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Chapel Hill News Leader Ltod'ng V/tth Th* ,r Cftope/ Hiil, Carrbcyo, G!*n and Surround'ng Arw* VOL. Ill, NO, 93- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1956 One Lesson From Big Armies Tt scciri.s.at limes ;is if the utmt titing that can happen'ta a country is to have a l)ig ariiiv, ■' Rus.sia lia.s been a; ting in Hungary as the British gotcrtinicnt acted touard latlonial Atnerica previtms to 1776 and it has been .acting leceuliy in’ ligyjit. Wit.ho'ut lliciv big armies the Ritssi.in.s ivouid inoljafilv lia\c inve.sligatetl the Hun- gai'ian siiualion, dcicctcd tlic faults, .and liavc arritf-'d ,it an" arrangement tvliereln' ilmigary cotild liate liecn kept Iriendly .and (oopeiative. But the 'Russians dutse to .sma.sb the sit uation with a sledge hamnier. In lonsequence Iliingarv is lost to the Soviet group: and the world, tvliich tva.s beginning to think Soviet Rn.ssia had it.s meiit.s so long as they tvgre kept in Rus.sia, i.s alienated. Siiuilarlv the Briti.sh government could have easih kept its .Xincritan tolonic.s loy.al bv couiproinise and conciliation, lor history now rectuxis that the rebtds t\eie at fir.st a minoritv, while subjeds loyal to ffeorge III acre nunieron.s. But a luill-Iicafled goserunicnt in Britain, blinded by its own power, ihretv an army— part of it impoited from (ierniany .igainst the di.ssati.sfied inhabitants of ibe 13 eolon- ies. Wliat tvonidn'i. hate been Britain s si/e and potver and inlhient t' il it htavln t gotttm into a rage and tried to stamp out the .Vmcriean uprising by loree? .■\ big army makes a government ariogant and bnllving and insufferable. An army makes a iiaiiou think it can suTrstitute miisch: for brains. History says (he V. S. ought to take wai 11- ing from these examples. But hisltuy also savs it won't. No Mushroom Growth 'I he (ihapel [{ill Board of .Aldermen is retehing nuraerotis retiue5t.s for the re-zon- ing ol pro|iertv so that certain bnildingv and lots mav be icmosed from the residential lassifit aiion and pm in the busine.ss classi- fitation, riic.sc arc evidence ol the town's growtli and may in future be expected to multiply lather than decrease. It would be impossi ble to suggest :v lormnla in govern the aider- men's deeisioirs. since each ca.se must be de- Ihied oil its mat its and on the necessities of tlte Kmn's welfare. Blit one outstanding tiling can always be kept in mind:* that Chapel Hill is not a conimert ial center and cannot be converted into one wilh©i't damaging the verv asset lh;it Irts made tlie town a dcsiiable-dwclling place. rite town must grow, to be sure, and its cxp.ansion is not to be enclosed in a vise: but this growth must be guided and kept within the bounds of safety and good sense. in recent yeans tlie tommnnitv lias been snbiecl to various .spurts and stimula tions, Bm the,sc will in due counse lessen and their effects wil take their plate in the tom- nimiiiy liistorv. '] hat a miishiooin grow th cun lead to loss and rash invcstmeiu is proved by the fate of local filling stations which have been aban doned or proved to be unprofitable. Chapel Hill is the center of a pleasant coiu- iiuniity. It will be stub only as long as all It; :kIs agree dnd combine to keep il .so. Teachers With Burned Eyelids .Some of tl’.c.;d.apane.sy gitls struck, bv the .Amcrient aionru blast at- Hiroshima weie imable fo lose 'their burned eyelids. This fr I i.s one of the manv tragic o.nes distlosed settee tlig ,.g3rlsi.w'li^i-have been Heated at .Amciican hospitals have been re- ttinied to their homeland.’ •- ■‘Suigeiy", srts ;i iLpni, "tvas needed to restore fm'',.' n-, cf rite cyelit.ls. mouths, (iiins. .1 !i.^ :;iid legs of the girls.” rii ' repot t is .almost coincident with an- oih r wliidf says President F.isenhow'er's first reaciii tt to the unverified rumor that Russ ians would help the Hgvptians light, was to suggest that a few atomic homhs would stop them. This mav be mcrelv a war lie—ol the sort which ill tense times becomes colossal and majestic in size and oclot. Bnt whether the President had sitdi an idea or not. he will have plentv of aides ami subordinate.s who will Ijc retdv to h;md out the H-bombs tvheii the war clouds get blacker. Suppose a few bombs—ten thousand times stronger than any explosive known a few years a,go—are dropped on the relativelv sparsely ij.settjed l;nids of thejAfiddle lya.st. What rc,sults can be expected beyond a few thousand burned, eyelids/ Suppo-sc, on the other limid, we some day' drop our hoarded bombs on Red Cli’ina. The popnlation there i.s estimated at yyo millions. We might destroy a hundred mill ion Chinese, so that the laiid.s. the livers, would run with blood. But what of it. China would still have 350 millions left. .Meantime ivhat would we gain if our pop- nloti.s indnslrial centers like Philadelphia, Cleveland, Detroit, and Buffalo were wiped out hv retaliating bombs? The mangled jiapaiiesc girls came to tlie Ih S. as patients.'But we might do better to, tliiuk ol them as teachers. 