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ISSUE
Next Issue Tuesday
Vol. 32, No. 65
Chapel Hill and Carrboro Merchants Plan
Welcome and Open House for New Students
One of the most extensive
welcomes ever given to new Uni-!
versity students by the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro Merchants Associa
«n is now being planned by the
l-member Association.
A classified directory of the
Association members and a letter
of welcome will be sent to all
new students before the Univer
sity opens for the fall*semester.
Banners saying "Welcome Stu
dents” will be displayed in the
store windows. Campus quiz con
tests are being printed for dis
tribution to all member stores.
Members of the Association have
been asked to pick up this ma
terial on September 10 or during
that week at the Association of
fice.
Monday, September 17, has
been set for the big day. Students
will be visiting open house events
at the stores that day, and var
ious souvenirs and gifts will be
given away. Free movies will
be shown at both theatres that
day for all new students. An in
formation booth will be main
tained all day, with maps and
newspapers to he given away,
as well as additional copies of
the classified membership di
rectory. Radio broadcasts from
the booth are being planned. j
Students can enter the campus
quiz contest in aS many stores as
they wish. Four different sets of
quiz blanks will he distributed
to provide variety. Thirty of the
-tudents that enter the contest
he picked to receive a $lO
g.™ certificate redeemable in one
of the local stores. The names of
these 30 students will be drawn'
from the names of those who
win at each individual store.
Hubbard Continues
‘Rec* Discussion
The old Methodist Church
building now being used as the
Chapel Hill Recreation Center
may be available for several
mote months, but even that is
not certain, according to the Rev.
Charles S. Hubbard, a member of
the N. C. Recreation Commission
and pastor % of the University!
Methodist Church.
Continuing his discussion of
the local recreation problem
before the Kiwards Club at the
Carolina Inn Tuesday night, Mr.
Hubbard said the University
Methodist Church proposes to
launch its building program as
Avon as sufficient funds become
™ailable. When that is done, the
“Rec" will have to find new
quarters.
President Orville Campbell
named Art Bennett, Mr. Hubbard,
ami Hick Jamerson to a commit
tee to see if the High School
"Tin Can” can he temporarily.
Used.
VS alt Rubb was named as the
i lob’s representative on a town
wide committee seeking to stim
ulate interest in the Chapel Hill
High School Athletic program
this year. The committee is head
ed by i)r. Bill Morgan.
Tatum Has Birthday
T iin Tatum was 43 years old
Wednesday, and K. Carrington
Smith presented him a huge
birthday cake with a football
and decorated in the Car
olina blue and white colors.
Members of the University foot
ball coaching staff and office
personnel only were present
when the presentation was made.
WUNC-TV Off the Air
Television station WUNC-TV
will go off the air today (Fri
day; in keeping with its cus
tom of suspending teleeasts*dur
ing the interim between summer
school and the. fall semester at
the University.
Community Service
Award to Be Made
Later in the year, the Chap
el llill Exchange Club will rec
ognize publicly the local citi
zen it feels has made the great
civic contribution to the
Mmmunity this year.
A committee composed of
Whid I’owell, Rat Rope and
the Rev. John Weidinger will
direct the selection of the per
son to be honored with a
“Book of Golden Deeds.”
At the weekly meeting at
Brady's Tuesday night the
club voted to sponsor again
the mouthpieces used by the
Chapel Hill High School foot
ball players during their games.
Dr. D. M. Getsinger will be
chairman of the sponsoring
Exchange committee.
It was announced that the an
nual picnic and outing for club
members and their families
will be Sept. 8 at Dr. Bill
Pope'a cottage and lake aear
Fuquay Springs.
5 Cents a Copy
Prizes will also be awarded to*’
some of the individual store I
winners by the stores themselves, ;
The students will be invited to
visit the Asociation office for i
maps and any other information 1
they might want. :
New students will also be in- i
vited to establish credit in Chap
el Hill-Carrboro stores by getting ;
their parents to authorize charge ;
accounts with any Association
member, and the credit bureau <
here will handle all the arange
ments, according to Mrs. Jane
Whitefield, executive secretary
of the Association.
