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 >'