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'Nuai Newspaper Service Dial 8-444 s!? Office: jsses^ain Street, Carrboro L. IV, NO. 2 fall an. lajte' beginS^ 0. 3. Co. A.d- Chapel Hill News Leader Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas Good For Cars, Rentals Its a good season for renting a house or buying a car, For proof see Classified Ads. Page Five of this issue of the News Leader. TELEPHONE 8-444 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1957 SIX PAGES THIS ISSUE iUensj PEOPLE the sJ In Brief —SCHEDULED TRIAL OL' ir. Cheshire in the CoimJv sntlec 's Court this morning un •« ol burning a cross in iron! le ilili.'.oro 'honn. wher'. Graham was slaying cn Le.- i '.unliiuu-d for two wcks tiii.s ng by ivquc'st of IL Porc\ (\ Durham, the defendani’s Young Man Of Year Award Set For Jan. 17 fts rOISTS ACCUSTOMED ?0 ung lower Hillsboro SL'’ecl rrboi i- relieved to knew that the Dip., hlge across Bolin Creek in ">)-r.i'Ows Meauow bottom rfplaccd by a new and wider "" There's slill talk that .ei- a^!!' bo paved from the town ^out to Airp:.rl Kd.. but the ■^^hcis set no immediate schc- n this. The new bridge wid if timber ccinstruction. bid. far sturdier than the cld llPEL HILL’S PERFECT AU- ity record for the last 20 wasn’t affected by the Fri ighi wreck on the Pitt.sboi j W PR, hill. Although it occurred . a few feet of the town limits iM iiie fact is that the sign i.- 1^ on the wrong side of the a> On the cast side of the limits are really way ba'-k lll^ UNC Medical School, while e west side they end in Fr>;- just above ('base Avc. DY GUTIERREZ, WHO PASS- 1113 f the wreck en route home * ^'work ju ■. after it happene ’. liio a slai'l from it. riye deaGi us the same make, model an ( :'.s Ills ewn, and he drivc.-^ Lent-ouie several limes a day lu from his Chatham Countv a APEL HILL KIWANIANS -- ream g hcliday lyoua.j a re.suU of a je.siing hluii' calicd. During a pre- (m.os Kiwanis meal at ihc- House Orville Cumpbeli and r—di! LcGiand were kidding each out treating the Club to a steak feast the following (when no meeting ;-up.luh:d) if each would foot heur nit And each to the olher'.s •isc they agreed, and quite a >er of the Clubbers took 'em 4(1 (he offer. ILE UNIVERSITY CHAN- Bob House will be retiring e University’s administrative at the end of this school he won’t bo ending his ties the school. He’ll resume his jSty duties next year and will ^**1 a couple oi Ciasses regular- ANO I MA, WEIL LECTURER—The 1957 Weil Lectures on American Citi- lenship have been scheduled for April 4-^ at the University and George E. G. Catiin, political philosopher, politician and au- ther, has been announced as lec turer. The series, endowed by the families of Sol and Henry Weil of Goldsboro, includes three lectures, on successive evenings, given each year by a distinguish ed world citizen. Now on the faculty of McGill University In Montreal, Canada, Mr. Catiin has lectured at universities througitout the world and has represented the British Foreign Office on official missions. The community’s outstanding young man of the year for 1956 will receive the Distinguished Service Award at the Jaycees Bosses Night and Awards Banquet a week from Thur.sday evening, Jan. 17. S:lected by a secret committee elected by ballot ofb the Jaycees a year ago, the man to be named will be between the ages of 21 and 36. It will be the eighth an nual award, th? previous winners, beginning in 1948, having been Charlie Justice, Kenneth Putnam, Bill Grice, Bill Stewart. Orville Campbell, Bob Cox. and Sandy McClamroch. In addition there will be a num ber of certificates of appreciation given to persons and firms in the community which have been par ticularly helpful to the Junior Chamber in its civic work during the year. Within the Club a participation trophy will be given, the recipient to be other than an oficer or di rector. Five Key Men keys will be given to the club’s top men as voted by the membership. Also to be presented are an educa tion award and a Jaycee life mem bership. About 200 persons are expect ed to attend the affair, to be held in the - Carolina Inn, Gran Chil dress is arrangements chairman for othe banquet. f WORKING FOR RECREATION—Recieatlonal architect Charles Graves (second from left) cf Atlanta shows members of the Jaycees Recreation Committee — for whom he prepared these plans — two proposals for recreation center buildings that could be constructed locally through the passage of the forthcoming public recreation referendum in the Chapel Hill area. Lett to right are O. A. Allen, Mr. Graves, Dr. J. Kempton Jones, and Gran Childress. Drawing at the left depicts possible improvements to the Negro Community Center, while the right-hand sketch shows a Center that could be built to replace the soon-to-be demolished ‘ Rec'' in downtown Chapel Hill. News Leader Photo com; ON THE FU- vacant Strowd ECULATORS .