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11 f, 'll ,«JS. f‘ rief iltC EP'isi ii B!;li (* till, liiij. liUnB ik ills. Ito H l!l Ml % m Officei iemafy Street Office: f, Carrboro Chapel Hill News Leader —V Leading With The News in Chapel Hili, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas Fall Fashion Preview For our own preview of fall fashions for women in Chapel Hill watch for Nancy Winborne'j full-page feature in next Mon day’s issue. GO- CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST U, 19S6 TBLEPHONS 8-444 TEN PAGES'THIS ISSUE Mrs. W. P. Jordan, 68, Passes At Home Early This Morning Mrs. W. P. Jordan, 68, died at 40’LL REALLY her home here at 6 o’clock this le new parking morning following a lengthy Society and Columbia “oss. time the Uni- Funeral services will be held begins will be tomorrow afternoon at 4 o’clock rk Mrs. Barbara from the University Methodist n fraternities Church, of which she wag a mem- by the new re- ber. The Rev. Charles Hubbard, ly .to take effect pastor, assisted by the Rev. wn officials are CharlCg E. Maddry, of Hillsbonoi ps to notify fra- will officiate. Burial will be in of this in ad- the Chapel Hill Cemetery. The e good brothers’ family has suggested that tributes ggies to Chapel in the form of contributions to fall’s coming, the American, Cancer iiCiJl of pink ticket would be appropriate. IllJte Mrs. Howdy Pallbearers will be J. C. Jor- f excuses to get dan, B. C. Hedgepeth, Wesley J. dollar for their Noble, ;c. W. Etheridge, R. E. Jor- lii li|| ;hts. dan, and Robert Chandler; hon- 'I'fel) LACE, CHAPEL orary pallbearers—B. S. Thomp son, J. B. Chase Jr., W. E. Rosen- stengel, V. A. Hill, J. F. A. Thomp son, R, W. Foister, R. D. Rascoe, and J. R. Byers Jr. The former Annie Rebecca Sugg, she was boTh in Chapel Hill on January 18, 1888 to William Mad ison and Tabitha Fancette Sugg ang was m.arried to Mr. Jordan on Christm'as Day, 1913. She was the founder of the Chapel Hill Garden and clothing in Club and a long-time member of bt by Henry Mc- From The Editor In Chicago... HI Democratic Convention: An Orgy hence in th milling, noisy crowd that fills the lobby it is possible to see familiar faces. For instance, Roland McClamroch of Chapel Hill has ju.st gone by, A1 Resch of the Chatham News at Siler City ha.s stopped for a talk, and so has Victor Meekins of Dare County. This is not so much a political HOTEL MORRISON. CHTCADO convention as an orgy. People use (Note: News Leader Editor Phillips Russell is in Chicago this week for the National Dem ocratic Convention. We are pleased, herewith, to pass on his Impressions of the convention scene as sent via air mall cor respondence early this week.) middle-aged and settled married Inject some rousement, but he did- —^This is headquarters for th^ North Carolina delegation to the Democratic National Convention, it to escape the routine and nio* notony that afflict existence at home. Most of the delegates are men with grey in their hair land a paunch at their middles. Young men are scarce; they cannot afford to take time off from their jobs or to meet the expense. Hence nothing daring or unusual is to be expected at such affairs except once in a while when a big emotional issue comes up. The young Gov. Clement of Tennessee, who made the keynote n’t. All orators ought to be re minded once a week 'Chat th« long er the speech the greater the tiredness of the listener. Clement would have done well if he had stopped two-thirds of the way. But he kept on until ihis audience was VfWd-fagged. “Fag” is already , written large on many faces. Committee w'ork, caucuses, and midnight meals are speech last night was expected to hard on middle-aged people who value comfort. Senator Kefauver has just gone by surrounded by a grim entourage. His face is broken with tiredness. Adlai Stevenson must be worse. Yet the orgy is as yet young. Good thing it come.s only once in four years. Oftener it would kill off half the population. Yet while it goes on people enjoy the ex citement like a drunk. and bon vivant also attending •nvention in Chi- oned Mrs. Wall- report, among Stevenson had' it