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CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1954
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EOPLE
[in Brief
R STUDENTS OF THE
are believed to be among
"plane operators who seem
ly soaring over the town,
s emitting smoke. There
[this morning who crossed
fest to east about 10 o’clock,
fgli and throwing out smoke
twin pipes.
PEOPSIE in chapel HILL ARE
Lng,.^ore and more for their
[frin^faents on local parking
Llati&s. Receipts from one dol-
tickets alone were up about
during the last fiscal year
Ta record total of $4,593. The
ifcord jf collections is not too
iaybe 60 or 70 per cent—
even this percentage ha.s im-
id since the installation of the
■mail return envelope system
le police department.
fTHE [DURHAM MERCHANTS
itrol—a private police firm to
ptect Inerchants’ and industrial
opcrt3t. considering expand-
ils. service to Chapel Hill. Its
ctor, L. V. Craddock, has
to interested merchants and
fof the Merchants Associa-
about this and if enough in
fest develops they’ll begin oper-
ions here soon.
Carrboro Wafer Tank Going On Block
■ ]
27-Year-Old
Tower To Be
Sold Sept. 14
1*
Seri
Vter House
ig Razed
iThe Archer House area on S.
plumbia’ St. is now being razed ir
reparation for the construction of
le $2,500,000 Ackland Art Mu-
jum. Contract for the museum is
;heduled to be let in about 60
ays on completion of the drawing
f plans.
; N. Wj^erritt of Highway 54 has
ght the historic old Archer
is tearing it down from
e out. He’s to have it
y demolished by mid-
T^e three-sto:’ ■’ ■'■ame
took'its .name tfeoin Miss
rcher who ran a board-
there many years ago.
been a woman’s dormi-
most recently, the stu-
St registration office.
Cbl. Thomas Taylor, who bought
iq ^ old {Mayflower Club building
’ Brby the Archer House, has it!
Imost completely taken dov/n.
‘e Orange County Wildlife Club;
len [given the Archer Cottage
the ' two bathhouses on the |
jumbia St. trailer court:, and |
tofre-erect them on their lot
;oa.0^Iason Farm.
A landmark on the Carrboro sky-
line will fall shortly, when the
town’s 27-year-old water tank is
sold at public auction next month.
The 100,000-gallon storage tank
has stood empty and unused for
the past four years since Carrboro
began receiving its water directly
from the University Service Plant
lines that run from the filter plant
on University Lake Road to Chapel
Hill. Town Clerk Winslow Wil
liams said the 127-foot structure
will be auctioned off at noon .in
September 14 in front of the
Town Hall, which stands in the
shadow of the tank on Cobb Street.
“It’s still in good condition,”
said Mr. Williams today. “We’ve
had several parties interested in
buying it recently. It would serve
some town about this size quite
well.” Of course, one condition of
the purchase is that the tower be
removed down to its foundations,
in a specified number of days
Anybody who’s interested in
buying it, Mr. Williams added, may
come out and inspect it at any
time. They can even climb up and
look in it, if they want to at their
own risk. It’s estimated the cost of
removing the tank would be around
$2,500.
Just how much it might bring
through the auctioneer’s chant no
body would speculate. There
hasn’t been much of a market in
this product recently, it seems.
It’s quite feasible to move the
tank, local authorites point out,
since it could be completely dis
assembled niechanically and then
re-erected on a new site, piece by
..iCc'C.. > .
Durham Barn Burns
After Hit By Lightning
A single bolt of lightning falling ont of a light cloud
struck the dairy barn of Cirady \V. Durham, near Antioch
Church, Monday afternoon about 6 o’clock and burned it
to the ground.
About 1500 bales of feed were lost, but hickily no ani-
ml
4
mals were in the barn except a
calf, which was dragged out after
the fire had started. The total
loss amounted to several thousand
dollars. There was no insurance
and the barn, a big one measuring
60 X 20 feet, was not protected
against lightning.
Durham and his son, Gerry,
were within 100 yards of the barn
when the bolt fell. Flames burst
out almost instantly, the farm bell
was rung, and neighbors ran up
from every direction. There was
a strong smell of brimstone all a-
round the place.
The main barn could not be
saved, but a smaller milking barn
50 feet from the blaze was saved
by the help of a bucket and hose
brigade.
