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CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1955
S4)50 The Year By Mail
TWELVE PAGES THIS ISSUE
kE CHIEF W. T. SLOAN
I had only one white ap-
I'for the job of school guard
jn) at crossings near
pel Hill schools. Four uni-
Jwomen guards' were to re-
i police patrolmen on these
s^eginning January 2, but
lack of applicants may now
jie this, it seems. Several
Wory persons have applied
, job at the Negro school
Chief Sloan said.
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Local School Unit Expected To Get
Over $70,000 From State Bond Cut
jlND MRS. GEORGE WAL-
e'back home again after re-
ng in South Carolina from
1 injuries suffered in the
^ in which their baby dau-
a Ann,, was killed re-
'Mr. Wallin’s scheduled in-
: into the Army has been
until March. At a pre-
hearing in Asheboro on
The Negro truck driver
I charged in the wreck was
by the grand jiu-y to be
Tfor trial on manslaughter |
lesion January 30.
flNAME ESTES HILLS HAS
[given to the new 108-acre
now being developed
gvice Insurance and Realty
north of Hidden Hills,
ne is taken from Mrs. Col
b’s maiden name, and the
Jaroughfare in the develop-
be named Estes Drive.
Ifor the other three streets
ne .selected today.
Ichampion in the the mann
NEW MERCHANTS OFFICERS—Newly elected officers for the
coming year of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association,
shown at the annual elections meeting held Monday evening in the
Carrboro Baptist Church, are (seated, left to right) Mrs. Jane Whit
field, executive secretary; H. S. McGinty, president; Crowell Little,
outgoing president and member of the board of directors; Edward
'G. Danziger, vice-president; L. J. Phipps, attorney; (standing) Direc
tors Orville Campbell, Whid Powell, (stat^ director), Mrs. Lucy Sutton,
James H. Davis, Bill Hobbs, Bernard Whitefield, and Bernice Ward.
News Leader Photo
CHAMPION IN THE
: ticket derby is Bob Mer-
tiversity student, who paid
lintp the Recorder’s Court
|ek for 47 parking tickets
on the University cam-
la dollar apiece, plus $5.80
I of court.
ylAN WHO PLUNGED THE
nity into darkness on the
if November 6 when his car
Id a power pole on Sttowd
appealed a $150 fine iin-
by the Recorder’s Court
fon Monday. Claiborne Hun-
I of Durham offered no test-
|ny in pleading not guilty to
|en driving charges. A com-
lon count of reckless driving
non-suited.
IHE MERCHANTS ASSOC IA-
will erect two more illumina-
[copimunity Christmas trees in
1 downtown area. One will go
Ifront of the bus station and
other on the Baptist Church
per. Carrboro Mills donated' the
now erected in the high
fyard, on the Masonic Lodge
Iperty, and in front of the Rec
hter.
Itill looking for a suit-
I incation for a downtown off-
Kt parking lot, the Chapel Hill
*ihg Association has okayed
; ^creased interest rate for
Ids which will be sold to finance
I venture. It’s understood that
nerican Legion property on
jeinary Street is now “out” as
parking lot site.
Mpresentatives of the
fyn Studios of Hollywood, Cali-
piin, returned on Tuesday to
! fiouseholders their proofs for
fte taken several weeks before.
some persons had called
ijtown Hall to inquire about
Nip, since they hadn’t heard
N of their photos in quite
since they were taken.
P** heel football END
N'e will not only play in
-ast-West fodtball classic on
2. But he’s now accepter
Citation to play in the Hula
P af Honolulu on January 8
fjfist-season game pits natives
f*ast a picked team from the
N States. Three other Tar
unions will play in the Blue-
^^§ame at Montgomery, Ala-
during the holidays. They
in Keller, Jack Maultsby, 'and
pman.
5NG the PATIENTS AD-
to Memoinal Hospital in
few days were O.J. Coffin
A. Brauer. The forme;
bhn
I Ne dean of the Journalism
t'' the latter is the pre-
of the Dental School,
a Were reported today to be
I aaing favorably and are ex-
fo be out in a few days.
Merchants Elect McGinty, See $12,000 Budget;
Community Information Pamphlet; Proposed
Retail businessman H. S. Mc
Ginty has been elected President
of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Mer
chants Association for the coming
year, to succeed Crowell Little.
At its annual elections meeting,
in addition to electing officers, the
Association received a proposed
budget of $12,000—to include $2,
500 for promotions, was presented
a recommendation to prepare a
general information pamphlet on
the community, and heard com
mittee reports for the past year.
