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Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas
90 Years Ago
Ninety years ago Chapel Hill
semed more on the verge of dy
ing than living. For an interest
ing “vignette” see special article
on Page Four.
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CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1956
EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUE
PEOPLE
in Brief
In Talk Here Last Night . . .
i
IIIPUT MO-VDAY NIGHT
lUe patrolman facing the
8)11 the desk of the Chapel
j’olice Station sentimental
8^; to issue more than the
|ar^ hourly time signal pro-
Jfor routine law enforcement
communication. Before he
d, mied the time as midnight,
1' nan Graham Creel admitted,
Former NCAA President Criticizes
Athletic Recruiting In Colleges
Towns Have No Traffic Deaths In '56
the Chapel “And it seems to me that if they
know of it they should do some
thing about it. If the alumni know
v‘f college sports recruiting prac- While he dwelt primarily on the that an institution heartily disap-
A former President of the Na- tion, speaking before
ticnal Collegiate Athletic Associa- Hill Rotary Club,
lion has voiced heavy criticism ‘Dont Know Facts’
At the stroke of midnight Mon
day evening Chapel Hill and Carr
boro completed perfect year from
tJie standpoint of traffic fatalities. .
Chapel Hill Police Chief W. T.
Sloan reported ■ that no deaths
were caused either by automobile
or pedestrian accidents during
1956, entitling the municipality to
honor roll certificates again from
the National Safety Council and
the American Automobile Associa
tion.
While there was one auto fatali
ty in Chapel Hill in 1955, that was
tlie first one in a four-year period.
There have been no pedestrian
deaths in the town for the past
15 years, and only three auto
deaths in 10 years.
Available records in Carrboro
showed there have been no pedes
trian or auto fatalities there in at
least the last seven years.
Commenting on the Chapel Hill
record this morning. Chief of Po
lice W. T. Sloan said “I want to
thank all of the people of Chapel.
Hill for their help in this situa
tion—the students, the men on
our police force, and our visitors
during the year, to'.’’
i.ices in a talk here last night.
operational procedure of the NCAA, proves of violations and buying play-
Dean A. B. Moore of the Univer- Dean Moore made a point of scor- ers they are less likely to do' this
Ity of .Alabama Graduate School,
ke a greeting of “Happy [pr two years recently tlie NCAA
ear—^Station KiA736’’ for the President, pleaded for “true friends
Ig policemen in their cars athletics” to improve the sitiia-
They returned the non-
in confirming the
Cagers Capture
District Lead
In 61-43 Win
•d greeting
he added.
NEW YEAR’S EVE, LNCI-
y, found Chapel Hill and Carr-
comparitively ciuiet hamlet
,ie standpoint of law enforce-
;he local police said. Revelers
generally kept their celebra-
lithin their own parties, and
leworks were heard about the
However, wth UNC students
lU town now, the cops e.'vpect
a continued scattering of
||kers going off until their
r's supply of the now' illegal
linkers Is exhau-sted.
ImRESS.HAN CARL DURHAM
his two months of so-called
on on New Year’s Day, re-
3 his Capitol Hill office to
e for the opening of Con-
today. He’ll be in his third
s the Sixth District Rep-
ative and will become Chair-
f tne all-important Joint Com-
on Atomic Energy, of which
11 or.g.nal member.
DAUGHTER, ANNE DUR-
ja student at Stratford College
nville, took an unusual and
.souvenir back to her dormi- Sw'eeping into first place in the
■oom with her this week. It District Three Conference, Chapel
he ba.sketball net from the Hill’s Wildcats handily defeated
College Coliseum, snipped Hillsboro High 61-43 here last night,
the backboard hoop by the continuing their season’s undefeat
ed record for a fifth consecutive
win.
ing persons who cHticize this
group’s punitive decisions. In this
respect he made no direct refer
ence to the NCAA Council’s $5,000
fine against State College in the
Jackie Moreland basketball recruit-
sort of thing.”
‘Undermining Public Belief’
The current situation in collegiate
sports recruiting, he said, is under
mining the public's belief in their
institutions. “Our educators are
ing case. But he said forcefully committed to the belief that sports
that persons who criticize NCAA
decisions “don’t know all the facts.”
