One bad thing about a narrow
mind is that it is usually ac
companied by a wide month.
Volume 41, Number 12
$9 Million For Capital Improvements
Record UNC Salary Increases Recommended
By JAMES SHUMAKER
Record salary increases totaling
two and a half million dollars
and nine million dollars for capi
tal improvements at the Univer
sity at Chapel Hill were included
in the 1963-65 State budget pre
sented to the Legislature Friday.
The new budget, recommended
by Governor Sanford and the Ad
visory Budget Commission, was
greeted with ehthusiasm and ap
preciation by UNC President Wil
liam Friday, but also with reser
vations.
The salary increases for the
Academic Division of the Univer
Reminiscences
By ROBERT B. HOUSE
President E. K. Graham, Dean Stacy, Horace Williams,
Parson Moss, and Frank Graham, the secretary of the
Y.M.C.A., were leaders constantly before the students
of my generation. We saw them and heard them just
about every day. Dr. Louis Round Wilson, University
Librarian, was a general University officer who was not
before us in daily appearances. In the development of
the University he was more like those unseen and un-
Chapel Hill
CHAFF
By LOUIS GRAVES
One of the books that I like best
has come again. The reason I
say again is that it is a serial.
I am talking about the World
Almanac. It comes every year
about the first of February.
It has 864 pages; costs $1.50
paperback at the Intimate and
Sutton’s and Sloan's and $2.50
hardback at the Bull’s Head.
I’m told the copies sell fast and
I don't wonder.
People who know the World
Almanac are devoted to it be
cause it is both a permanent and
a current reference book. The
mass of information in it entitles
it to be called an encyclopedia
though it is small compared with
the many-volumed Britannica and
the colossal one-volume Columbia.
In fact, one of the reasons for
its popularity is its smallness. It
is paperbacked and light-weight
and is easy to handle in any
chair or, what is most important
to many readers, in bed.
Another reason that it is treas
ured is that it is both a current
and a permanent encyclopedia.
You can learn from it the facts
on the equinoxes and the latest
elections, and the Gregorian
Calendar, and Ty Cobb’s lifetime
base hit record, and church at
tendance throughout the world,
and corporation earnings, and the
quotes and exact words of the
Constitution and all amendments,
and so on and on and on.
There is an ample index so
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SCENES
Townsman nearly tearing his
arm out of the socket trying to
open the center doors at the Post
Office (they have been secured
for the duration against the icy
blasts) . . . Police Sergeant W.
F. HESTER escorting a prisoner
from Town Hall to a waiting
State Prison Department van,
clutching the prisoner by the
waist of his pants ( the man had
already tried to escape once) . ..
BYRON FREEMAN, seeking clas
sical records for his new jukebox
in the Carolina Coffee Shop, get
ting a selection of Jan Garber
antiquities ... A large slice of
University officialdom heading
for Raleigh Friday for the Bud
get Message .. . Sign in the rear
window of a small foreign car:
Avec VW, pas de problemes . ..
Children on Justice Street dam
ming gutters in hopes of rain ...
Carolina Gentlemen lighthearted
ly tossing glasses at a mirror in
the Tempo Room . . . 1929 Chev
rolet parked smack in front of
President WILLIAM FRIDAY’S
mansion (wasn't his) . . . Mas
sive grey cat haughtily guarding
the front door of ROY COLE's
house on East Franklin.
sity here 1 total $1,870,345 for the
biennium, exactly what the Uni
versity had requested. A total
of $751,373 is recommended in
salary increases for the Division
of Health Affairs. The Univer
sity had requested $925,647, about
$175,000 more than is recommend
ed. The Department of Adminis
tration in Raleigh explained,
however, that the difference oc
curred through a calculating er
ror and an upward adjustment,
possibly to the full amount re
quested, is expected to be made.
Also recommended for the Uni
versity is $223,409 for library
heard energies that got to the
making of springtime, no less
than the birds and bees, the
flowers and trees. He was a lead
er, state and national, in his pro
fessional field of Librarianship.
