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MONDAY ISSUE Next Issue Thursday Vol. 35, No. 32 CHAPEL HILL CHAFF j. j. When Dr. Newton’s office called last week and said it was time for my semi-an nual dental check-up and would 2 p.m. next Tuesday be suitable I replied yes it would be fine. Next day . learned I’d be out of town this week and phoned to postpone the appointment. “I’m sorry,” the girl said, “we don’t seem to have any appointment for you. I’ve checked the book and can’t find it.” “I’m sure you told me 2 p.m. Tuesday when I called yesterday,” I said. “You must have talked with somebody elfce yester day,” was the reply. “I’m just here part time. But I’ll check again to make sure.” And after a few seconds, “No, it isn’t here. But we’ll be happy to make another appointment for you, Mr. Owens.” Her last word was a full! explanation of the difficul ty. She had been looking for Owens instead of Jones, which she now quickly found in the book. Though the names don’t look alike, Joe Jones, over the phone, is often mistaken for George Owens. That’s what the girl at I>r. New ton’s had thought I said. 1 have had more than one suit with the name George Owens inked on the lining because somebody at a dry cleaning place had thought it the name I gave over the phone when asking that the suit be picked up. Once when I called the i Continued on Page 2) of EVENTS Monday, April 21 • 8 p m., Concert by Pilgrim Fel lowship Choir of Congregational Church of Manhasset, N. Y , x in High School auditorium • 8 pm, Carrboro Division of Cancer Crusade holds public meeting, Carrbofo School audi torium • 8 p m.. Oakview Garden Club meets, Church of Holy Family • 8 p m.. Astronomy Club meets, Morehead Building. Tuesday, April 22 •10 am, Women’s Hospital Auxiliary meets, Room 217 of Medical School Bldg. • 2 pm, Junior Service League meets, Episcopal Parish House. • 8 p m.. AAUW meets, Library's Assembly Room • 8 p m.. Concert by University Symphony Orchestra with pian ist Marjorie Farrell, Hill HaU. • 8 pm. Dental Dames meet. Victory Village Community Cen- Wednesday, April U • 3 p m, Davie Poplar Chapter, D A.R, meets, at home of Mrs Harlan Rowe on Laurel Hill Road. • 8 pm, American Muxicological Society meets, Hill Hall. e 8 pm, Study group organizing Baptist Church meets, at home of Mr and Mrs Reginald Rawls, 55 Oakwood Drive. Thursday, April 24 • 3 pm. Community Club's Americun Home Department meets, for place see story on page four. • 7 pm., UNC Alumni Associa lion meets, Carolina Inn. • 8 pm, Carrboro Citizens Com mittee for Better Schools meets, Carrboro Elementary School. * • • Morchcad Planetarium. "Thingi That Kali from the Sky," 8:30 p.m. daily plus 11 am., 3 p.m., Sat.; 3 p.m., 4 p.m., Sun. • • « Carolina Theatre: Mon., Tue., “Merry Andrew," Danny Kaye, Pier Angeii; Wed., “Spanish Af fair," Richard Kiley. Vanity Theatre; Mon., Tue., “Paris Holiday." Bob Hope, Fer nandel, • Anita Ekberg; Wed., Thur , “Mademoiselle Striptease," Brigitte Bardot. 5 Cento a Copy 8 File For Board Edwards mfl Hi W. HAROLD EDWARDS N. C. Symphony To Give Annual Concert Here Tuesday, April 30 Adults will be admitted this year to the children's concert by «the North Carolina Symphony at 2 p m. Wednesday, April 30, in Me morial Hall. The admission vcill be sl. The annual evening per formance of the Symphony will be held the same night in Memorial Hall at 8 30. This marks one of the few times that adults have been invited to attend children's concerts, giving parents a chance to observe the educational work of the North Carolina Symphony in action. Each year the Symphony plays free concerts to 150,000 Tar Heel youngsters. In weeks preceding the concert the children work in the classroom, learning about the Orchestra, the composers, the mu sic they will hear, and learning and practicing the songs they will play and sing with the Orchestra. For this work, the local class room teachers utilize materials provided by the Symphony. In many cases the teachers have at tended the Symphony teachers workshops held here each year by Mrs Fred B McCall, director of the Children’s Concert Division This year, the Chapel Hill concert will be attended by children from Chapel llill, Glenwood, Northside, Carrboro, and White Cross Fle j rnentary schools. Approximately 2000 children are expected to at tend In addition to hearing music played by the 60-piece Orchestra, directed