OITUESDAY
ISSUE
Next Lssue Friday
Vol. 32. No. 62
Coach Culton
Is to Launch
Grid Practice
On August 20
m* Football practice at the
Chapel Hill High School will
begin next Monday, August
20. it is announced by Coach
Bob Culton. Uniforms will
be issued that morning at
the school and practice
will begin at 4 o’clock that
afternoon. Lettermen will be
given their uniforms at 9:30
a.m. and non-lettermen at
11 a.m.
With eight lettermeft lost
by graduation and fourteen
lettermen returning. Coach
Culton' says the squad should
be better this fall “if we can
strengthen the left side of
our line.”
He added: “That was our
problem last year and is
still our problem. The right
side of our line is the same
as it was last season. It
was good then and should
be better now.”
Returning lettermen are
Rudy Barker, quarterback;
Ruffin Harville, quarter
back; Baldy Williams, full
back; Tommy Goodrich, full
; Bob Costello, halt-
Tack; Tommy Burns, end;
Sammy Carroll, end; Wayne
Poe, end; Paul Cheek, end;.
Tommy Hogan, tackle; Clark
Rogers, tackle, Haywood
Pendergrass, guard; Bobby|
Blake, guard, and Charles
Todd, center.
Returning reserves who
should see much action and
who have a good chance of
making letters this fall in-
elude Neil Clark, halfback;
Ronnie Vick, halfback;
Leigh Skinner, fullback;
Sonny O'Nfcifl, center; Lar
ry Mangum, tackle, and Max
Weaver, tackle.
The team, which won four,
lost four, and tied two last
year, will open its 1956
season on Friday, Septem
"at Cary. The first home
game will be the following
Friday, September 21, with
Northern High School. The
rest of the schedule will be
as follows;
September 28, Southern
High Sch 001, here; October
5, Hillsboro, there; October
12, Graham, here; October
19, Oxford, there; October
26, Roxboro, here; Novem
ber 2, Henderson, there, and
November 9, Oxford Orphan
age, here.
Coach Culton said he will
also organize a junior high
football team this fall for
Aoys in the eighth and ninth
®rades. This team will play
a schedule of six games with
junior high teams from oth
er schools in this area. He
added that boys in these
two grades will not be re
stricted to the junior team
if they are good enough to
play on the regular varsity
team.
Two Persons Hurt
As Car Overturns
Charles H. Hicks of Carrboro
and Johnny 11. Watts of Chapel
Hill were injured in an automo
bile accident on Hope Valley Koad
near Durham early Sunday night.
The extent of Mr. Hicks’ in
juries was unknown early yester
■Hay at Duke Hospital. Mr.
driver of the car, suf
fered an arm injury when his
vehicle overturned as he trie<F'
to avoid hitting another car back
ing out of a driveway.
Thrift Shop Closing
The Thrift Shop operated on
West Franklin Street by the
Chapel Hill P.T.A. organiza-j
tions will be closed throughout
next week and part of the
lowing week and will reopen forj
business at 9:30 a.m. Wednes
day, August 29. Customers or
people who wish to contribute.
articles to the shop are asked to
visit it this week instead of wait-j
ing till after its ten-day closing.
The shop’s regular hours are'
from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. from*
Tuesday through Saturday. I
5 Cents a Copy
Lions Install Senter as District (iovernor
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ehulo by Bill I’routy
Lloyd Senter (right) of the host Carrboro I,lons Club, presents International I,ions Club
President John 1,. Stickley of Charlotte with a holt of suiting cloth from Pacific Mills of Carrho
ro last Thursday evening in Lenoir Hall at the Lions’ District Governor's Banquet, which was
attended by more than 300 Lions, guests, and wives from North Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia.
The first North Carolinian ever to head the world-wide civic organization, Mr. Stickley gave
the principal address and presided o\er the installation of Mr. Senter as the Lions' new district
governor.
