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Fill HAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday Vol. 32, No. 63 Will (live* Plays Tonight and Tomorrow Night Four one-act plays will be Riven at 7 p.m. today (Friday) and tomorrow in the Playmakers Theatre by the above group, the stu dents and teachers of the University’s 10th High School Summer Session in Dramatic Art. Admission each evening will be fifty cents. The drama students, shown here seated on the steps of South Building, 'Glendale' Sub-Division May Be Started Here on Monday t*. Z. Cannon Misses First Barber Meet For the first time in 30 yrads, Y. Z. Cannon this week missed a convention of the N. C. Master Barbers Association. He was instrumental in organ izing the association and had served as its president. The barbers missed him, too. They came over from Durham, where they were meeting, to visit him at his home here. Mr. Cannon, who had suffer ed a heart attack recently, had left Memorial Hospital last • c Uurday. n "lie’s right here on the sofa looking at television," Mrs. Cannon said when the Week ly called to inquire about him Wednesday. “Getting along nicely, and likes to have folks come by for a short visit, but he can't have much company,” said Mrs. Cannon. "He’s been looking at the convention on TV and has become an authority on it." Graduate Nursing Professor Named Mary Walker Randolph has been appointed professor at the Cniversity School of Nursing. She will direct the graduate program of the UNC School of Nursing, and will assume her new duties on Sept. 1. Prior to this appointment, Professor Randolph taught at the Lenox Hill Hospital School of Nursing in New York, Duke University, the University of Virginia and the University of California at Los Angeles. New Fire Station Site The possibility of building the new proposed fire station diagon ally across from the new Insti tute of Government building in stead of beside the Chapel Hill Cemetery was brought out at the Town Hoard of Aldermen meet ing Monday. Negotiations are now in progress to secure the new site. The new station is planned to provide better fire protection to the Town since the recent annexations have taken place. The town already has equipment for adequate protec tion, but the newly annexed areas now cannot be reached fast enough. M rs. Barrett in MaMaachuaettM Mrs. Viola Barrett left by plane last Sunday to go to Lenox, Massachusetts, for a month of at a writers’ summer col oWy. I’ersons with social notes or chtirch news to report to the Weekly during her absence are asked to call the office at 9-1271 or 8461. Methodist Beach Party Twenty-five members of the Intermediate Methodist Youth Fellowship of the University Methodist Church spent last week at the Forest Cottage at Cres cent Beach, S. C. They were chaperoned by Mr. anJ Mrs. Al bert Graham and Miss Sarah Umstead. YOUR DOLLAR WILL BUY MORE THIS WEEKEND 5 Cents a Copy i were specially selected to take the course and are from i high schools in fourteen states. The faculty members are (standing, left to right) ■ Louise Lamont, Nancy Sta : mey, Jack Wernette,, Mrs. i Eleanor Carter, who is the i house mother at Old East Dormitory where the stu dents are housed; John W. . Parker, Barbara Bounds, : and William J. O’Sullivan. , The plays to be given this I s> W ork is expected to begin here i Monday on the new "Glendale” i real estate subdivision to be built | by the Durham Realty and In uranco Company of Durham. j Worth Lutz, president of the company, presented the proposed sewer layout of the area to the Chapel Hill Hoard of Aldermen at their meeting last Monday. 1 The Aldermen agreed to let Town Manager Tom Hose and the Street ) Committee work out an agree ment for installing the sewer | system, which will cost around [530,000, as has been done in the liast in other residential areas, j Payment for installing a sewer is usually paid by the town in such Mr. Lutz said his company had agreed to advance the money to pay for the system and he re imbursed by the Town when the money is available. Mayor (). K. Cornwell said the Town could make no financial commitments at this time. The subdivision of I the area was approved July 9. The area is the largest uri developed area for homesites ini the Chapel Hill city limits and jsj just south of East Franklin | Street at the top of Strowd Hill.' lit is bounded by Hattie Park on the south, Greenwood on the east, [Roosevelt Circle on the north,! and is tangent to two sides of Davie Circle. | The area, which consists of more than 50 acres of virgin timber, is expected to be one of [the most beautiful residential areas in this vicinity. The build-, ers hope to distribute the home sites in a manner that will not [destroy the natural beauty of the area. Forty hoiftvsites will be devel oped, and lots are expected