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I College basketball coaches are all interested in higher educa tion, and the closer they come to 7 feet the better they like it. Volume 39, Number 76 .. 4 4£[jggflMUHH£pF« Jgmmgmt ... ilßwlrimipw J jMfflgfg^P^-wßMßßg^a > .^F " ijlwßr Tg wy# |knr | : ' * »'. P' Bhil«nfi~ x ~*' ' R ■ ' *”* i<M»-m!(Et*v. *aa» l i fn ie iflniilMlMKl . . ...... t «2 f »f 9 , ■*&+*.% ♦ r«,qjfjJ " 9 SjxtgSil W& j3^ ;W ™^ l!t v :^i y\\ I «^ !^i '^# Pv , ' <i^?f 1 ' - fr New B & PW Headquarters Will Be Dedicated Oct. 1 Sunday, October Ist, members of the North Carolina Federation of Business and Professional Wo men's Clubs. Inc., will dedicate their new State Headquarters Building. Located on Smith I .eve! Road, just out from Chapel Hill, it sits back about three-eighths of a mile from the road, situated in a beau tifully wooded, rolling section of (Jiapul Hill * CHAFF By JOE JONES __ Carl Apollonio, manager of the Intimate Bookshop, was elated Saturday morning when he sold % nine autographed copies of John Torres s new book, “Discovery," which came out Wednesday and costs $0.50, He attributed part of sales to the shop's special display of Terres mater ial In addition to several copies of “Discovery,” the display includes a photograph of Mr. Terres, who is a Chapel Hill freelance writer, and other books by him One of these is the first hook he wrote, “Songbirds in Your G a r d en,” which was issued in 1953 and has sold wi,ooo copies. Another Terres took in the display is "The Won ders 1 See,” which came out last year. The test-selling Terres book is “The Audubon Book of True Na ture Stories,” published in 1958. The laterary Guild bought a thousand copies, and ten thousand more have been sold in the open market. A new edition of it has just come out. “Discovery” contains n a r r a % tives by 36 of the great living na turalists of the world, each com missioned expressly for this vol ume and making its first appe ;,r ' ance in print. Each writer de scribes the most memorable ex perience of his life as a natural list. The stories include tales of personal danger, quests for rare I specimens, and poignant obser vations of the natural world. All of Mr. Torres’s books are published by the J. B Lippincott Company, with which he holds the post of General Editor of Nature Books. The Intimate’s window display includes several large nature pho tographs lent by the National Au dubon Society, at whose head quarters in New York Mr. Tor res worked for eleven years be- fore coming to Chapel Hill last (Continued on Cage 8i Weather Report Continued warm expected to morrow. Thursday ** Friday ** 55 Katurday 89 61 Sunday 90 61 Under the dogwoods on Hen demon Street the sidewalk is strewn with fragments as emp ty seed-pad halls, drepped by squirrels who have gleaned every red berry from the little trees. I The harvest of the dagwaads la an aaaaal event. 5 Cents a Copy State Federation Headquarters the countryside. Dr. Arnold S. Nash, professor of History and Sociology of Religion, ol the University, will lead the group in dedication services. Gov ernor Terry Sanford will extend congratulations to the Federa tion Katherine Peden of Ken tucky, president of the National pay tribute to the North Carolina Federation. Presiding over the activities will be Mrs. Stella Hayes Spen cer of Unoir, state president. Other officers of the Federation which consists of 76 clubs throughout the state are: Mrs. Ruth M Easterling, first vice president of Charlotte; Mrs La cie M Moester, second dent of Winston-Salem; Mrs. Alice T. Owen, recording secre tary of Hertford; and Mrs. Grace M. Ayseue, treasurer of More head City. Though the actual construction 9 , 082 Are Enrolled For Fall Semester By I‘ETE IVEY Enrollment for the Fall semes ter in the University here is 9,082 students, the largest number ever to attend UNC. Dean of Student Affairs Charles Henderson Jr said the total on the main University campus is 7,- 817. and for the schools in the Di vision of Health Affairs 1,265. The largest numter of students are in the General C011ege—3,259. A total of 1,745 freshmen are registered The College of Arts and Sci ences has 2,856 students, those enrolled in the junior and senior classes in that school. In the School of Business Ad ministration there are 575 stu dents. The School of Education reports 572 future teachers. The Uaw School has 325 stu dents In the Journalism School ’ire 78 students; in Library Sc*- * nee 77 and Social Work 75. There are 331 students enrolled in the UNC School of Medicine. The Pharmacy School total is 265 In other schools of the Health Affairs Division, the Dentistry Carrboro Chamber To Pick Directors Six directors will be elected by the Chamber of Commerce to night at 8 in the Carrboro Town Hill Nominated, according to Cham bers rules, were Bob Ayres, R. W. Bone. Paul Crabtree, Carl Elling ton, Jimmy Hearn, Roy S. Lloyd, Clyde Lloyd, Ben Perry, Elmer Pendergraft. Bruce Riggsbee, George Spransy and John Wil liums. Also to be discussed are cham ber plans for the coming year. Among the items to be covered will be the part the Chamber played in locating a National Guard unit in Carsoro. the for mation of the Orahft Industrial Development Corporation and the decision of Sperry Rand to locate a manufacturing plant in Carr boro. The Chapel Hill Weekly was completed in the late spring, dedication was delayed in an ef fort to improve the entrance to the property and the grounds and to coordinate the