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Lucky is he with the wit to find the truth, and the courage I to practice what is believed. mmmmm mmmmmmmm Volume 41, Number 14 Reminiscences By ROBERT B. HOUSE The Class of 1913 will come back for its fifty-year re union this coming Commencement. They are amply en titled on their own recognizance to all the honors they will receive. And I shall regard them also with romantic veneration though I am personally about as aged as they are. I think I can say that the whole Class of 1916 vener ates the Class of 1913. They were the Seniors who in ducted us Freshmen into the wonders of the University. Orange Tax Brochure Wins Award Orange County has been award ed first place in North Carolina for the best property tax bill presentation to its citizens. The competition was sponsored by the North Carolina Associa tion of County Commissioners. Orange was presented the top award on the basis of a brochure, mailed to all taxpayers in the County, which described simply and graphically where the Coun ty’s money comes from and how it is spent. The brochure was conceived and designed by Tax Supervisor Sam Gattis, in coasultation with the Board of County Commission ers. It also included a message to citizens from the County Com missioners explaining a property revaluation now being made and urging citizens to take an active interest in government. Runnersup in the competition were Forsyth and Alamance Counties, with honorable mention going to Davidson, Duplin, On slow and Surry Counties. Roscoe Martin of Chapel Hill, field representative of the Asso ciation of County Commissioners, said the competition was intend ed to stimulate citizen interest in tax matters and to provide an interchange of ideas among coun ties of the State. Town To Purchase New Fire Engine Chapel Hill will get a new fire truck ahead of schedule. The Board of Aldermen in a special meeting yesterday morning voted for the purchase after receiving an offer from American LaFrancc Fire Engine Co. to sell the Town an almost-new engine at a sub stantial reduction in price. The engine, now in Greenville, S. C.. had been delivered to the Greenville Airport to fill in for a special crash truck on order, and is virtually unused. List price for the engine is $27,232. Chapel Hill will get it for $20,500. The Aldermen had projected purchase of a new engine next year, planning to spend around i 1 SCENES I * -- ■ • ■- | JOE PAGE, nigh frazzled try ing to keep up with his business, pleading against a Valentine Day's meeting of the Board of Aldermen. . . . Fifty-mile hike craze infecting the staff of the Rathskeller. . . . TETE LLOYD huddled over the radio in CLAR ENCE'S during tense moments of the UNC-Statc basketball game. . . . Morehead Planetari um administrative assistant DON HALL emerging starry-eyed af ter narrating die "Skies Down Under" four times in one day. . . . CHARLES HOPKINS stand ing pensively in the check-out line at the A&P. . . . Only one yellow post left standing now in the intersection of Franklin and Henderson Streets. . . . Lady walking up to the cigarette ma chine in the Carolina Coffee Shop, asking a waitress, "Do you have to put money ki these tilings to get cigarettes." and be ing told. "No, -inly for long dis tance calls". . . . Grad student boasting that he'd hoofed it all die way into Town from Glen- Lennox. with his wife following anxiously in the car. . . . JOE JONES and SPIKE SAUNDERS stridVig purposefully along Cap itol Square in Raleigh Thursday. ... SPERO DORTON beside himself, with glee over UNC's signing DANNY TALBOTT, the Rocky Mount high school foot ball phenomenon. (%v vShTumw rjj, 4 The Chapel Hill Weekly Serving the Chapel Hill Area Since 1923 V.'e were green and striving. They were sophisticated and al ready in possession of all the hon ors we aspired to. Who could sur pass the easy good-natured com mand o r Walter Stokes. President of .he Senior Class? In those days that official functioned exactly as does the later President of the Student Body. In our eyes Walter was second in importance only to President Venable and Dean E. K. Graham. We saw him daily with them in chapel and we thought he played 'his part as well as they did theirs. He was not only the chief of student government. He was chairman and leading spirit of a new ele ment in the awakening Univers ity. This was the Greater Council in which faculty and students looked into