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Chapel Hill News Leader
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Leading With The News in Chapel HiH, Canboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY,' DECEMBER 17, 1956 ^
Parade Photos
Photos of the entries in yes
terday’s motor pageant of the
Nativity—a full page of them—
may be seen on Page Six, this
issue.
EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUE
if
MiJItcal church
stigating the pos
ing a Hungarian
0 settle in Chapel
prereqiHsite, of
t'ide an occupation
the family. The
ijrough an arraiige-
Greensboro Daily
Ni
biggest Crowd Views Yule Parade;
Estimated 10,000 Persons On Hand
The biggest crowd ever to wit
ness a parade locally turned out
to see yesterday afternoon's mot
or parade of the Nativity, a 14-
unit pageant of religious floats.
Police estimated that 10,000 per
sons, many coming from as far as
Raleigh; Durham, and Greens
boro. lined Main and Franklin
Streets soildly along the two-mile
?lad to act as a
local persons who
Hungarian faimily
ers of jobs will be
II u g h appropriate
ted person may
newspaper.
Juniors Beat, Girls Lost
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PAUT4 CHEEK
;k.en stew feed for
yees in the post-
on Friday even-^
sons attended.
ENG THE TWO
—according to the
-are using the box
side of Uie street
niich as the other
i to go out and
the curb in front
KJut a hour ^before
ickup.
Wildcat Cagers Are Good Bet
For Loop rifle; Win At Garner
lOL HIGHER-UPS
•d with an act of
ird patients at the
e right to use the
aces right by the
tched at the first
that now vlsitor.s
5 may park there,
K)1 personnel use
areas in the mas-
Chapel Hill High’s Wildcats ap
peared an early season favorite to
capture the District III title this
year as they went into a tie for the
conference lead upon trouncing
Garner 62-44 there Friday night.
Both Chapel Hill and Northern
High of Durliam County now hold
3-0 Dop records and each has an
other game before the Christmas
holidays. The Wildcats will, meet
Oxford here tomorrow night at 8
o’clock and wijl next play on
Jan. 2 against Hillsboro here.
Guard Randy Blackwell with 16
points led the local scoring against
G-arnor. while Eddie Clark netted
15. Gordon Neville 14. ad Merle
T^amio 12. Chapel Hill led 25-16
at the half.
The girls team was swamped
by Garner 70-26.
ALson on Friday night Coach A1
Wells' Chapel Hill Junior High
squad edged out East Durham Jr.
route of the parade. A goodly
crowd also adjourned to the steps
of the Morehead Building after
the parade to ' participate in the ^
community carol sing, led by Nor
man Cordon and several church
choirs.
The float entries, prepared by
members of the participating local
church groups, drew enthusia.stic
praise from all viewers queried'
on the idea—a unique Christmas
event locally. It was staged by
the Chapel Hill Jaycees through
the cooperation of the Merchants
Association and the Ministerial
Association with the idea of ‘‘put
ting Christ back into Christmas."
Sandy McClamroch, General
Chairman of the event, express
ed his pleasure over the rccep-
tio of the parade and caroling. He
said that he felt sure the . spon
soring groups would like to pre
sent a similar event next year.
Community reception to the
'■•'rollna prrgeam was quite good,
too. he noted, in a revival of a
custom carried on annually a
number of years ago here.
EOSyiTiO,
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RANDY BLACKWELL
.^.High Scorer With 16
nigh there 48-43, center Stafford
Warren leading the scoring with
14 tallies.
i MEMORY FOR
[1 that the current
1” at the Univer-
ared to the “ring”
;1 on the campus
0. Then the Presi-
class and a star
dmitted a major
hich was getting
!rs as they were
ersity dupiloatiiLg
Police Find No Ansv/er Yet
In Attempt Robbery Of Lenoir
No answer has' been received 2 and 3 a.m. when the building is
from SBI officials in Raleigh at- unoccupied.
CITIZENS FOR RECREATION
The Citizens Committee for pas
sage of the forthcoming election
on a public recreation program
will be formed at a meeting to
morrow evening at 8 oclock in
the courtroom of the Town Hall.
