A calamity of life is the per son who never has a dream ex cept when he’s asleep. if Volume 41, Number 34 The Rec Tax—llf More Is At Stake v ‘ 'Sw * - Than Just Money The May 7 tax referendum for support of public recreation in Chapel Hill involves more than the simple question of financial underpinning. Advocates of the recreation tax, which would be levied at a rate of from 3 to 10 cents per hundred dollar proper ty valuation, claim it involves the very concept of wheth er it is the proper responsibility of the Town to support, finance and operate a public recreation program. The question has been answered elsewhere by other cities and the State, with provision of parks, swimming pools, golf course, lakes, and organized programs sup l>orted by public funds. Chapel Hill, however, i$ voting on little more than the concept at the present time. Such facilities as it now has support at best a minimal program that would be strained beyond reasonable lim its if all potential users attempted to participate. As Recreation Commission Chairman Bob Boyce puts it: “Before this, the recreation program as supported by the Community Chest has been ‘charitable’ in na ture. It has provided what is essentially a day care operation at the Roberson Street Community Center in the Negro community. Within the white community, it has centered on the high school gymnasium, and has largely been limited to teenage functions sock hops and record playing. “Dependence on the Community'Chest, which must be limited has created a minimum program, wbth in adequate leadership and supervision, except for the very necessary and useful pm pi se.-, at the- Roher son St met Community Center. Support from the Community Chest is not likely ever to produce a program worth the cost— and the Chest can’t be expected to do more.” Chapel Hill, while it has been full of sentiment in favor of public recreation, has pulled up short of com mitting tax money to its estabishment once before. The 15)57 referendum put the Town on record as flatly against municipal operation, and the Aldermen, although sympathetic to the need, refused until 15)61 to offer any support to the Chest-undenvritten pro gram. In October, 15)61, the Aldermen voted to con tribute the salary of a full-time Recreation director to establish a formal and comprehensive program, using non-tax revenues. Prior to thht, the Town had not even contributed to the support of the Roberson Street Com munity Center, which it owns. In the year and a half since the inauguration of the Recreation Department the public recreation program (Continued on Page 5) Reminiscences By ROBERT B. HOUSE Robert Baker Lawson was a fore-runner of the pres ent School of Medicine and of the present Department of Physical Education and Athletics. In our day of 1912- 15)16 he was Associate Professor of Anatomy, Director of Bynum Gymnasium, and over-all Team Physician in all varsity sports, and general Physical Director of University. He had a direct influence on every student in the University. He gave each of us a careful physical examination when we entered. He kept records careful ly and used them constantly to check our health and our progress in the classic ideal of “a sane mind in a sound body.” He directed us systematically in a course of exercises in Bynum Gymnasium. This course was re quired of all Freshmen. He made the gymnasium so attractive that students continued to use it for private work-outs under his personal supervision. Bynum Gymnasium was our clos est approach to a student union'. A student who went there regularly was sure of contact with the most representative cross-section of University life. The pace was leisurely. We visited and talked quite as much as we worked. Dr. Lawson quietly pervaded the whole at mosphere, entering easily into the conversations and keeping an eye on each person’s activity. Without lec turing he managed to convey his passion for whole some bodily growth and management and his scientific mastery of bodily control according to the principles of anatomy. His anatomical insight was that the structure of bones and muscles in the body dictated the method of each gymnastic and athletic movement. You simply controlled your movements by understanding the best way to get your bones and muscles to perform. His method was to watch a student trying to achieve a hand-stand, for instance. He would explain just how the bones and muscles functioned in the operation. Then he would demonstrate a hand-stand. His demonstration was a beautiful work of art. We could see his body per form perfectly exactly the way he said it should do. And he could do anything the body was capable of do ing. We gathered around him to watch the artist and to hear him explain his art. We saw in him theory and practice in perfect unity. It was an inspiration to us. We felt that we could work up to the same.iierfection. That was Doctor Lawson’s one sure method of teaching. Dr. Lawson was born in Brookneal, Virginia, August (Continued on Page 6) The Chapel Hill Weekly Serving the Chapel Hill Area Since 1923 5 Cents a Copy 4 University Professors Win Tanners Mcknight. Dawson, Geer, Mackie Cited The annual Tanner Awards for cellence in teaching of under graduate students at the Univer sity were awarded Friday night to four UNC teachers of political science, mathematics, Spanish, and history. UNC Chancellor William B. Ay cock presented the SI,OOO awards each to Raymond H. Dawson, as sistant professor of political sci ence; Ernest