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BACK! STUDENTS Disi Monmouth, Ill. Office: ain Street, Carrboro HAPEL Hill News Leader Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas Welcome, Indeec^! Carolina students started back to classes today. With this “Wei- come Students” edition the News Leader sends its wishes for a pleasant stay “on the Hill.” Five Cents The Copy CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1955 $4.50 The Year By Mail SIXTEEN PAGES THIS ISSUE Durham Negroes Now Freshmen At Carolina {OPLE In Brief As Rivets Are Removed TOWN'S TRAFFIC CLERK, rederick Howdy ,is now hold- w^ants (it was just feight me!) do send any day now lonsdvlio have accumulated or niorc one-dollar parking and haven’t paid ’Cm. If all^erved there’ll be some rtspectabie folk hcre- who’ll be visited by a law sodh—perhaps at an em- ing foment — and served formal notice to appear in (order’s Court here. E.xpen- id uhnecessary. CHAPEL HILL EXCHANGE las its school-by-telephone lent f available for use this rsome public school student confined to iiis bed this Billy Blake., .son of Police id (Mrs. Bill Blake, kept i his classes at Carrboro Sis frig, made available k the E.xchangeitesj, Anjyv |cnows where there’s a leedifor this may call Club int Pat Hope. | Carrboro Is Losing Ifs Water Tank In Piece-By-Piece Removal Operation WAY PATROLMAN ED on had aji unusual hit-and- leident call this week, dt was ind a mute—with the mule the hit-and-ninner. The old ^ B i^esh from plowing a to-' field fand was being tied at •n irfien he bolted and fled country road. At a nearby lion he ran slam into an ig about .?200 damages tar,Although the mule kept in going Patrolman Robin- I's there'll be no charges in se! LE jfHE COPS WERE PA- a i^ai street recently they a ypung Negro boy on his uy@g what appeared to be “white” liquor right out open,'‘They stopped him and said his mother had ■ sent get it at a nearby woman’s The [Case was tried in court women being charged with oting to the delinquency of — but nol prosscs was AY RITCHIE, IMPRESSARIO hook Ex, asked if Colorado’s kay Ritchie-—the new Miss a-were any kin to him, ■oady answer. “Sure she is,” proudly, “by my Uncle The Tov/n of Carrboro was losing its 28-jnear-old water tank today in a methodical picce-by- piece operation. The 127-foot-high tower, un used for the past five years since the town hooked into the Uni versity’s water system, was sold on the auction block a year ago yesterday to R. E. McLean of Gas tonia, a regular dealer in water tanks. Town authorities were delighted at the .?3,250 price the tank bi'ought in spirited bidding between Mr. Lean and a Dunn candy manufacturer. In the interim since he bouglit it Mr. McLean has been looking for a re-sale of the tank before tearing it down, however he said this week as he began the actual removal operation that he would take it to his plant in Gastonia for re-conditioning befoie erect ing it again. The 100,000-gallon structure is in pretty good shape, he said, except for a few of the side plates of the tank itself and sections of the central donn- spout. To tear it down, the McLean crew has raised an upright steel span, known as a “basket pole,” lip through the center of tlie tank, and individual sections, are lowered away on a cable from this as they fall cut'wliefl the rivets are removed. Each piece has been prcviou.sly labeled in large painted letters to facilitate the re-erection. Com pletion of the removal operation will take at least another week, according to Mr. McLean, and tiie job will cost several times more than the second-hand purchase price. Mrs. Jane Whttefield Is On Job Rart-Time I Mrs. Jane Smoak Whitefield to- ' day began her duties as new Exec- i utive Secretary of the Merchants I Asociation, but on a part-time ba- I sis. j Since her successor as book keeper at Pritchard-Little Motor Company has not yet begun work she will be at the Merchants As sociation office only in the after noons, until October 1. She will be assisted in both the* Merchants Association and Credit I Bureau offices by Mrs. Celeste Austin, the present full-time assis tant secretai’y. Five Offerings Are Scheduled By Playmakers Judges Refuse State