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—Newspaper Service ;‘,f';|Dial 8444 ’ Office: ^{Street, Carrboro iy Ci^APEL Hill News Leader Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas 77 Five Cents The Copy CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1955 $4.50 The Year By Mail Awaiting A Decision New waves of children are coming forward while the ques tion of school funds teters back and forth between governmental bodies. See Page Two editorial. "eight pages this issue EOPLE In Brief jl40 LOCAL PEOPLE urgent greetings and I to meet with the state Iman here this Thurs- iMontague of Durham, jve of the N. C. De- Revenue, will meet ^.^iividuals in the Town i.'lfiust” and “confer” on its Income tax forms. IfcGINTY AND DR. CiaS played a mighty un game (cf tennis last week in ding iftheir long-postponed mat’* in Eastern Caro- 'ennis Tournament at Rocky ;It'i>vas raining when the quartet got together, so I than postpone again they up [their own improvised the junior high school Issin^ the ceiling tape for and volley ball standards met Though they lost the es to^el Sylvia and Dr. Fred jheyigot home all right — Bt a Short while before Hur- lone struck eastern N. C. CAST OF CHARACTERS |iie §igland Call,” Harnett ; Centennial pageant to be. [Buies Creek, October like a playbill for the Haymakers. In the lead 'F|ora Macdonald will be toriin Fitz-Simons. Robert s of Chapel Hill will take the f Allan Macdonald, her hus- llis^Josephine Sharkey will |a principal role, as wdll es.- Ifootball player Len Bullock |ene William.s. HAI^L HILL SCHOOL BUS buck [Friday morning about I. on (the Durham Road, but ivere no injuries and little |e Wcis done. Jack Lincoln i a i^tchmakcr who lives in n, \4as enroute to his work ifboqo when his brakes fail- ngjhirn to hit the back of ■ ^N,\^IVERSITY OFFICIALS E ing when John Moticy going to put up his ans were announced or the massive time je erected in •the mid- j|Morehead Planetarium Tot on East Franklin ^Sitfce then, South Building honed its lip whenever the N was mentioned. Vice-pres- [and [Finance Officer W. D. Sael of the Consolidated :sity, ‘Who seems to be the Kially in charge of the sun- las [nothing to say. South ! gossip says the architect’s Ffor ^he ornament have al- been drawn. Nobody seems hat’s holding up “pro- IWN OF CHAPEL HILL LAW ^Additional Gas Service For Suburbs Would Come By Line To Sanford % A 'Vciciiiiroirul gus service for j proposal, stating that they intend- of the highw'ay, Mi. Richmond tlie sulmi lo.s of (lhanel Mill is' to set up a $10,000,000 network said, adding that the extension to ‘ ‘ ' III of gos lines to serve all of eastern the southwest toward Morgan’s Creek would also put the gas com-, pany “in a position of being able to expand moi’C readily back to ward the town in the futuife.” m . -•. in prosixTt if the applicaiioii o( Public Service Company ol Richmond, Vice - Presi- Noii.i C-uolina to extend Public Service Com- natuial ttirs jiipeline south- jj^ Duiham this morn- ward to Sanford is appro\ ed. j ing_' that the new line to Sanford Gas service would be available a A bearing on the $3,000,000 I would run generally along the j considerable distance out from expansion program proposed by j U. S. 15-501 highway right-of-way. the main line, dependent on how' the gas company was recently held connecting wtih the newTy-install-1 many customers wanted it and before the State Utilities Com mission, and a decision on the matter is expected momentarily. The Tidewater Gas company of Wilmington, Fayetteville Gas Co. and Texas and Ohio Gas Company appeared at the hearing in op ed 10-inch gas main where it cross- how much they M'ould use. es the Durham bypass highway | At present there are about l,i' east.of town behind Glen Lennox. ' 000 gas customers in town, Mr. The line to Sanford would be an Richmond said. He added that eight-inch one. | about 80 per cent of the new homes Its installation would make gas being put up in this area wei-e' available to the residential areas ' tying in to gas lines' where possi- position to the Public Service ' all along the bypass on both sides ble. hiK -^1 Wildcats Play Loosely In Beating Northern; Campbell Stars In J4-6 Victory At Durham NEW YOUNG DEMOCRATS OFFICERS—William S. Stewart (left), outgoing President of the Orange County Young Democrats Clyb, congratulates his successor, William M. Alexander. Other new officers of the group, elected for the coming year, are Robert G. 