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A Political Football?
Is “de-consolidation” really
“non-consolidation? Read about
the big political football at
UNC in the lead editorial
Page Two.
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II, NO. 91
Five Cents The Copy
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, NOVEMBER 17, 1955
$4 50 The Year By Matl
TEN PAGES THIS ISSUE
lit S',
The Merchants Associa- :
lEOPLE
In Brief
I
WOMAN USING THE NAME
A. P’ Hairis bilked three
^markets here out of $45 each
rubber checks she wrote on
•aign Ended
86 Per Cent Of Goal In
Turkey Shoot
Is Set Sunday
The Community Chest Drive for
iQisR cf 11 , Livas, plus the auction of
19o6 officially ended Tue.sday the 1940 Chevrolet
nisht .ill, 522.291,69 ol the S2oV Sldwidue:‘ bm,g?,;“.ppr„S i
iTnivcrsity National Bank on Pledged. This matcly$200 to the Community i
‘ *^6 percent of the objec-, Chest, Branch reported.
wnl out a warning on the
. , , . : Division Chairmen for the cam-
=her vesterday She gave ' r ^ will be con- paign were: |
^as DuiS; Road aid : Busine.cs and Professional, tVill-!
address as Branch General Chairman, said to. * iam R. Cherry; Campus, Roy Arm-1
gyoii one of the c . But \m1] c-orne ui and we hope to ap- Residential, Mrs. tValter Spearman, ■
by this name can be local- pioach. if not exceed the goal we ^ and Special Gifts. D. D. Carroll and ‘
icreabouts. I up, he said. Crowell LiUle, co-chairmen. |
5,( NIVERSITY OPPERATIONS’ Mr. Branch praised the Chair-1 “While it is a disappointment ‘
J S. Bennett is interested various divisions and that we did not pass our goal in
iperating with student requests ■ ^atioil 1 two-weeks’ campaign,” Branch :
Bones on each floor of the Tuesday’s dav-long record-play-Particularly grate-j
dormitories, ^^t he s hop-, j^g , ful to those who gave of their;
Ik robbing of pay phones now Cofjec Shop, sponsored by Sandy time and energy to call on friends
dorms can be slopped Hist. jicClamroch and Bill Alexander, and neighbors for contributions to'
jih^box in Cobb Dormitory a„£j coffee donated by this communitv-wide campaign.” :
lost SeO, Mr. Bennett reveal- - ^ :
The jaycecs’ second annual
turkey shoot will be staged this
Sunday beginning at noon at
Hogan’s Lake.
Chairman Frank Fearrington
of the project said that a turkey
would be given away^ to the
marksman having the best shot-
in each group firing. The shoot
ing will continue throughout the
afternoon until dark.
Persons are inv'ited to bring
their own firearms, or may use
those which will be provided by
the Jaycees, he said. In addition
to the turkey shoot, itfr. Fcar-
rington said there would be a
skeet shoot, non - competing
event, for those interested.
end
partial solution that’s been
[Sled has been the installa- :
'of auL-Vional non-pay phones
could be used only for local
receiving long distance calls,
making long distance calls
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Emery Denny Named Chairman
Of Next Year's Chest Campaign
Two From UNC
Going To Siam
ct.
AND MRS. (ALSO DR.)
:on D. Fischer arc the parents
;hty healthy twins, born Sun- ,
at Memorial Hospital. Amelia
hed eight pounds, four ounc-
jd Jeanette, eight pounds, six
es—nearly 17 pounds of'ba-'
in all. Dr. Newton Fisher;
assistant professor in the
rtnient of Surgery and Dr.
Pofdan Fisher, an instruc-,
the Department of Me-
E, both at Memorial Hospi-
PEEPINO TOM AT THE
residence on Davie Road
arrboro was traced on Sunday
ng by his shoes, which he
the scene of his act. Pa-
""f;' lan '^bert Pendergrass and -
(y W, E. Clark thought they '
d the shoes, carried them
i hdfise of a 17-ycar-old Lin-
"liigh school student yester
morning. The boy was in;
i, but his mother said they'
definitely his shoes. The boy
Attorney Emery B. Denney Jr.,
has been elected Chairman of
next year’s Community Chest
campaign here.
The selection was made Tues
day evening at the meeting of
the Executive Committe of the
Community Council, of which Mr.
Denny is a member. The solicitor
of the Chapel Hill Recorder’s
Court, Mr. Denny has been ac
tive in community affairs
through working in the Council
In recent years, and as a di
rector and leader on the activi
ties of the Jaycees here.
The Committee also discussed
its policy of having its meetings
closed to the press and to the
public and decided to bring this
matter up for discussion at a
general membership meeting of
the Council next spring. Mrs.
