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FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday thvol. 32. No. 61 She's Proud to He Crew Member of a Viscount * *%,-, M ifllHpfe^' *, t■ w%*y. I^^—Wl ■ . :. « -*i V !%'&?SlsffiM^K^ IteTja*'*'-‘ ' *r MV" ’■***v ? .*• :y ’lUr <%7TM^.|'SjrTi l t.*t! (Fj^Qlfo^lßraPll ,^K^ ; - *«T v < "'fo' ' fl ji!~>&> ■* j&r -]* r > 'i '%£ ft • /^ .' *- v , e&TI %x* i RD y^T^tf^-Tn^ - ™jijFftr'. • —Photo by Bill Prouty MISS NORMA JEAN BALDWIN Miss Norma Jean Gald vvin, a flight hostess for Capital A lines, had a c pie r ' < H - )f f l»st wee ’ ' and flew in from New Or-.' leans to visit her parents,': Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Bald- j win. Dressed in her working j uniform, she is shown above i at their home on Hillsboro ; Street. ! A\Vith headquarters in New 1 Orleans, Miss Baldwin is I hostess on a new four-en-'i gine, turbo-prop Viscount; that (lies between there and ( New York. She is one of • four crew members of the i 44-passenger plane. On its Swaps Smokes for Jade r Jap Officer’s Fondness for American Cigarettes Started Kemp Nye on His Priceless Collection of Jade and Ivorv By Billy Arthur Lucky Strike cigarettes got Kemp N'ye started on a priceless collection of Chinese jade, ivory, (JD cloisonne enamel dating Imm to the Yuan, Ming, and T’Sing dynasties. The Chapel Hill businessman this week disclosed how he— some folks might call it receiv ing stolen goods—traded Jap anese invaders smokes for the product of their looting in China in the late Thirties. Kemp was a courier for the Free Chest X-Rays The District Health Depart ment’s mobile chest x-ray clinic will take free x-ray pictures of all comers from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. today (Friday) on Main Street in Carrboro. It gave a similar service from 2 to 4 p.m. yester day at the Health Department headquarters back of Hill Music liall and will be there again from 2 to 4 p.m. on August 30. IF ha pel Millnote i Chapel Hill School Board officials searching the High School Library for a Bible with which to swear in new member Bill Sloan. * * * Members of the Kiwanis ; (Club talking about the nice : surprise visit they had from Leigh Skinner at their meeting Tuesday evening at the Caro lina Inn. * * « Goldenrod blooming on the ; roadsides, a signal the end of ; summer is not far away. * * '• Carolina Barber Shop not seeming like the same old place with Y. Z. Cannon away. 5 Cents a Copy regular schedule, the plane leaves New Orleans at 3:15 p.rr and makes only one urn. -.<* - A Me> '■() between there and New York. Iti reaches Atlanta at 5:50 sor 1 a pause of 15 or 20 minutes! and then takes off for its non-stop flight to New York, arriving there at 9:58 p.m. Members of the crew spend the night in New York and fly the plane on its run back to New Orleans the next day.l Miss Baldwin says she; enjoys every minute of her work. She adds she is proud * to he a crew member of a Viscount. "If you write me |U. S. Emhssy at Peking at the t time of the Japanese invasion <! in August, l!t.‘i7. He regularly J carried official dispatches to f U. S. embassies and consulates j in the Pacific, along the China coast, and inland as far as Siam, j In Hawaii, he was able to pur _ chase American cigarettes at only a few cents per pack from the Navy’s ships stores. Then, j'on his return to Peking, it was, t just a matter of doing business | with a high Japanese officer 'who had a fondness for them, ■ specially Luckies. Kemp tells of | the officer going down the lines of enlisted Japanese soldiers and - confiscating their loot to gain -for himself “smoking pleasure.” r Kemp kept what valuables he • liked and traded the remainder t in both legitimate and illegiti ' i t Change Date of Public Hearing to Limit Number of Commissioners in Townships The Orange County Board of Commissioners voted Monday to change the date of the public hearing on limiting the number of county commissioners from each township to two lo Monday, October 8, at 8 p.m. in the courthouse in Hillsboro. The hearing was originally set for September 10. The move was made after requests that it be changed. It was felt that there would he some persons who would like to attend the hearing, but