by Benjamin Swalin, the children will partcipate in the JV. C. Junior High School Principals Will Meet Here For Two-Day Workshop North Carolina's junior high school principals have been invit ed to meet at the University here for a special work conference on education policies and practices on April 29 and 30 Arnold Per ry, dean of the School of Educa tion, announced that the 45 prin cipals of junior high schools are being asked to participate in the two days of talks to be held in Peabody Hall. Virgil R. Walker, a specialist in secondary school organization and administration In the Office of Education in Washington, will de liver the luncheon address on Wednesday, April M. and serve as a consultant Charles F. Carrod, state superintendent of public in struction in North Carolina, will appear on the opening program of the work conference. Guy B. Phillips, professor of education and director of the UNC Citizens Committee To Meet Thursday The Carrboro Citizens Commit tee for Better Schools will hold a meeting at 8 p m. this Thurs day in the Carrboro Elementary School. All members of the Committee and all people interested in bet ter schools, all who have ques tions about the proposed merger of the school districts and all who ) want to hear more about the ad vantages of such a move are urged I to be present, a spokesman said, j Oakview flab to Meet Tonight The Oakview Garden Club will meet at 6 pm. tonight at the Church of the Holy Family. A program on "Basic Fundamentals | of Arranging" will be conducted, with Mrs. Grey Culbrcth as speak er and arranger. Each member Is asked to bring an arrangement for workshop purposes. The Chapel Hill Weekly Will Oppose Lanier Two Republicans Among Candidates With two Democrats and one Republican vying for the State Senate seat and seven Democrats and one Republi can contending for the three posts vacant on the Orange Coun ty Board of Commissioners, the political race promises to be heat ed before and after the May 31 primaries. Harold Edwards. Chapel Hill at torney, is the Democratic candi date opposing incumbent Edwin S. Lanier, the University’s Direc tor of Central Records, for the seat in the North Carolina Senate. Also in the race for the Senate post s Republican H. Grady Dor sett of Chapel Hill. (Continued on Page 8) concert One group playing ton ettes, psaltries, orchestra bells, auto harps, violins, recorders, clarinets, and flutes, will play along with the Orchestra in one stanza of O Worship the King and one stanza of Happy Wanderer These numbers are also “Every body Sing" numbers in which the children sing along with the Or chestra Many of the children in (Continued on Page 8) Mrs. Lefler Is New President Mrs. Hugh Lefler was elected president of the Univc.sL,) Wom an's Club, sttcceedng Mrs C P Spruill, at the organization's meeting last week at the Carolina Inn Other new officers are Mrs George Lane, vice president; Mrs Syd Alexander, secretary; and Mrs K A Cameron, treasurer. Wives of History Department faculty members conducted the luncheon and program, which fn eluded a string quartet, a histori cal sketch of the Club by Mrs James Godfrey and the presenta tion of six past presidents of the group Mrs lefler and past pres idents were presented corsages During the business meeting, re visions to the Constitution and by laws were voted upon by Club members Summer Session, has served as chairman of the entire program He pointed out “that the need for an understanding of the place and function of the junior high school in North Carolina makes this an important meeting of leaders in this division of secondary educa tion. This is evidence that the years, 7-8-9, is increasing in the state and efforts need to be made to insure sound policy and prac tice.’’ Besides Mr. Phillips and Dean Perry. J. Minor Gwynn and S. M Holton, of the Education School, and Chapel Hfll High School Prin cipal Joseph Johnston have served on the planning committee. .^lliflf Jc * JnE* TO SING TONIGHT—These ate pretty girls are murkm as the « member Fflgrtm FeflewoMp Choir es the Cengregn tteaal Cknieh es Manhaoeot. New York, which wtt stag sacred and oeealar swags at S pm tonight In foe Chapel HU Bgh Serving the Chapet Hill Area Since 1923 CHAPEL HILL, N. C., MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1958 ■fy ■ • mm : - ... JUL ■lk . ; *S .. K-. OL ■ s-. jk K;; : y y•' :• • BL, 1 Bl' iMmk. mm ' WSm &K&IK ' Suv. v.wi*,.