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THURSDAY ISSUE Next Issue Monday Vol. 36, No. 12 CHAPEL HILL CHAFF By Louis Graves bulletin that came lastj week from the British Infor mation Service in New York bore the headline, “New British Anti-Hookworm Drug, ‘Alcomar,’ Promises Belief from Parasite.” The word, hookworm,; rang a bell with me. I hadn't' heard it or seen it in print! for many years. Now it re minded me of the campaign that was waged against this vicious and destructive little animal in North Carolina about half a century ago. It reminded me, too, that an old-time friend of mirie now in Chapel Hill was one of the world’s leading authorities methods of fighting the TO ikworm. I am alluding to Dr. Wil liam I*. Jacocks. He was graduated from the Univer sity here in 1904 and stayed! on one more year to become an M.A. He taught at the Bingham school two years and took his M.D. degree at the University of Pennsyl vania in 1911. He joined the medical division of the Rockefeller Foundation in, 1912. In 1917, after two years of service in the West Indies, he was appointed director of the anti-hookworm cam paign on the island of Cey lon which the heat and moisture made a happy hunting ground for the para site. He was a captain with the Army Medical ‘Corps in the First World War. in 1929 he went to Travancore, of India, for a 1 vEwr and a half; then back to Ceylon for four years; then in 1934, to Madras. For, seven years from 1935, with (Continued on Page 2i . High School Band - Clinic This Week About 140 high school musicians and band directors from this part of the state will be here this weekend for the 6th annual North Central All-State High School Band [Clinic to be held at Hill Hall from Friday to Sunday. The highlight of the clinic will be a public band concert at 4 pm. Sunday in Hill Hall. The program will be given by the 117- m 1 and will be conducted by Herbert L. Carter of East Carolina Col lege. ‘ Mrs. Charles Kay Here Mrs Charles E pay of Waynes-! ville is here visiting Mrs Collier | Cobb and Miss Mary Cobb. j ' chapel hill Scenes describing in ■ word or two whet your friends ere sey ing, thinking, end doing .. . *1 JACK FULLILOVE toasting guests FAITH OGDEN and VIR GINIA LONG with champagne . . .' Jaycee Roosters completing plans for their annual dinner Saturday ai the American Legion hall line of bargain seekers at Ber man's close-out sale . . . Female golfers watches as unsmkable ball plops into water hazard on Fin ley’s 18th hole Swift current car ried ball off, eventually, to Atlan tic Ocean . . . Familiar, rapidly moving campus figures: KEN BY ERLY, BOYD FLYNN, ROY HOU STEN . . Lady parked illegally in front of post office fails to talk policeman out of giving her a tic-1 ket . . . Lunching at the Raths keller The FRANK McGUIRES, JACK LeGRAND. MARVIN and ALLISON LEE . . . ROY LINDAHL trying to describe his reaction to, the 22 below zero weather which greeted him recently on his arrival at Flint, Michigan . . . The real looking German shepherd on top 1 the Scott Oil Company truck fool ing people all ever town . . . Local radio announcer prooouaccing “eu-'i cinimical” at "economical." | 5 Cent* a Copy University Budget Request Sharply I Reduced By Governor And Advisers j Governor Hodges and his Advis-j ' ory Budget Commission sharply reduced the budget request of the: ■ University at Chapel Hill in i salaries, in operational expenses and in proposed funds for new construction. Many faculty members and ad j ministrators regard the cuts as i jolting. | jWhat plans University officials’ I may have for carrying their case! to the General Assembly and . thus restore requested funds -! , will await close scrutiny of all , aspects of the budget One favorable aspect of the Ad visory Budget Commission's rec ommendation was the restoration, i of funds for the University's Ex-j tension Division. Chancellor Ay cock had made a special point | that state-wide adult education is! a prime function of the University. ' The Advisory Budget Commission recommended $735,089 for the bien nium for extension and public services ’ A striking example of the chops jin requests: The University asked; 1 ifor selective salary increases on* High School Boys Break Three Swimming