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MONDAY ISSUE Next Issue Thursday Vol. 37, No. 25 ————— CHAPEL HILL CHAFF j. j. , he word got around town | Friday morning that Willie , Marlow of Carrboro had caught a sixteen-pound bass 1 at the University Lake] Thursday afternoon and), that G. S. Baldwin had i caught a fourteen-pounder ! there the same day. Fisher- J men’s eyes popped when| t they heard it. No bass any-b thing like that size had ever ( been caught there before. ° j When the excitement had ( settled, it was learned that ; Mr. Marlow’s fish weighed eleven pounds, six ounces, • ami Mr. Baldwin's eight and ( three-quarters pounds. At ; that, the Marlow bass is be lieved to be the biggest ever 1 from the lake. “It weighed about a pound more than any other bass i I’ve seen caught around here,” said Mr. Baldwin, who is a Chapel Hill fisher man from ’way back. * * * A. H. Bush apparently] struck it rich when he agre-| ed to demolish the old house) at the corner of West Rose mary and Church Streets! for the materials in it. He’s) discovered a lot of valuable pine lumber in the house. “It’s really wonderful stuff,” he said the other day when we dropped by to watch him work. “As near as I can find out, this house was built more than a hun dred years ago. But these yellow pine joists are as «<>U4- the day they wyjre cut. The only place I’ve found any rot is where rain ->firped in around a chim ney.” Mr. Bush is going to use the pine timbers in some houses he plans to build in' the country. The house he is tearing (Continued on Page 2> IJNC Woman’s Club I'lans Luncheon Announcements of the spring luri ciieon ot the I'niversily Woman s < lut) are being mailed to members this week The luncheon will he held Thursday. April 10 at the! Carolina Inn Hostesses will lie the women ot the t Diversity's I)e ot Music W'/is urged that reservations tic made with Mrs Wilton Mason ofi 1215 llillvicw Road by not later than Thursday April 9 lnlorma lion about reservations tor guests j may lie obtained from Mrs Mason , Pharmacy Wives to Meet The Pharmacy Wives Club will meet at li p m. this comVig Thurs | day at the Institute of Pharmacy i This will he a social-business meet ing at which officers will he elect ed chapel hill Scenes describing In a word or two wbat your trianda ara say ing, thinking, and^ doing . . . «!hancellor BILL AYCOCK at tie in lenoir Hall with former Law School colleagues . . . MAN LY WAUL WELLMAN confiding that if he had his life to live over he'd steer the same general course, with only minor changes . . . SAM MAG ILL escorting In donesian visitors around the cam pus (.’APT. CARL TIEDEMAN and GENERAL CARLYLE SHEP ARD corning out of Morehead Building with a visiting fireman . SPIKE SAUNDERS discus sing the plans for a professorial trip out of town to visit some alumni in a distant part of the state . . . ROBERT B. HOUSE recalling that the supreme instance he knows of concerning a man's defending the honor of woman hood is the record of an English man challenging a Frenchman to a duel for questioning the chastity of the Shakespearian character Ophelia. 5 Cents a Copy Stewart Runs Again For Recorder’s Court Judge William S. Stewart, judge of the Chapel Hill Recorder's Court since 1951, announced last Satur day that he is a candidate for re election In announcing his candidacy he made the following statement: "I ask the people of Chapel Hill for the privilege of serving them in the office for the next two years. In our growing and active com munity the problems of the admin istration of justice are both chal lenging and interesting. If elect ed I pledge to the people a fair, impartial and humane justice un der law.” A native of Atlanta. Ga., Mr. Stewart received his education at Georgia Tech, the University here, and Harvard Law School He has been a practicing law yer in Chapel Hill since 1950 He is former president of tiie Orange County Bar Association and is presently vice-chairman ot the Young Lawyers Section of the N C Bar Association. Since in Chapel Hill he has been active in the Jaycees and is a; member of the Chapel Hill Kiwanis Club. For distinguished services! rendered the community he was! chosen