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fill ce gWSpsP®' 0. J- Foreman Co. Dial 844 Monmouth, Ill. ^ Street, Carrboro Office: Adv HAPEL Hill News Leader NO. 82 Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas Five Cents The Copy ^ Bluntly But Factually! Alderman Alexander spoke “bluntly hut factually’ recent ly on the town’s parking prob lem.—See the lead editorial, Page Two. CHAPEL HILL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1955 $4.50 The Year By Mail EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUE hopTl I In Brief IvERSlTY STUD6NT WAS ILfled with assault in Re- 1 Court this morning in L with a noisy demon- blocked traffic on |5(|,eet at the lower quad- Mr. Humphreys Dies At Home Last Evening Ifor a ffood while at the lof the post-game exodus L'fernoon. The defendant with slugging another /indicting a serious head Ljt put him in Memorial I Police formed a cordon Le entire area and quickly l„p the disturbance, j SCHOOL COACH BOB Lects to ‘come a cropper’ L night’s ball game here Kord. The coach at Ox- tyear, Mr. Culton said it Ln necessary to scout the jb team this season. “1 L club pretty well” he fnd they’re potentially the ^ in the district.” Mr. Laid he met some of the [players at Saturday’s game ith Maryland and they T him to ‘Took out we Iwin that game!” liMAN WASN'T ON HAND j 41st anniversary of the t of his department store [is past Saturday. Business 111 to New York, but he’ll Isome time late this week. Eloyees overlooked the oc- fol the store’s birthday in L of Saturday’s business, E recouped this morning l*g."VVcll sing him Hap- ^y when he gets back!” t CITIZENS WILL GET A Lor a close-up view ol a ; one of Llie Goodyear Eys lighur-lhun-air craKS fcrc on the anernoon or b?. The Chapel Hill siop- I he sponsored under the Ij, of the Chapel Hill Tire r p HUSBANDS, FIRST- jldent at Duke University liter ui Mr. and Mrs. Ben Roosevelt Avenue, is I Duke students to re- feraciuate scholarships S(3,0j0 for the 1955-56 «ar. Miss Hu.sbands is Idualc of Chapel Hill John W. Humphreys, 53, form er manager of the University Laundry, died at his home, 426 West Cameron Avenue, at 10:45 last night following a serious ill- nes of several weeks. Funeral service with full Mason ic honors will be held Tuesday af ternoon at 2:30 from the Chapel Hill Baptist Church with the Rev erends Samuel T. Habel, Charles Hubbard, and Wade F, Hook, of ficiating. Burial in Chapel Hill Cemetery will follow. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Edith Betts Humphreys, two broth ers, Luther W. of Raleigh, and Sidney F. of Garner; and several nieces and nephews. Born in Wilson on September 2, 1902, he was the son of Wesley C. and Mollie Humphreys. He had lived in Chapel Hill since 1921 and was for 24 years the University Laundry manager, retiring in 1945. For the last 10 years he has been a salesmn for Boggs and Com pany, Inc., of Charlotte. Mr. Humphreys was a Past Mas ter of University Lodge No. 408 of Masons in Chapel Hill, a Shriner, Past Patron of Chapter No. 264 of the Order of the Eastern Star here, and a member of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church. Pallbearers for the funeral will be members of the University Lodge No. 408. BAST-TALKING ITIN- line subscription sales- feuiy maae a good haul pfi-to-house swoop through imunity over the weekend. E subsjriplions for one of Ptry’s top news magazines, pctiyely-dressed young wo > !. a'jspecially effective ap- |for the males and wooed jsines onto the dotted line Luiz-game poll approach. pND BILL FETZER \MERE Itlie homecoming visitors at In College Saturday. Both [in athletics there. Coach Mninan end on the David- Ihall team with a weight of Inds. COOKBOOK HUSTLERS—Members of the Junior Service League did a brisk business Saturday morning, selling their revised edition of ''Caroiina Cooking" in the midst of the downtown Homecoming crowd. Along with their sales talk they offered a' sample plate full of goodies from the cookbook to persons who passed by their downtown booth. Shown above—Mrs. James O. Cansler NewsLeadcrPhoti Legion Delegates Back From National Meeting JOHN W. HUMPHREYS Lincoln Wins Homecoming Over Horton By "Jake" Hogan The Lincoln Tigers won their fifth victory of the season on Fri day night against Horton High of Pittsboro 18 to 6. Captain Joe Farrar put Lincoln in scoring position in the first | Paul Robertson, Commander of the N. C. Department of the American Legion, returned yes terday from a busy 10 days at the Legion's national convention in Miami. He headed the Tar Heel dele gation of about 500 Legionaiies during the four days of the reg ular convention last week and stayed in Miami before and after the convention for meetings of department leaders. Accompany ing him to Miami from Chapel Hill were Norman F. “Top” Jack- son, Commander of Chapel Hill Post No. Six, and Mrs. Jackson, and Mr. and