Records M ! Kentner To Play Here March 2nd | Ixiuis Kentner, the famous pian I ist. will perform here at 8 p m | Monday, March 2, in Memorial Hall under the auspices of the Chapel Hill Concert Series. His 1 performance will be the final event 1 in this year's series, i Mr. Kentner grew up in Buda-j pest where, at the age of six, he, | was enrolled in the Royal Acad emy of Music to study piano and ‘ composition under the greatest ; names in the Hungarian music • world, Sxekiy, Kodaly, and Leo J Weiner. At 13 he gave his first major recital in Budapest and at 16 he had concertized in Austria, 1 Germany, and Italy Visiting ( hoir To Sing Here Sunday 'l The Washington Junior Choir, ' composed of forty young singers I from Washington, North Carolina, ' will sing at the II o'clock morning j w orship service ol the University i Baptist Church this Sunday I Feb. 15, under the auspices ot the , Chapel Hill Music Club I This choir is the newest organi I zed music group in the North Caro lina Federation of Music Clubs, | of which Mrs. Louise Jelferson ot | Chapel Hill is president, ft sings i under the direction of Charlie j Stephens Jr . festival chairman tor the North Carolina Federation of! ! Music Clubs in the Washington I area. The public is invited to attend | the University Baptist Church this Sunday and hear these young singers. May Name ABC Board Tonight i The Orange County Board of Commissioners and the Orange County Board of Education will meet at 8 p m tonight 'Thursday) 1 to consider the appointment of the 3-member Alcoholic Beverage Con trol Board to establish and admin-, ister liquor control stores. ■■■ ■ Carrboro School Meeting The Executive Committee of the Carrboro Elementary School I'TA will meet at 8 o'clock this evening 'Thursday) at the school to make) plans for the PTA-sponsored bar becue supper to be held Feb 21 I | Drink Coffee, Help Heart Fund Edward Danziger will give the Chapel Hill Heart Fund all receipts from coffee sold in his restaurant tomorrow 'Friday* You can help the fund by drinking coffee at Danziger's Restaurant on that day Weather Report I Partly cloudy and cold today. Occasional rata and warmer Fri day. AH over town, golden showers iof winter Jasmine la fall bloom. I High Low Rainfall Monday 67 43 2 7 Tuesday 50 41 ,09 Wednesday 70 S 3 .00 [Thursday S$ 31 jOO • The Chapel Hill Weekly jthe main campus at Chapel Hill lof $680,000 a year Only $147,000 a year was approved. The state budgeters also curbed a request for additional teaching personnel with a suggestion ! that members of the faculty should teach a larger number of students per professor rather than add more jprofessors. In the area of “appropriations, i requests and recommendations” , for operating the University for the ntxHwu years, the University asked for and the Board of High ier Education corroborated the need for $22,244,082 for the next biennium. The Governor and the j Advisory Budget Commission ap | proved an appropriation of $lB,- 247,823. This is broken down as follows: ! First figures requested, second figures approved For Biennium Division of Academic Affairs, $10,729,956 $9,617,995, Division of Health Affairs. $5,462,692, $4,404. 525, N. C Memorial Hospital, $2, Iter. $1,059,417 $968,737. Fisheries *739,034, $2,556,995, Psychiatric Cell Jimmy Jamerson, Terry Stapleton And Relay Team By Paul Houston Chapel Hill High School swim mers broke three school records and tied another in a dual meet with Myers Park High in the Uni versity pool Wednesday, but still (were defeated, 57-29, Despite the fact the local Cat l fish were on the short end of the final point total, it was their best ! effort of the year Myers Park is the top team in the state Newly established CHHS records Jimmy Jamerson. with a time of 1 1:13.1. bettered the 100 yard i breaststroke record previously held by Barbee Alexander, cur rent teammate of Jamerson. Terry Stapleton, swimming the 100 freestyle in 0 54 6, cracked the old record of 0 55 3 jointly held by Jamerson and Ben Crutchfield, ’SB graduate The CHHS medly relay team composed of Chuck Norwood, | Eddie Kenney Barbee Alexander, and Terry Stapleton topped the previous record of 2 05 with is 1 59 I effort And Chuck Norwood tied the time recorded by Pete