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Patriots' Purpose
What are the aims of the much
, heralded “Patriots of North Car-
Cf5nouftit)3j^ ?” President Dr. W. C.
T :o s a statement of purpose on
I L\J^ iy’s editorial page.
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CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 27, 1955
$4.50 The Year By Mail
EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUE
SI
JOPLE
In Brief
Carrboro School Drive Now On
BUSY
m ROBERTSON
as State Department Com-
of the American Legion
'an active justice of the
Lhas
come up as the top
niong the 4,000 agents for
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Itionwicle Insurance Com-
jew sales for the month
,St,—And he’s now Num-
-ec for the year in fire in
sales to date.
HUGH WILSON, VICTIM
■ious beating last Sunday
I, was dismissed as a pa-
the University Infirmary
3liE0Bsday and returned to her
a nurse there. Mr. and
Bison wish to pass on their
Ijtion for the many, many
of confidence in them
have poured in during the
ree days.
members of univer-
elhodist Church, with migh-
outside fanfare, have pre-
le opening on next Wedncs-
rteir long-awaited drive for
to build a new educa-
on their church. Con-
(js to the campaign are to,
U over a three-year period,
ew structure will be the
adition to the church in 30
^nd is to be put on the
the present Chapel Hill
lion Uenter.
TkilftpEDMISTER IS THE LAT-
amp in the sweet potato
hereabouts—Last week we
a five-pound mammoth (24
long) pulled by Leon Ivey
le Cross, Now Mr. Edmister
Ivd iwing off a six-pound 12-
Portoilican variety of sweet
grown on his farm over-
Universi^y Lake. The spe-
s on display in the Hug-
d at itPard^vare window.
iNTIN PATTERSON WAS
n along in a normal and in
enough fashion Tuesday
g, demonstrating farm fish
stocking techniques before
iplatil ^,jj}j pjyij jjg /-jppar-
didn’t reckon with the edu-
lish he had in his aquarium
table before him. One of
iwanians happened to poin,
iger at one of the larger fish
aquarium—and it obliged
mping clean out and onto
61e before him.
lUS SCALES, FREE ON
bond pending final judge-
on his appeal of a six-year
for the first Smith Act
ion, was in town briefly
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Called By PTA;
Merger Aired
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WIN FIRE DRILL AWARD—For the second sucessive year the Northside Elementary School has
won the cup presented annually by the Orange County Fire Insurance Exchange to the local school,
staging the most efficient fire drill during Fire Prevention Week. Above, at the presentation this
morning. President Baldy Williams of the Exchange gives the cup to Northside Principal James
Peace as insurance men Bill Hobbs (left) and Whid Powell (right) and Fire Chief J. S. Boone look on.
News Leader Photo
Ridgefield Action Set Nov. 14
Final action on the request to
annex the Ridgefield tract to
the Town of Chapel Hill is ex
pected at the Board’s regular
meeting on November 14 when a
resolution to being in the 36-
acre will be presented.
A six-acl-e section owned by
Luke Conner adjoining the 30-
acre Ridgefield sector on the
east side of the bypass high
way near the Valley Drive-In
Theater was added to the an
nexation proposal Monday
night. In so doing it brought
the town limits, at the point
of the “duckbill” extremity ol
the municipality at the bypass,
into contact with the area pro
posed for annexation. Previoms'-
, ly there had been a gap of
1,000 feet northward along the
highway from the point of the
town limits to the beginning of
the .Ridgefield tract across the
road;
The board members gave no
indication, during the 30-min-
ute legal hearing as to how they
stood on the matter. Most of the
discussion settled on the fiscal
details of the proposal the four
owners of the real estate tract
■have made to the town in con
nection with the annexation re
quest.
Chest Workers Meetings Set;
Drive Lieutenants Are Named
1 D 't know who or who I
"e to see back here in his
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mping grounds, but he left
J 'eensboro on an early after-
C0» bus.
KN-MANAGER THOMAS D.
■eports that the public is re-
mighty well to using the'
to green “pedestrian litter”
cans that have been erected
few .level along the main
Nine of ’em are now up
are soon to be
on'^West Franklin. The first
ans [bought were a subdued
m, but the manufacturer
e color and wanted to
'a to duplicate the earli-
■in this same hue, said
le.
