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A dog is one of the main char
acters in Betty Smith’s new novel.
Jello is the dog’s name. Miss
Smith features Jello, not only as
an embodiment of man's best
friend, but as a special kind of
pet. In scholarly circles, Jello
would be labeled with an aca
demic frame of reference—campus
dog.
“Joy in the Morning”, Betty
Smith’s newest book, has its lo
cale merged in three university
towns in which she lived, one of
them Chapel Hill.
It appears that most of the
scenes are not laid in Chapel Hill
and the University here, but at
a Midwestern college. Yet local
readers are able to recognize cer
tain things here and there in the
book about the campus of the
University of North Carolina.
Without knowing Miss Smith’s
intention as to identities, it is my
notion ihat Jello could be none
other than a shaggy dog that used
to roam around Chapel Hill in the
late 1930’5.
The dog's name was Rubinoff.
He was large, bulkier than a
Great Dane. His coat was curly,
like a poodle. Something reminis
cent of the airedale was likewise
peculiar to Rubinoff. His black
curly hair got him the name Rub
inoff. In that decade Jack Benny
radio show had “Rubinoff and
his Violin.” It was logical that a
frizzle-maned campus dog should
be dubbed Rubinoff. That’s what
happened in Chapel Hill.
Miss Smith’s main human char
acter, Annie Brown, adopted the
campus dog, Jello. Jello hung out
at her home. He followed students
around, changed loyalties easily,
ate whatever he was given.
Is Jello really Rubinoff? A re
lationship that connects the Iwo
is the fact that Jack Benny ad
vertised Jello, the dessert and its
delicious flavors.
So, the pieces fit into the pat
tern—Jack Benny, Jello, Rubinoff.
It could be just a coincidence but
it’s a plausible conjecture.
It is said that a novelist, in
building characterization in a
work of fiction, does not always
have any one single individual in
mind—but a number of persons.
The attributes and the idiosyn
crasies of five or six people may
be combined into one person as
the writer makes him a literary
personality.
That should be especially fit
ting for dogs. And, by all means,
campus dogs. For Campus dogs
are themselves a synthesized re
pository of characteristics and
breeds. Most dogs you see around
Chapel Hill today are mongrels,
prime candidates and ready-made
characters for some novelists of
the future.
If this is not Creativity, make
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New Lights Going
Up On E. Franklin
Downtown Franklin Street will
no longer be as dark as mid
night come evening. The Uni
versity is preparing to erect a
series of mercury vapor lamps
in the block from the Post Of
fice to George Barclay’s Service
Station.
Grey Culbreth, director of the
University Service Plants, said
the new lights would probably
be erected sometime next week.
The University has received the
equipment. Poles are being
painted, and barring rain the
old lamps should be removed
and foundations laid for the new
beginning this week.
Thirteen of the lights, each
| Weather Report J
Partly cloudy and scattered
thundershowers this evening and
tomorrow.
High Low
Sunday $4 «6
Monday 91 86
Tuesday. 87 68
In another month the summer
greenery will wash out and the
leaves start In turn. The Uni
versity campus is still a spark
ling emerald, particularly la the
early morning Stop and look at
it sometime.
Chapel Hill Takes
A Jolting Tax Cut
1962 Intangibles Tax Receipts
Are $5,000 Less Than Expected
The Town took a jolting cut in 1962 Intangibles Tax
receipts and may, unless additional funds are found,
have to cut its 1963-64 budget.
Town Manager Robert Peck said yesterday the Town
had received only $35,000 out of a projected $40,000
dollars from the State as its share of the local Intangi
bles revenue. The tax, assessed by the State on all bank
accounts, stocks and non-tax-exempt bonds at the rate
of 10 cents per SIOO value, is re
distributed ,in part to local gov
ernments of the areas in which
it is collected.
Mr. Peck said Chapel Hill had
received around $24,000 in the
taxes during 1960, $30,000 in 1961
and $36,000 in 1962. On the basis
of past receipts Mr. Peck said
the Town had figured it would
receive $40,000 from 1962 In
tangibles Tax collections.