The Carrboro’s Lions Club
played host to over 300 Lions,
and their ladies from throughout
District 31-G and other parts of
jthe state, as well as Virginia and
Georgia, Thursday night at Len-j
oir Hall, when one of their mem-j
' bers, Lloyd Senter, was installed
as district governor by the big
gest Lion of them all. Interna
tional President John L. Stickley
of Charlotte.
Mr. Stickley, the first Tar
Heel ever to head the world-wide
civic organization, was the prin
Goldes Take Active Part in American
Composers' Festival in the Mountains
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Guide
have just returned from a visit
to Mars Hill, where Mr. Golde
participated both as composer
and performer at North Caro
lina’s first American Composers’
Festival, commemorating the one
hundredth anniversary of the
founding of Mars Hill College.
Under the general direction of
Hans Barth, internationally
known pianist, teacher and com
poser, fifteen contemporary com
posers, largely from the South
eastern states, gathered tor a
three-day festival of perfohn
ances of their works on August
third, fourth, and fifth.
Boy Harris, eminent symphonic
composer, was guest of honor,
and spoke briefly on listening to
contemporary music at each of
the four concerts.
North Carolina was represent
ed by four composers, Edgar
Alden, Walter Golde, and Edwin
Stringham of Chapel Hill, and
Hunter Johnson of Benson.
Peter and Stacey Take a Walk, Get Lost
By Charles Robson
Alton Riley, an alert Chapel
Hill postman, was returning
from his route last Friday morn
ing when he noticed two little
boys in red shorts and not much
else wandering up East Frank
: lin Street from below Dr. Fred
Patterson's offices. He guessed
the older was about two and one-|
half and the younger about one
and one-half years old.
So he inquired as Jo where the
boys were going, and neither real
ly seemed to know. Neither, in
fact, was old enough to be able'
to say very much.
When the little hoys rounded!
the corner of Henderson Street, 1
Mr. Riley called upon Mrs. Nancy
Yates of the Carolina Flower
Shop for assistance. The boys
were getting excited now, and
Mrs. Yates finally cornered them
down in front of the Basnight
offices. This she did with the
"aid of her own two children,
Mark, seven years, and Carol,
five.
Then Mrs. Yates and two girls
who were working with her in
the shop tried to find out where
the little boys had come from
and where they lived. The boys
themselves couldn’t be of much
help.
“The older one was crying
and the younger one was scoot
ing around all over the place.”
Mrs. Yates said. “I think the
younger one was the ringleader." j
After a few minutes Captain'
W. D. Blake of the Police De
partment and another patrol- j
man were summoned in a car to
take charge of the boys and try (
The Ghapel Hill Weekly
cipal speaker at the District
►Governor's banquet, at which
other officers of the district were
also installed. Representatives
from nearly all the 30 clubs in
the district were present, as
were many guests, including
Acting President William C. Fri
day of the University of North
Carolina, Mayor R. B. Todd of
Carrboro, who gave the welcome,
and the heads of other local civic
oi ganizations.
James Perry, who succeeded
Mr. Senter as president of the
The works of the composers
were performed not only with
skill and artistry, but with evi
dent devotion by the University
of North Carolina String Quar
tet (Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Alden;
Mrs. Jean Heard, and Miss Mary
Gray Clarke); by Ethel Casey,
soprano, of Raleigh; by Mrs. I
Joharia Harris, Walter Golde, j
W'illiam Leland, Hans Barth and|
Robert Hopkins, pianists—the
latter of the Mars Hill College
Faculty—and by Mrs. l'hilip
Slates, oboist.
After the Saturday evening
concert a reception was tendered
to the composers by Hoyt Black
well, President of Mars Hill Col
lege, and Mrs. Blackwell. About
350 guests were present. Among
these were a large number of
piano teachers from nineteen
states who had come to the col
lege to attend Hans Barth’s
eighth annual refresher course
for piano teachers.
to find out where they lived.
"The younger one tried to talk
to us,” said Captain Blake, “but
he wasn’t very good at it.”
Mrs. Yates then called Charlie
Phillips at WCHL to make an
announcement on the sfiir about
< the boys, and he did so.
