Fill HAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday Vol. 33, No. 100 New Auto Tags to Go on Sale Jan. 2 Again Chapel Hill and Orange County motorists will he forced M to go to Durham for their 1957 North Carolina automobile li cense plates, because the Caro lina Motor Club and N'. C. De partment of Motor Vehicles look with disfavor upon a proposed Tobacco Farmers To Study Varieties With the black listing of some of the most popular to bacco varieties, farmers are making ever) effort to learn all there is to know about the different available varieties, according to Count) Don Matheson. This information will be given at a tobacco meeting to be held at Aycock School in Cedar Grove next Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock. Repre sentatives from State College, the Oxford Experiment Sta tion and the Stabilization Co operative will lead the discus sion. Christmas Story to End on Monday While now playing to almost capacity audiences at every per formance*, "Star of Bethlehem” not be extended beyond its date of December 31 at the* Morehcad Planetarium, ac cording to Manager A. K. Jen zano. “In past years we have ex tended the Christmas show in order that every group which evidenced a desire to see it might he accommodated,” Mr. Jenzano said. "But along with other planetaria in the nation, the Morehead Planetarium is committed this year to the Boy Scouts of America for a special demonstration in January. "The Boy Scout project for January is ‘Look Skyward,’ and in cooperation with them we must open our ‘Celestial Preview of 1957’ on the first day of January. Therefore, it will he impossible to run ‘Star of Beth lehem' beyond December 31.” Performances of the Christmas stoiy were resumed Wednesday of this week at, 8:30 o'cloiTt and will he presented nightly at that A time through December .31. Tie last six matinees will he held at 11 a.rn., 3 and -1 pm. Saturday arid at 2,3, and 4 p.m. Sunday. Mrs. Whitefield on Clinic* Committee* Mi Jane Whitefield, f*«'u» live secretary of the Chapel lii 11- < arrhom Merchants Association, Is- hee.ri appointed a member of the planning committee for the annual Retailers Activities Clinic to be held here February 21-25. Her appointment came from ft. V\ Wilkinson, president of the N'. ( Merchants Association. Serving with Mrs. Whiteljeld on the committee are Hi members jind officers of the state associ ■ i'iii. They will hold a meeting and luncheon here Monday to plan the clinic. Claude M. Kirk, 72, Orange Native, Dies Claude M. Kirk, 72, died at. his home on Rt. 1, Mebane, Wednes day night after a serious illness of three weeks. A native of Orange County, he was a member of Mebane’* First Baptist Church. lie is survived by his wife, Mrs. Emma King Kirk; two daughters, Mrs. Thurman Hug ger of Greensboro and Mrs. Bil bert Smith of Mebane; one son, Josepah Graham Kirk of Meb ane; two sisters, Mrs. Newman Sykes and Mrs. Fletcher Terrell, both of Mebane; three brothers, AjJohn and I-onnie of Rt. 3, Hilla ™»>ro, a*d Ralph Kirk of Durham; and 12 grandchildren. Funeral arangementa are in complete. M.D. Bright, Brother Os Man, Dies Madison Donald Bright, 83- year-old retired Durham clothier, died in a Durham hospital Wed nesday after several years of de clining health. He was one of the to inders of Pritchard-Bright Clothing Co. Funeral aervices were held yes terday And burial waa in Maple-’ wood Cemetery. Among hi* our vfvofs la a brother, M. J. Bright of Chapel Hill. The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents a Copy outlet in Chapel Hill. Sale of the license plates will begin next Wednesday, January 2. At the same timg Town of Chapel Hill plates will be made available. During the past year several efforts were made by local auto mobile and tire men to obtain a state automobile license selling outlet in Chapel Hill to accom modate the vast number Os mo torists in Orange County. Each ime they were turned down. So, hack to Durham one must go The new* tags, black with yel ! low numbers, must be displayed »n all motor vehicles not later than midnight Feb. 15. State s p!ates will be sold at the Carolina Motor Club offices at Holloway and Roxboro Streets in Durham. Town of Chapel Hill plates will he available at the Chapel lliil Town Hall. No special license tag num bers will he reserved for any one, the Stale Motor Vehicles Department in Raleigh has ruled. The new state tags will