occasion with the opening of National Business Woman’s Week being observed throughout the country. The new structure required a year for construction at a cost of approximately $50,000. Improve ments to the property, furnish ings, and other necessary details have added an additional SIO,OOO to the Federation's investment. The land upon which the struc ture stands was a gift to the Fed. eration by Dr. Rachel Davis of Kinston, a member of the Kinston (Tub, and a member of the North Carolina General Assembly. Immediately after the dedica tion services, (he Durham Club will be host at an informal tea while the group is invited to tour the building and grounds. School has 229 students, School of Nursing 242; School of Public Health 198. Not included in the grand total of 9,082 students are “irregular enrollments,” including interns, residents and fellows in the N. C. Memorial Hospital, X-ray techni cians in the Medical School, spec ial education classes meeting oc casionally and non-resident Ex ten s i o n students attending the ‘ Evening College" and educa tion centers at Charlotte, Winston- Salem, Fort Bragg, Fayetteville and Hillsboro. The total of those in the “irre gular enrollment” is 1,127, divid ed as follou's: Special education classes, 118; Charlotte Graduate Center 136: Winston-Salem Gra duate Center 76; Interns, resi dents and fellows in the hospital, 188; Evening College 425; Fort Pragg Center 148, Fayetteville Center 19, and Hillsboro 17. A Talk With John Motley Morehead John Motley Morehead, who an nounced his enrichment of the Morehead Scholarship Foundation by $7,000,000 last week, helped found Union Carbide and Carbon around the turn of the century. Union Carbide started at a little experimental laboratory in the backwoods of North Carolina and is now a colossus of the industrial world. By J. A. C. DUNN Some people call John Motley Morehead “Uncle Mot,” with af fection Unde Mot is almost 91 now. but he can still do his chem istry He wears Hoover collars and fluting on his vests and starched French cuffs and gold rimmed glasses. The little fringe of hair around his head is still red His pockets are loaded with pens and paper's and letters and spectacle cases and his hearing aid. “This is my good ear,” be said. Serving the Chapel HU I Area Since 1923 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1961 Dispute Entered By Court Power Line Route To Be Appraised Three court-appointed commis sioners will appraise the land needed for the installation of Duke Power Company power lines south of Morgan Creek. The decision, handed down Fri day in Orange County Superior Court, was a substantial victory for Duke Power over four Chapel Hil residents. The residents are disputing Duke Power’s efforts to condemn land in order to put in new power lines. The need for the power lines arises out of the University’s need for more electrical power. The new power lines would be brought to the UNC power plant on West Cameron Avenue to boost the plants’s output. Duke Power’s witnesses indicat ed the best route for the new lines runs through land owned by Wil liam L. Hunt, and over the resi dences of Kenneth Ness, Dr. Clar ence Heer, and Edward L. Gray. Mr. Hunt, who has donated an arboretum in the area, stated at the hearing that the proposed power line would pass within 100 feet of additional arboretum ter ritory he intends to give, damag ing its beauty. The other residents claim the power line would appreciably re duce their property values and that Duke Power’s decision to run the line through their area was •’capricious and arbitrary.” They also said they will ap peal the court’s decision. A hearing will be held October 24 on a recent Chapel Hill Plan ning Board recommendation that public utilities be required to seek permits for the construction of high power line towers. The residents feel action in the dispute should be delayed until a decision is reached on this mat ter. Parking, Street Lights On Agenda The Chapel Hill Board of Alder men will try to reach an agree ment in Tuesday night’s meeting on creating a general standard for placement of street lights as well as stop and yield signs, ac cording to Robert Peck, town manager. Other items on the agenda in clude a discussion of parking on West Rosemary street; considera tion of a request for a sidewalk on Church street and of changing the name of Burlage Drive. Consideration will also be given to a request for rezoning 125 Gra ham Street owned by R. E. Pope of Durham and adoption of a res olution dealing with a $65,000 note on a property sale. Concerning the hiring of a building inspector to replace Ho ward Stewart who resigned his position to become town manager of Cary, Mr. Peck said he was circulating the information to see what applications came in. The Aldermen will meet in the courtroom at Town Hall beginning at 7:30. “You’d better sit on this side. I have a hearing aid, but it doesn’t do me much good. It just brings in outside noises. “When we discovered calcium carbide there were some people trying to produce aluminum, and in that kind of operation there are always pirates trying to get in on the deal. My father had a wat er power, a thousand horsepower, up in Spray. They were using three hundred of it to run the cotton mills, so this little com pany thought they could go back in the woods up there and /la their experimenting. “Well, I was in my senior year ... as a chemistry student down here at the University, and 1 pat in a bid as chemist, f did moot of the chemical research right here in the University laboratory. Tbat * was in UM. A Utile bit earlier. “Now I don’t know bow much 4 you know about chemistry. aoJTI try and explain this dnrtf.