the future and made plans for advancing. Walter had all the abilities of a Renaissance scholar and gentleman. His rec ord ran the gamut of possible student achievement it seemed to us. Who could equal the prowess and the combination of modesty, merriment and constantly emerg ing gifts of Bill Tillett? He was All-Amcrican to us as quarter back of the football team. Un fortunately he had to feature more on the defense than offense. The big teams roiled over us with big scores, but Bill stopped them many more times than they ran over him in mass formations. Then in his senior year he blos somed out as orator, debater, writer, and cogent thinker. He was at one and the same time a wheel-horse in the Y.M.C.A. and the biggest hell-raiser in the (Continued on Page 2) $23,000 half of which would be paid by the University. The new engine is more elaborate than the one projected for purchase, hav ing a more powerful motor, great er pump capacity and an enclosed cab. Actual saving to the Town will be around $1,500; the Univer sity will receive an additional $1,500 savings. Town Manager Robert Peck recommended the purchase be cause of the proposed annexation, which will cost Chapel Hill points under the State Fire Insurance Rating Bureau system of fire pro tection evaluation, plus the fact that a 1942-vintage engine still in use now needs replacement as a main vehicle. Funds for purchase of the en gine will come from savings on certain items in the Town Budget, and from over-collections in certain areas. Belgian Royal Couple To Visit Former King Leopold of Belgium and his wife. Princess Lilianc, will, visit the University next Fri day. The royal couple will also visit Duke University and the Research Triangle. They will spend Friday night at the Carolina Inn. They will leave from Raleigh-Durham Airport Saturday. Dr. Pierre Rijlant. professor of physiology and director of the Solvy Institute of Physiological Research in Brussels, currently is acting as an advisor at the Re search Triangle. Dr. Rijlant said the royal couple picked the Chapel Hill area to visit because of the opportunity for personal contacts hero, and because Princess Lilianc is in terested in the area's outstanding medical facilities. Princess Litiane will visit Me morial Hospital. She is interested in medical research and teaching, and clinical treatment of heart patients. King Leopold has his own interests: mathematics and physics. He will visit computer facilities at the Research Tri angle. UNC, and Duke. UNC President William C. Fri day is assisting in preparation for the royal visit. 5 Cents a Copy Smoking Remains Os The Parker House 100-Y ear-Old Morgan Creek House Razed The William B. Parker house at the end of the Mt. Carmel Church Road off the Farrington Road burned to the ground yes terday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Parker lost every, thing in the fire but their lives, their dogs, and a few scattered items of furniture and belong ings. Mr. Parker said that if the fire, which he believed started in a faulty wood-stove flue, had Oc curred at night while he and his wife were asleep, they might not have discovered it in time to get out of the house. The log-cabin structure was one of the oldest in this region. Mr. Parker said he believed part of it may have been over 100 years old. It burned to the ground, leaving only stone foundations and a brick chimney standing. Mr. Parker said he did not dis cover the fire as soon as it start ed because a Highway Depart ment grader was coming along the dirt road to the house at the time. The noise of the grader drowned the noise of the flames. Mr. Parker said he was looking out the window when he eventual ly heard a noise "that didn't seem to belong there." and saw the shadow of smoke coming from the second floor. If he had discovered the fire as soon as it started he might have been able to put it out, but the fire moved through the house extremely fast, he said, and he could do nothing when he dis covered it. A revolving chimney cap had blown off the chimney about two hours before the fire started. State Foresters came a short while after the fire started, but were not able to help with the house fire itself. They extin guished a fire in a field down wind from the house, which was threatening nearby woods. Record Tag Sales Here A total of 11,680 North Carolina license plates had been sold when Stancell Motor Company closed its license plate window in East gate Friday afternoon. License plates will be on sale at Stancell’s from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. throughout the year. Friday midnight was the deadline after which 1963 plates must be dis played on all operating vehicles. The last CH series sold Friday was 7839 Total car tags, includ ing 200 CF series plates sold first, was 8.044. Truck tags sold totaled 849, of which 128 were farm truck tags. License plates were sold for 34 motorcycles and 198 trailers. About 2.500 city tags were sold. On Friday alone. 