The classified directory that *
Tomorrow Is Last Day for Registration
To Vote in the September 8 Referendum
Tomorrow (Saturday) is the
last day one may register to be
eligible to vote on four import
ant amendments to the North
Carolina Constitution in the
September 8 referendum.
Newcomers who desire to vote!
September 8 must have been a
resident of the state of North
Carolina for one year and of the
precinct for 30 days’.
To he eligible to vote, one ei
ther must register by tomorrow j
or have been registered for the!
1052 general election or subse-j
quont state Democratic primar-;
ies. Anyone on those registra
tion books may still vote pro-:
vided they are still residents of
the same precinct.
However, if one has registered
only for special interim elec
tions and referendum* such as
annexation and bonds, he must
get his name on the proper!
hooks. Tomorrow is the time toj
make certain one is properly re
gistered. |
The amendments to he voted |
on propose education expense
grants for private education and
a local vote to suspend local
schools; allowing limited neces
sary compensation to members
of tie* General Assembly; chang
ing the convening date of the
Assembly from January to Feb
rudi y , and authorizing married
women to exercise powers of at
torney conferred upon her by her
husband.
S. T. I.atta, chairman of the
Orange County Board of I',lec-|
lions, reminded citizens yester-|
day that absentee ballots may be|
used in the September 8 elec-,
lion. 1 hey may he obtained now
or at any date prior to the elec
tion by any qualified Voter upon
application to him.
Orange County's voting pre
cincts where one may registi r
tomorrow and vote on September
8 follow:
Chapel Hill No. 1 Town Hall;;
No. 2 Building back of Chapel;
Hill Telephone Co. on East Rose j
inary Street; No. 3 Woollen,
3rd Annual Amateur Golf Tournament
Here Is Set for Labor Day Week End
The third annual Jaycee-spon
sored golf tournament, open to
all amateurs in Chapel llill and!
vicinity, will he held at the fin
ley Golf Course here on Labor
Day week end, September 2-3.
Entry blanks may now be ob
tained from Gordon Rerry Jr.
and Earl Blackburn, co-chairmen
of the event, at the University
National Bank and Fowler’s Food
Store respectively, Town and
Campus, and ut the course. On'
the blanks golfers may request
preferred starting times, and:
every effort will be made to meet
their wishes, Mr. Rerry said.
The Calloway handicap system
will be used again, and as many
flights of 16 golfers as neces
sary will be run. Trophies will
be awarded flight winners, and
rotating trophies will he pre
sented low grbss and low net
scorers, who last year were Roy
Teague and John Canada, re-
Belgian Exchange Student Arrives Here
Miss Martine Masure, 18-year
old high school student from
Namur, Belgium, arrived here
late Monday night as Chapel
Hill’s third American Field Serv
ice foreign exchange student.
Her year as a student at the
high school here will he spon
sored locally by civic and church
groups in cooperation with the
American Field Service. Miss
Masure will stay with the Ber
nice Ward family on Greenwood;
Road. One of the Wards’ two
daughters, Linda, will also be a'
senior at Chape! Hill High this!
year.
This past year, Eddie Osawa,!
student from Tokyo, Jpan, at
tended the local high school un
der the same program. The ini
tial recipient of a scholarship
The Chapel Hill Weekly
will be, sent out and also distri
*buted after the new students ar
rive has been prepared by Mrs.
Whitefield under the supervision
of the Public Relations Commit
tee of the Asociation. It will give
an alphabetical list of Associa
tion members and then a class
ified alphabetical list of members
according to the goods they sell
and the services they offer: Also
listed will lie churches and civic
clubs.
The student welcome program
is being planned and supervised
by the Trade Promotions Com
mittee, of which Carlton Byrd is j
chairman.
