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do dot I short Hto te hontetae
tea. They writ* aiwte birds as
tettfc. ate it e«s «Bwy.
Lute «M Mr «d Thai years
jgpk tat nature wher* vrooto he
OR MIMHI more ,<aNd gm«d «
tfetf ’d «Tite about birds the *ay
dwv are. 1 raea» they lath about
tads flirting ate bavin? tore af
ters. and that toad at thing and
that ami the my it is at all
When a male bird courts a fe
ster. it's jnst like the combina
tion loci OR one Os these big
softs The male does certain
pans, through certain mo
tions. and it opens the loci, the
female opens ap and accepts him
It's iflw a mechanism The mode
may feel some sort of affection
but he kilim's just what tc> do and
he does it am! the lock open?
There's no flirting or anything,
idle that I'm a trained scientist.,
ate I know it's much better to
tell about the* things just the
wraj they are
*T quit schooi at sixteen be
cause we were a large family
and my mother needed my help
Ate I wasn’t 100 interested m
school anyway Just at that time
I had what the doctor thought
was an arrested case ot TB anci
he said 1 ought to g*» to a sana
torium but if i couldn't I should
go do outside work So i went into
construction work, engineering,
and after a while I took a course
in engineering so I was qualified
as a job engineer-read plans
and everything I did that for
about twelve year- and then the
depression came along "
During the depressior Mr Ter
re- worked for the government as
a fi«d naturalist aw also went to
two college fir training be took
at! the- zoology coiir-t-- Cornell of
fered While in the Army dur
ing World Wa? II tie began to sell
articles tr> magazine- After the
Amt;, his writing led him to the
managing editorship, ther the edi
tor-hip o' Audnhor Magazine
‘ But 1 loath* New Yort. Cuy.”
he said "Everybodv kep* saying
Mohr, you re a naturalist' why
are you living in New York ■' and
I'd -ay I ha’.e to. tju* then after
a while 1 gut ir such a. well, it
war an emotional state tha' 1
decided to give my -elf a year
down here frw tame writing and
if it worked I’d stay My wife ,
•till in New York • she has a job
with an advertising agency We
ju“t couldn't make it with both
ol ii- being down here 1 came
here because well my wife and I
came through here a few years
ago coming barn from Florida,
we'd t**-en down there taking
bird picture-—l used to do a lot of
photography— tndwe < a m e
through and liked the town, and
my friend W L McAfee wa
here th<-r and ht said he’d come
here because the town had a
large hospital and two hanks—
that gave an indication of the
size of it you see, it needed two
bank.-, to setvt it—and it iiad be
tween ter, and fifteen thousand
people, and it had a very g**jd
library' He .->aid John, yo u
ought to think about this place
whan retirement confv and now
retirement ha- come and I have
n't regretted a minute of it
"Here let me show you some
things tonv on out here to trie
kitchen This here is a drying
cage It has screen on the back
and screen on the front and tin
door opens, and inside I keep
these insect specimens on spread
ing frames" He pulled out a
frame with four large cicada
pinned to it with their wings
spread out "You have to spread
specimen.- out right away after
catching thorn, otherwise- a sort
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A Talk With Min Terras
(Continued From Fane 1)
of rigor mortis arts tn. and after
tite if you try and move the
whgx they break. TV muscle*
ate ligaments tear They re not
preserved, really They’re just
dried After about a week ail the
body jnfce* dry up ted leave just
the chitin. 'ch' only it's pronoun*
ed like a k. that's the bodv it
self.’’
He pulled boxes of finished
mounted insect specimen- from
a closet ate described their con
lent? large royal walnut moths
kma moths, butterflies, all rare
fully labeled “A specimen is no
good to a scientist without a
label 1 catch these in a specia
killing jar. here. I don't wars'
you to get too big a whiff of it
mat s cyanide gas in that illtle
capsule on the lid of the jar. 3te
I wet the capsule before I gc> ou'
and then put the insect in the
jar Sometimes l use a net ate
sometimes I catch them right in
the jar and slip the lid on I do
most of my naturalizing dowr, at
Masafi Farm
‘‘Right now I’m working or an
encyclopedia of birds When I
was at Audubon Magazine I no
liced that there was nri real die
tionary of bird information about
this continent anti 1 decided I d
do one There are a lot of thing
bird lovers would like to knov
that aren’t m one volume Thing
like, well albinism, you know
when a bird turns white, wha’ i
albinism, why do birds turn
white and the food habits of
bird- and things like abrricra
tion That a term proposed by
tne English a feu years ago :
describe a peculiar migration out
o! the ordinary, like ducks, duck
don't migrate the way o t he r
bird- do Things like that Ami
famous naturalists, too It’s gou
to be ai encyclopedia, realiv I
goes- it’ll lx- about twice a- thr
a- this copy of 'Leaves of Gra
A size >< can handle linon >.
