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NO. 96
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CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1955
$4.50 The Year By Mail
EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUE
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In Brief
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SvERSITY VICE-PRESIDENT
[.Carmichael, in response to
furiosity query on just how
[color for the phone director-
!is decided upon, refutes any
that there’s a particular
je or reason in the semi-an-
Jiange of hue. The super
rarlet color of the new
I he says, was selected by
1C Purchasing Department,
"|as a change from the ma-
'of the June issue of the
[; 'Nonetheless, the record
that three of the last five
have been of a reddish tin-
ional for Christmas, even
Tbance.
\i CARRBORO BAPTIST
regation gave a mighty size
pounding to their former
irlthe Rev. J. G. Davis, this
|(feek. Kemp Cole and M. W.
en's drove a truck load of
!es up to Frentess, Virginia
[Norfolk), where the retired ■
Iter now lives, and gave it
jni. He w'as minister of the }
)ro Church during the time i
fesent church building wms i
his term being from 1H21 |
jH was also pastor of Ly-'
Ihurch for part of this time, i
|n for four years, he is un- '
(stay out of bed for as long
|11 day. I
1ST MACKIE, THE UNI-
|s Dean of Student Awards,
[one quite proud with himself
(family in the Phi Beta Kap-
[orary fraternity. As corres-'
secretary-treasurer of the
lapter he participated in
iation of his son. Billy, sev-
fars ago. And today he had
;asure of assisting as hi.c
ifer. Anno, w'as also brought
one of six Chapel Hill initia-
W. D. Peer man Is Named
Division Coach Of Year
I
W. D.
PEERMAN
W. D. Peerman, Lincoln High
School Athletic Coach,, has been
named Coach of the Year for the
Eastern Division of the Negro
Athletic Conference of the State.
His Lincoln Tigers football team
lost out to Jacksonville for the
state title last month, after win
ning the Eastern Division cham
pionship from Horton High of
Fittsboro. I'he Tigers were unde
feated on their grid schedule this
year.
Mr. Peerman is a graduate of
North Carolina College in Durham
where he won All-American hon-
oi’s in both football and basketball.
He has played with Indianapolis
Clowns, Havana La Pslomas of
Cuba and the Brandon’Grays in
Canada.
Ralph Scoff Becomes Candidafe
For Durham's leaf In Congress
School
Nominees
Increased
lACK PRESLAR AND
(Davis left several
PROF
Congressman Carl Durham of
Chapel Hill, seeking his tenth ■
consecutive term as Congressman
from this District, will have oppo- i
sition in next spring’s Democratic !
primary in the form of Ralph Scoft'
of Burlington, the State Senator I
from the Alamance - Orange* Dis-'
trict. i
The 63-year-old Sixth District
representative announced this
weekend that he would .seek re-,
election on learning that the Bur
lington dairyman had become a
landidate. Mr. Durham noted that
he would be Chairman of the Joint
Committee on Atomic Energy if
the Democrats lake over Congress.
As senior Congres.sman of his party
on t.ie Committee he has been its
acting chairman in the past.
Mr. Scott, brother of U. S. Sen- j
ator Kerr Scott, promised “a clean j
campaign” in seeking to unseal'
the incumbent Congressman. Mr. j
Durham won in the primary last j
year by a wide margin over H. C.
Sp. inkle of Durham. He has had
opposition in the primary each
time he stood for re-election ex
cept in 1944.
NATO VISITORS FETED HERE—Eleven members of parlia
ment or of national assemblies of seven North Atlantic Treaty
countries were honored at a reception in Graham^Memorial yester
day during their weekend here as a part of a tour of the country
sponsored by the Defense and State Departments. Shown (left to
right) during the reception are Russell Grumman, UNC Exten
sion Division, director of the local program for the visitors;
Maurice Walker, MRP Senator from France; Congressman Harold
Cooley; Robert Joseph Mellish, Labor Member of Parliament from
England; and WilliAim S. Stewart, Recorder's Court Judge from
Chapel Hill. , : .
