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^wspaper Service toial 8444 I Office: , (street, Carrboro 0. i. Ttmamn Co. KoaiBoatli, m. APEL Hill News Leader Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas Revolution How is a revolt an.swered? With guns. Why? See editorial page for views of our editor. Five Cents The Copy CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1955 $4.50 The Year By Mail EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUE ritii e!h iOPLE I; Brief j SRITTAIN, EXEC- Btary of the Chapel Hill ^ed Cross, is now at- fte flood relief head- Jin'tlie Hotel Taft in New fconnccticut, and is carry- Idutles in Ansonia, accord- \ yef message from her f at the local Re'd Cross of- 1 weekend. She’ll be there j Lefinite period and in her ; JjrfA. P. Hud.son. her as- j Iwill’iact a.s executive .see-; I I GRICE RETURNED TO ^eral days ago after his ^ work as head of the jun-1 tp at Camp Mondamin in lutains. He and Mrs. Grice ; J daughter will leave I Jniorning for his new job lant football coach and : Ldfinstructor at Oberlin ^ Ohio. Practice for the Conference team won’t ^ptember 10 since their j,e lisn’t until October 1. ^ _^*the Chapel Hill H gh j Irlltots during practice the : , the ex-coach here pre- teyfd have a good season— |e lucky and aren’t plagued pps as they have been in 1 I BASNIGHT SUGGESTS ! [be(the only person inside | I HSl to have suffered | loperly damage from Hur- | Sin'e. The lig’it morning ijover a Iroe that fell on j j»e|and smashed a fence. | i| WANTED IM WILMING- Ic# rges of indecent ex- Iwill go on trial in Re- 1 Court tomorrow for pos- lofftscene photographs for I ofVl®' The court docket Jeroj Hufman, a printer 1 fort city, as possessing ) pictures of himself and linen' in what police termed Iposes. $1,500 Relief DriveSet By Chapel Hill Red Cross A goal of $1,500 for flood and hurricane relief has been set by the Chapel Hill Chapter of the American Red Cross, i Donations were coming in very well this morning, but more funds are still needed, according to Miss Elizabeth Branson, Co-Chairman I of the Chapter’s Di.saster Commit- I tee. She noted that a telegram from the national Red Rross of- I fice on Friday re-emphasized the i need in the $8,000,000 appeal, I which is being staged here on a ' purely voluntary basis. I Contributions will go for purely personal needs, rather than to duplicate funds being given by the j f^Ieral government, she said, add- ; ing that the money would go to hurricane-stricken areas of this state as well as the flooded areas in the northeast. Money is being received at the Banks of Chapel Hill and Carr boro and at the Red Cross office, ISSti- East Franklin Street. Miss Branson asked that all donations be made as soon as possible to meet the immediate need. She ex pressed her appreciation to Ra dio Station WCHL for its help in raising money for this' drive in a two-day downtown marathon broadcast last week. Autopsy Shows Tew Death Was Caused By Drowning Bylaws Being Drawn Up By Parking Corporation Members of the steering com--are still under way for the pur- : .W - «■ ■ -Q j RECORD GROWTH FOR LILIES—A spectacular growth of Wil- I son's Variety of Formosa Lilies, the longest of all known trumpet i lilies, has been raised by horticulturist William Lanier Hunt at his ^ expermentai garden. Ranging in height from 10 to 12 feet, they are I tailer than other lilies of this variety on record. Mrs. H. R. Totten and i Mrs. H. D. Crockford have also raised some unusually tali lilies in i recent years. The giant Formosas are one of the best lilies to raise in j Chapel Hill and are particularly desirable at this season of the year j v/hen few other fic.v/ers are in bloom here. Mr, Hunt said they can be I raised from seed planted in the house during the winter to bloom in I September of the same year. These Were grown in woods dirt and I ordinary soil, fed with bone meal. "When lilies are crown with good I care they'll do amazing things," said ^^r. Hunt. News Leader Photo j Evaluation Body Named For Community Chest | any questions that members of; the committee may have, and the! committee will prepare a report to the executive committee of the Community Council recommend ing the total Community Chest quota for the co.ming year and quotas for the individual partici pating agencies.” (See EVALUATION, Page 8) F-THE-WEEK—Clyde ir of Loyd's Esso and ice in Carrboro, has in as Driver-of-the- 'Hief of Police J. A. [e's driven an oil truck Id Chapel Hill for 13 a perfect record in [affic accidents and of- ive of Orange County, list and member of the Ins Club. He'll receive to the Varsity Theater f c-of-the-Week award. News Leader Photo Eight persons have been named to work under Chairman Roy Cole on the Community Chest Evaluation Committee for 1955-56. The committee, which receives and evaluates requests for Com munity Chest