Mrs. John Heitman. They stayed at the Everglades Hotel, headquarters for the Tar Heel delegation. While , North Carolina did not have any candi dates seeking national offices in the Legion this year, Mr. Rob ertson reported the Tar Heel delegation to have been quite active in convention business. North Carolinians wefp members ‘ of the Foreign Affairs and Amer icanism Committees which pass ed on the most vital business of U16 meeting, he said. On the last day of the con vention Mr. Robertson cast North Carolina’s 54 votes in favor of Addison Wagner of Battle Creek, Michigan, successful candidate for national commander of the veterans’ group. Altogether there were more than 15,000 person at the convention. $221^000 Given To University Through Nine Foundations Law School Founda- pPIT A L i 2 E D tys register o# patrenti Kriel Hospital includes ii Brinkhouse, Mrs. Paul ft. W. L. Burnette, Jesse I-........ mmsn* Monday ‘kview Garden Club, :he Holy Family, Glen Ondine,” Playmakers’ Tuesday ESro. Health and Welfare Community Club, Mrs. ^Baymond Thompson, ar- Plecture, Carroll Hall. I Wednesday ®SA, Orange District 1 Lenoir Hall. Thursday ^ Arts apd Crafts, Com- I fi , Mrs. R. B. Sharpe, pne. roll's Head Bookshop Assembly Room. P'®' YDC, Graham Me- Denny-Brown, ‘ ®iiorial Hospital Audi- High vs. C Park, Carrboro. Ipj' Jones ad- I ' >igma Alpha, Librai-y P t^om, By Pete Ivey Foundation More than 6,000 contributions to- tion. quarter when he carried the ball tailing $221,034.99 were given to Total contributions by alumni in ax yards to Pittsboro’s one-yard- the University of North Carolina the annual giving campaign (re line. Rufus Bynum, one of Lincoln’s 3t Chapel Hill during outstanding fullbacks, carried the Tall through the line for a 6-0 score. A few minutes later, Gen 1954-55 gular donations for unrestricted througn nine foundations organized use by alma mater) amounted to to give extra and special aid to $50,278-07—^by3,558 alumni. The teaching, research and other pro- funds made, research projects pos- RlmVercIrn'e‘back “and"'Hed'the grams at Chapel Hill, it was an- sible for 26 faculty members on ball game qp by carrying the nounced in a report issued this subjects ranging from cosmic ra- ball one yard to give a 6-6 tie up in the second quarter. Winfred Johnson made a 14-yard drive to give Lincoln a six-point B week by Chancellor Robert House.' Most of the 6,221 gifts were earmarked for specific purposes. diation to a study in English per iodicals. Nine students with serious financial problems also got help margin in the third quarter. John- in special programs for develop- j son then came back in the same : ment of the economic, health, pro- quarter to give the Tigers an 18-6 fessional and educational program.^ | victory over Horton, on a 20-yard at Chapel Hill and throughout the' dash and pitch-out to Joe Farrar ^or 10 yards. The strong Tigers’ line held Hor ton down on two of its pay dirt attempts in the second and third quarters One was held on the one hers of the Alumni Association, and the' other on the three-yard The $221,034.99 represents con- Bryson Lecture Set Thursday Dr. Derek E. Denny-Brown, dis tributions to the Business Foun- Williams dation, Medical Foundation, Alum- Edu- line. At half-time, Marsha was crowned Miss Lincoln High, j ni Annual Giving Campaign, the homecoming parade. icational Foundation, Journalism In state. In addition to the more than ^ $220,000 raised during the year i tinguished British neurologist now ending June 30, there were 9,000 on the Harvard Medical School alumni listed as dues-paying mem- faculty, will deliver the fourth an nual Bryson Memorial Lecture on Thursday at the School of Medi cine. Dr. Thomas Farmer of the UNC Medical School, who arranged Dr. Denny-Brown’s visit, said that he ! will be iii' Chapel Hill from'today j through SatiMay, participating in I conferences and rounds in the (Medical School' and Memorial 1 Hosnital. The Chapel Hill Concert Series’: $5.50, $6.50, and $7^50, depending, highlight of his visit the on the seats desired in the and- torium. The price of single ad- Lecture, will be given at 8 p.m., mission tickets at the door for the ^ Thursday, in the Clinic Aiiditor- Kicci concert will be $2.00, $2.50, ^ ^le fourth floor of N. C. ,1 Memorial Hospital. Dr. Denny- Mr. Ricci, a world-famous A.men- Brown will speak on “Positive and Aspects of Cerebral First Series Concert Oct. 27 EARLY DISMISSAL FRIDAY The Chapel Hill Elementary and High Schools and Glenwood Elementary Schools will be dis missed at noon Friday so that pupils can attend the State Fair. Northside and Lincoln School students will probably be given a holiday at noon tomorrow tor this purpose. Free tickets will be given out just before the 12 o'clock dismissal hour on that day. No lunch will be served in the school cafeteria, and the school busses will leave prompt ly at 12:05 to take the