William S. Stewart, who will be
temporary chairman of the Ja.y-
cee-spoiisored session, urged all
persons interested in working for
adoption of the plan, to attend
the meeting, at which a formal
committee organization will be
set up. The election will be held
within the next three dates, the
date to be set by the County Com
missioners.
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tempting to indentify vvould-be ^
thieves wh6' la# week broke' ihtd
Imethodist
lell-prepared float
\ during the parade
he donkey on the
Inn” .scene edg-
side of the plat-
i artiaily off. The
• n had secreted a
j!on befoi'e the pa-
d, I that he was able
ci|ij halter rope and
inW to slide the rest
of elatively unharra-
; a
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10
outi
Um
Dr|>
ERSITY METHO-
7 likewise had a
ni^oo, when the tow
in front of the
downtown. How-
OH.T) choir, in the
how must go on,”
:jing “Away In A
, Isif! spectators shoved
^''ngithat it coasted on
Lenoir Hall.
The burglars failed in their at
tempt to unlock a safe containing
an undisclosed amount of mon.cy.
Fingerprints were taken by lo
cal police and report to the
SBI in Raleigh in an aGcmpt to
identify the criminals
The burglars, on the ni jht of
Dec. 3. gained entrance through
the north door of the dining hail
and forced open doors leading to
the manager’s office, accounting
office, and safe room.
G. W. Prillaman. Director of
Student Dining Halls, stated that
“to my knowledge, nothing of value
was taken.” In explaining the
break-in, Prillaman also said that
someone is in the building 23
hours a day and that the probable
time of the burglary was between
. ,Jt,i§ believed that the arrival of
tho bakers at 3 a.'m. for duty prob-'
ably scared the burglars and pre
vented them from opening the
safe .and taking the money.
Warm Weather Persists;
'-But It Can't Last!'
The weather prophets were con-
NEW INTERSECTION PLAN — State Highway Department workers are proceeding with the con
struction of the all new Intersection near the for mer Mason Farm Road-Pittsboro Highway corner.
Map above illustrates the new plan, via which th ? new 36-foot link from the bypass to the Hospital
v/ill meet the Pittsboro Highway -it a poir*+ about 150 feet east of th* existing Mason Farm Road in
tersection (dotted lines), and will continue across the highway mto Pittsboro St.'The old Victory Village
entrance will be closed, and the new one will be on the bypass link. A new road is proposed to
parallel the Pittsboro Highway a|ong Victory Village to the proposed fraternity court. Pittsboro St.
will narrow into a one-way out-bound thoroughfare at its intersection with Pittsboro Highway.
HOSPITAL!
Today’s r^9ister of patients
at Memorial Hospital include:
Mrs. Nannie Andrews, Pink Ba
son. Mrs. Jesse Ba.snight, Mrs.
Claude Best, Miss IMildred Council.
?Jrs. David Dixon. Mrs. Mabel Find-
Icy, Charle.s W. Gardner, Mrs. E.
W. Gitlin, Floyd Headon. John T.
Johnson, Mrs. 'Wilhelmina Lloyd.
Mrs. Fred Massey. Mrs. €. S. Mau
rice. Baxter Norton. Mrs. Eleanor
Patterson, Samuel Rogers, Julian
Mrs. Gordon Taylor, and Mrs.
Mary '^'agslaff.
founded by the behavior of the
elements over the weekend.
Though Christmas is only a few
days off, there were violent thun
der and lightning storms, sum
mer temperatures, and an out
burst of flow'criug shrubs in town
and on the campus, followed by
dense fogs that i*aLsed and fell
in a way to bewilder car drivers.
Everybcxiy said “This warm
V,leather can’t last last,” hut they'
had .said that aJi the month. The
news is. however, that a cold
wave is on its w'ay from the north '
and west.
If it doesn't come soon, citi
zens will celebrate Cliristma.s out
doors on their lawns.
DECORATIONS DEADLINE
Judges in the News Leader’s
second annual outdoor home
ChrLsimas decoration contest will
be (dicckiiig contest entries
through this Saturday night. Dec.
22. Persons who wish their homes
to be judged are asked to tele
phone the News Leader office,
8-144. A total of $40 in cash prizes^
will be awarded, in addition to
a special $35 savings bond award
which the Glen Lennox manage
ment will provide for the best de
corated. front in the apartment de-
A elopment.