he the standard six by 12 inches in size. As in J9sfi, the numbering -sys tem will include one or two let ters of the alphabet as prefixes for passenger ears and suffixes for commercial vehicles. The numbers will not have more than four digits. State license plates sold from the Durham Carolina Motor Club office for passenger cars will hear prefix letters, HX, HY, HZ, K and KA. This year’s starting time for the sale of the state license plates is the same as last year. Prior to last year, the state plates went on sale each year on Dec. 1. Car owners who have not re ceived their application from the Department of Motor Vehicles in Raleigh after Jan. 1, may obtain their new license by showing the title of ownership of the ear, and in some cases by showing their previous year's registration cards, Carolina Motor Club officials ex plained. A total of 1,(’>00,000 ap plications will he mailed to regis tered car owners. Motor club officials appealed to car owners in the Durham area to obtain their new license plates ns early as possible to avoid the inevitable last-minute rush. Lutherans to Hear Rev. Bernard Boyd The Rev. Bernard Boyd, chair man of the University's Depart ment of Religion and .lames A. Gray professor of religion, will he the guest minister at the 11 o'clock worship service this Bun day morning at the Holy Trinity Lutheran < hurch. The church’s pastor, the Rev. Wade F 11 ook, will lie serving as guest rnim.-.ter that day at St. John's Lutheran Church in Beau tort , S. C L. C. Check Becomes Charlotte engineer I, C. ( heck . Ir ,of Chapel Hill and Raleigh, will become Char lotte’s new city engineer today i Friday). Mr. Cheek, who lives in Chapel (ill and is employed by the firm it W C. Olsen & Associates of Raleigh, was appointed several weeks ago to succeed Loyd G. Richey who resigned to accept a post with Blythe Bros. Con struction Co. At the Presbyterian (hurch There will he only one worship service this Sunday at the Pres byterian Church. It will he at 11 o'clock. Double services, one at 9:45 and one at 11, will he re sumed Sunday, January 6. March of Dimes Quota of SIO,OOO Fixed For Annual Drive Commencing Next Week The annual March of Dimes campaign in Orange County will begin January 3, County Chair man E. Carrington Smith an nounced yesterday. The veteran chairman, who has headed the campaign each year since its inception, said the !t»57 quota is SIO,OOO. “That is SI,OOO under last year, but by no means does that hint or indicate that the need for funds to combat polio is lessen ing,” Mr. Smith said. “We had three cases in Orange County this year, and we still have bed-; ridden victims, all of whom must be cared for. Too, the funds are; needed to continue the Salk vac cine shots and for further ra-j search Into means of preventing HI ■ |jj» Church Pays Off Last of $127,500 This picture was taken in the of about $127,500 for the new hirst Baptist Church at toe mort- church and the renovated par gage burning ceremony held re- sonage and other assets. Stand cently by the congregation. It ing together on the rostrum are shows the leaders and special the five men who s|ieaiheaded workers in the drive for the the drive. They are (1. to r.) Hu money that enabled the church belt Robinson, chairman of tie to pay off its entire Indebtedness}Board of Trustees; Willis Ba - Driver Education Course in Schools to Be Advanced by North Carlina Jaycees The North Carolina Junior Chamber of Commerce will spon sor legislation in the 1957 Gen oral Assembly to provide for a driver education course in every public high school, according to State Jaycee President Bob Cox of Chn| id Hill. The proposed legislation al ready has the endorsement of Governor Hodges, the Highway Users Association, the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee; the N. C. Congress of Parents and Teachers, tin- N. C. Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs, and the State Departments of Education and Motor Vehicles, ji Mr. Cox said driver education has not been a part of the teach ing curriculum in the past, be muse teacher allotments do not provide sufficient personnel to permit school officials to assign teachers that function. tine of the tasks facing the slate Jaycees, according to Mr Cox, is "finding the method of financing which would be least unpopular with the people ami l lie legislators. . ' “To adf'ipiateiy finance the pro glam the state would have to uppro-pilate $1,5011,000 annually,” Mi Cox said. "But it would pay for itself, actually. A survey run ill ovei Hu- country showed that students who hud taken the course had fewer accidents than I hose who didn't Mi. ( ox suggested increasing 'lie motor vehicle registration fee , in the state from $lO to sll. "This would be easy to collect i and would provide the state with an annual, stable source of rev enue," he said "Aii additional annual fee of a dollar on the 1,000,000 registered motor vehicles in North Caro lina would provide sufficient funds to operate a functional program of driver education for the state," he said. Mr. Cox pointed out that the i state could get funds "by rais- i ng the cost of driver licenses, i but. this would he a bigger fee i and several years would pass he- i fore the program could he start--] ed,” or the state “could take ] court fines as they do in Gali- i fornia but you couldn’t count on ; • nough money being available I every year.” ( infantile paralysis. In other words, not until polio is licked will there be no need for the March of Dimes.” Helping Mr. Smith are Sheriff Odell Clayton, who is heading the drive in Hillsboro and the northern end of the county, and Mrs. Jesse West, who is heading I the drive in Carrboro, Letters are being mailed out in Chapel Hill and Carrboro this week, Mr. Smith said, and "we urge everybody to respond as jsoon as possible.” Carrboro citi zens may mail their checks in response, to the letters and their contributions will be credited to i the Carrboro quota, Mr. Smith addad. CHAPEL HILL, N. C.. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 28. 1956 “At, present driver education is taught in about 30 per cent of our high schools, but it should '>e taught in every one of them,” Mr. tox said. “It is something that is concerned with education, but more than that it is con cerned with the safety of every body who gets on our highways ” "Schools now teach reading, writing, and how to work arith metic problems, so why sh > they overlook The well-being and life of the child," he asked. Nancy Katherine Kendall Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kendall of Takamatsu, Japan, announce 'the birth of it daughter, Nancy Katherine Kendall, on Novem her 21 Mr. and Mrs. Kendall have another daughter, Betsy, age i. Mrs. Kendall is the for mer Miss Margaret Munch, daughter of Mrs. II F. M uneh of < Impel Hill and the lute Mr. Miiik li Wedding Here lomorron Miss June Anne Fdwurds, daiiphtei of Mi. and Mrs. Wil iam M Edwards of \Spi ingfieid, Ohio, 'and t lull les Nrwland llau ,scr, son of Col. and Mrs. John N llausei of Fayetteville, will h" married here at M:3O pin. tomoiow (Saturday) in the L’ni cei sit y Methodist ('hurch. Broadcast Games The liixic Classic basket hall tomnatnent at Raleigh, in which llic t'mvcisity team is the favor ite, j.i being broadcast daily over VVD.NC at Durham, WPTF at Ra leigh, starting at 1 15 pin. The finals will lie played tomorrow (.Saturday) night Farmers Here May Plant New Coker Leaf By Don .Matheson, County Farm Agent In response to our request the Coker Pedigreed Seed Company sent us the following information on the new Coker 187 variety of tobacco. They suggest that since this-variety does not make out -st.anding ly high yields that a farmer not plant his whole crop to this new variety. It has been yielding from five to ten |>er cent higher than Hicks, or about like Golden Harvest and 402, hut about 25 per cent less than Coker 139. The Coker 187 which is being released for the first time this year is from a cross made in 949 of Golden Wilt and Oxford -181. It grows with a rather dark green color, and like the Golden Wilt parent should he harvested | when ripe and cured rather quickly in the barn. Disease Resistance This variety has shown high resistance to black shank and fairly good resistance to Gran ville wilt and to Fusarium wilt. The black shank resistance is even higher than Coker 139, and has stood up well in our most severely Infested. locations re gardless of where planted. It does not have as high resistance to wilt as to black shank. How ever, it has shown fairly good resistance in our wilt nurseries which are located on the most 1 severeh^infested srsss that we bee, secretary of the Board ol Trustees; the Rev. J. R. Manley pastor of the church; Charlit Maddox, chairman of the Boari of Deacons, and Lewis