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Volume 41, Number 61
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Rain falls impartially upon
both the just and the unjust, ac
cording to an old saying. But
that doesn’t hold true for the
White Cross township, six miles
northwest of Chapel Hill on High
way 54.
It seldoms rains in White
Cross, even though other places
are well saturated.
Louis iMinton, who lives at
White Cross, said “We’ve been
flooded with water in Chapel
iHiil. But it hasn’t rained a drop
at White Cross.”
He explained the phenomenon.
There is a ridge running near
the Alamance line through the
White Cross section, and it
seems that clouds become divid
ed there. Water falls on each
side, but not on White Cross.
“There is a story that the In
dians who originally settled at
White Cross picked that spot,”
said Mr. Hinton, “because it
was dry. They didn’t want to
live in a rainy place.”
Even though White Cross, un
like the plain in Spain which
mainly gets the rain, is low on
moisture from above, the crops
of the region are bountiful.
The reason: irrigation.
Farm ponds are plentiful.
White Cross farmers rely on
their own efforts to irrigate their
produce, with the result that
White Cross watermelons and
vegetables are invariably good
year in and year out.
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The little English sparrow was
poised in the middle of the
street, his beak thrust into a
cheese sandwich.
C. J. (Lou) Balckmann, the
Pittsboro textile manufacturer
and chess champion, was driv
ing his Thunderbird along Flem
ington Road to his Glen Lennox
apartment when he saw the spar
row struggling with the sand
wich.
Mr. Blackmann slowed down.
The sparrow took off with the
sandwich. Instead of flying to
the right or left, the sparrow
flew straight ahead of Mr.
Blackmann's car. If he had con
tinued at his normal speed, the
car would have caught up with
the bird and perhaps knocked the
sparrow against the windshield.
Lou Blackmann kept his speed
at about 15 miles an hour. The
bird was flying immediately
ahead and so close, it was clear
that it was a half sandwich, cut
crosswise, and contained pimen
to cheese.
The sparrow was flying like
an overloaded airplane, gathering
speed as fast as possible, but
taking no chances on dropping
the sandwich and trusting Mr.
Blackmann not to run over him.
It was apparent also that the
sparrow was aware of the Thun
derbird’s approach and rate of
speed. Lou Blackmann declares
that the bird looked back at him
and be is convinced the spar
row had a worried look.
What the sparrow saw as he
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Mayor McClamroch
Will Visit Russia
Mayor Sandy McClamroch will
be a goodwill ambassador in Eur
ope and Russia this fall. He will
leave September 20 and return
October 10.
Mr. McClamroch will be one of
a number of North Carolina city,
county, and State government of
ficials traveling on what has been
called a “People-to-People Good
will Mission.” About 35 officials
from all over North Carolina have
signed up for the trip to date.
The delegation will be led by
Alex McMahon, general counsel
for the North Carolina Association
pf County Commissioners.
The delegation will visit with
their counterparts and other
people in Belgium. England, Pol
and, the Soviet Union, Hungary,
and Germany. The trip will last
about three weeks.
The journey will not be devot
ed to tourism. It is planned as
an informative, educational .good
will mission dedicated to improv
ing relations and understanding
between Americans and eastern
and western Europeans. It is al
so designed as an opportunity for
North Carolina governmental of
ficials to combat Communist ro
pagandd by 1 spreading Informa
tion about free enterprise and
the incentive system of govern
ment.
Members of tbs delegation will
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THE MOVE Above are the dhapel Hill Week
ly’s linotype machines taking their first steps toward
the Weekly’s new building on West Franklin Street.
The linotypes were moved yesterday, and the rest
of the Weekly’s move will be made next week. The
Jaycees
To Honor
Officer
The Chapel Hill Jaycees will
honor the Patrolman of the Year
at their meeting tomorrow night.
The award will be presented for
the first time in Chapel Hill.
The Patrolman of the Year
has been chosen by fellow patrol
men in the Chapel Hill Police
Department. Only patrolmen can
vote for the recipient of the
award no officers or non-com
missioned officers participate
and only patrolmen can be nom
inated.
The winner will receive an en
graved trophy and his name will
be inscribed on a plaque to be
mounted in Chapel Hill Police
Chief W. D. Blake’s office.
Names of future winners of the
award will also be inscribed on
the plaque.
Selection of the Patrolman of
the Year is based on perforrh
ance during the previous year.