The Durham house, a substan
tial brick one, is about 10 miles
northwest of Chapel Hill.
This is the second loss of a
barn by lightning-set fire in this
area w’ithin the last two weeks.
A barn belonging to C.. W. andijjj
Shelton Merritt on the Smith Lev-'
el Road was lost recently in much
the same way.
Safety Award Is Given
To Town This Morning
The Town of Chapel Hill receiv
ed its third successive award for
a one-year pedestrian safety rec
ord of no fatalities in a special
ceremony in the Town Hall this
morning.
James Odom, director of the
Durham office of the Carolina
Motor Club, presented the certifi
cate to Mayor Pro-Tern P. L
Burch arid Chief of Police W. T.
Sloan in the presence of the police
department.
Today’s presentation was for the
year 1953. Actually last pedestri
an death in the town was in Octo
ber, 1941. The Town should also
soon receive its third National
Safety Council Honor Roll certif
icate for haing no motor vehicle
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TV TOWER-TO-BE—The hundreds of assorted cross-beams, girders, poles, and wires that wiil soon
be the 750-foot transmitter tower of Station WUNC TV lie on the ground at the transmitfar site on Ter
rell's Mountain in Chatham County eight miles southwest of town. In the background, looking in the
direction of Chapel Hill, may be seen th® work crew of the William Muirhead Construction Company
which is building the transmitter building. Work on erection of the tower will begin tomorrow.
News Leader Photo
TV Tower Erection Starts Tomorrow;
Job To Be Done In About 30 Days
Constructiun (if tlie ygS-foot tower for the University'»♦—
educational television station WUNC-T\^ will begin tomor
row a( the tran.sniitter site eight miles southwest of totvn.
I'he firm of Furr and F.rhvards of Ueorgia—specialists
weeks after being involved in a,
wreck on Strowd Hill.
c
Wouldn't Eat Honeysuckle
Danzigers' Goafs Back At Oafs
After Being Cornered By Posse
fatalities in the town during 1953.1 in transmitter tower erection —
1952 a man died about two will do the job. It is expected to
: be completed in 30 days. This
week the company is finishing e-
‘ recting the tower for WBTW in
Pdorence, S. C.
Erection of the tower for the lo
cal station promises to be one of
the most interesting phases of the
whole setting up of this new Con
solidated University program ,
sembling the hundreds of tower
pieces, which are already on the
grounds there. Then they’ll erect
it in 20-foot sections at a time..
Finally they will put on the 83-
foot metal pipe-like spire and baf
fle at its top.
Hilltop Cleared
The entire hilltop has been scar
ified for the erection off the build-
■WANTA SSUY
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Eight Going For Annual Duty
With 30th Infantry Division
Eight Chapel Hill National
Guardsmen will leave this week
end to go on two weeks’ active
duty with the 30th Infantry Divi
sion at Ft. McClellan, Ala.
ly Sanatorium staff will be the i
division finance officer for North
Carolina.
The division will spend th'-ce
, days in field exercises and the rest
Master Sgt. James L. Perry and j of its time on the post. The local
men train with the 30th Division
in Raleigh every Tuesday night.
Capt. Lar^ Marks, both of the'
g| Going Or Cominq?
Maybe you’re just about to
‘"yo (St your summer vacation. Or
“a^Tliapg. you’ve just come back.
Kdtn either case you’ll probably
hifnave, or will soon have, some
„food photos to help you remem-
the occasion in yea^s to
\ ■ These pictures can earn you
% prizes in the Neios Leader’s am-
!:,\aleur '^oto contest, now going
ipTi for [all camera fans in Or-
^fnge County. There are three
\l% categories — Scenes, People,
Animals — and most every
^hoto •will fall in one classifica-
i
"^atries may be left at Fois-
» jLCa)(nera Store or left at or
Ped [to the News Leader Of
e.'First of the three contests
^ closes next Thursday.
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Gi
H :^ S P I T A L I Z E D
tp^y's register of patients
MMemorial Hospital includes
iSs Linda M^harton, Betty J.
flliamson, Mrs. John M. MTlkin-
■t.C. Vickers, James E. Tripp,
i and Mrs. Charles C. Suggs,
■Ron E. Maynor, Lillie C. Jones,
l^rs. Bessie Foushee, Jeff Fou-
feee, Mrs. J. H. Bussey, Mrs. Lu-
th« Atwater.