44 Bird Species Strike TV Tower And Die By TROTT Follow'-ing is an account of trage dies at the television tower near Chapel Hill whio^h seems to be unique not only in the num'bor of birds killed but in the number of species O.n Monday, .^tober 1. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wallers. Bill Hoe and I drove to the terevision tower on Terrell's Mouiii^Th so^e.six'mile? west of Cha;pel''%i.i].. The bodies of birds were seatt'crcd'.so .thick ly aix)und the base^ of the tower and an estimated'100 feet , out on all sides that it was difficult to walk without stepping on them. Aid seemed to have broken necks and a few bad 'fractured breast i bones and shattered bills. Ibis* gives some indication of the force with which they collided. 'From the information gathered by peo ple who study bird tligiht it has been found that most small birds generally fly at a rate between 35 and 40 miles per hour. The tower, built on one of Ibe liiglicst hills in this area, is 733 feet. high. The red -lights on the structure are grouped in sets of six at .s-pace intervals of ten feet. Ceiling Low The major part of the birds pre sent on Oct. 1 had hit the tower on Friday night, Sept. 23, wben the celling w'as quite lowc This was. interesting enou'gh, only two da^s after what was leii’t of ■‘Flos sie." the hurricane, had roared through North Carolina and up the coHsi. Flossie’s high winds may have kept large numbers of birds from continuing south once they had started and numbers of them had been massed in front of the hurricane's force. This may ac count for the fact that so manv icular time. The m,embers of our party pick ed up a good sampling of the birds, including all the different species present and examples of plummage variation. In -late sum mer many birds go tihrough a moulting period and change from their usually bright attire of the spring and summer into the some what dullre feathers fur winter. One species, of bird may have many variations in plummage. This often makes identification of birds difficult at this season of the year. On the following afternoon we gathered at the Waltea-s home and spent some three hours going over the birds and identifying them. We were aided in this difficult job by Mi-s. "Matt Thompson. Out of 125 individuals brought back we found 40 different species rep- resenied. It was estimated by the group that approximately five per cent of the birds were brought back. This w’ould indicate that the number killed was in the vicinity of -2,.5(Xi birds. Warbler one. Chestnut-.sided War-, bier five, Bay-breasted Warbler three. Black-poll Warbler one. Prairie Warbler three, Westei-n Palm Warbler one. Oveiibird four, Northern Water-Thrush two, Ken tucky Warbler two, Connecticut Warbler one, Yellow-Throat 23 (6 •males. 17 fema'les or immature males). Yellow-breasted Chat four. Hooded Warbler two, Wilson's Warbler one, Redstart four, Bobo link two, Baltimore Oriole one. Indigo Bunting two ffeinales', Grasshopper Sparrow one, Song Sparrow’ one. New Species Following is a list of the differ ent species identified with the numbers of eaeh; Yellow-biUed Cuckoo one Yellow-ibiiled Fly- catcher one, House Wren four, Long-^billed Marsh Wren tw'o. Cat bird tw'o. Brown Thrasher one. Wood Thrush one, Olive-backed Thrush two. Gray-cheeked llirush two, Veerv’ two. 'Red-eyed Vireo 11, Black and White Warbler seven, Prot'honotary Warbler tu-o. Worm eating Warbler tw'o, Tennessee Warbler tw'o, Panila 'W^arbler one, Yellow’ Warbler one. Magnolia Warbler seven, Black-Throated Blue Warbler four. Blackburnian birds were migrating at one part- Warbler one, Yellow-Throated On Oct. 3 the ceiling was again low so we returned to the tower on the fourth but found few’ fresh victims, There were, however, four new specie's represented with a . Black-Throated Green Warbler, two 'White-eyed Vireos, a Chim ney Swift and a Flicker. This brought the total nuniber of spe cies to 44. Three w’oundcd .Red starts. tW'O ifemales and a male, were running alwut in the brush al the base of the tower unable to fly, Tliey had been injuiTd in the collision but not enough to kill them. Whether an^dliing can lie done to prevent this annual tragedy re mains to be .seen, It seems obvious that something must be done. In a rec^ent. edition of Time maga zine, under the caption, “Never undei'estimate the power of a bird watcher," it w’as retried that the National Audubon Society had persuaded the officials concerned to cut off the lights at certain lev’els on tlie Empire State Build ing fo]' a few’ nights during the fail migration. This, at any i-ate, is a start. 