1.237 license plates of all kinds were sold. Charles Stancell, proprietor of StanceU's, said he had sold more tags before the deadline this year than ever before. During all of 1962 about 10.000 tags were sold, he said, and almost 10.000 tags had been sold as of Friday al ready this year. Persons purchasing new cars during the year are not required to buy a new license plate. The license plate transfers from car to car with the owner. CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1963 Council Fails To Decide On Extra Chest Campaign By CLYDE WILSON The Community Council Thurs day night failed to reach a de cision on whether to hold a spring Community Chest drive Reason: only six of the Council's fifteen members were present. The Council had been schedul Rec Commission Views Tax Issue B.v FRANCES GOINS Should the Chapel Hill Recrea tion Commission stay in the Com munity Chest? Chairman Bob Boyce opened th c Commission's Wednesday meeting with this question. With five of twelve members absent, the Commission hesitated to make a final decision. Chapel Hill Flu Scare Is Easing Flu seems to he showing signs of abating in the Chapel Hill area. Doctors’ fingers arc crossed, but the University infirmary's load of flu-like cases has not in creased since earlier this week, and elsewhere in Town incidence of the malady is at least steady if not dropping. District Health officer Dr. O. David Garvin said he had check ed with the public schools and had found that "they don't have as many absentees as they ex pected." He said a good many citizens had had "flu-like signs and symptoms, ’ but that the num ber of these had been “nothing of any greatly exaggerated pro portions.” —DivGarviii said he wasoptimis tic about the flu situation. "A little warm weather would help it a lot,” he said. A Talk With Lawrence Laybourne Lawrence Laybourne is assist ant publisher of Time Magazine. Tuesday night he gave the sec ond of a series of Journalism lectures in the UNC School of Journalism. By J. A. C. DUNN "I think ! can give you some picture of how the week at Time moves along," said Mr. Lay bourne. “It used to be nice and simple. Now some of our depart ments work on a Monday-Friday schedule, things that aren't too closely tied to immediate news Books, Cinema. Art. Just about all the other departments work on‘a Tuesday-Saturday schedule. "Now. we have one depart ment, The Nation, it used to be National Affairs, and that’s what cd to consider the possibility of holding a drive to make up the SIO,OOO not collected in the fall Community Chest drive. Chairman Roy Martin set the next meeting of the Council for Thursday, Feb. 23, at 7:30 p.m., in Town Hall. "I don’t believe in riding two horses. Pick a winner—recrea tion tax—and stay with it,” said Commission member Douglas Sessoms. "We must convince the people of Chapel Hill the program should be supported by taxes." Joe Page agreed that the Com mission ought to go with Com munity Chest all the way or to drop out. Mr. Boyce had been thinking of "phasing out of the Chest by asking for less money each year.” “Staying with the Chest will lead to controversy when the tax election comes up in May,” said member Mrs. John Clark, The chairman said the differ ential fee system is the answer to criticism of supporting w i t h Town taxes a recreation program which includes people outside of town. Recreation Director Compton Shelton said about one-third of the people who use the Roberson Street Center are from outside Chapel Hill. The Center's $12,200 budget is almost half of the entire recrea tion budget for 1963. The Commission has already adopted a budget of $24,000 for an eight-month program <Jan.