at the now m> I gue-. g
won't <»■ finished for another five
year- I've planner! it that wa>
But it going to he written v***y
•simpiy ! dor: tbe It*-’,e in wn:..- -
down to people but I'm describ
ing thing- so anyliody can un
derstand
Aim I review natuie Wn.
for the New York Times too 'mi
know this book that just came
on* about the man expei inheriting
with porpoises? I read the first
three paragraphs of that and 1
v.n- just horrified The trian who
wrote it is an M D . and hi- wftoi"
theory wu-, preposterous He
thought i! lie could figure ou' the
electrical impulse* from a por
poi.se brain he could find wrnue
'he speech centers were it, the
brain He said he though! pot
poise? had a language all their
own winch man could understand.
So he borrowed five porpoises
from the Marine Biology Latj in
Florida and experimented on
them and killed all five of them
—giving them anesthesia and ex
amining their hi am- And each
time he killed one he said it was
u pity ‘because we had become
lather attached to the animal
One experiment he described just
made my blood kind of boil and
curdle. He strapped down a por
pise so it was half out of the
water and then he hammered
the sheath ol a hypodermic
needle down into its bruin, and
through the needle he drilled an
electrode into the p o r p o i s e's
hrain, going into the brain about
a millimeter at each turn, so he
could measure electric impulses
l just sent the book back. 1 could
n't review it It just horrified me
You know, the anh-vivisectionists
have a very strong voice in this
country lin not an aotivivisec
'lonist, I know scientists have to
use animals to experiment for the
benefit of humans, and l don't
object to people hunting, either
l just don’t Inin! myself because
l don’t like so kill things But the
nnfiviviseetionists don t believe in
killing anything (or any purpose
1 think that doctor will bear from
them
“l user! to keep falcons
people are fascinated by falcons
particularly children l remem ;
her I once spoke about falconry
at a high schooi and there were
about a thousand children rn the
audience and 1 had my peregrine
falcon with me. and you could
have heard a pin drop all the ;
time l was talking They were
just watching that teautiful bird
all the time At the end of a
speet-h I always .let a boy carry
the falcon ufHo tire balcony ami
when he was up there I d swing
o lure around my hem! A lure i
a padded weight with fresh meat
tied to it. ate I had trained the
falcon to feed to iL -and dti swing
it around my head and the boy
would let the- bird go anc she'd
swoop down over the* children s
heads and catch the tun- It was
very dramatic always the last
thing I did. Falcons take a lot of
time, and you have to fie so
'•areful of them to make sure
lh e y’r e comfortable All m V
perches here padded because if
a falcon srt.s tor, long or. a tone
or a wooden perch he gets sore
on his feet and they car £*■'
gangrenou- And then vo car
give them too much (rest l*-ei
And the beef can t be tain’*'- or
they get a disease of tin ‘.nroa*.
called frounce which star* ke
a sore throat and ends up rottuts
the throat and swelling so ’he
bird can’t swallow anc \ ’:<!.’ .
e to death
"You get a great reward from
teaching thing- to c h id r • *.
Thoreau once wrote tliat wtien a
sparrow lit or: hi- .-.irtiuki*-: it va
the greatest honor he could have
received, and just recently try
wife wrote me that her seen--
tary s 11-year-oid daughter. Lau
ra Lee had beet; given a ■ '*s ■ > of
my boos. The Wonders 1 See
which wa about experience- I ve
had with nature, and th*-
'ar y ai(! Os- Os l.a-u ;■ * ! >■'
friends called her up on* night
arid she heard I. I! a la *- : !>
‘Oh Vm no! reading Ma t: any
more I'm reading John Torres s
book He s a great mar: He's one
of our friends That pleas*id me
more than anything could. You j
know when a child -ays he
think-: you'!* - great she mean? it i
An aduit can say be think- you r*
great and you think he flatter
ing you or something, but not a
child. They mean it when they ,
say that 1 felt ju-t as honored a- j
if a sparrow had at on my i
shoulder "
Ba/ik Merger
(Continued from Page li
ties in the central Carolina area j
In Chapel Hill, University Na
tionals offices on West k rankim,
and at Franklin and Columbia \
Street will carry the name of the |
new bank. Provision for regular
trust consultation in the West j
Franklin Street office will make i
trust services more readily avail
able to residents of the Chapel
Hill area
Other offices are located in
Apex, Butner, Oioleemee, Creed
moor, Erwin, Hillsboro, Mebane.
