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FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday Vol. 32, No. 78 This Old Fire Truck Did Its Part—You Do Yours H Hi « B a B Wml i sf® < a * 4» £ 3£ V* S?'f(l|M v ‘ safe&|B &nBK if&l* £Bp&f&-' "fly' i fl| $•. mr **“"*" ••*■*"“ *—»»’- &>#?■ W iv/ ? ^ l?' &'s%;,{ 5 min& sf,«B‘., ?wp. i \ ~«*xßkL —Phulo by Dili Prouty This old fire truck of the Town of Chapel Hill has done its part in putting out tires. Now, the people of the Town can do theirs by helping to prevent fires. That was the message «f l ire Chief J. S. Boone as he mounted the ancient vehicle for a Fire Prevention Week picture. The truck was parked at the corner of Franklin and Columbia Streets all week. Board Declines to Loosen Town Parking Regulations Representatives of student or ganizations pleaded with town officials at Monday night’s Hoard of Aldermen meeting* to loosen up on the new parking restrictions on South Columbia ami Rosemary Streets Hut de-, spite their efforts, the Board refused to take any immediate action on the problem. F.U Hudgins Jr., president »f the University Inter-Fraternity. Council, speaking for the fra-! ternities which line the west side; of ?'re. jtf. '. vV.i Car..- 1 : cron Avenue and Franklin Street, 1 asked that the two-hour park ing restriction placed on cars in that area at the September meet ing of the Hoard be changed back to unlimited parking or that the ordinance be rescinded for 30 to 60 days until some solution h|Mtpund to the problem. argued the fraterni tics needed parking space be - cause they didn’t have such space around their houses; they pay taxes to the town; the Univer-j sity grants the students the privilege of cars and the town takes it away; there is a park-! mg lot on North Columbia which' is never more than half full;l and that the restrictions were passed during the summer when there were no students here to discuss the problem. In noting that the Merchants A isociation had asked for the restriction,! Hudgins said that the ordinance had solved that organization’s and the town’s problem but had hurt the students. Hob Y'oung, president of the University Student body, asked restriction be lifted a i*jrarily until some solution could be found. Young said that the student government was now taking action to solve the park-' ing problem and that it had al-| ready limited the number of freshmen car owners and had placed a $2.50 registration fee on all student cars. He said that a student committee was now at work on the problem, and said Mias Dolan in Michigan Miss Margaret B. Dolan, as sociate professor of public health nursing at the .University, will be the moderator of a panel dis cussion of “New Patterns of Field Teaching” this week in Ann Arbor, Michigan, at a confer ence on field instruction and experience in public health nurs ing. | ( Jtecord Star on Godfrey Program George Hamilton 4th, pop- ‘ ular recording star of Colonial : Records of Chapel Hill, will be j ‘ on Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Seouta television program over WFMY-TV Monday night at ■* 7:30 o’clock. He will sing ‘Tve Got a 1 Secret.” Hamilton's newest re cording “A Rose and a Baby Ruth" is selling well through* out the nation. Now a student at American University in Washington, D. C., Hamilton, who is a na tive of Winston-Salem and i who attended the University here last year, has a regular television show over WMAL-TV in Washington- 5 Cents a Copy that if given a chance to work] i with town officials he was sure i a solution could be found i After hearing the testimony, Alderman William Alexander /told Hudgins and Young that all i fraternities and sororities had been notified well in advance of the passage of the ordinances Chapel Hill High School Will Tackle Graham Footballers Here Tonight at 8 \ ** + Chapel Hill High School's Wild cats, ioking for their fourth win after having taken their second loss at Hillsboro last Friday, will meet an improving Graham foot hall team in the Carrboro Lions Park at 8 o’clock tonight (Fri day) in a District 111 A A game that should shape up as a close contest. Chapel Hill, which has been hobbled by minor injuries to key |men most of the season, is ex- Ipected to be up for the game. :Coach Hob ( niton said, “We are in the best shape we’ve been in {since our first game.” But the Chapel Hill mentor added that the Wildcats would have to he in their best»shape if they expect to upset the heavier, higher scoring Alamance County outfit. While the locals were able to heat Cary only 12-0, Graham {walloped the same team 25-0 iwn, weeks ago. Coach George Heckman, who {played fullback to Coach Cul ! ton’s tailback in the same hack field at Catawba a few years ago, has a tricky offense, fea turing both single wing and wing