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There are more men than wo men in mental hospitals, which goes to show who’s driving who crazy. ■ 's'v Yol. 38, No. 102 Monday General Holiday Monday, January 2, will be a general holiday in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. With the exception of a few services stations, most down town businesses will be closed. Both banks will be closed. Public schools will resume classes Monday, though the Uni versity will remain closed until Tuesday. There will be no window ser vice in the Post Office or any delivery except special delivery though the doors will be open as usual from 5 a m. to 10 p in.,ln coming and outgoing mail will be handled as usual, and mail will be put up in boxes. The Post Office handled 1.503, 977 pieces of mail from Decem ber 10 to December 24 including both incoming and outgoing This was almost exactly the amount n handled during the same period lant year. The biggest day of the season was December 16, when 145,777 pieces of mail were pro tes.sed. The Post Office rush end d on Thursday, December 22. Restaurants, several of which have been closed since last week end, will reopen as the students to town. ” Several businesses which have been closed for a week or long er for inventory will complete their tally of what was left af ter the shoppers departed and reopen with the restaurants. A community watch night ser vcic will be held at 11:45 p m. on New Year’s Eve at the Alders gate Methodist Church. Conrad Glass, director of youth for the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church, will speak Most other churches will ob serve regular service schedules. CLpel Hill CHAFF In ihc year* I’ve flown to Al bany, Ga , for Christinas the round trip has been as eventtul a.-> a bus ride to Carrboro. ’Hits is good, of course. It was so last week from here to Atlanta, where I always change planes. 4 Perfectly routine, as usual * .» . ot 'rem Atlanta to Al bany. The pilots were on strike, the stewardess got airsick in niidflight. the plane's lubrication system sprang a leak, and we Mreaehed Albany an hour late. %Maybc wc ,werc lucky to get tlicrc that soon Just before the passengers hoarded the plane at Atlanta a picket handed each of them a card that -aid. ’’Don't fly .South ern A ERA pilots on strike. All we want for Christmas arc our two front seals.” Nobody turned back, but pos sibly some regretted it when at five thousand feet a woman seat ed over the port wing excitedly announced she could sec a bad leak from the engine on that side. A foot-wide • stream of oil was pulsing down the a not reassuring sight, es pecially since the plane had hit Jtough air and the stewardess Bias momentarily too sick to tend tJo the nauseated passengers. But wc soon landed on sche dule at Columbus, where cvcry < Continued on Page 6t Scenes Busiest crowd in tow*: Sales | force at Huggins Hardware tak -5 jj!g inventory and waiting on cus tomers at the same time . . . HKN l-ONG, small boy from getting expert dent vij care while here on visit to iLi> aunt, VIRGINIA LONG . . . SIDNEY SWAIM ROBINS and his even taller son greeting old friends in the Bank of Chap j d n il ... BILL COLLIER’S j Wj.sj.fiil smile after he sank a ivfoot putt last Tuesday after noon on third bole at Finley r course ... MAX SAUNDERS in I drugstore stocking up no agars I for v.bat promises U> be a win- B try weekend . . Residents of ■ University Lake area comfdain -6 hag to GAME WARDEN SOB ■ ESgan— Ota.rtO.uOterot ■ wild ducks by gunners sitting in icars oo bridge that crosses arm I oflase. The dead ducks can’t be I £tfKed and are Mt to float and rot tad* waters A man I «4» looks food to • c*pt WANCC 1 MUON. 6 cents a Copv I : ' / S'’ If'l i \ V jf <&, X* % jni , T .m . jfl EDUCATORS Discussing educa-, tional problems at a meeting here yester day were, from left. University President William C. Friday, f irmer Secretary ot Health, Education and Welfare Marion- Carrboro Bigger By Four Acres Carrboro is bigger For the first time since its in corporation about fifty years ago, tlie Town of Carrboro annexed territory—4 1 acres of land own ed by W T. Durham adjoining the western boundary of the town The annexation was made ot ficial la-st Thursday night at a meeting of the Carrboro Commis sioners. Having been presented with an accurate survey of the Durham property, the Commis sioners voted t/io land into the town unanimously Town Clerk li H I odd said yesterday that Mr Durham, who has been working hard tor sev eral weeks to have his land an nexed, will now apply for a ru nning of die land to p> Suit hs use as a mobile trailer court. Os Mr. Durham’s total trad, about ten acres, the bulk was al ready inside Carrboro Rezoning to permit Itfie lands use a- a trailer court could not be cited cd by the Town of Carrboro unld the Town had jurisdiction ovei (he whole plot; lienee tlie annexa tion The land is bordered on the cast by the old Carrboro line, on the vest by Barnes Street, on Sent i-Interregn um Ending For Li JSC BY I’hlK IVEY After the ''busiest” 1 all in the history of the I niversity, this the interim or tallow period pre paratory to ushering in what promises to be a most exciting and jam-packed 1961 culturally, scientifically, educationally. When hie students left