'Windsor (second from left), secretary-treasurer; Charles B. Hod- son (right), first vice-president; and (not shown), Miss Betty Junes Hayes of Hillsboro, also a first vice-president; and Miss Ruth Priv- ette of Hillsboro, second vice-president. News Leader Photo Young Demoemfs Elect Alexander William M. Alexander of Chap- Miss Betty June Hayes, re-elected 1 and Merchants Association, el Hill has been elected President first vice-president; Charles B. ! The Club voted to have Hr delc- nf the Orange County Young Dem-! Hedson of Chapel Hill, also elect- j gates go uninstructed as to whom * ocrats Club, succeeding Chapel j ed as a first vice-president; sue-1 to vote for at this coming week-! Hill Recorder’s Court Judge Wil-1 ceeding Dr. Isaac Taylor of Chapel ; end state YDC convention in Dur-1 -liain S. Stewart. . 'Hill; Miss Ruth Privette of Hills-i ham. However the Orange didc-j Other new officers, chosen in boro, second vice-president; and gation will caucus there Friday: the g.oup’s annual elections meet- ^ Bob Windsor of Chapel Hill, sec-; to choose its candidates. | ing at the County Courthouse in retary - treasurer, succeeding Wil-[ Mr. .Alexander said the Club: Hillsboro on Friday nigiit, were liam Alexander. About 20 persons would concentrate on building up attended the meeting. j its membership during the com-: The new president is on the ’ ing year. Plans were tentatively | board of aldermen in Chapel Hill made at the Friday meeting to where ho i.'i Vice-President of the stage a candidates’ lally before the ' Village Broadcasting Company and , Demorcatic primary election next an active workev in the Jaycees , spring. Coach Kenfield Is Honored At Testimonial Carolina Tennis Coach John Kenfield was honored recently at a testimonial dinner given by j members of the Lake .Shore Coun-1 try Club near Chicago, upon his | retirement as summer tennis in- j structor there after 34 years in this capacity. i j u ^ i. The dinne.r, staged early t’nisT/^^rday by Orange County sher- month just before the Kenfields .eturned here, was attended by STARTS NEW LEGION HQ N. C. American Legion De partment Commander Paul Rob ertson went to Raleigh yesterday afternoon for the formal ground breaking exercise of the new $1)0,030 home of the Legion's state headquarters. He said that despite the rainy weather there was a good crowd on hand from all over the state. Commander Robertson, along with Gov. Luther Hodges and Building Committee Chairman Garland Bobbitt of Raleigh, turned the traditional first spade of earth at ihe ceremonies. "The rain made the ground good and soft," A . '^said Mr. Robertson. Two Prisoners Are iiecaptured !n Brief Chase Eariy Yesterday Two prisoners who Itroke out sheriff's men, already alerted to of Orange County Prison Camp the escape, then joined in search- and made their get-away in a pick-, ing for the stolen vehicle and spot- up truck were recaptured early ted it on the Orange Grove Road. During the ensuing chase the fleeing vehicle skidded into a Officers nabbed the pair after ditch and Deputy Burch Compton, I Mrs. Kenfield and their son. Jack, : a brief auto chase on the Orange driving immediately behind, slow- who is on the State College faculi j . u ^ i,-, « fi, * , a u ty. and who will take over his morning, a short while alter they truck. As he did Interracial Group Will Meet Thursday The Interracial Fellowship for the Schools will hold its first fall meeting on Thursday at 8 p.ni. in the Parrish House of the Chapel of the Cross. Purpose of the meeting as an nounced by the President, Dr. George Penick, is to discuss with Carl Smith and other represen tatives of the Chapel Flill School Board means for meeting local problems involved in complying with the Supreme Court ruling While they beat Northern High School of Durham County 14 to 6 ! in their opening conference game j of the season on Saturday night, i Chape] Hill High School’s playing wasn’t up to what it should have , been, according to Coach Bob Cuiten. “There was room for improve ment in our playing,” said the coach. “Actually it. was our poor est game of the sea.son. The boys’ let down during the week’s prac tice. Our defensive work W'asn’t what it chould have been and we [ also could have made mental mis takes.” However the WTldcats