T-plays, while the Wildcats United Nations Day Program Announced A varied and appropriate pro-! gram for United Nations Day on ( Wednesday, October 24, was an nounced yesterday by Kenneth Mclntyre, Chapel Hill chairman for the UN observance. United Nations functions and activities will he detailed in Chapel Hill High School and Un iversity government and political science courses on that date, and at 3 o’clock in the afternoon a tree will be planted by the Chapel Hill Garden Club on the Ele mentary School grounds. Univer sity students from foreign coun tries will be in attendance at the tree-planting ceremony. Beginning at 10 o’clock in the morning, a continuous film titled I “Defense of the Peace” will he shown in the “Y” lobby on the campus. And at 8:30 o’clock in the evening at Hille! House a com mittee of women under the di rection of Edward Danziger will serve foreign refreshments at a UN party- The party will feature folk dances of foreign countries as well as the U. S. They will be performed by members of the University Cosmopolitan Club. On WUNC-TV, channel 4, be ginning at 8:30 p.m., a movie featuring Danny Kaye will be presented. It is titled “Assign ment Children,” and is appropri ate to the UN day. The Chap el Hill Weekly jand Mayor O. K. Cornwell said /that the restrictions were passed in September so they could be , put into effect by the town’s ■ limited police force before the fall rush began. 1 The mayor added that another reason for the restrictions on ; (Continued on page 6) feature a hard-running attack 1 and possession ball. But both clubs can throw successfully on occasion. Coach Culton said that he ex-| per ted to start the same men as last week with the exception of the fullback spot, which will| he filled by Leigh Skinner to night instead of Tommy Good-' rich. Other probable starters will he Clark and Carroll at the ends; Hogan and Rogers at the tackles; Pendergrass and either Mangum or Blake at the guards; Todd at center; Harville at quarterback, and Costello or Roy and Williams at the halfback posts, to go along with Skinner. Rural Fire Group To Seek Members | Directors of Orange Rural Fire Department will meet at the County Agent's Office in Hills boro Monday night at 7:30 to discuss the drive for addition al membership in the association. Several home owners have al ready paid their membership dues, hut not enough money has come in to allow the purchase of 11 he two way radio requested by Fire Chief George Gilmore. Let-, n j , ters have been sent out this! j week to several hundred new home owners around Hillsboro disking them to join. In the event thia appeal is not successful, the directors might plan a house-to house membership drive. The Rev. W . Robert Insko Has Leading Role in “Anastasia”, the Playmakers f First Production, Opening Wednesday The Rev. W. Robert Insko, chaplain to Episcopal students at the University, assumes a feature role in the Carolina Play makers’ first production this year, “Anastasia.” The drama, adapted by Guy Bolton from the French of Marcel Maurette, will appear at the Playmakers Theatre Wednesday through Sunday, October 17 through 21. at 8:30 p.m. t Mr. Insko wil appear as Dr. Serenskl, who befriended the heroine, Anna, during her long illness, and returns to convince her to leave the plot In which she is involved. Anna, under the tutelage of exiled Prince Bounine, presents herself to the Russian Royal Family as their supposedly-dead heiress. The chaplain, who was ordained in 1960, was horn in Paris, K'y. He received his A. B. and M. A. degrees at the University of Kentucky, and his M. R. E. and B. D. at the School of Theology, University of the South, in Sewanee, Tenn. He spent three years in the U. S. Infantry in France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. Married and with two children, a boy and • girl, Mr. Insko la extremely popular among the students and is often seen having coffee with them or participating in their discussions. He first showed interest in UNC dramatics last year when he played the Parson in the one-act “Puncfc and the Parson,” by Martha Rankin. CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12. 1956 20 Thousand Expected at Homecoming With indications pointing to a crowd of more than 20,000 for the Carolina-Georgia game and attendant program Satur day, the weekend’s gala celebra tions of homecoming will get under way with a rousing pep meeting tonight (Friday). The village and campus will take on a masquerade effect with elaborate decorations which will be displayed on storefronts, dor mitories, fraternity and sorority houses, and other buildings about Chapel Hill and the University campus- A' Homecoming Queen will be! presented and crowned at half-i time of the football game Sat-j urday afternoon in Kenan Sta dium. Propose Changes In Zoning Statute The Chapel Hill Board of Al-! dermen at its meeting Monday night set a public hearing for Friday, October 2(5, at 7 p.m. on ; nine proposals for changes in the Chapel Hill zoning ordinance. The proposed changes, which will have to be advertised twice be fore the public hearing, were brought by: 1_ V. 1. Moody, which would rezone a tract of land on the Airport Koad from residential to surburban. commercial. 