Request To Stay Order ENTERING CAROLINA—Shown as they left South Building where they were admitted as Uni versity freshmen yesterday afternoon are (left to right)'Negro students Leroy Frasier, 17, John Lewis Brandon, 18, and Ralph Frasier 18, all of Durham. They'll begin commuting from Durham to attend classes with 1,300 other first-year students today. Town Buys Delinquent Tax Property DELAYED EDITION CARRBORO'S TANK ... Coming Down . . . Two foreign plays, a Shake speare comedy, and a new play will highlight this season’s pro-, gram for The Carolina Playmakers. I be Town of Chapel Hill^ The thirt.y-eighth season open-'TMii ’Pi'operty with a valua-^ yeati' \Vitli a Iranslatibn frbm the $8,077.26 from 175 dclin-j French of Giraudoux’s “Ondinc”, j Persons in the ior- which appeared recently on Broad-1 yearly sale of property for un- w'ay with Audrey Hepburn and Mel P^'^^ taxes this week. ^ Ferrer in the leading roles. The According to the legal machin- Playmakers will produce the fan- auction sale, held by, tasy in the Playmakers Theatre, Collector Mrs. Ruth Ward in October 12 to 16. j Town Hall on Monday, the Wildcats, looking greatly improved “The Rainmakers”, a comedy by | "Y'own bid in the amount of the in heavy drills this week, will face N. Richard Nash, will be the tour j item as Mr.s. Dunn tomorrow night in their first production of the season, playing called R off. However, no home contest. Kick-off time at the at the Playmakers Theatre from turned out for the legally- Carrboro Lions Park is 8 p.m. s. 1-^ November 9 to 13 before touring ^^dvertised sale, and if they had Season tickets for the five home , Carroll, or Tommy Burns. I the Carolinas and Georgia. “Blood, Obey’d have run into a two-year games are still on sale Uirough j Reserve back Jimmy Freeland Wildcats Are -Primed For First Home Contest The Chapel Hill High School , lor sustained a broken nose in a heavy practice session at the Lions Park Tuesday afternoon when he was accidentally kicked in the face. His substitute for tomorrow’s game will be Paul Cheek, Sammy The publication of this “Wel come Students” edition of the News Leader, coupled with the press of other printing activities at the News, Inc., has forced a slight unavoidable delay in the HOSPITALIZED Today's register of patrents at Memorial Hospital includes Mrs. William D, Basnight, Mrs. i W. W. Batchelder, Frederick O. will be out a couple of weeks, too, as a result of a broken ankle, also morial Hall, March 2 to 4, follow- delivery of this issue. To our car- Bowman, Ida Mae Fikes, Miss Ella 1 ed by a new play, March 22 to 25 ^RHLE will ENACT THE the late Prof. Horace H. K injitonight’s NBC broad- “The Eccentric” at 8:30. ipt was written by Ehle, and Won will direct. It belongs ^erican Adventure’ series * setting national radio at- TM WiWlliams was the ''tapookby the late Judge called “The Gadfly of and was one of the and to our readers, your patience.” “Thanks for I Wedding”, Lorca’s modern Span-! of legal intricacies before civic club members for $3.00. The ish tragedy of heredity and family ) c^onid get a clear title to the single game admission price is $1. clash, will be presented at the i P™Pc^i’ty after buying it. j Coach Bob Culton said today j suffered in Tuesday's practice. Theatre December 12 to 16. | practical purposes the that his boys appeared better pre- i Richard Gunter, the Wildcat’s The Spring semester begins 1 delinquencies will stay on the pared for this weeks contest after sturdy center, has been out with with the musical version of the books in the names of the property concentrating on fundamentals of famous Booth Tarkington novel of j u'^uers, with penalties continuing pass defense and working on get- adolescence. “Seventeen”, at Me- accrue. Yesterday a local at- ting their offense moving. The torncy came in to the Town Hall Wildcats dropped their opener at to try to purchase one of the delin-, Sanford last Friday, 6-0. ! quent properties, not realizing the ' However, the team will be with- 1 , , , , , , out the services of first string end . .. . . _ i i Wayne Poe this week, and perhaps j Dr. Arthur J. Prange, Mrs. Richard ! Midsummer-Night’s Dream”, staged ^be total of unpaid