Talbert ! j CHHS graduate in the 100 yard! backstroke swimming the distance in 1:08. ! The Chapel Hill swimmers gar nered four first places Jamerson led the pack in both the 200 tree style and 100 breaststroke, Staple ton was first in his record break 'ing 100 freestyle run. apd Alex ander placed first in the 100 butter !fly The Myers Park medly relay teamed edged out the Catfish crew by two feet, despite the locals' frtie effort Bill Straughn finished 1 second benind Jamerson in the 100 breastroke. turning in his best time this season. Norwood, in tying the 100 backstroke record, placed second Skip Foster swam the 200 free ; style in the second fastest time of any CHHS swimmer this season, but didn't place in the meet. The rest of the Catfish team were third place finishers as fol lows: George Cannefax, in the 50 free style; Richard Bryson, in the in dividual medly, and Mike Tracey, in diving. i Saturday morning and afternoon ! the local swimming team will be | participating in the ninth annual i Southern Scholastic Invitational | championship meet at the Univer sity pool here. Time trials begin at 9 am., with finals starting at 4 p m. Feature of the meet was the free style medley relay event. The Myers Park foursome cracked their own N. C. high school record of 1 37 9 by swimming the distance in 1:359. Bill Sanford, Lou Sul-, livan. Deems Wilson, and Bill McGinty make up the team. Estes Hills PTA Meeting Estes Hills Elementary School PTA will meet at 7:45 this even ing (Thursday) at the school. Mrs. Tora Tube Ladu of Raleigh, a specialist on foreign languages in elementary schools, will speak on ! that subject. Serving the Chapel BUi Area Since 1923 CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1959 Research Inst., $171,398, $156,526; 1 I WUNC-TV, $110,751, $90,737; Salary f increases. $1,970,834, $452,308; j Total, $22,244,082. $18,247,823 ( New Construction The Advisory Budget Commis sion turned down over $8 million ‘ worth of capital improvements expenditures on the main campus * at Chapel Hill in the next two’ years. Among the requests elimin ated was a $2,033,000 request for 5 a new student union. The Uni- 1 versity asked for $13,847,399 The 1 Governor's budget message to the 1 Assembly calls for $4,983,000 on! the main campus, t The capital improvements re- j quest by the University lor the j Division of Health Affairs totaled ; $6.106,000 The amount approved was $1,056,000 The new construction approved on the main campus is as follows: t Geology and Geography build- i ing, $750,000. Physics Building slip- ■ ■plement. $210,000. Botany Building, i $750,000 Venable chemistry lab- i oratories. $240,000 Foreign langu-ji ages building, $750 000 Saunders'l B|rjl ■Mil TO SPEAK MONDAY Form er Congressman Brooks Hays of Arkansas (above) will speak at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 16, in Hill Hall under the auspices of the University’s YM( A and YyVC’A. The public is invited. Alden and Newman Will Give Recital Edgar Alden and William S Newman of the University's Music- Department faculty will give a recital of three sonatas for violin and piano at 8 p m Tuesday, Feb [ 17, in Hill Hall as the second event ! in this semester's Tuesday Eve | ning Series sponsored by the de , partnient Admission is free The program w ill include Beeth.-‘| ioven's 'Spring ' Sonata in F ,Mj , jor Op. 24. Brahms Sonata m G i.Major, Op. 78, and Prokofieft s' ; Sonata in I) Major. Op 94 Both Mr Alden and Mr. New man have taught at the Univer j sity since 1946 and have appeared in concerts together lor the last | nine years i Oakview Club Meeting The Oakview Garden Club will i meet at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb 16, i at the home of Mrs. H L. Hardi- , son on Old Mill Road Mrs. Roy i Homewood will speak on “Stepp-1 ing Stones To a Good Flower i Show." I Carrboro School Committee Will Nominate Teachers For Carrboro The Chapel Hill Board of Edu cation, the Orange County Board of Education and the Carrboro School Committee have agreed that the Carrboro School Com mittee will recommend by April 1 to the Chapel Hill Board of Edu cation the names of principals and teachers whom they wish to have re-employed in the Carrboro El ementary School for the