2. T. M. Green Jr. and C. Paul Roberts, which would rezone a 108 acre tract on the Taylor- Green farm on the Airport Road from agricultural to KA-20 resi dential. 8. J. R. Ellis, which would re- 1 zone property on the Durham Highway from residential to business. 4. C. FI. Stephens, administra tor of the Hudson estate, which would rezone lots off the Dur ham Road from residential to business. 5, Service Insurance and Real ty Company, which would re zone the north side of Rosemary | Street from a point 880 feet least of North Columbia Street |to the west side of Henderson' I Street, ffom RA-6 residential to, business. The petition was sign-; | (Continued on Page 12) Symphony Society's Annual Chapel Hill Drive Will Begin Monday, October 22 The annual membership drive of the Chapel Hill chapter of the North Carolina Symphony Society will open Monday, Octo ber 22, according to Captain Walter O. Holt, membership chairman, and will continue through October 21). Plans for , the drive were developed last ; week by the local Symphony Hoard, meeting October 4 at the home of Mrs. Benjamin F Swa- I in. In the 1956-56 season the Or ehestra visited 50 communities, presenting 107 concerts heard by 140,000 children and 40,000 adults, in addition to radio and television appearances. Conducted by Mr. Swalin, founder of the orchestra in its present form, the nation ally known Symphony will give two concerts here in the 1966-57 season, a free matinee for school children, and an evening program for members. The minimum goal for the local chapter is $1,960, the standard fee for one adult concert by the full Symphony, now projected for May 5, 1967, with the chil dren’s matinee presented without further cost. A substantial por Chapel Mill Chaff L. G. All of us have read books and stories about the slow ness and difficulties of trav el long ago. For example, George Washington’t tour of the South in his carriage in the 1790’5. He wa3 driven over roads part of the time deep in mud and part of the time deep in dust, and it took him about two weeks to get from Washington on the Potomac to Fayetteville on the Cape Fear iw this state. / But goodness alive! think of what hardships three; .North Carolinians (Collier I Cobb Jr., Roland McClam-i roch, and Jerry Hudson) had to undergo when they went to see the New York Yan kees play the Brooklyn Dod gers in the World Series last i week! ■ j With Mr. Hudson piloting, they set out from here ' Thursday morning in the | Cobb (Service Insurance and Realty Company) 4-passen ger plane. It was a dark and gloomy day but they hoped ■ for a change. Bad weather grounded . them at Richmond. Only one i seat on a commercial plane was available and Mr. Mc- Clamroeh took that. The I wea the r improved and Messrs. Cobb and Hudson took off for New York. Bad weather again and they land ed at the Northeast Phila ] delphia airport. They rode into Philadelphia in a taxi and went by train to New i York. They reached their rendezvous with Mr. Mc -1 Clamroch, the Hotel Lexing ton, just 20 minutes ahead of him, for his flight from Riel -.nond had been slowed dui*rt by had weather. 1 None of ’em could go to , Friday's game in Brooklyn 'because they couldn’t get (Continued on Pago 2) tion of this amount has already been received from membership renewals. Membership in the Symphony Society, which admits an adult to the concert here and to other adult concerts throughout the State, are available for s.'i, with joint memberships for two per sons at the same address for $5. Students of any age may enroll fin sl. There are also tKe-'Toilow ing memberships juTdeh entitle the subscriber to/vote and hold office in the Symphony Society: Active, $10; Donor, $25; Patron, SIOO, and Group memberships ranging from $25 to SIOO. Jay tees to Hold Halloween Party The Chapel Hill Jaycees will again stage a children’s Hallo ween party this year. Claude Wheeler and Don Mullis are the chairmen. Hank Cheney will be chairman of another Jay-{ cee sponsored event, the Voice of, Democracy Contest in the schools next month. i . n , _•_ ■> ■ ' >s■ ,00111 kIH pH ;ft || $27,937 Community Chest Goal for 10 Agencies Set A goal of $27,937.57 has been set for the 1956 Community Chest drive in Chapel Hill, Walt Baucom, chest chairman, an nounced yesterday. Ten agencies will benefit from funds collect*! during the