.Mayor Sendy McClamroch has
written to the State Commission
er of Internal Revenue asking
for verification of the figure,
since this year’s figure is a drop
from last year’s. “It just looks
peculiar,” Mr. Peck said.
If the figure is correct, how
ever, the Town budget will have
to be pruned of $5,000 in ex
penditures somewhere. “Some
thing's got to go,” Mr. Peck
said. “It will mean that much
less street paving or something,
or maybe not provided the Town
collects more local taxes than
anticipated. We haven’t gotten
the County Tax valuation yet,
and that might be larger."
Mr. Peck said there was a
possibility of error in the State s
figures, but only a remote one.
The State is obligated to remit
a fixed percentage of Intangi
bles Taxes to local governing
units.
In other tax areas. Town Tax
Collector Dave Roberts report
ed that collections of 1962 Town
taxes stood at about 95 per cent,
an unusually high figure. Proper
ties on which taxes have not been
paid were advertised for pub
lic sale beginning May 15 and
sold June 10. Town auditor Erie
Peacock Sr. praised the tax col
lection effort in Chapel Hill as
one of “the best and most effic
ient ” he had ever seen.
Mr. Roberts said pre-payment
of 1963 Town taxes stood at
$46,000 as of Tuesday, an un
usually high pre-payment rate.
Taxpayers pre-paying during Au
gust and September will receive
a one per cent discount. During
October the discount is one-half
of one-per cent; for November
and December, end for January,
1964, collections are made at
par. Penalties of one per cent
are assessed during February,
two per cent in March, and
thereafter for each month until
the June deadline the penalty is
raised one-half-per cent.
mounted on a tall pole identical
to ones used along West Frank
lin, will be staggered down East
Franklin, beginning with one at
George Barclay's and hop
scotching back and forth across
the Street to the vicinity of the
cross-walk at the Post Office
and Battle-Vance-Pettigrew dor
mitory.
Mr. Culbreth said the change
had been requested by the Town
about a year ago, and the equip
ment had been on order for about
five months. Quite a bit of work
will be involved in making the
change. Concrete for bases will
have to be poured, wiring re
directed and connected, the poles
mounted and the old lamps re
moved.
The old lamps, Mr. Culbreth
said, while picturesque, only
have a capacity of 2,500 lumens,
and require relatively high watt
age (a lumen is a measure of
light intensity). Twenty of the
old lamps were needed to pro
duce enough light to keep the
street barely visible.
The thirteen new lights will
eliminate a traffic haxard which
has been increasing in recent
months resultihg from pedes
trians crossing in the middle of
the block. A University student
and his date were run down and
injured last fall as they at
tempted to cross Franklin in the
evening.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
5 Gents a Copy
Fire Station
Construction
Said Lagging
Completion of the Town’s new
fire station is lagging far behind
schedule. Town Manager Robert
Peck said yesterday.
The station was scheduled for
occupancy by the first of Aug
ust. However, the contractor’s
latest estimate places the date
of occupancy “sometime in Sep
tember."
Mr. Peck said part of the de
lay had come about because the
General Contractor, Van Thomas
of Siler City, was also rushing
completion of Guy B. Phillips
Junior High to mek the opening
of Chapel Hill Schools.
Mr. Peck said construction of
the station had proceeded very
slowly from the first, and prob
ably would continue at that pace
until the Junior High is com
pleted. The contractor has prom
ised to throw a full crew into
its completion once the school
has been accepted by the School
Board.
“They had one man down there
working on the roof today,” Mr.
Peck said, “but they aren't go
ing to roof it with just him. They
are also supposed to start put
ting on the siding this week, and
that will change the appearance
in a hurry.”
The building’s major walls are
up, with exterior insulation in
place. A few of the partitions
in the firemen's quarters on the
second floor are up, but other
than concrete floors and a skele
tal metal stairway, work on the
ground floor is at a standstill.
Weeds on the station lot virtually
obscure it from view except from
the Columbia Street entrance.
