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Volume 41, Number 20
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MRS. WARREN WICKER
Explaining Procedure . . ’.
Reminiscences
Bv ROBERT B. HOUSE
In 1915 the old Pickwick movie theatre up near Sloan’s
corner was supplanted by the new Pickwick on the other
•side of Franklin Street down about where the town office
of the University Service,Plants now stands. It was an
elegant theatre for the times. The feature of features in
the new Pick was the first showing of “The Birth of a
Nation” in Chapel Hill.
This picture w’ith an accompanying orchestra and
sound effects was stupendous. It fired our non-too
dormant loyalties to the Old South to a frenzy of nos
talgia and “what might have been if. . . We were like
Chaplain Jones, a local preacher in the generation pre
ceding ours. lie had been a chaplain with Stonewall Jack
son. He said the South had never really been deteated.
It collapsed he thought Ijecause “it was wearied out w'ith
victory.” Chaplain Jones even questioned the righteous
ness of Providence in allowing the Yankees to win. Like
his hero, Stonewall Jackson, he gave supreme allegiance
to General Lee. He took a dim view of President Lincoln
and, for that matter, of the Union.
Lee’s birthday came and we celebrated that with
gusto. Lincoln’s birthday came and we were considering
that as just another day until President E. K. Graham
spoke to us that morning in chapel. He praised us for
our loyalty to Lee and the South. No man had ever voiced
that theme better than Ed Graham had done in welcoming
the old veterans back in 1911 to receive their diplomas,
those who left for the war and never got back again as
students. We went wild with enthusiasm and leaned
back to hear more of the great epic. But Ed Graham
shocked us. He moved right on to Lincoln, praised him
and tied the greatness of Lee to the greatness of Lincoln.
It was not, he said, a matter of Lee or. Lincoln but one of
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Town Clerk Will
Retire On May 1
Mrs. Mary Lovejoy, Town clerk
here since 1954, will retire May
1.
Her resignation from the posi
tion will be acted on by the Board
of Aldermen when it meets to
morrow night at 7:30 in the Town
Hall.
Mrs. Lovejoy and her husband
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SCENES
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COLLIER COBB 111 beating an
amiable path up the street in
the season’s first spring suit . . .
JOHN MANNING getting his way
with the Planning Board without
loosing one single verbal broad
side . . . Interlopers at Jeff’s
Campus Confectionary discussing
renovation of the place, to the
horror of established clientele . . .
Shack proprietor TROY HAR
VILLE taking a tolerant view of
customers who wanted to watch
The Flintstones on TV . . . UNC
Development Director CHARLIE
SHAFFER overseeing the re-zon
ing of his neighborhood . . • HIL
LIARD CALDWELL jumping in
and then back out of the Town
Board race in record time ...
One of Chapel Hill’s most parti-'
san Democrats openly backing a
• Republican in the Town elec
tions . . . ANDY GUTIERREZ
vacuuming the Varsity lobby at
1:30 a.m.
Opposition To Tax Appears
Public Recreation: Pros & Cons
Several matters/and a few minds were aired more or
less thoroughly at a panel discussion of Chapel Hill
recreation and recreation taxes Wednesday night. The
Town Hall courtroom was almost filled with citizens,
including the Mayor, the Town Manager, Aldermen, the
School Superintendent, and members of the Chapel Hill
Recreation Commission.
None of the pros or cons of the recreation tax to be
voted on May 7 were actually settled, but a few relatively
new points were brought out, among them the fact that
a recreation tax district can be legally established by
referendum.
Panelists were UNC sociology professor. Douglas
Sessoms, Chapel Hill Alderman Mrs. Harold Walters, and
Chapel Hill Recreation Commission Chairman Robert
Boyce.
moved here from Warren, Ohio,
13 years ago. Prior to becoming
Town clerk, she worked three
years as secretary to the Depart
ment of Housekeeping at N. C.
Memorial Hospital. She will leave
her post April 1 for a month’s
accrued vacation, and the Aider
men hope to name her successor
prior to that time. She and her
husband will continue to make
their home in Chapel Hill.
In other business coming be
fore the Aldermen, the re-zoning
of the Gimghoul Road Area from
RA-10 to RA-15 has been reported
out favorably by the Planning
Board and is expected to be adop
ted..
Also scheduled to come before
the Aldermen is a dual request
for re-zoning and a special use
permit for developer Jack Car
lisle's fi2-unit Hillsboro Street
apartment complex. No action
on the request is anticipated since
the Planning Board declined to
act on the basis of “incomplete
plans” submitted by Mr. Car
lisle.
Town Attorney John Q. Le-
Grand and Carrboro Town At
torney Judge L. J. Phipps have
completed work on a bill setting
up the Carrboro Planning area,
and final Alderman action on it
is expected.
