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TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday Vol. 32. No. 70 County Goes for Pearsall, But Chapel Hill Says No Seventeen of 19 Orange County precincts gave overwhelm ing approval to the Pearsall Plan although three of five Chapel v Hill precincts rejected it in Saturday’s referendum, according to and incomplete returns. In the county, the vote was 3,101 for the plan to 1,740 against, Elections Board Chairman Sam. T. I.atta reported yes terday. The returns will be canvassed at the Courthouse in Hills boro today. According to Mr. I.atta the vote in Chapel Hill and Carrboro totaled 1.425 for the plan to 1,358 against, but the Chapel Hill vote alone went against the plan by 1,234 negative votes to 936 votes for the plan. The vote by precincts in the two communities Chapel Hill No. I—l2B for, 204 against; No. 2 1 1 1 for and 171 against; No. 3—198 for. 330 against; No. 4—260 for, 257 against; No. 5—179 for, 272 against; Carrboro—4B9 for, 134 against. . , Mr. I.atta had only indicative returns on the other three amendments, which also were apparently approved in Orange County. Those amendments provided for a longer General As sembly term and subsistence pay for legislators, powers of attorney for married women, and openings of the legislative session in February rather than January. All four amendments Vere adopted in the state-wide election. Boy Scout Organization Making Plans For Fund-Raising Campaign This Fall “In a meeting in Chapel Hill! last Friday night, Community I>rive Chairmen of the Orange County Boy Scout Fund drive j et the stage for a successful earn I ,aig n Hi fall, according to A Truman (Jets To Chapel Hill ( hanrcllor It. B. House, in introducing K. < . Daniel Jr. to new s_ and feature writers here otfviaturday, said: “We are delighted to wel come E. < or Clifton, back to bis alma mater, and we are glad to welcome Margaret in to the family, too. “We have on several occa sions invited President Tru man to speak in < hapel Mill, and for pay. “However, now' that Mar garet is one of our family, we will expect President 1 runiall to come to lecture in 1 Hill, and to speak for nothing.” Odum Brothers Win Scientific Award i Eugene P. Odum and Howard. Thomas Odum, sons of Mrs. Ho j ward W. Odum, were joint re cipients of the George Mercer j PP. word given by the Ecological Society of America, at its recent 1 meeting at the University of ( onnecticut. This award was made for the, Odums’ research paper concern ing the marine life of one of the coral reefs of Enivvetok atoß. The [taper, which was published l,y the society, was based ori un- 1 dcr water studies the Odum : made on the reef in 1954. The two brothers, accompan ied by their families, were here recently on a visit, to their mo ther and their sister, Mrs. Philip < Schinhan. Eugene has now re- 1 turned to his work as professor| of biology at the University of Georgia, and his brother, for merly of Duke University’s luo logy department, has assumed new post as director of tie Institute of Marine Science of! the University of Texas at Port Aransas, Texas. His wife and their two small daughters will fly to Port Aransas next week, j School Insurance Deadline Today Today (Tuesday) is the dead line for voluntary purchase by parents of approved insurance providing coverage for their chil-j dren in case of accidents occur ring at school or between school arid home. The cost of a policy is $1.50 per pupil for the entire school year, and cash or checks must be turned in to home-room teachers today. After today more applications for insurance wuß be accepted. Checks should | payable to Chapel Hill. Schools. University Names Associate Doctor Dr. Tyndal P. Harria has been appointed associate physician of the University, according to Dr.j E. McG. Hedgpeth, University physician. Ijr. Harris ia a native of Cochran, Ga. He received the degree of bachelor of science in medicine from yNC in 1947. Dr. Harris is married to the former Mary Elizabeth Vardeman. They are the parents of three children. The Harrises have purchased the A. C. Shearer residence in Westwood and will occupy it in October. 5 Cents a Copy !