Fire Captain G. S. Baldwin
took the long view of things. “It
won’t do any good to be in a
hurry,” he said.
Fire Chief J. S. Stewart didn't
say. He had loaded up the De
partment’s 1914 Ford Fire En
gine on a trailer and carted it
off to Winston-Salem for the
State Fire Chiefs’ and Firemen’s
Conventions.
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School Sites
Being Sought
The Chapel Hill School Board
is taking preliminary steps to
ward the sale of the West Frank
lin Street school property.
School Board Chairman Grey
Culbreth said yesterday no con
crete steps had been taken to
ward sale of the property other
than a resolution earlier this
month in which the School Board
decided to offer it at public auc
tion.
However, Mr. Culbreth continu
ed, expressions of interest in
the property had been received
from “two or three” persons.
“'lt’s hard at this point to de
termine whether two or three
are talking. It’s entirely too
early to tell.”
Mr. Culbreth has appointed a
committee from the School
Board to survey sites for po
tential new high schools, and he
said the committee is already
at work. The committee, com
posed of Ed Tenney, the Rev.
J. R. Manley and Ben Perry, will
probably not submit a report
until more conclusive action on
the sale of the school property
has been taken.
Another Board committee is
at work seeking an architect to
design the new school.
“We figure that it's cost
nothing this far, and won't ex
cept for the time we put in on
it individually,” Mr. Cufcreth
said.
Serving the Chapel Hill Area Since 1923
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH AUGUST 21, 1963
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PRE-STORM CALM UNC Chancel
lor Emeritus R. B. House occasionally
walks his baby granddaughter along
this sylvan stretch of East Franklin
Street sidewalk. The leafy branches
shelter from the sun, the ivied wall
burgeons with lush foliage, and the
walk itself is dry. The Chancellor waves
to acquaintances among the Comfortably
Governor Indicates He Will
Push More UNC Pay Hikes
UNC President William Friday
may get a pay raise as a result
of recommendations Governor
Terry Sanford says he will make
“very soon" on increasing Con
Coming This Sunday
| THE WEEKLY’S ANNUAL Back to School sec
tion tells parents everything they need to
know about Chapel Hill’s public schools.
★★★ ★ ★ ★
| CLIFFORD ODETS, THE NOTED playwright
who died last week, had Chapel Hill contacts
stretching back several decades. Book Page
Editor W. H. Scarborough records the rem
niscences of one of his closest friends.
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★★★ ★ ★ ★
i
A FORMER BROADWAY DANCER who now j
lives in Chapel Hill with her husband and three gj
children is the subject of a profile by Weekly 1
Women’s News Editor Paquita Fine. *
★★★ ★ ★ ★
All will be in this coming Sunday’s issue of |
The Chapel Hill Weekly, along with the latest |
news of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community. Be |
I sure to get a copy. Also useful as shoe trees.
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4 lt’s Just One Os Those Tilings (Ha!)’
UNC Chancellor William B.
Aycock makes less money than
UNC Division of Health Affairs
director Dr. Henry T. Clark, but
Chancellor Aycock says philo
sophically that the discrepancy
is “just one of those things.”
Both officials got a pay raise
last week, and Dr. Clark is not
only (kill making more money
than Chancellor Aycock, but he
got a bigger raise. Chancellor
Aycock’s salary was increased
from $18,500 to $20,000. Dr.
Clark’s paycheck was sweeten
ed by a round $2,000 to an even
rounder $22,000. Actually, Chan
cellor Aycock said Dr. Clark
sparse traffic, and all is peaceful and
well. But soon the sheltering leaves
will be underfoot, the air will chill, the
ivy will shrink in upon itself, the sandy
path will grow soggy, and the traffic
will become harshly thick and callously
fast. Enjoy it now, for we are in the
gentle, nerveless calm before the stu
dent storm.
solidated University officials’ sal
aries.
Governor Sanford's promise of
broad recommendations followed
an Advisory Budget Commission
has always made more money
than the Chancellor, despite the
fact that the director of the Di
vision of Health Affairs is a
member of the Chancellor's sta ( f.