Concerning athletic recruiting
practices—a problem the NCAA
has been working to improve for
the past eight years—he declared
“You can’t blame it all on the
alumni . . . Wherever there’s
much illegal recruiting activity
the coaching staff generally knows
about it.
are vital and contribute to. their
educational programs. I think it’s
time that the college presidents,
coaches, and alumni think more
seriously about this and set up the
same ideals for sports as they have
for their educational programs.”
“I have faith that if we will
face the facts in htis situation—if
we are true friends of athletics—
w’e will improve this situation.”
Cross Burner Exposed;
Faces Charge Monday
A 25 - year - old Hillsboro man of Mr. and Mrs. James Cheshire
was arrested Monday for burning Sr., a well-known Hillsboro fami-
DENNIS LEE
. Scores 13 For Wildcats.
a cross in the yard of a local
home in which Dr. Frank Graham
was visiting.
William Polk “Billy” Cheshire,
former serviceman, now a Univers
ity of North Carolina student, son
Carolina basketballers after
Jay eveiiing’.s Dixie Classic,
iven to her by a boy friend
a Tai- Heel eager.
lOUQUET IS IN ORDER FOR
ly, told officers he did it as a
prank to let Dr. Graham know
how he felt about him.
The “prank” will gain Cheshire
the notoriety of becoming the
first person to be tried under a
1953 law designed to curb the Ku
Klux Klan.
The law, a result of the Klan
excesses in Columbus County,
makes it a crime to burn or
cause to be burned a cross on
Mrs. Henry McGUbert Wagstaff, property of another person wdth-
Tomorrow evening the locals will 30, of Chapel Hill, died at 2 a.m. consent of the person who
Funeral Held Today
For Mrs. Wagstaff
FIRST FOR THE NEW YEAR IN ORANGE—First babies to
greet the New Year In Orange County are shown at Memorial Hos
pital with their mothers. At the left, Mrs. Paul Lee of Hillsboro
with her newborn son—her fifth child; and. Mrs. Guy C. Evans Jr.,
of the Greensboro Highway, a University student wife, with Guy
Carr Evans III, who was born at 2:18 p.m. on Tuesday, First-born
after 1957 began Monday night was the Lee child at 5:05 a.m.
News Leader Photo
continue in conference competition,
1 raveling to O.xford to play Oxford
Memorial
Yesterday
lere.
tush and his co-worker Karol Orphanage. Immediately behind Funeral services were held at 3
who spent New Year’s Chapel Hill in hte loop standings p.m. today at the University -.I'e-
taking down the Merchants now are Northern High of Durham thociist Church and burial in the
iation’s Christmas decorations County, February, and Hender.son, old Chapel Hill Cemetery. Tlie Rev.
lapcd Hill. It was a big job, ah tied for second. Charles Hubbard, pastor, officiated,
found out. Those five-foot ii- In last night's preliminary eon- Mrs. Wagstaff was a native of
latecl candle.s and evergreen test the Chapel Hill girls lost to Person County. Her husband was
s don’t just fall off the light the visitors 41 to 26, while Co- a University history professor- from
they found out.. Captain Leah Fitch scored all but 1907 until his death in 1945.
.)lJtKRS OF THE COUNTY- nine points for the home team. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs.
'industrial Development Com- The Wildcats had more than A. B. Coxe of Newport, R. 1.; one
on can assure the interested dou’jled the score over Hillsboro by grandchild: and several nieces, in-
4 that Orange County and ihc half, when they led 28-12. The eluding .Mrs. Alin North of Dur-
;1 Hill-Carrboio have not drop- substantial lead was run up despite liam, and Mrs. Raymond Winstead
-heir -orev'iously much-heralded the northern Orange squad’s. ef- and Mrs. J. J. Hambrick, both of
,s to secure suitable industry tort to freeze the ball during the Roxboro.
he area. I’he group has me! first four minutes of the game. The family has suggested that
h.y—and while there’s no im- Merle Teague, who led the Chapel contributions to the educational
ale prospect brewing, it’s un- Hill scoring with 14 points, follow- building fund would be appropriate
ood that it’s only a matter ed by Dennis Lee with 13. tributes to Mrs. Wagstaff.
ne before the community can
t to land a concern tliat would
jprialely locate in the '‘Re-
h Triangle.”
