Page 4-B |NewHopeCommunityNews MRS. SAM RAY - Phone 8-3792 Mrs. Mattie Craig is confined to her home with an illness and is showing improvement. • * * The Florence Root Circle of New Hope Church will meet Tuesday night at 8 at the home of Mrs. Kelly Davis. Mrs. James Tippens will lead the Bible Study Lesson. ,! * * * Birthday greetings and best wishes to John Lockhart and to Kelly (Butch) Davis Jr. * • * Mr. and Mrs. Craig Campbell and family have returned to their home in Newark, N. J. after visiting with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Campbell. * » * Mr. and Mrs. Harris **f Elon College we/e recent visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tapp. Joe lived with Mr. and Mrs. Tapp while doing grad uate work at UNC. This school year he will teach in the Dur ham County school system. Mrs. Harris will teach English at Eton College. * * * The Day Circle of New Hope Church will meet in the fellow ship hall of the church Wednes day morning at 9:30. Personalized Service MONUMENTS MARKERS MAUSOLEUMS DURHAM MARBLE WORKS 1501 Morehead Ave. Durham, N. C. W. E. HALEY, Manager PHONE Day 489-2134 Night 489-2068 ■ | fcjewJW* j ! , jyaligsy | J Phone Chapel Hill 942-4767 for the V • Durham Morning Herald | and THE DURHAM SUN | I Best Daily Coverage of University, Vj E Chapel Hill, and Orange County News 'll i V- ’ i •' ; I ' V ' i ■ ...... . < . . . ] WHITEWALLS OPTIONAL ® 1962 VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA, INC. Underneath it all it's a Volkswagen. The Karmonn Ghia has a low-slung, rocy-looking body: sloping hood, remarkably clean, sculptured lines. The car is built with plenty of good-old-fashioned hand-work. (Fenders and hoods and door frames or* welded and smoothed by hand.) Yet, the Karmann Ghia has VW’s engine. (And VW's chassis and transmission and suspension.) This means you get VW's legendary economy: about 32 m.p.g. And VyV'S air-cooling: no boiling or freezing. And VW’s excellent traction: through mud, ice and snow. And VW's service: no *4O tuneups, no *IOO carburetors. Top to bottom, the Ghia is built to last. It looks like a custom made car because it's designed like one. If acts like a Volkswagen because it is on*. Just look underneath the rear bonnet., TRIANGLE MOTORS, Inc. rib 616 W. Chapel Hill St. Durham Open Friday Nights ‘til • Dr. Ed Wilson is a patient at Memorial Hospital for observa tion and treatment. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Hicks and family will leave the com munity soon to move into their recently completed home on the Orange Grove Road. Social Workers To Meet Sept 12 The Eastern North Carolina Chapter of the National Associa tion of Social Workers will hold its first meeting of the 1963-64 program year in Raleigh on Sept. 12. The meeting will be held in the old Senate Chamber in the Capitol, beginning at 7:30 p.m. The program will be concerned primarily with possible programs for the coming year. Hie Eastern North Carolina Chapter includes the Chapel Hill- Durham area, in addition to the eastern part of the State. Of ficers are Dorothy Keister of the Institute of Government, chair man; Mrs. Isabelle K. Carter of the UNC Graduate School of Social Work, vice - chairman; Mrs. J. L. Pierce, executive di rector of Family Service in Ral eigh, secretary; and Miss Vir ginia Long, chief of psychiatric social work at Memorial Hos pital, treasurer. Committee chairmen are: Miss Geraldine Gorley of the UNC School of Public Health, Social Action; Frank Peirce of the Graduate School of Social Work, Program Committee; / Harold Demonadade, executive 1 director of Family Service in Durham, Public Relations; and Mrs. Eliz abeth McCubbin, director of Women’s Prison in Raleigh, Membership. Use the Weekly’s Classified advertisement section regularly. Hiey get you good results. Provisional Classes Set By League The Provisional Training Class of the Chapel Hill Junior Service League is currently being form ed and will hold its first meet ing at the home of Mrs. Clar ence Cheek, Greenwood Road, on Tuesday, September 17, at 8 p.m. Anyone desiring to make application should contact Mrs. Ro 11 i e Tillman, membership chairman, by September 10. Mrs. William G. Long, presi dent of the league, and Mrs. T. L. Tolbert. Country Store chair man, wiir be on hand to welcome the new members and to help ac quaint them with the purposes of the organization. Membership in the League is open to women who plan to be in Chapel Hill for at least two years to the best of their knowl edge and who were under 35 years of age on past June 1, 1963. League projects include Health and Welfare, Christmas House, Community Recreation, Civil De fense. and the Country Store. Members are required to do at least 50 hours of work in these areas, as weil as in certain other community service projects. Persons wishing to become members must have provisional status from September to May. After fulfilling .the requirements, they become active members at the annual May luncheon. There will be four special pro visional training classes during which provisional members will be introduced to the League— its projects, purposes, and of ficers. Regular meetings are held the fourth Tuesday of each month, usually at 2 p.m. although there are approximately