* • . . , , - __ % 'L?['" f * WITNESS—ChapeI Hill Civil Air Pa trol communications officer Jim Bots ford witnessed the crash of the C-123 at the air show in Wilmington Sunday afternoon. He was there with hi.s CAP radio truck, shown above. Other Chapel State Office In Cha[>el Hill May Be Lost The State headquarters of the North Carolina Society for Crip pled Children and Adults will probably move from here to Southern Pines unless a new home can be found for it in Chap el Hill before November. A decision on the mow will be made by the Society's-board of di rectors when the Society holds its annual convention in Winston-Sa lem the first week in November. The Society's headquarters has been in Chapel Hill since 1935, and is presently in an old frame house diagonally across East Rosemary Street from the tele 4hkne exchange building. The move is contemplated be cause these quarters are not only cramped, hut unattractive. An unofficial effort is currently underway to find a place for the headquarters in Chapel Hill R B Fitch Jr. has been working with a small group of interested citizens for the past three months to find a suitable piece of land its owner would donate to the Society for a headquarters. Mr. Fitch’s group is operating under an informal arrangement with the Society, which has stated that if it is given 14 to 2 acres on a "fairly well traveled approach to Chapel Hill, or the Chapel Hill area” it would build "an attrac tive office building" for the State headquarters The group, which includes real tor Mrs Pete Ivey and Mayor Sandy McClamroch. is not sure the Society would accept an offer of land if it were made “But it's up to us to find them an offer if we want them to stay here,” said Mr. Fitch Meanwhile. Southern Pines is dangling tempting bait in front of the Society: About eight months ago the town offered to give the Society either one of two tracts of land, one of which contains two acres; the town is raising several thou sand dollars with which to help the Society build its new office building; and the town, on its own. has already had an architect draw preliminary sketches of an (Continued on Page 8) He pulled out a ballpoint pen and scribbled chemical equations on the back of a telegram. “Now let’s see. They figured that if carton would take the oxygen out of iron ore and leave ■ In ME. MOREHEAD Hillians on the scene were Pebley Bar row, Art Storm, Sam Wilburn, and W. D. Neville. Mr. Botsford’s radio truck was used as a communications unit to assist rescue efforts. ‘...She Pancaked On The Ground’ Chapel Hill CAP communications officer Jim Botsford saw the C-123 crash at the air show in Wilmington yester day afternoon. The plane crashed and burned very shortly after takeoff, killing three men and injuring twelve. It was carrying paratroopers and newsmen. The paratroop ers were sky divers scheduled as the next event of the air show, and the newsmen were along to report from an aerial vantage point. Mr. Botsford’s account of the accident: "t was on top of the CAP hang ar when it happened. I had as good a view as anybody. The plane started to take off and got to be about 150 feet and lost pow er and tell off on, one. wing. whole thing was in slow motion. She just pancaked in on the ground adjacent to the runway. "I think the outstanding thing about this was that there was no mention of the, well we might as well call it heroic efforts of the firemen and other people in the area who dashed right into the plane There was one CAP man from Wilmington—he’s in the hos pital now—and they all dashed Board To Consider Reassignment Bid The Chapel Hill School Board will consider a reassignment re quest and space problems at a special meeting at two p in. Tues day in the Carrboro School. The reassignment request is from fleece Birmingham, who asked just after school opened earlier this month that his two children tie placed in an all-white school. The children were in grades two and four in the Carrboro St bool. Because there was no all-white school in Chapel Hill in which to place the two children, they were sent to a private school in Dur ham, which they are attending now. you pure iron, then carbon would lake the oxygen out of this here, and leave you pure aluminum. Well, they tried that, but the car bon wasn't a strong enough re ducting agent, so they decided to make two steps out of it. make calcium, and use the calcium to take out the oxygen and leave pure aluminum. Calcium is a much stronger reducing agent. “There were three of us up there and two Negroes, and I was the chemist. The blast fur nace we had up there was only about four thousand degrees, and we needed an electric furnace. So we used electricity from my father's water power. But what happened was that the calcium was so strong it held onto two thirds of the oxygen and produced calcium carbide. “We didn’t know it was calcium carbide. Calcium carbide had never existed at that time. We (Continued on Page 8) The BighmPM 1 JSetcg paper Circulation In Orange County, | PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY right into the plane at their own risk to get people out as the choppers blew the flames aft. “Bib sometimes the choppers had to move. The flames caused a lot of beet prostration. ”{ used my radio truck as an ■P’Jiaflfya «t