K o x b o i o, Wake I* orest and
Youngs v ilk*.
The change in the bank’s name
removes from the scene a name
familiar to genei atki: - ot bank pa
tron.s of the Durham area The
bank was chartered in 1003 a?
Durham Loan & Trust Company,’
with the late John Sprunt Hill as
a director and its first president
In 1937, through an amendment
to the charter, the word ‘T»an”
in the bank s title was replaced
by "Bank," giving the institution
its present designation.
Until the early 1930 s the bank’s
only office was located in Dur
ham. In the depression years,
other offices were established in
communities which found them
selves without banking facilities—
Apex, Cooleemee, Creedmoor,
Hillsboro. Mebane, and Wake For
est
In 1900, Durham’s Home Saving
Bank, an old and respected in
stitution, joined resources with
Durham Bank Through a merger
with the Bank of Harnett, an of
fiee was established in Erwin in
1955 A merger with Citizens Na
tional Bank of Durham in 19fi9
brought four new Durham offices,
one in Roxboro, into the Durham
Bank system.
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Transfers
(Continued from Page V
“It would be extremely difficult
J lo increase by two teachers” ted
j Dr Johnston. "It would tie mo: -
reasonable to increase t.y or
But we re squeezed now."
He suggested that t ramie
j would tie the best solution, al
things considered
Dr Peters moved the Bonn:
empower Dr. .Johnston to trans
fer excess pupils out tof Ertes
Hills and not to assign more efiil
riren to Estes classes over “*
sbj'abie number consistent with
classes in other schools ”
"I think 1 can predict there will
he about twenty unhappy fomil
lies out there " said Dr. Canwiwn
’ Sure," said Dr Johnston, "and
they’li all be in my office ”
“This is just a touch compared
to what we re going to have next
year." said Board memlier Grey
Culbreth.
Dr Peters' motion was carried
unanimously.
In addition. Dr. Johnston was
instructed to write to the State
Board of Education invevtigatiag
the possibility of renting mobile
classrooms from the State. The
availability of mobile dftssroamE
would give the School Board flex
ibility in dealing with future
space problems.
Dr Johnston said after the
meeting that he wasn't sure how
many pupils would have to be
transferred
"In order to get each class
room do u n to 33 he «said :
"you'd have to transfer 20 You’d
have to transfer 40 to get each
room down to 30 f 1
He said he would benn working
on th*- transf*-*- this morning, and
hojied to have them completed by
thi- firs* of next week He didn’t
say how pupils would b<- elected
for transfer
Tn other bus in*- M Ross
Scroggs suggested "We should
make public the numbe* of stu
dents *- x p e e.t e d to be in the
school- this y*-ar who did riot
show up on the fvt day of
- "
fir Johnston said that if attend- j
ance at Chapel Hi!! High had been :
five pupil. l higher per day for the
fir •’ ten'days, another teacher
wmi 1 d have been allotted the j
school by the State.
"We had fewer late entries 'his j
year than in the past," he ‘aid.
“The difficulty i? 'hat the State |
makes no allowance for contagi- j
ous disease- in counting that at- '
tendance, and we had two re
i ligtou- holidays to which p*-ople
were committed "
Th*- State alio' additional
teacher- at the beginning o! eaeh ,
school year on th*- basis *if the ;
first ten days' attendance. Ai>-
M-m (- for contagious diseases or
j religion? holiday- are not excus
! able.
The first ten days’ attendance ,
record- have gained one more
State allotted teacher for Lincoln
High School
We had already hired that
teacher in anticipation of thi- [
happening." said Dr. Johnston
i "If the enrollment hadn’t gone up 1
enough to got that teacher we
j would have had to spend our own
j money ’
The final enrollment figures for
each school as of the tenth day ot
: school, and their increases over i
j the tenth day last year:
<anboro Elementary. 437 'up
24 Estes Hills, 3)09 '59»: Glen
wood. 708 23:. Northside. W.