two morning meetings during the "year. Blitch-Bailey Wedding Friday Miss Elizabeth Blitch of At lanta. Georgia, and Mr. William B. Bailey of Chapel Hilbwere united in marriage Friday af ternoon at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Family. Officiating priests were the Rev. Loren Mead, Rector of the Par ish, and the Rev. Clarence Park er. Mr. Mead witnessed the Solemnization of Matrimony and Father Parker celebrated the Nuptial Mass. Mr. Dayton Estes served as acolyte. Miss Blitch is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee W. Blitch of Atlanta and Mr. Bailey is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sherill O. Bailey of High Point. The bride was given in marriage by her father, and the father of the bridegroom was best man. The bride is a graduate of Emory University and currently working toward an M.A. at UNC. The groom is a 1960 graduate of UNC. He is Eastern Area Direc tor for the North Carolina So ciety for Crippled Children and Adults. Attending the wedding besides members of the immediate fam ilies were Miss Nancy Lawson of Oxford, and Mrs. William R. Williams, Mr. Ronald N. Lambe, and Mr. Robert Pace of Chapel Hill. After a brief wedding trip, Mr. and Mrs. Bailey will be at home at 381 l/2„Tenney Circle. The Weekly’s Classified Ads work around the clock for you. ONLY “Chapel Bill’s only qualified Rag Cleaner*’ Dial Operator, ask far Durham WX2690, Benam Carolina Coffee Shop CHAPEL HILL’S FAMILY RESTAURANT Southern Fried Chicken L #■ IN THE BASKET ft 1 With Shoe String Potatoes Boxed to go 91-25 Delivery, 50c Si** l * l SPECIALTIES CLUB STEAK ... $1.35 EBTS—Chsese Cake, Hot Apple Pie Fried Onion Rings WAFFLES—Blueberry, Strawberry, Tossed Salad French Fries Bacon, Pecan THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY Diamonds Are Their Good Friends By PAQUITA FINE Louise Veasey Sloan, wife of jeweler Richmond Sloan, is one of the few women in the world who worn the fabulous Hope Diamond. It all came about at a jewelers’ convention in Virginia where the diamond, heavily guarded by detectives, was on display. “I just happened to be the only woman available when the photographers decided to make a picture of it for a mag azine,” said Mrs. Sloan. “I don’t know what I was expecting— probably a big flashing blue-, white stone—but when I saw a dark stone instead, I was dis appointed. It just looked like a blob of blue. Actually, once I had adjusted my thoughts from a blue-white stone to one of indigo blue, I realized it was very beautiful, but it still looked more like a sapphire than a diamond to me.” Mrs. Sloan, who assists her husband in their store, Went worth and Sloan, is familiar will) diamonds since the major part of their business comes from prospective brides and grooms seeking engagement and wedding rings as well as the traditional silver, china and crystal pat terns. "Diamonds are graded by weight, purity, color and cut,” she said. “The story of precious gems is much like that of bloom ing flowers—dull lumps of min erals that burst into jewels when cut and polished. The word ‘gem’ means ‘bud’ and it’s very appropriate. Richmond and I find that the ‘brilliant cut diam onds in modified Tiffany set tings are the most popular. Diam onds are the traditional stones for engagement rings, probably because the ancients called them the ‘flame of love’ and associat ed them with innocence. Pearls to the bride are usually the bridegroom’s gift on the wedding day, and pearls are symbolic of purity but often, we get re quests for diamond pendants or a gold charm bracelet with the first charm engraved for the occasion. Others, who know the interpretations given by the an cients to precious stones, may choose a ruby for contentment, an emerald for love and success, or a peridot which today repre sents married happiness. But pearls are still the first choice. “Birthstones for birthdays and Christmas are popular in rings, pins and charms, a hangover from the superstitious belief that a birthstone protects one from evil. Opals, once considered bad luck unless you were born in- October, are coming back into popularity. I can’t imagine why they were ever thought of as ‘bad luck’; they’re so lovely. Black opals, which emit flashes of other colors, are the most valuable, with white opals next. “Oddly enough," said Mrs. Sloan, “although most people are a little superstitious and many are addicted to reading their horoscope in the newspapers, zo diac signs as charms for brace lets are not particularly popu lar.* Customers are usually look ing for something to commem orate some particular occasion.” Mrs. Sloan also commented on several things of which many customers are not aware; “Oft en people think a discontinued pattern in silver means that it can no longer be purchased—but pieces can be bought once a year during the months of January and February. On discontinued patterns, (he manufacturer lets orders accumulate imtil he has enough for a special order in that pattern. It usually takes about six months for delivery. “Another thing to remember is in regard to crystal. Some of the more fragile pieces chip easily, and people have a ten dency to set them way back on their shelves or throw them away —but If the chip is tiny, It can be ground out. The goblet may be a fraction shorter than tbe others, but this will scarcely be noticed. “‘A third thing which some customers are curious about is what to do about having stones in old-fashioned settings reset. We usually suggest they give us uww I ""jn.aiMiitoiit---. ..iiri-.