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FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday Volume 33, No. 92 Christmas\Lights Go on and Shopping Season Opens Today Gigantic candles and figurines light Chapel Hill and Carr-! K, and stores will stay open ( till 9 o’clock tonight (Friday), toj mark the formal opening of the Christmas shopping season in the two communities. The candles are part of the Christmas decorations put up by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Mer chants Association. A candle is on each lamp post on both sides of Franklin Street from the Post. Office to the Colonial Store. Add ed to each candle this year is a four-foot by four-foot evergreen! spray decorated wish thirty Christmas ornaments and a large red bow. There will also be strings of colored lights stretched across the street at the Franklin and Columbia corner and at the Franklin and Mallette corner, plus four lighted Christmas trees,' one each at the Recreation Cen ter, the Masonic Lodge, the High School, and the Hus Station. Carrboro’s decorations are new, too. They include illuminated plastic figures of Santa Claus Edward Bilpuch to Give Speech Today Edward (1. Bilpuch of 108 Fast Rosemary Street has been in vited to speak today at Oak Tenn., at a seminar spon-j i-Hed by the Physics Division of! the Oak Ridge National I.abora-i lory. He will talk about his' measurements on neutron cap ture cross sections of indium, silver, and uranium. He flew to Oak Ridge last night and will return tomorrow. Mr. Bilpuch recently received his Ph.D. degree from the U.N.C. Physics Department and is now a research associate at Duke University. Santa Claus to Pay Visit to Hillsboro Santa Claus will come to Hills boro tonight (Friday) at 7 o’clock, and the town’s Christmas) lights will be turned on. In the| event of rain, the ceremony, marking his arrival will be on •Saturday night. The Hillsboro and bands will escort Santa Aboard a float to the Courthouse.) Several choral groups will take pari in the celebration. 1 o'nlemiar of KVEXTS - ..... . ... , j Friday, November 30 All day Clothing for Hun gary received at oi<l In.sti-I tote of Government on E. Franklin. All day— Wll.PF’s rummage -ale at Public Service Com pany. 1 p.m R. W. Stoughton of the Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies speaks to Chemistry Department Jour nal Club, 207 Venable Hall, j 7 p.m.—Santa Claus arrives in Hillsboro. 8 p.m.—Annual meeting of United Congregational Chris tian Church at the church. Saturday, December 1 All day—Clothing for Hun gary received at old Insti tute of Government on K. Franklin. 9 a.m. to noon—WlLPF’s rummage sale at Public Service Company. 5 to 7:30 p.m.—Public bene fit brunswick stew supper at Orange Methodist Church. 1 8:30 p.m.—“Best of Stein beck” at Memorial Hall. Sunday, December 2 7 a.m.—Bird Club trip to University Lake; gather at Bell Tower. 8 p.m.—Mozart program,' “Miss* Brevia” and "The Magic Flute,” at Hill Hall. Monday, December 3 4:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.—Dr. Roger Russell speaks under; auspices of Psychology Coi ioquim at 106 Hanes Hall. 6:30 p.m.—Annual meeting of Chapel Hill-Carrboro Her chnts Association at the Car olina Inn. 7:30 p.m.—Dairy workshop at old Courthouse in Hillaboro. 8 p.m.—General meeting of the League of Women Voters in the Wilson Library Assem bly Room. 8 p.m.—Women’s Auxiliary of Church of Holy Family to meet at the church. 8 p.m.— Aldersgate WACJ. meets at Glen wood Elemen tary School. 5 Cents a Copy and carol singers bracketed to power poles. To give families a chance to do their Christmas shopping to gether after parents have come home from work, the stores will remain open until 9 p.m. tonight (Friday) and on December 7, De cember 14, and every day from December 17 through Decem Maurice Feldman Cops First SIOO Bond; Another Shop-Here Contest Opens Today . .I. Mr PBi ' iSPr fl -Staff Photo by BUI Prouty Maurice L. Feldman, (right), an. employe of the University Li brary, won the SIOO U. S. Savings Bond in the first phase of the! “Shop in Chapel Hill” contest of local merchants and the Weekly, lie is shown receiving the bond from H, S. McGinty, president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Mer