Librarians everywhere of course
saw him and heard him frequent
ly. But in the ongoing of the
University in general he has al
so been a constructive force for
sixty-two years. It is true that
he spent ten years at the Uni
versity of Chicago. But this was
merely a physical absence. Spir
itually he was as much in Chap
el Hill when in Chicago as when
in the University of North Car
olina, and at his home on Rose
mary Street.
In this vital development of
the University he has been a
master of the quiet, pertinent
suggestion, effective organiza
tion, and energetic follow
through. In this quiet rhythm of
memorandizing, organizing, and
energizing he has been the, guide
qf University Presidents, acting
Presidents, and Chancellors from
Venable to Friday and Aycock.
■And with Trustees and Faculty
and Alumni he has pervaded the
entire unity of things like an
electric current. Students in proc
ess do not see this kind of influ
ence. It is only as they get into
mature life and see the Universi
ty as a whole in its development
that they see and appreciate the
quiet factors that shaped their «
stirring undergrdauatc days.
Dr. Wilson was eighty-six years
old on December 27, 1926. 1 look
on his career with wonder. He
was Professor and Librarian
when I entered the University
as a Freshman in 1912, and now
that I have worked and retired
in my own University career, he
is still active as counselor and
historian. His career brackets
mine. He came to the University
in 1898 from his Happy Valley
in Caldwell County, North Caro
lina, having transferred from
Haverford College. He graduated
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School Board To Consider
Assignment Policy Change
The Chapel Hill School Board's
assignment regulations commit
tee tomorrow night will present
recommended changes in the
school assignment procedures.
The Board meets at 7:30 in Sup
erintendent Howard Thompson’s
i office.
Dr. Thompson said the assign,
ment regulations committee, with
Dr. Fred Ellis and Mrs. Marvin
Allen as members, had condens
ed the regulations to one page,
with a few changes from last
year.
The new regulations, as pres
ently written, state that new pu
pils will be assigned to schools
by letter not later than June l.
Last year new pupils were not
assigned until August.
Pupils already enrolled in the
Chapel Hill system will be notifi
ed of their school assignment on
the last report card of the year.
Last year these pupils were notifi
ed of their assignments by legal
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books, the amount requested.
Salary' increases and books had
top priority in the University’s
requests.
Projects recommended in the
capital improvements budget are
air-conditioning of Wilson Lib
rary, an undergraduate library
and student center, additions and
alterations to Davie Hall, renova
tion of the old part of Phillips
Hall, an addition to Wilson Hall,
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P'OREWARNING Franklin Street runs direct
ly west, like a compass arm. Late afternoons in winter
are not too bad for the homeward-bound, because the
sun has usually set by quitting time. But now the days
Compliance
On Signs Is
87 Per Cent
Overall compliance with Chapel
Hill’s new sign ordinance has
reached 87 per cent, according to
Building Inspector Donald Arch
er.
Mr. Archer conducted a survey
of business signs last week and
concluded that 82 per cent of
projecting signs, 58 per cent of
ground signs, 28 per cent of awn
ings, and 100 per cent of wall
signs have been brought into com
pliance with the ordinance as of
February 5. Two marquees have
yet to be raised, Mr. Archer said.
The biggest category of viola
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newspaper advertisements in
July, and again in August.
Pupils transferring to Chapel
Hill from other school systems
will be assigned from the Super
intendent's office on arrival, which
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Weather Report j
Cold today and tonight with a
chance of snow.
High Low Prcc.
Wednesday ... 59 40 .03
Thursday 64 31 tr
Friday 50 29 tr
Saturday 33 20
The 64-degree high recorded on
Thursday was 27 degrees warmer
than the high on the same dale
a year ago. The maximum and
minimum temperature readings
la Chapel Hill a year ago today
wen 43 and 36.
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1963
a new student cafeteria, an audi
torium addition to Woollen Gym,
a men’s dormitory, an addition
to the heating plant and steam
piping system, and money for
land purchases.
President Friday said he was
“very pleased” with the recom
mendations for salary increases
and library books and also felt
that UNC fared very well in capi
tal improvements.
However, when the University
appears before the Legislature’s
Joint Appropriations Committee
an effort possibly will be made
to have part of the salary increas
Search For Brand
Reaches Standstill
The search for Richard Lee
Brand has all but come to a
standstill.