Young Man of the Year! and awarded the Distinguished! | Service Award by the Junior] Chapel Hill Rose Society Is To Plant Roses On Traffic Island Tile Chapel Hill Rose Society is ] going to plant roses in the traffic triangle at the intersection of South Columbia Street, the Ral-i eigh Road, the Pittsboro Road,! and McCauley Street S If Bas j night, president of the society, yesterday the planting would he done this week and that the roses! would bloom this year. He added, that the society would plant bord-i ers of tulips around the roses next! fall and winter. The project is being directed] by Mr Basmght and the society's beautification committee, compos-1 ed of W M Black, Mrs. Tom 1 Rose, Mrs R B Fitch, Bert Ked ! Church’s Education Wing Will Re Ready For Esc By Early May The University Methodist Church i Education building will be ready; for use by about the first of May,! it was disclosed here last week i Mack Holder superintendent of the jot), said that the basement,, the only part to be completed j now, will he lathed and plastered] within four weeks The contract, amounted to about $158,000 The ground floor will have an] auditorium, a stage and a kitchen ] The second and thud floors will not bo completed now because of lack of funds From $85,000 to; s4n iksi is needed to complete the two top floors Grey Cutbrelh,; chairman of the building com i mitten, said Mr Holder said the] | two floors could be completed in' about three and a half months Going to Atlanta Meeting ! The Rev Vance Barron, pastor lof the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, and Dr John B Graham, the church's ruling elder, will be in Atlanta, Ga , from April 23 to 28 at the 99th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, U. S 1 They will attend as commissioners from Orange Presbytery. 3S&HMMHBn* i .m. LJmwlw&'M > V-1 ■• _ mm^^ MNw»«C**l> „j|H |B K j) * t '\*‘* * **' :> 'r^n 1 I" 1 ’ *"•’*,ln % . K T 3 >' ‘.P i • | 1 fay£l M I ' ''£*• Wg£*r £ IP i^p I '' ' v , ( <’< fi A PROGRAM OP MERCY Skews ikre are Ralph Howard al Chapel Hill (left) aad Robert W. Tons lag of Rack/ Moaat (ceater) aa they caa vena with Gereraar Lather H. Hodge* oa the assay flae aervicea rendered by the atate’a chapter* of the Americas Red Craaa. The pic tare waa taken last Maada/ wbea the Gevermer prasaatad a report hlghllghtlag the services of the Red Crass la the 1 Mate. These service* lacladad helpiag sarvtcemaa aad thatr famines la parsaaal problem*, disaster relief. Mead haak esUacttaas, aad salat/ caaraas lar swliasar*. haasaaishsrs aaarsas aad mother-baby classes. Mr. Howard Is Red Crass ragloaal faad chainaaa, aad Mr. Toaalag Is aattsaal faad vice rbalnaaa far North CarsUaa. The Chapel Hill Weekly Serving the Chapel Hill Area Since 1923 yn ""-r •Tcr**"**' ire V d Bk * 'Jr e&pSjQt WILLIAM S. STEWART Chamber of Commerce i Mr. Stewart is married to the| | former Miss Caroline House.! ; daughter of INC Chancellor emeritus and Mrs R B. House,!, and they have two children Theyji jure members ot the University ; Methodist Church, at which Judge]: iStewart teaches the Intermediate;: j Sunday School Class ; nocker, and Vic Huggins The Town and the State Highway Departmeht gave permission for the planting alter they were as j Isured the rosebushes would not be ! 'tall enough to obstruct the view ] of drivers A magnolia tree and] j other trees and shrubs that were] ] formerly on the island were re-j i moved several years ago because] ! they were a hazard to traffic. Mr Basmght said the Universi ty would help maintain the newly; , created beauty spot, which is at, ]one of the main entrances to the ’ campus, and that in dry w»ather ! the roses would be watered by the ] town's street-washer truck when lit passes that way , The women of the church have! j raised the necessary money to] I furnish tin* kitchen and plan to j 'have the equipment installed as] j soon as the room is completed Says All He ( an Do Is the l/obster “All 1 can do is the lobster : said Roy Staples, proprietor of the Pace Modern Home Furnish-: .mgs He was speaking of a tele] vision course in Japanese paint ling that he i* taking 'I can't do the people yet In* added The course is being given