chants Association. The second part of the contest begins today. To enter it, one must be a rest dent of Orange, Chatham or Dur ham counties, and must obtain an official entry blank at any of the stores listed on page three of the second sectiorwtf W jekly The rules of contptK appear on that page. The topic of the second contest is generally five ways one feels Chapel Hill merchants (a# a group or individually) can im prove their services to the shop-' ping public. All entries must be postmarked| ivy midnight of December 16, 1956, and must be addressed to the Weekly. The winner will be announced in the December 21 < issue. Mr. Feldman, the first winner,' lives ut RFD 3, Chapel Hill, and 1 his five reasons for why he likes) to shop in Chapel Hill were ad-j judged best of the some 300 en-j tries. Mr. Feldman's winning entry follows: “1. There is an excellent choice of merchandise, well-displayed and competitively priced. “2. Buying in my home area, I know many of the merchants personnally and know that they are interested in my satisfaction with their merchandise. “3. it is more convenient to buy at home and less expensive, considering the value of the time and cost of transportation to reach other communities. ”4. When 1 buy in Chapel Hill, I know that my money stays in my own community, and will ulti mately aid in making my com munity a better place to live First Baptist Church Is Planning to Burn Its Mortgage Sunday Afternoon The First Baptist Church will 'hold a mortgage burning cele bration this Sunday, December 2, at the church, which is at the corner of Roberson and West Rosemary Streets. The occasion will mark the completion of pay- Iments on the new church build ing and its parsonage. The celebration will include three services. The first will be at 11 a.m., with the church’s pastor, the Rev. J. R. Manley, j Four Famous Actors Will Appear Here Tomorrow Night in ‘Best of Steinbeck’ Constance Bennett, Tod An drews, Frank McHugh, and Rob-| ert Strauas will perform at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow (Saturday) in! Memorial Hall in “The Beat of Steinbeck,” a unique theatrical {production woven from the writ ings' of th* diatinguahed Ameri can author, John Steinbeck. Ad mission to th* performance, spon sored hers by the Carolina Play- MMWH&ra The Chapel Hill Weekly ber 21. They will close at theit, usual time on Christmas Eve and i will be closed all day on Decem ber 25 and 20. The street decorations were put up by Bob Rush. Girls from the Recreation Center, directed by Miss Sarah Umstead, helped to put the ornaments on the ever green sprays. which benefits me as well as my neighbors and friends. "6. I like the friendliness of the Chapel Hill businessmen, and, 1 as well, 1 like to be able to chat with my friends and acquain-j tenaces when we meet in the stores of the community.” Special Service at The United Church The Women’s Fellowship will' Head the regular 11 a.m. worship service this Sunday at the United Congregational Chrislia* Church. It will be the for ‘the dedication of the Annual Thanh Offering set aside by member* of the Fellowship at special mo ments of thankfulness in the last 12 months. | Mrs. Wilbur Senter will give I the invocation, with scripture reading by Mrs. Thomas Peyton. Mrs. Samuel Mugill will lead the prayer service, and Mrs. Hilton Goulson will describe the work' | for which the offering will be used. Women’s voices will form the choir, with a vocal solo by Mrs. Harvey L. Carnes. Accompanied by a violin se lection by Mrs. Edgar A Men, the women, in procession, will lay their gifts on the altar. Mrs. George Nicholson, president "of the fellowship, will give the prayer of dedication. “The Secret of the Gift” will be the title of the sermon by the pastor, the Rev. Harvey L. Carnes. Ushers will he Mrs. James M. I’inney, Mrs. M. I*. Jennings, Mrs. 1). D. Mai ley, and Mrs. F. H. Watts. Mrs. J It. Ellis, program committee chairman, lias charge of general arrange ments. Weekend in Charlottesville Mr. and Mrs. Herbert R. Baer spent the Thanksgiving weekend in Charlottesville, Va., and Wash ington, D. C. Their grandson, Larry Lewis of Lynchburg, Va., went to Washington with them. I I bringing