funds, will be made up of Mr. Cole and Gordon Perry, the Rev. W. E. Wilson, Roy Hoi- sten, Paul A. Johnston, Crowell Little, F. E. Strowd, John T. Mann ing and 0. K. Cornwell. Purpose of the committee, ac cording to an announcement from the group, is to ‘‘receive and evaluate the requests for funds from the agencies that plan to participate in the Community Chest during the coming year. ‘The committee will receive i written requests for funds, will i hold hearings at which repre- I sentatives of the agencies will pre- I sent their cases orally and answer mittee of Chapel HilT.s newly- organized parking corporation met I this afternoon to perfect the group's legal set-up. Meeting with Herb Wentworth, organizer of the group, and at torney Emery B. Denny Jr., they reviewed the lengthy bylaws that are to , be presented to the in corporators of the firm, chartered by tile state earlier this month. Mr. Wentworth said the committee would report to the larger group at a meeting to be held in a few days. fie. added that considerabie in terest seems to have been created among downtown businessmen in the prospect of setting up the off- street customer parking lot, but that no further solicalalions for 1 membership in the corporation i have been made yet. Negotiations SCHOOL ENROLLMENT Children not already enrolled in Chapel Hill Schools should report to the principal of their respective schools by Wednes day, according to an announce ment this morning. The an nouncement said such students may report between 9 a.m. and noon. "It is important," said the announcement, "that this matter be attended to on. time so that classification and schedules can be arranged before the opening of school on September 7." chase of a suita!)le piece of prop erty, probably in the fh’st block of East Rosemary Street, where the lot could be set up, according to Mr. Wentworth. Church Council Planning Two New Programs The Chapel Hill Council of Churches is looking into two pro grams for the near future. At a recent, meeting of the Council, Mrs. Robert Mann was appointed chairman of a commit tee to investigate chances of pro ducing a series of weekly inter-j GOLF CHAMPS—Winners of last year's first annual Chapel Hill Amateur Golf -Championships were Sob Watson (left), net winner, and Archie Meekins, gross winner. The tv/o-day tournament, open to anybody who lives or works in this community, will be st.iged at Finley Golf Course, under sponsorship of the Chapel Hill Jaycees, this coming Sunday and Monday. A good field of entries is aS'-eady reported in and blanks may be obtained at the clubhouse or at the daring' Town and Campus. The course will not be closed to the public during the tournament. News Leader Photo denominational seminars Lent nexi year. Mrs. Mann gave a re;)ort on similar programs car- by church groirpic in other! communities, J'he second plan calls for week-' ly meetings which would include, a meal, worship and possibly an outside speaker. A committee is now working on the project. Ac cording to one member, an ‘‘un- j Final pi'an.s for the Merchants i Little is to spealc to the more than known sponsor” has agreed to un- Association’s welcome for Caro- 1,300 new sUulents at a mass meet- derwrite expenses of such lunch-| lina students week after next were ing to be held during the student eons for the first year. j settled at a meeting of the Asso-1 orientation program on Thursday Student Welcome Plans Are Made By Merchants The Council met at the home of ciation’s special committee on this Dr. Waller Hartung, leader of the project on Friday, group. j Association President Crowell This Hoss Knew Where She Was Going Beauty Takes A 'Header Back Home HOSPiTALiZED I Today's register of patfents | I at Memorial Hospital includes | G. W. Farland, Mrs. G. K. G. Heniy, Mrs. W. E. Lawson, Her bert Lyde, Mrs. Bruce Martindale, Mrs. James R. Poole, Dr. Artnur Prange. Miss Frances Smith, Mrs. N. D. Taylor and Mrs. Wharton Gaul, "Beauty,” an 11 - year - old . at the C. D. Wilsons’ two miles, horse dodged into a yard, never saddle and work horse recently j east of town on the Durham boule- j slowing down. purchased by Clyde Hewitt of, vard. | Again she eluded pursuers, dart-- Carrboro, took a fast trot back to I With each passing block the i mg through the John Lasley yard her old homestead j'csterday after- j pursing posse grew larger. Billy j and down into the Fred Weavers noon, stopping traffic along the i Hewitt, leaning out a car window highway and sending a half-dozen j with a lasso in hand, led the line, pursuers on a vain cowboy lasso- j futilely calling to and trying to rope his fleeing animal. Sticks To The Left Straight past the Town Hall and down East Rosemary she ran, at times far ahead of her pursuers. ing chase. The gate at the Hewitts’ pasture, where Mr. Hewitt’s son Billy, had put the animal, was somehow