Mr. Brand, a 27-ycar-old grad
uate French instructor at the
University, has been missing
since 5:45 p.m. Tuesday. A
thorough search of this area lias
failed to find him.
Police Chief W. D. Blake said
Saturday morning, that one last
possible lead to Mr. Brand’s
whereabouts was being checked
out. Chief Blake said one of Mr.
Brand’s friends had heard Mr.
Brand state that he wanted to
go down to Topsail Island on
the coast during the winter. He
had been at Topsail Island during
the summer. The Sheriff of Pen
der County has been asked to
search the Island area.
Chief Blake said Mr. Brand's
family had arrived in Chapel Hill,
though the search here has drawn
a complete blank.
A note was found in the apart-
Town Board
Will Mop-11 p
The Board of Aldermen is
scheduled for a session of mop
up ordinance passing when it
meets tomorrow night at 7:30
in the Town Hall.
Four ordinances and three res
olutions growing out of recent
bessions have now been prepared
and are ready for adoption. Head
ing the list are ordinances chang
ing the zoning of Developer C.
Whid Powell's Ephesus Church
Road apartment site from RA-10
and Agricultural to RA-10; a
companion ordinance re-zones the
adjoining Check and Nance prop
erties RA-15 from agricultural.
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es for the Academic Division
shifted from the second year of
the. biennium to the first year.
The budget calls for $607,280 the
first year and $1,263,065 the sec
ond. The University is consider
ing a request to have $200,000
transferred from the second to
the first year.
In addition to asking restoration
of the difference in salary in
creases requested and recom
mended for the Division of Health
Affairs, the University will ask
the Appropriations Committee to
approve several new positions in
Health Affairs and on the main
are getting longer, the sun is beginning to glare at the
end of Franklin Street, and automobile sun visors are
coming into play. This hint of coming summer makes
squinting the eyes worthwhile.
ment of a friend of Mr. Brand’s
at 6 p.m. Tuesday. He was re
ported missing at 8:33 p.m. Con
tents of the note have not been
divulged. It was at first thought
to be a suicide note, but it made
no specific mention of suicide.
The possibility is now being
considered that Mr. Brand sim
ply wanted to get away for
awhile particularly since the note
indicated he was depressed and
despondent. Mr. Brand’s land
lady confirmed that he was de
pressed. She said he had been
in low spirits for the past year.
Police Detective Howard Pender
graph. said Mr. Brand should
have had SIOO, sent to him re
cently by his mother.
Mr. Brand’s small sports car
was left behind in a local garage,
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A Talk With Thomas H. Collins
Thomas 11. Collins writes the
nationally syndicated columns
"The Golden Years” and “Senior
Forum,” for retired people. A
month ago he moved to Chapel
Hill, retired himself.
By J. A. C. DUNN
Thomas Hightower Collins is
a free man. The fact almost ov
erwhelms him sometirhes, when
he thinks about it. He considers
his particular kind of freedom
to be extremely rare: he is rel
atively young, is not obliged to
be anywhere at any particular
time, and can live comfortably
on bis income. The prospect de
lights him.
Mr. Collins is a Georgian who
went north to find his fortune
campus that were not recom
mended in the budget.
Although President Friday said
he was “deeply appreciative for
the level of support, of the Uni
versity’s building program,” he
expressed considerable concern
about the financing recommend
ed for three of the projects.
, The Advisory Budget Commis
sion recommended a State appro
priation of $1,315,000 for the new
undergraduate, library, but pro
posed that the $2,000,000 student
center be entirely by self-liqui
dating. This would mean a per
capita increase of sl3 in student
Rep. Umstead
Doing Nicely
In Memorial
Rep. John Umstead, who was
admitted to Memorial Hospital
early Friday for observation, is
reported doing fine.
Mr. Umstead left the Legisla
ture in Raleigh Thursday feeling
a bit ill. His doctor sent him to
the hospital Friday.
Dr. James Woods, one of the
physicians attending Mr. Um
stead, said, "So far as we can
tell, there is nothing seriously
wrong. We just want to watch
him closely for a couple of days.”