the message. At the 1 • second service, to be held at 3 , p.m. and to include the actual i burning of the mortgage, the t speaker will be the Rev. Mark i Fisher, pastor of the White Rock] • Baptist Church of Durham, whose • choir and congregation will also i take part. The third service will : be held ut 7:30 p.m., when Holy iiCommunion will be administered, ij All three services will be open >|to the general public. ■ door or in advance at the Play i makers’ business office at 214 i Abernathy Hall. I Mr. Steinbeck, born in Salinas,) ’ California, has been for moffe I than 26 years one of th* most powerful voices in contemporary , American literature. Excerpt#! from several of bis most die tinguished works have barn made ■tot* stag* scenes that will be per-! ■ Right by CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1956 CHAPEL HILL CHAFF Bv Louis Graves A bad situation exists at; a football game (1) when 1 the state of the weather is such as to cause you physi cal discomfort or (2) when! your team is being hopeless ly beaten. I have known of many a man who, in such a situa- i tion, was glad to leave be fore the end of the game and go home, but till last week I never knew of anybody who reversed the process— that is, left home when the game was half over and went to see the rest of it. The 35,000 spectators at the Carolina-I)uke game last Saturday suffered keenly from the cold. (The official temperature was 33.) And tln* Carolina adherents un-j the additional suf fering of defeat. Myself, I didn’t suffer at all. Not from the cold because 1 was in a Recreation Referendum Will Be. Asked, Commissioners to Organize on Monday The Chapel Hill Jayeees on Monday will formally present their request to the Orange Coun ■ ty Board of Commissioners for ja referendum on a $250,000 bond issue for development of recre ation centers in the Chapel Hill . Recreation District. I William S. Stewart will be the ’ spokesman for the Jayeees and j lay before the commissioners pe-’ jtitions signed by more than 1,150 freeholders and requesting that a referendum be held. The commissioners will be asked to call a public hearing on the long-pending proposal, 1 which was authorized by the ,1955 General Assembly. || The Jayeees’ proposal will be 'heard at 2:15 p.m. Monday, after dthe commissioners organize by seating veteran member and ) ehairmir R. J. M. Hobbs and newcomet Donald W. Stanford, | both of Chapel Hill, on the board. Mr. Hobbs was re-elected this year and Mr. Stanford defeated the incumbent Sim Efland for a board seat. Observers in Chapel Hill say that Mr. Hobbs will be re-elected . chairman of the board if he will !agree to serve. I Still another matter which may come before the board is 'one pertaining to Commissioner, !Edwin 8. Lanier, who was elect-' ed to the State Senate in No vember. He may or may not 'resign Monday. Mr. Lanier told I the Weekly on Tuesday that he |"honestly had not made up my; mind what t<> do” about resign ing Monday or waiting until he 1 is about to qualify for the Senate in early February. He repeated that his decision will depend upon I the advice of fiiends. Rack to recreation: Dr. J. Kempton Jones is chairman of Die Jaycee project hut will he > unable to attend the Monday meeting. His place will be taken by Mr. Stewart, who will be ;accompanied by Gran Childress,! the Rev. Charles Hubbard, Ro-j land Giduz, O. A. Allen, Walt! Buucom, and Charles Phillips, j Dr. Junes said yesterday that ;the Jayeees had obtained the | required names of LV.k of the j freeholders of the Chapel Hill : Recreation District on the peti -1 tions seeking the referendum. The district roughly embraces ail of Chapel Hill township, although it can be nrnended at the public hearing to include just the area .that wants to he included. It has been estimated by ex perienced recreation consultants that the Roberson Street facility j here can be improved and a swimming pool built and that j another center with swimming jpool can be erected on a site to be selected—all at a cost of about j $250,000. That would be the' Davis Appeals for Seal Sale Returns Jim Davis, chairman of the sale of Christmas seals for the war on tuberculosis, appeals everybody to make their remit-' tances