In a few minutes Mrs. Vance l
Barron called Chief W. T. Soan 1
at the Police Station and identi-:
j fied one of them as hers. Chief
1 Sloan radioed the police car to
take them to 513 East Franklin
Street and to Mrs. Barron,
i The older boy was Peter Bar
j ron, and the younger was Stacey
j Wynn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earb
jWynn of Stagecoach Road, who
was spending the day with Peter. 1
At Memorial Hospital
Local persons listed as patients
at Memorial Hospital yesterday,
were Robert Akridge, Granis But
ler, Mrs. Sabriah Dollar, Mah-|
mond Eid, Mrs. John Foushee,
William Huff, Mrs. E. B. Hor
ton, Milton Harris, James Jones,
Clifton King, Miss Doris Ann
King, Napoleon Neville, Watts
Poe, Miss Ella J. Smith, Mrs.
Walter Tice, and Miss Minnie
Wiggins.
Interracial Fellowship Meeting
The Chapel Hill Interracial
Fellowship for the Schools will
meet at 8 o’clock Thursday even
ing, August 16, in the parish
house of the Chapel of the Cross
to hear reports by its special ob
servers of the special session of
the State Legislature held last
month in Raleigh. The public is
invited to the meeting.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ TUESDAY, AUGUST 14,1956
Carrboro l.ions Club, presided j
over the meeting. Lion George
B. Cherry of Raleigh, interna-1
tional counselor, gave the re-’
spouse, while Dr. Fred W. Isaacs
of Durham, also an international j
counselor, introduced the speak-!
er.
President Stickley was pre
sented a bolt of suiting cloth!
from the Pacific Mills of Carr-j
boro by the Carrboro Lions. Sen- j
ter was presented a scrap book
by members of the club.
On display and getting much
attention after the meeting was;
a solid gold gavel which had
been presented to Stickley by
the Tarheel Contingent at the
Miami meeting at which time t-*
was elected to the presidency, j
The gavel is made up of gold
contributed by l.ions from all
over North Carolina.
Jack McUade had charge of
arrangements, which included
organ music by Mrs. Howard
Heard and singing by a trio of
(local girls, Leah Fitch, Alvene
Williams, and Martha Ann
Cheek.
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Children’s Library
Will Close Today
The Mary Bayley Pratt Lib
rary at the Chapel Hill Elemen
tary School will he closed after
today (Tuesday) for the remain
der of the summer. It will re
open when school starts in Sep
tember.
The library will be open from
2 p.m. to 1> p.rn. today (Tues
day), and all books that are out
should be checked in before the
1 closing time.
Another Kind of Homesickness
After writing in the Chaff col-‘
umn about his homesickness for
(places in Europe the contribut-1
’jing editor got from Mrs. Lucy
I Phillips Russell, who was born
here 04 years ago, a letter in
(which she said that her
j sickness was for Chapel Hill.
iShe wrote: "In my private trunk
iup in the attic, wrapped in the
I baptismal robe that Mrs. Govern
or Graham made for my parents’
[oldest children (1851) is a silk
bag full of lavender sprigs that;
(your grandmother made for me,
i when I left home to teach school
in Oconee county, South Caro-:
lina .... J get around the,
house with some discomfort butj
no pain. 1 can still read, write (
l(badly), sew, knit and (I quote)
,‘sae the Lord be thanket’." Mrs.
I Russell said one thing there that
I’ll have to dissent from: about
j writing “badly.” Her writing is
perfect.—L. G.
( De Rhams Here for a Day
i Mrs. Lucy Patterson de Rham
and her husbanO spent the day
Saturday with her cousin, Mrs.
Mary Patterson Fisher, and Mrs.
Drew Patterson. Mrs. Fisher
took them to see the Library and
the Morehead Building and on a
tour of the campus. Mrs. de!
Rham is the daughter of the late
Rufus L. Patterson, co-donor i
with John Motley Morehead of
the Morehead-i’atterson Bell To
wer.