.i! ENFORCEMENT AUTHOR-
-and a local bondsman, too—
jeeking Lonnie Davis of CaiT-
wiio disappeared from town
inly last week. On Dec. 19
New ^Celestial Preview' Show
Opens At Morehead Building
A ‘‘Celestial Preview of 1957” models. We will show what can be
Hosp-tal owns or lives on the property.
(See CROSS BURNER, Page 8)
If It's Any Comfort
To You—It Probably
Won't Get Any Colder!
The coldest mercury reading of
the season—13 degrees—greeted
early risers this morning, accord
ing to an official reading by
v/eather observer Max Saunders
at the Filter Plant.
If ilt’,s any comfort to the
populace, Mr. Saunders noted that
it seldom gets much colder than
this in Chapel Hill. And warmer
temperatures are expected late
toda ,tonight, and tomorrow.
The previous low for the season,
it may be remembered, was short
ly after the Duke-Carolina game
when the thermometer dippe.d to
19 on Nov. 28. The only snow
flurry of the season occurred dur
ing the Tar Heel-Blue Devil grid
‘ classic, too.
Tiniest Baby Is Born:
Three Ounces At Birth
Several hours before the first
N'‘w Year’s babv was, bo»’Ti at
Memorial Hospital early Tues
day morning, a much less-herald
ed tyke came into the world at
another local hospital.
The newborn creature was a
healthy, six-ounce Chihuahua pup,
born to a three and one-half
pound mother dog from Raleigh.
Veterinarian Dr. L. L. Vine del
ivered the dog, and reported both
mother and infant were in healthy
condition. However, the circum
stances required a breach delivery
that took a comparatively long 45
minutes, the birth being completed
a'bout 2 a.m.
The owner of the dog—a fine
.show Chihuahua—had brought her
to see Dr. Vino earlier in the day,
and it was believed a normal un
assisted birth would be possible.
However, as New Year’s Eve
progressed he realized that a re
turn trip to Chapel Hill wiuld be
necessary.
Memorial Hospital Rings In New Year
With Two Births During First Day
Two births at Memorial Hospital boro Highway in Carrboro. i)uin to Mr. and Mrs. C. E. boicicif
on Tuesday put Orange County The eight-pound son has an older of the Fields Building. W. Fraiik-
parents in the running—though not sister, Becky, age two. The boy’s lin St., at 11:12 p.m. in Memorial
as winners—in the annual state
wide New Years’ Day baby derby.
First to come into the world
after the stroke of midnight Mon
day night at the local Hospital
was a son, born to Mrs. Paul (Bet
ty Ray) Lee of the Orange Grove
Road, Hillsboro. The nine-pound,
il-ounce infant—her fifth child, had
not been named as of yesterday,
lie was born at 5:05 a.m. with Dr.
Tom T. Vestal officiating.
First In N. C. Last Year
Last year the state title for the
first New Year’s baby went to
Memorial Hospital and a local stu
dent couple when Norrie Lee Mer
ritt was delivered by Dr. Vestal
10 Mr. and Mrs. Jim Alco Merritt
at eight minutes after midnight.
This year a second New Year’s
Day birth was that at 2:18 p.m.
of Guy Carr Evans III, to Mr.
and Mrs. Evans of the Greens-
arrival into the outside world had Hospital
been expected momentarily for the
previous two weeks. Mr. Evans is
a law student from Greenville.
A little girl who became a very
helpful income tax deduction, was
the last child of 1956, a daughter
Mon Is Killed
In Auto Wreck
Jessie Louis Buckner, who re
cently moved here to operate the
M and N Grill on N. Graham St.,
'•vas killed in an auto wreck about
a mile south of the Chatham Coun
ty line on Highway 15-561 early
last Thursday evc^Wcig.
Injured slightly in the acident was
Jimmy Wrenn Sturdivant, 17, of
Route One, Pittsboro, driver of an
o'lcoming southbound vehicle struck
by Buckner's car. A passenger, Mrs.
exijressetl _tlie belief _ that someone ^ena P. Sturdivant. 55, who suf-
Firemen Answer Alarm
To Douse Burning Tree
A burning hollow tree brought
firemen out to the Eastwood Lake
vicinity early last evening.