to be j around 150 feet wide and 180 to 300 feet deep. All of the area is 1 inside the Town limits. Earl Wynns Move The Earl Wynns have moved into their new home on Green wood Road. • To Double Population ; Chamber of Commerce Confidently Says There Are 18,000 1 People Here Now and 20,000 Will Be Next Official Count I , What is the population of t Chapel Hill-Carrboro ? The Chamber of Com merce and Merchants As sociation answer that ques tion with a confident 18,- ; 000. [| Mrs. Jane Whitefield,, ex , ecutive secretary of the as- ! ! sociation, who has been dis-| ! pensing information for sev ,eral months, gets support I for her unofficial figures [from the N. C. Department , of Conservation and Devel i opment. The state agency lists Chapel Hill and vicinity as one of the communities in ithe state which doubtless will show a 100- per cent ! increase in population in the The Chapel Hill Weekly : evening are “Gooseberry Tarts,” “Anti - Clockwise,” “Poor Aubrey,” and “Break fast.” Those to be given to morrow evening are “The Flattering Word,” “Will o’ the Wisp,” “The Neigh bors," and “When Altars Burn.” The plays are being pro duced under the direction of Mrs. Lamont and Mrs. Sta nley. Supplement Vote in Carrboro postponed The Carboro District School Committee has voted to request a public referendum in its area on levying a 15c supplementary school tax for current expense use in its new school not later than ‘.<o days after its completion. The vote, however, will not come for at least two years, since work on the new school is only scheduled to begin this fall. The committee met recently with the Chapel Hill and County School Boards to discuss a pos sible solution to the long-stand ing inequities brought about by Carrboro and White Cross area children attending the schools of the Chapel Hill District, in which, a supplementary tax is already levied. This supplementary tax of 15c is expected to be the first step toward eliminating existing in equities. Five Permits to Build Are Issued Recent building permits issued by Building Inspector I*. L. Burch we re: Paul Snyder, $1,500, to enclose porch on Mason Farm dwelling of J. A. Williams; L. G. Tripp, $16,000, to erect dwelling on Pittsboro Hoad for Benson Por ter; Kston Hives, $21,000, to erect dwelling on Roosevelt Drive for himself and < . W. Powell. Eaton Rives, $7,500 to alter dwelling on corner of Henderson and Rosemary streets for S. II Basnight; and J. B. Goldston, two at $7,000 each to erect two dwell ings for himself. Local Firm Incorporated The University Land Co., Inc., of Chapel Hill was granted u charter of incorporation Wednes day by Secretary of State Thad Eure. Authorized stock is $200,000 of which S4OO has been subscribed by Crowell Little and Mrs. Mildred Little of Chapel Hill anil D. K. Cloniger of Thom asville. 1950-60 decade. The official: 1950 census gave Chapel i ■ Hill and Carrboro a total of ■ 10,972 population. If the ■ state estimate proves true ■ in 1960, Chapel Hill-Carr-J [boro would have a popula- : ,tion of 20,000 in round fig- 1 ures. 0 11 | Mrs. Whitefield thinks the! will attain that , figure by picking up 2,000 ] residents above her current ] estimate. j] How does she arrive at * the present 18,000 figure? |j She takes the official 1950 census report for Chap- i el Hill and Carrboro of < 10,972, adds to it at least : 2,500 fesidents recently an- 1 ] nexed, plus an increase of i ( HAPKL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY. AUGUST IT, 1956 | Chapel Mill Cha(l L. G. This is the time of year when people are on their travels, or have gone away ’ and come back, and 1 like to 1 get reports . from them. Sometimes these are given to me by mail direct, on postcards or in letters; some times they are in letters 1 shown to me by friends; sometimes I get them by [ word of mouth from re turned travelers I meet on the streets. When I met Miss Isabel, Winslette at the post office she told me about the trip she had made to Europe by air. Os course I had read many airline advertisements ' telling about how you could 1 add to your time in foreign 1 lands by going there the fastest way, and Miss Wins-, lette was high in her praises of this kind of a vacation.; 1 The flight going and the flight coming back took, 1 each, less than a full day, and she hail three weeks for a tour that embraced Lon-j don, Paris, Brussels, and Amsterdam. (She named Jot her cities that I don’t re- ; l member.) Mr. and Mrs. F. 11. Ed i mister left home about five weeks ago and will get back early in September. They, went on the Swedish Anier . ican liner Kungsholm and ■ Mrs. Edmister’s letter to Mrs. Totten, written aboard that vessel, arrived at .just , about the time another ves sel of that line, the Stock-, holm, burst into the news ’ by colliding with the Andrea 1 Doria. ( i “In all the trips we