drive, which will be gin with a big “Community Chest Day” on Friday, November 2. The ten agencies are the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, the Y- Aldersgate Church Building Fund Drive Opens Sunday The Aldersgate Methodist] Church will launch a $80,000]; building fund drive at the 11 o'clock Sunday morning wor- 1 ; ship service at the Glonwood < Elementary School. Gran Childress, chairman of ; the church finance commission j atul building fund campaign, said every member, as well as friends of the church, would be asked to 1 make a contribution and pledge ; to the building fund. The --im paign will last two weeks. Only 27 Persons at Hearing on Limiting Number of Commissioners Per Tou)nship Only 27 persons, including the ' five Orange County Commission ■ ers, were present at the Monday | night Hillsboro hearing on a i proposal to limit the Board of , Commissioners to not more than two per township, beginning in ' 1958. •j The hearing had been reqjest ! ed after the commissioners this j past summer passed a resolution .to ask the General Assembly to enact a law limiting the nam ber of commissioners per town • ship. Following the hearing Mon - day night, no action was taken | on the matter and there was no {indication when a move to ro ll consider the resolution would he made, or if one actually would l>e. ) Speaking against the proposal ({were Paul Wager, Mrs. Raymond , I Adams, Roland McClamroch, | Mrs. Richmond Bond, all of .‘Chapel Hill, and favoring it were jR. (). Forrest and G. \V Lloyd of Hillsboro, and Hugh M. ’Wil son of Chapel Hill. Expressions ) of W K. Thompson in favor and of Collier Cobb Jr. in opposition | were read at the meeting. Mr. Wager suid the proposal {would “rob the county of unity {and leadership” and pointed out that the trend now is away from ■ elections hy wards or townships ior geographical boundaries. Mrs. ■ Bond termed the move one whi' li 1 would result in representation hy geography rather than popu lation ,Mr. McClamroch said to limit th\ number of representatives I may eliminate the best men from membership o:i . Jie hoard anil therefore would be a “risk.” He maintained that such u plan has not worked well where it has been tried ami urged the commissioners to le consider. Mr. Forrest, who is chairman ’ of the County Democratic Exe cutive Committee and a past I I chairman of the board of com | missionerx, emphasized that the | proposal is an “approach to fuir i ness to the whole county.” He ’{pointed out that no objection was {voiced last year to limiting the .number of members per town i ship on the board of education, i Mr. Wilson said he felt the <4 » Year in County; other rate. „„ •> i Teens, the Recreation Center, the ’ Community Center, the Holmes : Day Nursery, the Humane So • ciety, the Chapel Hill Hitfil i School Library, the Peter Garvin i; Library at the Glenwood School, and the Mary Bayley Pratt Li • brary at the Chapel Hill Ele mentary School. All of these agencies, except ■ the Chapel Hill High School Li- The Aldersgate church has j acquired property on the U. 3. 15-501 by-pass on which it pro poses to erect an edifice at a cost of about $45,000. The church' is so that it can be added to as the congregation grows. Mr. Childress will be assisted in the campaign by Robert V Cox, Dr. William Joyner, Leon ard Hampton, Dr. Dwight Price, George Rettie, Mrs. Frank West, and Glenn May. limitation was "a step in the right direction,” although h< preferred a five-member board, all members of which are elected at the same time. “The people will take care of where they come from," said Mr. Wilson. Mr. Forrest quoted Mr. Thomp son as saying he still favoted the proposal, and Board Chair man R J. M. Hobbs read a letter from Mr. Cobb, who termed it I “unwise.” Campaign Tomorrow Will Benefit Blind The Carrboro Lions Club's eighth annual white cane sale w til be held tomorrow morn ing (Saturday) for the bene fit of the blind, it is announced by K. B. Cole, chairman of the project. Girls will solicit con tributions in the main business sections of both Chapel Hill ami Carrboro. “I’eople here have been gen erous to us in the past,” Mr. Cole said, “and I am sure they will be generous again this year.” If the weather is rainy to morrow morning the drive will be postponed. Similar projects for the benefit of the blind and visually handicapped are being held hy Lions Clubs throughout the nation. At Ford Foundation Meeting F. Stuart Chapin Jr., professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the Univer sity, is attending a Foul Foun dation conference in New York City on problems of urbanization in the United States and under developed countries abroad. University to Observe Founding Day The annual ceremony marking the founding of the University lt!3 years ago will