While the spread of tlie flames
vvas prohibited, firemen stood by
for quite a while to thoroughly
douse the smoldering tree. They
filed a i>relimiuary action appropriately on the first
■d a $7,500 civil damage suit New Year at the More-
ist the Town of Carrboro and
policemen. In it he declared
head Planetarium.
The presentation
made from coat hangers, com
mon boxes, flashlights and so on
to help children understand the
is a tailored marvels of the universe.”
With the opening of “Celestial
had set the tree afire to smoke
out a squiiTel.
The Suburban Fire District alarm
was sounded at 7:10 p.m.
'Typical' Story Of Miss X . . .
been falsely arrested and held two-fold demonstration of celestial
istody earlier in the month. He P'^onomena which will occur in Preview,” the Morehead Planetar-
aled a Recorder’s Court fine
suspended sentence in con-
on with his arrest for an al-
assault on his wife.
1957 , and a showing of models ium will return to its regular
schedule of presentations nightly
at 8:30 o’clock with matinees Sat
urdays at 11 a.m. at 3 p.m. and
p.m.
which can be made at home by
parents or children under super
vision. of common and ordinary
SHAP STRUCK AGAIN QUICK- things about the average house to Sundays at 3 and 4
demonstrate and explain visible
happenings in the heavens.
“The demonstration will be
especially appealing to children
of Cub or Boy Scout age,” accord
ing to Planetarium Manager A. F.
Highway near the Chatliam Jenzano. “And it will be appealing
to do-it-yourself parents who
More BRIEFS on Page 8) would like to build similar simple
She's As Sane As You, But—In
—And With No Clear Prospect
Mental Hospital
For Getting Out
St Sunday for Fred R. Dennis,
ar-old Albemarle man. He'was
.wearing a neck brace for an
1/ suffered in a previous auto
ik when his car jumped a
: and overturned off the Pitts-
^ Not So Brief
p! EMBARRASSING MOMENTS
I S one happened over the
»ys: .
^le daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
I is to be married, so on the
of the wedding Mr. and
Y thought it would be nice
*op over and see the bride-
the presents and so forth.
Mrs. Y made a beautiful
^4 salad to take along and
started out They weren’t
actly sure where the X’s lived,
t found the house without too
ich trouble, peeped in a win-
w and saw everyone milling
around
“Let’s surprise ’em,” suggest
ed Mr. Y. So, instead of going
in the front door, around they
went to the hack. The stole in
side, opened the refrigerator
and put the salad in it. Then
they went into the living room.
“Hello, everybody;” shouted
Mrs. Y. “We came to look at
the gifts and kiss the guest of
honor!”
Only one thing was wrong.
They had the wrong house—a
house at which a wake was be
ing held. And it really happen
ed, friends, we mean to tell you.
By DAN ANDERSON
(Special for the News Leader)
"Writers of horror fiction try to
freeze readers blood with the sure-
shocking tale of the sane person lock
ed away in a madhouse. As the very
idea sets spines tingling and scalps
prickling, we comfort ourselves by
fJiiuking, “Its only a made-up story.
It isn’t true!’’
But it is true. It’s true right now,
in real life, barely 25 crowflight
miles from here.
Here’s the typical, fact-not-fic-
(ion story of Miss X:
She was born 42 years ago come
January 27 on a farm in a central
North Carolina county, where she
has lived since. She had ordinary
schooling, went to work in a tex
tile mill and did her job well, had
an uneventful life, got along
pleasantly with people though she
didn’t marry.
Her parents aged and found re
treats in boarding homes, and she
There's a woman—“She’s as sane lived with two brothers and a mar-
as you or I,” doctors vow—in the ried sister who stayed near their
State Hospital at Butner, with no birthplaces.
clear prospect of getting out. True,
she’s victim of no such evil con-
Slightly more than four years ago,
IMiss X showed signs of serious
*NEW GIRL SCOUT LEADER—
Mrs. Beth (Daniel) Okun of
Chapel Hill has succeeded Mrs.