MRS. W. P. JORDAN Photo by Lavergne HVwlf J: CO^IOEN rom their Euro- fday morning to destruction of the University Methodist Church, in which she served 'the Women’s Missionary Society as President and for 20 years as Treasurer. Surviving are her husband, two daughters, Mrs- Sherman E. Smith of Albuquerque, N.M., and Mrs. William E. Green of Chapel Hill; a sister, Mrs. S. J. Brock- well of Chapel Hill; and two grandsons. HODGES TO TALK HERE Governor Luil-her Hodges will speak before a combined meot- ing of the Chffpel Hill Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs here at Ihe Kl- wants meeting on September 4. The Haw River Kiwanians have also b:^en invited to foln in the occasion. Final arrangements for the session are still to be com pleted. ' New Parking Restrictions Are Approved Rosemary St. Ban Starts Sept. 10; Hour Limit Put On Columbia St. >nvieted burglar local homes re- le more serious id, w’hich wasn’t y/as the slash- piece of cloth- in two closets, ely, was insured. 'ERGNE JOHN- Sumnier Dollar Days Fhis Friday, Saturday The community’s second Curb,Guifer Contract For $50,350 Approved Installation of curbing and gut- which the Town is to pave. A com- ilta, on the Grand ters ah eight local streets will be pletion deadline of 240 days is in- when his name carried out soon under terms of eluded in the contract, respective jurors a $50,350 contract signed by the The job is to be financed wdth jring the coming Town of Chapel Hill this week. funds approved in the municipal n will serve for this year. Other are J. B. Fau- Neville, Bernard Hawkins, C. W. arnhardt Claude Br’Own. Marion foreman. DO OVER THE The work will be done by the bond issue last year and with some Williani Muirhead Construction Co. of Durham, low^ bidder on the job. Towm authorities re-negotiated the project wdth Muirhead after his .earlier low bid was over $7,- 000 above the latest figure. A rc- survey of necessary excavation in putting in,the 12,300 feet of curb- money saved from the anticipated cost of the recent storm sewer in stallations. Mr. Rose also noted today that he had received a curb and gutter pe tition from residents of Oakw'ood Drive representing approximately 4 875 of the 9,000 feet of frontage nual summer Dollar Days sales promotion for Chape) Hill and Carrboro will be staged in local stores tomorrow and Saturday with reduced price bargains be ing featured in nearly all busi ness houses. Carlton Byrd, Chairman of the Merchants Association’s Trade Promotions Committee which sponsors the event, reported good cooperation from mer chants In offering extra mer chandise values for this event. i ‘"I believe our merchants realize that offering real values and bar gains during Dollar Days is the only way to hold the customers we are attracting/' he said. New parking restrictions in cen- commercial rifle or pistol range, tral Chapel Hill havp been approv- as is expected to be requested by ed by the Town’s Board of Alder- the Institute of Government for its men. law enforcement officers training No parking at all will be per- urogram; discu.sserl arran.gements milted on Rosemary Street from for sewer lines installation in the -Boundary Street west to Carrboro Glendale sector, after Sept. 10, according to the Approved the'installation' of a renns of an ordinance which the :‘;rcet light on Cameron Court: Beard has directed Town Attorney agreed to assume maintenance t)f 50-Acre Annexation Hearing Set Sept. 10 Annexation of another east-side residential subdivision to the Town of Chapel Hil] appears like ly as a result of a formal petition, for annexation that .has been pre- John LeGrand to preseht at its Penick Lane when the necessary the^ Town Aldermen. next meeting. At the present time right-of-w'ay i.s secured decided these restrictions are already in to have traffic lanes marked at effect on the two central blocks- the Raleigh St.-South Road inter- of the street. Requested By Merchants .'itriction of parking on South In compliance, with a request Road; agreed to grade a 30-foot from the Chapel Hill-Carrboro right-of-way into Estes Hills for a Merchants Association the alder- di • ance of 1,100 feet from Dur- men also agreed to the passage of ham Road, thi.s section to bo hard- an ordinance restricting parking surfaced by the developers of on the two central block.