McCauley Street Residents Seeking
To Forestall Water Tank Erection
weeks
; on their mis.sion to Siam >
^they’ll chart the course of’
bse in a couple of w ' i j
[son for their early d'^par j
as that they must set up
fluipirient to calculate tu .■ .
ly of one to 10,000. Cabb
1 received here last week saic’ j
(■'landed' in Bangkok aj'i
of flying, would siiortly i
1 to their expedition site at j
Kaihiem, 70 miles to the
;KS IN THE GLENWOOD
ire cheered by signs ol the
ion of the long-awaited stop-
signal at the main entrance
lien Lennox on Raleigh Road
']already done by the State
ly Department show.s tha'
liaye manual controls on each
of the street (assumed foi'
children to regulate the
»so they can cro.ss) and ac-
irs in the pavement to b'
Id hy cars wmiting to entei
highway from Hamilton ant
Roads. The triangle propert
W the service station on Ay j
recently sold by the Glen Len
management to John Man
(and J. L. Godfrey, thus se^
tfhc dispute that’s held up
toplight erection. Ayr Road 1.=
ijcurbed and graded in the
future.
OF THE TWO S-D DAY
dealths in the state last
lay occured in Orange Coun-
just barely. The wreck
hch Airman Third-Class Char-
Allison of Mebane, Route
was killed on Thursday
>on happened on the Bethle
lebane “Seott Road” off
''?ay 54 about 13 miles wuxsi
pofrn.
^ARRBORO PATROLMAN AL-
Pendergrass pursued a llec-
Decder clean to Durham in
■mile-an-hour chase at dusk
®day afternoon. The fugitive
W on foot when the Durham
sot up a roadblock for him
. uiversity Drive, but his iden-
believed known. He scooted
Carrboro as Mr. Pendergrass
’od him for speeding and ask-
^00 his driver’s license. Siren
j the policeman chased the
ih? through town,
speeder took to the side-
omee to prevent capture. Diir-
^;Police say he’s William Cole,
m Who was driving a car stolen
M from Griffith’s Lot in
|ui, where he worked.
firemen ANSWERED A
[0 the popcorn room of the
F theater’s over Andrews-
fUger late Friday afternoon,
s believed that a leak in the
i fo the popcorn popper was
mible for the fire, which
'’uuy little damage before
UDiea doused the blaze.
Several residents of McCauley
Street today revealed plants to at
tempt to forestall the construct
ion of the University’s million-
gallon water storage tank near
their property behind Nash Hall.
University Director of Opera
tions J. S. Bennett said this morn
ing that he expected to meet this
week with attorney Harold Ed
wards, who has asked for a cun-
ference on the matter.. Mr. Ed
wards said that he and his clients
“intend to hold the University to
strict compliance with the zoning
laws” of the residential neighbor-
ho.od in connection with Uie pro-
po.sed erection of the tank in the
McCauley area beside the present
250,000-gallon lank.
“We may have to take the mat
ter to higher officials,” said Mr.
Bennett. “Nobody wants the tank
located near them and 1 don't
blame them. But we thought this
iocation would be 'the least of all
the evils.’ It's the most logical lo- .
cation and will mean a lower tank
than we might otherwise have to
build. We’re just about ready to !
iss'ue a call for bids on it.” i
, A decision on the site for the'
; new storage tank ha.s been a thorny .
problem for University authorities
for many months. It was originally
lo have been set up near the new
■’luiapp Buihting'' off Raleigh Road,
however the objections of Country
Club Road residents caused this
plan to be abandoned.
A spokesman for the McCauley
Street group said a number of per
sons in the neighborhood were in
terested in forestalling the present
move,by the University. Mr. Ed
wards is at this lime being retain
ed by .Fo.ster Fitz-Simons, Mrs.
Mamie Leonard, and Kei /' Knox.
Selden To Give
'Carol' Reading
On Wednesday
.Additional suotrcMions lor
persons to I'ill the two recenily-
creared saeanrics on the Carr-
boro Srliool Committee were
rcccixed by County School
board in liillsboro this morn'
int>.
.A petition with 281 sinna-
mres .ifi’iKed was presented in
the interests of Lloyd Senter and
.Aslnvell B. Harward as successors
to Walter Clark Jr., and R. B.
Todd. The Carrboro Citizens Com
mittee, presented another petition
with 36 signatures affixed asking
that the two committee members
be chosen from among the follow
ing: Mrs. Je.sse West, Mrs. Ralph
Cheek, Cornelius Kaylor ,Mrs.