last week, the campus went into a semi-interregnum Main activity consisted of the Jew administra tive offices maintaining skeleton staffs. The N. C. Memorial Hospi tal was tiie principal agony open on a 24 hour basis—that and the IJNC utilities services of tele phone. water, light The Carolina Inn on Christmas Hay served dinner to its permanent residents and a few visitors who were here visiting their sons and daughters who remained in the town over the holidays. Faculty members are attend ing national meetings, rubbing dhows and cerebrums with their colleagues. One ol every even facul / members is attending these learned sessions. Others arc acting very much like the rest ol the population—resting, visiting, talking with the fam ily, reading, catching up on long neglected household chores, watching television, attending lo cal New Year soirees, still won dering and trying to dccipcr who “Bill and Alice” are on the Christmas card received lu*t wed; Students will start rolling hack into town on Monday, and class es begin on Tuesday, January 4. The first couple of weeks in Jan uary is a grim tunc of determi nation for most of the scholars, (or examinations liegin on Janu ary 20—the same date Kennedy is inaugurated. Aside from the regular pro grams of teaching, rcseartft wd service. Ilic extra everts during tire first month of the New Yew will feature an array of musical, artistic, scientific, and economic tales* carting to Cbafwl UilL The Chapel Hill Weekly the south by King Street, and on the north by. another property owner. Also at Thursday’s meeting the Commissioner.-, agreed to rear range their financing of the re cently completed Town 1 fall Two Town Hall notes of S3O 000 and $35,000 were renewed tor three months, and agreement was readied to sell another $15,000 in bonds on January 10, to come due April 25 On March 28, SBO,- 000 in iionds will be sold to pay for all outstanding notes, which will conic due Api il 25 Tlie Carrboro Town Hall now has an official driver s license examiner on duty there from 8 30 lo 5:30 every weekday except Saturday. Mr Todd also reported that taxes may be listed at the Town Hall on Tuesdays and Fridays, beginning January 3 and continu ing through January. The Carrboro Fire Department is now located in its new quart ers adjoining the Town Hail but .the Police Department is still lo cated in the old Town Hall pend mg completion ot its new sum of offices and jail next to the new Fire Department lhe chronology ot events, as revealed up to tins tunc, bil lows: January 3 New Plunctui ium .Show, .specially lor Scouts, be gins January s—Senior organ rental at Ibil Hall James Holmes will play selections from Pachelbel, Bach and others. January 9 Management In stitute* in business school tor visiting printers and electric cor porations. .January Hl—Alliance Fruntaise presents t reach plays at Chapel of the Cross Parish House Caio lina play* Wake Forest in bas ketball. BY J. A. C. DUNN Harry Gulden s bouse is on a quiet stretch of Elizabeth Avenue inumber 151-* iri Charlotte. At one end ol the porch a sign says "CAROLINA ISRAELITE Har ry Golden. Editor.” Ibe Iront door is bright red Mrr ftoldm * study is a com fortable clutter. Bookshelves dominate two walls. On other walls are framed dusljackcts from took- both Mr. Golden’s and other people’s 'one of them p, Jtoq Ehle’s "Shepherd of ihc Streets”) There is a phono graph, a TV set, an assortment of lamps, wooden Windsor chairs, ledlWi'q: o v e t c d armchairs, a footstool, a bronze bust of Carl Kaiidbufg, magazine* and news papers stacked on the tables, and » email bar. ‘ You want a drink?” said Mr Golden, last week. “Bourbon and water? You smoke cigars? So what else is new? You know tins record? it’s just come out, sam pkb of 60 years of music in this S err in ij the Chapel Hill Area Sinee Ifl2:t CHAPEL HILL, N. C\. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 29, 1960 Folsom, UNC Chancellor William Ay cock, wU chancellor W. W. Pierson, and University Vice President Donald Ander son. Southern College Knrollmenl Will Double—Folsom Double enrollments in schools and colleges of North (arolina and the rest of the South by 1970, and triple enrollment by 1980 were predicted here yesterday by .Marion If Folsom, lormer t' S Secretary ot Health Educa tion and Welfare Folsom was at the University to v v it his son. Marion P> Fol soill ,|r . a gradtiale student and, instructor a< UNC He coulerred with President William U Fri day Chancellor William B Ay cock and others on a projected commission on “finals lor Edu cation m (he South that is being sponsored by the Southern Re gional Education Board in At ianta. President Friday also Is a member of the commission. Mr Eolsom has just completed a study of educational rcorgani nation in the Stale oi New 5 ork I lind that many ol the prob lems you (ace in North Carolina are the same ones that are char acteristic of New York,’ he said Among New York recommen dations that may be applicable to the South is a planned expan ion ol community colleges and teachers colleges. It was recommended that New York have also a main slate uni versify, such as the University ol North Carolina Having a central university, >uch as you have at Chapel Hill, i., something tn.il is lacking in llie New YoiK