* of Co- Estes Hills. Representatives of the Chapel Hill Housing Group, newly-formed developers of a tract /off the bypass section; discussed the po:-jible re- behind Glenwood School, asked the annexation in a petition from their trustees, Robert Agger, Robert Gladstone, Harold Harris, and John Kelton. At their Monday evening meet ing the aldermen agreed to a pub lic hearing on the question on lumbia Street — between Cameron Agrc:-*d to maintenance Sept. 10, after which time the area increase by about 50 acres the present 2,200 acres in the munici pality. The Housing Group is composed of 23 persons, all of whom plan to build homes for themselves in their subdivision. This tract that borders Finley Golf Course to .its rear and was recently purchased from the W. C. Coker estate. The University Trustees and the Chap el Hill School Board have both ap proved the annexation idea for their sectors. It is expected that the Housing Group’s property would be developed within the coming yearf and Rosemary Streets, to one hour, of Elizabeth St. — the section on The businos.smen’’s group noted Durham Road recently abandoned that Hus area is convenient for as a public highway; decided to e truck came up ing and driveways made possible on the street. While the aldermen ’J*^ Well In 'Black' .lig’s board of al- the new low bid, according to Town Mayor Cornw'ell Manager Thomas D. Rose imen report that nburhan truck in d In the absence jjrmanent arrange- lilfl getting to be a I 'n authorities ex- ng that the Dis- jlOl mission should ipose some reg- Town’s housing npensation there- their truck out station. PARKING Sir en have on asion recently pos'fb.iliity of ig on South (Ral- The work is to he done on Sunset Drive, N. Graham St., Brookside Drive, BriarhrWgc Valley, KcDade St., two blocks of N. Columbia St., have acknowledged receipt of the petition, the work cannot be car ried out until new bond Issue funds become available, the Town Manager said. Property owners will then re-imburse the Town for the cost of the project in install- Valley Park Drive, and the alley ment payments over a maximum of behind stores on E. Franklin St., 10 years. White Cross Baby Is Killed In Tragic Truck Accident David Branson, 17-months-old afternoon from the graveside at Cool Springs Cemetery in Denton, Davidson’ County. k' It al of a previous Rosemarjr Street uestionably clear, nd the ban from blocks to the en- street west from by a tive-to-one vis against). But who broke a tie efeated this mo- ked forward to a on the question lie other way now, it’s worked out,” 3n’t have to vote (id .Kl*'' af son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Branson of the White Cross Community, .... een Woollen was killed yesterday morning when angle as a move a milk truck passed over him in ion on this road, his’ front yard, sted one town of- 'The Orange County Coroner mi ni we do with "!■'* u.ive. ..uu. ...... - ill the University cident” in releasing the ru stopped for a moment to chat by the same date, ta put ’em?” er,/Henrj' J. Morns, a neig or ^ Rran.snn .sftpr Hplivpriner Maior catefforv Stopped For Moment According to County Sheriff Odell Clayton the accident occur red about 10:30 a.m. Mr. Morris, a driver from Meadowgold Dairy, The Town of Chapel Hill finish ed the 1955-06 fiscal year well in the “black” by underspending its budget and underestimating is revenue. The financial report for the year as prepared by' Town Man ager Thomas D. Rose showed that $217,714 had been budgeted in the general fund whereas only $213,057 was spent—a saving of $4 ,656. Revenue had been esti mated at $251,414 and a total of $264,109 was received. The ad valorem tax billing for taxes currently due was $153,770, out of W'hich slightly over 92 per cent—$142,920—was collected as of August 1. This average was slightly higher than the propqrt- shoppers’ parking, but that it is now largely U‘d for unrestricted parking of fraternity members ca:s. • fhe /?!d«rmcn the banning of Rosemary Street parking at their Monday evening meeting Alderman Gene Strowd suggested that serious consider ation be given to erecting two additional signal lights on this street to better control traffic. Alderman Obie Davis, sole Board member to vote against the parking ban, declared that to merely restrict parking on this east-west thoroughfare would make it “a speedway.” In other traffic and ^‘treets niat- iers the Board also agreed to ban daytime parking in front of the Chapel Hill Elementary School to facilitate loading and unloading of School children and to limit park ing on AV. Franklin St. to one hour from Columbia through to the Roberson St. corner. Set Zone Hearing The Alde^^men also: Approved a change in the Town’s zoning code .‘.nd out sewer rent bills at the $30 out-of-ta^^'n rate to residents in th? sectors annexed recently Inasmuch as town taxed will not be could be brought in by simple,vote o'f the aldermen via the mutual .consent procedure. The sector for which annexation is .sought includes the wooded hill area of 26 acres owned by the Housing - Group, the Glenwood 34 REGISTER a.s fssod there until 1957; and de-, fJiooI—w^ich boi'#ers the prrf^eH elded to re-evaluMe the Town’s en- southern town limits, and a Uni tire iTstem of sewer rental ve’'.sit3* tract in between these two charges in the near future. plots. Annexing of this area would Large Still Cut Near Blackwood's One of the largest whiskey mak- hurt’s death about five months ing operations in Orange County ago. in recent years’came to a sudden Arrested in connection with end Tuesday night when the op,- the still were Charlie Griffin who jQk total of 34 newly qualified voters were registered in ChapsI Hill and Carrboro Saturday for th«? '.vpei«b elecAfon, SenUo’ntv 3, r>. tb'j constitutions! admend merits. Registrars of the six p«-e cinct headquarters termed the registration ^Mlght/' but reported ♦hat they received numerous in quiries from voters seeking to confirm previous registration or eligibility. Absentee voters should write to Orange County Elections Chairman Sam Latta in Hillsboro. Registration will ba held at the usual polling places this Saturday and again .August 25. erators returned to their boldly- conceived location to the waiting arms of the Sheriff and his depu ties. Caught in the haul; two men, “"a 1941 model automobile, 700 lbs. of sugar, 17 cases of whiskey, four bags of coke, 20 c.ase of empty ional take for County taxes, where permit the setting up of a non- fruit jars and 3,000 gallons of beer 90 per cent had been collected who had just made »0 R E, ON THE the Bransons -Mayor Cornwell his regular delivery to the h^e with Mrs. Branson after delivering Major category in which eollec- and had seen the lad move away from the vicinity of the truck at his request. Funeral services were held this milk 'to ' the household, according to the Sheriff. He reported that both Jhe (See BABY KILLED, Page Sir) tions exceeded anticipated amounts was in intangible taxes where $9,- 821 wa.s collected though only (See FISCAL REPORT. Page 6) Carrboro Paving Contract Let E N D E N T Of avis’ office 'is be- h the Cone House room on the High the building. “— able to keep a P pupils, though,” Mrs. Bernice >1 System’s super- truction, will take present office. fth time, the wn Manager re- ) change the brand o eliminate house sewer plant. Noth- any of the other except that after )s become immune noted, DDT won’t 'HI—they parctical- I HOSPITALIZED I Today's register ef patrents I St Memorial Hospital ineludes Robert C. Akridge, Fred Tony Barbee, Jr., Jamison Granis But ler, Mrs. Charity Bynum, Alexand er B. Cox, Mrs. Sahra K. Dollar, Betty Harrell, Milton Webster Harris, William Gregroy Huff, James Cecil Jones, Clifton Lee King, Mrs. Joe Lewis, John N. Neville, Watts Dixon Poe, Alease " Hay, Mrs. Ella J. Smitli, Mrs. Sarah L. Smith, Mrs. Jake Wade. A paving contract for approx imately $5,000 has been let by the Carrboro Board of Commiss ioners to the T. A. Loving firih of Raleigh. The improvements to Fidelity, Lloyd. Weaver, and Ash Streets ■are to be carried out during the next 90 days. At the Board’s meeting night before last Town Engineer John Gove told the commissioners that he would have specifications for the pro posed $40,000 expansion of the Town’s sewer plant ready late this week. The Board also voted to widen Main Street by five feet on its south side for the distance of the block between Greensboro Street and Jones Ferry Road. 