Ralph Hovvara, A1 Brandon, Dr.
Claude Baker, and the Revs. Henry
Stokes and Paul Edwards. It was
not expected that the Board would
act to fill the two vacancies today.
Hear Citiiens Spokenmen
In its moi iiing session the Board
heard Mrs. Kaylor and Mrs. Marvin
Woodard, representing the Citizens
Committee, speak in the interests
of the candidates whom they pro
posed. The terms of the two to be
named will expire next April.
The Board also discussed the
proposed straw vote on the issue
of the merger with tlie Chapel Hill
District which the Carrboro Com
mittee ha.s said it intended to con
duct.
Bids For Fire Engines
Are Now Being Secured
GORDON BLACKWELL JR. CLYDE CAMPBELL
, . . CHNS Wildcats Basketball Co-Captains . ..
^ News Leader Photos
Wildcat Cagers Win First Game;
Elect Blackwell And Campbell
S/x From Here
Make Phi Befe
The Wildcats of Chapel Hill
righ captured their season open-
T Friday evening at Pittsboro by
I lopsided 5G-40 score.
Clyde Campbell and Gordon
Blackwell, newly - elected co-cap
tains of the local team, were high
scorers for the evening with 26
and 10 points, respectively. Camp
bell, a guard, is reported in top
nape again after being on the in
ured list for almo.st the entire
tiotball season. Blackwell, a foul
shot artist, is a starting forward,
loth are lettermen senior.s.
Coach Bob Culton said the team
nlayed “not too badly considering
this was the first, game. However
j w'c’ve got a lot of w'Oi'k to do be-
jfore we’ll be able to win any con-
; ference games. Pittsboro wxasn’t too
much competition.”
! The girls team lost its opener
I to the hosts by a score of 53-37.
I This Friday the Wildcats will
! open their home schedule, meet
ing Pittsboro here. Tuesday of next
wmek they’ll play Graham there
in the first conference game.
Six Chapel Hiilians iveic
among the 52 University .stu
dents initiated into Pii Bela
Kappa national honorary scholas
tic fraternity at the University
today.
They wmre Wilbert Francis
Altcniueller, Arine Mackie Fitz-
gibbon, Fred Austin Fraley,
Daniel Raw'ls Luke. Billy Frank
Maready, and Martha Pierpont
Robinson.
The annual ceremonies were
held in the Di Senate Hall this
afternoon, conducted by the of-
ficeis of the Alpha chapter of
the organization here. To qualify
for membership a student must
have had a .scholastic average of
92.5 for three or 94 for tw'o years.
Plans for the. operation of the
Greater Chapel Hill Fire District
were today presented to the Coun
ty Oommissioners in Hillsboro by
a member of the three-man fire
district commission. .
V/i!!iam T. Hobbs of Glen Len-
!ox told the commissioners in a
p:o,gress report that h's group was
in the process of getting bids on
a fire truck from several fire en
gine companies and asked the
County Board for further directions
as to how the commission should
proceed.
, Commi.ssion Chairman E. A. Cam
eron said last night that he hoped
his group coujd move quickly in
etfecting tax-supported fire pro
tection for the district. At present
j a location for hou.sing the fire
truck W'as being considered, and
soon a volunteer fire department
j would be organized, he said. A co
operative plan with the town for
suburban protection is not now be
ing considered, he said, primarily
because the town has no place to
house an additional fire truck.
Samuel Selden. Director of The !
Carolina Playmakers and chairman
of the Department of Dramatic Art,
will present his traditional reading
of Charles Dickens' beloved classic.
“A Chri.stmas Carol”, on Wednes-
i day evening at 8 o’clock in the
; Playmakers ,Theatre. Students, fac-1
I ulty members, townspeople, and |
; particularly children -arc cordially
invited. ■ 1
T.ie annual reading of the fam-1
ouS; Christmas story of Scrooge and
I Tiny Tim was begun at Chapel Hill
I by Frederick H. '“Proff” Koeh,
j founder of the Playmakers. During
1 his lifetime “IToff” Koch gave 278
^ readings of the story all over Amer-
I ica, including four performances
I at Tow'ii Hall in New York City.
Preceding the performance and
fo.ming interludes between the
staves of the story, selected record
ings of Christmas music will be
played.