^?^use of the he fa,. - . ^jj^j^ing on the main corner down- have learned that this business location is to be up into smaller quarters f-r buni^ and officeo- in the near tut- jj^j.jjy its owner, Mrs. J. B. Johns lty-tr^shebo^o. Previous talk of a ularl|depaiTment store or theater I he snot has new fizzled, •ding to the latest word. ,.^0. SMALL, OPERATOR OF ,, ^^Durham-Chapel Hill Bus Line ■V^^'th? past year, has changed ^ iname of his firm to Central y"^,'Lines of North Carolina. He tn fbe Utilities Corn- ion for permission to operate ama^oen Durham and Charlotte roads. .rmulJARLES L. HOBGOOD, 32 us loolold Granville County farmer, Seen jailed in connection with recent wave of thefts from and Duke dormitories. Of- -Ms said he had a “carload of ling” taken from student s Sxnce mid-October. Lispings Gems From Small Fry tCrntributed By Readers) Little Elizabeth, a pre-schooler. Invited a four-year-old boy over to tryout the new record player she received for Christmas. With no regard to the three speeds on the turntable, he placed a 45 RPM record on the disc at a 78 RPM speed. It sounded good, so he stacked three more on top and sat down to listen. But after a few moments of hearing the resulting gibberish he turned to his hostess and asked in puzzlement “Don’t you have anything but Donald Duck records?” KNUDTZON TO SPEAK Dr. Kermit Knudtzon of the UNC Dental School faculty will give an illustrated talk at Tuesday evening’s meeting of the Dental Dames So ciety at 8 o’clock in the University Library Assembly Room. • Still Undefeated, Leading Season Ticket Saving Offered For Concerts An average 50 per cent saving and improved seating will be avail- abl? to persons who purchase sea son tickets for the remaining three attractions to be sponsored by the Chapel Hill Concert Series, it was announced today. Series President Jimmy Wall ace explained the new offer in calling attention to the Jan. 22 program scheduled here by the Chicago Opera Ballet, under the auspices of the two-year-old Con cert Series. The season passes for the at tractions, all to be given in Mem orial Hall, are on sale at 6:50 for reserved se^ts, $5.50 for unre served seats, and $4.00 for stu dent tickets. These prices may be compared to the single admission, prices for each concert of $3.00 for the unreserved orchestra seats (See CONCERTS, Page 6) Opposition To Recreation Program Is Sounded On Basis Of Carrboro School Tax, Integration The issues in the campaign for the forthcoming public recreation referendum began to take shape at a formal hearing on the program before the County Commissioner.s here on Thursday evening. Several residents of Carrboro, pro claiming support of the coming vote on a special school tax in the Carrboi'o area, opposed Carrboro's being included 'in the Recretaion District on the ground that tini would defeat both the school and recreation taxes. And a warning was sounded against enacting a public recreation program in the face of the racial Integration situation, even as a lo cal Negro declared that integration should figure heavily in this issue. To Set Boundaries Attended by about 60 persons, most of them obviously in favor of the passage of the program, the hearing was held as a preliminary step to the Commissioners’ estab lishing finally the boundaries of the area in which the vote would be held and the recreation tax levied. As provided in the General Assembly’s 1955 enabling act the District is bounded on the south and east by Chatham and Durham Counties, on the north by the Orange Church-Calvander-Orange Grove Roads, and on the west by the Chapel Hill Township line. The County Board has the power lo reduce the District within this area, though it would still be known formally as the Chapel Ilill- Carrboro Recreation District. Commissioner Dwight Ray of Carrboro, acting chairman of the Board in the absence of Chapel HiH’s R. J. M. Hobbs, said a de cision on the District boundaries would be reached today . Hubbard Leads Proponents The Rev. Charles Hubbard, Chair man of the local Citizens Commit tee for Recreation and a charter member and current Chairman of 11-year-old North Carolina Recrea tion Commission, led the spokes men at the hearing who favored \'oting on the act as it was approv- eij by the Leg'i.siature. “We no longer feel that recrea tion is a luxury,” he declared, “any more than health or civili zation is a luxury. To enjoy the f^niitful use of our leisure tune as other citizens in this state, we need this program in its entirety from the beginning.” Since the organization of the State Recreation