-. wß' "a> ’' • fIHH EDWIN S. LANIER PTA Thrift Shop Moves Hard work and the generous supplying of trucks for the moving enabled the Parent Teacher As sociation's Thrift Shop to have its grand opening in the Ogburn Fur niture Market Building last Fri day. It had been dosed for two weeks during which time bins and shelves were painted and goods were moved from the old location on West Franklin Street. Among those who painted and helped in the moving were Mrs Joseph Bunnett, Mrs Stuart Cha pin. Mrs. Jake Wade, Mrs. R E. L. Barnes. Rogers Wade, Mrs. William Fleming, Mrs J R. El lis, Mrs Maurice Whittinghill, Mrs. James Roberts and Mrs j Earle Wallace. Trucks were made available for ! the nro'‘i k * y the .jgburn Furni iture Market, The Johnson-Strowd- 1 Ward Furniture Company, and by Herbert Pendergraft's Service Sta tion Under the managership of Mrs D. W. Coudriet the store will be open to the public from 10 a m. to 5 p m Tuesday through Satur day of each week. All proceeds of the Thrift Shop are used to pay for the many PT A projects in the Chapel Hill Schools People are urged to bflng to the Thrilt Shop any clothing or house hold goods that are no longer be ing used Vacuum cleaners, gar den tools, kitchen, utensils, dish es, furniture of all kinds, toys and other items are requested by cus tomers daily. X Two Local Boys Are Ping: Pong Winners Two Chapel Hill boys made a clean sweep of tne N. C. Recrea tion Centers Associations table tennis tournament held Saturday in Winston-Salem. Stafford Warren took the junior singles title while he and Brick Oettinger swept the junior doubles Stafford, who is the son of the Joe Warrens of Battle Lane, and Brick, whose parents are the FI mer Oettingers of Oak wood Drive, are both basketball players as well as tennis and table tennis players of ability. The pair won places In the state tourney by winning their divisions at the district meet in Fayette ville last month. Carroll Explains Statements Credited Him On Merger Norman Cousins Will Deliver University Commencement Address Editor Norman Cousins and Theologian Albert C. Outler have ' been announced as the main speakers for the University’s 164th Commencement Program on June : 1 and 2. Mr. Cousins, author and editor of the Saturday Review of Literature for more than 15 years, will deliver the commencement address at graduation exercises in Kenan Stadium on Monday night. 'June 2 j Governor Luther Hodges and President William C Friday of the Consolidated University will be present to confer degrees on the graduates Presiding at the tradi tional exercises will be Chancellor William B. AyCock. Mr. Outler, a former member of the Duke University faculty, will give the baccalaureate sermon on Sunday morning, June 1, in Memorial Hall. He is professor |of theology in the Perkins School jof Theology at Southern Metho dist University in Dallas. Texas Class reunions, receptions, con certs and award programs will be other events of commencement Officers Chosen For Hillel Club The Hillel Women's Club at its April meeting elected officers for the 1958-59 season The new offi cers will be installed at a lunch eon meeting at the Carolina Inn on May 14. Mrs. S A. Nathan, chairman of ’■ nominating committee, pre sented the following slate of offi cers which was accepted unani mously Mrs. Albert Linch, presi dent; Mrs. Rashi Fein, vice president; Mrs. Harry Macklin, treasurer, Mrs. Ben Kadis, re cording secretary; Mrs Sid Ran cer, corresponding secretary. A spring fiesta is being plan ned for this Saturday at the home of Dr. and Mrs Lou Vine in Hid den Hills. Members and interest ed friends are invited. Last Meeting This Season For D.A.R. The Davie Poplar Chapter, D A R., will meet at 3 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Harlan Rowe on Laurel Hill Road. Serving as hostesses with Mrs. Rowe will be Mrs. F. C. Shepard. Mrs E. William No land, and Mrs. Paul Mengel. Since the Chapter will meet with the General Davie Chapter in Durham in May, this will be the last meeting of the season for the Chapel Hill organization All members are especially invit ed to attend. Playmakers to Have Reunion The Carolina Playmakers will hold a dinner celebrating the or ganization’s 45th anniversary at 6 P.M. Saturday. May 3, at the Chapel Hill Country Club All Playmakers and former Play makers may make reservations ($4 each) by