Criteria for nomination include
personal appearance, planning
and carrying out of assignments,
judgment in decision and per
formance of duties, attitude in
receiving and carrying out ord
ers, care and use of equipment,
devotion to duty and interest
|n work, moral standards, and
participation in community ac
tivities.
inspect and learn about existing
conditions m the nations to be
visited, to compare methods and
procedures in government, and
to have an enjoyable holiday.
Mayor McClamroch will pay
his own expenses for the trip,
which costs $1,497 per person.
Among the cities he will visit are
Brussels, London, Warsaw. Mos
cow, one or two other Russian
cities, Budapest, and East and
West Berlin. 1
The trip is privately sponsored
and organized by the People-lo-
People Travel Program and will
implement the aims and purposes
of the United States Cultural Visi
tation Exchange -Program and
the National People-to-People Or
ganization. The trip is actually
arranged by Maupintour Associ
ates, which has offices in this
country «nd in Europe.
.Maupintour began the Good
will People-to-People PrograAi in
1956 as a subsidiary devoted to
serving the purposes and imple
menting the objectives of Presi
dent* Eisenhower's People - to -
People Program. .
The Goodwill People-to-People
Program is a private American
Association which encourages
community, regional, and 'nation
al delegations to see, meet, and
know the people of other coun
tries.
5 Cents a Copy CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1963
Police Overtime Still Piled
Up; Morale Said Improved
As of late June, Chapel Hill
police had put in a total of
777 hours of overtime maintain
ing order et racial demonstra
tions and picketing.
By this week, this total of ov
ertime put in by the police had
nearly doubled, according to Po
lice Chief W. D. Blake. Chief
Blake added, however, that po
lice morale was holding up fair
ly well.
Town Manager Robert Peck
has recommended to the Board
of Aldermen that Chapel Hill po
licemen be compensated for
their overtime with a bonus. The
Aldermen have taken no action
on the recommendation as yet.
Last month Chief Blake said
the Police Department’s vaca
tion schedule had been com
pletely disrupted by the demands
placed on it by constant picket
ing and frequent parades and de
monstrations.
This week, during a current
moratorium on picketing and
demonstrations, Chief Blake said
he had been able to let five of
his men go on vacation, two of
them allowed to leave town. Two
or three men had already taken
vacations, he said, but had not
been allowed to leave town and
had at times during their days off
been required to help at demon
strations. These men are due
further vacation time, he said.
When he made his report to
the Aldermen last month, Chief
Blake said morale in the Po
lice Department wes sagging.
“But the men believe something
will be done, and morale is hold
ing up fairly well. I haven’t
had to ask many men to come
back to work extra; they ask if
they're needed, and if they
are. they’ll be here. They feel
they’d be letting the men down
in the whole department if they
A Talk With Dr. Joseph Johnston
Joseph Johnston, farmer Sup
erintendent of Che pe I Hill
Schools, has spent this summer
as Superintendent of the Gover
nor’s School for Gifted Children
in Winston-Salem. The school
ends its first eight-week sum
mer session Friday.
By J. A. C. DUNN
The Governor’s School opened
June 10 with 400 gifted high
school students from all over
North Carolina. Money for the
school was provided on a match
ing basis by the Carnegie Foun
dation, a total of $150,000 per
summer for three years. The
money was given to the State
Board of Education, but the
Board does not operate schools
directly, and so a Board of Gov
ernors was appointed to be the
operating body.
Serving the Chapel Hill Area Since 1923
old Harriss-Conners Chevrolet building is in the
process of a complete remodeling to house Colonial
Press, Inc., which has already moved in; and the
Weekly. The Weekly’s press has already been moved
and installed in the new building.
weren't here, because if some
thing happened and somebody
got hurt, they would feel they
might have been able to pre
vent it if they had been there.”
Working long overtime hours,
and losing weight while shep
herding parades long distances
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I That Horn Again i
During the drenching downpour Sunday afternoon,
the fire horn on the top of Town Hall suddenly started
blowing, and all the alarm telephones in the call fire
men’s homes started to ring.
Men called in and asked where the fire was. Chief
James Stewart’s alarm telephone rang. Chief Stewart
also called the fire station and asked where the fire
was.
There was no fire. It took about fifteen minutes of
probing, but eventually it was discovered that rainwater
had seeped into the telephone lines that make the fire
alarm system work and had shorted the wires.
“We have all kinds of trouble with that horn,” said
Chief Stewart. The horn is elderly and runs out of
sound easily. Its tone is erratic, frequently modulating
from a major to minor key in mid-blast.