would not be here at that time, because the University will not have then started for the fall semester. ’The Commissioners, at their June 5 meeting, voted to ask the N. C. General Assembly to limit the makeup of the board by statute. The move was met with varied reaction throughout the county, and, after several requests for a hearing on the matter, the board scheduled it. Patterson at Lackland Base Lt. Robert B. Patterson has begun training at the Lackland Air Force Base at San Antonio, Texas. For the present, Mrs. Patterson and their son, Robert Jr., are staying with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mann of Carrboro. The Chapel Hill Weekly up you must give rny plane i a plug,” she told the Weekly ! reporter. “It’s a wonderful i aircraft. It’s quiet and has ,|n<\ vibrations and files like "a dream.” Miss Baldwin is a gradu ate of the Chapel Hill High School and the Burlington Business College. She began! work for Capital Airlines [last March. Before that she : worked for three years as secretary for the chief di etician at Memorial Hospital here. Her father is a full time member of the Chapel Hill Eire Department. ■ mate channels for items that he ij wanted. That wasn’t always easy. '! The beautiful vase he has from • ■the Imperial Collection could ( have cost him his life. At least, i.Kemp thought so at the time. •So, he ran for what seemed hours! arid about ten miles in the wind ing streets of Peking to escape i from pursuers. Did they wantj , the vase hack or to rob him? >1 “I don’t know,” Kemp replies. 1 1 “When they jumped me and my •j Number One boy, I took off. ,!l didn’t stop to ask.” ’ The approximately 50 valu cable items of bis collection now I on exhibit in the North Art Gal i lery of the Morehead Planetar ium here demonstrate the rrafta i rnanship of the Chinese of olden ' days. The ivory “Bridge of Life” (Continued on Page 0) Visit Roaring Gap Mr. and Mrs. William Mangum I,and their daughter, Ariana, were , at Roaring Gap on a recent visit. . last weekend Mr. Mangum, with : his cousin, Charles Mangum, ■ drove to Little Switzerland to spend a couple of days with Mrs. Kent Brown. CHAPEL HILL. N. C., FRIDAY. AUGUST 10. 15)56 Chapel Mill Cha([ , L. G. When I was reading in bed! and was about to tiii\n out the light and go to sleep, aj night or so after we got back last fall from our trip j to Europe, I said: “I’m homesick.” 1 expected this to be a ( sort of shock, but I was; fooled. My wife knew ex- ( actly what I was thinking— ( whether because she was a | mind reader or because she j had heard remarks from me . indicating dissatisfaction at', being in the U. S. again, I , don’t know—and she said: ["Well, you can't go back to ( England now.” It was indeed England I ; was thinking about. The fas- | cinating sights 1 had seen, and the hospitable and lov able people 1 had met there , were reason enough for this; | another reason for my thoughts’ being on England , was that it was freshest in the memory of all the countries we had visited — ( we had hoarded a boat train troni London to Southamp- | .ton only ten days before— | •and we had stayed in Eng land much longer than any- where else. Put every now and then I am stricken with home !sickness for some other | [place. It all depends on ( which one chance sets me to ( day-dreaming about. Paris . (the first city on our Brown- < ell tour), Nice, Rome, Na- ( pies, Perugia, Assisi, Flor- ( ence, Venice, Bologna, Pa-1 dua, Verona, Milan, Lucerne, Brussels, the Hague, Am sterdam, Edinburgh— not a j day comes but I don’t havelj | a spell of homesickness for lone or several of these. li'j we made only a short stop , at a place, a couple of hours as at Assisi or half an hour j jor so at Padua or Bologna | Jor Verona, 1 am all the more eager to revisit it so that I ( can get better acquaint?! '• I 1 ravel is by long odds my ( (Continued on I’age 2) To Build Drive-In Depository The Bank of Chapel Hill will erect a drive-in depository on its East Rosemary Street parking lot for the convenience of its customers. Construction will start next week, and its completion is an ticipated about September HI. The building will be eight by fourteen feet and will be of an attractive design with brick and j pre-cast stone exterior. The