Breaking a habit is easier than
not bragging about it.
Volume 41, Number 99
TOWN
and
GOWN
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Which is worse, to take opium
or marry a Yankee?
Almost a hundred years ago in
Chapel Hill, people shook their
heads sadly when they spoke of
the two Swain sisters.
Ellie and Annie Swain were
daughters of the President of the
University, David Lowery Swain,
a distinguished scholar who had
previously served as Governor of
North Carolina prior to becoming
President of the University.
Annie Swain had to have opium,
on doctor’s orders.
Ellie Swain married General
Smith B. Atkins, a member of
General William Tecumseh Sher
man’s Army. The federal forces
occupied Chapel Hill.
No one blamed Annie Swain,
the eldest daughter, for her need
to take the drug and its deriva
tives. She had an affliction for
which competent medical auth
ority prescribed opium. The opium
was imported, but the Civil War
cut off the local supply. So, Annie
Swain grew poppies in her flower
garden and made her own opium
which she took until her death.
People of that day were sadden
ed by Annie Swain's ill health,
but not the necessity for her tak
ing the strong drug, nor for her
resourcefulness in making her
own.
It would be against the law to
grow your own poppies and com
pound your own opium today.
In 1963 it would undoubtedly be
worse to smoke or eat opium than
to marry a Yankee.
But that was not the case in
1865.
Hie marriage of General At
kins and the daughter of the Presi
dent of the University was a
shock to Chapel Hill. Many con
sidered it an affront to the State,
that a girl of the Confederacy
should marry an officer of the
enemy. Governor Swain was blam
ed for “allowing the marriage,’’
wrote Cornelia Phillips Spencer.
Mrs. Spencer carried on a cor
respondence with Mrs. Atkins
later, and Mrs: Spencer thought
the attitude against the Swains
to be “ridiculous.”
But it is true the state was in
an uproar. Mrs. Lucy Phillips
Russell wrote that many peop
ple refused to attend the wedding,
and invitations were torn up and
spat upon by many of those in
vited.
Mrs. Spencer, herself, attended
the wedding, and she often re
marked to President Swain that
she would like to write a story
about the wedding for the news
papers some day. President Swain
replied, “When I am dead, you
may.”
But the courtship and marriage
of Eleanor Swain and Smith At
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i Weather Report *
Quite cool today, with more
drizzle.
High Low
Wednesday ... 41 30
Thursday 49 35
Friday 50 42
Saturday 45 42
There are two official Chapel
Hill badges: dented fenders and
muddy shoes. These days we
have plenty of both.
A Talk With All-America Bob Lacey
Bob Lacey, the University’*
champion pass-catcher, recently
waa named to the Associated
Press and Look Magazine All
American football teams, and
Mho to tbe All-ACC team.
By J. A. C. DUNN
Bob Lacey has a long and rath
er solemn face, somewhat pale.
His eyes are gray and his voice
doesn’t knock you down. You
can't tell what he’s thinking, You
can’t even tell if he is thinking.
There is not a hint of excitement
or excitability about him. Doubt
less, his adrenalin flows, but Bob
Lacey’s adrenalin, is Bob Lacey’s
adrenalin and nobody else.’*.
He had just posed for a UNC
team picture to be used for Gator
Bowl publicity in Jacksonville.
He came off the field wearing
his gamf uniform, but no pads.
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OPEN HOUSE—Chapel Hill’s spanking new ‘Tea
House,” actually $90,000 worth of ultra-modern fire
station, will be thrown open to the public today be
tween 2 and 5 in the afternoon. Chief James Stewart’s
Weinstein
Lecture
Is Tonight
“Faith and Reason" is the
theme of the Rosa B. Weinstein
Memorial Lectures to be deliver
ed and. tomorrow night
on the University campus by Rab
bi Eugene B. Borowitz.
Rabbi Borowitz who is profes
sor of education at the New York
School of the Hebrew Union Col
lege—Jewish Institute of Religion,
will deliver his talks at 8 p.m. in
Howell Hall Auditorium.
A lecturer in Jewish religious
thought at the Hebrew Union col
lege, Dr. Borowitz is also adjunct
professor of religion at Temple
University in Philadelphia, a week
ly lecturer at the Young Men and
Women’s Hebrew Association,
and editorial adviser and educa
tional consultant to Behrman
House, America’s largest indep
endent publishing house.
