap el Hill is featured in a picture in last week’s issue of Life Mag azine. The picture was in con nection with Mr. Henderson’s address at the Bernard Shaw Centennial celebration in Chica go week before last. Water Tank Bought The University has purchased «ie million-dollar water tank it ill erect behind Kenan Stadium next spring. It was bought from the Chicago Bridge and Iron Co., world’s biggest dealers in tanks. Dollar Days Dollar Days will be held in Chapel Hill and Carrboro Au gust 17-18, it has been an nounced by the Trade Promo tion Committee of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants As sociation. This will be the second an nual sal|s event during the summer months. Moyle Johnson of Johnson- Strowd Ward Furniture Co. will be chairman of the promo tion. 5 Cents a Copy Air-Conditioning in Half of Inn Rooms The Carolina Inn will he ! completely air-conditioned in about another month. Cool air was turned into about half of the rooms last week, giving guests some re lief from summer heat. It is expected that the installation will he completed in another three or four weeks. The job has been underway for some time. It had been hoped that the Inn would be air-conditioned by last com mencement, hut that hope was in vain. Now, however, com pletion of the job is in sight. Selden Will Talk On Outdoor Drama I ■ j Samuel Selden, head of the University’s drama department and a national authority on the pioducton of symphonic drama, | will give a public talk on “Out door Drama in America” at 10:30 a m. today (Tuesday) in the Play makers Theatre. Everybody is invited and admission is free. I This summer Mr. Selden is di recting Paul Green’s latest sym phonic drama, "W ilder ne s s j Road,” now in its second season at Berea, Kentucky. As special I arjviser to most of the outdoor I productions in the East, he is at I present making the rounds of j these* attractions and is here in , ( hapel Hill two or three days ' for meetings with University j drama students and staff mem jbers who are engaged in Play maker activities this summer un der the direction of his asso ciate John W. Parker. About 100 students, including 50 selected Junior Playmakers from 14 states, are enrolled in the University’s Drama Depart ment this summer. Tri-Delta Alumnae Name Local Woman Mrs. William P. Richardson of Chapel Hill has been elected na tional vice-president of Delta Delta Delta social fraternity. Mrs. Richardson, wife of the Assistant Dean in Charge of Continuation Education at the .University Medical School, was j elected at the 68th Anniversary Convention held recently in C'or jOiiada, Calif. As Alumnae Vice President, Mrs. Richardson will supervise the activities of more I than 250 Tri Delta Alumnae j Chapters in the United States, i Canada, and Hawaii. | M rs. Richardson is very ac tive in community life. She plays a leading role in the State | Medical Auxiliary, serving as vice president last year. She is an active Gray Lady at Memor ial Hospital and is a member of the Chapel Hill Garden Club. Delta Delta Delta is an inter national collegiate fraternity for women founded in 1888. The or ganization now comprises 99 ccllegiate chapters and over 250 alumnae chapters. Both the Uni versity of North Carolina and Duke University have collegiate i chapters. Vacationing at Topsail Mr. and Mrs. Bud Perry, and Mr. and Mrs. Reid Suggs of Chapel Hill and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Perry, now of Lumberton, are spending this week at the H. A. Whitfield cottage at Topsail Beach. Four One-Act Plays to Be Given This Thursday, Friday in Campus Theatre The Carolina Piaymakers will present a bill of four student written, one-act plays at 7:30 p.nri. Thursday and Friday, Au gust 9 and 10, in the Piaymakers Theatre. Admission is free and everybody is invited. The plays were written in Professor John W. Parker’s play writing class in the first term of the University’s Summer Session and are being produced under his supervision with the assistance of Miss Josephine Niggli, Chapel Hill novelist and playwright. They include “Chil dren of the Earth,” a Mexican folk play by Robert Chase of Boston, Mass.; “Unlabeled,” a comedy of post-war Germany by Lore Schuller of Wadesboro; “Waiting Room,” a domestic tra gedy by Ruth Young of Salis bury, and “Miss Carrie," a come dy of modern education by Kit Lee Singleton of Florence, S. C. The Chapel Hill Weekly Weekly’s Founder Celebrates His T.*lrd Birthday -•mbsb .. %£ _ x warn If r’Mly. .m » -IW-. fc-yMT* isHK • ,< - jBB. y/ * '• ‘ r -'* ' « '* Yesterday was the 7.’)rd birthday of the Weekly’s founder and contributing editor, Louis (.raves, shown above at the gateway of his home on Battle Lane Perhaps the headline over the picture is inaccurate, since Mr. Graves never wants his birthday celebrated. Yester day was just a quiet day at home for him and Mrs. Graves. When told we were planning to run a story about him today he indicated he w ould prefer not. “But if it pleases you to do so, go ahead,’’ he said. By Joe Jones Louis Graves was 73 years old yesterday. 