Y GRIFFITH HAS DRAWN
Itentlon of Earl Mhlson i'u
gj-yjli ction with his Broadway
ng in “No Time For Scr-
' The New York columnist
‘Andy had some folks
toe.Baptist choir he used to
Hown at Chapel Hill” up
® opening. Not that it mat-
'ot the local Baptists we con-
ly they weren’t there.
folks OVER IN THE
city’s sign shop hasten to
our presumption about the
ign that was missing recent-
0 its standard down at Bolin
on the Durham Road. Ii
swiped by a Duke fratern-
SHaken back to the shop
Three important meetings f o r
Captains, Lieutenants, and' Volun
teer tVorkers in the 1956 Com
munity Chest Drive which starts
Tuesday and runs through Novem
ber 9 were announced today by
J. A. Branch, General Chairman.
“Every worker js urged to at
tend his or her meeting,” Mr.
Branch said, “because last-minute
in.structions and details on ap
proaches to prospective contribu
tors will be given out at these
meetings. 'WTth the co-operation of
every volunteer we can reach our
gpal in the 10 days set aside for
the campaign.”
Campus Division workers will
hear Roy Armstrong, Campus
Chairman, give final instructions
at a meeting in Gerrard Hall at
,4:35 p.m. on Monday.
James H. Peace, Associate Gen
eral Chairman, will meet with
Negro District workers at 8 p.m.
Monday in the Negro Community
Center on Roberson Street.
Community Chest Lieutenants
for six residential districts for the
drive starting next week were an
nounced today bjl* Mrs, Walter
Spearman, Residential District
Chairman.
Assisting Mrs. Hewson Michie,
Captain for Area VII, Glen Len
nox will be Mrs. Thomas E. Jef
frey, Mrs. George Edwards, Mrs:
Capers Smith, Mrs. Amos Baum
gartner, Mrs. John Johnston, Mrs.
Frank Snider.
Five Lieutenants on the staff of
Mrs. John Clayton, Captain for
Area VHI, Glen Lennox, are Mrs.
Robert L. Bunting, Mrs. Robert A.
Andrew, Mrs. J. Marshall Penny,
Mrs. F. A. Fletcher, and Mrs. Wil
liam A. Terrill.
Mrs. George Doak, Captain for
Area IX, Greenwood will be help
ed by Mrs. Arthur Roe, Mrs. S. C.
Paulsen, Mrs. A. T. Miller, Jr., Mrs.
H. K. Russell and Mrs. John D.
Golden.
(See CHEST, Page 4)
Robbins Quits
As Chairman
Of Committee
An inlcn.se drive to iinpi-ove
die iaeililies ol the C'.arvhoro
I J-'Jeincntary School was stalled
I this week by the District
I School Connnittee and the
■ Parenl-d'emher .Vs.soeiation.
I An accident in the ‘(o-yeat-
' old building on Tuesday noon, in
which plaster falling from the
ceiling in a classroom struck a
number of pupils, served to in
tensify the campaign, in which
both the Governor and state school
authorities in Raleigh have been
! contacted. i
I
j Immediate objective is a.new
! school building, while an allied
: aim, being sought by some PTA
and School Committee leaders, is
; the joining of the Carrboro Dis-
i rict to the Chapel Plill Supple- |
: mentary School Tax District. At ,
i present the Carrboro School is in
the County system.
Committee Chairman Waller
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SPECIAL PTA MEET
Joe Robbins resigned as Chair
man of the Merchants Association’s
Trade Promotions Committee at a
special meeting of the Associa
tions Board of Directors here on
Tuesday.
The session was called by Presi
dent Crowell Little at the request
of Mr. Robbins to get the direc
tors’ approval of expenditure of
money for the Committee’s pro
posed Christmas decorations in the
business district. The directors ac
cepted Mr. Robbins’ proposal for
spending this money, which the
Committee is to solicit among
downtown |)u^inessmen. with tin''
Mipulation 'that the cost of erect
ing, maintaining, and removing
the decorations come out of the
total fund raised and that addition
al remaining money may be spent
for more decorations as Mie Com
mittee may see fit.
In submitting his resignation
Mr. Robbins told the directors that
he did not feel they were properly
supporting his Committee’s work.
However the board went on record
as commending him highly, for his
work this year as head of this
committee and asked him to recon
sider his resignation. Mtjy Rob
bins held fast to his resignation
but said he would support the
Trade Committee’s work in promot
ing the Christmas decorations
project.
I This morning Carlton Byrd,
j Manager of Bolk - Leggett - Horton
I Company here and a member of
j the committee, agreed to become
I its new chairman.
A special meeting of the Parent-
Teacher Association, with parents
of pre-school children being espe
cially invited, has been called for
Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in
the School Auditorium. Associa
tion President Mrs. Marvin Wood
ard, emphasizing the importance
of the meeting, said “Problems
that must be answered or met by
your decisions will be discussed
: and debated.