Yesterday the hospital reported
that Mr. Umstead was getting
along nicely, but there was no in
dication as to when he would be
released or when he would be
able to return to Raleigh.
The hospital said there were no
complications of any kind.
and then came back. 'But he still
says ‘heah" and “yeah” for here
and year, and "Ah" for I. His
voice is gravelly, particularly on
the telephone, and occasionally
be calls you "Mi*ter” iHis World
War II Naval officer’s cap hangs
among a collection of hats on a
wall of his basement).
Relaxing at home nowadays,
'Mr. Collins wears loafers, slacks,
a pinch-collar shirt and tie, and
a comfortably floppy brown suede
jacket. When you walk in the
door of his house in Lake Forest,
a cocker spaniel shaped like a
beer keg does an imitation of
Jello in greeting.
"I’m a Georgian," he said,
"but I spent twenty five years
in the north, 'so It really doesn't
Published Every Sunday and, Wednesda}
charges. President Friday said
the Appropriations Committee
would be asked to finance the
student center entirely with State
funds.
The Advisory Budget Commis
sion also recommended that the
new 923-man dormitory, the third
building in the Craige-Ehringhaus
complex, be 100 per cent self
liquidating This would mean an
additional charge of S3O to each
student living in the dormitory.
President Friday will ask that
the State appropriate at least
half of the $1,994,000 cost.
The University also will ask
Budget Boxscore
UNC AT CHAPEL HILL, ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
(B Budget)
ASKED RECOMMENDED
Salary increases $1,870,345 $1,870,345
Library books ... __ 223,409 223,409
Additional personnel ___ __ 797,991 0
New programs _. __ 85,944 85,944
Equipment . . 114,654 5.500
Supplies, expenses 374,615 7,550
Extension transfer 101,530 46,558
Receipts _____ __ 96,713 49,170
Total __ 3,665,231 2,288,476
DIVISION OF HEALTH AFFAIRS (B Budget)
Salary increases ___ l 925,647 751,373
Library books 4,882 4,882
Additional personnel ______ 584,283 9,006
Equipment 59,660 300
Supplies, expenses 59,726 594
Total 1,634,198 766,155
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (B Budget)
Salary increases 65,200 0
Additional personnel 123,799 38,352
Equipment 86,987 4,600
Supplies, expenses *.168,469 12,000
Total 444,455 54,952
PSYCHIATRIC CENTER (B Budget)
Salary increases 24,000 0
Additional personnel 47,391 0
Equipment 7,870 0
Supplies, expenses 255 * 0
Research reserve 50,000 0
Total 129,516 0
UNC GENERAL ADMINISTRATION (B Budget)
Salary increases 21,000 0
Additional personnel
(WUNC-TV) 49,876 0
WUNC-TV Equipment 6,050 3,025
WUNC-TV supplies,
expenses 9,620 2,400
Consolidated UNC
contingency 50,000 0
Statewide ETV Reserve
(Admin. Dept.) 250,000 250,000
Total 386,546 255,425
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MR. COLLINS
SUNDAY
ISSUE
that the State finance at least
half of the $1,380,000 cost of the.
addition to the heating plant and
steam piping system. The Bud
get Commission recommended
that this, too, be 100 per cent self
liquidating.
There is some doubt that the
men's dormitory and the student
center will be built unless they
can be financed at least in part
by direct State appropriations.
"Student costs already are very
high," President Friday said,
“and we must guard against the
ability to pay becoming a condi
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count. I started on a small week
ly in Decatur, Georgia, which is
a suburb of Atlanta. Some of my
best memories are of that paper.
You get something on a weekly
that you don't get on a daily. 1
got a lot of satisfaction from it.
When a town grows big sod the
paper grows bigger, a sort of
coldness comes over it you
don’t know anybody anymore.
On a weekly, people know you.
You have to live with your Id
low man. you ham to moot him
on the street corner.
*T spent five years at that
paper, and then I went to the At
lanta Journal, the Courier Journal,
the Washington Star, end lor a
short lime the New Y«* Herald
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