Vice-President Whid Powell an
nounced that an engraved plaque
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had been ordered in appreciation#
of the services of President Litlje,
who was also presented a set of
cuff links and a tie pin by .Bob
Cox, program committee chair
man for the past. year. About 85
persons attended the banquet ses
sion in the Carrboro Baptist
Church on Monday evening.
Other Officers
Other officers chosen, all on
unanimous ballot after nomination
by Herb Wentworth, acting for
the nominations committee, were:
Edward G. Danziger, vice-presi
dent; L. J. Phipps, attorney (re
elected); Whid POwell, state dir
ector; three-year directorships,
.lames H. Davis, Mrs. Lucy Sutton,
and, Bgffl.ard: W,h,U.efield,, a.nd..Bill,j
Hobbs, one-year directorship to
fill out the un-expired term of j
(See MERCHANTS. Page 2)
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Area Passed
Up As Location
For New Plant
.\n c.siinKiied ,S7i..jOo will:
1)C realized bv the Cilia]oel Mill
Special Seliool iJisri ua out of j
tl)e ,S2-,.000.000 in voter - ap-■
proved bond limds tliat was;
linalh distrihnied bv the State t
School Hoard ibis week.
The C.onnty "ot S20,i,2;(o...j2
! out of the state-wide total on the
basis of its need, ability to pay,
and local effort. The division of
money between the County and
city administrative units is on a
per pupil basis, whereby Chapel
Plill, with an estimated 35 per cent
of the pupils now, would get a
little over $71,400.
School Board Chairman Carl
Smith and Superintendent C. W.
Davis were both out of town yes
terday and today’, however another
member of the Board assured that
this sum would be well used here,
even thought it might not go di
rectly into the estimated million-
dollar capital outlay needs during
the next five years. ,
May Be Pared
The available S71,40o may be
sliced considerably before a lump
total is left free (for any new
building purposes, the board mem
ber pointed out. Here was his rea
soning: The local Board is obli
gated to pay back to the County
$10,000 that was loaned this fall
for the Lincoln gymtorium con
struction. An estimated $10,000
will be needed for additional cost
and equipment on this project be
fore its done sometime next sum
mer. And some of this $71,400 will
undoubtedly be needed for regular
grounds improvement, a capital ex
penditure every year until it was
cut completely this year to permit
the gymtorium construction.
Nex big building project on the
li.sl of 10 needed school lacilitics
on the five-year plan is the Chapel
Hill High School gymnasium, esti
mated to cost S125.000. .\ total of
.01' h.. hew;! ..illocat. I lo
Chapel Hill in the county - wide
school bond issue to be voted upon
next spring.
HOWARD TAPP AND C. T. McADAMS
. . . Give Saturdays To Roof-Raisrtig . . .
Two Large Gifts Announced
JOHN OLDHAM
Masons Elect
John Oldham
University Lodge No. 408 of Ma-
lons has elected John A. Oldham
to succeed Gran Childress as its
.Waster for the coming year.
Mr. Oldham, senior warden for
the past year, will be installed at
publi( Ceremonies in the Lodge
Hall next month. A University of
North Carolina graduate, he is a
foreman for Liggett and Myers
Tobacco Company in Durham.
. Other officers elected by the
Lodge members on Monday even
ing were: Lloyd Riggsbee, senior
warden: Bill Durham, junioi wai-
len: Joe Page, re-elected trea.s-
urer; John Hinson, secretary; and.
1. C. WHliams and Jack Andrews,
trustees. Mr. Andrews did not stand
;’or re-election as secretary after
nany, many years in this office.
The senior and junior deacons,
wo stewards, and a chaplain are
0 be appointed by the new Mas
ter.
A New England industrial firm,
which was described as the best
prospect yet for location of a
plant in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
area, has passed the community
by after receiving the red carpet
treatment from State, University
and County leaders from Governor
Hodges down.
Until Monday all the negotia
tions had been completely hush
hush, including a dinner meeting
at Chapel Hill some weeks ago
promoted by the top Department
of Conservation and Developmeir
officials, and attended by leaders
of the county Development Com
mission, the University, State
Treasurer Edwin Gill and former
treasurer Brandon Hodges.
The firm, which was never iden
tified, proposed * to build a mil
lion and a Fall dollar plant, which
would employ 500 persons, and
narrowed the field to two loca
tions from an original list of 48
sites.