for the seals they received in the mail. < In issuing the appeal, he added I that extra seals are available at j Mrs. Williams’ booth in the Bank of Chapel Hill, Or seels will be mailed to anybody who phone* Mr. Davi*. ! “We made every effort to reach everybody,” Mr*. Davi* •aid, "but there are bound to be , souse wo missed. We had# they .’drill call me or pick up their laMle at jm beak." *- •I warm room at home, and.not from defeat because I am not capable of being dis tressed by it to any appre ciable degree after 65 years of attending football games. Last Saturday I quit my reading or my work at the • typewriter for a minute or ■,two now and then to listen to the radio report coming from the Kenan stadium. I was not excited by anything ■ the broadcaster said. After the game I was amazed to have my neighbor and fellow Carolina alum nus, Joe Warren, tell me that after he had listened to the radio report during the , first half he had left home , and gone to see the second half. This, despite the pros pect of sitting yearly an hour in the bittng cold and The fact—which counts heav- I (Continued on Rage I) amount of the bonds to be voted on in the pro[x>sed referendum. Dr. Jones said that if the en tire district comes in on the program, only two and one-half to three cents taxes per SIOO valuation would be required an- 1 jnually to retire the bonds. He said, too, that the consultants have estimated only five to seven [cents in taxes would be necessary annually to finance up to $20,000 for trained directors and main tenance. The Mills Are Here Mr. and Mrs. George Watts! Hill of Durham have bought the Iformer Larry Flinn house in the' GWn and have come to live in' it through the winter. U.D.C. Meeting The i a sd Daughters of the Confederacy will meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday with Mra. George Crow at 403 Patterson Place. Double-Barreled Mozart Program Will Be Staged Sunday Night in Hill Hall ( A double-barreled tribute to Mozart, whose 200th birthday is r being celebrated, will be given at 8 p.m. Sunday, December 2, 1 in Hill Hall under the auspices t of the University's Music De- I partment and the Graham Me-j , morial Activities Board. The two-part Petite Musicale pro-' Jgram will open with Mozart’s 1 J “Missa Brevis,” sung by the , Chapel Hill Choral Club under ethe direction of Joel Carter, ( U.N.C. music professor. This will ( be followed, after a brief inter mission, with an abridged per-! i formance of Mozart’s most color-' . ful opera, “The Magic Flute,'" , in English ami with full costume ( und scenery. Admission is free . and everybody i* invited. John Hanks, tenor, Duke Uni-j varsity music professor, will sing ,'the role of Tamino, the young prince. Donna Patton, soprano, . U.N.C. voice student, will be . Pamina, daughter of the Queen , of the Night and the quest of I Tamino. Norman Cordon, head Victor Walters Is i > Farm Bureau Head i Victor Walters has been elect ed president of the Orange Coun • ty Farm Bureau for the coming i year. j Other officers elected at a i meeting at Aycock School this . week were Glen Carruthers, viee : president; and Mrs. Victor Wal ters, secretary; Mrs. Walters, Bunn Pope and Walbur Poole, delegates and alternate to the national convention in Miami, j Fla., December 10. The bureau voted to sponsor the new Blue Ribbon Farm and 'Home Program in the Cedar .Grove Community during the ’ coming year. —■ ■ - ——» ■■■ ■ .1 Dairy Meeting Monday Night All dairy farmers are urged .to attend the annuo! DHIA Work-) 'shop to be held Monday, at 7:30 ) p.m., at the old courthouse in' ‘ Hillsboro. Marvin E. Senger, 1 ’ dairy extension specialist, will 1 conduct the workshop. Give Play at Lincoln School ' The st. Augustine Players i from Raleigh gave a performance 1 of “The Re in makers” at 8 o’clock loot night (Thursday) in the r lyiirkm of the Lincoln High 1 •cheek | Orange County Farm Year N Has Been Remarkably Good At the end of this calendar year Orange County farmers will have: Grossed about $1,100,000 in dairy products. Grossed about $1,000,000 in poultry and eggs. Grossed about $.’5,118,128 in to bacco. Spent well over $1,000,000 for feeds in addition to having a good production year on their ( farms. These