ACCIDENT AT CARRBORO SCHOOL—A section of plaster faUing from the ceiling of a third-grade
classroom at the Carrboro School day before yesterday caused a serious head injury to one pupil. As a
result of the accident the entire ceiling in this and another room are being re-plastered. The Carrboro
PTA is sparking a drive for a new building to replace the 30^year-old building. News Leader Photo
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Clark Jr., came out strongly for
the merger with Chapel Hill at a
PTA executive committee meeting
Monday night. This, he said, was
the best solution to the school’.s
present problems—better than the
levying of a separate supplement
ary school tax in Carrboro.
Fear Bonds Won't Pass
Some 'of the concern of the
Carboro group is caused by a fear
that the County Board might not
want to seek a school bond elec
tion, or that this election might not
pass on a county-wide basis, and
that the funds for the new school
would then not be available.
To join with the Chapel Hill
District the Committee must peti
tion the County Board for an elec
tion on the question among , the
voters of the district. If the Coun
ty Board approves, it requests the
commissioners to hold the election,
and the commissioners are requir
ed to do so.
Further details of the reasons
for and against the suggested
merger, and concerning the Carr
boro School situation in general,
will be given in Monday’s issue of
this newspaper.
Falling Plaster Causes
Injuries In School Here
Repairs to the ceiling in two
classrooms at the Carrboro Ele
mentary School were being com
pleted today in the wake of an ac
cident Tuesday in which one pu
pil suffered a serious head lace
ration and a number of others nar
rowly escaped injury.
Rain seeping into the second
floor hallway from the back.porch
landing i.s believed to have caused
a six-by-six foot section of plaster
to come loo.se and fall in Miss Ag
nes Andrews’' third - grade class
room about noon. Miss Andrews
said she had noticed the ceiling
in another corner of the room
“wiggling” early that morning and
had moved desks out from under
there. Last year a leaking radia
tor caused the plaster to fall in
still another corner.
About noon, she said, she saw
a heavy plaster section coming i
loose near the inside wall and hast-'
ily grabbed two children and slung
them out of the way. Some of the
other children were able to move
in time, but within a few seconds
a large section had fallen, hitting
about a dozen children.
Miss Andrews, whose been on
crutches since breaking a leg last
: year, sustained a sprained ankle
i in trying to help the pupils. Cindy
Riggsbec, nine-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Riggsbee,
was cut on the Read and had to
: have several stitches taken in the
wound.
Yesterday the entire ceiling in
this and another room was re
placed and a state engineer from
} Raleigh was expected to come and
' inspect the entire building.
Madden Youth
Is Discovered;
Had Amnesia
$350,000 Water Tank
To Go Behind Miller Hall
A new water tank estimated to
cost $350,000 will be erected by
the University near the site of
the present tank behind Miller
Hall in the near future.
The 1,000,000-galion tank will be
used together with the present
250,000 gallon tank that will be
close by it on Wilson Court. The
existent tank was erected 30 years
ago.
University Director of Opera
tions J. S. Bennett said that erec
tion of the new facility, has been
approved recently by the Budget
Bureau in Raleigh, with the funds
to come from various existing
sources of revenue within the Uni
versity and the University Service
Plants which runs the water sys-
i tem. Y
Location of the new tank was de
cided upon by the Campus Build
ings and Grounds Committee. Mr.
Bennett said, after a number of
other sites had been considered, j
Desirability of the location select- j
ed just off Pittsboro Street on a ]
University-owned vacant lot lies [
in the central location of this i
spot, its height, and the ease of j
coordinating the flow to and from
the two tanks jointly there, he j
said.
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CHEST AGENCIES—Representative of the activities of two of
the nine Community Chest agencies are the scenes above, showing
Boy Scouts of Chapel Hill on a recent camping expedition at East-
wood Lake, and Girl Scouts presenting tray favors for patients at
Memorial Hospital last Christmas.
News Leader Photo
Referendum Carries
9-To-One In Orange
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s Mildred mooneyhan,
of Chapel Hill Elemcn-
>clipol, has announced that
^®^P0Per bag drive staged
■lementary School was
‘ooessful. A total of 5,250
Is Were collected by the
Fast Facts On Chest Agencies
^ Nunn, who was in-
‘ onday afternoon when the
on which he was making
Wment ran over him, was
I Memorial Hospital to
^'isfactory condition this
Nunn lives on Route
Blackwood’s Station.
Boy Scouts
Membership of 321 in 11 units including five Cub packs, four
Boy Scout troops, and two Explorer Scout units. One of each is a
Negro unit.
Recent Jaycee survey shows 515 boys would like to become Cub
or Boy Scouts. ,
Orange District has full-time field executive to assist local lead-
©rs.
Funds support three camps of Oeconeechee Council.