“1 can’t fire him, any more
than I can lire anyone else,"
said the Chancellor, "but he's
responsible directly to me,"
According to what most peo
ple consider the Natural Order
of Things, the top man ought to
make the top money. But Chan
cellor Aycock said this verity
is not eternal in academic cir
cles.
“A University is not like a
business,” he said. “For respon
decision last week that granted
pay raises to 105 State officials,
among whom were five major
University officials in Chapel
Hill. But the Budget Commis
sion's action did not include
President Friday. President Fri
day’s exclusion from the list of
those to get fattened paychecks
caused some consternation.
President Friday now makes
$22,500 a year. The President’s
salary has an informal limit of
$25,000, which is what the Gov
ernor is paid. One member of
the Budget Commission said
President Friday’s salary was not
raised because it was already
“near the top.”
Governor Sanford said the Bud
get Commission's having passed
over President Friday did not
indicate negative action, but on
ly that “action has yet to be
considered.”
In this regard, the Governor
said some private institutions,
several public colleges, and all
leading universities “pay more
for academic leadership than "we
do.”
“Frankly, we have a serious
problem to consider if we are to
maintain our leadership in high
er education," said the Govern
or. “We must provide competi
tive salaries for university lead
ership—the president, chancellors,
deans, department heads, and
distinguished professors.”
Governor Sanford called the
pay raise question “very much
unfinished business.” He said
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sibility. you do have to have a
hierarchy," but academic organ
izations differ from businesses
r> that tlie scale of pay does not
necessarily desceifJ regularly
from chief through vice-chiefs
and assistant chiefs, and undcr
assistant-chiefs, and so oh down
to the workers.
“We have a lot of chiefs,” said
the Chancellor. ’The faculty.
It's something that's very hard
to. explain to the public. .They
just don’t see it that way.” He
chuckled with amusement at
this apparent incongruity.
When you come right down to
it, he went on, Dr. lark's pay is
WEDNESDAY
| ISSUE ’ j
Published Every Sunday and Wednesday
Race Wide Open
For House Seat
Former Rep. John Umstead Jr.
Says He Won’t Be A Candidate
Former Rep. John W. Umstead Jr. will not represent
Orange County in a special session of the Legislature
this fall. ;
Mr. Umstead announced yesterday in a prepared
statement that he would not be a candidate for ap
pointment to the House during the interim session,
expected to be held this fall to redistrict the State Sen
ate. He hacf* announced Monday that he was in the
process of making up his mind
whether to be a candidate for
Orange County's House seat.
The seat became vacant when
Rep. L. J. Phipps resigned to
become North Carolina Depart
ment Commander of the Ameri
can Legion. Mr. Phipps had been
named to the sfeat by the Orange
County Democratic Executive
Committee early in the 1963 ses
sion of the Legislature, replac
ing Mr. Umstead. Mr. Umstead
had resigned due to illness.
Several other persons have
been mentioned as possible suc
cessors to Mr. Phipps. The Coun
ty Democratic Executive Com
mittee will meet September 3 to
nominate a Representative for
the special session. Gov. Terry
Sanford will appoint the Commit
tee’s nominee to the seat.
Mr. Umstead’s statement:
“A number of my friends have
suggested that I seek the ap
pointment as Representative to
the General Assembly to suc
ceed L. J. Phipps who recently
resigned.
“After due consideration I have
decided that I will not be a candi
date for such appointment.”
Mr. Umstead did not elabo
rate on his decision.
With Mr. Umstead out of the
ruling, the field of candidates
still appeared to be pretty crowd
ed.
Newspaper publisher Ed Ham
lin, and YDC Chairman Fred
Cates, both of Hillsboro, pre
cinct chairman Bill Merritt of
Chapel Hill and Hugh Wilson of
Orange Grove have been report
ed campaigning tor the seat.