'Ike's Taking This Pretty Hard' Surgical Aid For Hiroshimans Chips That Fall (New York Times) An average of more than five recoii.srructive operations apiece— for a total of 140 was performed on the twenty-five Hiroshima girls during llTe sixteen months that they were treated at Mount Sinai Hospital in Nevv York City. achieved here.by. plastic .surgeons lia.s ievideiitly reached Japan; for last week Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review, reported that more than 15,000 applications bad been received from atomic-” scarred Japanese who sought medical treatment similar to that given in the United States to the twenty-five Hiroshima girls. Surgery w’c.s needed to restore function of the eyelids, mouths, chins, hands, arms and legs of the girls. Dr. Arthur Barsky, chief of the department of plastic sur gery at Mount Sinai, told plastic surgeons at '^'^ia'mi Beach, Fla. Brs. Barsky, Bernard Simon and Sidney Kahn performed the mul tiple operations on the young wo- nren. Burns from the heat of the ex plosion and the fires that follow ed it caused the girls' injuries. Be- cau.se of limited surgical facilities at the time of the bombing for the thousands of Hiroshima injur ed, the wounds received hardly any treatment. As a result, scar tisstue formed and muscles of the face and arms, could not function properly, 'Because so many of the girls ap-. parently put their hands up to shield their eye.s from the explo sion's lieat, typical injured areas were the back of the hand and one side of the face and neck. Be fore surgery many of the girls, were unable to flex their fingers, ■elbows or wrists, and had difficul ty in raising their chin.s or eating. Some were unable to close their burned eyelids. ' Curiously most of the injuries were on the left side of the face and the left hand. The apparent reason w'as tliat. many of the, gilds, then " school-age youngsters, were • lined up in formation wken the bomb dropped, tlieir le t sides fac ing the blast center. “We were delighted to see a striking change in morale, in ad dition to the physical rehabilitation of the girls," Dr. Barsky declared. “ They were much more cheerful and .sieemed better able to face life after their stay in the United States.. One has already married since .her return to Japan." IVaining While Here Many of the girls received voca tional training as well as surgery during their slay in New York. 'Several attended high school, and some studied to be nurse's aides, beauticians, dressmakers or clothes designers. One girl took a Braille typewriter back to Japan with her to work for the blind. Because of the multiple opera tions. finding enough skin from other areas of the body to I’esur- ‘ face the scarred faces and hands W'as a cliiricult problem. Skin w’a.s commonly taken from the abdo mens and thighs. In some cases a skin flap from the abd-omen was brou.ght up to hte hand and then carried to the face to be used partly for resurfacing the face and partly for the hand. Such a flap. Dr. Barsky reported, gave a good .surface for bone surgery, often necessary to mobilize the dinger joints. A readinfT ol' ‘’My Diary: North and Somh'' kept, and wiiuen by \Villiam Howard Ru'.scll of the London d'imc,s in tlic early days of the C;i\il ^.V'av iiidieates that tlie Britisli rorrespondent di.sliked (i) Soiiilierneus and (2) Northerners. The raw and rowdy people on both sides of the Potomac got on his nerves, and when Ire made Iiimself unpopnlar in Washington by his report, truihlul enoug'Ir ihat at the first battle of Unll Run the L: S. forces under .\JcDbw- el were routed and driven pellniell hack into W'asliiiig- ton. he had iio cltoice bnt to return to F.nojaml. 'Can't Be Brushed Under The Rug' AVhen lie came South be fore the Fort Sumter incident he' found the people romantic and r’aring for battle. At C.oldsboro, N’.Ci., "the men hectored, swore, cheered, and slapped eacli otlicr on the bt'cks; the W(jmen in their best, Tvaved handkerchiefs and flung- down garlands irom the tvindo-ws ... A very large, widc-aivake man', with a feather in Ills hat. with a red sash and a pair of cotton trousers thrust into his boots, came out of (b-iswold's ho tel with a>. sAvord under ins Jvm. and an article which might have been a napkin of long service in one hand. He waved the article enthusiast- icaliv, swaying to and fro, on his legs, and ejaculating, dfha for Jeff Davis, hha for S them F. )•' rights'’. Russell registers • t Ii e aimuement oih'orrespondents at the contemptuous treai- menr of Lincoln by McClel lan, his chict in command, who wouldn't ewen get out of bed wlicn his superior called. I he informal wavs between officers aucl men on botli sides irked Turn. That ha.s f>een cured. \\'e drown lecrnits on death marches now. Jan 5axon-A Bright FutI •Jon Saxon, coloratura soprano, accompani-ed by Walter Golde, sang Sunday evening in Grabam Memorial in a recital of Les Po- titesc Musicales. In addition to a clear, true, and lovely voice. Miss ISaxoii possesses a charming per sonality which made her perform ance all tlie more delightful. Her dramatic ability as well as her exceUently-trained voke