Earl W^ynn presented to the Com
mittee a combined monthly cal
endar and listings of local civic,
public, and church gi'oups, which
A group of four men, two from
the University, will fly from Wash
ington, D. C. on Monday, to Tai-
land (Siam) to photograph an
eclipse that will take place De
cember 14.
Tile expedition will be headed
by Morris Davis, UNC professor of
astronomy. Mack Preslar, Durham
native and Assistant Director of
the Communication Center of
UNC. will be the number two man
of the group. David Herring, na
tive of WTnston-Salcm and former
UNC student, will assist Mr. Pres
lar with the electronics equipment.
Mr. Herring is now at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. A Florida
! geophysicist will be the fourth
I man in the unit.
Straw Vote
Is Planned
On Merger
NEW LOOK AT CROWDED CORNER—The erection of the long-awaited stoplight signal at the con
gested intersection of Pittsboro and McCauley Streets yesterday afternoon caused some momentary
consternation among drivers passing through the busy residential neighborhood. The four-way signal
if set on a 25-second cycle on ell sides, and is expected to help relieve the serious traffic situation at
the corner, which was the scene of the town's first autc death in two years last spring. Above view is
looking eastward down MfcCauley. News Leadci’ Photo
Pol icewomenTo Be Hired Library Gets
1- c iL / • Gift Of $300
tor bctiool Lrosstng
A trip such as this one is not, ^yjij hired
A recent gift of $500 from WTll-
Uniformbd women police to di- headed by Alderman W'illiam Al- iam ' G. Bayley of Springfield,, n. .. 1, . . f
red traffic at school intersections exander and discussion at its meet-; Ohio, to the Mary Bayley Pratt ® ® ^
An Attorney General’s opinion
this week sent to the ash^ can plans
of the Carrboro District School
Committee to request the Board of
Education to hold a formal elec
tion to get a voters decision on
the important merger and supple
mentary tax questions with which
school officials in this area have
been wrestling.
With a dash of legal cold water
thrown on their plans to let the
people decide the issues in formal
election, the Committee has now
turned to a “straw vote” by mail
to get an accurate reaction of the
citizens' preference.
Plans are now being formulated
lor such a poll, it is understood.
A scheduled meeting by the Carr
boro and White Cross school com- .
mittees with the County Board of
Education last night was called off
following receipt of the Attorney
Gencrars opinion by Superintend
ent G. Paul Carr.
In a three-page analysis, tlie at
torney general ruled that the two
issues, whether to join Chapel Hill
with its 20c limit tax supplement
or to remain with the county sys
tem and vote on a proposed 15C
supplement, could not be decided
at a single election.
On the question of whether Carr
boro and White Cross could vote
on tile questions simultaneousl.y,
the Attorney Genei’al ruled that
the two districts could vote on
merger at tlie same time; however
new to Prof. Davis. Last year the
government sent him into North
ern Canada on a similar project.
bciiuui iiiL;ciiDt;L.LAVLJi^> CAfiiiutri ciiiLi uii)L;u3v''iuii cJL ICO inwct-; *“ ^ ^ ^ - TT-n i u u.,
red by the Town of ing this week, the board authorized: Childrens Library is being used • ^ ^ ° ® ® ‘ ' ^
, . tn start snor-i-ii shpU-nc in tho T i boundaries do Hot ,10)11. Carrboro
jinning January 1. , its finance committee to enact Cits; spec al -heUcs in the L
EMERY B. DENNY JR.
is being mailed out to the 65
member agencies of the Com
munity Council. These will also
be available in the office of the
Merchants Association, ,
Chapel Hill begumius oanua.y .. , rununiuvrc tu — for'the use of iiinior hieh coulc! join and White Cross could
They will replace the regular mca:mre if the necessary funds [he us o ju ot 1 gl expanded area, or the cn-
, patrolmen in their duties of as- were available. Both the Parent-: Dcien iiaiuee, ■
The expedition is being sponsored I and the Po-
by the Research and Development
Command of the United States Air
librarian, announced. tire are could vote at the same
Mr?. Hardee said she would in- time.