have , made to Puerto Hico, and j some other trips we have • made,” writes Mrs. Edmister V'wc have never been on so fine and beautiful a ship. 1 Every room lias an outside porthole and a private bath.' 1...1 think it is a steady j ship, though there are fins, | (Continued on Fage 2) l s . . University Receives Bids on Ackland Building and Plans to Let Contracts i Bids fur contracts on the Uni versity’s proposed Ackland Mu •scum and Art School building I were opened by University offi . I vers last Tuesday afternoon at 1 1 2:30 o’eiocK. The public opening . j was held in Gerrard Hall in the presence of representatives of about fifty contracting firms. The low bid for the general construction was submitted by C. C. Woods Construction Co., Inc., of Durham. The amount of ■ this firm’s base bid was $429,800. Fifteen firms entered bids for this contract. The Alliance Company of Dur i ham was low bidder on the 1 plumbing contract with a base 1 bid of $22,750. Competition for I this contract was among five firms. A low bid of $62,469 on the some 3,000 students and doctors at Memorial Hospit-! al and medical and dental schools, gjives Carrboro a 500-person increase since 4950, and Chapel Hill (be fore annexation) about 1,000. That totals 17,972 on unofficial figures. | The estimates do not in clude Hidden Hills, Estes Hills, Airport Road, and the Kings Mill and Laurel Hill Road developments, some of which doubtless will be an nexed in the near future. Mr s. Whitefield therefore thinks Chapel Hill and Carrboro certainly will add more than 2,000 persons by 1960, only four years hence, when the next of ficial census is taken. Bargain* Off«»r«»<l In Two-Hay Hollar Hays Evveui Today (Friday) and to morrow are Dollar Days for the merchants of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Glen Lennox. Amazing values will be found in stores throughout the community and many items will be sold for only one dollar. This will be the last sale of its kind for the townspeople of Chapel Hill ;before fall and will be the last chance to buy summer merchandise at sale prices throughout the community. Some of the values adver tised for Dollar Days are blouses, skirts, shorts sets, and pique boleros, all for one dollar each in one store, col lars, dickies, scarfs, and all nylon hose for one dollar in ! another store. A florist is loffering pompon chrvsan fth emu ms for a dollar, and a dairy is selling its non-fat tening ice milk for a dollar for two half gallons. The promotion is spon sored by the Merchants As sociation trade promotion [committee, of which Carl ton Byrd is chairman. Moyle , T. Johnson has charge ot . this particular campaign. Schedule Public • *3 i Hearings Sept. 10 ' Two public hearing were scheduled lor (Monday, Sep tember 10 at the Town Hall by the Chapel Hill Hoard of Al dermen at their meeting this w eek. The first hearing at 7 p.m. will consider annexing to the Town an area near the Glen . wood School and also the area where the school stands. The j Chapel Hill Housing Croup, which plans to build homexile* I in the area, recently petitioned i for annexation. Trustees ot . the group are Hubert K. Agger. . Hubert Gladstone, Harold i Harris and John helton. The second hearing at 7:110 p ; m. will be to consider the adoption of a new detailed sub division ordinance. • electrical contract was submitt ed by Dick’s Electrical Company of Wilson. Ten companies en tered bids on this contract. Low bidder on the heating, ’ ventilating, and air condition f ing contract was Stahl-Kidcr, • Inc., of Raleigh who entered a f base bid of $112,650. Eight bids were made here. ' A $9,163 bid submitted by f Southern Elevator Company of ■ Greensboro was low among the four bids submitted on the ele vator contract. 1 If all these low bids are ac cepted the totul cost of the build ' ing, without alternative plans, 4 will be $636,832. If ull the modi -4 fications are made that are spe r cified in the alternatives to these -.contracts the total of low bids on these five contracts goes to 4 about $700,000. AH the bids and final contracts must be submitted by the Uni versity to the trustees of the Ackland will for approval before the contracts are let. The Uni j verslty has thirty days, or until ) September 13 to do this and to ’.let the contracts. I At Memorial Hospital .I Local persons listed as patients at Memorial Hospital yesterday ■ were Robert C. Akridge, Fred • Tony Barbee Jr. Jamison Granis . Butler, Mrs. Charity Bynum, Al exander B. Cox, Mrs. Sabra K. Dollar, Miss Betty Harrell, Mil -1 ton Webster Harris, William ! Gregory Huff, James Cecil Jones, Clifton Lee King, Mrs. Joe Lewis, John Napoleon Neville, Watts I). Foe, A. D. Ray, Mrs. Ella J. Smith, Mrs. Sarah L. Smith, and Mrs. Jake Wade. J. T. Smiths to Move Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Smith and