Caldwell secretary of the Board of Dea cons. Standing in front are deacons [trustees, and others who wen | active workers in the drive. Mem I tiers of the choir are seen in tin ! background. The campaign to raise money for the new church was begun by Mi. Manley when he became pas tor ten years ago in Septembei of when he was still a theol ogy student at Shaw University in Raleigh. Under his leadership the congregation has grown steadily until now it has 55(1 members. It had only 173 when he became its pastor in 1946. Mr. Manley and several mem bers of his congregation are prominent civic leaders in the community. One of them, Hu bert Robinson, is a member of the Chapel Hill Hoard of Aider men. Blue Ribbon Farm-Home Groups Elected Four Orange County commu nities already have elected ad visory committees to direct the Farm and Home Blue Ribbon Program through 1957, it was announced this week hy Farm Agent Don Matheson The committees elected to date me: St. Mary Community Wallace Bacon, Mrs Douglas Hill, Reid Roberts, Dupree Smith, Mrs llmiy Walker, Mrs. Mary ('lay ton, Mrs. Henry Walker, Bill Crabtree, Ted Martin, Mrs. Clyde Roberts, Helen Gates and Brateh cr Evans. New Hope It. F. Spencer, Dave Patterson, John Lockhart, Finest Manor, Elvin Cates, Boh Stray horn, Arthur Mintiis, Mrs, John Wilson, Miss Jmue Black wood, Mis. Will Nunn, Mrs. Clar ence Blackwood, Mrs. Edgar T. Campbell, and Mrs. Mitcbel I .Inyd. Buck horn Merritt Kirk, Eve : !yn Patterson, Mrs. Pattyo Stan- have been able to locate. Yield and Duality Tlie Coker 187 variety bas produced yields of good quality, tobacco above tbe older, .black shank and wilt resistant varie ties, but does not produce near the yield that Coker 139 does. In our tests for the past three i 'years, it bas averaged about 100 lbs. per acre higher than Hicks, 1 and about the same as Golden ' Harvest and 402. This has been fairly constant wherever we have tested this tobacco. It produces a darker cured leaf with a mod erately high nicotine content. In ] general, it can be expected to i cure out to a righ orange color. ; This variety should not be over i fertilized, especially on medium heavy or heavy soils, since It tends to grow with a dark green i color anyway, and produces only average to übove average yields. Next to Coker 139, it produces the fewest suckers of varieties that we have had under test. i Ease of Curing This tobacco should be har vested when ripe and cured some- I what faster than most other : standard varieties. We have ex perienced no difficulty, however, i in curing this tobacco. Under average conditions It can be ex- i pected to produce a leaf of highji quality with a darker color than'i CHAPEL HILL CHAFF I By Joe Jones A you hr matron who has' promised to shoot me if I I use her name was recently 1 dealt a stajrjferinjf thrust [at Memorial Hospital. It happened after she had been called on to rush to the hos-j pital with a neighbor's child who had been hurt in an ac cident in the home. She sat in a waiting room while the child was in a doctor's of fice. After the little patient had been attended to a nurse brought him to the waiting I room, handed him over, and said, “You'll be all right [ now. I know you're glad to be back with your grand mother." The "grandmother," who was a college coed less than lo years ago, felt as if she had been struck a mortal blow. She hasn't recovered yet and is not sure she ever will. • * * * l If Chapel Hill dog. could . talk and were asked to name their best friend they would have to pick Mrs. A. M. ; Jordan. As far back as most people can remember she has been endeavoring to 'make lilt- better for all dogs in the community. Many isj the stray dog she has caught with her own hands so it j could be delivered to some body who would give it a 1 home. She has always been | dog division chairman of the local Humane Society and in' this capacity has often i threatened to bring the law on people who were cruel to! dogs if they didn’t mend their ways. She is unfailing ly sympathetic with those -(Continued on Page 2) ford, James Crutchfield, Wiley Perry, Mrs. E. J. Pennington, J. G. Pender, Mrs. Warren Holmes, Winford Shumldey, Mrs. Walter Shank Im, Mrs. Ralph Webster, Mrs. Harvey Durham, Mrs. James Bradshaw, and Mrs. ( . It. Coiner. Schley Harry Wood, Lone Mincey, Mrs. Van Kenyon, Mason Kenyon, Knox Walker, (’. N. Woods, Mrs. Marvin Phelps, Mrs. Vernon Kay, Allan