1 huve known him for about 30 of those 73 years. As a journalism student here in the late twenties I did some part time work for him on the Weekly, and when 1 was passing through Chapel Hill in April of 1935 1 dropped by the Weekly office to say hello to him. “I’ve been wondering where you were,” he said. “The paper is getting too big for me to run by myself. How about helping me?” I said all right and set my suitcase down in a comer of the 1 office and went out to do a story> on the national convention of chemists then in session at the University. It is a move I have never regretted. Except for three years in the Army in the Second World War, I have been working for Mr. Graves just about ever since. I don’t see how anybody could, have a better boss. He’s u stick ler for the right use of words, International President Will Install Lloyd Senter in Lions Post Thursday Lloyd Senter of Carrboro will ( be signally honored Thursday night when he is installed as dis trict governor of Lions Interna tional by the International Pres ident John L. Stiekley of Char lotte. So far as is known, this will he the first time that a local civic club leader has been formal ly inducted by an international president. Approximately 400 Lions of Carrboro, District 31-G, and the state as well as distinguished guests and their ladies are ex pected to attend the installation banquet at Lenoir Hall, begin ning at 7 p.m. j Actors in the four plays are i Paddy Ryan, Elizabeth Dixon, Kit Lee Singleton, Pat Healy, Sally Siegel, Lewis Ennis, Ruth Young, Dwight Hunsucker. Carol I Ann Corson, Barbara Nalven, IJames Poteat, Sally Pickett, Jim Potter, Paul McCauley Jr., Myra ! Lauterer, Catherine Langston, Suzanne Walker, Beth St. Clair, Jack Wernette, and Josephine Stipe. The sets are being designed by Millie Messick of Greensboro and the costumes by Barbara Bounds of Chapel Hill. Railroad Financing Book A book on railroad financing, written by John T. O’Neil, asso ciate professor of finance at the University School of Business Administration, was published last week by the Harvard Uni ‘versity Press. CHAPEL HILL, N. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 7. 1956 land thut’s the only subject we’ve ever had any arguments about. One I remember concerned the word vixen. It was years ago when Mr. and Mrs. Clark Marsh 1 owned a pet fox that often hung out in their cleaning estabish rnen across the street from the Post Office. One day some dog. got after the fox and chased it up Franklin Street and cornered) it under a hedge in the yard ofj the Methodist Church. In a story: I wrote about the chase I re- 1 ferred to the fox as a vixen, 1 isince it was a female. Mr. Graves 'struck the word out. “The die-! jtionary may say a female fox iis a vixen,” he said, “hut I doubt if many of our readers: know it. They are more likely to think of a vixen as a shrewish | woman.” I disagreed but the word stayed deleted. The Week-! ly’s readers, not its writers, have always come first with Mr.' Graves. Another disagreement was about got and gotten. In a story I used the form, “He had gotten ! international President Stick ley will be presented for an ad dress by Dr. Fred Isaacs of Dur ham. The Carrboro Lions Club, ofj which Mr. Senter is a member, is| host for the event. President James L. Perry will preside, and the Rev. Paul Edwards, pastor of Carrboro Methodist Church,' will be toastmaster. Mayor R. 8.l Todd of Carrboro will give the welcome, and the response will be by International Counselor' George Cherry of Charlotte. Thej invocation will be pronounced by the Rev. Henry B. Stokes, pastor of Carrboro Baptist Church. Among the guests will be Act ing University President W. C. Friday. After his installation, District Governor Senter will recognize district officers, including Ber nard Whitefield of Carrboro, dis trict secretary-treasurer, and Paul Carr of Hillsboro, a deputy 1 district governor. Doris Betts Gives Talkk Mrs. Doris Betts, Chapel Hill novelist, short-story writer, and 'housewife, went to Durham last • Friday to speak at a session of ,the summer conference of the North Carolina English Teach ers Association. She spoke on creative writing among high school students. The session was jheld at Duke University. Property Purchased The Hospital Saving Associa-j tion has purchased the M. J. Bright store and property adja-j cent to the association’s build-j ing on We3t Franklin Street.' Possession, will be taken about' September 1. The association j .plans to erect a building for ad-j j ditional office space on the site. .such and such." Mr. Graves! changed it to "He had got.” I ’'said that sounded awkward to me ’and that I preferred not to have i it appear under my name. Mr. Graves replied that gotten was in bad repute and that most good writers and speakers used got. When I remained unmollified he i#t the gotten stand. I have since | come to soe it his way and now I much prefer got. As everybody who has followed the Weekly knows, Mr. Graves is a man who says what he thinks jand will not be coerced into j saying anything else. More than jonce I have heard his side of a . telephone conversation with a I reader who has called to object lto something he has written or to ask him to write something he didn’t want to. In such a com j versation he was always gentle polite unless persistently pressed at great length and then ihe was likely to say, "It’s my 1 paper and I’ll write it as I damn please,” and hang up the receiver. Mr. Graves founded the Week ly in 1923 and, with the excep-j tion of so iqe help from Mrs.! 