-jLjA-irßjr. nun latiii— mmmtiiih'l jmiiii >Tvm<-.~.-• "lesv’iir •’-• wy — •• 1 ■ v I X \ nSk*' L - jJhi pi I if Richmond and Louise Sloan Showing Gems a rough drawing of what they want in a mounting, then we send the drawing to a manufacturer who sends back a detailed draw ing in color so the customer will know exactly what he has order ed and whether it meets with his approval.” Richmond Sloan was one of the first married students to attend the University, and he and Louise were one of the first ten families to move into Glen Lennox where they lived for five years until thßy moved to their present home on Roosevelt Drive. “In 1947, Richmond and Herb Wentworth were looking for a retail business," said Mrs. Sloan. “Neither knew a thing about the jewelry business; but White’s, a small jewelry store that catered more to novelty jewelry than to traditional jewelry and silver lines, was for sale. My brother, John Veasey of Durham who had been in the jewelry business for several years, agreed to help them. Johnny stayed with us for 13 years. Richmond and Herb may not have known much about the business when they began, but they did a wonderful job; they acquired all (he better franchises on silver, crystal, and watches, and made the store in to Chapel Hill’s first ‘real’ jewel ry store. It was also the first air-conditioned store in town.” A native of Richmond, Va., Richmond Sloan cane to Chapel Hill as a small boy when his father became police chief here. He later moved to Hillsboro for eight years while his father serv ed as sheriff of Orange County. 'When his father returned to Chapel Hill as police chief, Rich mond became a freshman in the high school here. In 1942, he graduated from the University with a major in accounting. One vivid recollection of his child hood is that of accompanying his father and several deputies on a liquor raid at a nearby farm. “I was 12 and I was completely fas cinated by the search my father and the deputies made. They finally located the whiskey be neath a chicken house when one of them stepped on loose boards beneath some straw. Underneath was a tunnel which led to a room. They must have smash ed 21 barrels of white lightning on that raid.” Louise Sloan, a native of Dur ham, attended the Durham pub lic schools. She and Richmond met during his freshman year at UNC, and their only interest in jewelry at that time was an engagement ring. Mrs. Sloan’s personal taste in jewelry is both unusual and con servative. She dislikes "showy” things but Ukes « touch of orig inality. Her ttyW favorite pieces, •D gifts from her husband, are a "pinkie” ring (for her little finger which is a cluster of tiny pearls set in an unusual mount ing of gold; a lariat necklace of pearls fastened with a de tachable diamond clasp, and a gold charm bracelet with jeweled charms which were given to her by her husband and her 16-year old son Ricky as birthday and Christmas gifts. The first charm, an anniversary gift from Rich mond, is a jeweled “tree of life.” The Sloans’ favorite hobby is traveling to all parts of the United States, just sightseeing and often visiting other jewel ers. They are now remodeling their store for more attractive display space inside and a more interesting store-front. Commenting on the hazards of display, the Sloans recall their one and only “break-in”, a dis play window from which the thief took only watches, ignor ing the diamonds right beside them. “He was really an odd thief,” said Mr. Sloan; “he took only one cigarette lighter out of a display of six. He evidently knew just what he wanted; watches and a cigarette lighter", about |7OO worth.” Not all thieves strike at night as Louise Sloan will tell you. “We were ‘took’ by a very ac complished con-artist about five or six years ago, right after Christmas. This young man, who said he was a student at Columbia University, claimed to /have been chosen by his fratern ity to purchase a gift for a re tiring dean of students. He had a check for SSOO, and he said he was visiting his mother who lived in Pittsboro. Richmond and I showed him several pieces of silver, and he finally decided on 12 silver beakers, a tray, and a pitcher, part of which was to be ordered from the factory end sent to Columbia University. ■He paid for the order with a printed fraternity check —a very handsome check and al though we might have been suspicious ordinarily, he had won us over completely with his per sonality during the hour he took to select the gift. We had al ready made out bank deposit, and the bank was closed; so I took $125 out of my purse to give him his change and I want you to know he still had the nerve to stand around and chat with us for another 30 min We can’t all enjoy youthful romance, but with today’s modem medicines, vitamins and wonder drags, we can enjoy more vigorous, healthful living. I PR [jm BtUUiKV*MSfIWI 96M-»rSs«c!!!piLMlLr»i?J * utes!” If Louise is indignant abodt giving the con-artist change out of her own purse, Richmond, is just