Drinking Contest Ends
In Death Of Local Man
A Friday night drinking bcut
ended in rieatli for Lemuel Ingram,
Negro about .38, who was found
dead in his bed on Saturday morn-
:ng.
;ead Building.
il v ES, AS ONE WHO
a rr a iigemeu ts for
^Kvell prepared for
today. He drew
jictioiis as to his
wMle ago, and
led today.
l^ON JONES WAS
Treasurer of the
■ledical Society at
business meeting
S' Wednesday. Dr.
s was the outgo-
NINE SAY 'MERRY CHRISTMAS’—Smiling through the Yule
atmosphere of snow-frosted windows in Hospital Saving Association's
new office addition on W. Franklin St., are nine HSA employees
who wish one and all a ‘Merry Christmas”. Left to right (front- are
Mrs. Richard Lee, Mrs. Ben Poole, Mrs. W. J. Blair Jr. (center) Miss
Vicia Perry, Mrs. Robert Dixon, Mrs. Thomas Davis, Mrs. John
Dixon; and (top row) Mrs. Edwin N. Kearns, and Mrs. C. R. Farrell.
This striking photo-was made for the Christmas issue of the Hospital
Saving house magazine, ‘HSA Life.”
Chapel ilill police vvere called to
ingri^mhs house on S. Merritt Mill
Rd about midnight Friday to in
vestigate a reported fight. The of-
iicci’s were told by one of several
versons at fhe house that they had
all been iiaving a contest to see
who could drink the most liquor.
Ingram w’as lying across a be^d
in the house at the time. But at
the request of his wife—who said
he was “just sleeping”—the police
didn’t disturb him. Inasmuch as
no charges could be brought at
that lime regarding the reported
fight, the police left.
However, police were called again
11 little after 9 a.m. Saturday, when
Ingram couldn’t be awakened. Po
lice Capt. William D. Blak^ .said the
man- was lying, just as earlier re-
forted, on the same bed.
See Strangulation
It was the deci.sion of Asst.
Coroner George Cannada and other
inve.stigating authorities that the
victim died from strangulation, or
uossihly from a heart attack. They
cited deep marks on his neck from
tl’e edge of the mattress, over
which his liead had been hanging.
.4 small quantity of ‘’white” li
quor was confiscated at the scene
on Saturday morning. However no
; rrests were immediately made In
!hc case. Funeral arrangemenhs
v.cre incomplete early today.
)SR, ONE OF THE
of the ‘ Horn In
la at Boone, was
It of the Southern
rieal Association,
pageant, at the
ti Boone on Wed-
KETBALL TEAM
>ming up. Tonight
here, preceded by
•UNC game, and
Thur.sday to play
rsity ill Madison
fral members of
will be at home
Ig city, including
|RLES M. JONES,
l.nmunity Church,
Ids former pastor-
Isist ill the dedica-
J .60,000 Presbyter-
Bother former pas-
Ifchurch were also
Subscriplicn Contest Winners
Will Receive Frizes Tomorrow
At 11 o’clock tomoiTow morning^
!he six-weeks battle will over.
Some Jiicky contestant will be
presumed the ke^'s to a new
$f.$Q0 1957 Plymouth, straight out
of t'e show’room of Yates Mo
tor Co.
This will be the first prize
award for the News Leader's giant
good-will subscription c 0 n t e s t.
Other entranl.s will receive their
cash awards and commissions for
riibscriptlon .sales at this same
time. The prizes will be given by
the publishers of the newspaper
in front (;t the News*Leader Of
fice on .Main St. in Carrboro.
With Buhscriptions rolling in up
through midnight last night, and
J3st minute checks still rolling in
this morning, it was impossible to
determine the leading contestant.
Tile Contc.st will finally close at
6 o’clock this evening, and the
judging w'i’il take place in the
Board Room of the Bank of Chap-
‘.’1 HLl at 9 a.m. tomorrow.
NAMED TO HONOR SOCIETY
Twenty-three new members of
(he Chapel Hill High School Chap
ter of the National Honor Society
were announced at a school as-
.«embly program Friday afternoon.