Chapel Hill Post Office staff, leftj
this morning to join the division
headquarters staff in preparation
for the North Carolina-Tennessee
outfit’s annual training period. Six
more men will depart on Sunday.
Altogether there are about 10,000
men in the division.
Sgt. Perry is in charge of the i
division headquarters post office
and will have two other Chapel
Hill men under him during the
exercises. They will be Corporals
Cecil and Pete Riley. Capt. Marks
is in G-4, the division headquar
ters transportation and supplj
section. Working in this same sec
tion wil be Sgt. Jessie Riley.
Sgt. Dan Leigh will be ir. the
Inspector General’s department of
the division headquarters. Pvt
James Reed in the division finance
section, and Pfc. Pat Webb will be
secretary to chief of staff, Col
Ivan Hardesty of Raleigh. First
Lt. William H. Ennis of the Gravt-
Four other national guardsmen,
members of the 3624th Ordinance
Company, left last Sunday for two
weeks’ training at Ft, Bragg. They
were Dale Dollar, Bobby Cheek,
Bill Kilpatrick, and Charles Best.
The Ted Danzigers’ three goat*
,1are back again at their Ualvaja.'
I er farm, contentedly eating up
the oats crop, after a monlh-
I long excursion tAat ended in
I Tom Vickers’ fish pond last
week.
S. 11. Basnight gave the Dan
zigers the animals last fall for
the purpose of eating up the
honeysuckle that was running
wild over their property. After
a while Mrs. Danziger allowed
them to run loose and the goats
turned their diet sirictly '.,u uie
tastier oats. From that time on
the owners could never catch
them again, and about a month
ago all three disappeared.
a,
from' the layman’s point of view.
But few persons will get a chance
to be sidewalk superintendent on
the job because of the relative re-
' motenes'-' of the site. As a matter
the: ariimals. All . of'this consider- 'i oi : tacl-tiitr supar.visors of the proj-
ably disrupted the activities of lect are just as glad of this, since
Mrs. Milton Julian who, attired Ithey’re wary of any accidents hap-
attractively in a white bathing ,pening to some bystander during
suit, was sitting quietly by the [the ticklish job of putting up the
pond fishing when the hullaba- I huge tower for the 100,000 watt
!; .floundering i.nto th' water after
thp nCiImSts Alt of'this cnnsirler- '
Then last week Mr. Basnight
spotted the three wanderers out
I near his farm on the new Greens-
' boro highway, and notified Mr.
i Danziger. On Wednesday a.Uer-
j noon a posse of people and dogs
I was organized to track down the
goats. They found them , all
right, but couldn’t catch ’em.
Finally the dogs ran the. goats
into Mr. Vickers’ fish pond on
the University Lake-Graham high
way road.
loo descended on her. IThe goats
kept swimming toward her, but
before they reached her Bill
Mudd jumped into the water,
clothes and all, and hauled out
one animal. Sam Bynum and
Mr. Vickers’ son, Tommy, waded
in and got the other two, which
were near exhaustion.
Mr. Danziger said they had
no trouble in tying the animals,
then and returning them to their
oats pasture.
! station.
ing and the tower. And in three;
directions most of the way down
the hill swaths have been cut out'
of the forest for the network of ^
guy wires that will hold up the.,
tower. These 15 thick steel cables ,
—five in each direction—wiircom-l'
pletely hold it up and the base
will serve only as the point on
which it’s balanced.
The erectors are confident that
once they get it in place the struc-
? tnre will stay put. Each series of
i guy wires will be anchored in a
I base of 38 tons of solid poured
' concrete buried about 10 feet in
the ground.
Meanwhile on trie TV program
ming front, Director Schenkkan
reports the “dry run” closed cir
cuit telecasts that have been con
ducted here for the past two
Efficiency Stressed
At Business Institute
Increasing the efficiency of jgjigcj. The entire building job will
Credit Bureaus, in order to dimin-, pj-obably be done only a few days
Town Should Be Visible
■When clearing of land is com
plete. at the site on top of Ter
rell’s Mountain, just over the
Chatham County line, a visitor to
the transmitter should be able to
see town from there. The hill it
self is 750 feet high, and it’s a
steep 200-foot climb a quarter-
mile from the road to its summit.
