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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 m 1 mS \ IE. ifK IB CM im M, ' ■ - 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. I - 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. * # * Ruby Grogan had a hard time making up her mind (Continued on Page 2) 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 iiM WBtKBt : MB W Sr JHr ‘ f - ■ .K MaHHf JBHWWWWg . .. « —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. $-1 a Year in County; other rates on page 2 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 $ 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. j 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. TUESDAY ISSUE Next Lssue Friday 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. * * * Strange sight: Upside down rainbow that appeared in west ern sky Sunday afternoon juat before sunset. * * * Sale of candles up aa people get ready for hurricane sea son.