were especially evident in the major works of the progi’am—the arias "O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn” from "Die Zauberfloete" by •Mozart; ‘‘Una voce poco fa” from "II Barbiere di Siviglla” by Ros sini; “Nobles Seigneurs” from “Les Huguenots” by Mej'erbeer; and Lactitzia’s aria from “The Old Maid And The Thief” by Menotti. AUhorgli her voice was at its be.st in the latter two arias, all of them were sung with con sistently good tonal quality and most of the difficult virtuoso pas sages w’ore handled with .skill. Songs by Mahler and Richard Strauss comprisod the German group. One of hte : of these was the ' “Hans and Greted Strauss’ “Morgen,! a quieter vein, was ly done. Composers rej L French literaturM ™ Pierne, and MorJ “Le Nelumbo" byj haps the most ina part pfthe recitalf The concluding I ext rem el y vv ell-c^ were songs by Jc^ Rorem, and Serg were, of course, eS Miss Saxon’s em Laughing Song.” dermaus,” and Love,” re^varded ^ it.s warm applause ed further evidence that she is certa most promising area. She has thei her future appear m\ Pearsall Plan Advocate's!, It would be unfair to say that the Hodges administration would welcome mixing of the races in the public schools on anytiiing re sembling a wholesale basis. But it does not seem unfair to conclude that tlic iner circle of the ad ministration recognizes to bolster the.official state policy of depen dence on the Pupil Assignment Law and the Pearsall Plan in meeting the pi-oblems created by the Supreme Court’s anti-segrega tion deci.sion. The Pearsall Amendment wa.s approved by the voters on Septem ber 8. Two weeks later Editor Holt McPherson of the High Point Enterprise wi-ote an editoriai ex pressing the view that “some voluntary compliance with the Su preme Court decision” would be “a .sej.’viee the whole state should appreciate." Editor McPherson, it will be recalled, served as chair man of the Governor’s Commit tee for the Public School Amend ment. His editorial stated in effect that some integration seemed de sirable to strengthen what was ■called “the North Carolina plan of moderation and gradualism," In . a , recent speech before the State Bar. Colonel' William T. Joyner, the Raleigh attorney wlio sat on the committee which pro posed the Pearsall Plan and who made a speech in behalf of the Pearsall Amendment in Johnston County, qdite frankly declared: “1 think that some mixing is in evitable and must occur ...” Colonel Joymer expressed Hie view that under "free choice" and “honest assignment according to the best interest of the child” the separation of races would be .more tlirm 95 per cent complete, but he marcs which besets me on a rest- uent on to sa,'’: "One of the night less night is that I am in a fe deral court attempting to defend a school board in its rejection of a transfer requested by a Negro student, when a showing is made in that court that nowhere in all Oi the state of North Carolina has a single Negro ever been admitted to any one of the more than 2,000 .schools attended by w'hite stu dents. I ask that you as attorneys or prospective attorneys of school districts picture yourselves in such a situation in the fall of 1957 or in the fall of 1958. Would not your legal position be greatly streng thened, would it not be almost un assailable, if you could point to one or more instances in your county where a Negi*o has been admitted to a white school, or to instances in other counties where that has occurred'?” mittee. And Holt mat writing as an in: and net as the m the committee wh campaign in belu Amendment. But extra weight beeai with the Hodges •Their views may current "inner the-* administratioi pressions a for gregation in Nort early breakthroi^ ■in September 195f —" ts AB Ktioi llOit PASSENGERS (St. Louis Pof Stanley Berge, pi sportation at •versitA', says in that the railroad! senger loss is "a Railroad men am Commerce Comrai that the accounting | has been in u.'e years in unrealis^ After all, what profit the raib’oa^f—B operations, not coi trary bookkeepi only -Mr. Raiidu’ loads are intcri ter, but the piaii, healthy railroad s’ ■a healthy industr If the railroads put their heads tog up with a more ri ing formula, hoi brighten for incre travel on trains tl make those trips And Colonel Joyner stated clear ly how he would advise a local scliAM)! board; "T would say to that board that it must pass upon every application for transfer hon estly and sincerely and tliat its decision must have some reason able factual support; that it is in evitable that there be some hard ship cases which will result in the admission of some Negroes to schools theretofore attended only by white students: that when such a case is presented (unless the board has good reason to fear bodily hann to the Negro pupil >. il is better that such admission be 'oy a board assignment rather than by court compulsion." 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