were clearly the winners of the game, both in score and statistics, scor ing a touchdown each in the first and third quarters and a safety in the last period. This Friday even ing the Southern High School of Durham County will meet Chapel Hill here at 8 o’clock in the Carr- boix) Lions Park. Toughest break of the game was the losing of Co-Captain Clyde Campbell for the season. The speedy halfback sustained a brok en clavicle when he was tackled as he caught a pass in the second quarter. Coach Culton tagged him as “the team’s best runner and a (See WILDCATS, Page 8) FIRST OUTSTANDING PLAYER—First Chapel Hill High School player to receive a weekly gift certificate during- the footbaf) seeson from Station WCHL is Co-Captain Clyde Campbell, who was injured and knocked out for the season in Saturday' night's Wildcat victory over Northern High of Durham County. The outstanding player in each Chapel Hill game will be selected by a secret committee and will receive the gift certificate for the Town and Campus. At the end of the season the radio station will award a trophy at a banquet or all the players to the outstanding player of the season, as voted upon by members of the squad. News Leader Photo so ihe car be- father’s iob at the Country Club through prison bars at the hind him, driven by prison camp de-segregation and the public next ' summer. He assisted iiim a^d^^fde their escape.^The employee J^oe Alton Johnson, skid- schools. there this year. Mr. Kenfield will continue as coach of the Carolina tennis team. a job he’s held here for 28 years. About 175 persons attended the testimonial dinnei” for him at , two were Wallace Foster and Gray- ded into Compton’s car, causing Aon Davis. j slight damage'to both autos. Sher- Tliey stole a pick-up truck be-: iff Ode’ll Clayton returned the es- longing to James Rippey at his i sapees to the prison camp after service station near the prison they were captured at tne scene camp and headed south. The of the wreck. ' HOSPITALIZfcD Today's register of paifents at Memorial Hospital includes Mac Norwood Named ToScout Drive George (Mac) Norwood, Jr., bud- . from Efland and Charle.s Laiigs- get officer of Memorial Hospital | ton of Cedar Grove, and with a and Chairman of Finance for [ record of membership growth and Orange District of the Occonee-! program improvement that the ' chee Boy Scouts this week an- : Scouting movement in Orange I nounced that one-day finance County has experienced this year, I drives would be conducted in Carr [ we feel confident of public sup- and Efland on port for this citizenship training B organization which has contrib- ■ uted so much to the youth of our boro, Hillsboro October 4. Robert Exum, Jr., Homer B.: Boy Scouts are one of the Com [cement officers gathered many of the club members; ‘ "Tee'vM”! ‘“veai News teoc/ef Lensman A inner [loll Certificate from the |afety Council for hav- traffic deaths in the ' last year. H. P. Leigh- |eiiting the State High- [f Division, presented the f KCTOR PAUL ROBERTS ed to superior court the I'of the Chapel Hill Re- ^Oourl on Tuesday that he pcdjso and costs for viola- ' the local building code by Ny .leaving building ma- |ls out in the street on West- I Drije alter being warned to mem by Building Inspec- ■ h. ^iirch. ARTHUR TANNENBAUM ijboro, taking the new home Tuesday night, N at the right turn just ^ke and wrecked his ’51 pupe, piling into the letf- He ended up only a Tom where Brody Lloyd I [Edwards wrecked last ^0 photo on Page Four.) pen many wrecks at this the road aws opened :ago. Fitch, Donna Ward Huff, Ernest: munity Chests agencies of Chapel 1 communities,” Mr.* Norwood said. King, Louis Thurstone, Mrs.' Hill which will have its annual | He said that the budget for the presented him a purse gotten up ] rS„‘»iaTp”Sf" “ "" “ In Miss N.C. Picture Contest Mrs. Kenfield termed the din- rqj. second successive year | ner “a very touching occasion.” ; News Leader’s photographer She said "It was really a tremen- ^ prize in the Miss North dous tribute and meant a great Carolina Photo Contest, sponsored deal to all of us. Mr. Kenfield re- j^y Wilmington Jaycees. sponded to it with all of his usual paye Arnold of Raleigh, Miss poise, too.” North Carolina of 1956, served as sole judge of the 27 photographs submitted in the contest. All photos we;e made of her on the strand at Wrightsville Beach on