their two daughters will move to Durham the first part of next month. Mr. Smith is prin cipal of the Southern High School in Durham County. The girls are Marsha, 2*4 years old, and Joey, |*3t4 months. Parking Ban on Rosemary Street And 1-Hour Limit on W. Franklin And Columbia Voted by Aldermen Parking limitations on'*’ three Chapel Hill Streets were tentatively passed by the Town Board of Aider men this week. The Board authorized Town Attorney J. Q. LeGrand to draw up the ordinances that are scheduled for adoption at the Board’s next meeting. Parking will be limited to jone hour between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on both sides of Co lumbia Street from Cameron 1 Avenue to Rosemary Street. Parking on both sides of Rosemary Street from Boun dary Street to Carrboro will be completely eliminated. .Parking is not permitted now on only two blocks of the street. Parking will be limited to [one hour between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on West Franklin Street between Columbia Street and Roberson Street. No parking will be permitted 1 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on that • same street in' front of the '('lmpel Hill Elementary School. In other action taken up this'week, the Aldermen de cided to [Hit a street light on Cameron Court and to take liver maintenance of Penick, lLane if the Town could ob tain the proper right-of-way. I In regard to the old high way at Elizabeth Street, the [Board agreed for the Town to keep it open as a city street in order to keep the j right-of-way there, and also [authorized the Town to grade about 1100 feet of the [road leading to Estes Hills. Traffic lanes at Woollen [Gymnasium on the Raleigh Road will be marked off soon. It had recently been rec ommended that the Alder men change parking on East Franklin Street from Hen-' [ilerson Street to the Village' [Apartments from diagonal [to parallel parking to im > prove the flow of traffic in I I Hiit area. The Board decided to wait before taking action y to see what the two-way I traffic* on. Henderson Street twill mean when that street ’ is widened. Hickerson Is Home from Furopean Tour | T. F. Hickerson got home Wednesday from his two months’ tour of Europe. All his travel ing, not only both ways over the Atlantic but also over land, was [done by air on schedules laid out by Fred Coker’s Continent al Travel Agency here in Chapel 'Hill. j The flying time of each of his I over-the-ocean flights was about 15V4 hours. He flew from New [York to London with one stop on Newfoundland. Returning, he [flew from Liabvn to Boston with one stop at the Azores. His ver dict on air travel is: splendid. His tour took in London, Edin burgh, Copenhagen (where he was greeted hospitably by Rob ert Caldwell of the U. 8. Em bassy staff), Frankfurt, Berlin, Furls, Barcelona, the island of Mallorca (where he stayed a GOP Convention Will Be Televised, Too The Republican National Convention, which opens Monday in San Francisco, will be televised in this vicinity by stations WFMY in Greensboro, WTVD in Durham and WNAO in Raleigh. The first session opens Monday at 1 p.m. and will feature greetings by Governor Goodwin J, Knight of California, a wel come by Muyor George Christopher of San Francisco, and a Call of the Convention by Mrs. Gladys Knowles, secretary of the con vention. Also taking part in the opening program will be Mrs. Carroll D. Kearns, president of the National Federation of Republican Women, and Charles K. McWhorter, chairman of the Young Re publicans National Federation, The evening session on Monday begins at 6 p.m. and will feature the Keynote Address by Governor Arthur B. Langlie of Washington. Senator William F. Knowland, a powerful factor in the party leadership, will deliver an address in his role as tem porary chairman of the convention. Leonard W. Hall, chairman of the National Convention, will deliver the opening address of this evening session, Because the TV schedules from which the Weekly derived its information are made up week* in advance, readers are reminded atUintivc t 0 tha Nations for last-minute program changes $4 a Year in County; other rates on page 2 In Good Shape Large Percentage of Taxes Collected The Town of ( hapel Hill closed its 1956-57 fiscal year June .10 in good financial condition and with 97.il per cent of all taxes collected for all years. As of August l. Manager Tom Rose reported, 92.3 per cent of the 1955 tax levy had been collected and $20,987.56 of the 1956 levy prepaid. The town's total revenue during the year was $264,109.37 or $12,695.21 greater than anticipated when the budget was adopted. Its total expenditures were $270,925.31 or $19,511.18 greater than anticipated. However, the town borrowed $25,000 on tax anticipa tion notes against bonds which had been voted for necessary