were some of the as-! tonishing figures Farm Agent Don Matheson used in a talk at the second annual City-Farm Week meeting of the Chapel Hill Kiwanis Club at the Carolina Inn here Tuesday night. With the exception of poultry raising, Mr. Matheson has con cluded from various reports, Orange County farmers will call 1956 a ‘.remarkably good year. Mr. Matheson told the club that 118 Orange Grade A. dairy-! men report Hi percent more milk; sold this year than last, which represents more than a SIOO,OOO gain during the year. During the year, 10 dairymen! installed bulk tanks and pipeline; milkers, and all reports indicate that Orange dairymen are more efficient than the average dairy-: man elsewhere. They have bled 1,800 cows artifically, seeded 1,- 000 more acres in pasture, put 1,200 acres in alfalfa and are pro ducing more silage. | Rer-acre production averages for feed grains have been up during the year with corn aver-! aging about 1)7 bushels per acre, oats 50 bushels, barley 40 bush els, and wheat 25 bushels. Clyde 1 ! Roberts made an average of 53 bushels of wheat per acre, Ray mond W’eaver 100 bushels of oats and Banks Lloyd 74 bushels of barley. Although the market for fry ers has been down during 1956, the egg market has been up con siderably, Mr. Matheson report ed. However, imuitry raisers built 40 new poultry house* and in creased their flocks oy 35,000 layers during the year to hike their income about $200,000. The houses are low cost pole type with aluminum roofs and auto- of the North Carolina Music Pro gram and former Metropolitan opera star, will portray the high priest, Sarastro, who with great wisdom and a kind heart brings Tamino and Pamina together. Joel Carter will be director of music for the opera and will also sing the role of Papageno, bird catcher for the Queen of the Night. Jim fhamblee, U.N.C. music student, will be Monosta tos, the evil abductor of Pamina. The stage director will be Rob ert U. Andrews, ( ha|«d Hill tele vision writer and director. Charles Hardman, WUNC-TV art direc tor, designed the settings. The costumes were executedHry Miss June Kruft, assistant costumer of the Carolina Pluyinakers. Hun ter Tillman and Mrs. Bert Davis will accompany the opera singers at the piano and organ, respec tively. Kotarians Donate To Hospital Here The Chapel Hill Rotary Club has donated another SIOO to the. Rotary Fund for Pediatrics at North Carolina Memorial Hospital. The first donation was made last spring. The use of the money is un restricted. The money is being used for the purchase of toys, rraft material and playroom suppliea. : Bids to Widen E. Rosemary And Henderson Sts. Called \ The Town of Chapel Hill has'i I formally ealled for bida to widen 1 ' Henderson and Rosemary Streets. • They will be received at the Town Hall until 3 p.m. on De cember 10. According to plans and apeci- ; Locations on file in the Town I Hall, Henderson Street would • be made a width of 38 feet by > taking 10 feet off the west side • and-three feet off the east side I from East Franklin to East Rose mary. And, East Rosemary Street' between Henderson and Columbia ' • ( would be made 39 feet wide by • taking five feet off the south • jand 10 feet off the north side. i. These two projects ere basi- i • calljr in accord with the Babcock I traffic control plan and the aim $4 a Year in County; other rates on-page 2 matic feeders. Hybrid chickens are primarily used. Mr. Matheson cited one family —the Johnsons in the upper end of the county—that keep 21,000 hens which produce a gross in come of some $150,000 in eggs. Their feed bill amounts to $75,- 000 a year, Mr. Matheson said. He added that the egg market in Orange County has been de veloped by the Farmers Ex change. As for tobacco, that is the principal money crop, and it is estimated that Orange farmers this year will gross about $3,- 148,128 on 3,858 acres, which represents about $250,000 more than last year on 12 percent less acreage. Th& gains were due, he said, to better varieties, irriga tion, fertilization and thick plant ing, and sucker control. Bryan Berry, for instance, made 2,700 pounds oh five acres which sold for $1,600. ..." Seventeen farmers were guests Wont You Fill an Empty Stocking? With December fast upon us, the Christmas season has gone into full swing and so has the Empty Stocking Campaign. Now is the time to adopt your family.