Work on the transmitter build
ing itself was started about a
week ago by the William Muir
head Construction Company, but j they’ll be resumed in Chapel
this job will be halted in about
j an another w'eek until the work of j
, erecting the tower, which will be \ —: —
! right beside the building, is fin-
MRS. MARY LOVeJoY
Mary Lovejoy
Will Become
Town Clerk
Mrs. Mary Lovejoy will succeed '
Mrs. Dorothy Durham Hrabak as
;Town Clerk on Monday.
I Mrs. Hrabak, who succeeded
'Mrs. Helen Giduz a little over a
weeks have been completed lor ,
the time being. These tests are i ^ J2ck.son-
going on at the Woman’s College'^
this week and will be carried out
at N. C. State next week. After
I ish misunderstandings between
before the hoped-for date of the
j merchant and credit customers, regular broadcasts of the sta-
was stressed at Tuesday’s sessions i tion in early October, according to
i of the Credit Bureau and Mor- ] Consdlidated University TV Di
chants Association Management rector Robert F. Schenkkan.
The pursuers descended on Institute meeting at the University ] The erecting crew will spend its
the pond en masse, the dogs [this week. first week on the site in just as-
Thomases Say They Will Confinue Legal Fighf
For Indefinife Period Of Time; To Sfay Here
I Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. I matter. Then the hearing wasn’t' study certain financial irre.eulari-
.LENDAR
IVENTS
|ursday, August 12
l^im.—Free movies, Carr ill
r V
J,,Friday, August 13
- Splash party, Kessing
Square dance, “Y” Court,
ay, August 15
-Community Sing, Cra-
norial.
Aonday, August 16
Experimental Plays,
Ifers’ Theatre.
Jaycees Will Condue
Emergency Polio Drive
Orange County will cooperate
in the nationwide emergency
March of Dimes drive this month
through a local fund campaign
to be staged by the Chapel Hill
Jaycees.
E. Carrington Smith, campaign
chairman for the county chap-er
of the National Foundation For
Infantile Paralysis, said that con
tributions could be sent right
away to C. W- Gardner, dr^ -3
treasurer. Box 70, Chapel Hill.
Mr. Smith noted that the Central
Carolina Convalescent Polio
Hospital in Greensboro was
$100,000 in debt now and would
not be able to meet its payroll
this month unless the emerg
ency drive was successful.
IThe Jaycees’ plans for the U-
cal campaign wil Ibe announced
shortly. _
“PROFF" KOCH
Biography Of Koch
Being Published Here
“Frederick H. Koch: Pioneer
Playmaker” is the title of a bi
ography that will come from the
Orange Printshop in a few days.
The authors are Samuel Selden,
university professor of dramatic
art, and Mary T. Sphangos,
school teacher of Smithfield. It
will he published by the Library
Extension Department of the
UNC library, and will be avail
able in two forms, paper bound
for $1.50 and clothbound for $3.
Included will be contributions
from several writers, including
Archibald Henderson, Hubert
Heffner, Paul Green, Cornelia
Love, and Jonathan Daniels.
Thomas, the two fired professors
who are suing Catawba College,
; said today that they plan- to c-jn-
jtinue their ‘legal fight indefi-
I nitely. | pear when invited to a trustee
The Thomases earlier this week; meeting, Mr. Thomas said that he
lost the first round of their .sui'.
even conducted on campus but in I ties. I was asked my opinion liy
a hotel.” I the chairman of this committee,
Referring to Mr. Lynn’s state- Rev. Milton Faust. He told me it
ment that the Thomases didn’t ap- would be in confidence.
“I told Rev. Faust that I thought
the college needed a change of
Carrboro Sewer
Project Aired
The pending sewer line exten
sion projects on the Hillsboro and
Graham highways and along Pine
Street were the main topics of
discussion by the Carrboro com
missioners Tuesday night.
The contract for this job is to be ! pa^ and the Ohio B
husband, Donald Hrabak, who is
employed there by the Souther
land - Greene Electric Company.