“We may have just as much trouble with it when
we move to the new building,” said Chief Stewart.
The horn is going to remain on top of Town Hall when
the Fire Department moves to its new headquarters
at the intersection of North Columbia Street and Air
port Road. It will be operated by remote control from
the new station via an underground cable.
The reason the Town keeps the old horn at all: South
eastern Underwriters, which handles the Town’s fire
insurance, requires it.
Now that the first session has
been completed, quickly organized
and pulled together between Jan
uary, when the money became
available, and the opening day
in June, a lot of interesting things
have come to light. A lot of other
interesting things have not come
to light. The latter will probab
ly come into focus after several
weeks during which Dr. Johnston
and the Board of Governors will
allow the results of testing and
observation to settle.
“We have students from 85 of
the 100 counties,” said Dr. John
ston, a big man with an intro
spective face who gives the para
doxical impression of being both
serious-minded and on the verge
of laughing quietly at something.
"We considered geography to
some extent in selecting the stu
dents. but we didn’t let geography
through downtown Chapel Hill
in hot weather are not the po
licemen’s only problems.
Another difficulty Chief Blake
1110011001x1 this week was that
men who normally 'cat lunch
and supper at home have had to
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DR. JOHNSTON
COB Will Meet
Report Tomorrow
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On Desegregation
Group
Is Still
At Work
A committee of businessmen ap
pointed by Mayor Sandy Me-
Clamroch to try to solve Chapel
Hill’s stalemate in desegrega
tion of public accommodations
will make its first public report
tomorrow.
The committee, whose mem
bers have not been identified,
has been holding private meet
ings for the past ten days with
proprietors of the 14 businesses
in Town which are still segre
gated.
A report of their progress will
be made tomorrow at a meet
ing of the Committee for Open
Business. The COB meeting will
be held at St. Paul's AME
Church on Merritt Mill Road,
beginning at 8 p.m.
When the committee of busi
' nessmen began the private ne
gotiations, the COB called a halt
to all demonstrations, picketing
and civil disobedience, at least
until tomorrow. However, civil
disobedience workshops which
the COB had been conducting at
St. Joseph’s Church on Rose
mary Street were resumed last
week. The COB has not indicated
what action it will take if the
businessmen’s progress report is
considered to be unsatisfactory.
In addition to the business
men’s private negotiations, the
Mayor's Human Relations Com
mittee has sponsored community
meetings for the past two Sun
days in an effort to aclueve fur
ther desegregation of public bus
inesses. The community meetings
also arc private. Following is a
report Issued by the Rev. Loren
Mead, chairman of the Human
Relations Committee, on last
Sunday’s meeting:
“Leaders of Community organ
izations in Chapel Hill met for
the second time at the town hall
Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. The
subject for the meeting was the
racial practices in Chapel Hill
that are in conflict with policy
of the Aldermen, the Merchants’
Association,, the Jaycees. These
and other responsible groups in
the Town have accepted the pol
icy of equality of treatment for
all citizens, regardless of race.
“Alderman Roland Giduz re
ported that the Mayor’s commit
tee for negotiations was attempt
ing to persuade discriminating
businessmen to alter their poli
cies in accord with the town poli
cy. but no detailed report of ac
complishment was made. The
Merchant's Association made no
report on the informal negotia
tions that its members are un
dertaking.
"Considerable progress was
made in discussion of alterna
tive ways to see that businesses
established in the future are
organized and operated within
the framework of the town poli
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overweigh anything else. Mostly
we selected them on the basis of
both academic talent and gifted
ness in some other area. The
selection process was not as ob
jective as it could have been if
we had used some of our own in
.struments in selecting—say, if we
' had given them all the same test,
not that this would have been the
best possible test, but it would
have given us a common basis
for selecting. The number of
nominations from any one school
unit depended on the number of
students in that unit. The nom
inations were made by the sup
erintendents and we depended on
grades, standing in class, IQ.
achievement tests, that kind of
thfog. • It’s bard to say which is
a (belter standing, two of 465, or
one of 25. We had that kind of
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Published Every Sunday and Wednesday
Coming This Sunday
DESEGREGATION IN CHAPEL HILL during the |
twelve years is described in depth in a special f|
, Weekly report covering churches, public §
schools, the University, public accommodations, |
employment, housing and local government.