Ricky Conner Returns
Ricky Conner, son of Dr. and
Mrs. Frederick Conner, has come
home after two and a half weeks
in Kinston on a visit to Mr. and
Mrs. F. A. Garner. The Garners
are former Chapel Hillians. 1
•lim So-o-o Tired.
Tiikes Vacation**.
Jeff's Is I’losed
When Jeff Thomas was
actively engaged in running
his popular business estab
lishment on East Franklin
Street, every summer about
this time he put out a sign
on the door:
“Jeff’s Tired —On Vaca
tion."
When Jimmy Mousmou
les came to help him, the
! sign was changed to read:
“Jeff and Jimmy Tired—
iOn vacation.”
For the past year Jeff
has been sick and Jimmy
has had the business by
| himself. It was no surprise
yesterday to read a sign on
I the door:
“Closed—Jim So-o-o Very
Tired—Re-open Sept. 6.”
Picture of Ballot
Was Misleading
A reproduction of one of
the constitutional amendment
ballots in a daily paper last
week was a little misleading.
Pictured was a facsimile of
an absentee ballot to be used
in the September S referen
dum. But the words “Absen
tee Ballot" were not -shown.
However, that portion of the
i ballot which requires the sig
nature of the voter was pic
tured. A resident of Chapel
Hill telephoned the Weekly
asking, "Since when do we
have to sign our ballots?" she
■ asked. "I never heard of such
: a thing before."
To be certain and to be able
to allay all fears, the Weekly
checked w ith Hep. John W.
I instead.
“Only an absentee ballot has
j to be signed by the voter." re-
I plied Mr Cmstead.
Methodist Church Picnic
A picnic for all members of
the congregation and Sunday
school of the University Meth<>-
jdist Church will he held at 6 o’-
clock Sunday afternoon, August
1!*, on the lawn of the church,
j All families who have members
in either group are invited to
come and bring their picnic sup
pers. The program will include a
vesper service conducted by the
Rev. Charles Hubbard, pastor of
the churcl\. q
Chapel Hill Players Win Crowns in
Eastern Carolina Tennis Tournament
Chapel Killians took the titles
in mixed and veterans doubles of
the Eastern Carolina Tennis As
sociation Tournament and placed
high up in other tournament
events. The tournament was held;
in Raleigh and play was com
pleted Sunday.
Mrs. George llogan and Nor
man Jarrard held on to their
mixed doubles crown by beating
Mary l.ou Jones and Richard
Makepeace in the finals, 6-8, 6-3,
i 6-4. They had easily defeated
i Martha Reeves and Bill Heins in
. the semifinals, 6-2, 6-1.
j In the veterans doubles H. S.
McGinty of Chapel Hill teamed
with Fred West, Raleigh pastor
who was runner-up to former
Carolina star Del Silvia in the
men’s singles, to take the title
from a team of two Chapel Hill
ians, Dudley Cowden and A. M.
Jordan, 6-2, 6-2.
Besides taking the mixed
doubles title with Norman Jarr
-1 ard, Mrs. Hogan reached the
1 finals of the women’s singles
only to lose to Mary Lou Jones,
> 6-4, 6-1. She had defeated Ann
Jones, 6-0, 4-1, in the semifinals.
| One of the leuding Chapel Hill
players was Norman Jarrard,
number one man for the local
dub, who went to the quarter
finals of the men’s singles, but
was defeated there by Del Silvia,
6- 6-3, eventual winner of the
tournament. He and Bill foe
teamed up for the men’s doubles,
but lost in the quarterfinals to
Silvia and Fred West of Raleigh
in two hotly contested sets, 9-7,
7-
H.\S. McGinty and John Tap
ley the other Chapel Hill
mixed doubles team, and they
moved to the semifinals but lost
to C. R. Council and Jerry Robin
son, 4-6, 8-6, 6-4, 6-4. Council and
Robinson were runners-up for the I
men’s doubles crown, losing to I
Frazer foave Continued
Keener C. Frazer, professor (
in the University Department of
Political Science has been grant
ed an additional year’s leave of
absence by the Board of Trustees
>o that he may continue to serve
as visiting professor in the
Cheater W. Nimitz Chair at the
Naval War College.