over 'the educational television station Channel 4 (WUNC-TVi at *> p in. each Saturday and at 7 p m each Sunday A number of people in Chapel Hill are taking the course, Mr. Staples said The way he found out about it some of them asked tain to order the necessary paints for tile course He has a couple of sets left over, in case anyone want, to begin painting according I to instructions on TV now CHAPEL HILL, N. C.. MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1959 Early Press Run To permit the staff to have a holiday on Easter Monday, this issue of the Weekly was printed Saturday. This in a few instances may have precluded the inclusion of last-minute news. The Thursday edition ol the Weekly will go to press Thursday morning, as usual. Wright Files At Deadline Seven Candidates Now Running For The School Board By Helene Ivey Auburn I. Wright of Chapel Hill. Route 2. filed his candidacy for a seat on the Chapel Hill Board | of Education subject to the May) 5 elections only minutes before! closing time for filing last Satur day This makes seven candidates! j who will compete for the three! heats that are available i Mr Wright is employed by the I Poultry Division of the State De partment of Agriculture Two of the candidates are run rung for re-election. Grey Cul jbreth, University's utilities manag er who is chairman of the board and a veteran of eight years on the school board, and Henry Bran dis, dean of the University Law i School. The other four candidates are | Calvin Burch of Carrboro. cabinet maker; the Rev J R Manley, ! pastor of the First Baptist Church; |Dr David R Hawkins, psychia trist in the UNC School of Medi ! cine and president of the Estes i Hills School PTA. and Richard P. (Calhoon member of the faculty in the University's School of Bus iness Administration and member 5. Ute board of Aldermen Each candidate is running for a six year term. Other members of the Board of Education. not up for re election at this time, are Mrs Marvin Allen, Dr Kempton Jones to serve four more years I and ! Charles Milner and Richard Jam erson 'to serve two more years.) Before this year there were six (Continued on Page 8> ! . Meeting for Everybody Interested In Cancer Crusade Will Be Held Thursday i Carroll ilall will be the scene at it pm Thursday, April 2. of a ! meeting of all volunteer workers associated with the Cancer Cru sade, which will get under way ion April 5 J S N'agelschmidt, Orange County Crusade Chairman, an nounced that the meeting will be] open to everyone associated with the drive and with the year round work of the Orange County Unit of the American Cancer Society. Volunteer workers have mailed postal card invitations to all cru saders but, Mr N’agelschmidt em phasized, ' we may have missed someone The meeting will last less than an hour and should prove profitable to all wtio attend ” Dr William S Joyner, who is chairman of the executive com mittee of the Orange County Unit, j will make a brief talk on the Local Building & Loan Buys Property For Future Growth I# ./ -. Jm - ■M W Mirrri'Mi 1 32: 4 ' ■IimIIM, - '^- V I Mft ■' U 1 WEEKLY PHOTO BILL PROUTY future home of orange county building and loan Buildings Going Up On Campus Five construction projects are now going on at the University total $4,735,000, and good spring building weather is hastening the completion of the structures. University Business Manager J Arthur Branch said the ground floor of the phillips Hall addition which will house the Univac 1105 w ill be ready May 15. The Pharmacy Building on Pitis bon Road will be opened in the fall i at lew ot the apartments in fltfi new married students' housing de velopment on Mason Farm Road: will he ready in September. The Peabody Building addition.! to house expected expansion in the School of Education, will be com pleted in 1900 The cost of those five buildings is Phillips annex. $1,200,000, Pea body addition, $305,000, married tContinued on Page 5> medical aspect-, of cancer Cam paign organizational plans will l>c discussed liy Mrs William C Fn day. who is vice-chairman ot the drive in charge of ncight>orhood '■idicitation in t Impel Hill This year the Orange County Onit will revert to