improvements, which had to be effected immediately because of annexation of certain areas to the town. Curb and Gutter Contract Let; Zoning Ruling Amended; New Member Named New Fire Board Men Take Oaths (Iran Childress and Alex McMahon have been sworn in as members of the Creator ( hapel Hill Fire District com mittee toi w hich they had been appointed by the Orange County Hoard of Commission- i ers. Fben Merritt is the third mem her. Mr. Childress and, Mr. Mc- Mahon succeed E. A. Cameron and W. T. Hobbs, who became ineligible to serve when their residential areas were recently annexed to the Tow n of Chapel Hit. The new board hopes to organize in the immediate future. Life Membership Foe; Leigh Skinner, The Chapel Hill JtdJ this week voted an • hiJtiwrflry life’ membership in the club to Leigh Skinner, a former member and victim of polio. Mr. Skinner’s is one of only two honorary life memberships' in the club. The other belongs to! former baseball Coach Bunn | Hearn. j At the meeting Doug Fam j brough Jr. performed several. | selections on the piano, which [were well-received, and Dick [Jamerson reported on the sev ond Little League Baseball sea son which recently ended. Sail for Fugland The Henry Dunks sailed for England from New York yester dy aboard the Queen Elizabeth. ■ week in a seaside hotel), Mad rid, and Lisbon. He made many local sightseeing tours. He looks back with special 1 pleasure on the geniulity ami friendliness of the people he met and the interesting conversations he had with them. Return From Mexico Mr. and Mrs. Roy Armstrong ! and their daughter Patricia huve s returned from a month’s auto- Uiubile trip to Mexico. They drove clear to the west coast ami went swimming in the Pacific. Food Handlers' Meeting Bob Fowler will leave Sunday to go to Winston-Salem to at tend a meeting of the North • Carolina Food Handlers Associa tion. FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday * A contract for $50,350 for curbing and guttering on more than two miles of eight Chapel Hill streets was let to the Muir head Construction Company of Durham by the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen at a meet ing last Monday. The Hoard also amended the zoning ordinance to allow a non commercial rifle lor pistol range to be set up in an agricultural zoning district upon permission of the Town Board of Adjustment. The curbing and guttering, totaling 11,000 feet of curbing and 1,300 feet of driveways, will be installed on Sunset Drive, : North Graham Street, Brook side Drive, Briarbidge Valley Road, North Columbia Street, Valley Park Drive, McDade Street and the alley behind the stores on the north side of East Franklin Street. Residents of these streets have pledged to repay the Town for the cost of the work. ‘j Muirhead's original bid for the work was $59,447, but an agree >'»**••! .va« ort'qd #;t to k*‘A £ :'it, because the Tdwn only SXi i $50,000, approved for the work i m u $190,000 bond issue passed [by the Town's voters last I Muirheud promised corn s' pletion of the work in 240 cal )[endar days in the original bid. i[ The zoning ordinance was amended after a favorable rec • jonunendation from the Planning 1: Board. The zoning ordinance ij now allows tho Hoard of Adjust i inent to grant a special permit for setting up a non-commer cial pistol or rifle range in an agricultural zoning district, pro vided that, after a notice and I hearing, the Board finds that the public health anil safety will 1 be preserved. This action came after a request from Albert " Coates, director of the Institute of Government, asking for the amendment. The Institute needs to set up such a range for a - State Highway Patrol training V program. Requests ulso came (Continued on page 12) .11 t Carrboro Signs for Paving of Streets A $1,563 contract was let by { the Town of Carrboro laat o Tuesday night to T. A. Loving Company for street paving and y grading work in the town. The 1 Raleigh firm was the only bid der on the Job. The contract calls for BQd square yards of sand asphalt t , surface course paving on Ashe Street, 5,500 square yards of j bituminous concrete surface course on Fidelity Street, Fow ler Street, and part of Lloyd Street, and 3,000 aquare yards of grading on Fidelity and Lloyd. The job will be done aa soon as possible. Mayor Todd of Carrboro al so announced this week that John R. Gove, engineer for the Town of Carrboro, will com plete plana on the addition to Carrboro’a sewage treatment plant some time nest week and that these will be submitted for bids at that time. Chapel Millnotes Full bug of ice in middle of Raleigh Street early Wednes day morning. * * * Woman driver with little kitten hanging on her left arm and poking its head out of moving car on East Franklin Street Tuesday afternoon.
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