the morning following her selec- Monday, September 26 tion as Miss North Carolina in 3:00 p.m. Garden Club, Institute Wilmington last July 16. of Pharmacy Auditorium. Miss Arnold selected as a S25 7:30 p.m. Sepical meeting of prize money runner-up winner the American Legion, Legion Hut. photo made of her by Roland 8-00 p.m. Women’s Auxiliary, Giduz for the News Leader. Last Church of the Holy Family I year the News Leader cameraman 8:00 p.m. Mary Martha Class of , won the $50 second pi ize in the Chapel Hill Baptist with Mrs. C. ' • Fletcher Whitted, Joe Brown, Mrs. W. W. Batchelder, Ward Lee Burn ette, Frank K. Cameron and Char les C. Edwards. drive early in November. j 12-county Occoneechee Council i.s “With the leader.ship of men I $147,000. There are no communi- like R. B. Todd in Carrboro, Ira ; Quotas, but rather each com- Ward of Hillsboro, Claude Lessig munity is asked to contact at least 15 per cent of their population and give those citizens an oppor tunity to contribute. Chairman Norwood also said that Chapel Hill Scout leaders de sire to be full participating mem bers of the Chapel Hill Chest and had offered assistance with drive (f: Ml 'mi ms Y. Tilson, Route Two. Tuesday, September 27 1:00 p.m. Faculty Club Luncheon, Carolina Inn. 2:30 p.m. Junior Service League, Episcopal Parrish House. 7:30 p.m. Carrboro PTA, Carr boro School. 8:00 p.m. Grass Roots Opera, RRISON OF FOISTER'S [ore, with the backing of ‘^ts Association, is circu- tition among his neigh- chants asking the Town ‘6 dirt alley behind their i H®!!' Family. Town’s already invest!-1 '’,^11 Hall. getting ap- | Thursday, September 29 similar competition as judged by Miss North Carolina of 1955, Betty Jo Ring of Lexington. Winner of the $100 first place award this year was Harold Moore,; staff photografAer for the Dur-: ham Morning Herald and Durnam Sun. Lynch of Mebane was the $50 second-place winner and another $25 prize went to Bob Oxment ot the Wilmington Star - News. The Hill Hall. p,.anrh I competition was open to members 8:00 p.m. Chapel Hi ; Carolinas Pres.s Plioiog- AAUW, Morehead Building^ | raphers Association. Wednesday, September 28 6:15 p.m. Supper, Church of tne imm Ml mm planning and personnel to J. A. ' Chapel Hill. MAC NORWOOD Wootten-Moulton Photo Branch, Comnuinity Chairman for ‘-(mi mm m nator Knowland I® matter, W. I. L. MEETING The Chapel Hill Branch of the j I Women's International League for ■ Peace and Freedom will meet with j BEAUTY WINNER—Miss North Carolina of 1956, Raleigh's Faye Arnold, selected this photo of herself, taken by the News Leader cameraman, as a $25 runner-up prize money winner in the annual Mail Delivery To Be Extended To North And South Of Town The Post Office Department has they may be conveniently served approved extended mail delivery, by t’.ie caner without his d)ist- to certain outlying sections of mounting from his vehicle.” ■ said Chapel Hill, effective October 1. Mr. Cheek. “All boxes shall be Delivery of mail will be extend- \ located on the right side of the ed to include the following: Isley j road in the direction of travel of Street, Stinson Street, Powell ! the c.arrieri The box should be Street, Hartig Street, a part ot about four feet from the ground '"I '’"h PEp,photo cootpotitiop tor the bo.ot, „ho., ..I.Ci.h it "‘uugn there s no monev ; for the Schools, 1 |,v available for it. ' House. . ; Wednesday night at 8 o’clock. sponsored each summer by the N. C. Jaycees. Weiner Street, M^yrick Street, Mt. Bolus, Bolin Heights, Morgan Creek Road, Oteys Road, Coker Drive, King’s Mill Road to Laurel Hill Road Extension, Laurel Hill Road Extension to bypass' Sher wood Forest, Plidden Hills and Hillsboro Street to Airport Road. Postmaster J. Paul Cheek said inasmuch as the delivery to these extensions will be made by a mounted carrier it will be neces sary for those who wish delivery to erect a rural type mail box. It is a requirement of the De partment that tile boxes provided ; by patrons shall be so placed that and the patron’s name should be on the box. For the present, at least, no numbers will be assigned to the boxes.” Fair and cool tonight. High today 75, low tonight in the 50s. Tuesday some cloudiness and somewhat warmer. High Low Rainfall Thursday 83 64 .00 ’ Friday 81 65 .05'" Saturday 82 68 .00 Sunday 80 62 1.22'
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