the technique (d solicitors 01 crusaders ringing, doorbells all over Chapel Mill and Orange County and then turning in their collections to captains of] whom there are about 3,> in all parts of the county Mrs Friday stated that neigh borhood solicitation will be the principal technique of the local drive The neighborhood drive will start on April 5, she said, and will continue until every home in Orange County has been visited At each home will be left a pam phlet listing the "seven danger i signals” of cancer. At the kick-off meeting next Thursday, Mrs Maurice Whitting hill, executive secretary ut the Orange County Unit, will detail the large, out-of-Chapel Mill or ganization, which lioasts volunteer crusaders in every city, town and crossroads in Orange County j Names of crusade captains for I Chapel Mill were announced last I week Listed below are the names I of captains in Hillsboro who will j serve under co-chairmen Mrs I Charles Itundgren and Mrs Bob- I ble Knight, of Mountain View: I Mrs. M. G. Coleman Jr., Mrs Ben | Allison, Mrs Betty Sue Mawkins, I (Continued on i'age Hi Weather Report Utiiee this paper was prilled last Saturday the Weekly had no weather forecasts for Monday and Tuesday, ft was, however, getting colder Saturday. High Low Thursday 78 55 Friday 71 50 Now heglas the aaaual spring showing of the redbud. It will sooo be followed by the glorious pag eout of the dogwood Morion Thai are Uko cirrus clouds caught la Um sndorbrwsh. If You Want To Vote Anyone who is a citizen of the United States and who will have lived in North Carolina one year and in the precinct one month is eligible to vote in the May 5 Chapel Hill School District elections (three members to the school board) and in the Chapel Hill municipal election (1 recorder’s court judge. I mayor and three aldermen) and in the Carrboro Municipal elections (l mayor and three commissioners). To vote, a citizen must register in the school district and municipal registra- , tion books, (if registered in the municipal books one needs not also register in the school district books but registration in the school district books in no way en titles a person to vote in the municipal elections). School district registration books will be open from 9 a.m. to sunset from April 11 to April 25 in the three precinct headquarters in Chapel Hill (Town Hall. Wooll en Gymnasium jn»d GlenwoodUMmp and at the Carr ! yfp, s Town mi The municipal registftvtioa books will b« open at the same places every day (except Sunday) from Saturday, April 18, through April 25. On Saturdays the registration books will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on week days from 9 a.m. to 5. p.m. James Godfrey Is Scheduled To Give Talk At Meredith College James l.ogan Godfrey, Dean of Uie Faculty at the University here, and professor of English history, will make the annual Kappa Nu Sigma lecture at Meredith College m Raleigh, on Wednesday evening, April 1 At this time the scholastic honor society will tap associate members from the junior class Mr Godfrey i-> a graduate of Roanoke College in \ irginia, his Inative state He has received raduate degrees from I N(' and I from the University ot Chicago, (lie has pursued further graduate study in Paris and in Dmdon. ] studying in London on the last oc easion as the President s Fellow of Rrown University A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member ot the Ameri can Historical Association and of the Southern Historical Associa tion, Dr Godfrey is the author of four books, many articles and professional reviews, and is cur rently working on a hook covering jgß ' WSI JB bmH at Hr H| DON’T PICK THE FLOWERS - Maybe that’s what Eleaaer Smith, left, cautioned Judith Bunn, her companies an the right. The girls, bath students at the University, are abviaasly anjoylag the beauty of the first signs of spring la the Coker Arboretum, regard less of what they were dlscussiag. The fact remains that the piaats are there far the enjoyment of all aad are set to be picked or re moved, according to C. Ritchie Bell, director of the Algiers lam. Ha invited visitors to the Arboretum, eaa of the world’s shew places at hsrttoaltarai