Further modification of the
Town sien ordinance will also be
discussed, new changes to the
cemetery ordinance, reports on
fluoridation and the Highway De
partment’s view of the Chapel
Hill Thoroughfare Plan are also
on the agenda.
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OUT AGAIN—The chairs and the tables in front
of the Scuttlebutt have been stored away all winter,
while ice crusted the brick-paved terrace. Now they
are out again, filled with students hastening the coming
days of lemonade and laziness by pretending that the
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DR. WILLIAM LASSITER
Gets Markle
Appointment
Dr. William E. Lassiter, assist
ant professor of medicine in the
University School of Medicine
this weejt was named a Markle
Scholar in Academic Medicine,
one of the most outstanding hon
ors that can be r iven to a young
medical scientist.
Dr. Lassiter is one of 25 scien
tists in this country and Canada
to be so honored. He is the ninth
member of the UNC medical fac
ulty to receive this coveted
award.
The appointment from the John
and Mary R. Markle Foundation
of New York provides a $30,000
grant to the Medical School here
where Dr. Lassiter teaches and
engages in research. The sum
is given over a five-year period
to supplement salary, aid re
search. and assist in the scien
tist’s development as a teacher
and investigator.
Dr. Lassiter, a native of Wil
mington. joined the UNC medical
faculty In 1958, as a research
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CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 1963
Editorial comment is on Page 2-B.
Avery Cohan had been scheduled to present the op
position on the panel, but the recreational activities of
his son’s Cub Scout pack interfered.
“Not so many years ago, any child who wanted could
find a tree to climb or a vacant lot,” said Mrs. Andrew
Scott, moderator, “. . . then came the population ex
plosion.”
Dr. Sessoms spoke first. A recreation program must
be built around the needs of a community, he said. No
two communities’ recreation programs are alike. A public
recreation program is not a babysitting facility, and not
just a diversion for bored minds. “A recreation program
Chapel Hill Businessmen
Inspect ‘Smithfield Plan’
Nine Chapel Hill businessmen
visited Smithfield Thursday to
find tout how an outdated town
could bring itself abreast of the
times.
Merchants Association execu
tive director Joe Augustine, Town
Manager Robert Peck, Mayor
Sandy McClamroch, Carrboro
Chamber of Commerce President
George Spransy, Ted Danziger, R.
B. Fitch, Jim Heavner, Doug
Powell, and J. B. Robbins heard
a presentation of “The Smithfield
Plan," given by Smithfield town,
Chamber of Commerce, and Jay.
cee representatives.
“The Smithfield Plan" is a
community improvement plan by
which Smithfield hopes to be chos
en one of the winners in the an-
Carrboro To Act
On Planning Area
The Carrboro Board of Com
missioners will set its seal on
the necessary paperwork for
creation of a Carrboro Planning
Area Tuesday night at its regu
lar meeting in the Carrboro
Town Hall.
Town Clerk R. B. Todd said
letters approving the establish
ment of the new planning district
had been received from the
Chape! Hill Board of Aldermen
and the Carrboro Commissioners,
aid that Judge L. J. Phipps had
completed preparations lor the
enabling act to be submitted to
the General Assembly.
The Carrboro area will com
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current warmer-but-not-yet-summery weather is balm
ier than it is. Girl-and-traffic-watching at the corner of
Columbia and Cameron is looking up. Pretty soon a
chair outside the Scuttlebutt will be a treasured pos
session.
nual All-America City contest.
The contest is sponsored by a
women’s organization and Look
Magazine.
The co-chairmen of “The Smith
field Plan” explained the details
of the project to the nine Chapel
Hillians and conducted them on
a tour of the town.
As a collection of buildings and
streets, Smithfield was obsolete
by about fifty years when the
citizens started their improve
ment plan some months ago.
Buildings were old, streets were
A Talk With Stephen Bede
•Stephen Bede is ehief of Radio
Free Europe’s Hungarian Depart
\ ment in Munich, Germany. Last'
week he was in Durham under
the auspices of Chemstrand. speak
ing in an effort to raise contri
butions to Radio Free Europe.
Private contributions are RFE's
only means of support.
By J. A. C. DUNN
Stephen Bede < Beydeh> has
thick, prominent eyebrows that
look like wisps of grey hay, and
a broad, sad, slightly harried
countenance which time, strain,
and adversity have turned into a
magnificent poker face. His eyes
are weary with a hint of nostalgic
melancholy, but otherwise his
should provide opportunities for people to use their leisure
constructively.” >
A recreation program should cater to all age groups,
and should operate all year round, “not just in the sum
mer when the kids are out of school,” and every day, not
only on weekends. A recreation program should also
cater to special interest groups such as young married
couples and the elderly.