Dr. Borowitz Was a 1960 dele
gate to the White House Confer
ence on Youth, and a member of
the American and the Internation
al Planning Committees for the
1962 World Conference on Jewish
Education.
He has been closely associated
with youth and educational pro
grams of the Reform Jewish move
ment and is the creator of the
National Leadership Institute and
the National Kallah (study re- '
treat) programs of the National
Federation of Temple Youth
(NFTY*. Rabbi Borowitz also rep
resented NFTY at the founding
convention of the Youth section
of the World Union for Progres
sive Judiasm.
a It was a cold day, hinting of
snow. For some reason, he
seemed to prefer to remain out
side in the Kenan Field House
courtyard to be interviewed. His
face matched the weather at
moments. At other iqoments it
reminded you of Mount Rush
more. Gazing levelly over a box
wood at the far end of Kenan
field, he described last weekend,
which he spent in New York as
the guest of Look Magazine.
“I flew up with Jay Wilkin
son,” he said. He was chewing
gum. “We were roommates the
whole time up there. There was
somebody there from Look to
meet us. We went over to the
Hotel Lexington.
"That day we didn’t do much.
I talked to a representative of
the Vikings, the NFL team. They
drafted me. He was telling me
The Chapel Hill Weekly
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Jury Convicts Four
On Trespass Charge
Four of the 28 demonstrators
arrested after a civil disobed
ience sit-in at the Chapel Hill
Merchants Association last July
were convicted “ol trespassing
Thursday. The conviction was
by a .jury of seven white men,
two white women, and three
Negro men in Orange Superior
Court in Hillsboro before Judge
Leo Carr.
Mrs. Peter Van Riper, wife
of a UNC student; Patrick An
thony Cusick, a former Chapel
Hill Committee for Open Busi
ness leader; Miss Charlise Pearl
Cotton, a Lincoln High School
student; and Mrs. Christine
Glover, mother of three child
ren, were all sentenced to 30-day
jail sentences suspended on pay
ment of SSO fines and costs.
All but Mrs. Glover, one of
whose children is reportedly
seriously ill, elected to serve
their sentences. Mrs. Van Riper
and Miss Cotton will spend 30
days in jail. Mr. Cusick will
spend his 30 days “under the
supervision of the State High
way Department”—on the roads.
The four defendants had ap
pealed to Orange Superior Court
convictions of trespassing re
ceived in Chapel Hill Recorder’s
Court. The sit-in in which they
had been involved was planned,
according to Mr. Cusick, to
bring to the attention of Chapel
Hill as a whole the Town’s
apathy toward the existence of
segregated businesses in Chapel
Hill, and its unwillingness to
pass a public accommodations
law.
The trial started Thursday
morning and lasted all day.
Selection of the jury started
Wednesday afternoon. Because
the four had agreed to a con
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Serving the ChaptH Hill Area Since 1923
CHAPEL HILL, NQRTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1963
Department has been settling into its new quarters
for the past month and now feels the new station is
ready for its debut. Refreshments will be served.
—Photo by Town & Country
solidation of their cases for a
single trial, a legal expedient
used in other counties in cases
involving mass arrests, Floyd
McKissick, their counsel, was
permitted six peremptory chal
lenges of jurors for each defend
ant. By the end of the afternoon
Mr. McKissick had dismissed 15
of tbe original jury, District
Solicitor Thomas D. Cooper , had
dismissed four, and eleven jur
ors had been seated.
Judge Carr ordered a special
venire of 40 additional jurors
called, most of whom appeared
Thursday morning. From this'
special venire the twelfth juror
was chosen. Mr. McKissick’s
examination of prospective jur
ors had included inquiry as to
whether they believed all per
sons were entitled to equal
rights under the law regardless
of race. Mr. Cooper’s examina
tion included inquiry as to wheth
er they believed a person has a
right to violate the laws of the
State in order to promote pas
sage of civil rights legislation.
Only two witnesses were
called. The defendants did not
take the stand.
The two witnesses were Mer
chants Association executive
director Joe Augustine and
Chapel Hill Police Chief W. D.