<i. Mac Norwood, Memorial Hos pital Budget Officer and Chair-1 man of the Boy Scout Finance ■.Committee for Orange County. W. D. Carmichael Jr., Fi bailee Chairman for the Occoneechee Council, which encompasses eleven i other counties in addition to iOrange, explained to the assem i bled drive leaders bow volunteer Headers from throughout the council bad participated ill build ing the proposed budget of !$ 158,000 for 1957 which will Servi an estimated 20,000 boys and lead ers in the Occoneechee Council. McCoo Brown, Kalcigh insur ance executive, demonstrated methods for selling tne “charac ter building and citizenship train ing program of the Boy Scouts HI America.” Roy Armstrong, former Council President ami 1 Finance Chairman, explained the Scout method of organizing fund I drives. He urged the committee chairmen to “get the right people to see the right people” and see at .least. “15 per cent of the adult 'citizens in your community, ■, “There is no outside imposed Igoal for any (immunity,” Mr. Armstrong pointed out. "There lis the goal of seeing the 15 per cent and giving that group the {opportunity to contribute once 'they have beard the story." Rip Collins, local Scout Dis i trict Executive, explained the uses us the campaign tools in the prepared kits to the group, which included I. V lirubh, R K, Pick iott, arid C C. Atwater of White | Cins , who are putting on their first. Scout drive. Dr. Robert Murphy, Sam Gat jtis, Paul < arr, valid Don Mathe | on represented Hillsboro. Mrs. lin nci Forrest, Mi Aubrey Graham, and Mr. John Efland ! Ji participated foi Efland. Carr born wa . not represented, al though according? to Mr. Nor wood, I .eon King? who has resigned as chairman, has done extensive .work and together with Wiley ff'ianklm, R. B. Todd and R. S. Lloyd, prepared u complete pros pect list. Hillsboro Defeat Hillsboro High School openedl its 1956 football season with a sound 14-0 victory over Southern High at Hillsboro Friday night.j With quarterback Ray Barnes | {sparking the hosts’ effective T-| formation attack, employing I i criss-crosses and flankers, Coach Glenn Auman’s crew scor-1 ed iri the second and third quar ters. The Wildcats maintained a tight, defense throughout to live up to advance billing as .a chief contender for the league title this season. Midway in the second period 'the relentless Wildcat forward wall pounced on halfback Koh rde Strickland’s fumble on the Hillsboro 47-yard line to set up the initial touchdown drive. Fullback Glen Collins and Auto Parts Firm to Open Here \ Chapel Hill will get a new business about October 1. A branch of the Southern Parts and Electric Co. of Dur ham will open then in the new building on West Franklin Street immediately back of Elmer Pen dergraft’s Service Station. Announcement of the new bus iness was made here yesterday by R. E. Ashworth of Durham, owner of the firm. The local Manager will be Gene Irwin of Returns From Japan Dr. Sidney S. Cbipman, Uni versity professor of public health, has returned from Japan. He was there for one month as • special consultant u the U. 8. Air Force. The Chapel Hill Weekly Chapel Hill Fells Selma High , 27-13 Hard running, blocking and tackling of the Chapel Hill High School football team in its 27- 13 season opening victory F’ri day night were praised yesterday by Coach Bob Culton and fans. Selma High School, a non-con ference foe, was the victim of 68, 80, 65, and 85-yard. drives and runs by the Wildcats. Al though Selma scored twice, it was against the lighter Chapel Hill reserves, but they them-! i selves performed creditably and the entire team was the recipient J of praise. Neil Clark sustained the only serious injury of the night. The {Wildcat back suffered a dislo-: rated shoulder that will keep him out of action at least a week. Chapel Hill counted in the first quarter on a 68-yard march j with Ruffin Harville, Tommy j | Goodrich and Baldy Williams al ternating to the Selma eight! 