Gym; No. 4—High School Build
ing; No. st Glenwood Elemen
tary School; Carrboro —Town
Hall; Cole’s Store —Midway Ser
vice Station on Highway 85; Rat
terson —Hollow, Rock Service
Station on New Hope Creek;
White Cross Community Build
ing across from Whitfield Ser
vice Station; Rock Springs—
Snipes Service Station at Orange
Grove; Kfland Efland School;
Cheek's Rrecinct-Daniel’s Service
Station on Highway 70-A; Carr
Compton's Store in t edar
Grove Township; Cedar Grove
Ayeock School; Toler Kennedy's
Service Station; Caldwell Cald
well School; St. Mary’s St.
Mary’s School; University Doc
Griffin’s store on Highway 7t);
and Hillsboro Hillsboro High
School.
Memorial Hospital
Again Accredited
The North Carolina Memor
ial Hospital of the l niversity
has been fully accredited by
the Joint Commission on Ac
creditation of Hospitals in a
periodic check.
t his announcement was made
recently by Dr. Robert It, Cad
mus, director of the hospital.
The Joint Commission makes
periodic checks of hospitals.
The last time a survey was
made of N. <’. Memorial Hos
pital was December, 1953. At
that time, the hospital was |
fully accredited also.
The Joint Commission is ,
composed of the American < ol
lege of Physicians, American
College of Surgeons, Amer- ;
can Hospital Association, Amer
ican Medical Association and
the C anadian .Medical Assoeia-
I ion.
The notification of the ac
creditation read, "the stall
and administration are to he
commended lor an excellent
hospital.”
| sportively. About 60 persons en
i tered the tournament last year, j
Mr. Rerry said the tournament
|is open to all amateurs either liv
ing or working in Chapel llill and
vicinity. The entry fee will he
$2.00.
John Tatums on Visit
Mr. and Mrs. John Tatum of
Johnson City, Term., were here
:this week. With them was their
!son Johnny, who is already talk
ing at the age of eight months.
| Mrs. Tatum was the Weekly’s
bookkeeper several years ago
when Mr. Tatum was a student
in the University and they were
living in Victory Village.
. Womble Reunion
The annual Joel G. and Louisa j
B. Womble reunion will be held
Sunday, August 26, at the Wal--
lace Womble home on Weaver
Street in Carrboro.
was Barry Hughes, a student
from England who was herre dur
ing the 1954-55 school year.
According to Rogers Wade,
committee chairman and Kiwanis
I Club representative, 654 students'
from 25 countries attended pub-!
lie schools and lived with fam
ilies in this country during the
past year under this program.
iThis summer 696 American sttf
i dents have been spending the
.season in 19 foreign countries
i under the exchange summer
| scholarship plan.
Marilyn Markell, rising senior
|at Chapei Hill High, was the
first winner of an overseas grant|
from here and attended a youth
meeting in Germany this sum
mer. I
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 19.56
Chapel Mill Chaf,t
J. J.
Hubert Neville, born and
raised here, has seen great
changes in Chapel Hill. We
broached the subject the
other morning when we ran
into each other at break
last.
“Forty or fifty years ago
the University's Commence
ment was the biggest event
of the year,” Mr. Neville
said. “People came to it from
miles around. Farmers would
Isay to their children and
hired hands, ‘lf we don’t
finish hoeing this tobacco
Iwe won’t be able to go to
Commencement.’
“Everybody came and had
a big time. It was like a car
nival. The speaking was in
old Memorial Hall and just
|across the street would be
1 refreshment stands where
vendors sold peanuts, "candy,
ice cream, and lemonade
dipped from a big wooden
tub in which a chunk of ice
floated. Those fellows came
here only at Commencement
time, and one of them made
the first fee cream cones I
ever saw. He made them out
jof banana paste in a con
traption something like a
waffle iron. Chapel llill
youngsters were crazy about
t hem.
“One of the high spots of
Commencement then was the
debate for the Mangum Med
ial. It was considered a great
event. The hall was always
packed for it, and the stu
dent who won the medal was
as much a hero as today’s
halfback who .makes a long
run 1o heat Duke.