Commision, he noted, 57 full-time local recreation piogranis have been set up in North Carolina. Opposition to the program in gen eral was sounded by Grady Prit chard on the grounds of racial un rest and the question of its being the greatest current need for use of additional tax money. Dogs Escape Back Porch Fire Cagers Crucial Game Here Tomorrow Several hundred dollars damage 'A as caused by a fire on the back porch of the Wallace Williams resi dence on Pritchard Ave. early Fri day afternoon. The Chapel Hill Fire Department was called about 12:30 p.m. to as sist in extinguishing the blaze, which occurred while all occupapts of the home were absent. Lloyd McKnight, a neighbor, said he noticed smoke coming from the locked back porch, and gained entry to the scene through the front of the house. Firemen arriving short ly thereafter assisted him in put ting out the flames. The fire started from an electric light bulb, hung near a box for two dogs on the back porch with the idea of keeping the animals warm. The dogs escaped uninjured. Cites Clinton Case “Chapel Hill’s got a lot of needs.” he stated. “Many will ask ‘Is this our biggest need today within our anility to pay?' Also,' a lot of recreation plants are now trying to decide whether to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of their programs to keep down another incident like Clinton, Tenn.” As suggested by its backers the enactment of the local progi*am would provide for a full-time (See RECREATION, Page 6) ‘COFFEE DAY’ WEDNESDAY Chapel Hill and CaiTboro eat ing establishments will observe Coffee Day this Wednesday, when all money paid for coffee in their enterics will be turned over lo the March of Dimes campaign. Jesse L. West, chairman of the observance, and E. Carrington Smith, drive chairman, encourag ed everyone to “make a contri bution toward this worthy cause.” Recreation Decision Postponed -V decision on the seliiiio' ol I he boundaries ol the Chap el nil! - Carrboro Recreation District, as well as the date for the election, wa.s post poned by tiie County Coni- inissioners in Millsboro this morning in tlie lace of op posite stands oh the issue taken by the Town Board and School Coinmiuree and a number of citi zens' ropre.,vntaUves. Following a number of stale- mens in favor of leaving the Carr boro area in the District as propos ed, Acting County Board Chairman Dwright Ray read letters in op position to this from the Carrboro District School Committee and fiom the Town Board of Commis sioners. Special Meetings Both -statements were adopted at special meetings since Thursday evening’s legal hearing on the mat ter before the Commissioners, and o(th Cited ith-3 possible adver-'o affect that the issue might have on the passage of the forthcoming' Carrboro District .school tax elec tion as t.he reason for opposing the recreation plan. Mr. Ray also re-read a letter from the Carrboro Lions Club, written in April, 1955, in which the civic club .asked that Carr boro be excluded from the dis trict, and then read a letter in favor of leaving the District as proposed from Dr. and Mrs. Claude Baker of Carrboro. (See COUNTY BOARD, Page 6) HOSPITALiZED j Today’s register of patients I at Memorial Hospital include: ■ Pink Bason, William Milgate Black, Mrs. Charles A. Bowden. Miss Nancy Carolyn Caudle, Doran J. Dark. Mrs. Birdie P. Davis. Thomas Earl Davis. Mrs. David Dixon, Mrs. Clyde T. Farrell. Lon nie A. Hackney, Katherine John son, Denise Goodrich Lawler, Mrs, Gordon Lewis, Erwin Thurston Lloyd. Mrs. Herbert Lloyd. Wade H. Meacham. Mrs. William E. Moore. John Slate Oldham. Ollie Pettiford. Mrs. Sarah Roberson, Tommie E. Robertson, Miss Alice Stevens. Mrs. Robert J. Sturdi vant. Mrs. William H. Thorne, Dr. Louis G. Welt. Hex Winslow, and Harry D. W''olf. Construction In District Nears $4 Million In 56 Chapel Hill High’s toughest game of its undefeated season to date will come up here tomorrow night when the Wildcats face Northern High of Durham County —also unbeaten this year. At present the locals are lead ing in the 12 - team District III Class AA Conference, since they’ve played six games to Northern’s five. In defensive standings for the league the Wildcats are also leading, having allowed only 209 points to their opponents for an average of 34 per game. They’re second to Henderson in offensive strength, with a total of 386 points ^ Not So Brief IPS, e sy/tf V‘THE NICEST THING’ 'he barber loved to tell a and he wasn’t going to sh \Vith his customer until one was done. He was ob- ^%sly enjoying himself as he ‘ Lod the face of the fresh- man who was lying strate in his chair and got on his tale ... Well, I had to get my axe rp-oned really good, so I car- 1 it down there to the shop, put it up on the stone, and •r a few minutes—well, that’s sha wrote.’ The customer, a Idle-aged man in no hurry, I ^ened in silence. Well, sir.” the barber con-: i^ed lustily... “I carried it right through the middle of town in my hand just like I was a-walkjY.g through the woods And I noticed as I got on the bus to go home a lot of ’em were lookin’ kinda funny at me. “So I winked at the, driver and didn’t crack a smile and I told him ‘You know, I couldn’t afford a birthday pres ent for my wife this year. But I always did think that if a fel ler couldn’t buy his wife a new axe — well the nicest thing he COULD do was to sharpen her old one real good . . “And I’m tellin’ you, you shoulda seen the look on their faces when I got off the bus at the next corner...” to date and a per game average of 64.3. Friday night Chapel Hill hand ily turned back Oxford Orphanage there by the score of 59-30. Den nis Lee sparked the visitor’s scor ing with 15, and was closely fol lowed by Max Weaver with 12. At the half the Hillians led 26- 10. The girls team lost to the Or phanage, 44-29, Monday, January 7 7 30 p.m. Philological Club More- head Building.. 8 p.m. Business Administration Wives, Carroll Hall. Tuesday, January 8 1 p.m Faculty Club, Carolina Inii. 7:30 pm. Elirha Mitchell Scien- tiiic Society, Phillips Hall. 8 p.m. Catholic Women’s Guild, Catholic Rectory. 8 p.m. Dental Dames Society, Wilson Library Assembly Room. 8 p.m. Basketball, Chapel Hill vs. Northern, Tin Can. Wednesday, January 5 3 p.m. Carrboro Women's Civic Club, Carrboro School. 8 p.m. Astronomy Club, More- head .Planetarium. Thursday, January 10 o p.m. Chapel Hill Parent-Teach er Assn., Elementary School. 8 p.m. Foreign Film Series, Car- roll Hail. . TAX LISTING PROGRESSING—The local citizenry's armual ritual of listing property for taxes rs progressing a little better than usual in Chapel Hi I Township this year, according to List Taker L. R. Cheek. The complete schedule for the list takers is carried in an advertisement on page three of this issue. Both Chapel Hill and County property may be listed daily in the conference room of the Chapel Hill Town Hall—as shown above. In the left foresround are Mr. and Mrs. Cheek while in the back ground is Mrs. Bessie Hogan (left) and Mrs. Roland Giduz, all Township and Town List Takers. News Leader Photo Construction in the Greater Chap el Hill Zoning District during the past year approached $4,000,000, ac cording to a summary of building permits issued. Within the Town of Chapel Hili, for which a detailed breakdown was available today, the total was 81,438,346—an increase of about one- tliird over 1955. However, the over all total was $3,941,267. Repoi'ts to the State of North Carolina showed the following break down of various types of construc- rion within the municipality of Chap el Hill during 1956: Breakdown By Types One-family units—$674,550; duplex dwellings—$34,000; three or four- family apartments—$127,250; five- fumily apartments (one)—^$85,000; additions or alterations to house- *keeping buildings~$i32,850; altera tions to other buildings—$148,480; and other construction—$236,216. For the last month of the year the following permits were grant ed by Building Inspector P. L. Burch: Permits were issued as follows: C. F. Green; erect sign, Green's Cafe, 123 N. Columbia St. . Western Union Co.; erect sign; No. Columbia St. Alexander Sessoms; erect acces sory building, 4 Rogerson Drive; $.995. Alan Kcith-Lucas; erect six- room dwelling. Greenwood Rd.; $21,000. M. J. Daw'son; erect six-room dwelling for Theodore Blackwood, Forest Heights;'$10,000. M. J. Dawson; extend porch for E. M. Dawson, 312 W. Franklin St.; $150. 'Home Counselors and Erectors; erect six-room dwelling, Hidden Hills; $19,600. Frank Walser; erect six-room dwellling for Tom Peyton, Mason Farm Rd.: $17,000. Maxie Merritt; erect porch on dwelling, 211 N. Robinson St.; $300. Tyndall Harris; addition to dwel ling,. Westwood Drive; $16,000. Garland Keith; erect sign, 403 W. Franklin St. Earl Eversole; erect five-room dwelling for Gordon Perry Jr., 'Severin St.; $10,000. Edgar Alexander; erect eight- lamily apartment dwelling, Dur ham Rd., for L. L. Vine; $28,000. Eston Rives; erect wall over busi ness building, E. Franklin St.; $200. B. R. Roberts; ereef six-room duplex dwelling, Columbia St.; $7,- 500. B. R. Roberts; erect duplex dwelling, Columbia St.; $7,500. R. G. Windsor; erect office build ing, .'\irport Rd.; $2,500. Clearing and warmer late to day. Possible drizzles tonight Partly cloudy and colder tonight and tomorrow. Expected low near freezing tonight. High Low Rainfall Thursday 35 13 .00 Friday 41 14 .00 Saturday 51 33 .13 Sunday 45 32 .00
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