In revealing the firm’s unfavor
able decision. Chairman Don Mat-
heson of the development commis
sion expressed disappointment at
the failure to secure this firm,
which he said was described as
one of the oldest and largest in
New England. He indicated the
belief that the county’s lack of
a large number of machine tool
They're All 'Raising The Roof'
In New Hope Church Community
Tax Listers Are Named
For Work In January
Tax listers were appointed for
each of the county’s seven town-
“Raising the roof” as a com
munity project has brought the
construction of the New Hope
Presbyterian Churc’h into its final
exterior building stages.
For the past three weekends up
to 50 members of the congregation
have turned out to give a full
day’s labor on Saturday to putting
on the roof decking slabs and car
rying out other construction jobs.
The Rev. John E. Ensign, church
pastor, has been directing the la
borers, along with one or two re
gular carpentei's. A similar work
project is planned to complete the
roofing job this Saturday. Entire
families tuim out for these oc
casions, the women coming along
to cook dinner in the big mess
hall at Camp New Hope and to
watch the younger children.
In utiliiing their own member
ship lor construction labor and
in building as funds become ava
ilable, the members ol the con
gregation hope to erect the es
timated $65,000 building for ap-
proximatly a third less than this
figure. They hope to have the en
tire structure finished debt-lree
(See NEW HOPE, Page 2)
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workers might have been a factor
in the decision to locate elsewhere.
State Foots The Bill . . .
Long-Awaited-And Expensive
Glenwood Stoplight Installed
A long
awaited—and expensive
ped for pedestrian traffic by press-
a button on any of three poles,
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-Stoplight Lennox two of them on the Glen Lennox
Highway 54 at
nain entrance day before yestei-
lay.
The four-way traffic light will
stay on “go” for highwaytraffic all
he time except when it is tripped
by actuators in the pavement at the
highway entrance on Hamilton
Road and also, on Ayr Road. The
highway traffic may also be stop-
side and one on the Glenwood
School side of the highway.
The entire installation cost over
$3,300. The monthly electric toll
will be paid by the State Highway
Safety Department. Residents of
the area, and the Glenwood Par
ent-Teacher Association in partic-
(See STOP-LIGHT, Page 2)
AFTER THREE YEARS—"Signals Ahead" is a welcome word for residents of the Glenwood area who
have been pushing for the past three years for the ereotion of a signal stoplight at the Glen Lennox
main entrance. The four-face light, in two different sections (as shown above), was hung at the entrances
to Hamilton and Ayr Roads on Highway 54 this week, and represents a $3,300 outlay on the part of the
Nominating Group
Named On Intergration
A five-man nominating commit
tee for an integration study group
in local schools has been named
by the Chapel Hill School Board.
As the first step toward select
ing a larger committee to study
the racial integiation proposition
in its schools, the Board named
the following persons, represent
ing different geographical areas
of the local district, to bring in
nominees for the committee itself:
Guy Phillips, chairman, and Collier
Cobb of Chapel Hill; the Rev. J. R.
Manley, to represent Negroes of
the district; Jesse Cole, for the
southern rural area: and C. Y. Til-
son for the northern and eastern
rural area.
Whether or 'not the committee
to be finally named by the Board
itself would be all white or mixed,
and how many members it should
contain wa.s not decided by the
Board during its discussion of the
man Carl Smith .said the formation
of a study committee had been
strongly recommended by the
State Board of Education. It’s ex
pected the group will be chosen at
the Board’s January meeting.
A delegation of parents appear
ed before the board to complain
that some school bus drivers were
racing, going through stop signs
and signal lights, using profanity,
and running iiTegular schedule.s.
Sui>erintendent Davis reported that
the school has been limited in its
choice of drivers, but that more
have been trained recently lor
these fobs. He said that one driver
believed particularly re.sponsible
for the. complaints had been re
placed and that every effort possi
ble was being made to correct the
situation.
The resignation of Ray Sizemore
as agriculture teacher at the
School was accepted, effective
matter on Monday evening. Chair- January 27.
Glen Lennox Prize Added .
Outdoor Yule Lighting Here
Joined In $5,000 GE Contest
ships by the Board of Commission
ers Monday.
They will work during the month
of January for tax listing as re
quired by law. All have previou.s-
ly served in that capacity.
By townships the appointed lis
ters are:
Chapel Hill, L. R. Cheek; Hills
boro. R. J. Smith Jr.; Cedar Grove,
R. C, 'Compton; Bingham, Jeter
Lloyd; flno, Mrs. J. D. Griffin;
Cheeks, Henry R. Heath; and Little
River, A. E. Wilson.