calling the U.N.C. Drama Department at 8-7431. Beheei andßiefow. The Choir haa appeared before aodfonees foreaghont foe greater oeefowwtefok center and nail weekend here. The program gets under way on Saturday, May 31. with class reunion suppers and recreation for all seniors, parents, alumni and faculty. This year’s reunion classes in addition to the Old Students Club which meets yearly will be 08, ’l3. TB, '23, '2B. ’33. ’3B, '43, ’4B. '53. Charity Drive Raises $2,700 In Local Area Dr. Kempton Jones, chairman of the Faster Seal sale, announc ed this week that about $2,700 was collected here in the recent drive by the Society for Crippled Children and Adults The coin containers that were dsitributed by the Delta Sigma Pi pledges netted $89.32. The Faster lily sale conducted by the j Y-Teens under the direction of Mrs R F. Coppedge raised $15134. The ramainder of the money was sent to the Easter Seal Society by people who want to help provide services to the crippled. Among the many services, rend ered by the North Carolina Society for Crippled Children and Adults are the following: Medical and other aid to the crippled, summer camp facilities for crippled chil dren and adults; physical therapy services for the home bound crip pled. special education grants for teachers of the crippled, medical research grants to find causes and cures for the crippled, and speech therapy treatment for the handi capped. Mayors And Lawyers Back Law Day Here The Mayors of Chapel Hill, Carr boro and of Hillsboro have joined the thousands of other mayors throughout the nation to proclaim May 1 as Law Day US A. The object of having the day observed is to get the people ac quainted with the meaning of rule by law and rule by men so that they will be able to know why rule by law is so very urgent The members of a special com mittee of the Orange County Bar Association indicated that the law yers also hope by this means to convince the people that we need to be ruled by International law to maintain peace. The sixteen members of the Orange County Bar Association will make every effort to trans late this important message to the people of the county. Any civic, social or school group that may want a program on this sub ject. need only call a member of the special committee or any oth er lawyer in the county to get a speaker. Jack Lesley, chairman, and John Tapley, committee mem ber, both of Chapel HUI. and Lloyd Noell. committee member of Hills boro, form the special committee 14 a Year in County; other rates on pact S Local Board Owns Title To Schools By Helene Ivey “I was misled by Bob Thompson,” said Charles F. Carroll, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, speaking to a delegation from Carrboro last Friday night as he clarified statements attributed to him which ap peared in an Orange County newspaper on the proposed — -4 "IgPl ’ - | MRS. BESSIE R. BUCHANAN Campus Mother 0! The Year Is Mrs. Buchanan The mother of two daughters, the grandmother of four, and the great-grandmother of six children. Mrs. Bessie Renn Buchanan has been selected as Campus Mother of the Year Richmond Sloan and Bernard Whitefield, co-chairmen ol the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Mer chants Association Mother's Day Committee, announced the selec tion of Mrs Buchanan, who is house mother at Spencer Hall. Mrs Buchanan will be honored along with a Chapel Hill mother and a Carrboro mother as a part of the Merchants Association’s ob servance of Mother's Day. Mrs Buchanan came to Chapel Hill in 1946 as the hostess at Carr ! Dormitory. She was transferred |to Spencer Hall in September. 1 1948, and has been housemother there since that time. Her two daughters. Mrs. Roy M. Campbell and Mrs. J. Gordon Gifford, live in Richmond. Va. Born in Oxford. Mrs Buchan and attended private school there, then moved to Sanford where she lived for 38 years prior to coming to Chapel Hill' In Sanford she was dietitian at the Lee County Hospital from its opening until 1845. She was very active in civic and club affairs in Sanford, being a charter member of the Sanford Mother's Club (organized in 1920) and is a past president and secretary. Mrs. Buchanan is a qharter member of the Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Steele Methodlet Church in San ford, a member of the Past Presi dents’ Club of the State Federa tion of Music Clubs and many