Blake, both called by Mr. Coop
er.
Under questioning Mr. Augus
tine described the arrangement
of ihe Merchants Association of
fice on West Franklin Street,
with desks behind a long coun
ter which forms an * aisle along
one side of the room. He stated
(hat he came into the front part
of the office at about l:30 the
afternoon of July 19 and found
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all about the Vikings and all. The
New York Jets, they drafted me
too, in the AFL Just those two,
only one team from each league
can draft you. Yeah, I’d like to
play pro ball. Os course, we
couldn't talk figures or anything,
and I couldn't sign anything be
cause of the Gator Bowl coming
up. But I'm interested in pro
ball.
“So that night we met the bowl
queens, and (here was a little
party for us. I didn’t stay long.
I went home. I only live twenty
one miles from the city, and I’ve
always avoided the city anyway.
I don’t know, I just don't like it.
All that rat race and all.” He
lauded slightly. “I don't even
know my way around the city.
“Tbe next morning about ten
we went back to the Hotel Lex
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Registration
Books Open
Next Week
Registration for the January 14
Statewide referendum on Legis
lative redistricting will begin
next Saturday, Dec. 21.
County registration boßks in
Chapel Hill and Carrboro will be
open at the polling places on
that Saturday, and December 28
and January 4. Challenge Day
will be Saturday, January 11, and
the referendum will be on Tues
day, January 14.
In the referendum, voters will
decide whether to amend the
State Constitution to increase the
Senate from 50 members to 70
and reduce House membership
from 120 members to 100.
The referendum will be the
same as a general election, per
mitting absentee ballots. Ap
plications for absentee ballots
must be submitted in writing to
Sam T. Latta, chairman of the
Orange County Board of Elec
tions, Hillsoro.
Any resident of the County
registered in a County regis
tration book is eligible to vote
in the referendum unless he
has moved to a different precinct
since the last general election
without re-registering in his new
precinct. Voters must be regis
tered in County registration books
to be eligible to vote.
New residents of Chapel Hlll
can find out their precinct, reg
istrar, and polling place by call
ing Elections Board secretary
Clyde Carter, 933-2137.
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NO ONE HURT—A school bus tum
, , ed over on the Old Sparrow Road near
The Pittsboro Highway late Thursday
afternoon. The bus had no passengers
in it at the time and the driver, Danny
Caaton, 16, was unhurt. The Old Spar
row Road is infrequently used, but is
, maintained by the State. School buses
Number Os Donors Down
Community Chest
To Make Last Stab
Rec Chief Seeks
School Facilities
Recreation director Compton
Shelton last week complained to
the Chapel Hill Recreation Com
mission that scarcity of opportu
nities to use school gymnasiums
is harming the Town’s recreation
program.
At a Wednesday night meet
ing of the Commission. Mr. Shel
ton said the Recreation Depart
ment would have to offer what he
called an inferior program if
dates and times for Recreation
Department use of school gym
nasiums could not be reliably
scheduled.
"It is school board policy that
the school’s activities always have
first preference,” he said. “The
principals tell us which days we
can have the gyms—if nothing
else comes up. We’re outsiders
and we need to know how they
feel about us and how import
ant our schedule is to them.”
Mr. Shelton suggested that the
school board be asked to specify
which school activities could
cause cancellation of the Recrea
tion Department’s programs.
“We can’t plan ahead as long
as unscheduled activities take
preference. When activities are
cancelled suddenly, feelings are
hurt and people are lost from the
program. The thing at question
is our image in the eyes of the
people on the operational level.”
About 425 men and boys are in
terested in the program, but fa
cilities are not available to the
department to handle that many
people. The Lincoln High School
gym is used until about 8:30 every
night except the eight nights that
the Lincoln basketball team has
games out of town.
The department has not been
able to use the Chapel Hill High
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use it as a short cut. Residents of the
area said the road is dangerously slip
pery after rain, and that other school
buses have had trouble staying upright
on it before. Another school bus nearly
had an accident on the road a few min
utes before Caston’s accident.
—Photo by Jfan Wallace
Published Every Sunday and Wednesday
School gym at all recently be
cause of sudden school schedule
changes. A regular recreation ,
schedule can not be set up until
the department knows when the
gym will be available.