'diiwn 13 Junior High School.
090 '6o*: < hapel Hill High, 432
!8c Lincoln lligh. 474 'sl>.
Dr Peters requested Dr. John
! ston to find out whether it was
imperative that Junior High pu
pils pay $4 each for athletic uni
forms
Mrs. Marvin Allen moved that
a High School curriculum study
be set m motion, "making use of
University personnel, the faculty
of the high schools, and laymen
Completion date is to be April i
j And l)i Jones suggested that
the Board hold its regular meet
| ings at different schools during
| the year so that the memlx-rs
would have an opportunity to ob
| serve existing physical problem
| in each school.
"Maybe we can get some of
these places to provide a little
strawlierry shortcake, or some
thing," lie said.
Bowman
(Continued from page 1)
where he studied under Dr Ly
man Kittridge, Professor Copen
ha ver and Dean Briggs. He
i taught English at lowa State Col
lege at Ames from 1910 to 1920
and was head of the English De
partment at Michigan Northern
State Teachers College at Mar
quette.
„ He was married in 1911 to Miss
Mabel Edna Fessenden of Cam
bridge, Mass. She died in 1958
Their only daughter, Claire, died
in 1938 There are no survivors
Dr. Bowman was a member of
the Modern Languages Associa
tion, the National Council of
Teachers of English, the Eugene
Field Society, the Masonic
Lodge He served last year as a
memlier of the section on Books
for Children of the White House
Conference on Children and
, Youth.
Funeral plans are being made
by the Rev Charles Jones, pas
tor of the Community Chur eh
The body will be cremated and
burial services will be in charge
!, of the Masonic Lodge in Mar
quette, Mich,
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(Continued from Page l)
discuss and settle the matter.
Another action by the Board
consisted of setting up temporary
parting iacuities for both sides
Wt-t Rosemary street with eer
i.iin except tons. The Board also
moved to tear an ordinance on
pa. kuog on both?sides between Co
umbui and Church street at their
next meeting.
Further discussion was raised
concerning construction of side
walk or. W Rosemary Street A
resolution, suggested by Town
Manager Robert Peck, which
said that property owners alone
w Rosemary street be offered a
5-foot concrete sidewalk in re
turn for an easement for sidewalk
an - ' utility purposes, was passed.
Tue own would agree to move or
replace existing steps, walks and
walls.
Concerning construction of a
sidewalk on the west side of
Church street from Schbol Lane
to Me Dade street, the Board de
cided that if all property owners
a petition saying they will
remove a!! existing objects such
i? trees and walls T7’i> feet from
•he center of the existing paved
street a sidewalk would be laid
('cnstruction of the sidewalk
would cos! about $1,500 to $2,000
The Board voted to pave School
Lime to the east end of the school
panting lot but not including the
parking lot. Cost of the paving
i was estimated at $2.000..
Tywr. attorney J. Q. LeGrand
wa- asked to prepare an ordin
ance amending the curb and gut
ter policy clarifying cost so as not
to exceed $3 cost per front foot
per property owner.
Trie Aldermen voted to ask the
school to take care of the paving !
of the 125 feet beyond, since it is
prinvunly a parking space for j
school functions
In regard to a bond anticipation
note of $03,000 for the acquisition
l of the property at Columbia street
and Airport Road, the Board '
adopted a resolution to that ef
r,. r i
The Board agreed to change
’he name of Meadowbrook Drive ,
extending 4 mile of! Estes Drive i
to B.aiape Drive
Concerning a general standard i
to deal with stop and yield inter- \
•'■ f tiorr . Mayor MeClamroch re- i
j qu**sb-d the matter be put on the
agenda for the next meeting The
town attorney and town manager
were authorized to draw up a gen
era! ordinance.
Proposed by town manager Ro
bert Peck and adopted by the l
Board was the following stand- j
aid regulating street lights: a j
J ht al each intersection: a light
at mid-block where blocks are
o'er 800 feet between intersec
tions: a light approximately every
000 feet in exceptionally long
blocks.
Where curves or hills made ad
ditional light necessary but not
less than 300 feet apart: at dead
end streets every 500 feet apart,
and on streets where there are at
i least three residences, one light
every 600 feet.