Force. Purpose of the project is
Methodists Report $107,000
rst denied, but later admitted a total of $107,000 was reported l
£ ownership of the shoes and pledged toward the building fund;
peeping secretly act. i of the educational wing of the '
SPEL HILL AUTHOR IAN University Methodist Church at j
we read in a wire last night’s final report meeting:
streets at three places before and Mice Department endorsed this pro- ^ ^ question of whether the
after classes each day. The esti- jeet and assisted in investigating it
to obtain more exact information i$1,251 cost of uniforms and by seeing how similar plans were facilities as district would be required to vote
on the size and shap of the earth ! fp*' this proiect from Jan- working m Durham am,! Raleigh. ,,,,pi^„,, as possible. Funds from : in an election to bring Carrboro
by timing the passage of the moon’s I tuiry through ''lay is to be derived Will Not Be Deputized Cvrp'i. unity Chest, which rep-: and MTiite Cross in, the Attorney
shadow at 11 silos along its 7,(>00 'foin tlie uniform and geneialj Jiiough non-deputizeu, the wo-: tj-ji important part or tlie | General said it \ . u.ld hd1. The out-
funds of the Town. j men police will be expected tojLibrary support, arc heavily depict-i side districts only would have to
Following an investigation of thei turn in the names of traffic vio-: gd by the need for replacements I vote to come in.
proposition by a special committee (See POLICEWOMEN. Page Six) j and rebinding, she said. '
- --- - through such contributions
mile path.
New 'Adventure' Series :
To Be Aired On NBC j
The National Broadcasting Co. j
yesierday, was planning to of the intensive 10-day drive be- ^ ggrry a 13-proram series, pro-
a'conviction in Edinburg, ing held by the church. i (juced at the University’s Com-'
t. of a $100 fine for refusal , Carl M. Smith, canvass chair-1 munication Center, over its nation- |
ay S.36 a bottle Texas slate: man, termed the campaign a sue- network beginning tonight at ■
eight bottles of rmn which cess and said that he expected the g.gs according to Earl Wynn, di-
rought into this country from’ church would be able to proceed gcAer.
He reportedly challeng- building plans, which will series was originally 26 pro-
ke eonstitutionalily of the aibout $200,000, right awai’- gi-ains/NBC requested permission:
staling “I offered to post building will likely
SHOW 'WINDOW BIRDING'
''Window Birding," a movie in
color of 31 species observed
through one window, by Wallace
Patterson, will be presented at
3:30 this Sunday afternoon in
the first floor lecture room of
Wilson Hall, under sponsorship
of the Chapel Hill Bird Club.
HOSPITALIZED
Today's register of patients
at Memorial Hospital includes
L. J. Phipps Is Elected
District Scout Chairman
as tho.se of 'Mr. Baylej'-, is it poss
ible to expand materially the
quantity of available reading mat
ter for the children, according to
Mrs. Hardee.
KIWANIS PICNIC
lii that It would not be opened
was in North Carolina.”
test victim of a seri-
ffeck on Strowd Hill (Durham
is George F. Ritchie, Uni-
ly student from Boston, whose
onliac was tlioroughly wreck-
I'iien he plowed into a tree
be started in about a year, he
to broadcast 13 of the programs
said, with a loan being negotiated
last summer. This 13-program scr-
for tile remainder of the cost un-
ies wliich ended two weeks ago was
pledged at that time by the con-
. received so favorably that NBC re-'
gregation.
The new wing is lo
Cfuested the remaining programs of
be erected ^lic series, said Wynn.
,, Known as the American Adveu-
on the site of the 110-year-o Series, the programs were
first Methodist Church here, jjy John Ehlc and directed
Herman Ward's new house which now houses the Chapel Hill by John Clayton, both assistant:
was driving up the hill Tues- Recreation Center. I professors of radio, Icicvision and
iiiglil,. He told investigating
ilnicn Charlie Edmonds and:
Mrs. I'lora Bell Oldham, Mrs.
Thomas Oldham, Mrs. Willie
Robinson, Mrs. Ray B. Rodgers,
Mrs. 'Walter Edward .Smith, Miss
Dottye Southerland, Miss Annie
Bell Strayhorne, Joseph Robert
Barrett, Mrs. I,. C. Clicek, Miss
Estella Council, Prof. John F.
Dashiell, Charles C. Edwards,
Sandy Fousbee, Miss Catherine
Henley and Alexander S. Hoff
man.
ly Etheridge that an -oncom-
* caused him to take to
“kill shoulder, after which
Mr careened across lo the
'"tl struck the tree. The po-
cn charged iMr. Ritciiic with
s dri\'ing.
mother UNIVERSITY STU-
Ikis Week set a new record
* parking ticket paying-off
ikat’s continuing in Record-
ourt with the issuance of
'“[s R delinquents by Tra-
wk ns. Barbara Howdy.
fii- Forbes IH pleaded
' and paid costs of court
^ lickcls at a dollar piece.
®'HER test of the SU-
“ zoning law may be in the
^ a result of the recent
oT a big General Out
advertising Company bill-
Iroin one location to ano-
“oar station WCIIL on the
'Road. The moving, in the
° some members of the
n? Board, is illegal, and is
‘"vestigated.
^TION of the
,, ..... OVER-
vccUonal signs to replace
‘zne marker
rs on the pave-
^ *nveral intersections lo-
za authorized by the alder-
'''onlly, is also gettin,
Orange County Recorder’s Court
Judge L. J. Phipps was elected
Chairman of the Orange District
of Boy Scouts at the annual dis
trict recognition dinner here last
:iight.