Chapel Mill Cha //
J. J.
Two gigantic white oaks
in J. W. Lasley’s yard at
the corner of East Rosemary
and Boundary Streets died
this summer and had to be
removed. They were magnif
icent trees, apparently in
the prime of life till their
foliage began to turn yel
low and sickly looking some
months ago.
It was a.sad day for Mr.
Lasley when he realized the
trees couldn’t he saved. “No
body knew what was the
matter with them." he told
a friend the other day. “I
called in the tree doctors,
but they couldn’t figure it
Neither could my bot
anist friends."
Mr. Lasley has his own
j theory of why the trees
(lied. He thinks the cause
was Hurricane Hazel, which
struck down so many trees
in Chapel Hill two years
ago this fall.
About his trees, Mr. Las
jley said: “I believe Hurri
jcane Hazel did something to
j their root systems. When
1 looked out the window at
them during the storm their
trunks were staying in a
frightening manner. Not
.just high up, but right down
near the ground. There ap
peared to be a one-foot swayj
no more than a yard above
the ground. I believe the ter
rific pressure damaged their
root systems, and that it ;
iwas this damage which
killed the trees.”
It was suggested the
J trees may have had oak
j wilt, the terrible scourge
which has been destroying
joaks in the Midwest and
I which has spread as far
least as western North Car
olina. But Mr. Lasley in
dicated that no signs of the
! disease were found on his
trees.
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Ruby Grogan had a hard
time making up her mind
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Silvia and West in the finals.
j The Chapel Hill Tennis Club
plans no more home matches this
season, hut its members players
I w ill enter a number of tourna
| ments throughout North Caro
lina this month. Tomorrow (Wed
nesday) Norman Jarrard, Bill
I Lee, and John Tapley and possi
j bly some other Chapel llillians
will enter the Sand Hills Open
in Southern Pines.
Cool Ride on a Kitchen Stool
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—Photo by Bill Prouty
Where are the water skis? Don’t be a square, skis are
passe! Or so it would seem from the looks of the contraption
upon which Percy Quinlan Jr., local businessman, is so dexter
iously skimming over the surface of Hogan** foke. It‘a simple,
really. All you need is a thin, circular board, a kitchen stool and
someone to tow you behind a power boat—oh, yes, and plenty
of moxey. Quinlan and hia boat pilot (not seen ia picture), J. A.
Smith, along with Bill Baanight, Bob Hogan and Frank Farring
ton, all of Chapel Hill, are believed to he the first to use this
combination for water skiing.
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Pick 17 Men to Recommend
Three Names for Chancellor
To Succeed Robert B. House
Acting UNC President William Friday yesterday
(Monday) announced a selection committee to assist in
finding a new ( hancellor for the University here.
I he ( hancellor to be selected will succeed Chancellor
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Garvin Urges More
Salk Vaccinations
There is plenty of Salk polio
vaccine left, and District rtealth
Office* Dr. 0. David Garvin yes-'
tirday urged .that more persons:
should have their children vacci
nated. He said lots of people
were getting the vaccine, but
that more and more should be
vaccinated.
Dr. Garvin said that people in j
i erson and Chatham counties,
which are also in this health dis-!
trict, flocked to get the vaccine 1
only after a case of polio had!
been reported in each of the two I
counties. He explained that the
children should be vaccinated j
now, and parents should not wait
until a ease develops. Only one!
case in Orange County has been j
reported to the district office |
this year. She is a 26-year-old!
woman in Hillsboro, stricken:
early in the spring.
The vaccine is given to chil-j
'lren who are IS years old aiu?
younger and to all expectant
mothers every Thursday and Fri
day from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Dis
trict Health Office orr Old Fra
ternity Row behind Hill Hall!
Music Hall.