school year 1959-60 and that the Chapel Hill Board of Education will offer such teachers and the principal a contract for employment in the Chapfcl Hill schools for that year. The three boards further agreed that the employment prior to July 1, 1950, of any new or additional teachers for the Carrboro school! for 1959-60 will be the responsi-j bility of the Chapel Hill City Board of Education with the advice of the Carrboro School Committee. The Chapel Hill City Board of Education has taken steps to in sure Carrboro's participation in the Mayv 1050,-school board elec tions. Not only will the Carrfaorians have a chance to vote, they will be permitted to run for office. Thus Hall additions. $18,000; Dormitories I for 700, $875,000; New cafeteria, j $480,000; Swain Hall addition. $425.- 000; Hill Hall addition, $485,000; I Total $4,983,000 On Health Hill the construction j approved was as follows: Public Health Building, $1,000,000; I Completion of Dentistry building, 1 $56,800. Total $1056,000. 1 The requested main campus con-1 struction, which is not approved, | includes, in addition to the student I union building, dormitories for ] 1.300 students, an undergraduate I library building $1,000,000), main- 1 tenance shops, and renovations of 1 (he following buildings: Caldwell I Hall. Murphy Hall, Phillips Hall, | Playmakers Theater. Bynum Hall. New East, Davie Hall, L. R Wilson U|brary, and Alumni Build ing. On Health Hill the un-approved new construction includes com pletion of the Pharmacy building, supplements to Pharmacy Build ing, and funds for planning and preliminary architects' fees for! jnew facilities to be built over a long range period. Is Your Tax Bill Paid Up? Property May Be Seized and Sold By Municipality Chapel Hilhans who have not p*id their back taxes will soon get a little note from Town Hall them that unless the taxes paid their property will be seized and sold for taxes The Chapel Hill Board of Aider men made that ruling at a meet ing last Monday night when it was revealed that property owners owe ttie Town $39,380 in back taxes The Aldermen were told that ( $15,400 of the 1957 taxes have not 1 yet been collected but only about $1,200 worth of 1948 taxes remain to be collected j In- other action the Board heard reports by (p Y Z Cannon asking: for the replacing of some 12 min-1 ute meters by one hour parking! meters and <2* Joseph Johnston,' superintendent of the Chapel Hill Schools, and Paul Houston, presi dent of the Chapel Hill High School j Student Body, that the parking j ( meters in front of the high school be removed and that students be j j permitted to park there tree of .•-barge 'Mr Johnston suggested ;in a letter that the principal ofj the high school be permitted to' give stickers to students, who! must travel long distances and who have no other available trans portation, to designate who may use the free parking space'. The Board voted to give the Rec reation Commission S2O <to be matched by the Planning Board of Chapel Hill and Environs' for a study of recreational and park needs of the community. | The Board will take a trip to Highland Woods to observe what I (Continued on page 7) | the need of the special Carrboro School Committee after July l will be meaningless No other school in the Chapel Hill City School District has a school com mittee The Carrboro school dis trict was merged with the Chapel Hill unit by a referendum vote in Carrboro last August. The merger becomes effective next July Attend Chicago Meeting Dr and Mrs William P Rich ardson left Sunday for Chicago, where Dr. Richardson attended the Congress on Medical Educa tion and Licensure. Dr. W. R. Berryhill and Dr Nathan Wo mack went to Chicago earlier | and also attended the Congress j Ail four returned to Chapel Hill yesterday. Youth Day Speaker The Youth Day speaker at the St. Joseph Methodist Church this Sunday will be Julius Francis, a graduate student at the University. Music will be provided by the Youth Choir and an all-girl quar tet. pf ; *£'•> J-Z' ■fa / vi SbMIiHMbI J v i HT W r a. J 1 * • t Z- if WEEKLY PHOTO BILL PROUTY HOMEMAKING IN ACTION Shown above are students of the Chapel Hill High School at work rooking and eating a meal in the new home economics room in the