'Graves in its early years, ran; it practically singlehanded till 1935. Ever since it began, he has made it a powerful force in the community. A local politician recently said to me when we were , talking about former times in j Chapel Hill: “When Louis Graves came out in favor of a candidate in the pages of the Weekly it was worth 500 votes. Sometimes he j would go right down the list of candidates, naming the men he thought best qualified to he elect ed. Many people snort at the idea iof being told how to vote, and it i used to surprise me to see voters streaming to the polls with clip pings of Mr. Graves' list in their hands. They really trusted his judgement.” Mr. Graves not only put force into the Weekly but also the casual charm and grace of Chapel! Hill. He endeared the town andj the paper to newspapermen and l other people in many parts of the 1 .nation. “What this country needs is more newspapers like the Chap el Hill Weekly,” said the New] York Herald Tribune on its edi torial. page. Similar sentiments have appeared in many other daily papers in various states. I Mr. Graves was born and brought up in Chapel Hill, the I son of a University professor of I mathematics. As a young man he served as an infantry captain in France *ln World War I and! spent some years in New York as a reporter on the New Times. He also did free-lance magazine writing". His stories; and articles were published in 'Harper’s and the Atlantic Month ly, and one of the most cele j orated short stories ever pub dished in the Saturday Evening 'Post was his "Pig Bristle Slug ger,” a humorous baseball story. For many years after its appear ance, the Post received queries (Continued on Page 8) Chapel Mill ChaH J. J. Scotty Hill says he's met his match. Piscatorial match, that is. A former professional box er with a highly competitive spirit. Scotty is not one to bow to anybody in any field without a struggle. Rut he freely admits he was out fished the other day on an excur si o n to Currituck Sound. The angler who best ed him was has nine-year-old son, Lester. “That boy has got me beat," Scotty said, “lie caught a string of white perch and a five-pound bass while I wasn’t catching a! thing. 1 was tired from driv-j ing down there from Chapel 1 Hill and wasn't as alert as l might have been. That’s the only excuse I can give for mv bad luck. j “Lester was pulling them in right and left. What’s more, he caught that big bass on only half a min now. A daggone crab had cut his bait in two and taken the other half. I’ve fished and held my own with the best fishermen in Chapel Hill—Brody Clark, Keck Boone, Obie Davis, and the others—but Lester has got! me beat. He caught all those perch and bass while Sybil and I weren’t catching a thing.” (Sybil is Mrs. Hill, Les ter’s mother.) The opinion here is that although Lester may out fish his father, he is not likely to excell him in the tall tale department. "A fellow was telling me he was having no luck fish ing out at the lake when he saw a young rabbit sitting on the bank,” Scotty said. “Just for practice, he cast his plug beyond the rabbit and jerked it back, snag ging the rabbit on one of the hooks. But he jerked too hard and the rabbit flew clean over the boat and land (Continued on Page 2) Cecil S. Johnson Back From Europe Cecil S. Johnson, professor of history at the University, has been a guest of the Secretary of the Navy aboard the heavy cruis er U. S. S. Macon for the past month. He arrived at Norfolk last ,week aboard the cruiser which | disembarked a group of midship men who had been on a training cruise. Mr. Johnson boarded the Ma con during the ship’s visit to Hamburg, Germany, in early July. A Businessman’s Approach Greater, More Efficient Use of School Facilities Is Aim Os Board Member Bill Sloan; Sees No Integration Problem By Charlie Robson William L. Sloan is a Chapel Hill businessman, and he is look ing at his newly-accepted res ponsibility as a member of the school board from a good busi ness point of view. As a businessman Bill Sloan is | primarily interested in the fin ancial side of public school prob lems. He thinks the major prob lem for schools lies in facilities and their proper use. Mr. Sloan suggests that better use of school facilities could be made so that less money would be spent for new buildings and classrooms. “The school building is used six hours a day, five days a week, nine months a year,” he said, “and the rest of the time it lies vacant.” This just doesn’t seem like good business to him. He’d like to see some arrange ment made whereby the schools got more out of the facilities they already have and sees very little reason why it wouldn’t be advantageous to hold school six days a week and maybe ten or eleven months out of the year, and possibly on a two-shift bas is. V This plan, he said, might also make it possible to give more and better instruction to more pupils with less teachers. “A $4 a Year in County; other rates on page 2 Housing Situation Is Serious As University Expects More Than 7,000 Students in Fall Assumes Duties - |yJflPr jSfS iffi dMf&te MBm DR. S. It. ALEXANDER Dr. Sydenham B. Alexander has! assumed his new position as as sistant administrator of the Uni versity Division of Health Af fairs. The UN'U