oth er organizations. She ie a mem ber of the Chapel Hill Methodist Church and the University Wom an's Club here. When free from the many hours spent with the co-eds In Spencer Hall, Mrs. Buchanan is very fond of spending her time in gardening and flower arranging. Jeanne K. Fleming, graduate counselor at Spencer Hall, gave the following statement about Mrs. Buchanan: (Continued on Page 8) The Pilgrim Choir To Sing Tonight Hie Pilgrim Fellowship Choir of the Congergational Church of Manhasset, N. Y., a widely trav eled group, will perform a pro gram of sacred and secular music at 8 tonight (Monday) in the Cha pel Hill High School auditorium. The choir is a group of 66 boys and girls who have concertized throughout the eastern half of the nation during the past six year*. The Chapel Hill High School’s Honor Society is sponsoring the program, and proceeds will go to the society and the Community Recreation Center. Admission will bo 71 cants for students and 91 for adults. £*** it a* »eU?rfVe£ make bag tare. tfeyWai atffc* ►merger of Carrboro and White | Cross schools with the Chapel Hill school unit. Mr. Thompson is a Raleigh pub lic relations man hired by the Carrboro School Development Council which is fighting the school merger and a 15 cent spe cial school supplement tax. It is alleged that the Thompson agency is being paid $2,000 to represent the anti-merger and anti-school ' supplement tax faction in the spe cial election in Carrboro and White Cross May 20. j The Orange County News quoted I Superintendent Carroll as saying Lthat the Chapel Hill Board of Edu |j cation would be “cutting off the [nose to spite the face” if it re fused to accept the pupils from Carrboro and White Crosa—if the school merger and the tax supple ment vote failed to carry in Carr boro and White Cross. Mr. Carrofl was further quoted ia the newspaper as saying that in his opinion the title of a certain school building (Lincoln High School) would revert to Orange County if the Chapel HiO Bond of Education refused to continue to educate the pupils from Carr boro and White Cross. The newspaper article also quot ed Mr Carroll assaying that Carr ’ boro co&td establish its own high school and perhaps use the soon -1 to-be-vacated elementary school building in the town of Carrboro 1 for that purpose. Mr Carroll denied that he made certain of the statements ascribed to him and said that he had been ' “misled” into making other 1 statements. Delegation 1 The Carrboro delegation to whom Mr. Carroll was speaking was composed of Walter Clark, H. Dobson and John Martin and rep resented the Carrboro Citizens I Committee for Better Schools, an organization that has been pro- I mot ing the school merger. (Continued on Page •) | chapel hill Scenes describing in a weed or two what your friends are say ing. thinking, and doing .. . DR. JIM WOODS on the tele phone at the main entrance to Memorial Hospital before taking the elevator back to the Bth floor . . DR. HARRIS CHAMBERLIN making arrangements for the meeting at the Carolina Inn of the Harvard Club of North Carolina, of which he Is president this year. . . JIM TATUM shaking hands with his left, explaining that his right is sore. . .JOHN C. WHITAKER of Winston-Salem, chairman of the board of R. J. Reynolds To bacco Company, talking in the Carolina Inn lobby after the Gol den Fleece tappings when his son was named one of the 1968 Argonauts . .RANSOM TAYLOR telling CHARLIE SHAFFER about the effects of yellow jaundice and in return being told about the pains of having the measles. . . DEAN FRED WEAVER escorting DEAN ROLLINS of Harvard around the campus. . .HUGH MORTON running the Southern Short Course in Pres* Photography with aplomb. . .EVERETT PAL MATIER and EUGEN MERZ BACHER on hurried excurslonfrom Phillips Hall to the Scuttlebutt for a coke. . .PROF. GERALD MAC CARTHY explaining in the bar bershop that the Cape Fear "earthquakes" were "one small earthquake, military defense guns and a lot of editorial imagination. . . DR ROBERT CADIfUR, with aides EUGENE CRAWTORD, BILL IVEY and others acting as hosts to hospital administrator* from all over the state, at a lunch eon at the Carolina Inn. . .DEAN ARTHUR FINK setting the wheels in motion for the state campaign honoring MRS. TOM BOOT BE, by granting a scholarship in Ur hon or in the School of Social Merit.
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