1 from where Goodrich went off tackle for the TD. Goodrich con-j verted to make it 7-0. In the second quarter, Chapel 1 Hill drove 80 yards with i ville passing to Sammy Carroll: for 15 yards and* the second touchdown. Selma came right back to recover a fumble on the Chapel Hill 30 and score with Jimmy Karp [dunging over front the one. Bobby Creech convert- j jed to make it 13-7 at halftime. I Harville returned a punt 85 yards for the Wildcats third { {touchdown. On the run he re-j {reived key blocks from lotnmy j Hogan and Charles Todd. Good ' rich added the extra point from ! placement. ( Impel Hill marched 65 yards ito score early in the fourth per iod. Harville set up the TD with I a 25 yard run to the five from where Bob Costello plunged ovcr.j | Goodrich ran over the extra ; j point to make 27-7. { Against the reserves in the, final period, Selma drove 60 yards to score with Creech! plunging over from the one. Defensive standouts for Chap el Hill were Harville, Hogan andj Haywood Pendergrass. Karp and I Creech carried the defensive bur |den for the visitors. I Score by periods: j Sdma 0 7 6 6 13 | Chapel Hill 76 7 7—27 Hearing on Eire Contract Friday Formal notice that the Great er Chapel Hill Fire District in tends to contract with the Town !of Chapel Hill to furnish fire protection has been given to the public, and a hearing will he held on the matter at tin- Town Hall here Friday at 4 p.m. Interested persons are invited to attend the meeting and either assent or state their objections. | - The general terms of the con trail. provide that the town will furnish the fire protection in re (turn for the annual tax of 10c per SIOO value on the property it protects. s Southern, 14-0 I j Halfbacks Monroe Knight and i Pete Oakley alternated on short ! gains to move the ball to the . I Rebel two-yard line in six plays, i I I From there Barnes scored on a{ | quarterback sneak and Collins (added the first of two extra J points on an end run. In the third quarter Hillsboro end Garland Spangler snared fullback Danny Thomas’ fumble on the Southern 36-yard line, setting the stage for the second! Wildcat tally. After being stopped for no gain on first down, Knight toss ed an aerial to Spangler, who made a circus catch and fell to the ground on the Southern one yard marker. On the next play Collins cracked over for the score. Durham. Mr. Ashworth said that a complete line of automobile parts would be stocked in the Chapel Hill store, affording con venience as well as speed to lo cal garages and automobile owners in obtaining needed parts. Legion AaxiUary Party The Chapel Hill American Le gion Auxiliary will hold a get acquainted meeting at 8 o'clock i tomorrow (Wednesday) evening pt the home of Mrs. D. M. Horner < at 40 Oakweod Drive. The affair 1 will not be a boaiaess meeting < but a party fee att members, eld i CHAPEL HILL, N. (’..TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11. l-.*:,t; Lheek Announces Change In Post Office Schedule Beginning next week, the; doors of the Chapel Hill Post Office will be open from 5:30; a.m. to 10 p.m. from Monday! through Saturday and from 8 a.m. to 10:30 p.m, on Sundays, it was announced yesterday by! Postmaster J. Paul Cheek. This new plan will replace the present 1 schedule under which the Post Office is open from 5:30 a.m. to midnight on week-days and from 8 a.m. to midnight on Sundays. In making the announcement, Mr. Cheek said: “Since the last outgoing mail is at 7 p.m. and the last incom ing mail is at 7:30 p.m., there Aldermen Consider Annexation, Receive Report on Glendale Sewer Proposals The Board of Aldermen was scheduled to meet last night to consider the annexation to the town of an area encompassing the Glenvvood School, a section of University property, and a tract us 26 acres of land to be develop ed for their personal use by 23 families who call themselves the{ Chapel Hill Housing Group. The aldermen were also ex pected to receive a report from Town Attorney John I.eGrand <m a proposed contract between the town and the Durham Realty and Insurance Company concern ing a sewer system for the com pany’s Glendale development on I the east end of the village. The hoard met as a committee of the whole last Thursday night to discuss the contract with Worth Lutz of Durham, presi dent of Durham Realty and In surance. Mr. Lutz proposed that the company begin to be reim bursed for the cost of the sewer {system as soon as the first ten {houses are constructed in the area. The town will have to float a Bond issue to provide money