Mrs. Lovejoy, a native of War
ren, Ohio, has lived here the past
four years. She and Mr. Lovejoy
live on the Hillsboro Road. She
has been working with Mrs. Hra-
bak for the past two weeks, - Until
recently she was secretary to
housekeeping at Memorial Hospi
tal
The Lovejoys came to Chapel
Hill through the influence of hei
younger brother, Woodrow Jervis,
who works for Dean Berryhill at
the Medical School. Mrs. Lovejoy
is a graduate of Edinborough St.
Normal Collpge in Edinborough,
usiness In.sti
college documents. The
teachers’ attorneys, Barney P.
Jones and W. R. Dalton of Burl
ington, appealed the decision.
Mr. Thomas today challenged
several statements that Stable
Lynn, attorney for the college,
made this week at the hearing.
Mr. Lynn said that the Thomases
had a full hearing at the college
two years ago before they were
didn’t go because “the trustees administration. That was used
had already made up their minds.” j against me,” Mr. Thomas said.
He added that “after having a' “We weren’t discharged for any-
taste of their methods at the hear- thing we did but for things we
when Orange County Supeiior
Court Clerk E. M. Lynch ruleij
they were not entitled to certain •, „ i •,
music we knew what to expect.” ] said, he said.
T. • 1. 1 i J- I No Alternative
Pointing back to the proceedings, alternative hut
Which ultimately resul ed m his
dismissal for alleged “disloyalty
awarded Saturday. It’s expected
the work will be completed by
winter. About 50 households will
receive sewer service through thi.s
project, which will give the town
4,700 feet more of sewer lines.
The commissioners also out- .
lawed U-turns at all of the town’s P^^tment of Chemistry of the Uni
versily, will be among the 31
tute in Warren, Ohio.
Arthur Roe Is Going
To G.E. Conference
Arthur Roe, chairman of tbo Do
traffic light intersections, in light
of several near accidents at these
places.
Town Clerk Winslow Williams
reported on the progress of the
current $3,000 street paving pro
gram. now being completed on the
Old Pittsboro Road. The job will
be done by this weekend or early
i next week.
to the college administration, Mr.
Thomas cited the two occasions he
said his opinions were requested.
Invited To Give Opinion
“At a faculty meeting I was
invited by the chairman, along
with the rest of the faculty, to
will
guests of the General Electric,
I Company at a conference of chem-
! istry and chemical engineai ing
teachers from leading Ameri.-ian
colleges and universities to be hold
Sept. 8-11 .in New York State.
The aim of the conference is to
acquaint outstanding teachers of
chemistry with the work in this
field
BARBERS TO HEAR ERVIN
fired. The former professor con- opinion on some finan-
tended today that the hearing was! cjai difficulties that occurred at
conducted more like a trial th;in Catawba. I said that Dr. Keppel
the only way we’ll get full jus
tice,” he added.
Although they are receiving uo
outside financial aid, accordirg to U. S. Senator Sam J. Ervin of
Mr. Thomas, they plan to continue, Morganton will be the principal
their suit again.st the Salisbury | speaker at the annual convention
liberal arts school for what they i of the Associated Master Barbers
term a “tortious, malicious and of North Carolina, to be held in
a hearing.”
Hearing In Hotel
“We asked for a public hearing,
but Dr. A. R. Keppel (Catawba
should come before us to .explain
fraudulent” discharge. Meaniime,
Mr. Thomas said, they will wait
I out the suit here in Chapel Hill.
We’re still finding it quite hard
the matter. This was later called to find a position because of the
being disloyal.
“Then an alumni
fact-finding
president) said it was a cariipus, cornfti'ittee cariie to the coUc-ge to
way we’ve been treated. The only
way we can be compensated is by
Catawba,” Mr. Thomas said.
Greensboro September 5, 6, 7.
He will address the morning
session on Monday, September 6.
This and some other features
of the program were announced j
today by Y. Z. Cannon, Chapel i
Hill, public relations chairman j
for the association.
M.ostly sunny with moderate ;
temperatures today. Partly
cloudy aivsti cool tonight. Partly
cloudy arid warm tomorrovr.
Expected low tonight, lew 60's.
Expected high tomorrow, near
90.
High Low Rain
Monday ........ 87 71 .00
Tuesday ........ 88 67 .05
Wednesday .. 87 63 .90