taxes is only for another week. The lanky jun- E. Richardson and Louis Leon ; with song and dance at The Forest j a little over five per cent of the — I Thurstone. rier boys we say, “Thank jmu for | C. Johnson, Ernest King, Mrs. , to be selected by the Playmakers your bearing with the situation,” i flrady Lloyd, Allen Merrill Mason, I staff. The final production of the Floyd Pearce, Mrs. James R. Poole, | season wall be Shakespeare’s “A a virus infection this week, but it’s expected he’ll be ready for ac tion tomorrow. Coach Culton said he expected to field about the same starting team tomoiTow' as he did for the opening game, with the possible exception of a couple of line changes. ' Theatre, May 4, 5, and 6. i $150,293 tax scroll for 19.54. Spectacular Fire Destroys Wrecked Hunt House lous teachers of his day. September 15 J’ ro- Chapel Hill High [pep rally, Rec Center. „ "Peent Graduates A.A.U.- pepal Parish House. Football — Lincoln vs. JyPilLions Park. P'y, September 16 I John Harris,, speaker; [Chiirch Hut. Jl^ish New Year ser- UeP House, |otball — Chaepl Hill pns Park. September 18 f'nopolitaii Club, Uni- Iry. pbiolic Women’s Guild ' I'lemorial. of- John Bright, lec- iHall, ^''entures in Playmak- fofs Theatre: |y. September 19 flakview Garden Club I Roland McClamroch, ffl Road. A spectacular fire of undeter mined origin destroyed the old abandoned Hunt House on the Lloyd Gardner property at the by pass and Durham highway inter section east of town early last evening. The blaze was discovered about 6 o’clock by passersby who felt they almost had the flames under control for a while. However, not having any equipment to battle j the blaze with they were soon forc ed to retire and watch the big tw'o-story frame house be eaten up , by flames that leaped 60 feet into j the sky. I Dr. Harrie Chamberlain, one of several early arrivals at the scene who fought the flames in a sec ond story bedroom, said that he telephoned in vain to the police department and tried to reach town officials in an attempt to get even a hand extinguisher, which he said wmuld have been sufficient to quell the flames in the early stages of the fire. Since the. house was located far out of towm the Chapel Hill Fire Department w'as not permitted to answer the alarm. However, town officials stated today that as a policy in the past they have al- low'ed a policeman or sheriff’s dep uty to take a hand extinguishei out of towm to a fire. In this case both 9 fireman and a sheriff’s dep uty eventually answered the call, i fraternity party last spring. The Sigma Chi fraternity, Robert G. but too late to be of assistance. building had been leased to the! Shelby of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Ridgefield Proposition Has Unusual Problems Unoccupied since it was moved | student group on May 6 and 7. ^ Ramon Yarborough of Bela Theta Ridgefield back to allow the construction of! Mr. Gardner, in a civil suit filed ’ p|’j D^elta^Thetl 1n of east side of the bypass highway their reply to presents several unusual problems summer, is seeking $3,000 the suit the students denied they to the Chapel Hill board of alder- Was allegedly wrecked during a damages from J. W. Knuff Jr., of had wrought damage to the house. «^on. Although the proposal xvas re- The requested annexation of the they suggested that their proposal development on the would be profitable to the town in the Durham boulevard, the house this "X; ported unfavorably by the board’s finance committee on Monday ev ening, a formal hearing on it has been called before the aldermen foi October 24. Tlie owners of the 20-acre tract point out that the annexation is completeily legai although their land doesn’t touch directly on the that it would add 250,000 in prop erty valuation to the town in the near futui'e. They offered to in stall the sewer lines in retuim for the eventual return of a maximum of $15,000 after the town assumed maintenance of them. Town Manager Thomas D. Rose, on the other hand, pointed out that difficulties would be encoun tered in giving satisfactory fire, police, and garbage collection ser vice 10 the area, since town ve- Tlie Erst Negroes to at tend the University of North Uarolina