\ubrey McGuire as Director of
Orange Girl Scout activities in
the Bright Leaf Girl Scout Coun
cil. A graduate of North Texas
State Teachers College, she holds
a master's degree in social work
from the University of Pitts
burgh and is the wife of Prof.
Daniel Okun of the University
public health faculty.
spiring as fictioneers describe, and mental upset, and in January, 1953,
the well run hospital is no such .she entered the hospital at Butner.
Reason Seemed Clear
At least the reason for her sec
ond return seemed clear. At the
Hospital, she had been taking a
tranquilizing drug, and she had been
told to keep on taking it at home.
But the family is short of cash and
thought the medicine cost too much,
so she stopped getting it.
With its renewed aid in the Hos
pital, Miss X soon had a clear
mind once more. At one of the
frequent staff conferences that
are constantly reviewing all pati
ents’ prospects, it was agreed in
April, 1956, that she was well
enough to leave.
She thought so, too, and wTote
to hospital authorities, “I. feel fine
fered a broken left arm and right
leg and head injuries, and is rec
overing at Memorial Hospital.
A ■ former resident of Chatham
County near Siler City, the 39-ye5ij-
okl Negro was a cook in the Cha
tham Hospital before coimng to
(..liapel Hill. Highway Patrolman
James B. Williford said that Buck
ner's car rounded a curve and cut
across into the left-hand lane, strik
ing the oncoming car. The acci
dent. Chatham’s seventh and final
traffic finality of the year, occurred
about 6:45 p.m.
she was recommended last April
to go.
In her chart is an entry that
tells partly why, asserting, “Her
brothers . . . refused to take her.
and have refused to cooperate w'ith
the Y County Welfare Department.”
Nor did her kin answer letters from
the Hospital’s Social Service De
partment, which tries to keep tab
on departing patients. ’Various rules
make it hard to insure anyone a he spent several weeks in Wosh-
EAST AFRICAN’S VISITS
Dr. B. E. C. Hopwood of Uganda,
British East Africa is visiting the
University School of Public Health,
and is being sponsored by the
United Nations. He has been at
Chapel Hill since the middle of
December. Prior to coming here
and would like to be working. I
snake pit as they picture. Yet this There, treatment did her good. She feel like I can get along better work-
went back home late in 1954, but ing if you will help me.” This let-
returned to Butner in June, 1955, ter went on to tell of clear plans
i’J once more, her chart then say- to go back to her former mill job,
jng that she “tried to set fire to naming old bosses she felt sure
a neighbor’s home, has been de- would take her back. Her doctors
Moreover, she’s not the only one pressed, hearing voices and seeing agree not only that she deserves
in that plight at Butner, and there objects not there.” Once more, her discharge, but that it’s harmful for
are men and women like her in trouble responded to treatment, and her to stay idle and in her present
North Carolina’s other three mental she began another home visit late place.
hospitals, and still more elsewhere in January, 1956, only to be brought Why There Today:
back to Butner on March 1. Yet, there she is today, tliough
hard fact remainns: Miss X is in
that place for the mentally ill,
where she doesn’t belong at all, Hy
ing vainly to leave.
Not The Only One
in the United States.
job who’s still in the hospital,
her return to the mill hasn’t been
arranged.
There’s a man in Y County
who informs the Hospital that he’d
like to marry Miss X and care for
her. Technically, though, he as
jet isn’t in a legal position to
take a hand in her affairs. That’s
legally up to her sluggish kins.
So she’s in the State Hospital at
Butner, as sane as you or 1, and
there’s no telling when—or even if—
she'll return to normal living for
which she’s entirely fit.
About 10 Cases Now
Miss X’s is only one case of sev
eral—around ten at present—of the
same general pattern at Butner.
(See MENTAL^ Page 8)
ington, D. C.
Sunny and not as cold late
today. Fair to partly cloudy and
not as cold tonight. Expected low
tonight 25-32. Increasing cloudi
ness and w'armer tomorrow.
High Low Rainfall
Thursday
46
24
.00
Friday
53
29
.00
Saturday
63
36
.17
Sunday
41
23
.00
Monday
45
24
.00
Tuesday
65
37
.00
Wednesday
49
20
.00