basement of the School. School Plans Open House In Home Economics Dept. By Helene Ivey The Home Economiccs Depart ment of the Chapel Hill High School and of the Junior High School will have open house this Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. The Cha pel Hill Board of Education prob ably will be there. Everyone is invited. “This is part of the school that belongs to all the residents and property owners of this school district and we hope that they will come and see it." said Mrs. Santord Price,- the high school home economics teacher. Much living and nearly all Plans For Hoy Scout Activities Are Formed At District Meeting Operating committees were as signed additional personnel and reports were heard from commit tees and officers at the regular monthly dinner meeting of the Boy Scout Orange District Committee Monday night at Lenoir Hall District Chairman Sandy McCla rnroch and Scout Executive Frank Yandell directer the session, which 1 featured a report on the training progress and methods to be used throughout the area by District Commissioner Erie Peacock Jr. Milton Julian, chairman of the! activities committee, told of the upcoming Scout Circus to be held t at the Coliseum at N (’ State Col lege on March 14, while Camping j Committee chairman William W Demeritt told the group that scouts in the District must hurry and register for Camp Durant if they' plan to attend this summer. The camp is two thirds filled, he said j Chairman Charles Hudson of the Health and Safety Committee said his group is planning to get Ted; Williams to give a rifle safety course for the benefit of Orange Scouts. Mr Yandell told the group of lilans to organize an Explorer Post at Chapel Hill and the possibility; of a Scout troop to be sponsored! Calvert School Makes Changes in Name The Calvert Method School of Durham has announced, effective today, a change in name to Dur ham Academy Dr. J Lamar Cal laway, Chairman, Board of Trust ees, and Mrs. Joseph D. Page, Headmistress, in a letter to par ents of the 320 children now at tending Calvert School, pointed out that “for the past ten years or more, while continuing to use the fundamentals of the Calvert method and curriculum, the school has become increasingly indepen ! dent " Another major factor as feeling the change in name is the addition of the seventh grade to be followed in succeeding years with the addition of an eighth and ninth grade | Durham Academy, when found ed in 1933, used an adaptation o( the Calvert method system of education developed by the parent school in Baltimore where a home instruction curriculum was devel oped to be taught by the parents of children living in isolated areas lAs pointed out by Mrs Page, "to continue this association of limit ed value would cost $lO per pupil or $3,200 funds which can better be utilized in improving instruction at the local school. The name Calvert Method School is under copyright by the parent organiza tion in Baltimore and would <therefore! no longer be approp riate.” The change of name for Dur ham'! largest private school marks 14 * Year in County; other ratm on pag> 8 spending in a family budget in volves the, home To prepare peo ple for this responsibility the schools have established home : economics departments. The Chapel Hill home economics courses have been designed to, i create in the student the apprecia- I tion ot the responsibilities of home i making This is being accomplish- I ed by teaching the basic funda mentals and by the students' ac quiring through practice the de -1 sire to continue work in the field. The Chapel Hill schools' home' I economics courses which are elec- in the near future by the Amity! Methodist Church here. Operating committees for 1959 will be composed of Milton Julian, chairman, and Ray Ritchie, Acti vities; Gordon Cleveland, chair mari, and Tony Jenzano, W. C Jackson, Odd Barham, Albert Roseman, Ed French, Advance ment. William W. Demeritt, chair man. and Buck Knight, W O. Smith, Jesse Basnight, Steve Storm, Hank Kouns, Camping: M. H Jennings, Jr , chairman, and Collier Cobb 111, Everett W'ilker son, Wilson Cole, Mac Norwood. Finance; Charlie Hodson, chair man, and George Coxhead, Jack Reckard, W. C Dawkins, Health and Safety; Red