"We have had to cancel the
program for junior high school
boys,” Mr. Shelton said, “be
cause we can’t ask them to come
at night when they are in school.
We have also been denied the use
of the junior high school gym,
although I’m sure it is with good
reason.”
Dr. Howard E. Thompson, su
perintendent of Chapel Hill
Schools and a member of the
Recreation Commission, explain
ed that the Guy B. Phillips gym
can not be used for a recreation
program now because the build
ing has not been accepted from
the contractor. The building is
being used through a special
agreement until completed, but it
will not be accepted until some
time in January.
Dr. Thompson gave other rea-;
sons for not allowing the Recrea■/
tion Department to use the gym:
the doors between the gym and
the rest of the building cannot be
locked to prevent people wander
ing through the school, and the
dressing facilities are not ade
quate, and there is no way to
lock up the school's equipment.
In regard to the other two
gyms, Dr. Thompson said that the
Department could use them when
ever they were free. The Depart
ment has the keys and must pay
for light and heat for the period
the gym is used.
“What Mr. Shelton is saying in
effect, is that Chape) Hill has no
adequate facilities for our pro
gram,” Commission member Leo
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SUNDAY
ISSUE
Campaign
Stalled At
86.2 Pet.
The Community Council Thurs
day night agreed to compile a
list of persons who had not con
tributed in the 1964 Community
Chest drive, and to ask these
people if they would like to
donate.
The Chest drive has stalled
at 86.2 per cent of its $43,000
goal. Thursday’s meeting of the
Council, which is responsible
for allocating and dispensing
Chest funds, was to try to de
cide on a solution to the pro
blems of the faltering Chest
campaign.
Mayor Sandy McClamroch,
chairman of the drive, present
ed facts and statistics about the
drive so far. The only area in
which slackening contributions
be increased, he said,
was the business diyision. A re
canvassing of businesses will be
conducted, and if the division
can be raised from its present
75 per cent of quota to 90 per
cent, the drive will reach 90
per cent.
But he had no ideas of how to
get that remaining 10 per cent.
"Basically, the community
has had an opportunity to con
tribute,” said Mr. McClamroch.
The total number of people who
have not been solicited would
not bring in more than about
$250, he thought, and added that
he felt the Town had been “ade
quately covered.”
He said the total number of
contributors was between 500
and 600 less than last year, chief
ly in Carrboro and the Negro
community, and offered a guess
that adverse reaction to the
recreation tax, passed last
spring, contributed largely to
this decrease.
a money-raising pro
ject’* conducted by individual
Boy Scout troops during the
Chest drive "didn’t help” and
that he thought the Town was
"lacking in its concept of giving
if it wasn't willing to give (to
Community Chest* after this
kind of campaign.”
Despite Mr. McClamroch’s as
surance that publicity of the
campaign could not have been
improved on, there was some
feeling among Council members
that a new technique of publi
city and “selling” the Chest to
the townspeople would have to
be developed.
"Our main problem is the
people who make excuses not
to give.” said Council member
John Wettach. “Also, the agen
cies don’t all help.”
Council chairman Robert Mid
gette said there was an “under
standing among the nine Chest
agencies and the Council that
independent agency fund drives
would not be conducted except
for capital improvements. He
said he thought it was “poor
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SCENES
Townsman storming into Wool
len Gym to protest his seating
at the Gator Bowl, emerging
crestfallen after being told that
some 7,000 friends and neighbors
also would be languishing in the
shadow of tbe goalpost. . . .
MANLY WADE WELLMAN back
in Town after a visit to his pub
lishers, bemoaning the frenzied
pace in New York. . . . Postmas
ter PAUL CHEEK bracing''hr
yet another onslaught of
Christmas mail. . . . CROWELL
LITTLE recalling the days when
Governor TERRY SANFORD
waited on tables at Ma Burks’s
boarding house, j. . Town track
washing down Cameron Avenue
during a day-long drizzle. . . .
Fire Chief JAMES STEWART
puzzling over ways to give his
new fire station’s open home a
real oriental tang. . . . DOUG
LAS M. KN{GHT, inaugurated
several hours earlier an president
of Duke University, dining at
The Rat Chapel Hill license
plate tallyman still searching
high and low for a South Dakota.