cscotieace, and emphasises that many al the U dtf fareal varieties of daffodils are aew at the height at freaks sue aad baaaty. mas Smith Is from Atlanta, Ga. aad Mias Buaa from Heat iagtea, W. Va. M a Yaar in County; other rmtea on pip t the history of Great Britain from 1945 to 1951. with emphasis on the Labor Government in England He is the autlior of a study on the French Revolution Tribunal, published by the University of North Carolina Press, and is, the co-author of a college text, en titles) “Europe Since 1815 ” The Meredith address, to be held at 8 p m in the college audi torium, Jones Hall, also is open to the public Spring Swinjj To Begin This Friday The Spring Swing Festival plan ned by the merchants of the com munity for the University students will be held this coming Saturday. Special prices on goods will be offered by the merchants to let the x.udents know how much their patronage is appreciated Art is like a tarter M (tower* •hmg the Mane of rlrtiill— Li■*•!* Steffens. Purchase Amounts To Over $50,000 One of the largest downtown real estate transactions to take place in recent years was complet ed over the weekend when J. S. Bennett, president of the Orange County Building and Loan Associa tion announced the Association had bought the J. B. Goldston property opposite the town hall. While no actual figures were re leased. it is known the price paid for the property was in excess of $50,000 "We have no official plans for building on the property immedi ately. Mr Bennett said, "but we |do expect to build a modern up |to date building there in the not ! too distance future. Our building j committee is convinced the location will be convenient for our customers, and we will have adequate space for parking and a drive-in window " The property has a frontage of 100 feet on North Columbia facing the fire station and 140 feet on Rosemary Street Part of the Rose mary Street frontage is 200 feet ! deep | ‘‘When we moved into our pres ent location we felt that it would suffice our needs for many, many years." S3id Mr. Bennett. We are already outgrowing our pres ent facilities, and we know that Chapel Hill is going to make tre mendous progress in the next few years. “Demands for loans are greater than ever before, and we are moat anxious to accomodate the needs of the people living in the area. "During the next three months our building committee plans to visit other building and loan of fices in North Carolina. We want to study their facilities so as to make certain that when we do build, our building will be as com modious and serviceable as you will find anywhere We also expect to employ an architect in the near future to draw up some prelimin (Continued on Page 8* i (2«,UttcCa% EVENTS I , Monday, March 30 • (> p m . Country Club tea dance. Tuesday, March 31 o 10 30 am , UNC Quartet con cert. Franklin Street elemen tary School • l pm, Faculty Club luncheon, Carolina Inn. o 1:45 pin, Quartet concert, Glenwood School. o 7 30 p in , Illiteracy class meets at Town Mall. , • 8 p.m . League of Women Vot ers meets, UNC Library's as-« sembly room Wednesday. April 1 • 8 p.m.. Friends of Chapel Hill Public Library meet in Sun day school room of Baptist Church. Thursday. April t • 10 30 am. UNC Quartet con cert, Kstes Mills School • 10 30 a m , Community Club's Needlecraft Workshop meets with Mrs Proctor on Barclay Rd • 2 p.m., UNC Quartet concert, Northside School. • 8 pm, Joel Chadbc gives piano concert, Hill Hall. • Bpm Pharmacy Wives meet at Institute of Pharmacy. • 8 pm, Kick-off meeting of Can cer Crusade volunteers, Carroll Hall. • • • Morehead Planetarium: “East er, the Awakening,” 8 30 p.m. 7 days a week plus 11 am., 3 p.m., 4 p.m. Sat and 3 p.m and 4 p.m. Sun. • • • Carolina Theatre: Now running, “The Last Hurrah,” Spencer Tracy; Wed. and Thurs., “Helen of Troy,” Brigitte Bardot. Varsity Theatre: Mon., “Foitdd den Island,” Jon Hall, phis “Gun men From Laredo;" Tues., “The Haunted Strangler,” Boris Karloff, plus "The Fiend Without a ram;” u/pil "DMioninf Wflmaw M flrutf- VTCvI, L/vai§lMMg mnitau, ory Peck, Lauren Bacaß; Thurs., "The Journey," Deborah Kim, Yul Brunner.
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