children home. PTA Announces Future Plans Teaching Philosoplhy ,and cun- riculum plans for the coming year will be discussed by the teachers of each grade in the Chapel Hill Elementary and High Schools "with parents at the next meeting of the Chapel Hill PTA. The program for the November Session was announced by A. K. King, Association president, who also announced at 'Thursday even ing’s first meeting of the year for the group that at the January meet ing a report will probably be pre sented on the White House Con ference by a local person who will attend that conference. Joe M. Galloway Chairman of the Finance Committee, announced that the Budget Committee will meet this Thursday at 8 o’clock in the High School Library. Parents wishing to present budget requests for specific purposes are invited to attend. It was finally moved that a High School Council be formed within the PTA, since the problems in ■he high school are. so different from those related to the Elemen tary School. Mr. King accepted t'le motion and designated it as the first order of new business to be considered at the November meet ing. START ON GYMTORIUM—The basement and foundations for Lincoln High School's long-delayed gymtorium have been started, as shown above in a vi ew looking toward the section of the modernistic building completed in 1951. Just Before Second Flood. Mrs. Brittain Returns To Local Red Cross Post Through Bus To New York Now Scheduled A new bus schedule direct from Chapel Hill to New York City was started today by Caro lina Trailways. The first bus on the 15-hour run left the local union bus station at 4:40 p. m. today and will arrive in New York City at 7:45 tomorrow morning. H. C. Pearce, Bus Station Manager, said the new express schedule, which originates here, cuts off about two hours on previous traveling time from here to New York. Following is the timetable for the daily four-stop New York trip: Leave Chapel Hill 4:40 p.m. arrive Richmond 10:15 p.m., ar rive Washington 1 a. m., ar rive Baltimore 2:30 a. m., arrive Philadelphia 5:35 a. m., and ar rive New York 7:45 a. m. Another new direct interstate schedule for Chapel Hill that is starting today will be an Atlanta bus. This will be on a new sec tion of an express run from Ra leigh to Dallas. The bus will leave Chapel Hill at 7:02 p. m. and arrive in Atlanta at 7 a. m. CHEST DIVISION HEAR-—Wil liam R. Cherry, assistant Cashier of the Bank of Chapel Hill, has been appointed chairman of Com munity Chest business district solicitation, to be carried out by the Jaycees. Goal of the 1956 joint fund drive is $25,733. The campaign v/ill be staged Nov ember 1 to 9. Leaders Picked At High School Mrs. Mabel Brittain, Executive Secretary of the Chapel Hill Chap ter of the American Red Cross, was back at her desk in the downtown office of the local Chapter this morning after nearly eight weeks of emergency duty in flood-strick en Connecticut. Her return on Saturday at the urgent request of J. Temple Gob- bel, President of the Chapel Hill Chapter, coincided with the dis astrous floods over the weekend at Ansonia and Seymour, twin in- I dustrial cities about 15 miles from I Hartford. Mrs. Brittain was reliev ed from her duties there on Thurs day. Her work there was a round-the- clock proposition much of the time, beginning at 6:30 a.m. and often i going through until 1 a.m. the next ! day. Initially, Mrs. Brittain said, ! the Red Cross’ big job was issuing ; food and clothing and arranging ! emergency housing. The bigger job j of rehabilitation had not been ful- 1 (See MRS. BRITTAIN, Page 8) Deposit Is No Longer Required For Rqstoffice Lockbox Keys Officers recently elected by the Senior, Junior and Sophomore ; clases at Chapel Hill High School are Michael Alexander, President,- senior class; Tommy Goodrich, President, junior class; and Ruf fin Harville, President, sophomore ‘ class. ; Other senior officers are Clyde ■ Campbell, vice - president; Beth Flemming, secretary; and Mary Bahnsen, treasurer. Sarah Cole is the senior associate justice on the Honor Council. Additional officers in the jun ior class are Tommy Hogan, vice- president; Elaini Livas, secretary; David Schwentker, treasurer, Paul Cheek, social chairman; and Wil liam Riggsbee, junior associate justice. Lockbox patrons of the Post Of fice need no longer pay an advance deposit for keys, and they may re ceive a refund upon request for deposits previously paid on their keys. Notices will be posted soon in the lockboxes in the post office an nouncing the new change in poli cy governing keys. The change is in effect. Under the new regulation, the lockbox holder is entitled to two keys without an advance deposit being required. The post office department will furnish more than two keys upon request, but a fee of 50 cents will be charged for each key over the two free ones. This is a charge rather than an advance deposit, and