j for the reimbursement. Members of the Chapel Hill j Housing Group, who petitioned ] tor annexation at the July inetr' jiug of the board, are mostly [young University faculty mem bers with children. They formed the group to purchase and devel ope the land for their own use, {rather than for sale or rent. They plan to build their homes within the next year. The petition, signed by Robert E. Agger, Robert Gladstone, Harold Harris and John Keltoii as trustees, stated that members of the group intended to reside in Chapel Hill permanently. They gave the following details of their development: 1. It would be built around a single U-shaped street, in order to best preserve lliu wooded na ture of the land, f 2. They would build and pay for the sewer system, under the supervision of the town man ager. 3. They would provide side walks and streets paved with Chapel Hill gravel. The executive committee of Club Entertains Football Squads The Chapel Hill Athletic Club entertained the University's fnot ball squads, varsity and fre.-h | men, at Fetzer Field Sunday ev ening. I The Rev. Charles S. Hubbard, j pastor of the University Metho j ‘list Church, talked to the ga thering about the time he was an athlete at IJNC, and others on the program included Coach Jim Tatum and Athletic Club President K. Carrington Smith. Other highlighta, including the barbecued chicken, were ' Chancellor Robert House’s har monica playing and Bruno Raso’s performance at the aceordian. Mr. Raso ia a member of the freshman football team. Hilly Cate Home From Germany Hilly Cate, son of Mr. and] l Mrs. Kemp Cate, got home last I Saturday from Germany, where i he had been in the,, armed forces for the last eighteen months. Jlej will enroll in the University next 1 week. Heads Hillsboro Drive The Rev. C. 11. Keckard, pas tor of the Hillsboro Presbyter ian Church, has accepted the chairmenship of the 1967 Red Cross Fund Campaign at Hills boro, Home From Europe Kr. and Mrs. Norman Eliason came home from Europe last! Wednesday, They had been there during Mr. EUason’s year of wm* Wafer » Fulbright Fel- I will be no curtailment of ser vice. The doors of the building will be open daily except Sun day for sixteen and a haif hours instead of the present eighteen and a half hours. ‘‘The late mailers may use the automobile letter boxes on the street in front of the post office, since the mail is always collect ed from these boxes before ev ery dispatch. “It is emphasized there will be no change in the arrival and dispatch of mails, but it is felt that the man hours used late at uight could be more effectively utilized during the day.” the University Board of Trust-j eCs met on August 7 and, ac cording to a letter from Uni- 1 versity Controller William D. j Carmichael Jr., “approved our! ‘making no objection' to the ' Town of Chapel Hill’s incorpor ating into the city limits the; .area belonging to the University which is contiguous to the Glen- ' wood School on U.S. 15 Bypass, and the 26 acres owned by the 1 Chapel Hill Housing Group.” On July 12, according to a letter from Chapel Hill School Board Chairman Grey Culbreth, the board met and "passed a mo tion to request the annexation of the Glenwood School property to {the Town of Chapel Hill.” Cannon Returns To Barber Shop V Z. Cannon, who-suffered a | heart attack some time back, re ! turned to his middle-chair stand, on the west side of the Carolina Barber Shop yesterday. V. Z. 1 plans to do very little work, how ever, until he is fully accustom- j ed to being back on bis-feet for long times. I A new face in the barber shop j is J. T. Blanton Jr. of Wilming-j {ton. lie is an addition to the l ; harboring personnel. In the near future a seventh Uhair will be added for him to man. 1 Mrs. Pete Ivey and Bill Prouty Join Staff of the Weekly; Chuck Hauser Back Temporarily, Goes to Charlotte Soon «*,■* ■ ■ The Weekly today announces the appointment of two new staff i members and the temporary re turn of a third---all designed to .give its readers a complete twice- J weekly reflection of the life oft < hapel Hill and all of Orange | County. Mia. Pete Ivey, center, above, I comes to the Weekly as woman’s editor, and Hill Prouty, right,! joins it as photographer and