as freshmen in tlie i(i2-year liistory of tlie state University were this after noon foiTiially entered as stu dents here by Director of Ad missions Roy Armstrong. On advice of State Attorney General VV’. B- Rodman to President Harris Purks, Mr. Arm strong met with three Durlliam graduates of Hillside High School early this afternoon and put through their applications as stu dents. Tomorrow morning Leroy and Ralph Frasier and John Brandon will begin classes as lirst-year stu dents here, the only ones o-f their race among the 1,300-odd fresh men. They will commute from Durham to their classes here each day. Following a 45-minute confer ence with the Director of Admis sions in his South Building office —at which the PrasicTisi’ father was present^—the three went di rectly to Phillips Hall to take a mathematics placement test. The Frasiers will take General College courses preparatory to going into the School of Business Adminis- ti’ation. CONFERENCE THIS MORNING This sudden decision on the part of tlie University came after a conference of administration of ficials with the attorney general and a special trustees committee in Raleigh. Mr. Rodman formally which last Saturday ordered the Negroes’ applications be processed for a stay of execution of the or der. Shortly before 10 a.in. today, Mr. Rodman said. Judge Armistead Dobic telephoned him to say that he and the other two judges, after conferring by phone, had denied the request. He immediately ad vised the University to admit the trio il they were “educationally qualified.” In the meantime, the attorney general emphasized he would con tinue to “prosecute the appeal as diligently and effectively as we possibly can,” as ordered by the Executive Board of Trustees on Monday. County School Total Reaches 7,052 Students present town limits at any point, since both Ridgefield and the town limits border a public highway— US 15-01, the bypass highway. The “duckbill” of the eastern town li mits comes to a point where Bat tle Brook and Bolin Creek inter sect on the L. L. Vine property right at th inside edge of the by pass. About 200 feet to the north the Ridgefield tract begins and continues along the highway for hicies would have to drive over about 1.000 feet. HUNT HOUSE ABLAZE- -ABOUT 6:30 P.M. Photo by Milo Crawford ! The Ridgefield owners Wentworth, Bernice Ward, Bill Sloan and Wind Powell—have ask ed the annexation in connection with a proposal to install sewer lines and paved streets for the I first 25 of t le proposed 86-lot de- ! velopinent. In their presentation a mile outside the town limits on the Durham highway to reach the area that would be annexed. He and several aidermcn expressed an interest in bringing in this area together with Greenwood and pos sibly Glen Lennox and Oakwood, so that this entire area would be within the town. However the suggestion was made by the Ridgefield group that the latter areas, already having sewer lines and fire protection un- Herb der file newly-authorized Fire Dis trict, would not now be interested in annexation. to the aldermen Monday ev ening Meanwhile action is still pend ing on requests for annexation turned in during recent months from the Hidden Hills, Country Club, and Knolls neighborhood?. Enrollment for the first day of school in the Orange County sys tem totalled 4,310 — an increase of 124 over last year’s first day in the 11 schools. 2,742 were enrolled in six units of the Chapel Hill City adminis trative unit, giving the county as a whole a total of 7,052 in the public schools. Regular class schedules have proceeded smoothly throughout the first week and sliglit increases in attendance have been recorded since the opening. In the eight white schools of the county system there were 2,286 enrolled in the elementary grades and 489 enrolled in the two high schools for a total white school population of 2,775. In the three Negro schools, 1,182 were in elementary grades and 353 in the one high school. Cen tral at Hillsboro. Generally fair, slightly warm er today, tonight and tomorrow. Expected low tonight, 64. Ex pected high tomorrow in the low 80$. High Low Rainfall Monday 82 60 .00 Tuesday 77 57 .00 Wednesday 76 55 .00 .1 c ' f 1 il I ■ A