L. Mackie, profes sor of mathematics; Wiliam A. McKnight, associate professor of romance language and William M. Geer, instructor, in history-. Dr. Geer is one of two UNC fac ulty members to have received a Tanner Award twice. He receiv ed the Tanner Award in 1957. The Tanner Awards were estab lished in 1955 by the Tanner fam ily of Rutherfordton in honor of the late Lola Spencer and Simp son Bobo Tanner. The awards go to teachers who devote a por tion of their time to classroom teaching of undergraduates and are “in recognition of excellence and inspirational teachings.” The Tanner Awards were first pre sented in 1956. Candidates for the awards are nominated by UNC faculty mem bers and some 300 representative students. Rupert Vance Wins Award Rupert B. Vance, Kenan profes sor of sociology at the University Friday received the University's Thomas Jefferson Award for 1963. The award is present annually to the UNC faculty member “whose life and work is in the best tradition and spirit of Thom as Jefferson.” The Robert Earl McConnell Foundation of New York City and Hobe Sound, Fla., gave SIO,OOO in 1961, with the income to be used for the annual award. Chancellor William B. Aycock presented Prof. Vance the award. The recipient is chosen by a spe cial UNC awards selection com mittee. The award goes to the member of the academic com munity who through personal in fluence and performance of duty in teaching, writing, and scholar ship, best exemplifies the ideas and objectives of Thomas Jeffer son. Prof. Vance is the second UNC faculty member to receive the Jefferson Award. It was present ed for the first time last year to Kenan Prof, of Law Maurice T. Van Hecke. An authority on population and human geography. Dr. Vance has been a member of the faculty at the University of North Carolina since 1926. Carrboro Mayor’s Race Heating Up C. T. Ellington, incumbent can didate for Mayor of Carrboro, and Claybourne Greenhill, one of three challengers for the office in the May 7 election, issued campaign statements Friday. Mayor Ellington said some peo ple thought Carrboro was stand ing still, and cited the Town’s accomplishments during the past year. Mr. Greenhill deplored the fact that Carrboro volunteer firemen arc not paid, and accused the town government of living in “dreams ot yesterday." Mayor Ellington’s statement was his first of the campaign. Mr. Greenhill’s was his second. He had previously announced that he Weather Report Partly cloudy and warmer. High Low Wednesday ... 66 38 Thursday 67 38 Friday 72 38 Saturday 73 35 The wanderlust season Is upon us. Travel folders and road maps Utter desks and sendee station operators are dripping with the tcßk of btnpaa kindness. Winter’s tee and snow never eves exf gtnL CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1963 ■ j3L “m PE m MSS jn§ ' H B . SC* . ! fi |lh iff I raig m&jdmamfc fm HHBhbH m* : ' : y. ‘ V'- - ' I a - mn - -r*3r*~ rJi ir .. rsMzr-'-r'i-j£* - PEACE Nowadays upon the lawn of the Carolina Inn grey heads appear to take the sun for a little while, to ait under the comforting spread of thick old branches and let the world cope with its own problems. The rock ers of the chairs crunch slightly on the grass, birds twitter gaily overhead, there is no particular need for conver sation beyond a casual remark now and Political Field In Carrboro One Os Largest in History The field of candidates for Carrboro town offices stood at eleven for three seats on the Board ot Commissioners, four for Mayor, at the filing deadline Friday' at 5 p.m. The field is one of the largest ever in Carrboro. for both Board and mayoralty. The four candidates for Mayor include the incumbent, C. T. El lington, Mr. Ellington was elect would campaign for mayor on a "progress” platform. “Most of my life I have lived in Carrboro, which I am proud of,” said Mayor Ellington, who was born in Chatham County in 1907 and came to Carrboro in 1922. "As Mayor of Carrboro I have worked to do all I could without raising taxes or floating any bonds, which is what I think the people of Carrboro want. “Some people seem to think that Carrboro is on the standstill. I went to the books, and here are some of the things I would like to ment on to the people of Carr (Continued on Page 6) ,

ean of the UNC School of Ed ucation, retired executive secre tary of the North Carolina School Boards Association, and now a ■UNC professor of Education. Dr. Pnillips was chosen as the “Then somehow match a per son to a job," said Mrs Herbin. Dr Phillips said the Council s employment subcommittee would begin work on the two lists after a planning meeting next week. It has not yet been decided, Dr. Phillips said, whether to approach the problem of finding employers willing to hire Negroes through Merchants Association executive director Joe Augustine or by “ringing doorbells.” Mr. Augustine s advice certain- I SUNDAY I ISSUE I ; ** rAH-wsswnff Published Every Sunday and Wednesday Town Candidates Face Constituency Twice This Week Meetings If ill He Snonsored By Jayeees And If omen I nters Candidates for Chapel Hill Town offices and the School Board will face each other and the public twice this week. Wednesday at S p.m. the Chapel Hill League of Wom en Voters will hold its traditional candidates’ meeting in the Chapel Hill High School auditorium. All-candidate* for the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen and the School Board have accepted. The public is in- vitee) to hear the candidates speak, and to question