system and veil! In remedied d the proposals are adopted ’ said Eolsom. | Weather Report j Cloudy and warmer tomorrow, with possible rain. Monday >9 29 Tuesday 59 32 Wednesday *- 23 The eollaid patch, with Rrecn newly-minted aspect, now tends a cheerful note to many a som ber neighborhood ot shacks ami sagging fences. Both to the eye ami the dinner table, it helps take Hie curse off bleak winter days. A Talk With Harry Golden country. No, that's not Ihc 'Washington Rost March.' that s the Stars and Stripes Forever,’ HARRY GOLDEN Public Hearing Asked Formal Agreement Reached On Raleigh Rd. Four-Laning 16-Foot w Median Is Out Official agreement between the Town, of Chapel Hill and the Slate Highway Commission was readied yesterday afternoon on right oi way costs and utility ad justments in the Raleigh Road dual-laning project. At a special meeting ol the Board of Aldermen, attended by a quorum of five members late yesterday afternoon, a routine resolution drawn up by the State was passed unanimously. The resolution stated, in effect, that any costs of moving tele phone poles, water, sewer and gas lines in the process of widen ing the Raleigh Road between Country Club Road and the Country line would be borne by the Town, and that maintenance and control of traffic during the widening process would also be managed by the Town. Only poles and gas lines will Im affected by the widening The I mversity has agreed to move any telephone poles necessary, and tlie Town has a standing agreement with the Public Ser vice Co that Public Service will bear the cost of any necessary gas fine alteration. The State’s resolution also call ed lor tlie T own to agree to share the cost of additional rlghts-of •*•*■ ' Which may become neces sary Though the resolution does not specify the extent to which the Town would be required to share costs m such a case, town attorney I U U’Grand said the Town was only bound to “come to an agreement" with the State amt not to “agree to agree to (Continued on Page 2) Christmas Business Fair To Excellent Christmas business in Chapel Hill and Carrboro was lair to excellent, according to a survey of merchants yesterday. Mr* Jane Whitcficld. director of the Merchants Association, said there was not a general business boom, but most firms reported reasonable increases over last year s Christmas sales. As expected, gilt items, men s and women’s clothing and acces sories were Pie big movers. Heavy goods did not do as well as they have in qjevious years Some merchants reported a minor decline in business during the last week bciorc Christmas. This was due, to some extent, to Hie exodus of University stu dents. The drop was ollsel, how ever, by sales earlier in the sure. 1 saw John Rhihp Sousa conduct dial once in New York, lie conducted just like this. Mr. Golden swung hi* cigar rhythmically straight up and down. T.ic Golden end of Uic ci gar wa* chewed (or an inch and a half He brought a highball in a glass decorated with replicas of newspaper headlines. Slock Crash Halted Alter Prices Sag in 16,410,030-Sherc Day,” said the headline around Hie rim of the glass. "I came to North Carolina as a salesman in die early forties. Things were tough Wc had a dc press.on all during the thirties, jot's not kid anybody. 1 was sell ing features for a big syndi cate . , He described his journalistic peregrinations through Virginia and the Carolmas during the early forties, grinning, gesturing expansively, and swiveling los compact form in a chair which hardly contained him-When he blinked, the left eyelid opened New Quaker Meeting House Date Will Be Set For Bond Eleetion T he Board of County Commis sioners w ill set the date for the county wide sls million school bond election at its regular meet ing Tuesday in Hillsboro Before officially setting the date, the commissioners will for mally approve distribution of tlie money between the Chapel Hill School District and the coun tp -aefeaoi ay stem. The Chapel Hill and county school boards have agreed on a 5644 split, with the big end going to Chapel Hill Hie commissioners are cx pected to go along with that agreement. Tlie bond election probably will be held around the middle ot March, allowing time lor legal month and all firms contacted reported an increase tor the en tire month over December ot last year. Inventories generally wore re ported in good condition, al though low in spots. Many stores are holding sale* this week and most of those that aren’t have them scheduled for next week One welcome trend retried among th c merchants—fewer Christmas exchanges this year No one seemed to know exactly •why, particularly since sale* volumes had increased. One mer chant warned, though, that it was a little early to cheer; the student* aren't back yet and there hasn't been time for out of town presents,, to be returned. faster than the rifdil one. “. ... So l decided to start my own paper, a personal liber al journal where l could make use of half a century of constant reading. I remember everything. I remember everybody I’ve ever known, every conversation Ivc ever had. everything I vc ever read, l just remember it, you know? Well. I couldn't hope U) put out anydiing called the ‘Tar Heel Journal’ or the Carolina Gazette' or anything like dial. People would look at it and say, Who’s this little New York Jew who think* he's a Southerner? When did he come to Carolina?’ Y’ou know? ho I called it the Israelite.’ for the immunity—peo ple would say. ’Oh, that’s just that little Jew paper' and never pay any attention to it. So now I think I Lave about fifty thousand subscribers, ao I’ve achieved the same effect in the end. ”U started off very nice. 1 made a tittle living at It. and af (Continued from Pig* *> Today’s Press Kun f 4,500 'is a ->,< -'xmrnm- Mmmmmmfmmm PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY formalities Organized work in support of the bond issue prob ably will begin next month. Money from the bond issue, if it is approved by the voters, will be used lor the first |ifui.se of a lu-year school construction program. The commissioners also are scheduled to meet Tuesday with tb«. County Board of Elections and discus* pay for elections of licial:. Clyde Carter, secretary of the Elections Board, has estimated that of 900 University students who registered (or the election, some t>oo got on die books through fraud or ignorance of registra tion requirements. Mr. Carter proposed a crack down which will force the stu dents to remove themselves from tlie registration rolls or start paying county taxes. The crack down would begin with the com pilation of a list of student regis trants in the Chapel Hill and Carrboro precincts. Names would be checked against county tax records and auto registrations to determine the accuracy of state ments made by student* when registering. Warning then would be sent to students suspected of registering illegally;, they would be given the choice of listing poll and oroperty taxes or requesting removal Horn the registration books. An appropriation of about S2OO is needed to finance the crack down, and it is this die commis sioners will be concerned with Tuesday. T.ie question of pay lor election work* i s was raised shortly alter the Nov. K general election A delegation of registrars appeal ed to the commissioners lor more pay. Three Fires Mar Holiday Weekend Three fire* marred Chapel Hill's Christmas weekend On I” riday evening a defective flue tn the Virginia Atwater liousc on McDade Strct resulted in two badly burned rooms in the house. - ! At about 9 o’clock Christmas morning a fire in Ihc chimney of George Barclay's house on Tenney Circle resulted from the chimney’s having settled amt pulled away from Ihc wall of the house, leaving a crack. And on Monday evening a stu dent garage apartment at 44A Davie Circle started from the furnace and left the apartment a total loss. The Police Department re ported a n abnormally quiet Christmas holiday; no break-ins, no shootings or knifings, a hard ly noticeable scattering of drunks, and only one accident, a three car collision on Franklin Stmt at Ihc Post Office which caused no injuries. ''Quieten* Christmas I’ve ever seen,’ said Police Sergeant W. F. Hester. Friends Society j Moves Into New Meeting House The Chapel Hill Meeting of the Society of Friends moved into its own meeting house last week —23 years after the group was first organized here. A'Uiough the new building was not complete, the Quaker group held kx first Sunday med ia g in the house. The buiblingjAtod been expected JHfcrplete about 0* hr*l of the year, but the first meet ing in it was moved ahead of schedule because of the Univer sity’s schedule The local Quaker group has been meeting in Graham Me morial, but the building is clos ed for the holidays. The building contractors, F. H. A. Thompson of Chapel Hill, is finishing up the job this week, and the building is ex pected to be complete by Sun day Furnishings, such as carpets and benches, will be added later. Formal dedication of the struc ture is expected to be held m late January or early February. The Friends Society purchased a one and a halt acre lot at the corner of Country Club Hoad, and Raleigh Road in 1960 from the late W. C Coker. The building, expected to cost about $23,000 when it is complet ed, is a one-story structure of simple design, it resembles a re sidential building. Including a full basement, the building has nearly 2,500 square feet of floor space, with an ad jacent parking lot for the local meeting’s present membership ol about 35. Doan D. D Carroll is chair man ol the building committee and Mrs. Claude Shalt* is chair man of Ihe furnishings commit tee. Adolph Firth is clerk of the meeting and Mrs. Shotts is sec retary. Trustees are Dean Car roll and Claude Shuts. L Lyndon Hobbs was chair man of the. building committee I during much of the operation but moved away in September, when he was succeeded by Mr. Car roll. Other members of the com mittee are Dr. Stuart Willis, Claude Shuts, R. J. M. Hobbs. Miss Geraldine Foster, and Mrs. Mildred Hingwalt. -Ms. ■ lUWMdNtffllM Monday Paper The Weekly will pub lish a* usual on Monday Jan. 2 Carrier delivery ’ will be made at the regu lar time, but mail deliv ery possibly will be delay ed due to the Post Office holiday If your carrier has not delivered your paper by 6:30 p in. on Ihe day of publication, please call 0-1271 or 8-461 be tween 6:30 and 7:30 and • special delivery will be made. The Weekly office will be open ett tittkf from 9 until noon.
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