'Bids will, he sought on this job shortly, according to Mayor R. .8, Todd. He said the Board also planned to look into the possi bility of widening North Greens boro St. Mrs. Fred Patterson Sr. Passes Away Tuesday GiraMeside services were heyld at 11 o’clock fchis morning in. the Chapel Hill Cem&tery for Mrs. Fred G. Patterson Sr., 75, of 105 Pickard Lane, who died Tuesday n:gh't following a lengthy illness. The Rev, Vance Barron of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church officiated. The former Miss Blanche Pickard, Mrs. Patterson was the daughter of the late Walter W. and Betty Pickard. A native Chapel Hillian, she attended the Woman’s College in Greensboro. Surviving are one son. Dr. Fred G. Patterson Jr., of Chapel Hill, and three grandchildren. The fam ily has suggested tlian any tributes be made in the form of contribu tions to the Chapel Hill Presby terian Church Building Fund.^ in process. Sheriff Odelj Clayton said the still Jiad been operated within 500 yards of the late S. P. Lockhart resides in the old Sunnyside Ser vice Station on Highway 70-A east of Hillsboro and Homer Griffin, from Franklin County, Virginia. Charlie Griffin escaped from the stiir site but was later arrested at his home while the Virginia man, said to be*in his fifties, was caught at the scene. Water for the operation was se cured through a plastic hose run from the Lockhart yard* Sheriff Clayton said about 40 barrels of - - home on the famed turkey farm ,ma.sh were in process and with the near Duke Forest, just east of sugar and other materials being 'Blackwood Station. The home has brought in another large run ap- been unoccupied since Mr. Lock- peared on the way. . Fair to partly cloudy today, to night and tomorrow with some afternoon and evening thunder showers. Little change in tem peratures. High today, around 90; low tonight, upper 60s. High to- morrC'W, upper 80s. High Low Rainfall Monday 91 68 .20 Tuesday 93 70 .03 Wednesday 92 67 .16 Ackiand Building Bids Are Highly Pleasing' Low bids for ”“’'5 the William Hayes iai Art Museum at the Um ty of North Caroltaa totalled ahou^ $725,000 when bldg were P here yesterday. ■university Bujinea^s the proposals, to the were Manager acceptance. He predicted that a start could be made on construc tion of the building, to be erected on South Columbia Street at the west edge of the campus, within a few weeks, assuming that con tracts can be let on normal sched- The two - story colonial - style ham and is expected to take be- twen a year and 18 months to build. It is understood that a total of more than $900,000 may be available for the ovsr-all project. Low bidder for the general con tract was C. C. Woods Construc tion Co., of Durham, $429,800. The 15 general contract bids ranged up on Page Six) Claude Teague ly pleased” with which will be submit e - aj-chitect Raymond Week^ of Dur- the ^tructwe caused some of the $10,496. Foua^atiop ... brick building wag designed by to $535,000. Possible alternates on bid totals to vary. The low bidder for the plumb ing contract contract was the Al liance Co., of. Durham, $22,750. Other contractors’ low bids were: heating, ventilating, and air-con ditioning, Stahl-Rider Co., Raleigh, $112,600; electrical, Dickg Electric Co,, Wilson, $62,469; and elevators, Otis Elevator Co.. Greensboro. DEATH OF A STILL—Orange County Sheriff’s Deputies Ear! Bush and W. E. Clark Jr., dismantle the big liquor-making outfit uncovered on the border of the Duke Forest property five miles north of Chapel Hill on Tuesday. The S3-barrel outfit had al .most 3,000 gallons of brew mashed in, and had as>- parently been in eperatipn several mgnths. Twg m;n were captured at the site. New§ Leader Photo II i ill
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