roving correspondent. Chuck Hauser, left, who has been on leave of absence for a trip abroad and Army reserve training, picks up where he left off in June, and will work until October 1, when be joins the staff of the Char lotte Observer. Mrs. Ivey is the popular and enterprising wife of the Uni versity News Hureau director. A native of Entwistle, Alberta, ! Canada, and an alumna of the | University here, Mrs. Ivey ident ifies herself as a “publicity agent for everything’’ with a yen to write, even a novel. In addition to new spa per lag *■ Chapel Hill for the put year, Chapel Mill Chafl J. J. Cattleman Jack Lasley and his father, J. W. Lasley the University mathematics pro fessor, recently went to the Roanoke River ranch of W. P. Morris at Jackson to attend the annual meeting and field day of the North Carolina Hereford Breeders’ Association. As is usual at these oc-j casions, there were four bulls and four heifers to be judg ed. When it came to the four heifers the professor made an honest try, employing all the information at his com mand. Among the four bulls, however, he saw no distinc tion. He made some guesses, signed his name and tele-' phone number, and hoped he would be lucky. ! Not so the junior Lasley. He judged the heifers aright, I the bulls aright, and was the only one of the 300 at tending cattlemen to score absolutely one hundred per cent in both divisions. For this he carried away the grand trophy, a huge life like papier-mache Hereford bull. When Jack got home he placed the trophy on the bureau in the nursery bed room of the third John Las-: ley in the current series. Awakening and seeing the immense monster bull which had invaded his domain, lit lie John hurled his pillow thereat and dived headfirst under the sheets. * + ♦ A common complaint in Chapel llill, as elsewhere, is the nocturnal raiding of gar bage cans by dogs looking for something to eat. The scavengers often upset cans, {work the lids off, and leave trash scattered all over the place. For fear of offending dog-owning neighbors, many I (Continued on Pago 2) under Phillips Russell and Walter Spearman and a television writ ing course under John Ehle. She was continuing, in a manner, her news and fiction writing • studies at Harvard with Ted Morrison and Kenneth Kemp ton. And she intends to take some more work this full at the : University here. Demonstrating her versatility, Mrs. Ivey taught chemistry and botany at Salem College, and' before that was a supervisor of home nursing for the Red Cross at National Headquarters in ! Washington, 1). C. For the past year here, she has bandied the state-wide publicity for the N. C. League for Crippled Children und Adults. Mr. Prouty, the son of Mrs. W. F, Prouty, has lived in Chapel! Hill almost alj his life. He was' raised in a house that stood in Jhe center of town on what is now the site of the University Methodist Church, attended Chap- Hill High School and was grad uated from the University in JMB. In addition to spending $4 a Year in County; other rates on page 2 Everyone Is Welcome at Community Council Meet Set for Wednesday Night , -9 Wadsworth Will I . Command Navy f s Reserve School ■■ HhV . ■ KM' m CDR. JAMES WADSWORTH Commander James F. -Wads worth (>f Chapel Hill has been! named Director of the newly established Chapel Hill Branch of the Naval Reserve Officers' Training School for Durham- Kaleigh. The announcement was made by Captain H. I>. Crockford, di rector of NROS activities in this area. A graduate of the Univer sity here, Commander Wads worth is now Director of Hous ing at the University. Commis sioned in 1942, he has been ac tive in reserve units in the area since 1947. Married to the former I.altah i Fitts Palmer of Warrenton, I Commander Wadsworth has a James, Jr. ( and a o ughtci Ann. Commander Wadsworth will assume his new duties imtiled lately as the new NROS branch for Chapel Hill begins operation this week. Army during World War 11, Mr. Prouty was a member of the staff of the Durhuin Morning Herald. In recunt months he has been a free-lance photographer. Mr. H auser bus bean on the Weekly staff since May of 1954, with time out for him to cover the 1965 General Assembly for (the Associated Press and a tour of Russia