be held on the campus today (Friday), be ginning at It am. As usual, the Carolina Play makers will depict the founding. The ceremony will begin on the steps of South Building and will end with a pantomime <f the cornerstone laying it Old Fast Building Chancellor Robert B. itouse will preside, and this will be his final time as master of cere iioniee, because he retires at the snd of this school year. As usual, too, the pageantry vill be colorful, including stu dent choruses, Che University land, the ROTC uniformed units, ind the costumed Playmakers. The invocation will be giVen by the Rev. Samuel Tilden HabelJ pastor of the Chapel Hill Ba jf Ist Church. The Men s Glee Cl#b under the direction of Joel Car ter, will sing, and the Univer sity Rand, under direction of Her bert W. Fred, will play. James ileldman is director of the pag eantry. Immediately following the cor nerstone laying, those taking part in the commemoration will fol low the band and proceed to the Oavie Poplar where the morn- To Speak in Charlotte B. L. Ullman, chairman of the Department of Classics at the University, will address a froup of high school Latin teach srs today in Charlotte at a con vention of the North Carolina Education Association. FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday brary, were participants in the drive last year. “Community Chest Day," Bau com said, “will be an all-out rt tempt to collect as much of the goal as possible. The campaign is being arranged so that people will be called on only once to contribute ” During the campaign fund col lecting will be done in six divi sions, Baucom added. There will be advance gifts, residential, health affairs, Negro, campus and business divisions. _ The purpose of the Community ( hest is to combine into one drive the raising of funds for community organizations, rather than having each of the 10 or ganizations conducting their own i drive. Baucom pointed out. This way it is easier on the contribu tors, the collectors, and all con cerned, he said. Flach of the organizations that ; benefit from the Community J Chest in Chapel Hill ser es .worthy purposes in the comraun : ity, Baucom said. l '- The Recreation Center, m the | Ole! Methodist Church, provides entertainment and recreation foi ] the children of the community. I Among items included in its bud get are the purchase of records and games, heating, directors’ salaries and janitor service, en tertainment, and refreshments. The Negro Community Center is actively used and provides a recreation center for young peo ple, a meeting place for civic groups, a playground for chil dren, a library, and a center for activities by persons of all ages and interests. The Boy Scouts include more than 500 boys active in the Cubs, (Continued on page 6) Singers Invited to Join Choral Club The Chapel Hill Choral Club will begin ita 1966-67 season w*th 'rehearsals at 7:30 p.m. Monday. ' October 15, in Hill Music Hail. Membership in the club is open to all singers in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and nearby communi ties. There is no limitation to i the size of the group, whch is sponsord by the University’s Mu sic Department and directed by Joel Carter, but it usually levels off between 50 and 75 voices. Last season the club presented a varied concert in the fall and, 'with the University Glee Clubs j and Orchestra, sang Mozart's I "Requiem” in February, and gavo its annual Commencement concert jin June. As its first performance this season, it will sing the “Mis jsa Brevis” in December as a part jof the Mozart Festival being | sponsored by the Graham Memor ial. Officers of the club are Char les Fulghum, president; Mary Nies, secretary, and Gene Strass ler, librarian. Its accompanist is Mrs. John Shannon, a graduate ,assistant in the Music Depart ment. ing program will be concluded, j Following the ceremony, the | annual Alumni Luncheon will be held at Lenoir Hall. It Won’t Rain It won’t rain today t Fri day) and it hasn't rained ea an October 13th ia Chapel Hill as far back as Loan Round Wilson can remember. Mr. Wilson, retired UNC librarian, amid it was n good thing the cornerstone of Old twelth of October In 1795 be- East Building was laid on the cause the celebration of Uni versity Day can be handled out-of-doors with the aasur hnce (from patriotic weather fr prophets) that it wont rain on that particular day of that mhnth. Chapel MillnoteS Three middle-age women discussing how much they liked the TV program, “Gun smoke. !’ • • • Woman stopping car, disem barking, and carefully picking up terrapin from the road and placing it in the woods. • • • Professor trudging home ward in last waek’s rain sur prised to find himself ban ids his own parked automobile. Then he remembered having driven it to work that morn ing.