Dr, Sessoms said a survey of North Carolina’s public
recreation activities showed that the per capita expendi
ture on recreation in the State was $3.50, of which $1
was spent on parks.
“If we follow this in Chapel Hill.” he said, "we should
spend $30,000 on recreation and $12,000 on parks.”
He mentioned towns roughly comjiarable in size to
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old, tlie town was not as attrac
tive as it could be, and no major
improvements had been made in
the town's business section in half
a century.
Beginning with a townwide,
“What Smithfield Needs” contest,
sponsored by the Merchants’
Committee, a plan of Improve
ment was developed. Among im
provements now either completed
or in process are an extensive
downtown canopy with lights and
piped-in music, color-styled buil
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face contains his emotions with
ali the expressive display oi a
wooden bucket.
Mr. Bede objects to being called
an “anti-Nazi underground lead
er."
“Oil, look, this is wbat I do
not like." he said. “There was
no organized underground in Hun
gary during the war. There was
resistance, but every man did
what he could to make it diffi
cult for the Nazis, by himself.
There Was nothing like a general
staff operation, no organization.
"I was Information Chief of the
Hungarian Ministry for Foreign
Affairs in the early part of the
war. I had all the newspapers
in Hungary under my control, and
Published Every Sunday and Wednesday
Work To Resume
()n School Budget
Hoard To Get Alternate Figures
Tomorrow In Second Rough Draft
School Superintendent Howard Thompson will present
to the School Board a second rough draft of next year’s
current expense and capital outlay budgets at the Board’s
meeting Monday night at 7:30 in the home economics
room of Chapel Hill High School.
Dr. Thompson presented an initial draft at the Board’s
last meeting. The Board took no action. Dr. Thompson
said this week’s draft would U» separated into Plan A
and Plan B. the first assuming a
County pen-pupil allocation of
S3B next year, the second assum
ing an allocation of $42.
Since the Board's last meeting.
Dr. Thompson has conferred with
the State Board of Education in
an attempt to clarify vaguely
explained items in the State's
“B” budget. The provisions of
the “B" budget directly affect
Chapel Hill’s budget next year.
David McDowell, a representa
tive of the Public Service Co.,
will appear before the Board
Monday to explain the cost of gas
heat at Frank P. Graham Ele
mentary School and the new
Chapel Hill Junior High School.
Gas bills at Graham have been
about 50 per cent higher than an
ticipated. Dr. Thompson said
that more very cold weather
could put the Graham School's
heating bill over its budget allo
cation.
The Board expects Mr. Mc-
Dowell to explain why the bills
have been so much higher than
anticipated.
In addition, Dr. Thompson will
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I Weather Report - j
Cloudy and cool today, with
partial clearing tomorrow.
High I-ow Prec.
Wednesday ~65 45 .87
Thursday 59 32
Friday 61 28
Saturday .... 64 33
Bermuda shorts are all the
rage right now, with the balmy
weather. But don’t drain the
anti-freeze; you’ll sec another
icicle yet.
MR- BEDE
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SUNDAY
ISSUE
H BrO ys Swl
HAROLD BIERCK
... He’s Against Tax
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Chapel Hill
CHAFF
By LOUIS GRAVES
It looks as if the newspapers
and magazines, the radio and tele
vision. and one’s ordinary acquain
tance, in making a choice between
the words give and donate, are
leaning more and more toward
donate.
This tendency pains some peo
ple who are concerned for the
purity and the dignity of the lan
guage. and nobody has comment
ed on it in such spirited opposi
tion as A. P. Herbert, the Eng
lish novelist, poet, essayist, and
dramatist, and for many years
member of Parliament.
He has been knighted and so
is now officially Sir Alan Herbert,
hut to writers and to the great
body of his readers he is still
known by the simple name under
' which he first distinguished him
self.
A few years ago, in a little es
say on the subject of give and
donate, he insisted that donate
was a “snob word,” that “the
rich donate and the poor give.”
He had some fun translating
iamiliar passages to include do
nate, for example: “Donate us
this day our daily bread.” “Tls
more blessed to donate than to
receive,” and "Twas all he do
nated. ’twas all he had to do
nate.”
Herbert was bom 72 years ago
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this gave me an opportunity to
make difficulties for the Nazis.
1 held briefings every morning
for all newspapers, and without
falsifying anything 1 could em
phasize some things, and make
it unpleasant for the Nazis to
deal with our govertunaL Any
thing that would harm the Nazis
I did. Then when they occupied
Hungary I went into hiding be
cause they were looking for me. I
could not do anything while 1 was
hiding. It was dangerous, the Nazis
wanted me because of my activi
ties against them. First they put
cut posters saying I should re
turn; and then when I did not
return they said that anybody
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