Division of Health Affairs includes the Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, 1 Pharmacy and Public Health, as well as North Carolina Memorial Hospital. This is a new position that has, not been filled before. Dr. Alex ander was appointed in June af ter serving as associate physi-j cian in the UNC Infirmary for the past seven years. He also is assistant clinical professor in the UNC School of Medicine. Postal Receipts Here Show Gain Receipts at Chapel Hill Post Office during the first 28-day reporting period of 1956-57 to taled $17,158.25, Postmaster Paul Cheek announced yester day. The business was a gain of almost three percent over $16,- 662 which was reported for the corresponding period of 1955. Since the U. S. Post Office Department went on a com pletely revised 13-period book keeping system as of July 1 this year, its so-called month now is composed of 28 days, and all records are kept on that basis. A Meek at the Beach Mr. and Mrs. Moyle Johnson and their daughter Rebecca, ae jcompanied by Judy Ferguson of .Chapel Hill and Mrs. Johnson’s 1 brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. James B. McDonald and their sons, Jim and John, from Elon College, spent last week in a seaside cottage at , Ocean Drive Beach, S. C. They I came home yesterday. Returns to California John Scott Trotter returned to California last week after hav ing been here some time at the | tourist home he owns next door jto the Chapel Hill Elementary | School on West Franklin Street. §rl" HE* Jtk BILL SLOAN teacher would be able to make a decent living the whole year in stead of only nine months,” he said. He commented, that there were plenty of people who might have wanted to go into teach ing, including himself, but they simply couldn’t live and raise a family on a job that paid only nine mpnths a year and the schools couldn’t afford to pay much more. If the school year TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday > With the University’s Fall semester only six weeks jawa.v, the housing and en rollment picture is this: 1. More than 7,000 stu dents will be enrolled. There will be a slight increase in the number of freshmen and possibly an increase in the number of transfer students. 2. As of August 1, every one of the 3,010 spaces in ! men’s dormitories were fill led, and 86 names were on the | waiting list. Ail women’s dormitories were filled too. 3. There will be three stu jdents including medical, j dental, and law—in every dormitory room except Con !nor, Winston, Joyner, and Cobb. Basements will be used | temporarily to accommodate the overflow. ! 4. The demand for hous ing for married students is ;greater than it ever has been in the history-of the Univer sity. It takes just about a year on the waiting list to get into Victory Village. That just about sums up the situation. I More specifically: If three students were not put in the dormitory I rooms, the University could accommodate only 2,400 un married males. Os course, many live in fraternity houses and rooms out in town, but even then the to tal number of men who wish to come to the University cannot be accommodated. The same applies to young married couples, one mem ber of which wishes an edu cation or to complete his education. Glen Lennox has not had a vacancy in two years, and its apartments rent for more money than the average married stu dent family can afford to pay. Its waiting list seldom contains less than 100 appli cants. Last semester there were some 1,400 married students in the University, which could accom modate only 356 families in Vic tory Village. More would attend the University and more mar ried students could bring their families here if housing within their economic scale of living could be provided. That is, hous ing at $.30 to S4O per month. The University hopes to provide some 200 additional such units, but they could not be made ready for the 1956-57 term. Neither will the three new ' men’s dormitories and the addi • tion to Spencer Hall be ready for the coming term. The lack ' of accommodations for women has necessitated turning down I (Continued on page 8) were longer the teachers would have a year ’round job and the schools could afford to pay them more. He believes the schools could be arranged so that the brighter students could move ahead as fast as they needed to and at the same time allow plenty of time for the slower ones. All these are suggestions that Mr. Sloan would like to see considered. In answer to questions about the proposed Pearsall plan Mr. Sloan commented that certainly some form of moderation is more favorable than an extreme plan would be and that he thinks that the Pearsall plan is better than anything else that has been pro posed. However, he doesn’t think that integration will be a partic ular problem in the Chapel Hill schools. Mr. Sloan is the son of Police Chief W. T. Sloan and has lived in Chapel Hill most of his life. He attended the Chapel Hill Ele mentary School until the sixth grade. Then the family moved to Hillsboro and he graduated from high school there. In 1939 he graduated from the University Pharmacy School. Now he is the proprietor of Sloan’s Drug §tqire on the north east corner of Franklin and Co (Continued oa Page S)
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