“There was an oak grove
back of Memorial Hall where
(people hitched their horses'
to flu 1 trees and got their
picnic baskets out of the
back of their buggies and
carriages. Children ran in
all directions and dogs jump
ed around and barked while
the band played and a cloud
of dust hung in ttie air and
settled on everything.
"We had some great
(Uontinuc'd on Rage 2)
Two Congregations
Set Joint Services
The United Congregational
Christian < hutch and the Coni
inanity Church will hold union
services for the next two Sunday
mornings, August 20 and Sep
tember 2. Both services will be
held at ten o'clock in the Con
gregational Christian Church (on
Cameron Avenue).
The Rev. Harvey Carnes, new
pastor of the Congregational
Christian Church, will preach at
this Sunday’s service, and the
Rev. Charles M. Jones, pastor
of the Community Chuych, will
preach September 2.
Visitors are invited to both
services.
Miss Love Visits Kings in Maine
Miss Cornelia laive and her
friend, Miss Edith I .unman,
wham she is visiting at Manset,
Maine, went calling on Mr. and
Mrs. Wyncie King on Sutton Is
land one day last week. To get
there from the rnuiolarid they
hired the mail boat. In a letter
to a friend in Chapel Hill Miss
Love tells of being welcomed by
the Kings in their charming old
timey cottage.
“I had known of Mrs. King’s
sister, the late Miss Janet Flex-1
ner, famous in library circles asj
readers’ advisor at the New York
Public Library,” she writes, “so
we really had a good deal in
common . . . From here I will j
go to visit my sister and her
family on the Gupe over Labor
Day and then will be in New
York a while.”
Building and laian Figures
At the meeting of the Orange
County Building and Loan As
sociation’s directors Wednesday
night Executive Director W.
O. Sparrow reported total as
sets $3,559,000, an increase of
SBB,OOO in the last month, loans
$3,226,000 < inc. $59,000), und de
posits $3,432,000 (inc. $71,000).
Mrs. Manning (.eaves Hospital
Mrs. Isaac Manning, who was
ill for many weeks in Watts
Hospital, left there a few days
ago to go to the home of her
■on, Dr. Isaac Manning, in Dur
ham.
Great American Dream
Miltos Tassos Accumulates Enough Wealth
To Return Home to Greece and Retirement
MII.TOS AT 59
Fire District Ponders Proposition to Town
The Greater Chapel Hill Fire
District Commissioners arc con
j sideringproposing to the Town
lof Chapel llill that it assume
| both the assets and liabilities of
the district and enter into some
'agreement with the district so
that it will be safeguarded in
the event that at some future
; date it will have to furnish its
I own fire protection.
The decision on the overtures
to the Town of Chapel llill came
this week when the new district
board met and elected Alex Mc-
Mahon chairman, succeet ling E.
I A. Cameron. The other two mein
jbers are Gran Childress, recent
!ly appointed to succeed VV. T.
llobhs, and Kben Merritt, one of
the orig in a 1 commissioners.
Messrs. Cameron and Hobbs be-
I came ineligible to serve on the
i commission when the areas in
I which they lived recently were
annexed to the Town of Chapel
Hill.
\'.t this week t meeti .;, the
commission ruled that it was
without legal authority to re
fund any taxes collected in that
part of the district which was
annexed to the town. The deci
sion came as a result of an in
ijuiry by owners of Glen Lennox
Development. Corp. whether it
was entitled to a refund in fire
district taxes collected for 1955
56. It was pointed out, however,
that former residents ot the Fire
District who were taken into the
Town of Chapel llill in the
spring election'will not he hilled
for taxes during the ensuing fis
cal year.
The assets of District
include substantial amount of
cash and an equity in the fire'
truck it has purchased. Its lia
bilities include the indebtedness |
on the truck. The commission
now is inclined to propose that
the town take both the town
now needs another truck and
furnish protection to residents
of the area for a specified
length of time during which the
district would turn over to the
town the taxes collected by the
special fire district levy. The
commissioners, however, propose
a cancellation clause of suffici-,
ent time that would safeguard
the district in the event it would
have to work out its own fire
protection at some future date.