Lutta, Mrs. Parker Roland, Mrs. Charles Mincey, Charlie Miller, and A. E. Wilson At Memorial Hospital Local people listed as patients at Memorial Hospital yesterday were Doran .1 Dark, Mrs. Her licit Lloyd, Mis Minnie Moore, Tommie E. Roberson, Juliun Se lig, Miss Alice Stevens, Mrs. Mary Wagstaff, Harry I). Wolf, Maurice Julian. llardisoiiN in New Home Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Hardi son and then daughters, Virginia Lee and Betty Jean, liuve moved from Colony Court into their new home at Mil Old Mill Road Their phone number there ia ! j 8-3421. ( hi Ist inn Science Services Christian Science services will be held at II a m. Sunday in Car-j roll Hall, and Sunday school will convene there at 0:30 a.m. Party for Blind Among Many Holiday Activities at Negro Community Center A number of holiday activities have been going on at the Negro Community Center on Graham Street. One of these was a Christmas party for the 13 mem hera of the Blind Star Club on December 21. I'resents for the club members, who are blind, were donated by the Carrboro Lions Club and were presented by K. B. - Cole, chairman of the Lions Club’s project for aid for the blind. Fruit punch for the party was donated by Long Meadow Dairy, and cookies were bought with money given by friends of the Blind Star Club.| Music was by the Men’s Chorus of the flt. Paul’s A.M.E. Church. Another activity sponsored by the Community Center wee the singing of Christnuis carols throughout the community on £4 a Year in County; other rates on page Tax Listing Will f Begin NextWeel Between 500 and 000 new real and personal property owners will be required to list their hold ings for taxes by t?ie Town of ( hapel Hill for the first time, beginning next Wednesday. They are some of the people who were voted into the town in the city limits extension ref erendum this year, and next Wednesday will be January 2 the first work day after the New Year holiday. At the same time throughout Orange County the county listers will begin sitting to list property Greenwood Contest Winners Announced The top prize-winners in the Christmas decorations contest belli in Greenwood were Mr. and Mis. J. C. I). Blaine of Green wood Road, for mailbox deco ration, and Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam H. Peacock, of Stagecoach Road, for lamp-post decoration. Other prize-winners were Com mander and Mrs. John H. Graves Jr. of Greenwood Road, who placed second in the mailbox di vision, and Mr. and Mrs. John Wj Moffitt of Old Mill Road, third in the mailbox division. Honorable mention was won by Mi and Mrs. E. M. Adams, Dr.! and Mrs. Maurice Newton, Mr.; and Mis. W. Robert Mann, Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Brandis Jr.,! and Mr. and Mrs. John D. Golden.: The contest was organized by members of the Greenwood com munity to encourage the beauti-: fua'.ion of its homes at Christ-! mas-time. The prizes are azalea plants. It is hoped that Ureen-i wood will eventually become an area noted for its fine azaleas. Lester Foley Cited for Contribution to Community and Exchange Club This Year I .ester Foley, a salesman far Crowell Little Motor Co., is the , Chapel Hill “Exchangite of 1956." The selection of Mr. Foley was i announced at the annual Christ mas party and ladies night of the Chapel Hill Exchange Club last Saturday night, and he was presented the coveted award hy Herb. Holland, who has been club president this year and was “Ex changite of 1955.” The award is made annually hy the duh to the member who his associates feel has contribu ted most to the community ami the club during the year. Dr. Duncan M. Getsinger was 1 installed as president for 1957 hy .1. Frank Ray of Hillsboro, vice president of the State Exchange Clubs Other officers installed were: Bill Blake, vice president; Dr. Bill Poe, treasurer; Doug Long Illness Fatal To Hiller C. Kiger Hiller (' Kiger, 60, of Little River community, died at his home Wednesday morning after !o long illness. He is survived by his wife, Mis. Callie Carden Kiger; two ' sons, Melvin and Clifton Kiger lof Rt. 2, Rouge moot; one daugh !ter, Mrs. William Mcßroom of lit. 5, Durham; one brother, Jess I Kiger, and one sister, Mrs. Burul I Newsome, both of Kings; and I three grandchildren. Funeral services will he con- 1 ducted Friday at 2:30 p.m. from Little River Presbyterian Church ,by the Rev. C. H. Reckard and | the Rev. Lawton