Others whose names have been
mentioned include County Com
missioner Gordon Cleveland of
Chapel Hill and Orange Demo
cratic Secretary Earle Wallace.
All are members of the Execu
tive Committee.
Judge Phipps, who will be host
to the 57 Executive Committee
members at a dinner meeting
Sept. 3 at the General Sherman
Restaurant near Hillsboro, said
he was remaining neutral. The
Judge has refused to comment
on whether he will seek nomina
tion to the House in the Demo
cratic primary next spring.
County YDC Rally
Set For Sept. 7
The annual Orange County
YDC rally will be held Septem
ber 7 at Frank Umstead’s farm
at the end of Umstead Drive.
All members of the YDC,
their friends and relatives are
cordially invited. The rally be
gins at 5 p.m. Admission is
$1.50 per person, and barbecue
will be served.
Prospective gubernatorial can
didate Thomas J. Pearsall of
Rocky Mount has accepted an
invitation to attend the rally. I.
Beverly Lake, unsuccessful can
didate for Governor in 1960, has
also tentatively accepted an in
vitation.
Others invited to the rally in
clude State Democratic Party
Chairman Bert Bennett and Dr.
Henry Jordan.
Formal speeches are not cn
ticipated, but if possible former
Orange County Rep. John Um
stead will attend the rally and
speak briefly.
relatively low for what directors
of divisions of health affairs are
getting these days. So are North
Carolina chancellors' and presi
dents’ salaries low, he added,
compared to what similar of
ficials are getting elsewhere in
- the Nation.
But as far as intra-mural sal
ary comparisons are concerned,
Chancellor Aycock said, “if we
took the position that the Chan
cellor gets the highest salary.
I'd say that about a hundred
people would be gone from
here."
He laughed again and repeat
ed, “it's just one of those things,
it's just the way it goes.”
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FRANK C. MORROW
Town Hires
New Building
Inspector
Frank C. Morrow has assum
ed duties as Chapel Hill’s new
building and electrical inspector.
Mr. Morrow started work Mon
day, after being appointed to
the post Aug. 1.
He will be in charge of enforc
ing the Town’s zoning ordinances
and building codes, including the
Town’s sign ordinance.
Mr. Morrow has lived in Chap
el Hill since 1934. Until appointed
to his new position he was em
ployed by the University Service
Plants as foreman of the Elec
tric and Water Division.
A native of the Teer Commun
ity in Western Orange County,
lie attended Mandale High School
in Alamance County and
State College. He is married to
the former Annie W. Tolbert
and is the father of two daugh
ters, Mrs. Frances Meade of
Chapel Hill, and Mrs. James
Furr of Brevard. The Morrows
are members of the University
Baptist Church.
Mr. Morrow succeeds Don
Archer in the position. Mr. Arch
er had been assistant town man
ager and building inspector for
the past year. He will continue
as assistant town manager, and
also as secretary to the Board
of Adjustment.
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SCENES
1., ommemmmommsmm
New York visitor to Chapel
Hill, accustomed to the cramp
ed conditions of most small Man
hattan businesses, commenting
on the “enormous” size of Fow
ler's Food Store. . . - GENE
STROWD amiably resisting a
customer's attempt to trade him
even an electric fan for an air
conditioner. . . . What appear
to be stone and mortar breast
works under construction in the
side yard of attorney ROY
COLE s Franklin Street home.
... Old UNC grad discovering
with shock that the entrance to
Hogan's Lake is now block
ed by a stout cedar pole. . . .
TOM SCISM pushing organiza
tional efforts for a Good Listen
er's Club. . . . Young lady
towed down Franklin by a chi
huahua, straining to keep h%
from jumping the leash and
ing a delivery truck. . . . Custo
mers in Jeff's edging away from
a lady who was coaplaintag
she had caught fl*te from her
cat. . . SUH greggy easterner
slipping in with the HTwi Idi
livery man to buy coffe* at the
Long Meadow dairy bsfasrbtiia
before the far hutt
ing bicycles pumping
smooth., effortlessly i
grace around and arewdaS
around Davie Circle,