- Aug.) Mrs. Clark was asked by a townsman if the Commission would take over the Roberson reation tax is approved. "As it is now, the swimming (Continued on Page 2) it is, national news. On Tuesday everybody coir.cs to work and there's a senior editor, and he has five or six writers and five or six researchers. They all sit down together and decide the general line the section is going to take. They have a lot of wires in front of them from staffers or stringers all over the country, suggesting stories, or saying this stcry wc must have, home of tire stories are rr.ayfces and some are absolute musts. In some de partments there is only one writ er and one researcher—Medicine. Religion. Education. One senior editor is in charge of all these departments, and there's no ques tion of who's going to write which stories there. But in the other departments The Nation, The Mrs. Caro Mac Russell, execu tive secretary of the Chapel Hill- Carrboro Red Cross and Dean E. A. Brecht, Red Cross chairman, urged the Council to hold another drive. "The Red Cross cannot close down for three months,” Dean Brecht said, Mrs. Russell and Dean Brecht expressed the belief that the fall Commudity Chest Drive had fal len short because not all possible contributors had been contacted. "The Council just shouldn't ac cept a 24 per cent defeat," Mrs. Russell said. "If you go ahead and get that money you will come out with a much stronger Com munity Chest." Chairman Roy Martin confirmed that there were 276 fewer con tributors in 1962 than in 1961. Mrs. Marian Davis, program chairman of the Bright Leaf Girl Scout Council, and Robert Boyce, chairman of the Chapel Hill Rec reation Commission, expressed disapproval of another fund drive. Mrs. Davis said she feared a drive now would have an "ad verse affect on 1963.” The Council agreed to endorse the appeal of the Chapel Hill As (Continued on Prge 2) ■. i • Weather Report Mostly cloudy and cold today with chance of rain or snow. High Low Prcc. Wednesday 42 25 Thursday 55 18 Friday 36 19 - Saturday 39 13 Maximum temperatures for the past week in Chapel Hill have averaged close to normal for this time of year, while minimum temperatures have been 6 degrees bHow normal. Latest weather in formation indicates that Chapel Hill and the rest of North Caro lina will have an exceedingly cold Mareh. w'tth temperatures well below normal. March also figures to be drier than usual. fOInSRI 'mat m» : m —MtE MR. LAYBOURNE 5 SUNDAY ISSUE Published Every Sunday and Wednesday UNC Asks State For More Funds Spiralling Students Costs Cited By President Friday Consolidated University President William Friday Thursday told the Joint Appropriations Committee of the General Assembly that the State would have to do oetter than it had been advised to do if the University is to keep up with the demands of the times. Mr. Friday asked for restoration to the 1963-65 Uni versity budget items revested by the University, out not recommended by the Advisory Budget Commission. UNC Chancellor William Ay cock and Chancellors John Cald well and Otis Singletary of State and Woman's Colleges joined Mr. Friday with their own presenta tions to the Appropriations Com mittee. The 85 Committee members listened quietly, asked a few questions, and made no comment. They will consider the requests and then make recommendations to the Legislature. „ Mr. Friday said he was “gen erally grateful" for the Univer sity’s treatment at the hands of the Advisory Budget Commission The University's prime requests were for faculty salary increases and library books. These had been recommended in full by the Budget Commission. Mr. Friday also said the Uni-. versity had fared well in the Bud get Commission's capital im provements recommendations, but lie had reservations. He said one aspect of the rec ommended budget “troubles mo deeply.’’ The Commission's rec ommendation that dormitory con struction at Chapel Hill be 100 per cent self-liquidating, instead of the requested 50 per cent, was “unsuitable.’’ he said. He pointed out that students are currently liearing S2O million in self-liquidation costs, and that making a new men's dormitory entirely self-liquidating fcould add a total of S3O a year lo the ex pense of residents of the new dormitory. Mr. Friday pointed to “the full significance of the current infla tionary trend." and state, "A pub lic state institution goes against one of the cardinal principles of its constitutional basis" if one of the criteria for entering the Uni versity is the ability to pay. "By increasing the cost to stu dents we are to a marked degree working against ourselves," said Mr. Friday. "Already we have reached the point where some students, seeing the costs, im mediately conclude that going to (UNO is a privileged affair, and (Continued on Page 2) Playmaker Glue Holds Up ‘Rhino’ The Carol i<'a Plan makers present RHISOCb'ROS, a play by Eugene lonesen translated by Derek Prouse. Production designed and directed by Tommy Rrzzuto. Costumes by Irene Smart Rains, lighting by Ralph. Swanson. The cast: Anne ti’flt, Mara iVa/»o», Janice Moore, Warner, John Crockett, Hyman Field, Arn old U'eugrow, Wesley Van Tassel, George Gray, Juancse Hatten, Robert Malone, Harry Callahan, and Jim Zellner. Prrformancea were given on February 1.l through Id. Thr last two perform ances will lie given today at 3:JO and 8:Jo. By JOE NAGELSCHMIDT The implications of this dra matic allegory are so frightening, especially in the third act. that they become almost unbearable. JCqgene lonesco simply illustrates the gradual 'process by which man reduces himself to a herd- Hcmisphcrc die senior editor says. 'Joe. will you ftike this one,' and so eti. “Each writer is paired up with a researcher, and not always the same one One week it may be Susie and Bill, another week it will be Susie and Joe. A lot of our stories are of a continuing thing that's been bubbling along, it's b"en being interesting, and some little incident will bring it to attention. Say if we were go ing to do a story about Terry Scnfcrd. the mid-stream point of his administration, the editors wouldn't have any reason to no tice him unless a stringer in Ra leigh or Charlotte, or one of our staff members in Washington or Atlanta brought it to their at (Continued on Page 2) (.Impel HUI CHAFF By LOUIS GRAVES Robert Rice Reynolds, who per. suaded the voters to call him "Our Bob ' and won two terms in the United States Senate, died Wednesday at 78 in his home in Asheville. He was undoubtedly one of the most picturesque North Caro linians of any ers One of his spectacular performances was to marry five times. The last of his wives. Evalyn Walsh McLean, daughter of the heiress of copper millions who was famous as the owner of the famous Hope Diam ond. was his junior by 4« years. After her death 17 years ago he lived with his daughter in Ashe ville. Reynolds was popular in Wash ington not only among North Ca rolina visitors, every one of whom he greeted with warmth as though he had been expecting him as his best friend, and among his polit ical associates, but in internation al social circles because of his lively autobiographical stories and charm. He was a student here in the University from 1902 to 1905—and was important not because of any studying he did but because of his being on the football team and his all-round attractiveness— and came again in 1907 to study law. Os the few people living in Chapei Hill now old enough to remember him are Dr. William P Jacocks, Alfred W. Haywood, T F Hickerson, and Phillips Rus sell, all of the class of 1904, and myself And of course Clyde Eu banks knew him well, and Louis R. Wilson probably not so well. Bob loved to go forth on ad ventures. One kind that he fav <Continued on Page 2) unit, a total conformist who ■ safe snd comfortable in the com pany of myriad others who chow the same degrading one-way route to absolute security. Perhaps no other large heart could have served lonesco's pur pose. Certainly not the elephant, which is a friendly, trunk-waving creature of the circus; nor the hippopotamus, which is a kind of submerged comedian that en joys its perpetual bath. The rhinoceros, that enormous, ugly mammal which is known for its angry moods, its fleetness in an emergency and its impervious ness to danger, moves with a singular determination to sur vive. If you wished to "pet" a rhino, you would not stroke it; affectionate caresses do not in terest it because it cannot feel them. You would have to ,unch it hard, and even then it would be doubtful if on- could in this manner translate feelings of friend liness for this creature. The hide is more than insensitive, being an armor-like, impenetrable sub stance that hok)s its host in com fort while prewnting to the out er work! a barrier against any rrasonable or reasoning - infh»- encc. And it grunts, which is what conformists do. While this sound is plaintive, it also is v* V gar. even disgusting, when hem in chorus, much like the aart.v sound one hear*. oaN mrt (Continued on Phi* *> >'
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