first, because 1 Raw that full-length Wd In the back. I took a fireman to first aid who had been overcome. Then 1 just used the truck as a com munications outfit. The man I took in we had to forcibly re move lie wouldn't realize that he was ol no value there, but those were his buddies in there and he felt he was needed. "We had to get heavy power (Continued on page 8) The School Board asked the State Attorney General's opinion un the question. School Superintendent Joseph Johnston said the Attorney Gen eral replied that the children could be assigned to a school in another administrative unit, if this were reasonable and practi cal II not reasonable and practic al, they could apply for a tuition grant to attend a private, non sectarian school. Dr Johnston said that the chil d- en could also he kept at home, since the compulsory attendance law would not apply to the chil dren under Ihe circumstances. The space problems the Board will consider exist at EBtes Hills, where there are two classes with about 40 children in each room. The generally accepted maxi mum child population for one i oom is about 30. “The question,” said Dr John ston, “is what you do with the ex cess.” Post Office Hours To Change Oct. 1 Effective as of Oct. 1, the Chapel Hill Post Office will change its hours of window ser vice by order of the United States Post Office Department. The new hours will be 8:30 a m. to 5 p m. on weekdays and 8:30 a m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturdays. At present, window service hours are from 0 a m. to 5:30 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays. The Chapel Hill Post Office con sulted Chapel Hill merchants and UNC officials regarding the change. Neither group voiced an objection. All other schedules of service hours will remain the same Post Office regulations only allow 8 and a half hours of continuous window service. ■i 7 : Council OKs Aid For Pool Todd Appointed Chest Treasurer By NEAL RATTICAN The Community Council voted unanimously Thursday night to use the surplus from the 1961-62 Community Chest drive in sup port of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Swimming Pool Association (SPA). The surplus will be used to un derwrite a deficit incurred in the operation of the swimming pool this past summer and any deficit that may occur in 1962. The SPA will also be paid $143.50 so that it may refund one half of the season tickets can celled during the summer. The exact amount of the SPK deficit has not been officially re ported and the Council decided that no payment will be made until a satisfactory report is turn ed over to the Council. Milton E. Loomis, presenting the motion to the Council, went into detail on the situation. He said, in referring to the Associa tion’s previous request for aid in July. ’’When the SPA first ap proached the Community Council, the Council did not have the means to help. The surplus bad not materialized from the IMI-tt drive. Now it is beginning to ac cumulate.” Mr. Loomis added that toe SPA was forced to cancel their seaeoß tickets in the middle ot the sum mer. The holders at tbs tickets received the action in good stride which, he said, waa a "demon stration of solidarity and loyalty to toe cause of the swimming pool." Mr Loomis said toe situation was such that it was esisatlsl to meet the problem at least hats way and uae the surplus that bad accumulated this year to (king pay to! I may refund one-half of the pool season tickets that were recalled. Mr. Loomis also inducted in his presentation that the surplus, “as far as funds are available.” be used to cover the deficit of the Association in 1962 should one oc cur. Having put the proposal before the Council, Mr. Loomis conclud ed by saying that the Council "would be derelict in duty in not making this move.” There was little dicussion on the proposal other than establish ing that approval of the recom mendation would not set a prece dent for the use of Community Chest surpluses in future yean. The motion was passed unani mously, but the Council agreed to make no payment to the SPA un til a satisfactory report as to the exact amount of the deficit is re ceived. In other action. George Coot head, Community Chest campaign chairman, reported the C b a p e 1 Hill-Carrboro Community Chest campaign is progressing well and that all the key people have been (Continued on Page I) Scenes Former Unlvernity President FRANK PORTER GRAHAM, here from New York, letting his breakfast get cold while he walks from table to table greeting friends at the Carolina Inn cafe teria . , . Young JOHN UM STEAD, son of MR. and MRS. FRANK UMSTEAD, changing a tire on his mother's car at the home of a friend they were call ing on; they had a flat after they got there . . . MRS. EVERETT PALMATIER, home from a year In Europe, displaying consider able animation as she describes the Paris fashions to a friend ... Sidewalk garden in front of Har ry’s still green and beautiful; it was watered by a faithful em ployee while the restaurant was closed during second term of Summer Session ... VIC HUG GINS elated by success of charity bridge tournament staged last Saturday at Holiday lan in Dur ham by Brigbttoaf Bridge As*- ciation, of which be is president ... BUD PERRY getting in all the fishing he can before summer ends . . . Dry-cleaners complain ing about excessive amount of mould and mildew in fail and win. ter garments brought to ftom thte month.
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