W. Pettit. In terment will be in the church cemetery. ' 44 members of the Lincoln High 1 School Band, rnet at the center at 4:30 a.m, under the super ■ vision of Clark Edgerton, band director, and Miss Lucille Cald well, director of the Community 1 Center. The group visited the i homes of invalids and shut-ins, 1 singing under their windows be fore daybreak. They ended their ! *uur by singing on each floor of ' Memorial Hospital and then re i turned to the Community Center ' for doughnuts and hot chocolate. Other holiday activities at the .Center are as follows: 1 Girl Scout Christmas party, Dec. 21; Senior Teen-Age party, Dec, 26; Masons’ Christmas han -1 Quet, Dec. 27; wedding receptions, 'Dec. 28 and 29; Junior Toe tv-Age '.Party, Dec. 30; New Year’s Eve FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday for taxes. The listing will take plac throughout January, and ever voter and owner of real and per sonal property is required to lis regardless of length of residenc in the county. The fact that h is in Orange Countv and Chape Hill on January 1 requires hinl to list. Failure to list durini January makes one liable foi court action as well as a lat listing penalty of 10 per cent. Mrs. Ruth Ward will be th« list taker for Chapel Hill am L. R. Cheek will be the list take for Chapel Hill township. Mrs Ward will be on duty at th« Town Hall here from 9 a.m. t< 12 noon and from 1 to 5 p.m Mondays through Fridays am from 9 to 12 on Saturdays, Th< county taxes may be listed at the same time. At Carrboro the list taker; will be on hand at the Town Hall on January 10 and 11 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with an hour out for lunch beginning at noon. The list takers will also be at the Hollow Rock Service Station on January 4, Blackwood Sta tion on the seventh, and Midway ! Service Station on the eighth. Jeter Lloyd is the list taker for Bingham Township. He will be at the following places all day unless otherwise specified: White Cross, January 4; Manley Snipes’ !Store, January 8; Joe McCauley's place, January 10, 1 to 4 p.m.; Harden Johnson's Store, January 12; Tom Andrews' Store, Janu ary 14; Stroup’s Store, January Iff, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Lewis Al len’s Store, January 18; Gian .Lloyd's Store, January 22; and jat White Cross, January 26. On all other days in January, he will li»t at his home near Antioch Church. Yales, secretary,-* and $. C. ♦’ar sons, John Webb and Nello Clartt, new Board of Control members. The party, which was held at J. C. Parson's place on the By-Pass Highway, included din ner, dancing to Skippy Ethe ridge's Combo, games and other entertainment. 4 - ■ "—■■■ Dairymen to Hear Bookkeeping Plan All grade- A dairymen who are not keeping records through ID.II.LA. or owner-sampler sys- I terns are invited to attend a meeting to be held Monday, i January 7 u! 2 o'clock in the old courthouse in Hillsboro. Marvin Senger, State College dairy specialist in charge of dairy records, will explain the new “Weigh- A- Day- A- Month” plan, |and start the system working in Orange County. This plan is nation wide in scope, and is being sponsored hy the IJ. S. Department of Agri culture through the county agents. It is the most inexpen sive of the three systems. The Iduirymen pay sixty cents per cow per year in advance and agree to weigh the morning and evening milk from each cow on the fifteenth of each month. This record Is sent in to the county office and summarised. The pro duction of each cow is computed and a table giving the amount 'of feed each cow should have ia furnished monthly to the dairy men. All dairy authorities are agreed that production records must be kept in order to manage a dairy herd efficiently. Party Is Given by Charles Camerons Dr. and Mrs. Charles M. Cam eron and their children, Lynn and Charles 111, entertained last Sunday afternoon with an open house for about sixty guest*. Their home was beautifully dec oruled in the Christmas motif for the occasion. Mrs. John Wright, Mrs. Hugh es Bryan, Mrs. E. G. McGavran, and Mrs. W. W. Cort assisted Mrs. Cameron in serving punch und coffee. Carolina Ina > i~Buffet Supper The Carolina Inn held its an nual Christmas buffet supper on Christmas evening for all guest* at the Inn p(ue a number of special guests. The cafeteria waa closed for that meal so that the employees of the Inn's food dfc partment hod.tite-aftanoss^