spacious teller window will lie [trimmed with steel. I The building will be put 24 feet buck from the street on the west '.side of the present parking lot, 'and the approach beautified. Rome customer parking will be retained on the lot, but it is bqried that it will be sufficient, [because once the window is op ened employes’ automobiles will Convention Will Be Seen Here on TV The Democratic Convention in Chicago will be televised by three stations in this vicin ity, beginning at noon on Mon day. All three major networks will carry the convention over channels 2, 11, and 28 in Greensboro, Durham and Ru leigh respectively. Beginning Monday at noon, the convention will be opened by Party Chairman Paul But ler and then will come a wel come by Chicage Mayor Rich ard Daley. The offical "Call for the Convention" will be issu ed by convention secretary Dorothy Vredenburgh. Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois will then address the delegates. Con cluding this first session will be the report of the secretary, the official appointment of the chaplains of the leading relig ious faiths of the nation and appointment of standing com mittees. Governor Frank Clement of Notice to Subscribers Notice to subscribers who get the Weekly by carrier boy: If your paper hasn't arrived by 6 p m. of pretut day (Monday •nd Thursday), please call Mr. Rogers between 6 p.ro. and 7 P.m. of that day at 9*1271 or 9-491. Recreation Program Here Is Described as Poorest Among All N. C. Towns of Our Size I hapel Hill has the “poorest recreational program of any town its size in the state,” the Rev. Charles S. Hub bard, pastor of the University Methodist Church and a member ot the North ( arolina Recreation Commission, told the Chapel Hill Kiwanis* Club this week. Speaking at the regular meeting of the club at the Carolina Inn, Mr. Hubbard! Hill "stop leaning on the Un iversity” for recreation and “plan a program separate and apart" from the institu tion. Supporting his criticism of the recreation program as it is now, Mr. Hubbard said there are no facilities here for young people and adults which are completely devoted to recreation and which\are not a part of the University. "We should reassess the value nf recreation for chil dren, not because of juvenile delinquency but to raise the cultural standards of all our people,” he said. "Recreation leaders now realize that their program is more im portant for middle-age peo ple and old people than it is for children.” He pointed out that the churches see their responsi bilities in that field. The church program now in cludes worship, education, and fellowship; and under the head of fellowship, the, churches feel recreation is one of the most important, aspects. “In North Carolina today,”i Mr. Hubbard said, "the j larger churches are employ ing recreational leaders and gliding swimming pools and! bowling alleys ho that the members may get together and come to know each other better, informally as well as formally.” L. (’. Cheek Jr., a civil engineer, was inducted into the club as a new member. Guest Kiwanians were Sher (Continued on page 12) 1 1 not be parked in the area. - At that time the flow of traffic ; in the area will be completely, 11 reversed from what it is now.! M'ars will enter on the east side ! and depart on the west, being so M arranged for the convenience of !customer drivers, who will be able •Ho transact their business while i sitting under the wheel of the bear, lt will ulso enable customers! •;to make deposits or secure change • ; without having to park and do business in the main institution <>r to drive to one of its branches at Carrboro or Glen Lennox. The building will have year around air-conditioning. It was I designed by James M. Webb and ' Associates, architects. Filing ( ,Uon Sparrow will be the con tractor, and the estimated cost' I'will be $7,500. Tennessee will deliver the key note address at Monday night’s session, which will begin at 8:80 o’clock. Mrs. Eleanor Koosevet, still an active figure in party politics and a support er of Adlai Stevenson for the presidential nomination, will also address the delegates. Mr. Butler will speak, and a film of the history of the party will be shown and narrated by Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Tour Buncombe County Mrs. Musella Wagner and Mrs. Howard Weeks have recently re turned from a tour of Buncombe County sponsored by the North 1 Carolina Society of County and| Bocal Historians. While on the 1 tour they spent some time in Asheville and at The Lodge on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The i.odge is the only hotel that is right on the Parkway. Letter from London Mr. and Mrs. Loren Mac Ki nney write from London of their delight in seeing 'Mrs. Leon Wi ley and the Norman Eliasons. Returning from Island Mrs. John M. Booker will re turn Sunday from a two weeks’ ■tay at Sea View Inn on Paw iey’a Island S. C $ Leigh Skinner at Kiwanis Meeting For the first lime in five s ears, Leigh Skinner returned I uesday night to the Kiwanis flub and the Carolina Inn, of which he used to be manager. Mr. Skinner was stricken with polio a half decade ago and had not been out until this w eek. A former member of the Ki wanis flub. Mr. Skinner was brought to the meeting by Ki wanian Joe Wallyer in the lat ter's ambulance. He was wheeled into the ballroom on the ambulance cot and enjoy ed the meeting as much as anybody else. So did the Ki wanians enjoy his presence. ( arrboro’s Library Lives Hook Awards Vacation Reading flub awards! and certificates are being pre-| sen ted by the CarrboriVt’ivic Wo man's flub Library to those chil dren who met the requirements 'of the Reading flub during the summer. Every child was invited to join the club which encourages the reading of good books dur ing the vacatiop months. Top honors were shared by Richard Ellington, Linda Frank lin, and Billie Merritt, each of ; whom read .'l l books. Other chil j dren receiving certificates for i having read ten or more books I were David Atwater, Kaye I Blackwood, Brenda Bowden, Jo Anne Bowden, Saundra Chamb- I liss, Joan Clark, Mike Clark, ; Norma Clark, Bruce Desrosiers, ; Faul Desrosiers, Carlis Dilbbay, ! Phyllis Dillehay. Dianne Hines, : Beverly Morgan, Howard Oakes, Brenda Petty, Beverly Poole, Anne Kay, Cindy Higgs bee, and Linda Snipes. In charge of the contest this year was Miss Agues Andrews, teacher at the Carrboro School. Mrs. Thomas Murray is the li i brarian of the Carrboro Library. Ryan to Speak at v Berlin Conference The major address of the World Federation for Mental Health's annual meeting in Ber lin, Germany, will he given by I W. Carson Ryan, Kenan proses , sor of education at the Univer sity here. • The conference will open to , day and continue for one week. , Mr. Ryan will address the plen ,'aiy session August 17 on "The, Mental Health Problems of J School Leaving.” , Mr. and Mrs. Ryan were in '■“Munich from August a to 8 for the International Conference on Social Work, and had earlier at tended a gathering in Utrecht, Hollund, of the International New Educational Fellowship. They will return to the United 1 States when the Berlin confcr- I ence ends. Demolition Project Attracts Kibitzers Crowds of sidewalk superin tendents have been attracted to the University Restaurant this week by the banging of compres sion hammers and the sight and sounds of other demolition acti vities there. The entire front of the restaurant is being torn away and will be replaced by a new front of glass and Roman brick. The interior of the estab lishment will also be redone. Ac oustical tile will be installed and there will be other changes. James Webb, Chapel Hill ar chitect, designed the new facade. The work is being done by W. B. Upchurch, Chapel Hill con -1 tractor. The restaurant, which is next door to the Post Office, is owned ■and operated by Marx Mitas, who says he expects to have the “finest restaurant in town” when the remodeling job has been com pleted. Return From Greece Mr. and Mrs. Preston H. Epps returned to Chape! Hill last week after a trip to Greece. They rfpent two weeks in Athens and the surrounding urea and then went on to Rome, Italy, for a couple of days.