Itczoning Hearing
Will Be Monday
The Chapel Hill Board of Al
dermen will consider rezoning
three areas at a public hearing
at the Town Hall Monday night
at 7:30 o’clock.
It is proposed to rezone from
It A 20 to KA 10 Residential a
strip of land 250 feet deep on
I the north side of the Durham road
at Booker Creek and extending
north to Brady’s Restaurant, and
a strip 260 feet deep from James
H. Dickinson’s property east
ward to the Crowell Little prop
erty on the Durham Road.
Also to he heard will he a pro
posal to rezone the Glendale de
velopment from it A 10 to It A 20.
Attend Raleigh Rarty
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Register
arid Doug Tice of Chapel Hill at
tended a party iri Raleigh last
week in honor of. Miss Dorothy
Bennett who will be married
Sunday to Earl B. Smith.
Music of the Spheres
Four-year-old Kathy Sehin
man recently assured her play
mates that the distant noises of
airplanes and bulldozers were
cauaed by the universe going
around.
By Billy Arthur
It American business continues to thrive and to pay
cash and stock dividends, Miltos Tassos, former owner
ot Chapel Hills Case Mouza, will stay retired this time.
He’s going back to Greece next month to do it.
And we’d say he’s financially and sufficiently well
heeled, because he laid on our desk records of stock pur
chases running into the hundreds of thousands of dollars
and two envelopes of current uncashed dividend checks
totaling possibly SI,OOO.
“Tell them I got stock in these companies! Copy ’em
down and get ’em right,” he said, leafing each check sep
arately-.
* \
The firms were Gillette. National Distilleries and
Chemical Corp., Borg-Warner, General Bronze, Hazel
Bishop. National Mortgage & Investment Corp., Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, Rockwell Spring and Axle, Eastern
Stainless Steel, Pittsburgh Steel, and American Smelting
and Refining Co.
“That isn’t all,” Mr. Tassos added proudly. “I
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New Pupils to Register and Schedules
To Be Arranged on Wednesday Morning
All principals in the Chapel
Hill School District will be in
their offices next Wednesday,
August 29, from 9 u.m. to 12
noon to register new pupils and
adjust schedules, Supt. C. \V.
Davis announced yesterday in a
prepared notice to parents.
The principals are now hack
at work and can be reached by
telephone for any school inform
ation, Supt. Davis said.
“l'afents who are new in the
community and who need in
formation on where to register
heir children should get in touch
with the superintendent or the
principal of the school the child
is to attend.”
The principals are Mrs. Mil
died Mooneyham, Chapel llill
Elementary School; Wesley No-j
Boost Betty June Hayes for YDC Post
Eighteen Orange County!
Young Democrats launched the
campaign of Miss Betty June!
Hayes for the post of State
Young Democratic National
Commit tee woman here Wednes
day night.
Mi s;s Hayes, who is the reg
ister of deeds of the county, is
now vice-chairman of the Orange
County YDC chapter.
With the assistance of Orange
Young Democrats, Miss Hayes
will have a headquarters room
in Durham this week end at the
State YDC meeting. She has al
ready been endorsed by the
Orange chapter
Helping in the headquarters
will he Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Stanford, Judge William H. Ste
wart, Harold Edwards, Ken Rut
nam, Bob Winsor, and Charles
Hudson of Chapel llill, und Sher-
Party Is Given in Honor of Grummans
■J HBr.'
I'll.-. 1.. 11.1 l Proul,
Russell M. Grumman (center), who has just retired as
director of the University’* Extension Division, is shown look
ing at presents he received at a party given for him and Mrs.