■ Do your shopping for them when you shop for your own family. Anil as you do think of the heart-: break you would feel if you were unable to buy your children one single gift for Christinas. More than 500 families are de pending on Orange County resi dents for their Christmas. When you read the cases you will see that these people aren’t always responsible for the situations they are in. Deaths, protracted illness, desertion, crop failure, 1 fe-ir \ 'y -vTt, hw I —-w—(l \ v_/y |i yi i K'i ) Sf x \ T / A /O'"#* 1 WF i FZ i* V »\ t \ Voung Tommy says, “What’s this I see? Santa's reindeer so close to me!” He has another surprise in store, For Santa himself is at the door! Wachovia Bids In $250,000 in Notes Orange County this week sold a $250,000 issue of school build ing bund anticipation notes to Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. The interest rate was 3.20 per cent. The notes are to finance the first phase of school improve ments included in the bond issue approved last spring. They will he taken up when the bonds are issued. |of the town fathers to expedite the flow of traffic through the 1 town. East Rosemary Street from Henderson to Boundary is now, being prepared for a new coat of hardsurfacing. Episcopal Women's Meeting The Women's Auxilary of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Family will hold its December meeting at 8 p.m. Monday, De cember 3, at the church. Most of the program will be concerned with business matters. The meet ing is for the entire Auxiliary membership, including the three newly formed chapters, St. Mary’s, St. Elisabeth’s, and St. Agnes’s. FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday of the Kiwanians at the meeting. They were Bob Strayhom, Roy Lloyd, Homer Tapp, John H. Cate, Lemuel Cheek, George Cole, Clyde Hogan, James Snipes Jr., Willie D. Neville, R. F. Poy thress, Shelton Ray, Horace Ward, L. L. Conner, Henry Ho gan, Tom Strowd, Edmund Strowd, and Matthew Atwater. Also on the program were Don Dewey, forestry representative for Orange and Alamance Coun ties; Quentin Patterson, soil con servation supervisor; and Ed Barnes, assistant farm agent. A movie about the Buckhom com munity, which won the blue rib bon in the Farm and Home Pro gram last year, was shown to the club. The program was in charge of Frank Umstead and V'ance Ho gan. Jack Euliss of Burlington, the new Kiwanis lieutenant governor, was present at the meeting. ,I many other factors put people in t|the position of needing help. Give * them this help in thankfulness i for all that you have. Call Mrs. .'John Crittenden, 8-0275, for your i family. “Fill an Empty Stocking . to Fill an Empty Heart.” Adoptions as of Monday were , Carrboro Baptist Church; 3rd Grade, Glenwood School, Mrs. McAllister; Catholic Guild; Mrs. Emil Chanlett; Lucy Payne Cir ! cle. Chapel of the Cross; Student , Fellowship, Congregational Chris tian Church; Deno Reed, Cub Scout Troop; Daughters of Amer , ican Revolution; Mrs. Ray Daw i! (Continued on page 11) Coloring Contest Hoys and girls, the rules in the Weekly's annual Christmas coloring contest appear on page nine of section one of to day’s issue. Also in the paper today are four of the 10 color ing cartoons. It’s not too’ late to enter to win a $25 U. 8. Savings liond of one of nine world globes. Aldersgate WSCS Will Meet Monday The Woman's Society of Chris tian Service of the Aldersgate Methodist Church will meet at the Glenwood Elementary School Monday night at 8 o’clock. , A panel «f foreign students at the University will discuss I "Christmas Around the World." Mrs. W. R. Campbell will have charge of the devotional. Hungarian Refugee Speaks Istvan Laszlo, a Hungarian refugee student, spoke at 7 p.m. yesterday (Thursday) in Carroll Hall at a public meeting spon sored by the University’s Student Association. The program was moderated by Bob Young, presi dent of the U.N.C. student body, and included a meaaaga of wel come by Chancellor Robert B, House. There were questions from the floor. The meeting was. fol lowed by a reception in tko Gra ham Memorial.