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Pony Leaguers to
Meet Siler City
Chapel Hill’s Pony League*
baseball team will open its sea- 1
(sun this (Tuesday) afternoon
with an official game with ai
Silur City team at 4:30 o’clock
there. An unofficial game was,
staged last Friday afternoon,
with Pittsjioro, but was rained
out after a few innings.
Some time in the latter part l
of this week, probably Friday,
the Pony Leaguers will play
.their first official home game
with either. Siler City or Pitts-j
1 boro, Coach Rabb, who is in
charge of the baseball program, j
announced yesterday. More
[ games will be scheduled through
[ out the month of August, he
I said.
Starting line-up for today’s
J Siler City game is as follows;
Charlie Phillips, second base;
Kenneth Guthrie, third base;
Brick Hettinger, shortstop;
Wayne Hudson, pitcher; Ned
Martin, first base; Jimmy Crane,
right field; Larry Dunnigan,
center field; Truman Hilton,
catcher; and Don Prilliman, left
field.
First line substitutes are:
James Clark, pitcher; Bill Ay
cock, third base; Butch Kagan,
second base; and Bill Roberts,
first base.
In addition to Mr. Rabb,
coaches for the 13 and 14-year
old Pony Leaguers are Bill Mc-
Ginn and Delon Lambert.
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B. House who will
retire June 30, 1957.
The committee, which is
composed of 17 members,
j will rqcommend at least
three names to the Presi
dent of the University. Un
der the Administrative Code,
the President has the duty
to, nominate a Chancellor
!foK=the approval of the
Board of Trustees.
! The committee will hold
its organizational meeting
| soon and elect a chairman.
i Members of the selection
committee are:
From the Board of Trus
tees—J. Spencer Love, tex
tile executive of Greensboro;
Carl Venters, legislator of
Jacksonville; Hill Yarbor-
lough, attorney of Louis
burg; John \V. Umstead,
Chapel Hill business man,
and Floyd Crouse, attorney
of Sparta.
From the alumni—Mavne
Albright, Raleigh attorney
who is president of the Al
umni Association; W'illiam
(I). Snider, who is associate
I editor of the Greensboro
(Daily News; Terry San
ford. Fayetteville attorney;
i Frank Parker, Asheville
lawyer; and Dr. A. M. Mc-
Donald, Charlotte physician.
| From the faculty at Chap
!el llill—Professor James L.
Godfrey, chairman of the
I Faculty Council; Kenan Pro-
I fessor Dougald MacMillan,
representing the Division of
Humanities; Kenan Profes
sor Rupert Vance, repre
senting the Division of Social
Sciences; Kenan Professor
John N. Couch, representing
Division of Natural Sciences;
Professor Paul N. Guthrie,
representing the School of
Business Administration;
Dr. Ernest Craige, represent-
ing the Division of Health
Affairs, and Kenan Profes
sor M. T. Van Hecke, rep
resenting the Law School.
Besides the 17 serving
on the committee, Kemp D.
(Battle, Rocky Mount attorn
ey who is a member of the
Victor S. Bryant Committee
on selection of a President of
the Consolidated University
(of North Carolina, will act
as liaison officer between the
(two committees in the con
sideration of names that may
be suggested.
Committee members were
j chosen after consultation
with alumni officials, offi
cers of the University facul
ty, administrative person
nel and officials of the
(Board of Trustees, Presi
dent Friday said. He also
stated that student opinion
iwill be sought.
Insurance Agents
Launch Institute
The seventh annual Institute
of Insurance of the North Caro
lina Association of Insurance
Agents Inc., opened at the Uni
versity Sunday.
The institute, which will last
through August 17, will be spon
sored by the State Association
of Insurance Agents, in coopera
tion with the Bureau of Business
Services and Research and the
School of Business Administra
tion at UNC, and the Education
al Committee of the National
Association of Insurance Agents.
Chapel J4illnoteS
Mid-town motorists mistak
ing a traffic checking device
for a “whammy” on North
Columbia Street Monday.
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Strange sight: Upside down
rainbow that appeared in west
ern sky Sunday afternoon juat
before sunset.
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Sale of candles up aa people
get ready for hurricane sea
son.