Tyler, John Bal lard. L J Phipps, Walt Baucom, Organization and Extension; Bill Prouty. chairman, Edgar Thomas. Jim Wadsworth, Publicity District vice chairman for the year will be Clarence Jones. John Efland and Ralph Howard, while rounding out the district commis sioners staff Will be Bill Koch. W R Straughn Jr, Jim Wallace, I James Newsome, Sam Ward, J P Ellington Jr . C D Trexler and Steve Kimbrough. A L. Stanback i will serve as Division Commis- I sioner the end of an old and the begin ning of a new era in the school's history. Under the guidance and with the leadership of Mrs Bess Boone during the majority of its twenty-six year history, it has grown from its original two rooms in a wing of the Forest Hills Club House to where today it oc cupies an entire block in the heart of Durham and with its 320 students occupying more than 23 rooms in three buildings Formerly limited to two years of pre school and grades one through six. in the fall of 1958, the school embarked on an expansion of its academic pi-ogram to cover grades seven through nine Students com pleting these years of academic work will be able to enter directly into the senior high school pro grams offered in this area or, should they so desire, be eligible for transfer to private preparatory (Continued on Page 7) Notice The Circulation Manager ia at the Weekly office from 7 p.m. to I p.m. every Monday and Tkanday. If your paper is de livered by carrier and has net arrived by 7 p.m. Meaday er Thursday, please call the Week- IF at >U7I between 7 p.m. and t p.m. aad the Clrcalattoa I Manager wtU bring It to yew. • r «unm mi. rn mm wiitwl , to Mike the amt at MtiiiH «*■ spere ttme tor pm—hi —tan tie*. —UncoU JL : tive include the following: j 1. Child care: (a* the fundamen tals and responsibilities of baby sitting; <b> learning to select and provide food, clothing and play equipment for all ages; and (cl the emotional, social, mental and physical development of children. 2 Clothing: (a) the study of materials; (b) construction of clothing and proper care; and (c) purchase of ready-made cloth ing. 3. Foods: Preparation of family i' meals emphasizing both the nu - trients and looks of the foods, (b> food conservation-freezing for the family, (a roast need no longer be served for five straight dinners; it may be frozen and than served weeks hence'. N (Continued'dti Page ft 1 •** Z-—c^ I *1 m EVENTS Thursday, February 12 • 7 p m., Doubleheader high school basketball. Chapel Hill vs. Ox ford Orphanage, CH High School. • 7:45 p.m., Estes Hills School PTA meets at school. • 8 p.m.. Women Voters League Unit IV meets with Mrs. Charles Blount. Friday. February 13 • 8 a m , Bake sale held by Cath olic Women’s Guild at Fowler's Store. • 8 p.m , Concert by UNC Sym phony" Wind Ensemble, Hill Hall •7 p.m., Doubleheader high school basketball, Chapel Hill vs. Hills boro, CH High School. Saturday, February 14 •It am., Abel Wolman gives pub lic talk on ‘‘Can We Control Radiation?’’, UNC Medical School's clinic auditorium. • 2 p m., Children’s tryouts for Carolina Playmakers’ “Mrs. McThing,” Gerrard Hall. Sunday, February 13 • 3 to 5 p.m., Open house at high school home economics depart ' ment. ,• 3 pm, Bird Club meets, UNC library's assembly room. • 4 p.m., High School Band Clinic | concert, Hilt Hail. • 6 p.m. Family supper at Coun j try Club. • 8 p.m. Petite Musicale chamber music Recital, Graham Mem orial. Monday, February IS • 10 am , Women's Republican | Club meets with Mrs. Brecken ridge. • 12 30 p.m., Woman’s Auxiliary of Chapel of Cross Meets at parish house • 7:30 p.m.. Choral Club rehear sals. Hill Hall. • 8 p.m., Former Congressman Brooks Hays speaks in Hill Hall. • 8 p.m., Oakview Garden Club meets with Mrs. R. L. Hardi son. * * * Morehead Planetarium: “Scout ing the Skies, " -8:30 p.m. 7 days a week plus H am., 3 and 4 p.m. Sat,; 2, 3, and 4 p.m. Sun. V * ! Varsity Theatre: Thur.-Sat., ! “These Thousand Hills,” Don Mur ry, Richard Egan; Sun., “Tammy and the Bachelor,” Debbie Rey nolds; Mon., “Vertigo,” James Stewart, Kim Novak. | Carolina Theatre: Now playing, I “The Inn of the Sixth Happiness,” Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jurgens, Sun.-Tue., “The Tth Voyage of ‘ Sinbad.", Kerwln Mathows, Kath-