Grumman (right) last Saturday afternoon at the home of Miss
Lillian (lurch. At left is Charles F. Milner, who has been ap
pointed acting chairman of the Extension Division. Mrs. Grum
man holds a silver bowl given to the couple by their friends
and fellow workers. She weara a lei of paper cups emblematic
of the trip to Hawaii to be mad* soon by Mr. and Mrs. Grum
man.
jj a \ ear in County; other rates on page 2
ble, Chapel Hill High School;
Raymond Kiddoo, Glenwood Ele
mentary School; C. A. McDougle,
Lincoln High School; and James
I’eace, Northside Elementary
School.
School will begin throughout
Orange County Wednesday, Sep
tember 5, at 8:20 a.in. In Chap»?l
11:11 all children will be dismissed
at noon the first day. Lunch
rooms here will begin operation
on September 6, and a full day
with regular schedule will be!
under way.
“Rlea.se have your child in
school the first day,” Supt. Davis!
| asks of parents, “and do your,
best to encourage good attend- 1
ance. State funds are disbursed
lon the basis of attendance.”
! iff Odell Clayton and others
I from Hillsboro.
The Orange YDC will soon
! embark on a fund raising cam
paign for the Democratic Na
tional Committee and has re
quested materials to he used in
the fall presidential election
campaign.
Wednesday night’s meeting
here was held at the home of
I’okey Alexander, president of
the Orange YDC.
Speaks in New York
Id Margaret C. Swanton, us
istant professor of pathology of
the I niversity School of Medi
cine, will speak before the In
ternationul Hemophilia sympos-j
ium in New York today (Friday)
and Saturday. Her topic isj
“Pathology of llemaithrosis in
Hemophilia.”
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MILTOS AT 19
Wildcats to Open
With Selma Here
Chapel Hill High School this
week completed making up its
1956 football schedule by
carding an opening game at
home with Selma High School.
The game will be played
under the lights in the Carr
boro Athletic Rark on Sep
tember 7. Coach Bob Culton
announced. The addition of
Selma to the schedule gives
the " ildcats its fifth home
game. They will also play five
games away in a 10-game
schedule.
Merchants Polled
On Shopping Hours
The Trade Promotions Com
| mittee of the Chapel Hilt-Carr
! boro Merchants Association went
on record this week as advising
the Association Board of Direc
tors Vo September 12 f<st lo
cal merchants to start staying
open all day on Wednesdays. The
date had originally been set for
! Wednesday, September 5.
j A poll of the majority of the
; directors show thut most of them
! favor waiting until September
| 12. It is expected that the rec
ommendation of the committee
will be accepted at the next
Board meeting.
The formal opening of the
Christmas shopping season has
! tentatively been set for Novem
ber 23. The Christmas lights will
also be twined on that day.
These recommendations were put
forth by the committee and will
be subject to approval by the
Board of Directors,
The committee also recom
mended to the Board that the
merchants keep their stores open
j until 9 p.m. for Christmas shop
! ping on November 23, December
j 14, and December 17 through 21.
A hid from Bob Rush for in
stalling and putting up the
Christmas lights and decorations
was accepted. The only other hid
| received was that of several
members of the Chapel Hill Fire
Department.
The Christmas decorations will
! include a green wreath along
| with the candle used last year,
several strings of multi-colored
lights to be put at several in
tersections und lighted Christ
mas trees ut various spots in the
town.
Jane Berryhill Goes
To Great Britain
Miss Jane Berryhill, daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. W. Reece Ber
ryhill of Chapel Hill, will go to
Washington, I). C., Monday to
he assigned as a first grade
teacher at u U. S. Air Force
Base in either Scotland or Eng
land.
Miss Berryhill will then con
tinue to McGuire Air Force Base
ir New Jersey from where she
will fly on Tuesday to Great
Britain. She has a one year con
tract a* a civilian teacher with
the U. S Air Force, but she may
renew it if she desires,
i - A graduate of the University
here, Miss Berryhill has taught
in the Charlotte city schools for
! the past two years. She has
! spent most of this summer in
New York.
Carter Conducts Clinics
Joel Carter, associate profes
sor of music at the University,
served this week as a member
of the faculty of the Sommer
Workshop for Voice Teacher*
at the George Peabody College
for Teacher* in Nashville, Team