Also proposed was that $28,000
of the Powell Bill funds be used
to resurface the following streets:
Audley l>ane, Douglas Road,
i Davie Circle. Pickard Lane, Park
Place, N. Boundary street, Senlac
Road, Whitaker street, Brandon
Road, Hamilton Road, Rogerson
Drive, Lanark Road, Gimghoul
Road and a section of E Rose
mary street.
The Board decided to purchase
I three riew police cars.
High School PTSA
To Meet Oct. sth
The Chapel Hill High School Pa
rent - Teacher - Student Assoc i a t ion
will meet at 7 45 p m Thursday,
Del 5, in the school auditorium.
Attention is called to the fact that
the meeting is being held )5 min
utes earlier than the association's
meetings last year.
Parents wall lx- given an op
portunity to meet and talk with
Hie teachers. loach parent is re
quired to obtain from his or her
child the name of the child's home
room teacher before coming to the
meeting.
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h a m is dissatisfied with the
schools here he will have to make
xacrifices. I think me Board
would be on very rtiaky ground in
giving him a tuition grant
Mrs. Marvin Alien, another
Board member, said. “I don't
think we should punish Mr. Hu
mingham because he choose' to
exercise a right guaranteed him
, under law. We spent a lot of turn
and money persuading Carrboro
we had better schools because of
the school supplement, and I
don't think Mr Birmingham
should be punished by having his
children sent to a school we think
is inferior."
"What the heck is the -Stale
hanging fire on this fort 1 " said
Board member Grey Culbreth
"This is a wishy-washy judgment
from Mr Bruton, in my opinion "
The Board had already receiv
ed a written ruling from State
Attorney General Wade Bruton
explaining the basis on which a
choice should be made between a
reasonable and practical reas
signment. and a recommendation
for a tuition grant "What do you
have to do to get a grant?" said
Mr. Culbreth.
"All you have to do." said Dr
Johnston, "is decide whether it
is reasonable and practical to re
assign a child,to another school
If it is not reasonable and practi
cal, then the Board can recom
mend a tuition grant for the
child to attend a private, non-ser
tanan school approved by the
State "
It was agreed that the Tw addell
School was, doubtless a State-ap
proved school.
In a ikSPussion ot whose inter
pretation ol the circumstances de
cided the reasonablene-,- an J
practicality of reassignment, an
examination of the statute indi
cated that the decision was up to
the Board.
"I lee! that whatever we do,
this will tie tested." said Dr.
Johnston "There has been no
test of this so far."
T would like to assign your
children to Hillsboro and let you
appeal to the State,” said Dr.
Fred Fllis, another membeu of
the Board.
"1 don’t have that kind of
time" said Mr Birmingham.
"I’ve got to make a living
Following discussion of jh*- prob
abilities ot a suit resulting from
the Board’s decision, it was a
greed that if the tuition grant
were recommended to the State
Board of Education, the State
would be party to any subsequent
suit as well as the Chapel Hill
School Board.
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"It would appear to me that
this Board will become party to a
suit alone if we assign the chil
dren to Hillsboro." said Dr. ,John
ton
i>r fVtFrs' <nitKeqnent motion
tfiat the Board recommend the
tuition grant, "with the under
standfav 1 1*■*! the whole Pea*-ail
Pfan be put to a test" was with
drawn.
Tn its place the Board recorded
in Us* minutes a simple sta*enicr.t
that “We do not find it reason
able or practical so assign the
children to another school and vvt*
recommend that they be given a
tuition grant."
Mr. Culbreth, Mrs. Allen, the
Rev. J. R. Manley, and Mrs
Ross Scroggs voted for the mo
tion
Dr. Peters voted against it.
Dt Ellis abstained “I can’t
decide whether it is reasonable
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and practical to reassign the chil
dren." he said.
Indicating his agreement with
the motion. Board chairman Dr.
J. Kempton Jones said the mat
ter should be given to the Stale
to decide, "ami il the Pearsall
Plan is worth its salt, it wilt
stand "
Dr. Johaston said following the
meeting he was exactly
what the procedure uaVjjmiom
mending a tuitnm grant, since
' nobody has ever augc it More
but that he contact
the State Board of Education and
find out. I
He added that he had \«?en try
ing all summer to find ottsjjow
to cited such a recommendatiotby
but that officials in Raleigh didn't
seem to know—or were unwilling
to say.
"N o w they’ll just have to
know,” he said "It's at their
doorstep "