A chance to win $5,000 in cash awards offered in the General
Electric nationwide Christmas Lighting Contest is offered locally
through entering the News Leader’s community-wide outdoor Christ
mas lighting contes-t.
-At least two winners in the local competition, for which prizes
totalling $40 are to be given, will be entered in GE’s national contest.
Winners of 22 prizes, ranging from $50 to S500 in the GE contest,
will be announced January 6.
Rules in both contests are quite simple, A panel of judges from
the Chapel Hill Gardejj Club will announce the first, second, and
thir i t'z" winners here on December 22. All households in Chapel
iiiU, Oarrborb, Glen Lennox, and the sunounding .suburban and rural
areas which have outdoor lluminafed displays erected will be eligible.
However, to assni-e that the jud'ges will see the displays, the owners
are asked to telephone this office.
The local prizes are being provided by four firms, representing
different areas of the community—-Senter’s Drug Store, Bennett and
Blocksidge, Roses five and Ten-Cent Store, and Pace in Glen
Lennox.
In Glen Lennox a special additional prize of a $25 U.S. Savings
Bond will be given by the Glen Lennox management for the apan-
ment with the best illuminated outside window and door decorations.
This extra prize is being offered there so the apartment dwellers
will have as good a chance to win some prize money as will those
who have private homes. The same judges will be used there as for
the community-wide competition and Glen Lennox decorating projects
will be considered in the over-all judging, too
Final Plea For Adoption
Issued In Stocking Fund
Many needy families in Oi-ange
OPEN P. O. windows early
The parcel post and stamp
windows at the Chapel Hill Post
Office will open Sf 8 a.m. begin-
ing Monday and continuing at
least through December 20,
I land, 3656, and fill a box for Cln-n •
County will have an empty Christ-i mas, said Mrs. Weaver. Needi.l
mas uDies,s Empty Stocking “adop
tions” pick up in the next three
days; according to Mrs. Fred Wea'v-
er, chairman of the campaign. To
date only 110 out of a total of 450
1 amities or Lndividuals have been
adopted and the deadline for choos
ing families is next Monday.
“We are trying to help about
one-third more families this year
over last, and we urgently request
every organization, social group,
campus organization, or neighbor
hood to call Mrs. Gordon B. Cleve-
items are an article ol clothing,
some food, and a simple toy for
the children, and no matter wheth
er you pack a large or a small box,
your contribution will be more
than welcome to those who have so
little.”
Can ycru resist the need of swh
a man?
This 66 - year - old rnati lives
alone and is very lonesome. He
h(i.s no close living relations. Un-
(See EMPTY STOCKING, Page 2)
State.
News Leader Photo
High Court's Docket
Contains 148 Cases
HOSPITALIZED
Today's register of patfents
et Memorial Hospital includes
Resident .Judge Leo Carr of Bur
lington will face an unusually
heavy docket of 148 cases when
he opens a one-week criminal and
mixed term of Orange County Su
perior Court in Hillsboro on Mon
day.
The'calendar contains 14 uncon
tested divorces, 16 appearance doc
ket cases, anl 118 regular cases.
Included are the murder charges
against Donald Hargis, Otis Wad-
ford, and Kenneth King of Dur
ham for the death of Mrs. Alva
Tew, found in Clearwater Lake last
August. Highway robbery charges
against Earl Thrower of Rocking
ham for the hold-up of the Univers
ity Motor Lodge are also to be
heard.
Assault and battery and kidnap-
Craved B. Bass, Oscar J. Cof
fin, Estella Council, Charles Louis
Diggs, C. C. Edwards, Mrs. C. Ed
monds, Daniel Gallik, Steven L.
Gray, Mrs. Hurley Harris, Miss Ca
therine Henley, Leroy Ingram, Ric-
helk Johnson, Mrs. E. L. Lloyd,
Carl A. McPherson, Hank Messick,
Mrs. Thomas Oldham, Scott Par
ker, T. F. Potts, Mrs. W. B. Stov
all, Miss Roberta Zwahlen, Mrs.
W. J. William,s and Mrs. Henry
Wishnow.
Weather Reports
Cold tonight. Tomorrow mostly
fair and colder. High today in tho
ping and abduction charges against; 50s; low tonight 27-33. t4igh
Mis. Sallie Atkinson, Mrs.  Cora Joworrow 47-51.
Bejester, and Mrs. Alice Ince, in j High
connection with the beating of Mrs. I Monday 65
Hugh Wilson, are scheduled for: Tuesday 57
trial on Tuesday. 1 Wednesday . 41
Low Rainfall
40 ,00
36 .00
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