this summer in search ,of material fur magazine articles. Orville Campbell, general man ager of the Weekly, said yester day the upbuilding of the staff was in keeping with the Weekly’s policy of giving as complete coverage as possible of all of Chapel Kill and Orange County, and to continue it in the place lof leadership it has maintained for the past 33 years. { Other members of the Weekly's editorial department include .Louis Graves, contributing edi- ' • i tor; Joe Jpnes, managing editor; Billy Arthur, columnist-reporter: Mrs. Madge Oakley, Carboro ao rtal editor; and Mrs. Viola Bar- TUESDAY ISSUE Next Issue Friday Everyone in the Chapel Hill- Carrboro community is invited to participate in an open meet ing of the Community Council at the Chapel Hill Town Hall at 8 o'clock tomorrow (Wednesday) evening. Officers for the coming year will be elected. The nominating committee for membership on the Council ex ecutive committee for 1956-57 will present the following slate of officers: Chairman, Emery B. Denny Jr.; first vice-chairman, Rogers C. Wade; second vice-chairman, the Rev. J. R. Manley; secretary, Mrs. Rhoda Wynn; treasurer, William It. Cherry. To be nominated as members of the committee for two-year terms: Mrs. Pearl Caldwell, Wal ter S. Spearman, Sheldon White and Dr. George D. Penick. Still serving unexpired terms on the executive committee are William S. Stewart, Dr. Syd B. Alexan der, Mrs. Thelma Boyd and Phil ip P. Green Jr. Mr. Stewart, retiring chair man of the Council, officially I announced the selection of Walt er Baucom us chairman of the Council's annual Community Chest campaign, scheduled to be conducted this fall. Letter to ‘Mr. X’ \ Dear Sir, This letter is addressed to Mr. X of the Chapel Hill com munity. I do not know who Mr. X is or where he live*—but I am sure he will recognize him self. Some time on or about Sep tember 6, Mr. X, you stopped your car near the overpass where the Durham and Raleigh rouds cross, just before Glen Lennox. Just off the right side of the highway, in the woods on the Chapel Hill side of Glen Lennox, you abandoned seven '•Continued on page 0) 1 Representatives At Atlanta Meet 'j Four representatives of the ! University of North Carolina Di vision of Health Affairs will at tend the Southern Regional Edu cational Board meeting in At lanta this week. . !>i Rob. rt, Cadmus, direeL .'or of the Mfrtmtiat Hospital, I w *ll address the five-day meet liing on “How Does the Progres sive Hospital Administrator Re concile Provisions for Clinical Experiences of Students with the Demands of Understaffed Hospitals?” Miss Elizabeth L. Kemble, ; dean, and Miss Mary Walker j Randolph, professor in charge of graduate curricula, will rep* I resent the UNU School of Nurs |t ing. It Miss Ruth Kay, professor in ' the Department of Public Health j: Nursing, will represent the UNO !,School of Public Health. I ■ Home Too Early to (Jet in New House I Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McCullister and their three younger children returned Friday from Chautau qua, N. 4 where they hud spent ; the summer. They had expected Ito move directly into their new {house at 607 Morgan Creek Road, I but had to postpone that because the house is not yet finished. They are living temporarily in ! Durham. ; Os the three children, Bill and | lived are in the Glenwood Ele* ‘Vrtcntury School, and Ellen (■ three years old. An older son, Douglas, is with the U. S. Army in Germany. He will be released from the service at the end of October and will be at boms from then till February, when he will enter Syracuse University as a member of the freshman class. At Memorial Hoapital Among local persons listed aa patients at Memorial Hospital yesterday were Mrs. Joe Alston, Fred Harber, Miss Lucy Boylan, Mrs., Ernest Brown Jr., Mrs. Nicholas Eliadis, Curtis Hogan, Robert McCleery, Miss Virgin!* O’Sullivan, Mrs. G. C. Parker, Donnie Riggsbee, Patricia Rog ers, Mrs. J. W. Ross, C. R. Sleight, V. G. Thompson, anid EL S. Wilkinson. To Speak Tonight Dr. Hubert C. Patterned Jr* assistant professor of surgary of , the University School of Modt cine, will speak before &o Fourth District Madisal SMftfep,
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