Local Boy Scouts participated in the Council's Scout Circus last
spring and some of the Explorers -went to the Philmont Ranch in
New Mexico and on a Naval cruise this past summer
Allocated budget-$4,752-an increase of $252 over 1955.
Girl Scouts
• Membership of 250—an increase of 50 over last year in 16
local troops.
• Activities include arts and crafts, health and safety, home-mak
ing, international friendship, literature and dramatics, music,
dancing, games.
• Local Girl Scouts and Brownies have an executive leader for
their activities as a part of the newly-organized Bright Leaf
Council.
• Leaders are planning at least two new troops in Carrboro this
year.
• Allocated budget is $2,000—an increase of $781 over 1955.
Orange County slate employees
voting in yesterday’s referendum
on merging the State Retirement
and Society Security Systems went
in favor of the proposal by better
than a nine-to-one margin, accord
ing to unofficial returns.
On the University campus, out
of 1,983 eligible voters there were
1,809 for, and 174 against. Of the
85 eligible to vote in the Chapel
Hill School System there were 80
votes lor, and only five against.
Orange County school employees
went 136 for and 10 against. The
total breakdown: Of 2,213 eligible,
there were 2,025 lor and 122
again.st. All eligible employees not
voting were counted as “against”
votes.
Now Drawing Plans j
W. C. Olsen, consulting engineer
of Raleigh who designed the Uni
versity’s filter and power plants,
is drawing plans for the tank now,
which will be presented to the
Building.s and Grounds Committee
for approval. The height of the
new tank and tower is to be the
same as the present one—135 feet
to its top. However, the shape of
the tank itself is still to be decid
ed. Mr. Bennett said he felt sure
the Committee would try to select
one of as simple a design s possi-!
blc, to make the structure less ob- i
jectionablc to other property own
ers in the area.
'Within about two months it’s
expected that the plans will be de
cided upon and the call for con
tractor’s bids isued, and about
another month will bo necessary
before a contract can be let, ac
cording to Mr. Bennett.
I He predicted that considering
: the continuing difficulty of sccur-
|ing structural steel it would then
be a number of months more be-
! fore construction could begin, and
Mrom six to eight months before
I the new tank and tow'cr w'ould be
[ ready for use.
Many Have Two Tanks
The Operations Director empha
sized that the principle of using
I two or more tanks together is fol
lowed in most larger municipaJi-
: ties, Durham and Raleigh, for in
stance, each having several storage
! tanks.
Robert Madden of Chapel Hill,
missing from Baton Rouge since
June 12, walked into the police
station there late yesterday and
said he’d been a victim ol amnesia.
His father, Robert T. Madden,
left here by air for Baton Rouge
this morning after talking to his
son by telephone from the police
station there last night. “I think
it’s him,” said Mr. Madden. “I
couldn’t be too sure from his voice
over the telephone. But the police
said he had a scar over his left
eye, and that’s a pretty good iden
tification for Robert.”
Acording to reports from the
Baton Rouge police young Madden
said he w'oke up Tuesday morning
and found himself riding on a
freight truck near Mobile, Ala
bama. The driver said he had pick-
him up in Jacksonville, Florida.
The youth reportedly had a terri
fic hcadaclic when he woke up.
He reported, according to the po
lice, that the last thing he then
remembered belorc hand was fall
ing out of his boat on the Mississip
pi on the June afternoon and cling
ing in vain to a paddle.
He told the police that he hitch
hiked right aw'ay to Baton Rouge
and notified the officers of whom
he thought he was. His father here
has been having an extensive search
made for his son during the past
four months by law enforcement
officers and two private detective
firms. Robert Madden had been
working in Louisiana about thVec
months when the mishap befell
him. He had planned to enter
Louisiana State University this
fall.
Mr. Madden said he planned to
return to Chapel Hill with his son
as soon a.s possible. “I’m certainly
glad to know' he’s living. Things
looked pretty black for a w'hile,
although I never gave up hope.
Now I think it’ll w'ork out all
right.”
PLAY ROXBORO THERE
Chapel Hill High School, look
ing for its fifth win of the cur
rent season, will meet Roxboro,
leader in the District Three Con
ference, there tomorrow night at
8 o'clock. Coach Bob Culton pre
dicted tomorrow's contest would
be as tough as any this season.
Next Friday the Wildcats meet
Henderson, second ranking in
the conference, in the Homecom
ing game here.
Warmer tonight. Tomorrow
ly cloudy and warm. High 1
75 to 82; low tonight 45 to 55.
tomorrow near 80.
High
Low'
Rainfa
Monday
76
46
.00
Tuesday
74
32
.02
Wednesday
74
33
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