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A PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY’S Insti- |
tute of Government who has been named exec- f
utive director of the new North Carolina Fund, |
a project aimed at lifting the State by its boot- t|
straps, is the talker in a J. A. C. Dunn talk |
piece.
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A MEMORIAL HOSPITAL dermatologist is the
subject of a profile by Weekly Women’s News
Editor Paquita Fine. (
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All in this coming Sunday’s issue of The Chapel
Hill Weekly, along with Louis Graves’s Chapel
Hill Chaff, Ola Maie Foushee’s news of the ■
North Carolina art world, a full page of book
news and reviews, plus the latest news of the ri
Chapel Hill-Carrboro community. Be sure to get
a copy. Also useful for plugging chimney flues.
Campus Housing
In Squeeze Again
“We are filled,’’ UNC Dean of
Student Affairs Charles Hender
son said succinctly in reply to
inquiry about the University’s
housing situation this fall.
The University expects a total
enrollment of between 10,400 and
10,500, the highest ever including
the post-World War II years. The
expected total exceeds expecta
tions by possibly as much as 500.
Dean Henderson said Universi
ty housing would be “very crowd
ed’’ for both men and women
students. Dean of Women Kath
erine Carmichael has already is-
Community Survey
Starts Next Week
Surveyors’ k;;s for the Chapel
Hill Jaycees’ community atti
tude survey will be put together
Sunday, and the survey will be
gin as soon thereafter as group
directors can distribute kits and
start surveyors on their rounds.
The Chapel Hill Jaycees have
for the last few weeks planned
a community attitude survey to
find out what Chapel Hill and
Carrboro citizens think of the
community. Among the fifty
odd questions in the survey inter
viewees will be asked to answer
are inquiries as to whet can be
done to improve the community,
what aspects of the community
are particularly good, and what
aspects are particularly bad. The
surveyors,’ questionnaires include
a large number of short-answer
questions as well.
The survey will be conducted
by about 80 Jaycees, plus four
or five persons from other civic
groups, on a personal interview/
basis. Each Jaycee will have a
list of twenty families assigned
to him to interview.
Weather Report
Continued partly cloudy and
warm, with widely scattered af
ternoon and evening. thunder
showers.
High Low Prec.
Sunday 97 72 1.10
Monday 89 88
Tuesday 91 71
Last Sunday, with a high tem
perature reading of 97, was the
hottest day of the year so far in
Chapel Hill. Our 97 was also the
highest reading east of the Miss
issippi last Sunday, a somewhat
Mrfoui honor.
sued an appeal to Chapel Hill and
Carrboro townspeople for off
campus rental housing for gradu
ate women students.
About half the University's
rooms for men would be assigned
three occupants, Dean Henderson
said. After fraternity rushing
the fraternities will absorb some
of the excess. Townspeople will
absorb about 2,700 students, and
students who commute by day to
the University from home will
account for about 3,000 more of
the total enrollment.
No plans have yet been made
to house students in dormitory
basements. (
The male-female student ratio
will be about 4-1 this year.
The freshman class, which ar
rives for orientation September
14. is about 2.000, slightly higher
than last year.
Kail semester classes begin
Friday, September' 20.
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SCENES
PAT and JIM HICKEY manag
mg to look cool in shorts despite
the 97-degree temperature at the
White Oak Horse Show last Sun
day. . . . Morehead Planetarium
staff honing up for the arrival of
a NASA Spacemobile. . . . MRS.
ALASTAIR MUIRHEAD watch
ing with amusefnent as her
daughter, MEG, calmed a buck
ing pony at Sunday’s horse show,
refusing to watch later when
MEG took her horse over the
jumps. . . . Early morning custo
mers eyeing one another blearily
at Dr. Vine’s ... BYRON FREE
MAN. so full of euphoria at his
new fatherhood, he forgot mom
entarily which hospital his wife
and daughter were in. ... Pedes
trian BARRY WINSTON instinc
tively ducking behind a tree on
Columbia Street at the approach
of a car-borne lawyer colleague.
... The Rev. VANCE BARRON
in desperate search of a photo of
his wife to send to the University
with an enrollment application.
... Mockingbird divebombing a
hastily retreating cat in the
middle of the Glen Lennox clov
erleaf. ... SIM WILDE glowing
with optimism over the fall pros
pects of the burgeoning Evening
College. . . . Townsman hand
delivering a letter to the editor,
returning twice to make changes,
making third trip to rip it up aad
mutter, “To heck with it”