They were named on the basis of
character, scholarship, leadership,
and seiw’ice. Bobby Costello Is
President of the chapter which
lias had eight charter members
this past year. New members of
the group are Neil Claiii, David
Jones, John McCurdy, Sharon
Sullivan, Jerry Hocutt, Elizaiieth
Green, Susan Greulach, Vicki
Greulach, Donna Ballenger, Vir
ginia Timmons, BetJv Hayes,
Rudy Barker, Martha Adams.
Jane Shearin, Lynda Ward, Elaine
Hartness, Virginia Hardison, Be
verly Thompson, Patricia Hunter,
Ann Proctor, Tammy Lefler, ,Ta-
net McAllister, and Judy Fergu
son.
Jones Dies
In Suicide
HereFriday
Kenneth Jones, legless, ailing, am
under the pres.s of a financial probe
s^ucceeded Friday in his fourth ar-
lempt to take his own life.
The well-known 53-year-old Ne
gro businessman and former civic
leader conimilted suicide minutes
before he was to appear before
Ccunty Clerk of Court Edwin M.
Lyaich in IliUsboro to give an ac
counting of his administration as
executor of the estate of the late
■Kstella Oldham.
Funeral services this afternoon
at 2:30 from the St. Paul A.M.E.
Church of which he was a mem
ber, were followed by burial in
the Chapel Hill Cemetery. Tlie Rev.
1'. P. Duhart, Church Pastor, of
ficiated.
Found In Car
Jones’ action Friday was the
climax to a series of suicide at-
imcpts inter.sper.sed with recent le
gal actions concerning his execution
ui' at least two estates. He was
found shortly before 11 a.m. Fri
day at the wheel of his manually-
controlled auto, which wa.5 parked
at the back door of his home on
?/lain St. here.
All ice pick was driven into his
heart. He was pronounced dead
on arrival at Memorial Hospital.
Asst. County Coroner George Can
nada and Sheriff Odell Ciaytoh
agreed that there was no question
about Jones' having taken his
own life.
.4 native of Carrboro, Jones was
in business enterprises here tor
many years. In the late 20’.s he
uorked as a clothes pressor in down
town Chapel Hill, and a decade
later became one of the organizers
of the Chapel Hill Funeral Di
rectors. lie was for many year.s
iSecrctai’y of this business firm.
Hfjongh the' relationship was d\A-
'solved a litlle more than a year
ego. ife wa.s also an {>rganizer of
the Chapel ILil Mutual Burial A.s-
■sociation. In recent years he was
President of the Chapel Hill Coun
cil on Negro A.Tairs and Treasurer
Cl the Building Fund of St. Paul
A M.E, Clnireh.
Diabetes Victim
'I'he big rotund, bespectaceld in-
suranceinan-tax consultant—a vic
tim of diabtdes for many years,
di’ove to see the Rev. E. D. Swain,
a former associate, at the, funeral
home on Friday morning after his
vife had left for work at the Caro
lina Inn.
According to reports from po
lice authorities and various per
sons who saw him that morn
ing, these things happened: He
spoke with the Rev. Mr. SwaUi
and Douglas Caldwell, funeral
home employee, while sitting in
Ins car in front of the N. Gra
ham St. establishment.
A telephone call came through
from Hillsboro asking if he would
be at the 11 a.m. inquiry sche
duled there for him. He said he
was then leaving to drive to Hills
boro. But then he continued to wait
ill iront jf the funeral parlor for
(luite a while, causing the Rev.
Mv. Swain and Caldwell to l>e-
comc suspicious.
Seen In Car
.4 next door neighbor, Willie Les
ley. who was sitting on his porch,
said ho noticed Jone.s looking back
at him at frequent intervals. After
a while. Le.sley said, he had to go
to work, and stopped by the house
on the other side of the Jones’,
the residence of Mrs. Maggie Mor-
p'ms (a relative of the Jones’) and
told her of his suspicion.s.
She went to the house about
( See JO.VES, Page 8)
Partly cloudy and mild late to
day and tonight. Scattered show
ers tomorrow. Expected low to
night, in the .W’s. Expected high
tomorrow, in the low 60’s.
High
Low
Rainfall
Thursri^'
70
48
.00
Friday
75
52
.02
Saturday
57
44
.83
Sunday
51
46
.95
hi Stores Open Till 9 Nightly Through Friday For Christmas Shopping
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