About 150 persons attended the
ijot-luck .supper, held in the Bap-
'ist Cluirc'i. iMr. Phipps will suc-
ced John Foushce on January 1.
O'lher new officers elected were
lohn Efland Jr., of Efland and J.
Sullivan Gibson of Carrboro, vice-
chairmen. and Frank Umstead of
Chapel Hill, re-elected district
commissioner. Mr. Phipps has held
various district scout offices for
a number of years and is at pres
ent the institutional representative
for the Baptist Church sponsored
Troop 826.
The new officers were nominated
(See SCOUTS, Page Six)
Two Leaders Picked
By Chapel Hill PTA
Members of the Kiwanis Club
and their wives and guests bad
a picnic meeting at the White
Cross Community House on Tues
day evening. A ham and tried chic
ken supper was served to the
.group by the women of Bethel
Church. There was no formal pro
gram'.
Mrs. Paul Cheek has been elect
ed Second Vice-President of the
Chapel Hill Parent - Teacher As
sociation to head a high school
council within the Association, and
Richard P. Calhoon has been nam
ed Treasurer of the Association,
following the resignation of Char
lie Phillips.
The changes of position were de
cided upon at last Thursday’s meet
ing of the PTA. At that time a i '^'Tonday
Fair and cold tonight and to
morrow. High today 50-55; low
; tonight 24-30. High tomorrow 45-
' 50.
High Low Rain'll
76 59 .OP
budget of $2,380.90 was approved : 'fuesday
by the membership and it was an-! Wednesday
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L. J. PHIPPS
Orange Population Gain
Fourth lnStatel9SO-54
getting some- ni YMPIC FUND DRIVE TAKE—Frank Blocksidge Jr. left), and Bill Meade, co-chairmen
.4^: T _ CHfcwfxIPiky CiinaJ af lac* fAnfhall namA IaaL' Auar tKo
/■e- consideration lately,' l. • »sponsored collection for the Olympic Fond at last Saturday's football game, look over
z found that four special . /"Jni.t, was contributed by Kenan Stadium spectators. The sum is believed to be one of
"’‘H have to be
the
the
$2,000 take which was ^ nation for a community of this size, and will go toward the ex
‘ke inlersecHo^ns^ Ihele ' Ts7n"dinrAmtrTcan Tthletes to the Olympic games in Australia and Italy next year.
” ® .\ev\s Leader P.
■^ .briefs. Page Six)
penses
lioto
Orange County is growing in were New Hanover with 10.30%,
po>)Ulalion faster than 95 other Meekicnbui-g with 9.76',1, Gaston,
counties of North Carolina, three Carteret, Lee, Wake, Guilford, and
and half lime,? as fast as the State Alamance. The latter in eleventh
as a whole, and twice as fast as place gained 8.23';6.
toe nation. j Mr. Grisettc said tliat Orange
These facts, previously unreal- ' County made its population gain
ized apparently by local citizens at the expense ot other counties
or county officials, were obtained and other areas ol the country,
yesterday by The News from the : Eighteen North Carolina coun-
North Carolina Research Institute, ties actually lost, he said. The
headed by Felix Grisclle of Ra- State as a wliole, he said, did not
Icigh, who edits the institute's gain as fast as the nation or as
’veckly publication. North Carolina ' fast as the South during the four
' year period. North Carolina’s pop-
In its btillelin of November 5. - ulalion gain was 4C,. in 1950-54,
,\Jr. Grisette reported that Orange the nation’s 7%.
County had gained 14.2‘b in pop- Mr. Grisctle explained that
ulation between 19.50 and 1954. Orange County is “a beneficiary
which was the fourth highest rate of the very liigh migration rate
of gain among the North Caro- over tiie country” and said tliat
lina counties. Only three countie.?, ' the hospitals al Chapel Hill and
all with military instaUations, had Orange County’s attractiveness as
higher rates of population gain a place lor living were all factors
during tills period. , in the tremendous increase.
1 hey were; Onslow will) 24.37%, Orange County’s population in
Cumberland with 16.24% and Cra- 1950, according to the census, was
ren willi 15.26V[,. 34.435, its 1954 population 39,-
Next m order behind Orange 263.
FIXING UP TIN CAN—Members of the Chapel Hill High basket-
ball and football teams have been pitching in to fix up the high
school tin can for the coming basketball season. Above, while sand
ing the basketball court floor are left to right) Randy Blackwell,
Sammy Carroll, and Jack Berkut. The ramshackle gym is also being
painted inside and the furnace overhauled. ..News Leader Pliolo
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