- They went over and returned by air, stopping in Mgy York on their return. $ I a Yaar in (’ount.v: other rates on papre 2 Swilchinsi Allegiance to Carolina —Photo by Bill Prouty GLORIA DE HAVEN By Charlie Robson Actress Gloria De Haven was! in town this week. The former Hollywood star,; who is currently engaged in TV] and recording work. visited! Coach Jim Tatum and his farni-! ly prior to going with the Tat ums to see the College All-Stars play the Cleveland Browns in] , Chicago. Miss De Haven met Tatums through a mutual friend, Dick Pinscher of Miami, and it ■ was with Mr. Fmscher that she [ came to Chapel Hill. Miss De Haven has become a ' real football fan through Coach Tatum’s influence, she said. He’s ’ introduced her to a lot of other ’ coaches, Duffy Doegherty, Bud ’ Wilkerson, to name a couple, and ' she’s become very interosted m ' the game. | She had been following Coach Tatum’s teams at the Univer sity of Maryland for several years, but now she has promised ' to switch her allegiance to Caro lina. “I’ve got a lot of confidence in Jim and any team he coaches,” she said. She’ll be back to Chapel Hill in the fail for the Tar Heels' open ing game with Stute. 5 Miss De Haven has no plans for any motion picture in the ■ near future, but she expects to start her own TV show this win ter. She likes the east, especially ! Miami, where she is now living, much better than California, even though she was born in California, and she would much Russell Grummart Retires as Director >j Os the University's Extension Division 1 The retirement of Russell M. [Grumman as director of the University Extension Division was approved Tuesday at a meet j tng of the Executive Committee of the University Board of Trus- I tees. Charles F. Milner has been appointed Acting Director to replace him. The resignation will become effective August 81, and Mr. Mil ner will assume his duties Sep tember 1. * Mr. Grumman joined the Ex tension Division as associate di , rector in 1926. He later became ( acting director and in 1928 was made permanent director. He I received his B. H. degree from Springfield College, Mass., in ( at the Brooklyn Friends School | in New York and attended Col ! umbia University and the Union Theological Seminary. Mr. Milner received his mas- I ter’s degree from the University here in 1941. A native of Ohio.i - he has lived in North Carolina > <.ft-' FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday , rather work in the east -tjfan re i I turn to Hollywood. ! Her TV plans call for guest ,[appearances on Ed Sullivan’s and jother shows, and about October she is scheduled to make a test - j film of her own show, a new television comedy •program. The show is as yet unnamed, but if ija sponsor likes the preview film, ! she expects to go on the air in , February. I i The celebrated motion picture ! Star, who got her start in 1944 in “Two Girls and a Sailor” with 1 June Ally son and whose most 1 recent picture is ‘The Girl Kush,” 1 has recently signed a recording contract with a newly formed I company and expects to devote 1 a lot of her time to this. The 1 company Is so new it hasn’t been named yet, but it has been form -1 ed out of the old KKO company ' that was recently sold and has a 1 lot of good stars, Miss De Ha l,ven said. Asked if she planned to do J !any work on Broadway, Miss De Haven said she’d like to very much if the opportunity comes 1 along. She was in a Broadway • j show, “Seventh Heaven." It did ' n’t do so well, but she likes that kind of work a lot. “I’d L ’ like to try another,” she said. *i This was Miss De Haven’s * first visit to Chapel Hill and she f, likes everything about it, except . for the chiggers in the Tatums’ . yard. But she’ll be back in the ‘ fall, and all the chiggers will be i gone by then. CHARLES P. MILNER I since 1930. University Acting President Bill Friduy also told the com mittee that he is naming a 17- ‘ member committee to recommend a new Chancellor for the Uni versity here to replace Robert B. House, who will retire next June 30. The committee will be composed of trustees, faculty members, and alumni. During Grumman’s 31 years with the Extension Division, the Organization has greatly enlarg ed its services through the use of mail, radio and television. , “1 wish to express sincere ap preciation to the University and the State of North Carolina for the opportunity to be of service j to young people and adults reach ed in countless ways by the Divi j sion’s program and activities,” I Grumman said in a recant report lt/l llniuni-aitu