left open momentarily about 2 p.m. and “Beauty” took a headlong dash through it, and straight east ward down Main Street through Carrboro. Unerringly she streaked along at a 25-mile an-hour clip onto West Rosemary, obviously headed for her old home pasture and John Uinsteads before getting back on the main track homeward on East Franklin. Time and again various cars in llic honking, screeching procession would get ahead of "Beauty” and she’d turn to the side momentari ly, only to doggedly head back on Sticking to the left hand side of road. the street or the left sidewalk, the horse effectively stopped all on coming traffic. A man on East Rosemary stood in the middle of the street waving his hands to! Strowd Hill Circuit On Sti'owd Hill she took a quick turn around Mrs. M. J. Dawson’s house, across to Whitehall and around the Holloways, and back hall the animal. The home-bent “P Wilbur Kutz residence before clipping off down the Dur ham Road across Bolin Creek bridge. By the time the pursuers reach ed the city limits they were ready t.) admit defeat, and fell jn behind the horse to follow her back to the Wilsons. Once at home .she stood by the pasture fence and nuzzled her master, panting pro fusely. Mi‘s. Wilson came out to see what the commotion was all about. “Why you didn't neeci to go calling to her and trying to chase her down,” she said. “If you’d of just picked up a bucket and hit on the side of it she'd of come right away. ‘Beauty’ just got .scared.” evening, September 8. The merchants of Chapel Ilil! will personally welcome the new comers during orientation week with open houses, free gifts, and other promotions in their stores. Joe Roiibins, Chairman of the Trade Promotions Commillee un der which this project [s being organized, said a central informa tion booth will be .set up for the students downtown on the after noon they’ll visit in the local stores. Maps of the comm\inity and special “Welcome Students” news papers will be given to them at the booth. During this afternoon they'll al so be guests of both local theaters if they wish to go to the movies. Banners will be put up on store.s to welcome the students and in vite them in, and a special contest staged, 'ibis will be a scrambled word contest with the various let ters in words of the sentence being on cards in store windows. Pi'izes of $10, $5, $3, and $2 and 10 one- (See WELCOME. Page 8) Th ree Youths Jailed By Sheriff Clayton .Mrs. Maitlie\vs Tew, the ;'()-year-oll Durliani wo man wliose l)0(lv \\.is found' lloaiiiig ta(e downwaxi in an OraiTge Teinnix lake last A\’ed- nesday morninf>-, died from 'iron ning'. i his fact, amid scores of Irnniois a'nd hits of misinfor mation, previoii.sly printed, was disclosed today by SherifI O. 11. i Clayton at Hillsboro upon receipt of the autopsy report presented by Dr. Margaret C. Swanton, Memor ial Hospital patliologist. Dr. Swanton’s report unequi vocally listed the cause of death: drowning. Pointing out that some phases of the oomplete autopsy had not been finished, the report emphasized that these would ha\e no effect on the final conclusion of the cau.se ot death. The report, further, referred to Die bj-uises and their irrele\'anee to llie cause ot death. Three Being Held Three teen-age bojs of Durham are being held in Or:mge County jail at Hillsboro as tin investiga tion is bein.g continued by Sheriff Clayton and the State Bureau of Investigation. On the advice of Solicitor Wil liam 11. Murdock, who quesiioned tlie- trio Saturday night, they arc being held witlioul privilege of bond. No warants have been sworn out. The arre.slod young men are: Otis Donald Wadford, 19. 1204 Morning Glory Ave., a service sta tion attendant. Donald Hugh Hargis, 18. Route 5, Roxb;)ro Road, a service sta tion attendant. Kenneth Leroy King, 17. 1109 Woi'tli Street, li.sted as unemploy- ed. No decision on a time for reeon- veiiing the Coroner's jury to dis- po.se of this pha.se of t'le investi gation has yet been nnide. Admit Orgy Investigation lluis fai has di.s- eiosed that ilie woman was picked up by the y!)uthful trio in Iront of llic Durliam County Courthouse around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and carried to Clearwater Lake. Ad- mis.sions by l!ic trio also itidicale that a sex orgy of considerable proportion.s also took place before thev left her at the lake, reported ly at 2 a.m. Wednesday alter she refused to return to Durham with them. The body was discovered by two Durham men, Bill Warren and Hill man Riec, Wednesday morning about 11:45 when they went there for a swim. Partly cloudy, with some light rain this evening, .with low to night near 70. Tomorrow, fair to partly cloudy and warm. Expect ed high Tuesday, mid-80s. High Low Rainfall Thursday 80 63 .00 Friday 81 62 .00 Saturday 87 06 .00 Sunday 87 67 .00 4 it
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