no refund will be made upon surrender of the lockbox and the return of the j keys. A charge of 50 cents will be made for each regular key not re- j turned. The refunds, amounting to 22 cents per key, are available to lock- I box patrons for the keys issued ; prior to the effective date for the new policy change, from the box ! rent window. All box keys should j be brought to the post office when ( applying for the refund. If not (called for by Dec. 31, 1955, the re- , posit will be declared forfeited. Alumni Giving Report Issued The Classes of 1916 and 1950 were the leaders in the third year of Alumni Annual Giving at the University. The Class of 1916 finished first in the amount of money contri buted with a total of $2,714, while the Class , of 1950 ranked first in number of contributors with 175. Eighteen of the 65 classes mak- Graham Rolls Over Wildcats 32-12 ^ing gifts to the program raised more than $1,000. Nine other classes joined ’50 in having 100 or more donors in the third year. In the area campaigns New York City led the way with $4,883, followed in the order named by Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Chap el Hil, Charlotte, Raleigh, Houston, Durham, Goldsboro, and Washing ton. Hill High School It was the Wildcats’ first defeat Wildcats were “overconfident” in in four starts. This Friday they’ll their 32-to-12 loss to Graham there on Friday night, in the words of Coach Bob Culton. “In the first half they played very poorly,” said the coach. “For some reason they seemed over confident and Graham ran all over them. They snapped back and out- meet another traditional arch rival, Oxford, in the Lions Park here. second season will open a week from this Thursday evening (Oct ober 27) with a recital by Ruggiero Ricci, renown violinist. , •, The performance will be given ■ and $3.00, he said, at 8 o’clock in Memorial Hall. Con-1 Mr. Ricci, a work cert Series Secretary Jimmy Wal j can violinist, was known as a child , Negative lace urged local persons to pur-(prodigy when he appeared as so- Motor Function. chase subscriptions for the entire lloist with leading orchestras and;, or. Charles W. , four performance series and -ea-! in recital beginning at the age of , heads the Bryson Lectures Com- hize a considerable saving over the (eight. Now in his early thirties, lie; mittee, has 'announced that the i has been acclaimed as one of the lecture wil be open to the general PLAYER OF WEEK Ruffin Harville, sophompire quarferbaek for Chapel Hill, has been named the Wildcats' Player-of-the-Week, for his performance in last Friday j night's contest with Graham. His ( 55-yard touchdown runback of a punt and field generalship : sparked the Wildcats' second- half comeback in the game. Hooker, who I lize a considerable sin^l0“CoiiC0rt sdrnissioii pncG- (ixwvz ^ i . ~ The Series subscriptions are still most brilliant violinsts of this : public as well as to visiting physi- saie at Graham Memorial for (generation. icians. on , played Graham in the second half j but then the damage had been . done. — Actually I think it did : the boys some good in showing j them they’ve got to be on their I toes all the time.” RUFFIN HARVILLE The Graham offense, the only single-wing line-up in the con ference, kept the Wildcats. con fused until too late in the game. Four touchdowns were scored by the home team, leaving the score .i5-0 at halftime. In the third quarter Ruffin Harville returned a punt, 55-yards for Chapel Hill’s initial score, and in the final frame Gene Smith slipped' ov^r jfrpra the nine-yard line on a haridoff. Harville and Rudy Barker were the outstanding offensive players for Chapel Hill. The Wildcats will be in good shape as a whole for this week’s game. They suffered no serious injuries last Friday night, and Tommy Goodrich, out for the past two weeks, will be back in action again in the hackfield. Gray Moody will be playing at his guard slot in the line, too. Co-Captain Clyde Campbell is expected to be ready to play again by the Novem ber 4 homecoming game with Henderson. Excluding North Carolina, New York had the largest number of donors with 243. Virginia was sec ond with 202, followed by Georgia 114, New Jersey 110, South Caro lina 108, and Florida 104. The final figures for the third year showed 3,558 contributors for a total of -50,278.07. This repre sented an increase of 27 per cent in donorn and 10 pe;r cent in amount of money contributed over j the previous year. I R. Mayne Albright, Raleigh at- i torney and a member of the Class [of 1931, served as Chairman for Alumni Annual Giving. Clearing and cold tonight. To morrow partly cloudy, not so cold. High today 62; low tonight in the upper 30s. High tomorrow in the mid 50s. High Low Thursday 76 45 .11 Friday 69 57 .38 Saturday 65 39 .02 Sunday 63 38 .01 Ui! (/ ^ ir' } )* -j 1 NfJ' I- 1 in ii
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