them Mrs. Andrew Scott -will serve as moderator. Thursday evening at 7 the Chapel Hill Jayeees will hold a meeting to which all Chapel Hill candidates have been invited. The meeting will be held as part of the Jayeees' regular monthly meeting in the Ameri can Legion Clubhouse. Tom Mowery will be the moderator. In Chapel Hill, the offices of Mayor and Judge of Recorder's Court arc uncontested, but in cumbents Sandy McClamroeh and Judge William S. Stewart are expected to be present for liio meeting anyway The four candidates for the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen and the six candidates for the Chapel Hill School Board will speak for three minutes each, then answer questions from the audience. The School Board candidates have already faced each other in public twice, once at the Rober son Street Community Center, and once at a meeting of the Estes Hills PTA. The Aldermen candidates have appeared to gether only once, at the Rober son Street Community Center. Carrboro’s candidates have not yet made any joint public ap pearances. Registration Comes To End Yesterday was the last day of registration for the May 7 election of town officers in Carrboro and Chapel Hill, Chap el Hill School Board members, and the two Chapel Hill reier endums to be held at the same time as the election. Carrboro's registration books were open only for a week, start ing a week ago yesterday. Chap el Hill and County books had been open for three weeks. Chal lenge day for voters in the Chpael Hill and School Board (Continued on Page 6) school's namesake because of his high reputation for many years in North Carolina public education. “As far as most people are concerned, he is 'Mr. Educa tion,’ ” said School Board mem ber Grey Culbreth, a member of the school name committee. The Guy B. Phillips Junior High is the third Chapel Hill school to be named for a per son. The two are the Frank P. Graham Elementary School, and Lincoln High School. The Guy B. Phillips Junior High is also (he biggest school in Chapel Hill. It has been under construction for several months and will be ready for occupancy next fall. ly would be sought. Dr. Phillips added, but the precise method of compiling the two lists had not been settled. “We don’t want to put anybody on the spot,” said Dr. Phillips. “We want to be as tactful as possible. The only idea is to find out who is willing to hire Ne groes." As far as the Negroes them selves were concerned. Dr. Phil ilips said the Council’s attention (Continued on Page 2> (Jiapel Hill CHAFF By LOUIS GRAVES A newspaper columnist, quoting a clergyman's announcement of a cocktail party to be held for the benefit of some church activi ty, comments upon the incongru ity of the word cocktail and a religious project. Cocktail as an adjective, before the word party, is so ordinary nowadays that nobody ever thinks of its being off-color or in any way queer. But it used to be. The second definition of cock tail in the Oxford English Dic tionary 'a fter "a cocktailed horse") is “a person assuming the position of a gentleman, but deficient in thoroughly breeding.” Thackeray wrote in 1854 of "such a selfish, insolent coxcomb, such a cocktail.” Definition No. 3 in the O.E.D. is; "A drink, consisting of spirit with a small quantity of bitters, some sugar, etc. Chiefly U. S. (A slang name of which the real origin appears to be lost.)” Wash ington Irving wrote in 1809; "They lay claim to be the first inventors of these recondite bev erages, cock-tail, stone - fence, and sherry-cobbler.” A definition of cocktail in Web ster’s New International (2nd edition' re “a person passing for a gentleman, but underbred.” An other Webster’s definition is “a short drink, iced, of spirituous liquor well mixed, with flavoring ingredients, usually including bit ters.” My neighbor Alfred W. Hay wood—we entered the University on the same day in 1899 and were afterward in New York together —and I were exchanging the other day fond memories of Inly ing cocktails at two-for-a-quarter anywhere along Broadway or 42nd Street and down in the Wall Street district. You could get a Manhattan (with whiskey) or a Martini (with gin) or a Bronx (with orange juice). An Old Fashioned hadn’t came into exist ence then. Even at the Waldorf, where the famous John W. Gates and other Wall Street gamblers hung out, you could buy a cock tail for 25 cents. But Alf and I did not frequent the Waldorf; the (Continued on Page 6) , •. ' ... SCENES KiiWiii ■< mm. mum UNC News Bureau Director PETE IVEY mourning the death of his 1960 Studebaker . . . THE TENNEY CIRCLE NEWS, a neighborhood publication, making a lucrative debut (one page of social notes, two full pages of political ads' . . . WCHL an nouncer JOHN BOLSER break fasting right on schedule at Sut ton's . . - Students leaving a per formance by the Four Preps and heading straight for the movies, hell-bent for entertainment of one kind or another . . . Dogs on Jus tice Street suspiciously sniffing a small foreign car . . . Young married couple dashing frantical ly around Davie Circle in pursuit of a dog making a bid for free dom from his fenced backyard. . . . University officials mutter ing about the throat-cutting sea son in Raleigh . . . Several Chap el Hill and Carrboro candidates* brows beginning to knit . . . Stu dent couple strolling arm-in-arm through the back patio at Acklsnd Art Museum, slam into a low brick wall . . . Franklin Street practically void of humanity flfeWUb* still not a parting place in sight I