County Board
Hears Report
On Farm Plan
School Bus Drivers Set Strike
In Demand For Higher Salaries
Calling for an increase in' the
s22 a month salary, student bus
drivers for Chapel Hill’s white
schools have served notice they
'■vill go on sti'ike after the Christ
mas holidays unless they receive
tl’.e pay hike.
Twenty-eight drivers and trainees
signed a written notice to this ef
fect, delivered to Superintendent
of Schools C. W. Davis. He said
that it was “a matter tor the Coun
ty to settle if anything is done
about it.”
i Mr. Davis noted that local drivers
received the same pay as other
drivers all over the state, and that
: complaints had been received le-
, cently from both parents and high-
, way patrolmen on unsafe driving
practices on the part of some driv
ers. One such driver was relieved
of hi.s duties for this reason last
week, he said.
ANOTHER CHAPEL HILL GAS
STATION CUTS PRICE
The cutting of gas prices mov
ed deeper into Chapel Hill this
week as Albans Esso Service
Station reduced its price on reg
ular gas to 29.9c. Proprietors of
several other name-brand sta
tions in downtown Chapel Hill
admitted they were considering
reducing their prices. First oper
ator in town to cut his price was
Floyd Williams, who began sell
ing for 29.9c at his Pure Oil
Station week before last. A num
ber of Carrboro stations have
been on cut price operations for
several months.
KIWANIANS HEAR COATES
Albert Coate.s, Director of the
In.stilute of Government, spoke on
the 1 unctions of his' organization
and its new home, now being built
on the Raleigh Road, at Tuesday
evening’s Kiwanis Club meeting.
A report on the proposed five-
. ypa.t plan to".'■'Increa.sC ' Orange
County’s annual farm income by
$2,000,000 was heard by the Coun
ty Commissioners, meeting in
Hillsboro this morning.
Zeb Burton, head of the Agricul
ture Committee of the County Ag
riculture and Development Com
mission, appeared before the Com
missioners to give this report. He
was assisted by County Farm Agent
Don Maiheson and Reid Robei'ts.
Read into the minutes this morn
ing was an account of a special
meeting of the commissioners last
week at which time the bo;u(l
considered the advisability of es
tablishing a county manager and
purch.asing agent’s job, to include
the duties now performed by
County Tak Supervisor and Ac
countant Sam Gattis, as permitted
in the General Statutes of the
State. After thorough discussion
the board unanimously agreed that
the total volume of duties which
might be assigned under the pro
visions of the statute did not war
rant the establishment of the Of
fice of county manager in Orange.
In this special meeting the Com
missioners completed their job
and pay-scale classification for
County employees that they start
ed in July. Increases for the 1955-
.56 fiscal year totalling $2,222 were
granted to County Accountant and
Tax Supervisor Sam Gattis and
Tax Collector Carl Davis. Mr.
Davis’ salary was raised from $3,
600 to $3,750 a year and Mr. Gat
tis’ from $4,200 to $4,400. Both
were retroactive to last July 1.
Ilhe
I HOSPITALIZED
TocI»y's register of patrenl*
«t Memorial Hospital includo*
Miss Alice Alston, C. B. Bass,
O. J. Coffin, Miss Estella Council,
P. R. Gaston, Erne.st Crain, Carl
Edwards, Mrs. Cletus Edwards,
Mrs. Hurley Harris, Miss Cather
ine Henle.v, V. A. Hoyle, O. W.
Hudson, Richell Johnson, Cecil
Lloyd, Mrs E. S. Lloyd, Mrs. Rob
ert .McBane, Hank Messick, Mrs.
Thomas Oldham, T. IG Potts and
Mrs. Walter J. Williams.
Partly cloudy and cool tornor-
row. High today 60; low tonight
in tha mid 30s, High tomorrow
in the mid 50s.
And A Gre-e-e-a-t Big Fire Engine, Too
SANTA GREETS CHAPEL HILL KIDS AT CHRISTMAS OPENING CELEBRATION
.“.4 Big Six-Shooter Gun And Some- Spurs". .. . . .‘T'm A Real Good Boy, Sasita".
.."And My Brother Wants" A Bil,:e". . .
News Leader Photos
Thursday
High
43
Low
19
Rainfall
.00
Friday
45
24
.04
Saturday
69
37
.00
Sunday
67
53
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